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Guest Post: The Collectivist War Against Cultural Heritage
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market
The Collectivist War Against Cultural Heritage
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
-Carl Jung
Two things make man what he is; his soul, and his memory. Lose one, or both, and he ceases to exist. He might as well buzz over his own garbage like an insect. When a society is drawn into the repugnant shadow of totalitarianism and collectivism, it is usually because the masses have abandoned (or been enticed to abandon) a piece of their inner and outer heritage, something which kept the darkness at bay, a lesson from the past, or a principle long honored. In the wretched and psychotic quest for the “perfect” establishment system, we are even often encouraged by the elitist ilk to slough off the warm remnants of our cultural inheritance like so much skin and “look forward” to a bright and more promising tomorrow, where everything will be different, and certainly, better than today.
The ideological brand of so-called progress that we call “collectivism” relies heavily on the notion that the values of the past are inadequate to the requirements of the future. We are taught by the peddlers of collectivist propaganda that our beliefs and our principles must evolve along with the perceived growth of our species as a whole. They see themselves as visionaries and prophets foretelling a grand reinvention of the world that we laymen are unequipped to imagine or understand. We cling to the old ways because we are “afraid of change”, or too ignorant to fathom the beauty of their Utopian beyond…
Pretentious bile? Absolutely. However, within the rhetoric and strategies of the collectivist agenda there are treasures to behold; reoccurring themes and indicators that can be found in nearly every modern tyranny and most ancient tyrannies that have ever existed. Words and actions that warn us of the true intent of the elite.
The fact is, collectivists drive so hard to admonish respect for the past because every lie they tell us now has been told before a thousand times, to build a thousand gruesome empires.
The Futurists
To gain an insight into the stunted philosophy that underlies collectivism, globalization, centralism, socialism, communism, fascism, etc., it is important to acknowledge the ways in which these systems seduce the public. Many people find themselves inadequate to the era in which they are born, or, believe their era inadequate to them. They wish they could live in a more enlightened age. They wish they could leap ahead in time and know what the next generations will know. They fear that they will die as obscure beings in an obscure moment of history devoid of discovery or legacy. People prone to collectivist fantasies seek to escape the struggles of their present life and transport themselves to a place where mankind has triumphed over the adversities of the “mundane” to frolic like gods amongst the stars.
Now, imagine you are one of these desperate men or women, and someone promises you in a rather convincing manner that their system of social structure and governance will bring that sterling-silver-gravity-defying-Star-Trek-future to you. What would you be willing to trade for even a glimpse into the next epoch? Some, sadly, are willing to trade everything, including their freedoms.
A movement from the early 1900’s called Futurism is a perfect example of this obsession with progress that sacrifices the lessons of the past. A quasi-art movement that also included political activism, the Futurists believed that in order for a society to flourish, it had to amputate its past. For them, all that was old was now useless, and only technological and cultural supremacy over nature could redeem humanity. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, the Futurists reveled in the rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany and supported it fully until they found their club did not necessarily fit into the social engineering programs of Mussolini and Hitler. In Russia, the Futurists also embraced Communism, searching for that far off prosperous sci-fi land. Leon Trotsky even wrote of the Futurists, though he attempted to separate Communist Futurists from the more “vulgar” and “naïve” Fascist Futurists:
"...Futurism is against mysticism, against the passive deification of nature, against the aristocratic and every other kind of laziness, against dreaminess, and against lachrymosity – and stands for technique, for scientific organization, for the machine, for planfulness, for will power, for courage, for speed, for precision, and for the new man, who is armed with all these things. The connection of the aesthetics “revolt” with the moral and social revolt is direct; both enter entirely and fully into the life experience of the active, new, young and untamed section of the intelligentsia of the left, the creative Bohemia. Disgust against the limitations and the vulgarity of the old life produces a new artistic style as a way of escape, and thus the disgust is liquidated. In different combinations, and on different historic bases, we have seen the disgust of the intelligentsia form more than one new style. But that was always the end of it. This time, the proletarian Revolution caught Futurism in a certain stage of its growth and pushed it forward. Futurists became Communists..."
The value of Futurism, for Trotsky, was measured by the extent to which the movement extolled communist virtues (he felt that they were not living up to his standards). In his mind, of course, the two systems (fascism/communism) were different. For the Futurists, though, each form of despotism held the same magnetic charm. They were collectivists at heart, and to them, the two systems were essentially the same. Both demanded that society cast off large portions of the past that were seen as “archaic” and stifling to progress. Both systems waged war on values long held by the citizenry.
