Zahir
Ebrahim | Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
August
2014
Dedicated
to my children, and to all young men and women
Abstract
We
often complain, of the world, of its unfairness, its injustices, its
deprivation, its inequity, and almost always find others to blame,
especially the politicians, the superman, the greedy, the conniving,
those seeking primacy, and the sociopaths, the hectoring hegemons,
the international bankers who fund all sides to make wars and peace,
colonialism, PAX Americana, formerly PAX Britannia, and when all
fails, we blame fate, karma, and of course God, that He made the
Devil. The Social Darwinians among us, the secular humanists, blame
it all on religion, the cause of all of mankind's failings. And the
most avant-garde among us, the new age crowd, blame it on aliens,
gods who continue to wage epic Hellenic battles at the expense of
mankind. The hard empirical reality of course, one which is rarely
spoken of, whether out loud or in silent whispers, is that the first
failing, the supreme failing from which all else follows, begins at
home. It is the one we purchase for ourselves.
Introduction
to Co-option
Co-option
– Once a former confrere wrote me the rhetorical question of
all rhetorical questions: To Confront or be co-opted? This
missive on the “banality of evil” explores the subject of
co-option at some length by way of documenting, mainly for my
progeny, what I have learnt as a student of truth. The essay also
examines the fast breaking “Democracy Revolution” in
Pakistan in August 2014 to illustrate by way of examples some of the
key factors which both underwrite, and are the harvest of, co-option,
resulting in the creation of “revolutionary times” in
society. The import of “revolutionary times” was
magnificently captured by the revolutionary Zionist statesman David
Ben-Gurion, the founding prime minister of Israel, who employed it to
maximum advantage to found the Jewish State in Palestine: “What
is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times;
and if at this time the opportunity is missed and what is possible at
such great hours is not carried out – a whole world is lost.”
But first, the definitions.
To
be “co-opted” means to accept matters in contradiction to
one's moral, ethical, logical, and commonsensical assessment, and
rather than confront and take a stand against it, to go along with it
in silence in the name of practicality, expediency, even when at
times it is against one's own self-interest and one knows it. It is a
cognitive decision but many factors, including psychological forces
some of which one remains unaware of, and Faustian bargains,
enticement, greed, all contribute to it. The extent to which one is
co-opted is a complex calculus which sociologists argue is mostly
situational dependent. But as I will demonstrate here, is not
psychology, selfishness, and wherewithal independent. Which means, it
can be overcome at societal levels for a public raised with
wherewithal and the same situation can lead to different personal
responses of a public mind so groomed. Which is also why it is not
permitted to happen by powers that rule societies and control the
public's base level of acumen.
An
example which illustrates that control perfectly is the advanced
scientific society of the United States of America. Its people remain
the most ignorant of all Western societies, especially in comparison
to their European brethren, principally because the American psyche
is groomed from the cradle to live for their “American Dream”.
And like the Roman public during the heyday of the Roman empire, the
American public too is kept occupied between bread and circuses seven
days a week as per the “Fable of the Bees” (see below).
Having lived in the United States for the best part of my adult life,
I speak from considerable empirical experience of this society (see
the Preface of my 2003 book Prisoners of the Cave where this
topic is examined in some depth, http://prisonersofthecave.org
).
Well,
a different psyche can equally be developed. And it largely depends
on which forces control and dominate societal values that its public
live by. Today, the society is global and the forces that control
values have also acquired a global reach in their on-going effort to
subvert civilizations and heritages of all nations on earth, to
unify, to standardize, and to homogenize the world public –
just like the milk industry. It no longer matters which cows and
dairy farms produce the milk – out of the milk carton or out of
the milk bottle, it all tastes the same. The powers that be would
like mankind to also be the same in their base values, in the
expression of their base desires, and most importantly, in their base
level of obedience to authority. The expression of human behavior to
a situation is not independent of these control factors – or
else there'd be no need to develop sophisticated psychological
persuasion techniques to manipulate human behavior.
These
techniques of human behavior modification have even progressed from
mere soft perception management, far into the realm of hard
biochemical tampering of the brain (see the long declassified top
secret mind control program of the CIA known as MK ULTRA for
behavior modification; and the civilian study conducted by Rick
Strassman on volunteers under FDA sanction to explore the impact of
DMT, known as the Spirit Molecule, on the human mind; one enslaving,
the other liberating, respectively). The direction for more than half
a century has been on tampering with essentially what was previously
believed to be the immutable essence of man, his being. In fact, at
least since the turn of the twentieth century when academic ideas in
eugenics entered the realm of underwriting American policy-making,
which paved the way for exploring behavior control techniques pretty
openly, even inspiring the famous dystopian fable by Aldous Huxley
called Brave New World in 1931, with the baton subsequently being
snatched by Nazi experimentation on the undesirables caught under the
jackboots of the Third Reich for accelerating “natural
selection” of the master race. Today, it is being
pursued with even greater vigor in both secret and open settings.
In
his 1970 book Between Two Ages, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski,
America's former national security advisor (1976-80), quotes an
experimenter in intelligence control who asserted, “I foresee
the time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the
temptation to manipulate the behaviour and intellectual functioning
of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation
of the brain.” There is an extensive bibliography on this
subject and unfamiliarity with it is the problem that plagues modern
college-educated professionals who wield fancy parchments as career
credentials, but betray little or no understanding of the forces they
live under. Brzezinski attributed this general phenomenon of mounting
ignorance to knowledge explosion which, as he presented it in his
book, he argued is inevitable: “In every scientific field
complaints are mounting that the torrential outpouring of published
reports, scientific papers, and scholarly articles and the
proliferation of professional journals make it impossible for
individuals to avoid becoming either narrow gauged specialists or
superficial generalists.” The lack of understanding of the
forces that fundamentally shape human perception, and consequently
human behavior, is quite orthogonal to knowledge explosion just as
how much ram you have in your computer is orthogonal to understanding
ideas in computer science. This flourishing ignorance has a tad more
direct causal linkage to milking the “Fable of the Bees”
(see below) and engineering consent from the homogenized public mind.
The
phrase “banality of evil” I first encountered when I read
the famous book by Hannah Arendth as assigned reading in the fall of
1979 as an undergraduate student at MIT. It was my first of several
academic classes in psychology on the subject of behavior control,
taught by professor Steve Chorover. The good professor is still at
MIT. I have a lot to thank him for. That class serendipitously opened
a fascinating window for me into the vast realm of psychological
studies in which I have persisted informally out of interest
throughout my life. In “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on The
Banality of Evil”, Hannah Arendt argued in the early 1960s that
ordinary people were capable of doing extraordinary evil under the
right set of circumstances. That it was not necessarily only the
psychopaths and sociopaths who were capable of extraordinary evil.
She observed that Adolf Eichmann, accused of killing six million Jews
at the time in HolocaustTM gas chambers, was just an
ordinary looking fellow, that he didn't seem to embody evil
personified as the Zionist machinery had portrayed him to be.
That rather shocking and against the grain observation spawned a
series of psychological experiments after Adolf Eichmann's trial in
Jerusalem had ended in his hanging, but obviously not in the Jews'
angst which has evidently not abated for three thousand years and
counting (see Israel Shahak's Jewish History, Jewish Religion –
The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Pluto Press, 1994, available on
the web).
From
the famous Milgram Obedience Experiment at Yale University to the
Stanford University's infamous Prison Experiment, all empirically
confirmed that Hannah Arendt had got it right to a large measure. The
latter experiment led to such shocking behavior among the most
ordinary participants at Stanford, drawn principally from its student
body as I recall, that the ethics of such experiments was brought
into question and further academic experiments of this nature banned,
or forever restricted to the classified behavior control laboratories
of the Central Intelligence Agency. Stanley Milgram, the author of
the first experiment at Yale, concluded the following in 1974: “The
social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is
not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in
which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”
This
knowledge of human beings is the core principle upon which the
behavior control programs run out of the many intelligence and
military apparatuses of Western states that farm and harvest
terrorism worldwide, is based. ( See my Report
on the Mighty Wurlitzer: Architecture of Modern Propaganda for
Psychological Warfare
for references and citations, http://tinyurl.com/mightywurlitzer
)
Since
the time of these experiments, the phrase “banality of evil”,
meaning, the ordinariness of evil, and the commonplaceness
of evil, has entered the academic vernacular. It has been used to
refer to macro social evil occurring when ordinary people partake in
it through either: (1) co-option, meaning refraining from stopping
evil by in-action and apathy, as the German public had done by
silently accepting Nazism and all its state-sponsored evil; or (2)
positive action, meaning contributing to evil with positive effort
under situational circumstances, as Adolf Eichmann as the Nazi chief
and office holder in the Third Reich had perpetrated under the now
famous excuse that he was coerced by higher authorities: “I
was just following orders”.
Of
course, in the West, the term “banality of evil” has
become relegated to merely studying the past, specifically Nazi
Germany, and it is virtually never applied to themselves today as
their own co-opted public, and their own criminal establishments,
carry out incalculable horrors against civilians and nations in the
global war on terror. Nor is it ever applied to the Jewish State
forcibly implanted in Palestine by the British empire through its
Balfour Declaration, and its so called “British Mandate”
after World War I, and the subsequent UN decree after World War II,
as the “god's chosen people” carry out the systematic
resettlement of Palestine with imported European and American
Ashkenazi Jewry much like the resettlement of the Americas by the
European colonists at the expense of the indigenous populations. Now
running into its 67th year, the world spectates silently while its
intellectuals continue to study Nazi Germany!
