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Nelson Hultberg
nelshultberg@aol.com
Jun 23, 2003
More and more Americans today are coming to understand the terrible truth
about our Federal Government -- that it seeks to dominate us as citizens, to
mold us into a society of dutiful Stepford Wives totally beholden to the
wishes of elite politicians, bureaucrats and bankers. Those who study history,
independent of the public school system, understand that this state
aggrandizement process has been under way for the past 100 years in
America in one form or another. And that it is taking place because too many
of our citizens sanction such dictatorial usurpation and actually work
diligently for its implementation.
This process has resulted in the lion's share of our earnings being annually
confiscated by these governmental elites and then redistributed to
despicable projects of waste and war to further their dream of world
collectivism. It has led to the shocking debasement of our currency and an
endless escalation in the cost of staying alive. It has brought about the
degeneration of our economy from a robust engine of industry and personal
self-reliance to an effete conglomeration of bloated consumers subsisting on
financial gimickery and debt addiction. As a result, America, once a proud
land of muscular factories and productive people, has become a stuporous
society of shopping malls and welfare crybabies. Once scintillating lives of
freedom are now humdrum tenures of conformity to the insufferable Nanny
State.
Why this process is taking place is one of the most disheartening questions
of our time. What follows is an an attempt to show why and how it is
unfolding. There are other reasons as to "why and how" than the one given
here, for no country's evolution into despotism is due to a singular, clear cut
cause. Tyranny's evolution is always a highly complex process with many
convoluted and puzzling forces all coalescing to bring about freedom's
demise. This essay, however, is a look into one of the most important of
those forces.
Such a vision very subtly conveys the notion that mankind is capable of
achieving an egalitarian world where there will be no poverty, no disparity of
wealth, no prejudice, no ignorance, no wars -- in short a heaven on earth.
The requisites for bringing about such a world are to erradicate the
"nefarious workings" of the free-market through centralization of government
power in Washington, and then eventually move to some form of world
governing body. This is necessary because it is allegedly capitalism and
man's drive for profits which are responsible for the strife, wars and poverty
from which the world suffers. Western civilization, having been built upon
capitalism and profit, must be razed and replaced with a new civilization that
will usher in this heaven on earth.
These "ablest and brightest" of our youth advance over the years into
prominent careers as teachers, journalists, publishers, movie directors,
ministers, politicians, bankers, and businessmen -- all the time working for
and promoting collectivism. Yet they don't see themselves as working for
anything dictatorial. They think the political centralization and Keynesianism
taught to them by their mentors will heal the strife in the world, cure the
poverty of the ghettos, smooth out the prejudices between races, etc. They
think gold money is primitive and inflation progressive. When they push for
more and more centralized government, more and more taxes, more and
more regulations, more and more "liquidity" from the Federal Reserve, they
are working for what they think will be a more benign civilization. They think
they are working for an "ideal."
As the great philosophers tell us, it is ideals that are the primary movers of
men throughout history. Our tragedy is that we are educating one generation
after another with "false ideals," and the evidence that would expose the
falsity of those ideals is not allowed a respectable place in our public schools
due to those schools' control by government bureaucracies and the statist
viewpoint.
The Council on Foreign Relations is like the Trilateral Commission, only much
larger; it is composed of approximately 4,000 prominent leaders in business,
government, and education, etc. It was formed in the 1920's by a group of
progressive intellectuals of Woodrow Wilson's era led by the openly
acknowledged Marxian socialist Edward Mandell House who was Wilson's
chief advisor. Its officially stated purpose was to coordinate America's foreign
policy with other nations to create a more peaceful and orderly world. But in
actuality, its originators designed the organization to lead America into world
collectivism.
The group today claims vague educational goals as its purpose, but
numerous public statements from its leaders indicate that its policies are
clearly directed toward transforming U.S. sovereignty and national
independence into some form of all-powerful world government. It has, since
the days of its inception, been patiently working for this goal, and its spin-off
group, the Trilateral Commission, is doing likewise.