The Purge
A distaste or hatred of heritage is very common at the onset of any collectivist restructuring. These restructurings usually target principles of individual liberty and self governance while masquerading as a fight against oppression or corruption. The old principles are either presented as too outdated and insufficient to deal with the new problems of a culture, or, they are presented as the actual SOURCE of the problems of that culture. In either case, the elites wielding the collectivist machine inevitably call for a purge of all bygone ideals.
In Communist China, Mao instituted the Cultural Revolution, which encouraged the mindlessly mesmerized collectivists in the Chinese populace to destroy everything which represented the past. Artwork, buildings, historical artifacts, books; even teachers and proponents of any brand of pre-communist heritage were targeted.
In Fascist Germany, the Nazis destroyed countless books and manuscripts, rewrote German history, censored and removed thousands of artworks, instituting state designated artforms that depicted the collectivist vision of the new society.
In Russia, the Communists focused intently not only on liquidating manuscripts extolling the methods of different eras, but also the people who wrote them. Under Lenin and Stalin, the goal was to annihilate the memory of the world before, even if it meant annihilating the masses along with it.
A complete reformation of educational infrastructure came next. The children of the collectivist age had to be indoctrinated as if there had never been another way of doing things.
These purges, as numerous examples have shown, are only temporary. The great conundrum for the elites has not only been the obstacle of memory, but the obstacle of the soul; that inherent quality in human beings that compels us to pursue freedom, balance, and truth, regardless of the constraints of our environment. The documents and remnants of heritage that oligarchs seek to destroy are ultimately only expressions of our inborn consciences. Deep down in each person, no matter what they have been conditioned to believe, there is a well-spring of vital ideas that conflict with the mechanizations of collectivism. Individualism finds a way to surface, and so, the central rulers must start over once again, looking for an insurmountable method of control.
The American Heritage Under Siege
One simple fact remains: As long as Americans continue to esteem the vision expressed in the U.S. Constitution, Bill Of Right, and Declaration Of Independence, there can be no collectivism in this country. The Constitutional Republic formed through revolution against despotism by the Founding Fathers is a solid antithesis to outright tyranny. So, it only follows that the “Futurists” of today and the puppeteers who pull their strings would do absolutely everything in their power to distance the public as far as possible away from the heritage of those documents and that time.
Much like the Cultural Revolution in China, though moving at a slower and more subversive pace, our history is being purged and rewritten to accommodate a centralized dream of the new America. This dream hinges on the suggestion that the Constitutional structure is outdated, and that it must be remodeled to accommodate the burgeoning Globalist paradigm. Our own sitting president has voiced similar arguments in the past:
"…the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf…"
http://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/forums/p/227830/2584303.aspx
While the mainstream media reiterates the message of the “antiquated” Constitution with greater regularity:
American Futurists complain that the Constitution is too restrictive on government, and that it prevents the establishment from making changes quickly. But where they see a lack of adaptation, I see critical checks and balances. Where they see archaic law, I see timeless principles of conscience that will remain relevant for all eternity. Where they see progress in globalism, socialism, and collectivism, I see a devolvement into the dark ages of feudalism. How “new” and progressive is Globalism really? Is it not more reasonable to say that the idea of a free decentralized and sovereign republic whose first mission is to protect personal rights is much more rare and advanced than yet another elitist stab at centralized domination?
Is the Constitution a "perfect document"? No. I don't know that there is such a thing. What I do know, though, is that there is no one currently in government with the wisdom or intelligence needed to rewrite the document to be more balanced than it already is. I welcome critics to name any person they think is legitimately qualified.
The Founders designed the Constitution to limit the powers of federal government for a reason! Take a look at the stunning array of liberty rending executive orders that Barack Obama has issued in the course of the past four years. Now imagine that he and Congress had free reign to etch those orders into the Constitution at will. What possible meaning would the document have then? The Constitution was never meant to be a tool of government. It was meant to be a tool (a necessary tool) for the people to restrain government. The futurists muse like children over this concept but fail tragically to grasp it.
