-Caveat Lector- NEWSMAX.COM > Technology, Sovereignty, and the Third WaveDiane Alden & Steve FarrellSeptember > 20, 1999 > > To most ordinary people, the technological revolution is one of those > matter-of-fact blessings and spoils of life in modern America. Few of us, then, > give technology a second thought...except when it fails. Yet, all of us depend > on it, enjoy it, and forever demand its ready medley of gizmos and gadgets to be > newer, unique, and better than before. > > Technology�s job should be to make our work easier and quicker, our leisure more > fun and comfortable, and our liberty more secure. And it has. Thanks to the > creative fire laissez-faire has fanned, there are always ample numbers of > deep-thinking inventors and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs eager and able to supply > the instant gee-whiz wants and needs of millions of freemen and freewomen. > > On the other hand, to the unordinary, that is, to that odd creature called the > Legislator, technology is an unmanageable, out-of-control threat that has forced > and will yet force America, and other free countries, to contemplate the > redefinition of such things as republican government, private property, the > individual and collective right to self defense, neutrality, and ultimately > national sovereignty. A remarkably shrunken view of the explosive potential of > technological growth for good! > > But then legislators prefer controlling rather than liberating things and > people, don�t they? > > And the painful truth is that the I-Need-to-Control-People-Syndrome (INCPS) cuts > across party lines, afflicting both Democrat and Republican leaders alike. It > compels many to flee from thoughts of how to use technology to better protect > our God-given rights and hard-won sovereignty and to run and seek psychological > cover in a progressive wanna-be philosophy called the �Third Wave� or �Third > Way�: a world outlook that has the outward markings of everything new and > progressive, but the inner workings of everything old and repressive. > > Indeed, its disciples include such earlier notables as Plato, Karl Marx, and > Adolf Hitler. > > Plato�s Third Wave > > The Greek philosopher Plato was the first one to use the term �Third Wave� in > his pro-Communist (some claim satirical) work The Republic. Plato called the > "third wave" that "largest and most dangerous [wave of all]" wherein the > pro-Communist philosopher-king overthrows the existing order, either by "smooth" > persuasion or by brute force. The Third Wave was the transitional phase from any > form of government, free or otherwise, to total State-ism under the leadership > of an elite class of individuals called "philosopher kings." (1) > > Setting the standard for Third Wavers today, Plato didn�t call his revolutionary > plan for tyranny 'tyranny', but cloaked every item of reform or revolution in > more palatable terms like justice, the Heavenly ideal, the pursuit of the good, > and the love of truth. They work better. > > So much so that Plato succeeds in convincing the casual reader that he or she is > mulling over a Judeo-Christian appeal to virtue, that is until they take a hard > look at Plato�s definition of virtue. Virtue, he taught, is whatever sustains or > brings about the ideal city. And such an ideal city this is! The Third Wave is > the real world process of converting this dream of a communist utopia into > reality. > > Here is a partial list of those ancient "virtues� that ride upon the ancient > tyrannical Third Wave of 370 BC. They are as modern as today�s newspaper. > > � The abolition of private property complemented by the forced redistribution of > the wealth, and in transition, the promotion of public cynicism toward the > wealthy. (2) � The establishment of state nurseries that raise children away > from the noxious influence of parents and a belief that children are the > property of the state. (3) � State control of education, with the elimination of > private education - the very headwaters of falsehood and social strife. (4) � > State control of all other potential forms of education, including song, > history, and children�s story writing. Likewise, a mandated rewrite of the same > during the transitional phase to discredit and erase all old values and exalt > and enthrone the new. (5) � The elimination of frivolous children�s games, with > new games that emphasize law and order. (6) � State control of all industry. (7) > � The necessity of a strict caste system where free choice and class mobility > are nearly eliminated in order to prevent revolutionary threats to state > stability and the undermining of true philosophy. (8) � The channeling of > children into careers at an early age with a "few" promising students selected > by the guardians for class or career crossover. (9) � During the transitional > phase, a deceptively extreme view of the equality of man with the goal of > dividing rich and poor for the purpose of promoting revolution. (10) � The > exploitation of women for the benefit of the state is wisdom. First to foment > "class war" during the transitional phase (wherein their roles are reversed to > that of men), and next, after the revolution is complete, to become part of a > "community of women" shared collectively by all male guardians, war heroes, and > rulers for pleasure or offspring. (11) � Selective breeding is good policy (12), > yet recreational sex as well as rape across class lines is