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Mind Conspirators
by Nelson
Hultberg
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 gimmickry 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.
Why this process is taking place is one of the most disheartening
questions in all of history. What follows is an attempt to show why and
how it is unfolding. There are other reasons as to "why and how" than
the ones given here. Tyranny's evolution is always a complex process
with many forces coalescing to bring about freedom's demise. This
essay, however, is a look into the two most important of those forces
-- ideas and money.
A very popular and frightening science-fiction movie in 1956, called Invasion
of the Body Snatchers, is an apt metaphor for what is taking place
in our country. In the movie starring Dana Wynter and Kevin McCarthy, a
network of aliens is slowly and secretly taking over the bodies of the
citizens of a small town by use of mysterious cadaver-like "pods" that
are left in their backyards and basements. Once transformed into an
alien, each citizen then tries to recruit the rest of his family and
friends. It's absolutely chilling in its impact -- one of the great
science-fiction movies ever.
Today's collectivists, working so assiduously to transform America, are
like the aliens in that movie. They permeate our entire society and are
after not our bodies, but the enslavement of our minds and souls.
Ideological fallacies and moral inversions are the mysterious pods that
these aliens leave in the cerebral backyards of our lives. They are
aliens because they wish to destroy our system of natural liberty and
limited government. And even though most of them believe what they are
doing is right, they are far from innocent, for they have chosen
to blank out on the horrendous ramifications of what they are
doing.
Teaching
a False Ideal
It begins in the school system. All modern authoritarian political
movements have required recruitment of a disciplined, intellectual
vanguard to proselytize the masses into accepting the authoritarian
rule. This vanguard is recruited from the "best and brightest" minds of
the nation involved. History shows how leading intellects of Europe
used this strategy starting in the 1880's and 1890's to move Germany,
Russia, and Italy into authoritarian political systems by the 1917-1930
period.
What history also shows is that the same thing has been going on in
America for many decades, only on a more subtle level. The problem is
that our media and our scholars lose their objectivity when analyzing
their own political system and the ideas used to promote it. Thus,
history's lesson is ignored in order to further the recruitment of the
American intelligentsia into promotion of collectivism.
Instead of being objective forums for the transmission of the values of
civilization to the young, our colleges and universities have now
become fervent breeding grounds for this statist recruitment process,
in which the better students get swept up in the "false ideal" of
collectivism. These better students then proceed out into the world to
positions of intellectual, political and economic leadership, to
proselytize the masses into this alleged ideal just as church
missionaries used to go out into the world to spread the gospel. The
difference being that the missionaries were spreading good, while
today's collectivists are pushing fallacies.
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
eradicate the "dangerous 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 that 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.
It is a powerful futuristic vision that is subtly instilled into callow
minds who lack the necessary sophistication to resist. Being young and
prone to idealism, they perceive "political centralization and a
one-world government" to be an ideal just as the students in Marx's day
mistook his "dictatorship of the proletariat" as some sort of ideal.
Thousands of highly intelligent students spring forth from this
brainwash every year to enter the world and spread their newly learned
convictions that capitalism and Western civilization are the "roots of
all evil."
These "best 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 the collectivization of our society. Yet
they don't see themselves as working for anything dictatorial. They
think the political centralization and Keynesian economics taught to
them by their mentors will cure the evils and inequities of the world.
When they push for more centralized government, more taxes, more
regulations, and more "liquidity injections" from the Fed, 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
New World Order
One of the most influential institutions resulting from this
indoctrination process is what is called the Trilateral Commission.
This is an international group of about 300 elite intellectuals,
statesmen, bankers, and businessmen founded in 1973 by billionaire
banker David Rockefeller as a spin off from the older Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR).
The Council on Foreign Relations is like the Trilateral Commission,
only larger; it is composed of about 4,000 prominent leaders in
business, government, and education, etc. It was formed in the 1920s by
a group of progressive intellectuals of Woodrow Wilson's era led by the
openly acknowledged socialist, Edward Mandell House, who was Wilson's
chief advisor. Its official purpose was to coordinate America's foreign
policy with other nations to create a more peaceful and orderly world.