Despite the obvious faulty logic within the “outdated” argument, the propaganda has hit full steam in recent years. In federally funded schools around the country, American history before the Civil War is no longer taught, and Constitutional studies are almost unheard of:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584758,00.html?mep
http://www.floridastandards.org/Courses/PublicPreviewCourse1723.aspx
The space in curriculum created by the removal of the American Revolution and everything else important to the birth of the country has been filled with what teachers now refer to as “Global Studies”. What do global studies entail? Why not ask the organizations that write the study guidelines, like ‘Facing The Future’:
"I use Facing the Future [lessons] to complement many other materials. I have all of the kids read Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions, as an introductory overview. Then students break into groups to research some of the topics, like governance, climate change, or world view. They have different ways of looking at the future after reading this…”
"We use United Nations materials. I bring in a lot of guest speakers, even someone that was a defense attorney in the World Court. I've brought in scientists who are experts on climate change, we use Al Gore’s film [An Inconvenient Truth], lots of websites that I just let kids dig into…”
http://www.facingthefuture.org/ForEducators/ClassroomExamples/PaulaESScience/tabid/546/Default.aspx
Or, we could ask children in Seattle private schools, who are being taught the “evils” of property rights, and how individual ownership hurts the collective:
"…the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."
The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive...."
http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2007/02/leggo-my-lego.html
This eradication of original American values is taking place on every level of our society, even in law enforcement, which is now infamously illustrated by the FEMA indoctrination of police officers in the video below to consider the Founding Fathers “terrorists”
If attacks on foundational heritage are a warning sign of centralized oligarchy and collectivism as this article outlines, then America is in imminent peril. These changes never go quietly, and are invariably surrounded by economic depression, collapse, war, and death. From the ashes of confusion and decay inspired by collectivists, the next elitist experiment is born. The mad science of the Futurists must not be allowed to prevail here…
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yes conservatives hate to spend their money. The libs LOVE to spend other people's money.
You are exactly right. This article is a meaningless word salad.
I also admire your attempt to bring logic and reasoning to the discussion here. Of course, the effort is wasted, but I admire it anyway.
Hmmm.. your stupid and missed the entire point, there is a historical background to the document which you conveniently ignore, crawl back under your rock..
That is a wonderfully shallow and self serving view of the Constitution. The fact that individuals come together to form a government for the purposes elucidated does not make the USA a collective in any manner. There is no common ownership of property, the establishment of a bureaucratic centrally planned state. There is no income redistribution, group rights or even a progressive income tax in the original Constitution. It has individual rights, property rights and is written to limit the power of government. You cannot get any collective out of it anywhere.
Youuuuuu must have attended Obama's course on the Consitution, right?
Hmm...
Go To Bed; Get Some Sleep.
- Ned
{and I'm some kinda' expert on hogwash}
"All forms of materialistic collectivism
treat life as though it's
over, in the sense that it is predictable.
It is so preoccupied with
the present that it rejects the
past and considers the future a
projection of the present.
It worships "change" (Change you can believe in, LOL) but, being
oriented to the current situation,
considers change simply a rearrangement
of existing conditions,
intellectually contrived and politically
manipulated. It never anticipates
real change ... only repetition
of existing conditions.
In limiting life to its own predictions,
it necessarily brings
about the conditions it predicted,
since life only repeats itself when
restricted.
Freedom recognizes that life's
secrets already exist and lie undiscovered,
waiting to be stumbled
upon in a series of delighted
"hellos." Collectivism drearily limits
itself to the idea that what is
discovered is what exists, so it mechanically
distributes the accumulated
surprises of the past without
allowing for the continuing
surprise of new discovery.
Freedom is nourished by expectation.
Collectivism cannot survive
without fears . . . real or imaginary
. . . grouped together and
therefore exchanged' and exaggerated
in such hand-holding gatherings
as unions and pressure
groups or any combination formed
for the force that will allay its
fears.
The future is determined largely
by the choice individuals make
between expecting the best or the
worst.
Whereas fear paralyzes, expectation
energizes." - The Freeman January 1968
The hoary story of antiquity
Here and there remains a mystery
Not to those awake, who know what's at stake
But to subscribers of delivered history
In truth the tale be wrought in secrecy
For reasons told in myth and prophecy
And when it's time, the crafted storyline
Will turn to strife and misery
But never forget of soul and sense
For those who do, do at all expense
And miss the chance at taking a stance
Against the guided pen of past and present tense
"From the ashes of confusion and decay inspired by collectivists, the next elitist experiment is born."
Yep, a good strategy. Keep the sheeple from organizing, so they can be bent and broken like a straw in the storm.
If only for once the people stood together and told their puppetmasters where to shove it, instead of the 400 families which inherited all the wealth of the country doing the hard lifting in regard of pushing their agenda.
This is the perfect illustration of why the right/left paradigm is NOT a false one. Which political ideology believes in collectivist forms of government? Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Communist which are essentially Marxism. Which ideology believes in individual freedom/ecomomic freedom/capitalism? Republicans/Conservatives which stand for the Constitution.