In his book, With No Apologies, the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater tells us
that while David Rockefeller publicly launched the Trilateral Commission, the
brains behind its formation was CFR member Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose
1970 book Between Two Ages set the tone for what is now referred to as a
"New World Order," in which the major nations of the world -- the U.S.,
Europe, Japan, etc. -- link together to plan and direct the fortunes of the rest
of the world. In short, Brzezinski condemns national sovereignty as outdated
and unworkable, says that we need to rewrite the American Constitution, and
eliminate our system of federalism in favor of a more centralized
government in Washington and eventually subordination to a world
government. Note 1
Of course, it doesn't hurt the Trilateral members' motivation in all this that
they see themselves as part of the leadership elite that is to organize, advise
and run this future One World Government. Power has consumed men
throughout history, and it is no different today. Its lure takes well-meaning
men and makes them zealous and arrogant; it makes them believe that the
Gargantua of government can be controlled once unchained from the
Constitution because it is in their "well-meaning hands." When this lust for
power is united with irrational ideas such as Keynesianism, central planning,
social welfarism, one-world government, etc., then individual liberty is
overwhelmed with disaster and despotism.
This then is one of the important links in the chain of causes moving America
closer and closer to an egalitarian world dictatorship -- the Trilateral
Commission's elite power brokers who spend their lives working for the "false
ideal" of world collectivism which has been taught to them by our
government dominated school system.
In ancient Rome after the Republic had expanded into Empire, there evolved
a super elite of ruthlessly skilled soldiers whose sole job was to look after the
Emperor and protect him at all cost; it was called the Praetorian Guard, and
its responsibility was to perpetuate the rule of the reigning despot in power,
to guard him against all enemies, to use whatever means necessary to
extend his power.
A very apropos analogy indeed. The combine of the CFR and the Trilateral
Commission is a modern reincarnation of Caesar's corps of elite soldiers
pledged to protect despotism -- not literally in terms of physical prowess, but
much more sophisticatedly in terms of intellectual and financial prowess. The
New World Order requires a new methodology of usurpation, and these
ideological authoritarians have risen up to provide it in spades.
This New World Order that is taking shape among the intellectual and power
elites of modern civilization has no place in its goals for national sovereignty,
economic freedom, objective law, and decentralized government. Such
values as these (the cornerstones of America) are in the minds our leaders
today the causes of war, poverty, inequality and chaos. WORLD ORDER,
rather than INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM is what these power elites seek; and they
intend to do away with the founding principles of America to achieve it.
Such a vision is 180 degrees wrong, for war, poverty and chaos are not
caused by economic freedom and objective law. They are caused by the very
central planning and arbitrary law that world collectivism is structured upon.
But rationality and truth are never the hallmarks of men of zeal in pursuit of
power over their fellow men. Hubris of the most blatant kind moves the New
World Order elites.
Their methodology has worked well for the past 100 years: Teach a subtle,
socialistic serfdom to the more intelligent of our youth under the guise of an
"ideal" society in which there will be no more poverty, hardship, and
inequality in life if only we will construct a government that has the ability to
print money at will and is far reaching enough to control all the political-
economic endeavors of man. Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing
reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory hole.
Their total state is not here yet, but it's on its way. When it arrives, it will be
as Tocqueville warned, "unlike anything that ever before existed in the
world." It will be a dreadful omnipresent power that "compresses, enervates,
extinguishes, and stupefies a people" until they are "reduced to nothing
better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government
is the shepherd." Note 5
Imagine a Swedish style social welfarism (with 75 percent tax rates) mixed in
with a neo-fascistic global corporatism in the manner of the original movie
Rollerball, that has to contend with desolate outback sectors of the world like
we saw in Mad Max. This is what the 21st century holds for us.
In the Introduction to Brave New World, Aldous Huxley wrote, "A really effi-
cient totalitarian state would be one in which the all powerful executive of
political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves
who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make
them love it is the task assigned, in present day totalitarian states, to
ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers." Note 6
The "army of managers" Huxley was warning about is already upon us. They
are the statist intellectuals in our colleges and universities. They have a
powerful control over the minds of our ablest and brightest youth, and
they're turning them into the most dutiful of apparatchiks for a new world
collectivism.
The historical evidence is abundantly clear. Capitalism works! Gold retains its
value! A free enterprise system with gold as its money produces phenomenal
wealth that ENDURES. It allows men and women to be free to live as they
please, while knowing that their life's work will not be destroyed by political
rulers. And it does so for all classes, producing a rising tide that lifts all boats.