You
will see none of that co-option and “banality of evil” in
Project Humanbeingsfirst's work. The question of co-option and its
attendant “banality of evil” is just as much current
affairs today as in yesteryear, making just as much “contemporary
history” today for tomorrow's generations as it did in
yesteryear. On the surface, that terminology split into separate
words appears to be a non sequitur, for how can it be both
“contemporary” and “history” at the same
time? The term “contemporary history” is a compound word
to reflect the notion that one is contemporary with the times which
is making future history (i.e., tomorrow's history), and as such,
something can be done to alter that trajectory of future history
because it has not as yet fully come to pass. While we lament
yesteryear's crimes against humanity, we know that nothing can be
done about it ex post facto. But we can do a great deal to stop the
crimes against humanity transpiring today and forcibly interdict that
vile “contemporary history” which is now in the making,
and which would indeed transpire if we did nothing to alter it.
To
be living through any momentous epoch of “contemporary history”
can be the most exciting of times for mankind despite its villainy,
for only during such epochs is the opportunity afforded to man to
rise to the best of man to defeat the worst of man. That motivation
does not quite exist in halcyon times. We are strengthened and evolve
mainly by passing through these defining, blast-furnace
epochs. And we can either evolve into heartless brutes and zombies in
a social Darwinian world, or into better human beings. This essay
delves into the issue of co-option, the in-action, the silent
acquiescence to villainy, the apathy towards tyranny, the looking
from the side while the world goes to the dogs and turns into global
police-states making the rich even richer and increasing the
percentage of indigent public worldwide, all in the name of liberty
and freedom.
What
forces contribute to co-option?
There
are primarily four salient characteristics of co-option. What I
examine below is what I have learnt the hard way. I have encountered
every one of these different forces at one time or another and have
continually been presented with the choice of to confront or be
co-opted. This categorization is not mere academic theorizing. But it
can surely withstand the pedantic rigor of experimental social
psychology. The truth of what follows is beyond doubt. It is
self-evident.
Many
normal people show great empathy for fellow man, are noble, generous,
chivalrous, charitable, spend of their earnings on social welfare
causes, rush to give aid in disaster situations, and for their own
selves want to know the truth and be truthful, all great motherhood
and apple pie stuff which show the majority of mankind in its best
light. But there is also a darker side to human beings. No I am not
referring to those sociopaths and psychopaths who make wars and
orchestrate the killing fields and commit other evil. This essay is
not about actually committing evil. It is about refraining from
stopping it, and how that in-action comes about given that normal
human beings display all the lovely positive characteristics captured
in the first sentence above.
Under
specific circumstances, most human beings, in fact the same ones who
display all the lovely set of characteristics that shows mankind off
in its best light, tend to lose their quality of humanity, their
quality of mercy, and strangely, their loss of dignity and
self-respect is heralded as “success” in the public eye
under the modern wisdom which relies on expediency and relativity
rather than morality and absolutes in defining social and personal
values.
A
situation that is quite commonplace and anyone can observe it if they
have eyes to see, just as I have observed it time and again and now
it is the first item on my list to convey in What have I learnt as a
student of truth, is that virtually no one gives a farthing's worth
of damn for anyone or anything when giving that damn
intersects with their stomach, career, winning accolades,
opportunities to profit, and to advance in life, business, and
profession. People, valiant people, and people of great conscience
and moral gravitas, remain beholden to those existential matters to
their very end. This leads to an incessant need for rationalizations
to mitigate cognitive dissonance, often buried deep in the
subconscious, which span the gamut of self-deception, from denial of
reality to self-justification to reinterpretation of moral values to
legitimize one's own inclinations, life's choices, and above all,
one's silence and acquiescence before falsehoods, deception, tyranny.
People, irrespective of their brilliance or station in life, will
slog away for a lifetime in voluntary servitude when matters pertain
to these existential needs.
While
for those born on the wrong side of the railroad tracks, the
wretched of the earth, just getting three honest meals a day
remains an endless struggle even in the twenty-first century, for
those born on the right side of the railroad tracks, the lucky of
history, there is evidently no limit to fulfilling these needs
either. It's a bottomless pit. There is always the next milestone to
strive for on the ladder of “success”. Working for
tyrants, dictators, kings, feudal lords, corrupt bastards, dystopic
systems, evil empire, is all okay so long as one is able to pursue
that ladder of “success” honestly and with due diligence.
The more outstanding ones take great pride in accepting titles and
honors from those who have killed in large numbers under the sound of
trumpet. This striving is heralded as being “practical”,
“wise”, with “clean hands”. A majority of
good people in the world who exhibit those fine moral qualities
captured in the lovely set of upstanding human characteristics are in
this category. They purchase their slice of the existential pie with
their silence, and with hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.
Examples of these rationalizations for selfishly pursuing one's own
self-interests abound and I will spare the reader my sampling of
anecdotal cases to encourage their own hammering out on the anvil of
the following famous Chinese depiction of the three wise monkeys,
their own examples:
Caption
The three wise monkeys: hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
(image via wikipedia)
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This
is the first characteristic of co-option: Self-interest purchased
with silence. The end result is apathy, indifference; no desire
or incentive to seek and uphold any truth which might interfere
with self-interest.
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In
the limited cases when one finds oneself endeavoring to rise beyond
these pecuniary and existential matters of self-interest and wise
monkeys, one encounters intellectual warfare which is akin to a
gang-rape of the sensible mind. That has been the principal topic of
this book, and as the intelligent reader must have come to realize,
my version of Orwell's statement trumps the novelist's easily: “In
an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act.” In my version, in the age of universal deceit, to
ferret out the whole truth about any matter is the bigger
revolutionary act. In the course of this revolutionary act is where
many a valiant intellectual, scholar, activist, and would be
revolutionary, all fall for the want of perspective on primacy. These
ardent harbingers of change, often moved by an inner moral compass to
overcome their own “banality of evil” rather than by any
desire for pecuniary gain, but too naïve to understand primacy
and how it relates to the controlling powers behind the scenes making
the public mind, are easily harvested as useful idiots and
patsy-fodder by crafty perception managers who capture all these
zealots in one trap or another by catering to all possible
inclinations of this group (see my Report
on the Mighty Wurlitzer,
http://tinyurl.com/mightywurlitzer
).
Overcoming
this externally induced perspective deficiency however, while
essential, isn't sufficient. For, in the limit, one is plagued by an
even more fundamental subversion which ab initio makes this
externally induced perspective deficiency even possible: incestuous
self-reinforcement through one's own mind. The base elements of
this internal subversion which is the first cause of any crippled
epistemology, and the sine qua non for the harvest of useful
idiots, are:
- (1) socialization bias (nurture, social programming, learning) ;
- (2) perception bias (nature, hardware, DNA, limits imposed by the five perception senses, natural inclination, propensity, hardwired intellectual capacity to think and reflect, IQ or Intelligence Quotient, hardwired psychological bent of mind, EQ or Emotional Quotient, hardwired spiritual capacity to transcend materialism, SQ or Spiritual Quotient) ;
- (3) data availability bias (what data is used, what books one reads for instance) ;
- (4) confirmation bias (how data is used to preselect a desired outcome, narrowing the scope of data, massaging the data to confirm an a priori conclusion) ;
- (5) presuppositional bias (culturally ingrained presumptions or prejudices or affinities, loves and hates, that transcend the individual and are rooted in the value system of the civilization one grows up in, such as: Orientalism – looking down upon the East, uber alles, master race, exceptionalism, superiority complex; and its opposites: inferiority complex, house niggers, Uncle Toms, Occidentosis – East looking to the West or to the white man for solutions thinking it superior; Triumphalism – aspiring to universalize one's own values and beliefs thinking all others inferior, Capitalism, Communism, Democracy, Christianity, Islam, etc.).
All
these factors underwriting incestuous self-reinforcement
create an inescapable mind-fck from which escape to
objectivity and impartiality remains elusive for most people. These
largely un quantifiable factors contribute to the formulation of
one's worldview and instinctualize the subjectivity in perspective
that man is irreparably plagued with for his fundamental loves,
hates, beliefs, and sense of attachment that may span the gamut from
tribal to civilizational. This subjectivity is hard to transcend as
it colors the cognitive mind ab initio, subliminally, subconsciously,
and overcoming it is akin to performing brain-surgery upon one's own
brain. A self-referential problem that requires a great deal of
wherewithal to get a handle on, and to attempt to rise to some level
of objectivity by creating distance from self. One of the ways to do
that, as my former professor at M.I.T., Noam Chomsky, used to say, is
to move to Mars and look back to study the Earthlings. Meaning, to
try to look at man and his beliefs, including one's own, with some
degree of emotional and intellectual detachment as if studying
another species.
According
to Bertrand Russell:
“What
a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index to his
desires – desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If
a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will
scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he
will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered
something which affords a reason for acting in accordance with his
instincts, he will accept it even on the slenderest evidence.”