There are those republicans who believe in government like the left which is why the conservatives, who mostly make up of the tea party, do not want to compromise on the constitution. The older Blue dog democrats who were the old conservatives known as Reagan democrats believed in limited government.
So the next time you read people on ZH or where ever say that the left/right paradigm is a false one just ask yourself one question. Which one wants more government and which wants Limited Constitutional government?
Or even better stated before someone fixes it for me, which one believes in FREEDOM in my best Braveheart yell!
Turn off the rhetoric and watch what they do.
Both parties actions clearly show that both parties want more government.
There is a difference between Constitutional and Unconstitutional Government. It's easy to say that both want more government, but they are enumerated and should be curtailed. I also agree watch what they do and not what they say. It's the socialization of our lives by our government that are antithetical to individual liberty and freedom which is economic freedom which is what capitalism is. Crony captialism is not capitalism. It's state run which makes it socialistic which leads to communism. Rhetoric is important to illustrate and define terms properly. When people hear fairnes and equality most think that we all will play fairly. Those that espouse this mean that the government is going to pick and choose who it the winner and who is the loser. Just go look at Gibson guitar who was raided by the DOJ for their "illegal" wood used from a foreign source. Fender uses the same wood, but the difference is that Fender is unionized and Gibson is not.
The government was vastly expanded under Reagan and Bush again. For some more government means more bailouts and more subsidies to their cronies, for others it may mean the difference between polluted daily drinking water and the chance to conduct their life in a half-way decent way.
You are correct about that but there is a major difference. Bush enacted Medicare part D, spent $440 billion on affordable home loans under a system built on fraud. He did however try approx 17 times to reform/regulated Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. All the banking/housing garbage started in the 90's under Clinton. Bush was not a conservative to be sure. The two wars are another issue that you and i could go on for days with, but the first job of the President is to protect the country. Reagan spent on rebuilding our military that was decimated after vietnam, but that falls under national securtity. He and the democrats agreed to immigration reform with amnesty for 3 million illegals, but the democrats reniged on the immigration reform to stop the flood of illegals coming in. Bush actually prevented and also promoted amnesty as well but it was too far gone to do that again. As for the wars and military spending I dont know where you stand, but they are the first duty of a president, any president. Reagan was known for welfare reform and cutting governments size as it relates to bureacracy. The military is more or less a static known number that can be controlled where intitlement programs you cannot control, especially the fraud. Hope that clarifies my position a bit :-)
There are really only two "true" parties in my mind, Libertarian and Communist. Libertarians (or even classic anarchists) are the far right with relatively complete individual freedom, private property and minimalist government. Communists are the only honest leftist. The State owns everything and everyone. There are no property rights or limits on government. Democrats, Democratic Socialists, Centrists, Republicans are all differing mixes of the two. There are big government Republicans. In fact, most every Republican elected or nominated is one. One is running against the socialist Obama, now.
American mentality morphed as the dream of becoming Oligarch dominated the dream of being simple citizen; Tom PAyne died there where Rockafella thrived. And Rockafella was a man who HATED competition; he bought, bullied and connived them out of his oil patch.
The pioneer hated to share with the amerindian, the oligarch hated to share with the common man.
Is that what our Ananonymous friend calls US citizenism?
We the people must fight for the rights we expect to enjoy and pass on to our children. We must defend the Constitution against those that wish to make it irrelevant.
The peoples right to keep and bear arms is the tooth and claw of the US Constitution. Safe guard the 2nd amendment so that we have the means to protect all of our God given rights as free people.
double
Great article, fitting that www.electanewcongress.com is up and running in support of Liberty and a simple and doable plan to, Elect A New Congress. Serfs Up America!
The greatest collectivist war against our cultural heritage is the constant denigration of the gold standard.
As far as the U.S. constitution, it is incoherent crap scribbled by secretive, centralizing coup plotters, which deservedly became a dead letter.
Even its two main provisions concerning gold are impossible to square with each other. They are childish gibberish.
The anti-federalists were right: the Articles of Confederation, 'weak' as they were, still kick the shit out of our failed constitution.
Read Lysander Spooner, bItcHEz!
Oh, great, another label from someone who fancies themselves THE VOICE OF TRUE REASON AND MAGICAL FOUNDATIONAL HERITAGE THAT RIVALS MOSES. Now I suppose you are going to identify all of the "Futurist" enemies for us and encourage us to shoot them. Or maybe you would prefer to do the deed yourself, Tex.
You are worse than the people you are complaining about. You only want freedom for people whom you agree with so you create false gods and demand that they be worshiped.
