The Second Millennium brought the world enlightenment and darkness. As the forces of good discovered ways to lighten the burden of mankind, the dark forces used those same innovations to diminish mankind. The only reason mankind was not extinguished altogether was the failure of the Soviet Union to put a Ronald Reagan in power.
Everyone is an animal when he is born. He is the accumulation of instincts acquired over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Those instincts enabled him to survive and perpetuate his species. To survive, fighting techniques and defensive tools were honed and violence, speed or numerical superiority tactics were developed.
In newborn homo sapiens, there is a powerful animal herd instinct and a desire to follow the herd’s alpha leader obediently and mindlessly. The greatest bond is to the family. The next strongest bond is to the extended family. Next is the herd. Loyalty to high ideals, principles and values is too remote for all but a few people to attain. Only when high ideals are the strongest loyalty does the animal become a human being.
The human brain does not reach moral maturity until age 26 at the earliest. For the brain to function independently and make moral decisions, i.e. have a conscience, it must go through many years of rigorous exercises. The exercises activate a remote segment in the brain stem that triggers the ability to think analytically. With analytical capabilities, a person is capable of subordinating his animal instincts. This process is more difficult than learning a new language. Most people never master it.
Natural thinking takes place in the vision sector of the brain. Consequently, images are the most lasting imnpressions. Any public relations firm would testify that that is true. The vision sector is not capable of sophisticated analytical thinking. It functions at a rote level. It can memorize what it is told is right and wrong but can’t make that judgment independently. For instance, 3,000 people died as the result of unprovoked attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. killed 3,000,000 Asians during the Vietnam War for no valid reason. Rote level thinkers could conclude that the Sept. 11th attack was a greater crime than the Vietnam War due to the bigotry and racism of rote instincts. Rote thinking puts loyalty to its herd first and convinces itself that it did no wrong in the case of the Vietnam War.
A human being could not have killed 3,000,000 Asians for no valid defensive reason.
Psychologists call this perverted morality cognitive dissonance?. In the Christian Bible, Jesus spoke of those who can see the splinter in their neighbor’s eye but can’t see the moat in their own eyes.
Even those who become human beings can relapse into animal behavior. The “f” instincts “fight or flight” and “identification friend or foe,” are always lurking just beneath the surface. The “f” instincts can be reactivated in times of fear, threat to security and threats to the immediate family.
The most highly evolved people such as Jesus Christ, Gandhi and Martin Luther King most likely never would succumb to the animal instincts. The Jewish religion is more amenable to the development of full human beings and a conscience. Today’s perverted Christianity is the least receptive. Its foundation emphasizes the numbing of the brain. For centuries, Christians discouraged reading and learning anything but the Bible, and resorted to burning all other books. If Christ returned today in disguise, those who call themselves Christians, with few exceptions, would be the first to demand his execution
Civilized people don’t execute people. There are five nations that execute their own children. Three are in the Middle East, one is in Africa and one is in North America between Canada and Mexico.
Human beings couldn’t torture someone.
Modern Christianity has incorporated most of the animal instincts which accounts for its populairty. “Christians” have murdered more people than all other religions combined. When Emperor Constantine became a Christian, Christianity became imperialistic and pagan and discarded its high ideals. It has remained that way ever since. It is easily corrupted especially by power.
Adolph Hitler was a Christian and every soldier in the Nazi Army had “Gott mit uns” (God is with us), inscribed on his belt buckle. Joseph Stalin was educated in a Christian school. Fascism was structured on the Catholic Church hierarchy including the infallible leader. Every major fascist, including Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Peron was a Catholic. Fascism merges religion, dictatorship and corporations.
The Catholic Church structure is a hierarchical model similar to that used by many insects and animals. Packs, herds and flocks use some version of the model. Ants and bees use the model. The common ant’s sole purpose in life is to feed, guard and protect the queen and her offspring and attendants. The soldier and worker in the capitalist world serve no more purpose than their ant counterparts.
Today, the U. S is the epitome of a nation functioning at the animal and insect instinct level. In this case, it’s a function of power more than an “f” instinct. However, the leaders use manufactured fear to insure the greatest amount of primitive behavior.
The U.S. succeeded Great Britain after WW II as capitalism’s enforcer and took on the mantle of Nazi Germany. While U.S. leaders like to describe themselves as “reluctant policeman of the world,” they practice pure aggression with the goal of domination of the world and its wealth. The U.S. aspires to become the Fourth Reich.
Great Britain had aspirations of becoming the Fourth Reich but the Second World War left it too weak to hold its former colonies, let alone expand its world rule. In its glory days, the British liked to say: “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” Now the sun shines on the British Empire for just a few hours each day as it does on any other nation. Its complete obedience to its sociopathic American offspring is its only link with its dreams of empire.
Like the U.S., the British never had the morality, naturity or wisdom to be humane rulers. The religion and greed-based economic system doomed them to animal behavior.
Both nations committed genocide several times. They were and are no better than Nazi Germany. The only difference is that they operate more deliberately. Nazi Germany acted as if it were on steroids, by comparison.
