Connections
by
John Loeffler (www.steelonsteel.com)
March
4, 2003 (c)
Copyright
2003 Steel on Steel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
“In
an age of militant mediocrity, anyone who takes a position
will be called an extremist.”
The
whirring, blurring, banging of a radical paradigm change
is a bewildering experience for those compelled to live
through it. Few caught in its convulsions comprehend
the meaning behind it all, largely because they view
events through the comfortable filters of their old
paradigms. Even at the end of World War II, many Germans
were still trying to figure out how Der Fuehrer had
managed to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.
After all, it looked so promising back in the good old
days of 1932. For a few “connectors” at the
time, the horrors of the Endlösung in 1942 were
clearly visible from 1932. Although their colleagues
called them radicals and extremists, history proved
them right. The rest suffered in denial.
Connection
#1: The New Age
Anyone
remember the New Age, that quaint religious "fad"
that emerged in the 1980s, slipped into a few communes
and then oblivion? Strange then, who are those people
on talk shows providing New Age solutions to the world's
terrorism problem? Surprise! The New Age didn't disappear;
it simply went mainline. Since 911 the NA crowd has
been very vocal on the mainline talkies about proclaiming
their gospel of global oneness.
They
maintain that 9/11 and all of the world's current conflicts
are the result of our "separateness," "exclusivity"
and failure to apprehend our global oneness. This was
a core teaching of Theosophical occultist Alice A. Bailey,
a founding oscurinary of the Age of Aquarius, whose
work continues today via Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer
Publishing), a major NGO at the United Nations. But
Bailey wasn’t alone in her New Age prescription
for peace: global oneness, global thought control and
the elimination of separateness (by force if necessary)
to create heaven on earth. The NA crowd isn’t too
vocal about the “by force” part of the Rx
since it’s a hard sell, especially in the light
of their claims to tolerance and diversity.
Connection #2: Global Oneness
Now
global consensus has a warm fuzzy sound but what is
the separateness of which they speak? Funny you should
mention. Why a “separatist” is anyone adhering
to a philosophical or religious belief, which excludes
or challenges other belief systems, especially the consensus.
In essence, the New Age gospel warns us one can believe
anything one wants, but one can't claim this belief
to be unique or attack other beliefs as being somehow
inferior. The new guiding maxim is that all beliefs
must conform to the new global oneness or else. It’s
the “or else” that is troubling.
Connection
#3: Flaky Definitions & the Terror War
Since
we are globally separate, we now have a war on terror.
In the discourse surrounding the war on terror, there
are disturbing trends in public discourse, which seem
to rotate on verbal definitions. Witness the interchangeable
relationships of the following words as they have been
used since 9/11:
fundamentalist=ignorance=extremist=radical=terrorist=dangerous=enemy
combatant
The
media frequently use “fundamentalist” as a
pejorative description for people of faith; both Christians
and Muslims. According to the new global, media-supported
consensus, a fundamentalist is one who believes strongly
in the tenets of his religion or philosophy to the exclusion
of those "facts," which the global consensus
have determined to be "true" to the exclusion
of other beliefs. Because religion is the product of
“belief” rather than “fact,” beliefs
not conforming to the global consensus are ignorant
but acceptable as long as one keeps them to one’s
self. However, when expressed publicly, and worse, when
acted upon; such beliefs are radically extreme, resulting
in the dangerous manifestations like radical Islamic
terrorism and must be controlled by society. So in order
to end intolerance, public expressions of dissenting
beliefs will no longer be tolerated. Intolerance in
the name of tolerance is not going well with many religious
groups so it is clear that a major clash of ideologies
is mounting the horizon. Islamic terrorism -- a real
problem -- has provided a convenient rationale for ratcheting
the global socialist attack on non-conforming religions
to new highs.
Connection
#4: Coercive Tolerance
Global
pantheistic socialism and its philosophical admixture
of atheism or pantheism (of which the New Age is part)
have a choke lock on western institutions, having dispossessed
Christianity of its previous hegemony. Even alleged
conservative groups march to the new philosophy, blissfully
oblivious that they are betraying their old values and
adopting new ones. Public and private structures are
morphing to conform to the new system as we pass through
a transition period where old and new beliefs mix. Nevertheless
the trend line is clear: a new socialism on a global
scale, replete with a politically-correct intolerant
religious belief system.
Ironically,
the chief doctrine of this global belief system claims
"tolerance and diversity" are paramount and
that other belief systems must conform. The fact that
the global consensus is built upon philosophical sand
is unimportant, because it is the current ten-ton gorilla
holding academia, politics and private industry captive,
swinging forward despite glaring internal contradictions.