By the way, I don't know where you send your kids to school, but mine study colonial and revolutionary America. You need to make some better choices for your family.
Oh, and the Constitution has a built in provision for how it can be amended. I wonder why the people who wrote it put that in there if they thought it was set in stone tablets? Maybe they did not expect people in the future to worship them like deities and knew that they were reinventing ideas pioneered in ancient Greece, Rome and revived by John Locke circa 1700. History did not start in 1776 or 1792 and "collectivist" ideas are as ancient as any other.
Excellent piece. Thanks for posting. In my 60s, I remember an America few can comprehend in terms of freedom and self-determination. Would suggest ALL watch the PBS film by Ken Burns, "The War". It centers around 4 cities...Sacramento Ca., Waterbury Ct., Mobile Al. and Luverne Mn. in World War II. These men were my father. Watch & weep for their sacrifice and betrayal.
You and I are about about the same age. And for my entire life America has been more about marketing and propaganda than just about anything else. Corporations run this country, a take-over that started during the Second World War with the rise of the MIC and continues to this day in the likes of Facebook and Google. The banker and government lies we're bitching about now were started in the 50s, if not the 20s.
The last time freedom and self-determination drew breath in this nation Daniel Boone was still cutting trail in the Cumberland Gap.
Everyone thinks they were free once, and knew honesty as a personal friend. No we weren't, and no we did'nt. We've been swimming around in this circular pool of lies and deceits so long we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Don't use italics in your lead sentence. The system won't recognize it. Like your response. Milestones
It only takes a few people to fight back. 90% of the people never do anything either way.
Yes, this is excellent.
And it's not just the USA that's in peril.
A scholar's note: this thesis of this guest post only makes sense if you suffer from the illness it bewails: ignorance of the past. This reads like a college undergrad's having read that the futurists idolized collectivist Mussolini, and then did some wiki'ing for an afternoon.
Come the fuck on. If you are going to put on your page, stuff that acts as if it is giving large scale historical perspective, GET A HISTORIAN OR A PHILOSOPHER.
MBA's with a shelf if history books is a dangerous thing. It reads always like undergrad level cleverness.
Speaking of Ron Paul...
Scholar? You'd have to sit on your mother's shoulders just to kiss a "scholar's" ass. Where do you fucking clowns come from?
you are aware that was a remarkably ignorant and empty comment, right? Or are you *that* un-self-aware? Do *you* know about the Futurist movement?
Ron Paul doesn't know what an iPhone is
We should all be so lucky.
This post is some scary shit wrapped in the flag.
I won't even say what it reminds me of.
Be careful people. Be really careful with this one. Beyond here there be monsters. And that's all I'm going to say on that.
We must set aside our differences and all band together to defeat the Collectivist cowards! You're either with us or against us! Those evil Collectivists hate us for our freedoms!
Bomb Mars NOW!
Check out "Socialism in our Past and Future" and "The Socialist Phenomenon", both by Igor Shafarevich.
Platitudes platitudes platitudes
Despotism comes by necessity, not vanity. Try calling a Constitutional Congress when out country is under nuclear attack. Try getting food to a starving town while waiting for investors to front the money.... we live in desperate times. This man offers no solutions, only platitudes and diatribe
We have elected officials. We do not need FEMA region governors to usurp power. If each house of the small town prepares for bad times, no one needs to come to their rescue. No investors need to raise money unless they see it as a good opportunity. That government sow you dream of has poison flowing from her teats. You will probably be a Brownshirt in the next phase, Shuckster. The brownshirts are expendable too you dope.
If they'd give me a Brown shirt and a baton to go around beating up degenerates, I'd gladly do it for free. Point me to the next Trayvon rally
Racism springs up in times of desperation as groups of people realize that they cannot trust eachother. When a family is in the midst of a lawsuit, they don't go around telling people the details of the suit. That could compromise their case. In the same way, when a family of people - Americans - are in the midst of a crisis, they should not share their secrets with those who have not proven themselves trustworthy.
The only place two different species get along is the zoo, and that's because the animals are all caged up and on anti-depressants. Multciculturalism is intended to destroy peoples' identity and their sense of self. By mixing all gentiles together and making them equal to each other, our Jewish overlords seek to make us weak and subservient to their desires. It's not the "system". It's not some in animate object like "the rule of law" that makes us miserable. It's the people who design that system - the Jews - who have contempt for us. They thrive on our misery. WW1 was their war, yet Christians died. WW2 was their war - 6 million Jews were killed and hundreds of millions of non Jews paid with their lives. They place our most evil and perverted people in charge of us. Those who are most willing to sell us out are most generously rewarded. In this way, society becomes progressively more evil
They critcize us for our uncleanliness, then try to get us to dirty ourselves
They are the Jews and they will not rest until every single one of us is bound in chains with a gag in our mouths and dildo in our backsides. This brings them pleasure. We can never coexist. One will always dominate the other. Choose which one you will be
LOL. Stormfront Hedge.
