Totalitarian Culture

What is not to understand?

1.     The Unites States, for the past 50 years or longer has pursued an expanded worldview of Manifest Destiny in which it is the savior of the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny.  It should be clear to Christians that the substitution of the Unites States for the LORD Jesus Christ is a very wicked, anti-Christ, and anti-Christian thing to do.  It should be equally clear that in support of this doctrine that we reach out in care to other nations, and even animals, while people are going hungry on our own doorsteps.  The adage, “Cast out the moat in your own eye first,” comes to mind.  The point is not to change and neglect a different part of these obligations.  The point is that we must care for all: hungry on our own doorstep, the foreigner and stranger, as well as created animals, plants, rocks, and rills.  Such care is to be extended, not coerced, in the name of the risen Jesus Christ who offers freedom and peace to all.  The Unites States does not offer freedom and peace to all: it offers capitalism and economic slavery under the guise of a false-democracy.  It should be clear from the Ancient Greeks that the extension of a pseudo-democracy was merely a political-ploy to put a corrupt man in office: it resulted in a loss of, not an increase in freedom, and ultimately led to the downfall of Greece to the Roman Republic.  There is really no point in protesting that democracy is better: historically, democracy always deteriorates into anarchy and autocracy.  The Republic prevails because it is a better deal.  Even some monarchies are preferable to the sort of autocracy that democracy spawns: Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, for example.  The Unites States, in extending welfare, is simply playing with political manipulation.  The Church, on the other hand, in relationship with Jesus Christ, through the Holy Ghost, is merely doing its duty.

2.     There are not enough jobs to go around.  When the family farm was the predominant economic structure, there was always work to do.  The home was the castle, the family was the organization, and people could not be fired.  In our society, we are now dependent on jobs, get fired and poverty, even famine immediately threaten.  On the farm, if you were sensible enough to avoid mortgages and other debt, even in a bad year, you would probably still have: a roof, food, work, and a barn to shelter strangers.  The link between farms, jobs, and debt slavery should be obvious and not need development here.  The necessary jobs, through the combined efforts of government and industry have largely been deported through the guise of a global economy.  Ostensibly, in a global economy, jobs like making shoes and welding could be farmed out to third-world countries while jobs requiring more difficult technical skills would remain.  Now we live with the bitter irony that the technical jobs are all farmed out: engineers can’t find work, employers can’t find skilled welders, and Keds cost $100 (This is a joke.  Nobody wears sneakers anymore.  Everybody needs expensive specialized athletic shoes.  Keds retail between $20 and $100.)  The complaint about illegal immigrant labor is also a red herring: we wanted and demanded illegal immigrant labor ever since I was a small boy: but now in economic downturn we need a scapegoat.  How can this be?  Downturns occur naturally.  Some years we just don’t get enough rain, which is why we have barns and root-cellars.  The real reason that this is such a disaster is that we have not been dealing with it one year at a time: we’ve been postponing the inevitable by debt.  Everything is mortgaged from lunch, to gasoline, to wars.  The irony of putting lunch on a credit card ought to grip us all: it just doesn’t.  People ought to be able to get jobs and do them.  A thriving economy has a surplus of jobs, everyone who is able works, everyone has a place of respect at the table.

3.     Nazi Germany and euthanasia.  That’s what my doctor said.  He had a point.

4.     Chomsky’s point that we really live in a Totalitarian Culture is well taken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSBqkLDxmo.  Our government lies to us.  Our government manipulates us with propaganda: we are told what to think, when to think, and how to think.  God and the Bible are no longer central to our thought processes.  The Decalogue, which is designed to abolish slavery among the people of God forever, is now reduced to the ten suggestions.  Our education system, which was originally considered a way to defeat evil (The Deluder of Satan Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_School_Laws), has been manipulated to become the means of controlling thought.  Children from K through PhD are not being taught how to think, but how to give the right answer.  Real thinkers, like Chomsky are a rarity in our culture: most of them have been marginalized.  The scientific community is commonly instructed by their political or other overlords, how to spin the facts.  If the scientists doesn’t “get it” the first time, they get retrained: failing at retraining they get fired or otherwise marginalized.  Many excellent scientists, realizing that this is who the game is played, go along with the lie so that they can get back to their work.  There is no freedom of speech in this.  Chomsky is tolerated only because he sounds like a raving madman to most people.

5.     Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Our ever increasing omnipotent central government is a disaster.  We continue, uninvited, to meddle in international affairs.  The fine balance between inclusivism and isolationism is rarely achieved.  Rarely do we approach the family of nations as brothers and sisters: usually, we come as know-it-all lords.  This is a byproduct of our folly, because only Jesus is LORD.

Many of us believe, and I proclaim that our forefathers envisioned a united STATES, not a UNITED states; which is to say that all truly important action is local action.  The home is the Castle, it is being invaded by government.  We need to get out of debt, and stay out of debt: in doing so we break the slavery leverage that crushes us.  We need to stop listening to government/corporate propaganda, learn to think, and start doing things for ourselves.  We really need to return to God and His Word.

The CBS link is: https://www.facebook.com/CBS.  Unfortunately, yesterday’s news is already buried deeply in the pile.

“Why do we always hear about Social Security [and Medicare] running out of money, But never hear anything about welfare [or Medicaid] running out of money. The problem is the [Social Security participants] worked for their [benefits], The [Welfare recipients] didn't [work for anything]!”