This
ingrained, almost instinctual, proclivity towards socialized
perspectives plays hand-in-glove with the gang-rape of the mind by
perception managers who exploit that knowledge expertly for mass
behavior control.
The
new potent warfare on the public mind is psychological warfare, and
it relies on distorting the perspective by digging deep into the
human psyche to ultimately control the public behavior for the narrow
interests of the few. An obvious example of this mind manipulation is
the uncanny success of advertising and marketing, a multi-trillion
dollar industry worldwide. A more uncomfortable example is the Mighty
Wurlitzer making the public mind to “United We Stand”
with the objectives of power. Nationalism, patriotism, militarism,
religionism, are the more “acceptable” examples of this
psychological persuasion to which the benign label of
“indoctrination” is often ascribed. Soldiers killing
under the sound of trumpet and returned nobly wrapped in the flag is
its worst “acceptable” form. The extreme example is the
manufacture of suicide bombers, the Manchurian candidates who
are made to believe in their terminal mission by their intelligence
handlers. Except for the latter which may rely on coercively breaking
down the human being completely (physically, psychologically,
spiritually) by inducing personality disorders in order to rebuild
the soldier as a killing machine devoid of all empathy, and thus
without a measure of their own consent, all other forms of behavior
control fundamentally rely on co-opting the commonsense, humanity,
compassion, and mercy of man by perspective distortion.
Perspective
pollution, like an innocent child not being able to comprehend the
reality of feline primacy, precludes understanding of reality the way
reality actually is. And like the futility of a child being explained
by an adult why the cat desires the beautiful but helpless fish, or
why a lion tears apart the lovely wooly sheep, educating the
un-awakened mind on perspective pollution can be just as futile. See
Plato's parable of Simile of the Cave below. Perspective
pollution always favors the superior predator, both in Darwinianism,
and in the social Darwinian world order. Its momentous utility for
Machiavellianly engineering consent in the aggregate is examined
further in Part-II below.
Caption
Perspective pollution, like an innocent child not being able to
comprehend the reality of feline primacy, precludes understanding of
reality the way reality actually is. (Image courtesy of Desiree L.
Rover's Presentation on Vaccinations, August 1, 2009)
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This
is the second characteristic of co-option: Perspective-pollution.
The end result is ignorance of truth. This leads to being easily
harvested as useful idiot and patsy-fodder.
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In
the even rarer case that an outspoken revolutionary has overcome the
perspective-pollution and ferreted out the truth about any matter as
objectively as is possible, his and her ability to proclaim it, to
bring it to the public's attention, remains a perpetual up hill
battle. The limitations are imposed by the systems of power that
control the narrative in the societies at large, which today is the
global society. These systems of control span the gamut from denying
airing to marginalizing to social ostracizing, which, in the limit,
extract the ultimate price of making the revolutionary sleep with the
fishes or confined to St. Elizabeth hospital (mental institution in
Washington DC where American poet Ezra Pound was held as a political
prisoner) for life.
Who
wants to pay that price for a seemingly impractical cause which also
incurs the wrath of power? So, the rationalization often goes: if I
can't tell the whole truth, let me just tell half of it, or three
quarters of it, or let me take on endeavors in more permissible
arenas of human welfare significance but of lesser consequence to
empire and thus more acceptable to the pall bearers of truth. Which,
apart from its altruistic value, is very convenient as it also does
not interfere with self-interest all that much. In fact, often
promotes it by appearing “respectable”, “responsible”,
“non conspiratorial”, “good moral citizen”.
Nominations for Nobel peace prize aren't that far away. The
motivations for getting along with the dominant axioms of power
naturally lead to becoming adept at lying by omission when necessary,
knowingly, wittingly, deliberately, until it becomes second nature,
like the air we breathe, with no second thoughts given to it.
A
good example of this among prominent persons of considerable
wherewithal who can make a significant difference if they tell the
whole truth but calculatingly don't, is former president of the
United States, Jimmy Carter in his book, Palestine, Peace not
Apartheid (see my deconstruction of President Carter's artful
omissions,
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/introducing-palestine-peacenotapartheid.html
). I had written the former president of the United States an Open
Letter on March 27, 2007, and had even bothered to fax it to him at
his office in Atlanta demanding an explanation (see
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-letter-to-jimmy-carter.html
).
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This
is the third characteristic of co-option: Self-policing to pass
the censors of power, which quickly mutates into self-policing
for maintaining social acceptance, and thus in self-interest. The
end result is silence on truth.
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Those
possessing the intellectual wherewithal, the Zen of understanding so
to speak, the means to make a difference, and the moral courage to
want to do so, who do try to escape all these restrictions and
co-options as servants of truth and not its masters, are now faced
with the recalcitrant public mind steeped in its own ignorance,
superstitions, and deeply seated perspective-pollution such that what
Plato taught in his Simile of the Cave comes true, time and
again. That Simile is excerpted here from the 2500 years old book,
The Republic.
“[...]
I
want you to go on to picture the enlightenment or ignorance of our
human condition somewhat as follows:
'Imagine
an underground chamber like a cave, with a long entrance open to the
daylight and as wide as the cave. In this chamber are men who have
been prisoners since they were children, their legs and necks being
so fastened that they can only look straight ahead of them and cannot
turn their heads. Some way off, behind and higher up, a fire is
burning, and between the fire and the prisoners and above them runs a
road, in front of which a curtain-wall has been built, like the
screen at puppet shows between the operators and their audience,
above which they show their puppets.'
'I
see.'
'Imagine
further that there are men carrying all sorts of gear along behind
the curtain-wall, projecting above it and including figures of men
and animals made of wood and stone and all sorts of other materials,
and that some of these men, as you would expect, are talking and some
not.'
'An
odd picture and an odd sort of prisoner.'
'They
are drawn from life', I replied. 'For, tell me, do you think our
prisoners could see anything of themselves or their fellows except
the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave opposite
them?'
'How
could they see anything else if they were prevented from moving their
heads all their lives?'
'And
would they see anything more of the objects carried along the road?'
'Of
course not.'
'Then
if they were able to talk to each other, would they not assume that
the shadows they saw were the real things?'
'Inevitably.'
'And
if the wall of their prison opposite them reflected sound, don't you
think that they would suppose, whenever one of the passers-by on the
road spoke, that the voice belonged to the shadow passing before
them?'
'They
would be bound to think so.'
'And
so in every way they would believe that the shadows of the objects we
mentioned were the whole truth.'
'Yes
inevitably.'
'Then
think what would naturally happen to them if they were released from
their bonds and cured of their delusions. Suppose one of them were
let loose, and suddenly compelled to stand up and turn his head and
look and walk towards the fire; all these actions would be painful
and he would be too dazzled to see properly the objects of which he
used to see the shadows. What do you think he would say if he was
told that what he used to see was so much empty nonsense and that he
was now nearer reality and seeing more correctly, because he was
turned towards objects that were more real, and if on top of that he
were compelled to say what each of the passing objects was when it
was pointed out to him? Don't you think he would be at a loss, and
think that what he used to see was far truer than the objects now
being pointed out to him?'
'Yes,
far truer.'
'And
if he were made to look directly at the light of the fire, it would
hurt his eyes and he would turn back and retreat to the things which
he could see properly, which he would think really clearer than the
things being shown him.'
'Yes.'
'And
if,' I went on, 'he were forcibly dragged up the steep and rugged
ascent and not let go till he had been dragged out into the sunlight,
the process would be a painful one, to which he would much object,
and when he emerged into the light his eyes would be so dazzled by
the glare of it that he wouldn't be able to see a single one of the
things he was now told were real.'
'Certainly
not at first,' he agreed.
'Because,
of course, he would need to grow accustomed to the light before he
could see things in the upper world outside the cave. First he would
find it easiest to look at shadows, next at the reflections of men
and other objects in water, and later on at the objects themselves.
After that he would find it easier to observe the heavenly bodies and
the sky itself at night, and to look at the light of the moon and
stars rather than at the sun and its light by day.'
'Of
course.'
'The
thing he would be able to do last would be to look directly at the
sun itself, and gaze at it without reflections in water or any other
medium, but as it is in itself.'
'That
must come last.'
'Later
on he would come to the conclusion that it is the sun that produces
the changing seasons and years and controls everything in the visible
world, and is in a sense responsible for everything that he and his
fellow-prisoners used to see.'
'That
is the conclusion which he would obviously reach.'
'And
when he thought of his first home and what passed for wisdom there,
and of his fellow-prisoners, don't you think he would congratulate
himself on his fortune and be sorry for them?'
'Very
much so.'
[...]
'Then
what do you think would happen,' I asked, 'if he went back to sit in
his old seat in the cave? Wouldn't his eyes be blinded by the
darkness, because he had come in suddenly out of the sunlight?'
'Certainly.'
'And
if he had to discriminate between the shadows, in competition with
the other prisoners, while he was still blinded and before his eyes
got used to the darkness – a process that would take some time
– wouldn't he be likely to make a fool of himself?
And
they would say that his visit to upper world had ruined his sight,
and that the ascent was not worth even attempting.
And
if anyone tried to release them and lead them up, they would kill him
if they could lay hands on him.'
'They
certainly would.'
[...]”
