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Iridescent cuttlefish said...
Shrubageddon (and the quiet little post on nanotech riding to
the rescue) reminded me of my own overarching POV--that 9/11 and the
imperial adventures in the Middle East are basically pretexts and
diversions in late-stage capitalism’s final assault/last gasp before
the façade maintained by technological suppression and artificial
scarcity crumbles--which somewhat escaped my focus as I read Jeff’s
water hijinks post, because something else was ‘clicking’ for me. It
involves, as S intimated, quite a few of the ideas running through
the recent threads here (the Vatican pedophilia cover-up, the issue
of fake antisemitism, etc) as well as my own current reading. It’s
actually only a sort of fuzzy epiphany, as it raises more questions
than it answers, and yet something feels vaguely right about it.
Here’s how it happened: I’m plowing through a hugely fat, rather
dry and overly careful historical analysis called “The Third Reich in
Power,” the 2nd volume in the unfinished trilogy by Cambridge prof
Richard J. Evans, who is solid, stolid and definitely not in any
sense “radical”. In fact, I had been getting a bit annoyed at the
short shrift he gave to the role of the transnational corporations in
Hitler’s ascension, when suddenly bells started ringing in his
treatment of how the Nazis dealt with the threat they perceived the
Catholic Church to be. Evans’ take was that Goebbels personally took
over after an earlier effort to emasculate the Church by restricting
parochial school attendance and Catholic youth group membership
(which were seen as competition for fascist state indoctrination and
the Hitler Youth respectively) completely backfired, sending many
thousands of pissed off Catholics into the streets of Oldenburg, as
well as swastika flags into the gutters and even a wave resignations
from the Nazi Party, which had never happened before.
Hitler was apparently so angry that he wanted to round up all
the priests and send them to Sachsenhausen with Martin Niemoeller
(author of the famous “When they came for the Communists I did
nothing..” speech), but Goebbels was nervous about such a move
because Niemoeller was already getting them very negative
international press and because they still hadn’t annexed Austria,
which was nearly universally Catholic. So, in a brilliantly
calculated maneuver, Goebbels dug up a few cases of alleged
pedophilia, combined them with rumors of rampant homosexuality in the
German monastaries, inflated the numbers involved and cooked up a
prodigious scandal where none had been before. He also utilized photo
op field trips where kids who weren’t even Catholic were whipped into
a Salem-style hysteria, screaming (in front of reporters) not to let
the sex fiends get their hands on them. Within a few months parochial
attendance went from 95% in Oldenburg to 5%, the local Hitler Youth
group mushroomed overnight, Catholic monastaries, lay buildings and
finances were confiscated, and many hundreds of priests and monks
were (quietly) led off to various concentration camps.
I’m not in any way saying that the story of the pedophilia cover-
up in recent discussions is related, but hysterical denunciations and
faked repressed memories do happen occasionally, in wave-like
patterns. The question this raises is who could be orchestrating the
faked ones and why? I once knew a teacher who was Salem-ed, the very
strictest teacher in my grade school, and even though the kid
recanted (her father was later charged with the identical crimes) the
teacher was broken, shamed out of the profession. Innocent, even.
There’s tremendous power in the mob.
The other mob I thought of was the current wave of real and/or
imagined antisemitism. Evans also touched on this, describing the
Propaganda Ministry’s efforts to inflame the nascent and deeply-
rooted antisemitism in Germany into a force which could be reliably
used to intimidate, cajole and generally brainwash segments of the
population which weren’t quite down with the program enough for
Goebbels. In this case, Evans’ account immediately caused me to
understand what’s been happening at the site where I used to be a
regular (Information Clearinghouse). I had already been challenging
some of the more rabid Jew-biters for their obvious manipulation by
the likes of Rense and others of his ilk, but the owner of that site,
the good and homorable Tom Feely had to shut his comment field down
before I really realized what was going on there. It wasn’t just the
same phrases and vitriol lifted from Rense that sank ICH—it was
precisely the same stuff that Goebbels cooked 70 years ago. Today I
was linking through a bunch of unfamiliar blogs and websites which
had large comment fields running, and I found the same posters
spouting the same crap who had just shut down ICH. They didn’t even
bother changing their handles!
I don’t know that any of this stuff is being pumped by the
Israeli cell phone scammers, but it’s big, and I think I’m guessing
better why this is happening. Like all good deceptions, it’s got at
least two faces. It provides convenient evidence for accusations of
antisemitism, which can get “undesirable” sites and other
organizations shut down and/or discredited, and it also builds a very
easy, very familiar scapegoat for when things go sour. If old loves
die hard, then ancient hatreds must be about immortal. I have no
doubt that Jews are getting used, set up for some kind of fall, but I
still can’t get my head around why they would let themselves be used
in this way, unless they’re just being sold out by their “leaders,”
the same as the rest of us. All signs seem to point, as others here
have noted, to the “Christian” Zionists, although that particular
endgame is still unclear to me. Why would Israel let its already
tarnished image be shat upon by this Lebanese horror? Or, again, is
it simply because, as Amos Elon declared as he left Israel in digust,
that the people in charge there now are so far gone in the madness of
fascism and religion and that, like in the States, the citizen-
consumers don’t really have any voice, any representation at all?
(Well, I appear to have answered my own question--we're all getting
dicked around and led by the nose, obviously--but if anyone has any
further thoughts on this, I'd be interested...)
12:50 AM
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