The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity
Introduction: Modernity Simplified
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What is all this verbiage by Project HumanbeingsfirstTM really all about? Is there a reductionist and simplified explanation at the level of a 'poor-man'?
Yes. In the simplest terms: 'Might defines right'.
This leads to “Hegemony is as old as mankind”.
That in turn leads to the following psychological pathocracy – some call it empire:
If we don't have real enemies then we have to create or imagine some, and yell 'we are being attacked' in order to, principally:
a) justify one's hegemonic barbarianism upon others; and
b) motivate an unwilling plebeian peoples into sacrificing for the conquests of the oligarchic elite.
Euphemistically, today as the winning empire, this is called “imperial mobilization”.
Grotesquely, for previously defeated empires, it is called “quest for Lebensraum”.
That's all there is to it.
All which follows is only in further examination of how that is accomplished under the veneer of “democracy”, because, in the absence of such deception, “democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”. That quoted statement was made by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1997 book: The Grand Chessboard – American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.
This “quest for Lebensraum” (German word for acquiring more space as an imperative), ahem, “imperial mobilization” of the ruling oligarchy, the ubermensch (German word for superior, above all others), just happens to be the age-old quest for one-world government in disguise.
It is to be achieved piece-meal, incrementally, one fait accompli at a time, one fabricated crisis at a time, one manufactured war at a time, one real or imagined pestilence at a time, and one catastrophe at a time.
The psychological pathocracy of modern statecraft requires continuous threats, crises, and uncertainty, to corral the democratic instincts of the modern public into accepting the unpleasant totalitarian agendas of the ruling oligarchy.
The solution presented for addressing each uncertainty is the next baby-step towards centralized global control of all humanity in a global empire of the financial oligarchy.
That world order, the new world order, as we can already perceive even in its initial stages, is governed with moral relativism wherein, legal opinions as those proclaimed by a United States Justice before its Supreme Court, prevail:
'Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes, that a name, a phrases, a standard has meaning only when associated with the considerations which give birth to nomenclature. To those who would paralyze our Government in the face of impending threat by encasing it in a semantic strait-jacket, we must reply that all concepts are relative.'
The term 'oligarchic elite' refers to people who are several notches above – and more hidden from public view in their enormous wealth and their secretive exercise of 'social engineering' – than what is typically understood by the term 'ruling elite', or simply the 'elite'. The latter often refers to the generally affluent 1% of any society, more interested in being rich and running corporations than in 'social engineering', and many among them can be found in the Forbes' richest people listing.
But one will never see a Rothschild, or David Rockefeller listed in Forbes billionaires list. That's perhaps because they are trillionaires, with all their massive wealth legally hidden behind private tax-exempt foundations, and in their opaque ownership of private banks, which in turn own many a private central bank! They can muster vast sums of private monies for 'social engineering', and administer untold funds through their tax-exempt foundations and think-tanks. They are the proverbial 'king makers' who craft 'errand boys' to do their policy bidding.
To unmask them all before fait accompli is Project Humanbeingsfirst's imperative – i.e., before it's all a done deal.
Ex post facto, narrators can rehearse the deceptions and their disentanglement all in the comforts of one-world government. And of course laugh their way to fame and fortune just as today's narrators call it erudite scholarship to openly rehearse the settlement of the Americas and the genocide of millions of its indigenous peoples.
Even the sixth graders in elementary schools today throughout the North American continent learn of the choice between the gattling-gun (force) and the small-pox laden bacteriological warfare (treachery) magnanimously offered to the indigenous natives, without batting their own eye-lids or offering a few tears in compensation.
Detachment from history and from previous generations who inflict crimes upon the 'lesser humanity', the 'untermenschen' (German word for 'lesser peoples'), evidently washes away both the evidence and the guilt. But not the bold and often truthful narratives which become openly public, and their bearers lauded scholars and touted academics.
In the transition to the modernity of today, the euphemisms have become considerably refined with the march of Western civilization. It is now the more egalitarian choice between “democracy” (euphemism for force) and “revolution” (euphemism for treachery) under the dialectical “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”, that is being magnanimously offered to the indigenous natives along the “arc of crisis” in the “Global Zone of Percolating Violence”. The objectives unfortunately remain the same as in antiquity – by hook or by crook usurping what does not belong to one. The two quoted descriptive phrases are once again Zbigniew Brzezinski's, respectively from a January 15, 1979 Time magazine article titled 'IRAN: The Crescent of Crisis', and from Brzezinski's already mentioned 1997 book.