---
end excerpt Plato
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That
is the fourth characteristic of co-option: Self-policing for the
want of efficacy in a hopeless public cause. The “revolutionary
fatigue” syndrome, “why bother” syndrome. The
end result is to give up, or greatly water-down the truth to make
it more palatable to the indoctrinated public, leaving silence on
whole truth once again in charge to make the public mind.
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These
co-options added together:
- (1) Self-interest (selfishness, apathy, cowardice, Faustian bargains);
- (2) Perspective-pollution (ignorance of truth, distorted beliefs, leading to becoming patsy-fodder);
- (3) Self-policing to pass the censors of power (accommodation to power to tell only half-truth, lying by omission);
- (4) Self-policing for the want of efficacy in telling the whole truth (a public more willing to just kill the messenger);
I
have learnt are formidable Himalayan mountains in the way of
flatlanders learning the whole truth about important matters so that
they and their nations can wage an effective battle for their own
survival against man's greatest predator, the superman.
This
super predator, more intelligent and more privileged than others,
feels driven to rule others because of his advantage, deems himself
beyond good and evil, and like Nietzsche's superman, beyond
the conventional bounds of morality, beyond the calculus of right and
wrong in the name of its higher ideals, whatever the higher causes
that may spring from such higher ideals be: increasing profits,
raising intelligence, subverting beliefs, harnessing religion,
nationalism, patriotism, militarism for world domination, world
government, and beyond. Its principal morality only one: Will to
Power. Its calculus only one: Primacy. Its modus operandi only one:
Deceit. The mind of ordinary man simply remains unable to grasp the
mind of this super predator whose morality of “will to power”
confers to it the “moral obligation” for engaging in any
means necessary for achieving its “noble objectives”.
Mass behavior control is only as difficult for it as the cat playing
with a cornered mouse. Consequently, the superman and its
diabolically ingenious systems of social control continue to keep
mankind in chains by way of deception.
Here
is an example from the eighteenth century of how the primacy instinct
of the superman works without leaving even a hint of its
existence in the common man. According to Bernard de Mandeville's
“Fable of the Bees” for generating the wealth of nations:
“The
economic well-being of the nation depends on the presence of a large
number of men who are content to labor hard all day long. Because men
are naturally lazy they will not work unless forced by necessity to
do so.”
These
are no longer the physical chains as in antiquity past to make men
work hard all day long. Goethe accurately captured the far more
unbreakable chains of slavery:
“None
are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by
masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till
wrong looks like right in their eyes.”
Now
they will happily slave away for their masters in voluntary
servitude. Indeed, even come to love their servitude.
I
have learnt that the mind control is so pervasive today that even if
some intelligent people, say friends, are polite enough to hear the
revolutionary out, they cannot relate to what he has to say. The
revolutionary often brings a truth so jarring to the public mind that
Plato understood its implication in the golden era of the Hellenic
civilization that had forced Socrates to drink poison for being a
revolutionary for truth. The handful of open-minds one might reach in
the course of one's revolutionary stint before one succumbs to the
predictable inevitability, are themselves plagued by the same
co-options one overcame to get this far to bring truth to these
people in the hope that they might do something with it. The end
result is making no measurable impact in one's own lifetime in
getting people to understand the truth, never mind to act upon it
with moral courage, let alone when the calling is to put
self-interest aside for a greater interest, the common cause.
I
have learnt that people strive to be moral and upright so long as it
does not cost them anything substantial; specifically, so long as it
does not cost them the sacrificing of any significant self-interest.
Minor sacrifices are palatable so long as it does not make a major
dent in the scheme of things they have laid out for themselves. It is
much wiser to wear the garb of morality and pretend to be virtuous by
obsessing with personal piety, prayers, rituals, liturgies; or,
alternately, just focussing on one's profession and career in the
name of “practicality”, “self-actualization”,
“vision”, disdain for hypocrisy; even focussing on
harmless charity and social welfare causes like the cosmopolitan
Muslim leader Aga Khan, the Muslim humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi of
Pakistan, etc., do --- none ever challenge the villainy of power, all
are in fact heralded and celebrated by power, are seen to mingle with
it and accept awards from it for their self-policed silence, and all
echo the exact same narratives, axioms, and presuppositions of power.
Part-II
Examining
the Impact of Perspective-pollution
I
have observed that in contrast to the small percentage of “haves”
and elites who purchase the continuity of their self-interest with a
surfeit of silence and rationalization, a great many useful
idiots, fatal victims of perspective-pollution, most often from
among the “have-nots”, but also students and young
idealists of every socio-economic class, also exist who are motivated
to the extreme for their great cause and are easily led by the
demagogue and the Machiavelli to that very end. We once again
brazenly observe this trend today in all the televised “Democracy
Revolutions” that the world has witnessed over the past quarter
century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, including the one
occurring in Pakistan even as I write this, in August 2014. The ugly
fact of the matter that these “Democracy Revolutions” are
run by Western assets, stooges and mercenaries, following the script,
monies, training and logistics all laid out for them by the same
predators as part of their guns and butter package for the
on-going rape, pillage, and subjugation of nations on the Grand
Chessboard, is un apparent to these “revolutionaries”.
Only the methods employed by the master chess players vary depending
on their whim, fancy, and objectives:
- (1) neoconservatism, meaning, using guns and F16s to “liberate” the oppressed people from hard dictatorships that they had originally foisted upon the people themselves, with the replacement “neoliberal democracy”;
- (2) neoliberalism, the self-help “Democracy Revolutions”, the butter, to save the people from their own installed house niggers or other fabled enemies of the West, with a new crop of house niggers who will continue to write off the sovereignty of the nation and its public commons to privatization and corporate interests, euphemistically termed “globalization”, under carefully cultivated pretenses of bringing “democracy” and efficiency through electoral politics of musical chairs in a never ending game of mind-fck of nations.
The
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman highlighted the
relationship between these two sides of the imperial gun held to the
head of nations, with the cold chutzpah that only Jewish hubris can
muster in defense of the obvious truth: “That is why
sustainable globalization still requires a stable, geopolitical power
structure, which simply cannot be maintained without the active
involvement of the United States. ... The hidden hand of the market
will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish
without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden
fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is
called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Mr. John Perkins, a
former energy consultant for the World Bank who helped rape
developing nations, underscores that bold Jewish veracity of what it
means to be an empire.
Both
these “regime change” modus operandi for raping nations,
often accompanied by the propaganda cover of “humanitarian
assistance” to the local population, summed up as guns and
butter, are the tried and tested techniques that have been
witnessed throughout the Middle East and many parts of the world from
South America to Eastern Europe to post Soviet Central Asian nations
including Russia. The neoliberal looting of Russia in the 1990s after
the disintegration of the Soviet Union which led to its “Democracy
Revolution”, was most sanguinely justified by the former
chairman of the IMF in Moscow: “It was the price which Russia
paid for moving forward”. Debt-enslavement, privatization of
public commons for a song, plundering the wealth of nations, are
evidently the price of “liberty” and “moving
forward” with reforms. This is openly proclaimed time and again
but evidently to the short attention span public mind, it quickly
disappears into the ether. Its historical precedent for those
who can remember is in fact most impressive. After famously throwing
that tea overboard in 1776 to seed its own successful “Democracy
Revolution”, the United States too was brought in line with
debt-enslavement as sanguinely proclaimed by Alexander Hamilton. The
founding father of the United States and her very first Secretary of
the Treasury, is proudly quoted on the US Treasury website some two
and half centuries later: “The United States debt, foreign and
domestic, was the price of liberty.”
Recent
history can be a great lender of both insight and perspective for
parsing current affairs when the receipts of the breaking events of
the “contemporary history” in the making are often not in
hand. Narrative control and secrecy make it impossible to get at the
hard facts and evidence until these are revealed ex post facto when
nothing can be done about the matter, which is by then, in any case,
fait accompli and long lost to the pages of history. The example of
the “Democracy Revolution” in Pakistan in 1977 during the
tenure of prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) in the aftermath
of the national elections which the opposition parties on the right
claimed was rigged and came out in massive civil disobedience street
protests in a grand alliance that brought the country to a
standstill, is illustrative. The following confession by the then
Director of Pakistan's ISI in his memoir, should reveal to even the
most die hard fanatic revolutionary of today how these “Democracy
Revolutions” are covertly planned, setup on the ground, funded,
mobilized, and depending on the outcome, opportunistically harvested
from behind the scenes for a greater geopolitical agenda. This does
not happen overnight but has forces and motivation that transcend the
immediate situation:
“The
US Plays its Role. According to some candid intelligence estimates,
the US was fully involved in exploiting the situation by guiding and
aiding the opposition political parties and ultimately getting him
removed and hanged. (page 33)
It
is generally believed that the US wanted ZAB to be removed from the
political scene of Pakistan mainly on two counts. First, for the
nuclear policy that he framed and tried to relentlessly pursue and
secondly, for apprehensions that ZAB's was influencing the minds and
policies of a number of Islamic and Third World countries. He posed a
serious challenge to the US interests in the region. 'He had to be
eliminated'.
