"All War is based on deception.
Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable;
when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we
are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away;
when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder,
and crush him.
If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him.
If he is in superior strength, evade him.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to
irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.
If his forces are united, separate them.
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where
you are not expected.
These military devices, leading to victory,
must not be divulged beforehand."
Sun Tzu “The Art of War”
Beating a thick plate of steel with a huge sledge hammer makes a lot of noise. Sawing at it with a strong saw needs huge amounts of power and energy. Melting it with a blowtorch does the same. A strategically chosen disturbance of it’s foundation however brings the entire edifice crashing down.
The Rabid Right has become a thick plate of steel and it is crushing us. If it is not brought down and destroyed it will soon block all the sunlight and unleash nuclear winter.
Hitting at it from the sides, the back, the top, the front, (Iraq, Social Security, International Relations, Constitutional rights, Downing Street, NPR, CPB) will make a lot of noise, make a few chips fly off, expend a lot of energy and leave the plate in place.
Let us therefore look for the foundation that the Rabid Right stands on and destroy it.
It stands on:
An ideology of Newspeak (Dirty is Clean, Secular is Religion, Liberal is godless and so on, including state subsidized ‘free enterprise’ for the chosen few)
An ideology of being the Chosen people – (others may not subsidize ‘free enterprise’, have nuclear weapons, keep biological weapons, manage their reproduction, manage their economy, have other opinions etc.)
An ideology of Asymmetric Ownership (ranging from Liberal media is biased but Conservative media is factual i.e. we own the truth, to, you have the money (tax cuts, private accounts, stocks, houses, credit cards) and we will manage the puppet strings of access for your own good ( all investment income is untaxed but all salaried income is). Consumption is a constitutional right so we are raping the environment and future generations to protect that right for you. Property rights are holy – so everyone must subscribe to the American view of Globalization, that is the only way to protect these rights and reap its strangely asymmetric benefits. All the wealth that trickles down finds its way ten fold back into the pockets so the haves. Don’t underestimate this one – it’s dynamite.
An ideology of Supremacy. The US is above and separate from all International Laws and Institutions. That is why all our allies must join with us in ‘spreading’ democracy – whether they like it or not!! Down with terrorists! Yeah for preemptive war!
There are a few other odds and ends to this foundation and it is a strong one – make no mistake about that – but there is a common thread in all of these foundation stones. Deception. A very carefully built, thoroughly executed and meticulously maintained thick steel plate of Deception.
Unfortunately we cannot destroy this foundation of deception by simply exposing it and calling it by it’s right name – no matter how exquisitely we do it. That would be like telling the world that Hitler was an anti-Semite and had no honorable intentions at all towards the Jews. Everyone of any consequence whatsoever knew this and yet they did nothing.
Just as now – my brilliant revelation of this bedrock of Deception is neither new nor unknown. And yet a surprisingly large number of Secular Liberals are willing to compromise with it and most of the world, while chafing under the yoke of this Deception, smile and shake hands with it and heads at it and leave it at that.
The question this raises is what strange succor is this Deception giving us (Liberal and Conservative alike) that we are unable (unwilling?) to rip its evil structure apart? Why can’t the Jedi council see the Sith Lords deception? Why can’t anyone resist the Power of the Ring?
In my view there are two reasons:
1. The first one has to do with Occam’s Razor: It is seductively simple. It demands nothing of us in terms of knowledge, reason or effort. And it takes just enough time to recite that it fits in between commercial breaks. And the second one is……
2. Why shouldn’t I believe the lie? What else is there to believe in? The alternative is……whaa? Oh God my head hurts! What do you mean Enlightenment? Separation of Powers? Absolute Rights? Evolution? Mutations? Probability Theory? Cabernet? French? Latin? Other civilizations? You mean they have refrigerators in …..?
No, I do not mean to be facetious or a snob. But I do believe that Deception has a fertile soil to grow on when societies are excused from the obligation of thought. Production demands thought. Consumption relies on thoughtlessness. Anybody see a trend or a connection here? As Production vacated this nation and Consumption moved in – so did Deception.
In fact, I would not be surprised if we did not find that as Consumption became the dominant form of economy in a state its politics embraced Deception and joined the ranks of the Rabid Right.
How then do we attack this base of Consumption that keeps the Deception alive?
All Consumption today is driven by debt and debt in turn is driven by access to credit. In fact not having a credit record i.e. not having debt, quite effectively cuts of all access to Consumption.
Let us therefore be a patriotic society and pay off a lot of our debt. Make credit very hard to get. Or even simpler – like Gandhi who went and made salt at a beach in India and brought down the British Raj. Let us burn our Credit Cards. Visibly, Horribly, and at the most unlikely of times.
You see when we no longer can consume indiscriminately the powers that be have so much less power to practice Deception on us because Deception is based on evoking in us the feeling that if only we could consume that one thing more our lives would be fulfilled and that is a very powerful addiction!
Am I being naïve? Simplistic! No. Give it some thought. Do the math in your head. Remember what I am talking about is Political Warfare. Do you know how many billions of potential Dollars get choked off when 20 or 30 million Credit lines get burned? Assuming even an average Credit limit of $5000 – it becomes $100,000,000,000 (at 20 million). Remember close to 55 million people voted against the madness if even 70% of them burned one Credit card each………..