Nazi Germany, Britain and the U.S. were fueled, in part, by racism. The U.S. still is very racist. It kills Asians, Arabs and Blacks as it they were of no value. When the U.S. accidentally killed an innocent Afghani, it paid the victim’s family $1,000. The families of the World Trace Center bombing were paid an average of $1 million each.
Regarding the Iraq War, it’s ridiculous to claim the U.S. is more capable of bringing stability to the Middle East than the natives are. It was the Iraqi’s ancestors who gave birth to civilization. It was those ancestors who first codified laws. It was those ancestors who gave us the numbering system we use today.
The U.S. has never been civilized. It never will be. No civilized nation could have incinerated 10s of thousands of innocent men, women, children and babies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, lynched 5,000 of its own Black citizens or exterminated 10 million native Americans and stolen their property. In the U.S., the plantation may be gone but the plantation mentality lives on. It is completely unqualified and unfit to set up a civilized nation. It is qualified only to destroy a nation.
Like the German people in Nazi Germany, Americans don’t know they are evil people. Their leaders tell them what they are doing is just, and the negative charges are the rantings of jealous conspiracy theorists or those who ” blame America first.” Americans trust the hunches of their animal instincts and interpret them as moral actions.
Americans are first century men with 21st century weapons. Devoid of individuality, they get vicarious identity from the actions of the herd. All too often, those actions are stealing, killing, torturing and committing all kinds of atrocities. Their leaders tell them they are noble people chosen by God and can do no wrong no matter how much that may seem to be the case. They call it “American exceptionalism.”
Evil knows no bounds and is devouring the U.S. In the end, evil devours its own weak in its frantic, greed-fueled obsession with accumulating more and more wealth and power into the hands of fewer and fewer people.
There is animal rote thinking and human analytical thinking. Thinking in the analytical sector of the brain enables people to become human beings. Stalin recognized this dichotomy in people who can grasp only small and insignificant subjects and events that can be visualized. He said kill a man, its murder. Kill a million, it’s a mere statistic.
During the 1990s, as an example, Republicans went ballistic over a questionable private $60,000 real estate deal in which the Clintons were involved. The zeros Republicans that run the government today, shrugged off $16,000,000 tax dollars paid by George Bush to a convicted embezzler and international con man. Nineties Republicans said the president is responsible for every thing that goes wrong. The zeros Republicans, in a reflection of their powerful herd loyalty, maintain the president is never responsible for anything that goes wrong.
These mental midgets make up the vast majority, over 90%, of America’s population. While they have the rudimentary thinking abilities of a civilized human being, the animal in them prevails. They are very sensitive to “friend or foe” instincts, a fundamental function of racism.
In 2000, a group of 40 neo-conservatives usurped control of the U.S. government based on the theories of University of Chicago professor Leo Strauss that no one can be a civilized human being. Obviously, he never reached the human analytical level and never understood that humans are capable of acting responsibly on their own. Strauss argued that common people function at an animal level and respond at that same level. They are receptive to lies and deception and should be told lies and deceived. In fact, they need to be lied to for their own good. These are “noble lies” that benefit the common folk as well as the leaders according to Strauss if they bring order, stability and security to a society.
Francis Fukuyama, one of the neo-cons, wrote that the world has reached the end of history. He said, “There is no alternative,” or TINA as it became known. By that, he meant that the current political, social and economic structure in the capitalist world dovetailed comfortably with human nature. Human/animal nature demands an aristocracy or nobility if not a king or dictator. Capitalism creates a crypto-nobility that makes the most important decisions, i.e. those regarding economics. The people are allowed to hold elections and choose between two of the nobility’s candidates and make decisions on insignificant issues. They are told that exercise is democracy. A noble lie.
The neo-cons and many others including Democrats like Bill Clinton intend to create a global world. The global world will be even more like the ant colony. There should be no need for soldier ants, but there will be a need for a huge ant police force. All workers will be minimum wage earners. Police will be paid slightly more, enough to keep them loyal to the global nobility. As robber baron Jay Gould pointed out, it’s easy to get one-half of the peasants to kill the other half. Among humans perhaps. Animals would not do that.
The people are told over and over by the nobility that they live in a democracy and therefore the people are sovereign. The crypto-nobility differs from feudal nobilities in that it goes to great lengths to conceal itself. Being invisible, most common folk believe it doesn’t exist.
The nobility has several layers of front groups carrying out is orders. The nobility meets and makes decisions. Those decisions go to brain trusts such as the Heritage Foundation where the decisions are translated into propaganda that will dupe the people. Then the politicians of both parties obediently carry out the orders while pretending to debate them. The media also receive the information from the brain trusts and begin trumpeting it while raising some insignificant questions and objections. The clueless public believes it has several watchdogs looking out for its interests.
The people don’t see the chains of slavery slowly wrapping around their legs and bodies. They won’t until the final lock snaps shut.
The end of history then is a herd of clueless, amoral, obedient animals. That’s hardly the noble species we were told we are.