The group today claims vague educational goals and the fomenting of
more international co-operation 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 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, saying 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. [1]
Here we have a profound demonstration of how ideas shape the unfolding
of history. The Trilateral Commission and its parent, the Council on
Foreign Relations, are the end results of many decades of ideological
corruption in our colleges and universities beginning as far back as
the late 19th century. The men of zeal who are inducted into the
Trilateral Commission have been indoctrinated with false philosophical,
political and economic theories that declare limited government and
laissez-faire capitalism to be "chaotic, unworkable and morally wrong."
These theories have their origin in the works of powerful collectivist
thinkers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, and
John Maynard Keynes.
The overwhelming majority of academics throughout the West have bought
into these theories and have taught the Trilateral members in their
youth this anti-individualistic conception of politics and economics.
Is it any wonder then that the Trilateral members -- advancing in their
careers and armed with the power of such views -- are driven to try and
move humanity away from the "destructive evils of capitalism and
limited government" by centralizing them under one rule. This is the
nature of intellectuals; most of them will always attempt to further
the cause of what they think to be politically and morally right.
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
makes well-meaning men zealous and arrogant; it makes them believe that
the Gargantua of government can be controlled once unchained from the
bonds of the Constitution because it is in their
"well-meaning hands."
"In my view," wrote Goldwater, "the Trilateral Commission represents a
skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four
centers of power -- political, monetary, intellectual and
ecclesiastical....What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of
a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the
nation-states involved....As managers and creators of the system, they
will rule the future." [2]
Former President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbot (a
Trilateral member), succinctly expressed the organization's long range
goal in the early '90s in Time magazine: "In the next
century," he declared, "nations as we know it will be obsolete; all
states will recognize a single, global authority....National
sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." [3]
Protectors of the Empire
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.
Goldwater likened the CFR and Trilateral Commission to a new Praetorian
Guard for our age. The job of these highly influential academics,
politicians, bankers, and businessmen is to insure the perpetuation of
America's centralized state and pave the path for its merging into a
World State by any means. "To accomplish this purpose," he writes,
"they [mobilize] the money power of the Wall Street bankers, the
intellectual influence of the academic community...and the media
controllers represented in the membership of the CFR and the
Trilateral." [4]
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 as in Caesar's day, 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.
Their methodology has worked well for the past 75 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 a central bank with 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.
The propagandistic "army of managers" that Aldous Huxley warned us
about in Brave New World is now upon us. Such social
engineers are the statist intellectuals in our high schools, colleges
and grad schools. They have a powerful control over the minds of our
best and brightest youth for 12 years, and they're turning them into
the most dutiful of apparatchiks for a new world collectivism.
Sanity
and Rationality Give Way
This then is one of the primary reasons for the disintegration of
America over the past century. Philosophical fallacies and socialist
falsifications of economics and history have gained sway in the school
system to poison our citizens' minds against the American concept of
freedom. Such fallacies have created a grossly distorted image for the
man in the street about the way the world works. Freedom is now seen as
inimical to human dignity. Creative entrepreneurship is portrayed as
exploitation of the poor instead of their only hope. Gold is termed a
"barbarous relic" instead of history's proven store of value. Wealth is
thought of as a part of nature and static instead of created by free
men and infinite.
All the values that sustain civilized life (freedom, strength of will,
independence, honor) are endlessly denigrated in our schools and media.
We are being conditioned to 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
correctness" in order for legions of middle-class sluggards to feel
good about themselves while they live out their spiritually squalid
lives queuing up to the entitlement troughs of the mega-state.
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.
Mole-like men posture as intellectuals with a perspective that extends
no further than the previous decade. 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.