acceptable because - > � Unwanted, inferior, or deformed babies are to be put to death. (13) � Adults > too, are expendable, when it is convenient or beneficial to the state. The > handicapped should be left to die. (14) � Homosexuality is an acceptable > lifestyle and homosexual rape of lower-class males and boys is a right of > rulers, guardians, and war heroes. (15) � Elitism is the road to the greater > life. Only the philosopher-king understands life and the higher good to be > dictated by the state, while the masses are dumb sheep who must look to their > leaders and the state as saviors. (16) � Spying on citizens and upcoming and > current guardians through a KGB-like spy network is thought wise to test loyalty > to the state and fitness for leadership. (17) � Warfare against admittedly more > prosperous city states should be waged via infiltration and, again, the > instigation of class warfare. (18) � Lastly, the virtuous ideal rejects > troublemaking Democracy, yet shrewdly identifies Democracy (pure Democracy) as > the quickest and surest route to promoting the communist view of equality of > ends (19), of degenerating traditional morality and fostering fierce intolerance > against it, of promoting revolution (20), then anarchy, and finally the most > absolute of tyrannies (21), that of the Democratic King - this is so because the > people consent to a police state in the name of restoring order, peace, and > security. > > Because unrestrained liberty sends government "creeping into private houses" > (22) - a power traditional kings never held; and because the ruler of such an > enslaved people will be a slave himself - to his passions.(23) > > Indeed, today movement toward direct democracy is one of the central pillars of > Third Way thinking, for those very reasons. > > Marx�s Three Waves of History > > The next third waver to build on Plato�s plan was modern Communism�s hired hack > and egotistical founder, Karl Marx - who stole all of Plato�s Republic for his > supposed "original� plan for a utopia, added another borrowed twist from Hegel�s > Godless dialectic view of history, mixed Aristotle�s quantum leap view of > evolution, then threw in Plato�s idea that the strong rule and create laws and > morals which perpetuate their wealth and dared to call it all a new and unique > theory. It wasn�t. It was strictly cut and paste. > > It was also really dark stuff! All man cares about is money, comfort, and power > - and probably sex. There always has to be sex. Meanwhile everyone exploits > everyone. The government, in collusion with the moneyed class, exploits the > citizen worker. The husband exploits the wife. The parent exploits the child. > The priest exploits the parishioner. The majority exploits the minority. > > But the only one who doesn�t exploit anyone, apparently, is the exploited one. > He, she, or it, becomes the holy class which must bind together to overthrow all > the greedy brutes and lead mankind into a millennium of peace. Of course, mind > you, the exploited masses are too stupid to do this themselves - they must be > dragged into the light by someone - and that someone is the exalted communist! > You see, Marx read The Cave too! (24) > > As for the millennium of peace, there is an unpleasant blip along the way called > the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. That�s when, at the end of the third wave > (capitalism - the first two waves are slavery and feudalism) (25), the > exploitees get to take out "justifiable revenge� on the exploiters, reigning > bloody horror on them until every last vestige of private property and belief in > private property are swept from the earth. > > Then, even though their hands are drenched in blood, poof! the proletariat turn > into saints, government disbands, and those who were smart and immoral enough to > survive live happily ever after! Just like what happened in Russia and China, > eh? > > Technology plays a critical role in all of this. Of the three private property > phases of economic history, all three supposedly arose and were terminated, in > part, because of the unforeseen emergence of new forms of technology or methods > of production. > > Primitive communal man moved into the first economic phase of private property > with the invention of tools, which led to specialization and trade and, > eventually, private ownership. The stronger private property owners, selfish and > greedy, then enslaved the rest to secure their booty - thus wave 1, slavery. > > In the end, the world returns to communal ownership under communism, again > thanks in part to technology. The third phase, capitalism, which came about as a > result of the Industrial Revolution, will be destroyed by the same, as modern > technology leads to mass production, mass production to the centralization of > the world�s credit and the centralization of the world�s credit (26) to the > world revolution of the proletariat who unite and overthrow their oppressive > overseers. > > Just like modern third wavers and wayers, Marx believed man was powerless > against the inevitable march of history, that covetous capitalists who opposed > his plan were enemies to public safety, that this last transition was the most > dangerous and violent of all, and that Communists ought to be compassionate > enough to intervene, guide the agency bereft masses, and expedite the > revolution, lest the blood flow too thick. > > In the last analysis, Marx�s revolution, like