On
August 9, 1976, American Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger had
a talk with ZAB, in Lahore, to dissuade him from acquiring Nuclear
Reprocessing Plant from France for which the deal had already been
finalized after Pakistan had agreed to all the safeguard requirements
laid down by both France and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In their talks, Dr. Kissinger found ZAB inflexible and determined to
go ahead with the acquisition of the Reprocessing Plant and make
Pakistan a nuclear power. Incensed, he warned ZAB, "We will make
a horrible example of you," adding menacingly, "When the
railroad is coming, you get out of the way." But ZAB stood his
ground. The US virtually mowed down ZAB. The political and economic
crisis situation that started to develop during 1976-77 was fully
exploited by the power broker USA. This is how they did it:-
-
The Americans had successfully cultivated a number of well-placed
bureaucrats, PPP stalwarts and ministers who wittingly or
inadvertently served as the US agents of influence. American
diplomats and CIA operators not only got most of the 'inside'
information from these 'gentlemen' but also utilized their good
offices to 'convey' whatever they wanted to feed or plant.
-
During 1976-77 ZAB, probably working on the structured advice of
these agents, continued to slip deeper and deeper into the political
quagmire. They somehow convinced him that PPP must win and hold two
third majority in the elections. When the agitation was moving from
bad to worse, some of these men wanted weapons and chalked out plans
to defeat MNA movement by force. ZAB also seriously started to
consider this option.
-
Some officers from USMAAG had also meaningful ingresses in the
General Headquarters and not only gathered the thinking in the
Services Headquarters but would also drop a 'suggestion' here and
there.
-
Some of the US diplomats had established direct contacts with a
number of PNA leaders whom they continued to aid, support and give
day-to-day line of action.
-
As soon as the PNA movement gathered momentum, a large number of
foreigners, particularly Americans descended on Pakistan in the garb
of freelance journalists, reporters, observers, and photographers to
cover the events. These men and women loaded with cameras, tape
recorders and money seemed to have done their home-work well and were
also being fed locally by invisible sources. They all seemed to know
the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of every one who was any
one in politics. It would be interesting to note that, (thanks to our
days of slavery, we still have not overcome the 'white skin' phobia)
most of our politicians were not only always available to these
manipulators but would actually feel elated on getting a call from
them and would pour out whatever they had in their minds. Every day,
we in the ISI received a flood of telegrams that these journalists
would send home and it was surprising to know who all they were
speaking to and what information and political analysis they
received.
-
All that was being sent out by these so-called foreign journalists,
who were actually CIA operators, was being beamed back on Pakistan as
psychological warfare and propaganda aimed at building up a scenario
of ZAB's fall.
- A
number of diplomats were not only actively involved but also directed
the operations against ZAB. Jan M. Gibney, Political Officer, US
Consulate General, Lahore, duly assisted by a couple of Pakistanis,
was extremely active and would frequently visit a number of
politicians. It was Gibney who had telephoned and conveyed to Howard
B. Schaffer, Chief of Political Affairs, US Embassy, Islamabad, that
notorious sentence, "The party is over. Merchandise has gone."
ZAB had retorted by saying, "Party is not yet over. Elephant has
long ears......"
-
We had reports from Karachi that exchange rate of US Dollar in the
open market had considerably dropped. The market was flooded with US
Dollar currency notes and too many people were trying to exchange US
Dollars for Pak Rupees. Who unloaded all those US currency notes in
the market, is a question not difficult to answer.
-
PL-480 funds had also been released by the US. Over-night some JI
workers were seen with pockets full of money and spending lavishly.
...
...
The US not only aided but also directed most of the PNA activities.
On July 4, 1977, PNA negotiators Mufti Mahmood, Nawabzada Nasrullah
Khan and Professor Gafoor had agreed on a joint formula with the PPP
but suddenly Air Marshal (retired) Asghar Khan, Pir of Pigaro, Begum
Nasim Wali Khan, Maulana Noorani and some other of their ilk declared
that they did not endorse the agreement reached between the parties.
On whose behalf these leaders sabotaged the reconciliation
proceedings, is any body's guess.
Martial
Law. On the night of July 4/5, 1977 General Zia-ul-Haq declared
Martial Law. ...
The
US Issues Black Warrant. When ZAB's trial for his alleged involvement
in the murder of Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan was being heard in the
Supreme Court, Islamabad, ... a telegraphic message from Washington
[was received]. When decoded, it contained directions for the local
US offices to ensure that ZAB was hanged. It also laid down
instructions for arranging retirement and shifting of some of the
general officers.” --- Profiles of Intelligence by Brig.
Syed A. I. Tirmazi, 1995, pgs. 33-38
The
benefit of having some distance in time of course now also indicates
that a military government in Pakistan was simply essential for an
even greater geopolitical great game: to “have the opportunity
of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war”, which too did not
suddenly materialize in the fall of 1979 but had strategic
game-theory laced diabolical orchestration behind it. Here is another
confession, ex post facto:
“According
to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began
during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded
Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until
now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I
wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my
opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
...
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the
effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me
to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border,
I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to
the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to
carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that
brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the
Soviet empire.” --- Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1998 interview to
French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur
Zulfiqar
Ali Bhutto clearly could not have gone along with that American great
game plan with global aspiration of his own as the up and coming
respected statesman of the Muslim world, and had to be eliminated
from the scene altogether with a more compliant, boot-licking,
greedy, tin-pot military dictator who could easily be controlled.
Zia-ul-Haq at the time was well known in the establishment as the
most subservient lackluster general who was promoted to head the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (or as the Chief of Army Staff) over other more
senior generals by prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the keen
expectation that the groveling general will follow orders. Well, he
did, but of a different master. “Democracy Revolution”
was used as the pretext for that coup d'état. And under the
iron-fisted military rule of General Zia-ul-Haq, which he once
demonstrated on television by slowly closing his fist, a full blown
Islamic militancy operation was structured in Pakistan to recruit and
train the “Mujahideen” as cannon fodder for the Afghan
war. They were famously greeted as the “moral equivalent of
our founding fathers” by President Ronald Reagan on their
celebrated visit to the White House in 1980s. The plentiful harvest
of this fabricated “militant Islam” to last many
generations, is continually being “tickled”, re-seeded,
trained, and re-harvested, this time as the “enemy”, to
fuel the Global War on Terror.
The
official state receipts for this new “imperial mobilization”
aren't in as yet since it is still very much “contemporary
history” in the making. But one can still observe the
“coincidence” (sic!) that by another timely
“happenstance” (sic!), yet another military general is in
power in Pakistan before the launch of that second “imperial
mobilization” into Afghanistan using 9/11 as the pretext. Once
again, the then elected prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, who
remarkably is now once again the ruler of this pawn nation for the
third time, and is once again experiencing “Democracy
Revolution” against him, at the start of his second tenure in
1997 aspired to become the “amir-ul-momineen” and had
promoted General Pervez Musharraf over other more senior generals in
the exact same expectations as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and suffered the
exact same loyalty in payback. As the new iron-fisted ruler of
Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf immediately went on board the 9/11
steam-train and gave the entire stock-room away to assist in the
second “imperial mobilization” of the United States into
Afghanistan, forging a unity of command with the American military
command so that nothing was left to chance. Game theory was displayed
at its most effectiveness vis a vis Pakistan in both imperial
mobilizations, by having military dictatorship rule Pakistan at both
times to precisely follow orders of its own masters.
To
even think that the Global War on Terror and its underlying pretext
of the catastrophic terror event in New York was not years in the
planning is to be pathetically ignorant of the reality of “imperial
mobilization” --- a fate that is willingly suffered not just by
the Uncle Toms and house niggers installed to run
surrogate nations, but also by the support systems of domestic power
comprising intellectuals, journalists, news media owners, NGOs, and
the local industrial and economic elite whose bread and butter
depends on compliance with the massa. ( See the section
“Taking
a Deeper Look into the Dynamics of Mantra Creation: Islamofascism”
in my Report
on the Mighty Wurlitzer,
http://tinyurl.com/mightywurlitzer
)
Scrutinizing
that first instance of “Democracy
Revolution” against ZAB with the un jaundiced eye
of an analyst, one readily observes that it is almost like the layers
of an onion. You peel off one motivation and you see another cleverly
hidden underneath it. You unpeel that layer and you see yet another,
and another... What if a noble people with some wherewithal (meaning,
not dumbed down between bread and circuses), and their noble leaders
(meaning, not mercenaries and mental midget Uncle Toms
cunningly installed in power with pretenses of democratic elections
and arguments of expediency in military coup d'état),
understood the kernel motivation of the great game up front
by-passing all the layers of manufactured pretexts and the
concomitant cause-and-effect “happenstance” cunningly
built upon each other, and made wise and moral decisions in the
national interest rather than in their own narrow self-interests? The
imperial covert agendas would not succeed, now would they? These
agendas rely on the compliance of surrogate states to pull them off.