These are the irrational pretensions of our age. These monstrous
absurdities, being promoted today as humane social policies, are the
result of deeply flawed theoretical doctrinesthat have slowly permeated
our academic community over the past 100 years -- doctrines such as
Jean Jacques Rousseau's absolutism of the general will, which leads to
majoritarian despotism; Karl Marx's labor theory of value, which leads
to massive wealth redistribution; Auguste Comte's philosophy of
positivism, which leads to moral relativism; Thorstein Veblen's organic
concept of society, which leads to the eradication of individual
rights; and John Maynard Keynes' inflationary monetary policy, which
leads to the degenerate bankruptcy of our nation.
Such doctrines have produced what historian, Clarence Carson, calls a
"collectivist curvature of the mind." It is this collectivist
intellectual warp that is setting the stage for the coming
dictatorship. Once the Mind Conspirators have worked their ideological
venom into the brains of our youthful intelligentsia during their
formative years, they have recruited in most instances a lifelong
apparatchik for their cause. If that apparatchik is brilliant and
ruthless, he will attempt to rise in government and banking circles. He
will seek to join elite organizations such as the CFR and the
Trilaterals. He will strive to move the country toward the
"collectivist ideal" of a one-world government.
The
Role of Conspiracy
Many people on the political right today subscribe to the idea that not
only are the elitist CFR and Trilateral organizations conspiring to
establish a world dictatorship, they themselves are orchestrated from
behind the scenes by a smaller, more secret conspiracy of mega-bankers.
As this article shows, I certainly agree that collectivist elites are
working to move us toward a one-world government, that these elites
dominate the banking industry and bureaucracies of the nation, and that
much of what they do is secret. But the banking / bureaucratic elites
of modern collectivism are only part of the problem. The collectivist
movement is a multi-faceted phenomenon of many levels and groups all
pushing for bigger and bigger government because it furthers their
power, status and wealth.
Obviously there are numerous conspiracies that take place within this
push for bigger government. For example: The Plunge Protection Team, a
crypto faction of the Federal Government's Working Group on Financial
Markets, secretly manipulates both the Dow and the price of gold. [5]
The World Trade Center attack was surely more involved than the
whitewashed accounting provided by the 9-11 Commission. [6] And the
North American Union is not a means to better coordinate trade between
Canada, America and Mexico; it is a deceptive scheme to take us toward
regional government. [7]
Conspiracies abound throughout the West to expand political control and
shrink freedom. It has been this way for thousands of years. Thus it is
quite logical to assume that powerful bankers and bureaucrats are
conspiring to move America into a one-world government? This is the
nature of men in power. Only the naïve and ignorant believe otherwise.
But as Ayn Rand pointed out in the 1960s, no country can be moved into
a dictatorship simply by a "cabal of insiders." History does not move
on a singular axis. Ideology plays a paramount role. This is why Marx
said, "Corrupt the money and the language, and capitalism can
be brought down."
The mega-bankers and bureaucrats are not the only deceivers here. There
is another group in America working to destroy our system of freedom
that is equally, if not more, important. As I have endeavored to show
in this essay, it is the intellectuals in our school system. They have
control over the minds of our youth from grade school through graduate
school, and they are instilling into them an array of fallacies that is
shocking and disgusting. Thus we must not limit our diagnosis of why
America is descending into a dictatorship simply to the intrigues of
conspiratorial mega-bankers and bureaucrats.
Today's power elites are moving us into world government not just
because of power lust and greed, but because of the ideological
worldview that was laid down in their minds in their school years. It
powerfully shapes their lives and makes them move in lockstep toward
ever-increasing collectivism as they rise in their adult careers.
In other words, society is moved in much the same manner as the stock
market. Just as there is a sentiment (i.e., an investor
psychology) that moves prices up and down in the stock and commodity
markets, there is also a sentiment or zeitgeist that
permeates a society in any given era and moves its citizens one way or
the other -- toward tyranny and corruption, or toward freedom and
justice. The 20th century zeitgeist was world collectivism,
and we are still mired deep in its thralls.