The problems attributed to capitalism (inflation, depressions, monopolies,
shortages, etc.) are not caused by businessmen in a free-market, but by
government intervention into the marketplace to convey favors and
privileges to special groups. In other words, our problems stem from our
evolution into fascism, which is what extensive government regulation,
monetary inflation, and profit confiscation is. One merely needs to read
Ludwig von Mises' Human Action, George Gilder's Wealth And Poverty, and
Ayn Rand's Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal to validate the overwhelming
merits of a "laissez-faire" economy as compared to the "government
regulated" economy we suffer from today. One needs only to read Ferdinand
Lips' Gold Wars along with Congressman Ron Paul's and Lewis Lehrman's The
Case for Gold to grasp the paramount necessity of basing all nations'
currencies on the gold standard.
Why would anyone of genuine intellect and integrity wish to eradicate such a
free and prosperous society? Such a stable and reliable money? Why would
anyone evade, suppress and ignore the literature that so irrefutably
authenticates the merits of freedom? One's only conclusion is that despite
their vehement fight for the liberation of blacks and women from the
"shackles of the 19th century," advocates of the liberal welfare state are, at
heart, loathers of freedom. They are in pursuit of tyranny under the guise of
a "New World Order."
But why would anyone despise freedom? What manner of man would wish to
change a free economy into a regimented one? An open society into a closed
society? Gold into paper? In other words, why would anyone want to change
a vibrant society with individually earned ascent and descent between
classes into a stagnant society with bureaucratically granted movement up
and down the class ladder? Why would anyone want to give up the dynamic
resplendencies of the American Founders' vision for the stultifying servitude
of ancient collectivism?
The answer to this, of course, is multi-faceted. But far and away the primary
reason is the false worldview taught to all young people today from grade
school on. Outrageous philosophical fallacies and socialist falsifications of
economics and history have gained sway in the academy and the media to
poison our citizens minds against America and the concept of freedom. Such
fallacies have created a grossly distorted image of the way the world works
for the man in the street, in which freedom itself is seen as inimical to human
dignity -- where creative entrepreneurship is portrayed as exploitation of the
poor in-stead of their only hope -- where gold is termed a "barbarous relic"
instead of history's proven store of value -- where wealth is thought of as a
part of nature and static instead of created by free men and infinite -- where
arbitrary government, the most brutal violator of individual rights in history,
is now held to be man's "beneficent saviour."
All the values that sustain civilized life (freedom, strength of will,
independence, honor) are endlessly denigrated in our schools and media
today with tyrannical sophistries designed to make us accept sloth as
normalcy, servility as dignity, weakness of will as compassion, and
government conveyed privilege as justice. The world of sanity and rationality
gives way to regimental nightmares of Orwellian "newspeak" and "political
correct-ness," in order for legions of middle-class sluggards to feel good
about them-selves while they live out their spiritually squalid lives queuing
up to the entitlement troughs of the mega-state. The academy, once the
bastion of objective value and truth where the individual was primary,
fragments into myriad cults of subjective idiocy and senseless pedantry to
worship the hideous idols of Egalitarianism and Central Planning.
Pretty bubbleheads preen daily on our financial networks, playing the shill to
Wall Street and Washington in order to lure unsuspecting Americans into
buying insanely overvalued stocks. The great market exchanges, once
prudent arenas of investment where the engine of capitalism traded value
for value, have become sham casinos staggering under decades of massive
Fed created debt and lurching into oblivion on the greater fool theory. Yet our
high level bureaucrats, led by Alan Greenspan, exhort all Americans to
consume still more of their seed corn and seek still more fools.
Communism fell to the only fate its barbaric nature could have produced --
brutal starvation and debilitating chaos. Yet these bureaucratic mole-men
claim they will get the socialist utopia right this time, that they have learned
how to centrally plan the totality of man's economic needs, that they know
how to control the hydraulic mastodon of federal power. We now can have
freedom without risk, plenty without work, and hope without heartache.
Such are the illusions of modernity's short range mentalities. Such is the fate
of those who believe knowledge is numbers and truth a remnant of primitive
times, that technology is a substitute for values and security more precious
than liberty.