Precisely to preempt that hurdle from ever arising despite the
presence of house niggers in all positions of power, it is
made so much more difficult to unravel on-going covert operations and
their secret motivations while these are still current affairs. Ex
post facto, it is even made known to the world with considerable
gloat, knowing fully well that the dumbed down public along with
their co-opted rulers and mental midget intellectuals placed in all
prominent positions will not dare learn from it to preempt the next
episode of “contemporary history”. (See my deconstruction
of the doctrine of “Plausible Deniability” as per the US
National Security Directive NSC 10/2 permitting the CIA to indulge in
hard covert-operations upon the enemy while permitting the political
and executive leadership of the United States and its allies with
deniability cover, in Anatomy
of Conspiracy Theory,
http://tinyurl.com/anatomy-of-conspiracy-theory
)
Not
to be outdone by the historical tag team combination of
neoliberalism-neoconservatism to conquer nations, a new version is
being added to the mix of neoconservatism as I write this. The
creation of freshly armed terrorist states wielding “militant
Islam”, to augment the stateless terrorists wielding “militant
Islam” with merely box-cutter knives against whom the perpetual
World War IV is now being waged. That is this new “ISIS”
phenomenon rapidly being spread in Iraq and Syria as I write this
(see Understanding
ISIS, http://tinyurl.com/Understanding-ISIS).
The
new militant “Islamic State” with “caliphate”
galore is only the manufactured progression of going from empire's
own stateless antediluvian actors playing their scripted “terrorist”
role, to antediluvian state actors playing their scripted “terrorist
expansionist” role. Barbarians being brought to power akin to
the manufacture of NAZI socialism and godless Communism, both
secretly supported and funded from Wall Street to fabricate potent
state enemies to wage world wars against in order to fashion a new
world order from the concomitant ashes of the old world left behind.
The headlines announcing the new phantasmal terror threat to Western
civilization: “Islamic State 'beyond anything we've seen':
'Washington:
The Islamic State poses a greater danger than conventional “terrorist
group” and is pursuing a vision that could radically alter the
face of the Middle East, US Defence Leader said Thursday [August 21,
2014].
The
IS jihadists could be contained and eventually defeated by local
forces backed by the United States, but the Sunni population in both
Syria and Iraq would need to reject the group, Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel and General Martin Dempsey told reporters.
Hagel
warned that the Islamic State is better armed, trained and funded
than any recent militant threat.
“They
marry ideology and a sophistication of strategy and tactical military
prowess. They are tremendously well funded. This is beyond anything
we've seen,” Hagel
told a news conference.
Dempsey,
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the group
adheres to a fanatical ideology and has “a long term vision”
to take over Lebanon, Israel, and Kuwait. If they achieve that
vision, it would fundamentally alter the face of the Middle East and
create a security environment that would certainly threaten us in
many ways,” he said.
...
The bombing runs and humanitarian aid to the local population
[Zahir's note: the guns and butter again] have stalled the
Islamic State's “momentum and enabled Iraqi and Kurdish forces
to regain their footing and take the initiative”.
Asked
if the US would hit the militants in neighboring Syria, Hagel did not
rule out the option but did not indicate strikes there were
imminent.' --- AFP, Friday August 22, 2014, via Dawn.com
The
local public often just join the burgeoning crowds in these
revolution-fevers that are brought to their door-steps out of their
own frustrations, disenfranchisement, misplaced sense of patriotism,
nationalism, liberation, or religionism, not to neglect paid
participants on the endless dollar payroll, and those coerced into
attending who'd rather just be sitting at home with their family. The
real social problems affecting ordinary peoples are all fabricated to
start with as part of the Hegelian Dialectic strategy in the way the
territory is administered as a surrogate state by rulers, dictators,
plunderers, all pathetic house niggers, some wearing the garb
of “democracy” and constitutional electoral mandate if
that more agreeable format is in vogue when a state has seen some
“liberation”. There is, of course, always the “real”
“Democracy Revolution” waiting in the wings for even
greater “liberation”. The public's natural reaction to
their social, political and economic discontents is suitably
amplified with specific slogans at the national scale and cunningly
fertilized for advancing “revolutionary times” by making
it all appear organic. It is not organic. It is synthetic. But its
basis is in the hard reality of discontent. Sometimes that discontent
is synthetically induced, as was the Hindu-Muslim discontent after
the failed rebellion of 1857. After that combined Hindu-Muslim effort
to get rid of the British empire, the white man decided to
ensure that the two people should forever remain at loggerheads,
leading to the blood-drenched partition of the Indian sub-continent
when the British finally withdrew 90 years later (see my Sacred
Cow series: Allama Iqbal - marde-momin or superman?,
which examines the role of the principal local architect of that
orchestrated separation in his service to the British Empire,
http://tinyurl.com/Allama-Iqbal-ubermensch
).
I
have learnt that it is virtually impossible to explain any of this to
these overzealous “democracy” and anti-government
protesters, their sympathizers, and even to their antagonists,
including the “Islam” flag bearers of any flavor driving
for caliphates among the Sunni fanatical Muslims and “revolutionary
Islam” among the Shia fanatical Muslims, that these
“revolutionary times” are synthetic and people are being
taken for a ride for quite a different endgame. I have tried it ---
no one is even willing to read the script of “How to Start a
Revolution”, “From Dictatorship to Democracy”,
freely available on the internet, to adjudicate for themselves what
kind of script the latest two circus clowns of “Democracy
Revolution”, Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri, are following in
Islamabad.
Both
are Uncle Toms of empire not much different from their
opponents whom they want to dislodge from power in their version of
the “real” “Democracy Revolution”. Both eat
at the same globalist's table with the massa, like their
opponents. Both echo the same core narratives of empire, like their
opponents. And they both make coordinated maximalist political
demands in their “Democracy Revolution” which are
designed ab initio never to be fulfilled, but to principally disrupt
the state's functioning at the expense of increasing public anger at
nothing functioning, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy with
more state repression, more dysfunction, more public anger, the
theory being that this will topple the regime – “regime
change”.
Behold
the two house niggers of Pakistan now championing “revolution”
and “change”, seated comfortably at the massa's
table at the Western financial super elite's World Economic Forum
annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2011. (For the
definition of the term house nigger see my FAQ
What is an Intellectual Negro?,
http://tinyurl.com/faq-intellectual-negro
)
Caption
Pakistani house niggers Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri seated
at the massa's table at the Western financial super elite's
World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January
27, 2011. What are they doing there? Would it be rude to suggest that
they are each being rewarded for the following facts: (a) selling the
“moderate Islam” part of Hegelian Dialectic (both Imran
Khan and Tahir ul Qadri) ; (b) the 600-page Fatwa on Terrorism
against “militant Islam” to reinforce the Hegelian
Dialectic with some theology backing one side and condemning the
other (Tahir ul Qadri) ; (c) for both parroting the core axioms and
narratives of massa on its Global War on Terror ; (d) for both
demonstrating to the massa that although the massa
knows that the “Price of a Pakistani oscillates between a free
trip to the US and a bottle of whisky.” (see Profiles of
Intelligence by Brig. Syed A. I. Tirmazi, 1995, pg. 45), and that
as in yesteryear, even today all mercenaries from Pakistan are as
willing and able to play its diabolical games to fck their own
peoples, but that these two are the more promising of the current
crop as prospective political and religious national leaders of
“moderate Islam” in Pakistan with an ideological
following of mostly young people and women fed up with both the
status quo of corrupt political parties and with “militant
Islam”, and thus offering them the gentle mix between slightly
secular to “moderate Islam” to ensure that this large
demographic group too is also led to the same “United We Stand”
pastures by the devils the massa knows and supports, and
consequently, that they are also worthy of being noticed and backed
as their new horses among the massa's many other horses. The
massa evidently agreed, and even rewarded them with
participation and global visibility on the massa's table.
Imran Khan needed the massa's backing, because without it no
one can come to power in their surrogate states, but he already had
the national visibility, and has already been partaking of the crumbs
that fall off the British Establishment's table. While Tahir ul Qadri
has been more dependent on the massa's full spectrum support
for his sudden meteoric rise to national prominence in Pakistan. The
two house niggers, as different as they are in their
personality and profession, coordinating their scripted “Democracy
Revolution” protests in Islamabad is therefore no surprise.
(Image source from my response to Dr. Tahir-ul Qadri on his Fatwa in
2010: Response
to the Fatwa on Terrorism in the Service of Empire,
http://tinyurl.com/Tahir-ul-Qadri-Fatwa-Terrorism
)
Well,
one such green colored “Democracy Revolution” was foiled
by the Iranian government in 2009 with great foresight and
understanding of the devil before them. Other nations have been less
successful. Pakistan is the most pathetic --- ruled entirely by house
nigger class across the board, both in and out of uniform. The
recipe is all laid out in the script known as “FDTD” for
disrupting an existing governance system by making it more and more
difficult to govern. The pretense for take-down of course is
“liberation from tyranny”, with a promise of better
“democracy” --- otherwise only fools would fall for it.
Now even intelligent people are deceived by the “honey trap”
of platitudes for the want of realistic perspective on primacy, for
the want of intimacy with the mind of sociopaths who play with
nations like pawns on the grand chessboard, and due to immersive
permanent bondage to adept global perception managers.
Few
who fall for these “revolution” scams in fact ever want
to understand that all this is manufactured, synthetic, run by
Western assets and stooges. Perspective-pollution is the ultimate
patsy-maker creating an abundance of useful idiots out of the
handful of “jihadis” and “idealists” willing
to put aside self-interest for a greater cause. These patsies are
trained into the mechanisms of “Democracy Revolution” and
they seed the large flag-waving crowds which are formed in herds by
the victims of discontent spanning the gamut from disenfranchisement
to poverty to joblessness to lack of security to just wishing change
from living under the jackboots of tyranny. A study of such crowds
would surely reveal that these are populated more by genuine people
with real discontents than by mercenaries, hired hands, and those
conscripted to attend, even though there is never any shortages of
the latter set. Genuine disaffection is fundamentally necessary for
this recipe to be sustained for any length of time and through its
trials and tribulations.