Plato�s, exploits the poor as a > strategy to invoke class warfare, but admittedly is, as said Lenin, "all about > power." Or as he said concerning the poor socialist bloats who really believe in > the coming utopia: "They just don�t get it . . . the Dictatorship of the > Proletariat," that brutal transitional phase, "will never end." > > So goes third waver number two. > > Adolf Hitler�s Third Way > > Hitler was number three, and who should be surprised that tyrants and tyrant > wannabes should mimic each other. In a 1945 National Socialist Party (the > official name of the left, not right, wing of the Nazi Party) birthday address, > Hitler condemned "exploitive capitalism and murderous bolshevism," identifying > his party�s movement as a third way between these two "extremes." (27) > > Walking in Hitler�s footsteps, today, one of Europe�s major neo-Nazi "White > Power� movements refers to itself as the "Third Position," again, as between > Communism and laissez-faire capitalism, a key element of modern third way > theology. (28) > > It�s the safe middle ground ploy. You know, that spot in the middle of a lion's > cage where we sit disarmed, bludgeoned, bloodied, bruised, and blindfolded; and > yet are so programmed to believe the unbelievable that we recite, "It�s safe! > It�s safe!" And the lion agrees. > > But there�s more to it than just that. Fascism actually makes for one of the > best case studies on the modern third wave, both economically and politically. > > Economically, fascism is but a form of socialism and a sister to communism. As > communism in theory is complete state ownership of the means of production, > fascism is state majority ownership of major industry and utilities, heavy > regulation, and more "government partnerships" of other industries and > businesses, and laissez-faire of nickel-and-dime operations. > > Thus private enterprise and private ownership are given a window of opportunity, > but a very closely monitored one, which can be eradicated, selectively or > collectively, by government fiat at any moment. > > A privately owned press exists, for example, but the competition is not one of > ideas but of markets; indeed, opposition to the state by the press, except > within prescribed boundaries, is an intolerable and dangerous business. > Scientific development is also in "private" hands, controlled via block grants. > "You want our money, you teach our science." Just as effective, if not more > effective, than straight-forward totalitarianism. > > Therefore, fascism embraces much of the already discussed principles of Plato > and Marx but utilizes different methods of control. > > Politically, Hitler�s fascism offers four other prominent features as major > players in today�s Third Way. > > 1. A rejection of majority government. Hitler said his "doctrine" was "people > and country," and he accepted the idea of a democratic election (to get into > power), but he rejected "decision by the majority" and demanded "absolute > authority" for the executive, after the elections (29). A bit of Hobbes, but a > bit of Marxian minority rule too. The minority is just different this time - > Aryans and Nazis. The masses were inherently scorned too, for Hitler taught that > they don�t want self-rule but only to be led. > > 2. Decentralization of power; but don�t get that confused with federalism. > American federalism gives state and local units complete sovereignty over > delegated powers. Decentralization on the other hand creates local units of > power which are still accountable to the central authority. > > Hitler�s brand of decentralization gave general guidelines and layers of central > check systems on those periphery units, however, within those stipulations (such > as fierce loyalty to the party) he granted peripheral leaders ruthless > autonomous power, even in competition with other agencies. > > It�s socialism�s self-fulfilling prophecy of �the strong survive�, providing a > new pool of brutal leaders for the government (30). It also creates a loyal > cadre of men trapped by fear of reprisal for their sins, who in protection of > their own self interest, feel inclined to sustain their corrupt party to the > bitter end. > > Decentralization serves other political purposes as well. It creates a nice > front for the outside world, as if to say this kind of rival power struggle is > proof of democracy or weakness and division. Hitler used this in the foreign aid > game, as did the Old Warsaw Pact, as does the "new� Russian Federation, China, > and other communist states today. The Third Way doesn�t lack for smarts. > > 3. A double-talk rejection but endorsement of Internationalism. Hitler rejected > the International community because of its punishment of Germany under the > Versailles Treaty, but, truth be told, he favored its use when it benefited > Germany. Further, he viewed expansion into the territories of Europe and Asia, > the springing forth of "national offshoot[s] for centuries,� and the requisite > disarmament of all neighbors on its "frontiers,� as the right and destiny of > Germany (31). > > Call imperialism what you like; a Eurasia with Germanic hegemony, or dreams of a > worldwide Aryan led Utopia (and he spoke of Utopia). There really is no > difference. > > 4. The strategic injection of state sponsored religious fervor into politics. In > Mein Kampf, Hitler writes: "The future of [the] movement is conditioned by the > fanaticism, even more the intolerance, with which its adherents present it as > the only right one.