Storm Hedge
Zero Front
Storm Zero
etc. etc.
Hey Remus, were your parents related?!?
Yes.
I am all out of bubble gum..
Because the elevator doors open does not necessarily mean that the cab is at the floor. Watch your step. It’s a long fall down the SHAFT, to the viper PIT;
PM is a transmission;
The shark is subject to anxiety, just like the doe in the headlights, under the right conditions;
If the shark stops, it dies;
Turn the system on its head and take a good look at it;
Your patience is being tested by a machine running on automatic;
The best play is not to play, allowing the shark to assume you are playing, right up until it stops moving;
Have another shark ready to go;
There are many physical, intellectual, and spiritual means to maintain relative distance, and to enter and exit the event horizons, in parallel.
Its a mutual contract among individuals to limit the size and scope of the federal government.
The Constition was a voluntary governing agreement, IT WAS THE COMPROMISE.
The contract was broke when it was no longer voluntary (Lincoln the destroyer) , now we're just peons fighting for scraps.
The Constitution is wholly irrelevant.
Can't we all get along?
Seriously? We have some narcistic, nihilistic, post-industrial almost-zygotes that are gonna telling us Gen Xs and the Boomers How the World Works and what is for the Greater Good? Seriously?
I have to clean up your messes at every client site I get called to. No critical thinking. No common sense. An inability to communicate or take constructive criticism that is meant to help. No empathy. No ability to correlate historical evidence with others shared experience to develop not just a plan that works, but the steps required to develop, test and execute in way that actually works... So I guess, in a world like that, stumbling from wi-fi to wi-fi and 3G network to 3G network to communicate, have friends and live life in a smartphone on Facebook or Twitter or WTF the flavor of the month is, what does physical reality, history, art, truth, beauty, free-will, compassion, strength, honesty and accountability matter. After all, isnt your life lived in only a present tense, like that movie 'Momento' without need for lessons learned/history? Sounds like a hell all of its own.
And, hey! BARRY! Listen to this... THIS is the cultural heritage we should be afraid to lose. THIS is what America meant, at least as of September 10, 2001.
Collectivism in modern American society takes its unique form in the interface between media and technology.
Everybody on farcebook, everybody with cell phones that, in Carlin's words "make pancakes", everybody always listening in to the news of the day and to each other, everybody always sharing the minutiae of their meaningless lives with each other.
And every last person believing despite all evidence that they are just one lottery ticket or idea way from becoming a multimillionaire or reality star. Or maybe they'll be the first person to live forever. And if they can't accomplish that they'll create an online avatar that will outlast them, achieving immortality in the great electron sphere.
And if you reject this...you are a luddite! You are antisocial! You are negative! You are un-American!
An excellent read but great comments for a change. I see the fight club is out tonight. Hmm is laying down the smack down tonight. All governments are collectivist, even though some of you think different. Go out form a group and see what happens and you will find you tend to group with people that have your same type of goals and thinking for the most part. You form the group and then set your norms.
Someone will end up as the leader either formally or informally and you will set goals just like a government does for the most part. You will most likely want to take care of each other and your offsrping. People that do not meet the norms are usually cast out. There in lies the difference. We now allow bad behavior to be rewarded.
I agree it does not take a government to oppress the people but it does indeed take a dam group. Having said that our Consititution was not set up to be the abomination it is today. I have read T. J. and Ben F. I have read the constitution and in my mind yes the founding fathers would have never wanted the military complex we have today, but on the other hand they would not have wanted all the social programs we have either and in the end if the people wanted less federal government they could change it but now I do not think they can ever change it. We are no longer an elected republic but a fascist or soon to be fascist country.
State rights trumped fed rights at one time.
Collectitivism is quite common everywhere because humans are herd animals, all of them, incl the elite.
You can see this every day all around you, no matter where you look.
It seems to me that at this stage, where evertyhing related to money is rigged and the scams are so many and so enormously effective, with super computers snatching every cent they can get at the speed of light, there is very little elbow room for any surprize that is not in the playbook.
If there would be a "Black Swan" event of considerable size, like a big volcano erupting or something similar, the effects on the markets would be something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmpONxJ7JSw
This happens because everone knows that people will always panic and run for the exit. the most dangerous element to fear could be fear itself.