Such
disaffection is not always the result of any one single corrupt
government's limited tenure. It is often an accumulation of the same
common state policies of serfdom over many years and many changing
uniforms and shalwar kameez on the lucrative throne of a nation like
Pakistan. This has made her national cancer systemic. Even so, smart
crooks in power, whether military, civilian, autocratic, despotic or
tyrannical, should at least be politically astute enough to know
whether these “Democracy Revolutions” are foreign funded
and orchestrated or not, by being intimately familiar with the script
being played out. Evidently, unlike the Iranian governance system
manned by learned well-read intellectuals who suffer a great deal of
national interest with modesty and honesty of purpose despite nearly
four decades of international sanctions and marginalizing, the
Pakistani government, like the Pakistani nation, suffering from a
severe drought of intellectuals and run by fools and mercenaries many
of whom even purchase fake college degrees to become elected, all
seeking personal payback with compound interest after purchasing
their meal ticket to elected statehood for hundreds of thousands of
dollars a piece, appear to be entirely unfamiliar with the script.
Well, by the law of nature, those who live by the hand of the devil
are forced out by the same hand.
It
is, however, not that there is anything more profound in these
political recipes for bringing about “revolutions”
against tyranny than is contained, for instance, in the nearly 600
years old Discourse on Voluntary Servitude written by the
young French idealist and revolutionary, Etienne de La Boétie.
This fellow straightforwardly argued the following most obvious moral
commonsense for genuine liberation which could still never come to
pass on its own despite the vista of six centuries of experimentation
to verify its efficacy: “obviously there is no need of fighting
to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if
the country refuses consent to its own enslavement. ... [Therefore:]
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask
that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply
that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a
great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own
weight and break in pieces.”
There
is indeed a very extensive bibliography on non-violence resistance,
including yesteryear examples in Nelson Mandela and his resistance to
Apartheid South Africa, Mohandas Gandhi and his Satyagraha resistance
to support the Quit India movement, etc. The standard academic
text for Westerners, especially Americans, is of course the classic
by one of their own, Henry David Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience
and other related essays.
Books,
platitudes, and moral commonsense however don't bring “revolutions”
or overthrow tyranny. Otherwise, the world's great religions would
have been sufficient to end all tyranny for all times. Today, it is
the singular fact that big money, strategies, tactics, logistics,
trainers and handlers, media and support systems, are all deployed
together on a vast scale to make these “Democracy Revolutions”
happen as a means of creating “revolutionary times” for
agendas that have little to do with freeing the people from their
serfdom. Endless piles of big money and sophisticated logistics
planning are deployed by front-men of the financial oligarchy
operating through tax-exempt charitable foundations and other
non-profit organizations (NGOs) in conjunction with the intelligence
apparatuses of Western nations. The bibliography on this subject of
covert subversion of nations by the superpower is quite extensive.
Even a little study of freely available web resources will quickly
take one to names like the financial speculations wizard George Soros
and his behind the scenes funding of the multi-colored “Democracy
Revolution”; to the CIA manufacturing local agents and assets
who are deployed to seed the “Democracy Revolution” from
the Left to the Right, or to furnish other “revolutionary
times” on demand such as Operation Gladio style
terrorism blamed on patsies; etc. Not to forget to mention that the
former head of Pakistan's ISI openly admitted in his memoir that the
superpower “master” even installs “CIA agents as
presidents, prime ministers, ministers, generals and senior advisors,
etc.” (Profiles of Intelligence by Brig. Syed A. I.
Tirmazi, 1995, pgs. 20-22). The massa holds its house
niggers in such utter contempt that the head of ISI further
quoted the chutzpah of the US
Counsel General at Lahore: “Price of a Pakistani
oscillates between a free trip to the US and a bottle of whisky.”
(Ibid. pg. 45, quoting Dr. Andrew
V. Corry, US Counsel General at Lahore).
The
Pakistani spook chief went on to confirm the reality of that trite
American observation of its surrogate state: “He may not be too
far wrong. We did observe some highly placed Pakistanis selling their
conscience, prestige, dignity and self-respect for a small price.”
(Ibid. pg. 45) And then, surprisingly for an establishmentarian
insider and spook chief of a spy agency that is itself fed by the
United States, the most candid of all questions is asked: “The
nation has the right to know and ask the leaders how far has the
situation changed and have we developed enough muscles and guts to
get rid of the old masters and their agents? That is the question.”
(Ibid. pg. 23) Indeed. It is still the question. Matters have only
worsened today. More and more agents, mercenaries, stooges, patsies
and dupes have been planted in all significant positions of power and
influence across Pakistan for obediently continuing Pakistan's
manufactured front-line role as “Terror Central” in the
Global War on Terror (see my 2007 report: Saving
Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central',
http://tinyurl.com/saving-pakistan-2007
).
This
reality-check and especially the previously discussed example of
Pakistan's first “Democracy Revolution” of 1977 where the
religious Right was mobilized with suitcase full of US dollars,
should convince even the most obdurate mind by now to be at least a
tad more skeptical of these new generation of holier than thou
puppetshows of “Democracy Revolution”.
Who
is funding Tahir ul Qadri's and Imran Khan's “Democracy
Revolution” mania today? Both their crowds appear to be
well-trained, dedicated, armed with heavy cranes and air-conditioned
shipping containers (a first not just for Pakistan but not seen in
any “Democracy Revolution” before), and for all the
claims of theirs being two independent protests just coincidentally
united by happenstance on the same occasion, seem rather well
coordinated. As of Saturday, August 30, 2014, intense violence has
erupted against the protesters with Islamabad being turned into a war
zone by the state security apparatus. The Muslim on Muslim violence
that has characterized the Global Zone of Percolating Violence
that Brzezinski outlined on page 53 of his 1996 book The Grand
Chessboard, the hallmark of fourth generation warfare to
demoralize nations from within, has achieved its intent in every
nation visited by it, including Pakistan. What a mind-fck that
the quest to get rid of the military from governance in 2007 with “go
Musharraf go” sloganeering is now transformed into the question
on most Pakistani lips: why is the military not intervening? As of
Monday, September 1, 2014, the Pakistani newsmedia is awash with
revelations made by the elected president of Imran Khan's political
party who left the protest site in disagreement, that Imran Khan is
following a “script”. Duh! Its complete unraveling
someday promises to be the unpeeling of the onion of several layers
of covert motivations each one compartmentalized and staged by its
own handlers.
Where
is all this going? If history is a worthy teacher, clearly to some
staging of next pawn moves on the grand chessboard. A Gordian knot
has been tied on Pakistan the extrication from which, without a real
throwing of tea overboard, is impossible. The carefully cultivated
house niggers, agents, assets, and mercenaries in and out of
uniform ensure that the primacy interests of the massa will
always remain the first priority in Pakistan. Perspective-pollution
will continue to enfeeble and co-opt her public. The causal chain of
national liberation then is to transcend perspective-pollution first,
the godhead of all co-option for any brave people willing to rise
beyond their own narrow self-interests. All else will naturally
follow. But without it, the chances of being harvested as useful
idiots and patsy-fodder with the right set of “doctrinal
motivation” implanted in every partisan group, is virtually one
hundred percent. This modus operandi of making the public mind should
be self-evident. Just look at how Tahir ul Qadri provides a different
set of “doctrinal motivation” to his flock of
revolutionaries in contrast to Imran Khan, but both group of
protesters are coordinated towards the same mobilization. The
perpetual rich harvest of useful idiots at the hands of demagogues is
the principal reason I have devoted so much space here to this matter
of Machiavellian social engineering so that the motivated and
well-intentioned minority willing to put their good life on the line
to bring change in the greater public interest, can also overcome
their stupidity first, just like they overcame their apathy.
An
insightful and brilliantly oratorical statement attributed to the
ancient Roman statesman and orator, student of law and justice,
Marcus Tullius Cicero, made several decades before the birth of
Christ during the zenith and rapaciousness of Pax Romana on its way
to pernicious decay, captures a fundamental truth: “It is not
freedom that permits Trojan Horse to be wheeled within the gates.”
Cicero went on to plead his case before the Roman Senate in words
that appear to be timeless commonsense, but lost to any civilization
in decay:
“A
nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less
formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against
the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very
halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he
speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their
face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies
deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works
secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city;
he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A
murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the
plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.” ---
Cicero's speech to the Roman Senate, appears in Cicero's
Prognosis, 1965, by Millard F. Caldwell, Justice, Supreme Court
Florida (source AAPS, aapsonline.org)
I
have however observed that fools are indispensable to the fifth
columnists of modern times. The traitor in our intensely
Machiavellian times cannot generally be very effective in his
subversion without the plentiful harvest of useful idiots, stooges,
patsies and dupes, all fervently believing
in their divine mission while executing the superman's script,
often written several degrees of separation removed from the scene.
The traitor answers to alien masters.