Financial
and Ideological Conspiracy
What has resulted from this zeitgeist is that there are two
factions of collectivist elites operating in the world today --
"political-financial" and "ideological." They both wish to bring about
the end of national sovereignty and move all nations toward a one-world
government to be run by endless streams of fiat money and political
regimentation.
The political-financial elites dominate our society by means
of a fascist banking cartel and the conveyance of privileges via
Congress to large voting factions. The ideological elites
dominate our university system by means of persuasive but false
doctrines to mold the minds of our youth. Both of these elites believe
that the Founders' constitutional system of free enterprise is
unworkable, anachronistic, evil, exploitative, racist, and
environmentally devastating. Thus in order to achieve a stable and just
world, we must phase into a one-world government.
The political-financial elites do not overtly publicize their goal.
They prefer to quietly smuggle our nation into a one-world government
because they know there is too strong a tradition of freedom in America
for her people to accept such a fate all at once. Thus it is
implemented insidiously via deception, and therefore it is
"conspiratorial." After all, these elite bankers, moguls, and
bureaucrats do not divulge their true intentions to the people at
large, and much of their activity is secret.
Good examples of the insidious and deceptive nature of their activities
are found in the following three quotes by Richard N. Gardner, a member
of the Kennedy and Carter administrations, and the infamous
mega-banker, David Rockefeller:
Richard N. Gardner told the CFR in Foreign Affairs in 1974:
"In short, the house of world order will have to be built from the
bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great
booming, buzzing confusion, to use William James famous description of
reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece
by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal
assault." [8]
David Rockefeller had this to say to a Trilateral meeting in Germany in
1991: "We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New
York Times, Time magazine and other great publications
whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises
of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for
us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the
bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now
much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world
government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and
world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination
practiced in past centuries." [9]
In addition, Rockefeller wrote in his Memoirs in 2002:
"Ideological extremists...attack the Rockefeller family for the
inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and
economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal
working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing
my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it." [10]
Our political-financial elites thus have a common objective
of world government, which they are very patient and discreet about.
This gives them a conspiratorial incarnation. Our ideological
elites, are supposed to be open pursuers of the truth constructing
Socratic forums for their students; but any rational observer soon
realizes that this is not the case. Rabid sophistry abounds in the
colleges today. Political correctness dominates. Most scholars openly
teach world government as the ideal, but they do it in sophistical form
in unison with fellow colleagues. The fact that their sophistry is not
consciously promoted does not make it any less deceptive. The youth
under their influence are still corrupted. Thus theirs is a tacit conspiracy,
rather than formally planned.
What is crucial to grasp from all this is that nefarious elites are
indeed working to destroy a free, sovereign America; and the two main
powers moving them toward such tyranny are FIAT MONEY and FALSE
IDEOLOGY. Our politicians, corporate moguls and mega-bankers are driven
toward world government because they lust relentlessly for wealth and
power, but also because they have been taught that world government is
the ideal for modern times. This agenda of world collectivism
didn't just spring full blown in their heads. It was hatched in the
school system. Our political-financial elites are first prepared by
collectivist ideology in their formative years by their teachers and
professors. Without this ideological preparation, there would
be no pervasive political movement toward a New World Order. There was
no widespread enthusiasm for world government in America during the
19th century because collectivism was not taught in the schools. Our
scholars taught their students philosophical individualism and the
legitimacy of national sovereignty.
The powerful banking interests such as the Rothschilds have always been
pushing the envelope to acquire more wealth and power. G. Edward
Griffin's book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, shows this.
The Rothschilds were manipulating politics 200 years ago in order to
gain more than they had a right to gain via free enterprise. But they
were only after more wealth and power in their specific societies (as
most bankers throughout history have been). They were not after a
one-world dictatorship. This is because "national sovereignty" was
still part of the prevailing ideology taught in everyone's formative
years. Once the views of Marx had gained sway by the turn of the 19th
century, however, this all changed. After 1900, the ideology of the
schools was dramatically altered; world collectivism became the ideal
for which to strive. The "best and brightest," who went into banking
and politics, now wanted more than just wealth and power in their
respective societies. They wanted the ability to govern the world. And
the collectivist ideology being taught by the scholars gave them the
zealotry and belief that such conquest was vitally necessary.