� (32) > > This being the very sin socialists accuse Christians and Jews of, except it is > they (the socialists) who in this century have engaged the power of the state > and the collective good to do their intolerant bidding against mankind. > > An estimated 200 million killed by secular or atheistic governments in this > century alone; far worse than the old state/church horrors of Europe. > > Hitler and his Third Way intolerance inflicted horrendous carnage on his people > and their neighbors. Love of fellow man was not in his religious formula, just > love for the state. A critical imbalance. > > Aside from that, it could have been worse if he had only done a better job of > parading it all in front of the world by masking it in better Democratic > language than he did, or in terms of "justifiable revenge� for some perceived > previous Jewish persecution, or better yet, if only there had been a Clinton, or > a NATO, or a UN to back up his claims and call it the right thing to do! > > Plato, Marx, and Hitler are the forefathers of Third Way/Wave thinking; thinking > that is through and through socialist. Today its proponents quite predictably > include the socialist Fabian Society, the British Third Way Party, British Prime > Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Schroeder, most delegates to the European > Union, the People�s Liberation Army friends and fiends Bill Clinton and Al Gore, > the Democratic Party itself - which hosts a Third Way site (33), and most > surprisingly a pack of "progressive� Republicans including their "icon,� > Contract With America author, Newt Gingrich, a man who calls himself a > "conservative futurist� and who enthusiastically forwards and markets "ex� > Marxist turned Third Waver Alvin Toffler�s books (34). Odd bedfellows by their > own admission. > > In every case, their Third Way banter includes appeals to direct democracy, > decentralization, minority rule and the abandonment of "fuzzy� sovereignty. They > allege that technology makes all of these things possible and necessary. In fact > they are collectively positive that this is the road - the only road - to the > future. > > Their only fear is that a blind and dangerous rear guard, namely you and I, will > resist, slow them down and usher in a costly conflict. But they have it all > backwards, don�t they? They are the rear guard of the old oppressive state, and > we are the progressives who will work to sustain our liberties in the face of > their great fraud. > > And this we will do, with God and the technology he has blessed mankind with, by > our side. Maybe its time they, not we, opened their eyes! > > Upcoming: 21st Century Democracy and the Third Way; George W., The Third Way and > Compassionate Conservatism, and Third Way Contract > > Newsmax writers Diane Alden of Holly Springs, Missouri and Steve Farrell of > Henderson, Nevada, are widely published research writers and former co-workers > at Right Magazine, where Steve served as managing editor. Joint projects include > their upcoming book "Democrats In Drag: A Second Look at the Republican Party.� > Please email any comments to Steve and Diane at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Footnotes 1. Plato. "Great Dialogues of Plato,� (New York and Scarborough, > Ontario; Mentor Books, 1956) pgs. 271, 296-300. 2. Ibid. p. 219, 262 - 263 3. > Ibid. pgs. 258, 255, 221, 341. 4. Ibid. pgs. 258, 260. 5. Ibid. p. 222. 6. Ibid. > p. 222 7. Ibid. p. 219. 8. Ibid. p. 233. 9. Ibid. p. 233. 10 Ibid. pgs. 220, > 250, Chapter VIII. 11.Ibid. pgs. 247, 249, 250, 258-260. 12. Ibid. pgs. 257-260 > 13. Ibid. pgs. 257-260 14. Ibid. pgs. 209, 267 15. Ibid. pgs. 258-260. 16. Ibid. > pgs. 249, 142, 224-225, 227, 240, 261 17. Ibid. pgs. 213-214. 18. Ibid. p. 220. > 19. Ibid. p. 242 20. Ibid. p. 356. 21. Ibid. pgs. 361-363, 369. 22. Ibid. p. > 363. 23. Ibid. p. 369. 24. Ibid. pgs. 312-320. 25. Hoover, J. Edgar. "A Study of > Communism� (New York, Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc. 1962) pgs. 38-41 26. > Foster, William Z. "Toward a Soviet America� (Balboa Island, California, 1961) > pgs. 171-172. See Also Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto Section 1, and Plank 5. > 27. The New American, September 27, 1999 Insider Page 28. Ibid. 29. Hitler, > Adolf. "Great Books: Twentieth Century Series: Mein Kampf� (New York, WM. H. > Wise & Co. 1941) p. 16. 30. Laski, Harold. See His Work "National Socialism� for > a full work up on fascism in Germany. Laski�s perspective is pro-Communist, anti > capitalist (he accuses fascism of being laisse-faire plus the force of the > state), but his book is penetrating, nonetheless, if you can wade through the > occasional outbursts of anti-capitalist bias. 31. Hitler, pgs. 18-19, 12-13. 32. > Ibid. pg. 16, 15 33. The Third Way site sponsored by the Democratic Party > Leadership Council is found at http://www.dlcppi.org. Al Gore was one of the > early leaders with this movement dating back to 1972. 34. Toffler, Alvin and > Heidi, "Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave.� (Atlanta, > Turner Publishing Inc. 1995) pgs. 13-18. See Also Rep. Gingrich�s blatant > endorsement of the same before the US Congress in his Contract With America > victory speech found in Gingrich, Newt "Contract With America� (USA, Times Books > Random House, 1994) pgs. 186-187. 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