I personally have no need to try to convince enyone about anything, i have my own ideas about most things and rarely follow the main stream ideology. I am patriotic and know all kinds of quotes, but i try to avoid making a religion out of this stuff, i might go nuts if i did.
absolutely excellent read... thankyou Mr. Smith
here are a few links to enhance and validate:
http://www.threeworldwars.com/nwo-timeline1.htm
http://www.threeworldwars.com/nwo-timeline2.htm
just get on your knees and suck his cock you fawning lil prison bitch.
Hmmm is just another aborigine with just enough white brains to make him dangerous .... an Obama clone ! The constitution was about securing the blessings of liberty .... which implies as little coercive collectivism (lack of liberty) to get the job done as possible .... not a 50/50 balance .... nor today's 70/30 imbalance in favor of collectivism ! Monedas 1929 I'd settle for 10% commonwealth and 90% balls to the walls Capitalism .... while striving to shrink the commonwealth part to 1% !
Of whom do you speak? This guy?
http://personalliberty.com/author/brandonsmithpl/
I was talkin' about poster brother "Hmmm" .... see above ! He was getting hung up about the "general welfare" and other, in his view, collective imperatives of the preamble to the US Constitution ! Of course, we know "general welfare" is a benign statement referring to not making obstacles to commerce etc. that benefits "ALL" the people .... as in "GENERAL" ! Stealing from some to buy votes from others is theft and corruption .... that's the King George stuff we were rebelling against ! Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad Plain Talk Constitution
Your idolization of the American founding fathers is overblown. The Declaration of Indepence is based largely upon prinicples that John Locke presented nearly a century beforehand in his Two Treatises on Government. The theory and structure of government established in the U.S. Constitution is largely a derivative of Montesquieu (read The Spirit of the Laws, for example) and other French and Scottish enlightenment figures. Glorification of the founding documents of the U.S. government is not a sound nor practical solution to the problems confronting the U.S. Certainly hard money and what used to be called the King's justice would go a long way to beginning to solve the massive flaws in America. The sacred reverence of old documents and doctrinaire libertarianism are not, however, constructive solutions to cultural, social, and economic decay that bring destruction to Western Civilization.
Excellant.
To gain an insight into the stunted philosophy that underlies collectivism, globalization, centralism, socialism, communism, fascism, etc., it is important to acknowledge the ways in which these systems seduce the public.
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I dont know if it is because of summer or something but US citizens are fit.
Expressing US citizen nature in non depressed ways. Very good.
Another example of why US citizens need a monopoly on speech means.
This distinguished 'American' author in his thorough 'American' study simply omitted to put under scrutinization 'Americanism'
Yes, 'Americanism' is not to be studied when studied the repelling of old ideas and cultural heritage.
But even better, because US citizens are fit those days, US citizenism is made the natural order to human beings. US citizens had not to crush older ideas to impose their 'american' ideas. There were no ideas before them, making their constitution the ultimate cultural heritage.
That is the result of US citizenism on thought process. Because, remember, this US citizen author is an educated person. He does not speak out of his ignorance. He knows.
Marvellous. Keep up the good work, US citizens.
bravo Tylers for posting such an article. this entire edomite agenda promoted by these futurists is referred to as transhumanism, something spoken of often by ray kurzweil and zbignew brzezenski.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/89932987/Righteous-Blood-by-A-True-Ott-PhD
http://transfigurism.org/
sadly this transhumanism agenda also involves some rather nasty nanotechnology resulting in a condition most people have but are unaware of knowns as morgellons. this is genetic warfare, attempting to literally rewrite the human dna.
http://www.morgellonsexposed.com
http://www.morgellonsresearchgroup.com
Good article. Resistence is futile, you will be assimilated. That is what collectivism is about. Don't forget the Eugenics, they are futurists as well. The futurists and collectivists want you to forget your past, your history. Because history is bad in their eyes, history got it all wrong. Futurism is a social Freudian Oidopus complex. If you hold on to your history, they brand you a nationalist. The article is right: Two things make man what he is; his soul, and his memory.
I rather disagree about Eugenics. I would say that is a means of preservation of cultural norms.
"...a well-spring of vital ideas that conflict with the mechanizations of collectivism."
FFS. Really? I think you meant machinations.
Excellent article by Brandon. Books have been devoted to this topic as well. The communists never went away, they just call themselves Progressives, or Socialist Democrats of America, or Socialists International (Soros) now because they've sufficiently damaged the 'marxist' label in the West with their massively failed previous iterations and revolutionary tactics.