Who
Controls Whom?
Therefore in my opinion, it is a mistake to view the financial /
banking conspirators as primary in this drama. Those who hold this view
admit that intellectuals teach false ideals in the schools poisoning
the minds of the "best and brightest" coming through the system; but in
their eyes, our intellectuals long ago were bought off by the powerful
corporate and banking elites of the latter 19th and early 20th
centuries. Men such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and Henry
Ford established prestigious foundations with billions of dollars to go
toward grants to scholars who would teach the collectivist ethos. In
this manner, the financial elites control and manipulate the
intellectual elites into becoming their lackeys. They mold our scholars
into salesmen for world collectivism. Thus the primary source of the
evil taking over the world is the mega-bankers and corporate moguls
whose reach stretches even into the hallowed halls of the academic
arena.
This reasoning doesn't fly. Anyone who has a working knowledge of
scholars knows that the big creative minds among them are
moved by an all consuming desire for truth and the ideal. They would no
more allow men like Rockefeller and Mellon to dictate that truth than
they would allow witch doctors to perform surgery on them. The second
line scholars (the popularizers) take their cue from the top scholars
and mold their thinking accordingly. Thus it is this leadership of the
top scholars that indoctrinates the second line scholars, who then
indoctrinate the "best and brightest" students with the one-world ideal
of collectivism.
>From where do the top scholars get their motivation? From the
super-minds of history -- the great philosophers, scientists, and
economists. And super-minds like Isaac Newton, John Locke, Jean Jacques
Rousseau, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, Ludwig von Mises,
Albert Einstein and John Maynard Keynes do not bow and scrape before
mega-bankers and corporate moguls. They revere the ideal of truth and
seek it at all costs. They may grossly err in their discovery of it and
plunge the world into terribly destructive fallacies (witness Marx and
Keynes), but their motivation is cerebral rather than monetary.
Thus financial elites do not mold the
intellectuals; the intellectuals mold the financial elites! The
major foundations that the elites establish position themselves to be
in line with the paradigms formed by the creators and super minds.
"Second tier" scholars, of course, will often fashion their studies in
ways to avoid biting the foundations' hands that feed them, but these
intellectuals are not the creators, nor the super minds. They are the
popularizers; they do not create new paradigms and visions. It is the
big-picture thinkers who do that, and they are not for sale.
Refusal to accept this relationship between intellectual elites and
financial elites stultifies our cause. Everyone caught up in the fight
for freedom directs his efforts to the areas in which he feels most
comfortable. Some will fight the ideasthat are poisoning the minds of
our youth, and some will fight the bankers who are corrupting the money
and politics of our system. But it is crucial to understand the cause
and effect process that determines what is really happening. We cannot
reach our fellow citizens with the truth if we refuse to accept the
"primacy of ideas." We don't all have to become experts in history,
philosophy and economics to engage in this fight; but we do have to
understand that ideological matters come first and learn as
much as we can from the scholars of freedom in these fields. Failure to
do this concedes the battle to the collectivist enemy who grasps such
primacy very well and does not shirk from utilizing it.
The motive power behind history is the force moving all of us -- the
ideas that are laid down in our minds during the all-important
formative years of our youth. Tyranny cannot be brought about by
political and monetary elites alone; it can only be brought about by
first corrupting the minds and souls of the citizens when they are
young. The intellectuals pave the way for the Hitlers and the Lenins.
The intrigues of politics and the conspiracies of elite bankers play a
very important role in the torrent of history, but the grand directive
of all their action is IDEOLOGY and the guiding ideals that it
promotes. When this ideology is false, it leads to tyranny. When it is
true, it leads to the Founding Fathers and America's original concept
of freedom.