Tolerance isn't really tolerant, since it recognizes
no beliefs other than its own concept of consensus.
It is not diverse since any system of thought containing
values, attitudes and beliefs contrary to consensus
is anathema. It also preaches that there are no absolutes
(morally or otherwise) but it preaches this absolutely
and absolutely decries the chaos brought about by separateness,
which it declares to be absolutely bad.
A
Brief Reality Check
All
religions make exclusivist claims. They believe themselves
to be right and others to be wrong. Even the new global
socialism makes the same claim, while purporting to
be tolerant, diverse and inclusive, while at the same
time it is elitist and exclusive. Even the new global
socialistic pantheism is exclusive in its claims to
global inclusion. Oh well, damn the contradictions,
full speed ahead to global oneness!
Connection #5: Global Surveillance
In
addition to enforcement of thought conformity, behold
the onset of Orwell's 1984 surveillance nightmare, albeit
19 years late. Westerners now live in surveillance states,
which also control the institutions of media and learning,
all of which are promoting the new globothink. People
are being tracked to see what they earn, buy, read,
think, believe and do in the name of making them safe
from a litany of threats, beliefs and causes. It’s
only going to get worse in the future.
Connection
#6: The Collapse of Civil Rights Protections
Simultaneously
constitutional protections are experiencing end-runs.
The Bill of Rights is under assault by both the Left
and the Right for supposedly beneficial reasons. Take
for example the Bush administration's claim that an
“enemy combatant” may be stripped of one's
constitutional rights and be held incognito ad infinitum
without attorney or an opportunity to prove that one
is not what he has been accused of. Aside from shredding
the sacred right of habeas corpus, we must realize the
core of this claim rests on the mere declaration of
one to be an "enemy combatant" where the accused
has no rights to prove he is not what he is accused
of.
A
future administration could easily shift the definition
of “enemy combatant” in order to begin harassing
or even imprisoning those who oppose their policies,
calling them traitors or enemies of the “public
good.” Once secretly in prison, they would have
no opportunity to defend themselves or prove why they
shouldn’t be there. Since the precedent for incarcerating
such persons was established “back in the Bush
administration” as legally acceptable for enemy
combatants all that is required is to slide the definition
of “enemy combatant” to include the groups
of people you wish to attack.
So
Put It Together
We’re
moving into a paradigm where oneness is paramount and
any separatist who opposes that notion is viewed with
suspicion. Suspicion – no longer guilt -- is all
that is required to attract attention of a multitude
of governmental and non-governmental organizations to
start the gears of intolerance grinding in the name
of tolerance by imposition of a litany of sanctions.
As this non-separatist paradigm grows enforceable by
law, one can foresee hideous ideological clashes between
the new anti-separatists and the dissenters on the immediate
horizon simultaneously with the diminishing of the rights
of people to dissent are collapsing in the name of making
everyone safe from something, even being offended. This
parallels the increase of surveillance in order to monitor
what everyone thinks and does, to ensure that they are
behaving according to acceptable norms, which are --
to close the loop -- aligning with the new global paradigm
of oneness and consensus.
Translation:
very shortly majority groups will be able to use legal
mechanisms to persecute minority groups that don’t
agree with them; most likely any group that doesn’t
go along with the latest globothink. And if we can even
imprison those who don’t agree with us, just by
slapping a label on them, so much the better!
Paranoia?
“Oh
this is the United States, they wouldn’t allow
that!” Really? If “they” don’t even
understand why legal safeguards such as the Bill of
Rights are in place (thanks to our education system)
and “they” are busy conforming to the globo-consensus,
and “they” don’t believe in absolute
legal guarantees, then why will “they” not
allow it to happen? The bottom line: any legal precedent
established against one group today can and will be
applied against other politically-incorrect groups in
the future when the need arises. Just a few changes
in legal definitions will accomplish the task, and since
the new system preaches there are no absolutes with
no absolute legal guarantees (i.e. the Bill of Rights)
that guarantee anything absolutely, who will be guarding
the door of freedom?
If
this were just a polite philosophical conflict between
groups protected by legal safeguards, we could dismiss
it all as an academic squabble. But it isn't. The new
globothink has declared war on other thought systems
-- in the name of tolerance – and the war rages
in the political institutions of the West at the same
time the legal structures guaranteeing protections are
being trampled.
This
may all smack of paranoia but a lot more Europeans would
have survived the 20th Century had they been a bit more
paranoid. Besides, even if I am paranoid, I am being
watched. “They” are truly everywhere.
# # #
John
Loeffler hosts the weekly news program Steel on Steel,
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