These
manufactured “Democracy Revolutions” are not the
harbinger of any meaningful and substantive changes for the
betterment of the people. Indeed, anyone with even a tiny bit of
intellectual capacity to reason can easily ascertain from empirical
evidence that at best, it merely changes the shape and form,
sometimes the uniforms, sometimes the flag. But nothing fundamental
changes, except for the worse. It is of course all couched in
Orwellian Newspeak to
convince a gullible public of the absurd, and the reprehensible. But
behind the fancy tunes of propaganda, their resources are
still plundered regardless of who's brought into power under which
pretext; they are still kept in debt to international lending
agencies led by the World Bank which is controlled by private
internationalist bankers who seek global governance at the expense of
eroding national sovereignty with the diabolical tricks of their
trade; their economies are still transformed into MNC economies by
the WB-IMF debt trap; their own once thriving domestic industries are
shut down in obedience to IMF restructuring and privatization
mandates as temporary relief in the debt-trap, making it prohibitive
for local industries to compete and the country and its vast
resources are easily bought out for a song; their social spendings
are continually siphoned off in debt-servicing for loans incurred for
frivolous and military pursuits; and they remain vassals and
surrogates of empire with merely a different set of house niggers
in the ceremonial seats, sometimes in uniform, sometimes out of
uniform.
These
observations are entirely empirical. Anyone can observe this state of
affairs as it isn't a classified state-secret. In fact this is so
patently obvious to anyone with an iota of intelligence that for any
public to be continually taken for a ride on the “horse of
democracy” with election frenzy and revolution mania, its mind
must be really really foolish. Or really really controlled. Which one
is yours?
I
have learnt that this is as much a great game among satiated
predators who just play with nations and gullible public to see who
can fck them more, as it is a strategy of destabilization with
“regime changes” to achieve the objectives of fourth
generation warfare on the Grand Chessboard. The demoralization of a
people is complete even after a few such episodes of guns and
butter liberation, imagine endless ones lasting a lifetime,
multiple generations, in which kids are born and die young knowing no
other existence! The ultimate prize sought: one-world.
What
I wonder about though, and it is not something I have figured out
yet, is what happens afterwards? It would become awfully boring for
the sociopaths and predators once they control every living being and
system on earth. What new games would they then have to devise to
entertain themselves, to exercise their lust for power --- go back to
child-like competing and warring nation-states to restart the great
game all over again? Or look for new frontiers in outerspace for
exercising primacy as the fledgling United Earth Federation?
And
that, all that, dear reader, is the tortuous reality of the matter
and the path mankind has been deliberately put on without our consent
or knowledge. The sociopaths creating major wars, the social
Darwinians deciding who lives and who dies, the controllers creating
perspective-pollution, and the narrow self-interests of even the best
of people, always win out in the end. To this effect, my greatest of
all disappointments is to finally accept the empirical fact that even
the most profound world religions teaching lofty moral virtues have
failed equally miserably in getting the public mind to transcend
self-interest.
This
fact is now compounded by the high degree of perspective-pollution
across the board which, integrated over time and space, throughout
history and mythology, has come to divide mankind into us vs. them ad
infinitum on narrow differentiation more than uniting it as human
beings first. It is not merely that people have taken religion as an
opiate --- the disturbing and readily observable fact is that the
public mind everywhere, in every nation on earth, appears to not be
capable of anything different from what socialization teaches it, the
needs of existentialism compel it, and the stages of co-option entice
it. Spiritual gratification when sought is found in prayer.
Intellectual thirst when lighted is quenched in career. Ego is
satiated in awards and accolades and feel-goods. The super ego lies
dead. The age of Solon is long past. That age 3000 years ago when the
Athenian lawgiver had decreed good governance: “That city where
those who have not been injured take up the cause of one who has, and
prosecute the case as earnestly as if the wrong had been done to
themselves.” That age was short lived as well and vanished
after its lawgiver.
Solon's
distant progeny Plato subsequently decreed the “Philosopher-king”
abstraction for that reason of good governance of the Republic, of
having truthful intelligent thinkers seeking high moral ideals become
the leaders of a Republic because deceitful super-intelligent amoral
thinkers will only put the public mind in chains. Fools will only run
them aground or be shepherded themselves from behind the scenes. With
the world all but co-opted by the superman, what then is left
behind to interdict the superman's dystopia now in the making?
What
I have learnt in my journey as the student of truth does not paint a
very flattering picture of man as it exists today, and as it has
existed from time immemorial --- his inability to break the bonds of
servitude. Back then it was involuntary servitude under the jackboots
of kings who ruled in the name of god, often as gods themselves.
Today it is by creating systems of social control that induce
voluntary servitude under the pretenses of liberty, fraternity,
equality, democracy, elections, getting man to accept his own
servitude, and to even love it. Sadly, only the forms and formats of
mass behavior control have changed, from physical chains of antiquity
to mental chains of modernity, but the objective remains the same –
primacy!
There
is always a new tomorrow though. A better painting beckons.
Epilogue
In
my detailed examination of the “Fable of the Bees” in the
essay: Seduction
of Science and Technology Corrupting the Intellect and the Soul
( http://tinyurl.com/Fable-of-the-Bees
), I examined the rather rare disease of morbid infection by cheeky
conscience in the brilliant supercat who
decided to go for “Hajj” after eating 900 mice. The
infection is usually short lived, but in the following case died
holily in bed.
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Quote
Few
men of science, technology, and industry ever grapple with any of
these issues or dare to go there when they are in the prime of their
careers heartily pursuing it. Usually, a handful only venture there
after the fact, ex post facto, after the genie is out of the bottle
and cannot be put back in. Like M.I.T.'s own former president Jerome
B. Wiesner (1971-1980), who, after presiding over the buildup of the
same militarized society, upon retirement from his top academic post
in the most militarized country on earth, thought it most
conscionable to make the following banal statement of moral clarity:
“This
irrational behavior is only possible because we, the citizens of the
nation, permit it. It is no longer a question of controlling a
military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States
from becoming a totally military culture.” — The United
States: A militarized society, Jerome B. Wiesner, president emeritus
MIT, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Aug. 1985, pg. 104
This
is the outline of Jerome B. Wiesner's own militarized career
according to wikipedia:
“Jerome
B. Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994), was associated
with MIT for most of his career, joining the MIT Radiation Laboratory
in 1942 and working on radar development. He worked briefly at Los
Alamos, returned to become a professor of Electrical Engineering at
MIT, and worked at and ultimately became director of the Research
Laboratory of Electronics at MIT (RLE). He became Dean of the School
of Science in 1964, Provost in 1966, and President from 1971 to 1980.
He was also elected a life member of the MIT Corporation.”
These
much noted pangs of belated conscience evidently make zero impact on
the dystopian forces which they unleashed in their heyday, or, as one
often wonders, upon their own decrypt soul as they “died
holily in their beds.” (from MacBeth 5:1:47-49 “Yet I
have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died
holily in their beds.”) Perhaps this is why it is respectable
to make [these lofty moral proclamations only] upon retirement.
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This
essay, summarizing what I have learnt of the minefield of co-option
in my journey as a student of truth, is humbly dedicated to the young
generation, of every era, and to my children. It is my profound hope
that instead of merely giving importance to these matters towards the
tail end of one's professional journey, like American scientist and
M.I.T. president Jerome B. Wiesner, like myself, an M.I.T. hammered
engineer who also contributed his own two dry straws worth of mind
and hand during his “youth” in building the
Technetronic dystopia now upon the world (see Zahir
Ebrahim's response to IEEE Spectrum’s Special Report: 25
Microchips That Shook the World. May 2009,
http://tinyurl.com/ieeespectrum-25microchips-2009
), or remaining indifferent, they might engage with reality more
forthrightly at the launch of theirs. As Winston Smith, working
tirelessly at The Ministry of Truth in
London, quietly wrote in his diary in George Orwell's depiction of
today's dystopia in his prescient fable Nineteen eighty-four,
feeling that he was setting forth an important axiom:
“Freedom
is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is
granted, all else follows.”
The
older generations worldwide have veritably been co-opted to accept
the dystopic arithmetic of two plus make five, now being
taught ubiquitously by today's version of The Ministry of Truth.
Which is why we live in the absurd dark age of War on Terror, the
full blown global terror network of the Goldstein of our age
in the making. Phantasmally divided today between “al-Qaeda”
and “IS”, previously between “al-Qaeda” and
“Sadaam's WMD”, covertly armed, aided and abetted as
surrogate armies of empire cast in the role of “bad guys”
to wage endless wars against, and none harboring lofty moral gravitas
in noble Oceania fighting for the cause of liberty against the
barbarians, is able to call a spade a spade.
The
young generations are the only hope that they learn to navigate the
corrupting seas of co-option, self-interest, perspective-pollution,
with some degree of wherewithal from the very inception of their
professional lives. For only then shall they find the courage to do
basic arithmetic correctly. All else will follow. Without it, they
will remain caught between self-interest and useful idiots in every
era, stupidly chasing “hope”, “revolution”
and “democracy” as the mirages of “change”.
All evil naturally beckons. This is the empirical truth.
Youth
need not be wasted on the young.
Source
URL:
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-have-i-learnt-zahir-ebrahim.html
Faith-Politico
URL:
http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-art-and-science-of-co-option.html
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