Thusly, in the case of our modernity as well, perhaps only our progeny might also bear truthful witness to the crimes and sham of intellectualism of their hypocritical ancestors – scholars, leaders, military-men, holy-men, politicians, teachers, news-bearers, both in the West and the East, on the left and the right – who hath proclaimed to stand for truth, but who only aided and abetted vile hegemonic power with their own convolutions and confabulations. Modernity du jour is entirely unwilling to unravel their confusing and deceptive narratives.
We must wait a 100 years, or perhaps only 20, before anyone who is a somebody will again truthfully proclaim how new 'smallpox laden blankets' were used to fashion one-world government. Before then, it is all to be dismissed as 'conspiracy theory'.
This is why, as had been self-servingly predicted by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1974:
'... it will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.'
That, in the simplest of terms, is Modernity Simplified to the level of a 'poor-man' (i.e., one with limited ability, time, or even inclination, to carefully read, write, and reason about the period one lives in).
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but as Aldous Huxley aptly captured it in his 1958 Foreword to Brave New World Revisited, “[t]he soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation.” It especially cannot do even adequate justice to the complex facts and hidden motivations of matters impelling current affairs, political science and history. These come wrapped in layers of deception of both the “history's actors” as well as the narrow self-interests of the narrators. Whereas excessive brevity requires simplifications, which in turn necessitates omissions. And omissions become the very soul of distortion and half-truths instead of bringing forensic clarity in this sea of Machiavellian lies and deceit.
To ensure that simplistic and pat formulations do not mask the uber sophisticated psychological, political, financial, scientific, and military methods with which modernity is being Machiavellianly choreographed to extract freedom from both the consciousness as well as the existence of the guileless herds of humanity, sufficient elaboration is essential.
But how much is too much? Again, as Aldous Huxley examined the matter: “But life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything. In practice we are generally forced to choose between an unduly brief exposition and no exposition at all. Abbreviation is a necessary evil and the abbreviator's business is to make the best of a job which, though intrinsically bad, is still better than nothing. He must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. He must learn to concentrate upon the essentials of a situation, but without ignoring too many of reality's qualifying side issues. In this way he may be able to tell, not indeed the whole truth (for the whole truth about almost any important subject is incompatible with brevity), but considerably more than the dangerous quarter-truths and half-truths which have always been the current coin of thought.”
Consequently, the one accusation which continues to stand against Project Humanbeingsfirst is its absence of brevity! In striving to tell the whole truth to the best of its author's capacity about every matter it touches, considerably more words than many individuals have time for have been penned in its few short years. For those challenged by time or inclination to imbibe such high potency intellectual vitamins to their fullest absorption, which evidently is upwards of 90% of public in every nation weaned on 15-second attention spans, a minimalist expansion has been cherry-picked in The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity. The table of contents is as follows:
It is expected that this limited compilation will tickle the readers' curiosity and selfish angst sufficiently to want to pursue due diligence on their own for the sake of their own selves.
Empiricism lamentably betrays however that even whole knowledge does not automatically lead to a change in behavior or mind-set. Only the courage of one's convictions does. You can read books all day long, listen to endless hours of talks and lectures on the internet with rapt attention, seek wise counsel from your chieftains and pontiffs, and it will not change your behavior one bit. However, the tickling of self-preservation will almost always instinctually lead to an immediate change in behavior! Unless of course one is too vested in enjoying one's servitude – like the brilliant fellow described in Chapter 6 who clearly only lacks the courage of his own convictions and not knowledge nor information.
Nevertheless, I hope that the gestalt shift in perspective which The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity will induce in the more alert of mind will help them perceive the world from the predatory eyes of the tom cat pictured in the book's opening pages. You are the next meal in the fishbowl! My very first piece of public writing in April 2003 stated that to be the obvious fact of the matter. This job advertisement in December 2011 by the US Military validates it. Nothing ever alters the tom cat's predatory instincts just because its prey refuses to recognize it. The predator is always waiting, watching, scheming, conniving.... before pouncing – the inveterate “hectoring hegemon”! And it's done with the most devilishly cunning Hegelian Dialectics that simply run circles around the prey alternately shocking and exhausting it into accepting what's planned for it. The only escape from its death-jaws is for its preys to change their behavior pattern perspicaciously BEFORE it is fait accompli. I hope this book can help in that regard.
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