Nowadays, they've settled on incrementalism and have embedded themselves in our institutions like the Muslim Brotherhood does. Even the Greenpeace founder left the group saying the East German communists came out of the Eastern Bloc countries and took it over to use as a tool just to undermine the West as part of the green movement.
The same planks of the Communist Manifesto are exactly what is being implemented in the West and being carried out by the UN and in Obama's America: Abolish private property, religion, individual rights, and free speech, etc. There is no discussion or debate anymore, and it is just being done. Middle America is being dared to stop it if they can amidst increasing militarization of mainstreet.
America must be destroyed by the collectivists to erase any alternative model for civil society based on individual rights and self governance. It's the equivalent of killing the Czar and his family to make sure there can be no going back. And yes, the big banks are part of this agenda because they could have pulled the plug on this a long time ago.
"If the defense of civil society comes down to the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians are going to win." -- Thomas Sowell
That is a good example of US citizens inventing bogeymen to conceal what they are performing by themselves.
If people choose to live in any sort of structured society, there will be some leadership group that defines the structure and enforces its rules. That leadership group is government. Once a people enters into the structure and grants power to its government, the perpetual battle over power begins.
The majority of colonists supported the effort to separate from the government defining the rules in the mid-1700s. Once they won independence, the colonies formed a new government under the Articles of Confederation. The people, through their elected State representatives, CHOSE this form of government. They granted to this government extremely LIMITED power to do some very basic things, and no more.
However, in the several years under the Articles, most of the colonists recognized that they had to cede additional power to the central government to make a union of States work. Hence, the Constitutional Convention and, ultimately, the Constitution. WE THE PEOPLE means just that--the people of the States, through the States, CHOSE to grant the additional powers to the central government under the new Constitution. They granted additional powers, but not unlimited powers. Indeed, the entire enterprise was about striking a balance of powers between the individual, SOVEREIGN States and the central government. Until 1860, the scheme worked well for many, not so well for many others.
LINCOLN (Abraham Lincoln, Northeastern monied interests, rising industrialists, anti-slave activists, Midwestern schemers and scammers) changed the game entirely by invading the Confederate States of America, a sovereign nation, and imposing the WILL OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT upon those who had chosen to exercise their power to leave the union. In short, he destroyed State sovereignty, individual liberty, and any limits on the central government. The United States of America, as envisioned and formed in the late 1700s, was destroyed. Ever since, the central government--LEVIATHAN--has simply chosen how much power it wishes to exercise and when it wishes to exercise it.
So, we end up with tyranny. What else is Obamacare but the imposition of the will of a minority against the will of the majority? What else are our undeclared wars, in obvious contravention of the clear language of the Constitution? What else are the countless laws and regulations under which we try to live?
We, as a people, want to trust in the Constitution, believe in its ideals, have faith that our elected leaders will abide by it. But the reality of the last 150 years, and particularly since King FDR, the Constitution has been rendered meaningless in all practicality.
It is all about a group of people creating a structure to order their intercourse (no, not sexual intercourse, for any sophomoric minds reading this). In our case, WE THE PEOPLE thought we had created a system that would limit the central government. We did not adequately prepare for tyrants such as Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, or Obama. THEY wipe their behinds with that piece of paper and flush it down the toilet. THEY define their power (e.g., Executive Orders to circumvent the law). THEY define our liberties. The nation was created as a "nation of laws, and not of men," but it has been stolen by evil men.
The ONLY way out of the mess is to REORDER, or RESTRUCTURE, from scratch. The only practical way to do this is for each State to restore its soveignty and order itself anew. Any interstate unions that follow can devise schemes to structure the unions. But the United States of America, as currently constructed, is tyranny, plain and simple, with unlimited central government controlled by evil men. So, time to put down the Constitution, since it is has been rendered obsolete, and pick up the Declaration. Now, what is that language at the beginning?
Because we (New England) were the twinkle in King George's eye .... it hurt when we put some of John Locke's and other enlightenment ideas into practice ! There's still a lot of hot air .... but we did it ! That's why we will always have the prime role in the English speaking world ! We are the prodigal son who did so well .... his father moved in with him ! Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad There's A Monedaism For Ya !
The Constitution was never meant to be a tool of government. It was meant to be a tool (a necessary tool) for the people to restrain government. The futurists muse like children over this concept but fail tragically to grasp it.
"For the people to restrain government".
Looks like we fell down on the job. Guess it IS hard to find good hired hands these days.
DP...
Not that kind.