Zahir
Ebrahim, Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
Dateline
Friday, March 20, 2009, California.
I
can relate to both Mr. David Lindorff's penchant
for hitch-hiking, and to the Security man Michael Edward
Loftus who commented on Lindorff's
article at AFP
with a wise note of caution.
I
too love to live in the idyllic days of the '60s and '70s. In third
grade, living in Pakistan, I would take the rickshaw to school alone.
Since my dad's job was in the opposite direction and he got a ride
from his office-transport, that was the only way I could get to
school which was at least 10 miles away. We didn't own a car –
that was a middle class luxury few could
afford in Pakistan at the time. And it wasn't a hired rickshaw on a
pick-and-drop duty either, but was flagged from the street corner. It
wasn't a big deal at all to travel alone. I would wander/play in the
streets without supervision like all the other neighborhood
kids. In the '70s, I would hitchhike to get around as a high
schooler. In the '80s, I hitchhiked all
over the UK – it wasn't a police state then – stayed in
Youth Hostels, and had a phenomenal time. I knew many friends at
college in the United States who had hitchhiked all over Europe with
amazing stories of new found friends and interesting journeys.
Then,
I watched my own kids grow up, but with us watching them like a hawk,
even worrying about them walking home alone from school. And as they
picked up martial arts which they diligently practiced
for almost ten years in its many different forms and styles, the
first lesson the instructors in all styles taught – and kept
emphasizing throughout their black-belt journey to which I was a
daily witness, or at least 4-5 times a week for years – was how
to protect oneself in today's dangerous world by commonsensically
avoiding situational hazards as the first-principle of rational
self-defence. Hitch-hiking today surely classifies as that
situational hazard.
When
I was growing up, the world was surely simpler. Today, only a savant
would live anachronistically and throw caution to the wind. It is
fine to be nostalgic, but incomprehensible to think that hitchhiking
is a safe bet as a means to getting back to the idyllic times.
Having
said that, it seems to me that humanity needs some effective way of
re-coming together to fight the hectoring hegemons who have laid
siege to mankind. Our only hope, in
collectively standing up to their devilish machinations, requires
that we also begin to re-trust the stranger – for after
all, we are likely to share the same fate under the bankster
oligarchs' plan for 'one-world'
government. It was their plan from the very beginning
to break society apart, to cleavage the family unit asunder, to make
the state the master-guardian for totalitarian control of all aspects
of life even in the free-wheeling Western societies, and to snatch
compassion, sympathy, empathy, and morality, away from the plebeian
peoples so that we can be reduced to cattle, relegated to merely a
unit of commerce and industry, and slaughtered at will when we
outlived our usefulness or became too abundant in numbers to warrant
subjecting us to the same population reduction regimes as the
wildlife in preserves.
In
fact, as I study more and dig deeper into modernity, the break-up of
society as a deliberate agenda of the oligarchic
ruling elite is plainly manifest with copious evidence which may be
gleaned in my writings on my website http://humanbeingsfirst.org.
And it has also become abundantly clear that since it has been a
manufactured agenda all the way, and was not a natural development
that we have become so violence prone, it can also be overcome. The
United States' and the West's social fabric is in disarray
largely due to these social-engineering machinations of the nihilist
oligarchs to acquire full-spectrum control over us – as
Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Aldous
Huxley have both predicted in their copious
writings, one to effectuate, the other to warn. Their moral
relativism is seeded in the 'ubermensch'
philosophy, and their secular humanism in the
selective
human rights of the chosen ones.
Well,
the natural inclinations of most peoples, which, as Mr. David
Lindorff thoughtfully suggests in his reflections on hitch-hiking,
are mostly humane and benign, and can be
re-harnessed by encouraging its percolation
to the social-surface, and once again making such empathy an
essential component of the social fabric by fostering mutual
interdependence.
So,
while I wouldn't necessarily jump into hitch-hiking right off the bat
to jump-start such an empathetic
social intercourse, nor recommend it to my own kids despite their
awesome self-defence skills (I can't win against them in wrestling on
the couch anymore) – for, once again, a transition epoch is
necessary to re-establish that age of trust and interdependency –
a more holistic approach for rebuilding the
community spirit, the family spirit, and the "farmer's market"
spirit becomes the rational imperative. The latter spirit may in fact
become a necessity anyway as barter and
local currency become the only way to survive in the hard oppressive
times ahead.
That
survival may be made easier going back to the idyllic days when the
milkman delivered the hand-capped milk bottle to your door and the
postman stopped to say hello and received a gracious cup of tea, than
the "Mad Max" route which Hollywood would like us to
imagine, or the "brave new world" which the hectoring
hegemon have prepared for us.
I
don't have to adopt their nihilist narratives nor their 'ubermensch'
planning as my future. In order to succeed in that self-empowering
endeavor, I also cannot continue living the existing paradigm of fear
and inhumanity which is being forcibly driven into our lives, and
which in turn, is necessitating all the caution and paranoia of the
fellow man who is deliberately being reduced to inhumanity as he is
goaded into spectating with apathy, or cheering the barbaric
destruction of others, while he is himself being primed into violence
through the destruction of his own socio-psychic
sanity.
So,
both gentlemen are correct, one for his lofty aspiration which I
appreciate, the other for his temporal caution which I firmly endorse
as well. Please don't go and blindly hitch-hike today.
But
in order to get there, eventually, do begin by inviting your local
neighbors about whom you have no clue who they are, to a nice picnic
in your local park and start explaining to them the reality when
Alice is wide awake. Make that a regular bimonthly event. Throw the
television out which is only dumbing down our kids into 'United
We Stand' by “Amusing
Ourselves to Death”, and stop supporting
Hollywood
which only sells the seeds of our discontent for the global
agenda of a tiny cabal.
With
these basic and simple steps that each of us can immediately take in
our own lives, we shall soon be Bringing Back the Thumb! For
my children's sake, and yours. And I'll also be stopping to pick up a
hitch-hiker, just as they once did for me.
Thank
you.
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The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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The
milkman at the door – A Response to Dave Lindorff's
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to a Better Society: Bring Back the Thumb!
March 20, 2009