As the novelist Huxley profoundly put it, "It is in the light of our
beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality that we formulate our
conceptions of right and wrong; and it is in the light of our
conceptions of right and wrong that we frame our conduct, not only in
the relations of private life, but also in the sphere of politics and
economics. So far from being irrelevant, our metaphysical beliefs are
the finally determining factor in all our actions." [11]
End
of America as a Sovereign Nation
To sum all this up, there are "two conspiracies" at work destroying the
freedom of the West -- ideological and financial. Our drift into
collectivist tyranny starts with the big thinkers of civilization such
as Rousseau, Hegel, Comte, Marx, Keynes, etc. They create the
tyrannical ethos, which then works its way through the academic arena
to capture all levels of scholars, where it proceeds to poison each
generation's "best and brightest" who then go out and become society's
new power elites of mega-bankers, bureaucrats, and corporate moguls.
The goal of these intellectuals, and the power elites they spawn, is
the cessation of America as a sovereign nation. The end of free
enterprise and the Founders' constitutional system of liberty must
naturally follow in order to complete their vision.
We have been overrun by alien Mind Conspirators who are turning America
into a nation of sheep. Their nefarious ideas have, over the past 100
years, saturated all our important institutions -- from government, to
the schools, to the churches, to Hollywood, to the media. These Mind
Conspirators preach soothing words about the need for "stability,
security and equality," but it is the same goal of all tyrannical
collectivisms throughout history -- the enslavement of man justified by
irrational ideology and sophistry. The only difference is that it is
much bigger in ambition today; its goal is world domination instead of
just societal control.
My book, The Conservative Revolution,
delves into this ideological stream of collectivism that is corrupting
America and puts forth a revolutionary plan for a third political party
that will stop the carnage and restore sanity to our country. CLICK HERE to read a review and
buy a copy.
A gargantuan crash of prosperity and freedom now looms up ahead as a
result of our financial and intellectual corruption. Out of the crash
will come a new society. Our only hope for that new society lies in
whether we, who have kept the faith of our fathers, can inform enough
of our fellow citizens as to what the requisites of freedom truly are.
If we can, then a rebirth of America will take place out of the crash.
If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the
world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
Notes
1. Barry M. Goldwater, With No Apologies, (New York: Berkely
Books, 1980), p. 294.
2. Ibid., pp. 297-299.
3. Strobe Talbot, "The Birth of the Global Nation," Time, July 20,
1992, p. 70.
4. Goldwater, op. cit., p. 300.
5. See Bill Murphy and Chris Powell at GATA, the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee, www.gata.org. Also Nelson Hultberg, "Cornered Rats and the
PPT," http://www.afr.org/Hultberg/cornered.html. And Nelson Hultberg,
"Is the PPT an Urban Myth," http://www.afr.org/Hultberg/urbanmyth.html.
6. See Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, www.AE911Truth.org.
7. See Eagle Forum's work on the NAU, www.eagleforum.org/topics/NAU.
8. Richard N. Gardner, "The Hard Road to World Order," Foreign
Affairs, April 1974, p. 558.
9. David Rockefeller in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral
Commission, Baden-Baden, Germany, June 6-9, 1991.
10. David Rockefeller, Memoirs (New York: Random House,
2002), p. 405.
11. Aldous Huxley, Ends And Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of
Ideals (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1937), p. 11.
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Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas, a graduate of
Beloit College in Wisconsin, and the Director of Americans for a Free
Republic www.afr.org. His articles have appeared in such
publications as The Dallas Morning News, the San Antonio Express-News,
The American Conservative, Insight, The Freeman, and Liberty, as well
as on numerous Internet sites such as The Daily Bell, Financial Sense,
and World Net Daily. He is the author of The Conservative
Revolution: Why We Must Form a Third Political Party to Win It.
And he also has a forthcoming book on political philosophy, The
Golden Mean: The Case for Libertarian Politics and Conservative Values.
Email him at: [email protected]
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