Such are the irrational pretentions of our age. These monstrous absurdities,
being promoted today as humane social policies, are the result of deeply
flawed theoretical doctrines that have slowly permeated our academic
community over the past 100 years -- doctrines such as absolutism of the
general will, the labor theory of value, the organic concept of society, moral
relativism, majoritarianism, and in-flationary monetary policy.
Such doctrines have been handed down to us from the likes of Jean Jacques
Rousseau, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Lester Frank Ward,
John Dewey and J.M. Keynes. They have produced what historian, Clarence
Carson, calls a "collectivist curvature of the mind."
It is this "collectivist curvature of the mind" that leads to all the conspiracies
(both secret and tacit) that move many prominent and powerful people in
our society today. Check out G. Edward Griffin's website [www.freedom-
force.org] and his very scary article, "The Grand Deception," for a look into
the dark machinations that possibly lie behind much of the tragedy that has
transpired over the past century.
Once the Mind Snatchers have worked their ideological venom into the
brains of our youthful intelligentsia during their schooling years, they have
recruited in most instances a lifelong collectivist apparatchik for their cause.
If that apparatchik is brilliant and ruthless, he will rise to high levels in
today's government and banking circles. He will seek to join elite
organizations such as the CFR and the Trilaterals. He will seek relentlessly to
move the country toward the collectivist ideal of One World Government.
Mr. Griffin is one of today's most brilliant and provocative intellects (see his
book on the Federal Reserve, The Creature from Jekyll Island). He supports
the thesis that there is a SECRET conspiracy motivating modernity's drift into
world tyranny. It stems from a clandestine group of Fabian socialists that was
formed at the end of the 19th century by the statesman Cecil J. Rhodes in
Britain to recruit and educate a steady stream of "advocates for world
collectivism" through front organizations such as the CFR and the Trilateral
Commission. He has termed this conspiracy the Fabian Network, and the tale
he tells in "The Grand Deception," if even remotely true, is as horrific and
sinister as it gets in the pages of human history.
I certainly agree with Mr. Griffin about the collectivist movement plaguing our
world. But in my opinion, the important conspiratorial elements of this
movement are TACIT rather than SECRET. It's a multi-faceted phenomenon of
many levels and subtlties, with its dream of world domination openly
advocated in all leftist circles. But Mr. Griffin and I both surely agree on the
source and the ultimate goal of the collectivists. While we may differ on
which method of implementation is more important in the furtherance of
collectivism (clandestine front groups or open proselytization), we both
realize that it starts with the big thinkers of civilization such as Rousseau,
Comte, Marx, and Keynes, etc. It then works its way into the academic arena
to capture elite professors, where it proceeds to poison generation after
generation of the "best and the brightest" of our youth. The goal is WORLD
COLLECTIVIST TYRANNY and the cessation of America as a sovereign nation.
The end of our free enterprise system and the Founders' vision of liberty
must naturally follow in order to complete the tyrannical vision. My book,
Reality's Golden Mean (hopefully to be out by early next year), is all about
this takeover of the American people through a twisting of their minds.
Taught to Do Evil
Today's political and financial leaders are, thus, smuggling America into
global collectivism because they have been taught to do evil by perverted
scholars throughout our school system who have lost faith in the great truths
of man's history. Deep and nightmarish forces are at work lurking in the
subconscious minds of today's intellectuals that are poisoning the dreams
and ideals of our entire culture.
We have been invaded by alien Mind Snatchers who are turning America into
a nation of sheep akin to the zombies we saw in Invasion of the Body
Snatchers. Like the pod people in that famous movie, these Mind Snatchers
have, over the past 100 years, saturated many of our important institutions
-- from government, to Hollywood, to the schools, to the churches, to the
media. They operate under the guise of a "warped idealism" to work their
invidious goals into the minds and hearts of an unsuspecting people.
Notes
Nelson Hultberg
June 23, 2003
Email: nelshultberg@aol.com
He is the author of Why We Must Abolish The Income Tax And The IRS
(laissezfairebooks.com and amazon.com), and is presently finishing a book
on political-economic philosophy entitled Reality's Golden Mean: The Case
for Libertarian Politics and Conservative Values.