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How could this be happening?
And what's going to happen next?
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
January 8, 2007
So the populace goes to the polls and, in spite of voting fraud worse
and more blatant than in all prior elections, manages to turn both
houses over to the Democrats with a clear mandate to stop this
obscene war. Now we discover that Democrats demonstrate no more
resolve to stop the war than the Republicans. What's up?
I can't say that I am surprised, although I could not totally
suppress a mild stirring of hope in the immediate aftermath of the
vote. I always say, with
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total sincerity, that I am the person who I
would most like to see proven wrong. But alas, once
again, I am confirmed in my belief that what we think of as our
representative form of government is merely a sham, a hoax on the
people meant to conceal the fact that we do not have a government at
all, in any common understanding of the term (unless organized
looting qualifies as a form of
government).
The evidence over many decades now points to the
conclusion that we have acquired some form of stealth totalitarianism
so carefully hidden behind smoke and mirrors that it is unlikely that
we will ever really know the full truth of the matter. The outlines,
dimly seen through the fog of propaganda and staged events, seem to
indicate control by a cabal of extremely wealthy racist and
radically reactionary persons acting, for the most part, through
carefully-controlled corporate, military and intelligence networks.
It becomes increasingly clear that, whereas this cabal is unable
to take care of the ordinary business of government, it is very
capable of maintaining a monopoly of power against any competing
forces. No challenges will be allowed at home or abroad.
It also
becomes increasingly clear that change will not come as a result of
political action, but, rather, will need to await a self-induced
collapse of the entire world economic system.
Gosh, I really hope I
am wrong about this, and that the political efforts we continue to
pursue will end up making a difference. It is certainly worth a try,
and I wholeheartedly support those who are willing to make the
effort.
However, it is most likely that we are witnessing another
stanza in the repeating refrain of the history of civilization. When
a dominator society becomes strong enough to resist destruction from
without, it proceeds to succumb to destruction from within.
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Keeping a low profile will be of the utmost importance.
Prominent leaders and heroes will be as lambs to the slaughter.
Resistance will need to be resilient, resourceful, and respectful of the power and determination of the lunatics in authority, who will undoubtedly ferociously defend their dying power.
New ways of organizing will be needed, methods that are less vulnerable to infiltration and sabotage.
In our now totally monitored society, transparency will likely serve better than secrecy.
If this monster is to be brought down it is more likely to be from a million pinpricks than from a killing blow.
Our biggest enemy will be wishful thinking and overconfidence.
Our strongest allies are likely to be humility and determination.
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Considering these observations (and let me reiterate, I sincerely
wish to be wrong here) the only remaining sensible thing to do is to
prepare for the coming crash by developing grass-roots initiatives to
establish local self-sufficiency. The ignorant and mentally unstable
will see this project as one of arming themselves in order to be able
to take the resources they need from the weak. Indeed, any plausible
future, baring some totally unexpected event (aliens, anyone?), will
include a degree of violence that
will sweep away both the
disorganized and the violent in a firestorm. Any conceivable and desirable future
undoubtedly belongs to those people who are willing and capable of
forming self-reliant communities. If any humans survive to inherit a
place on earth it will be the intelligent and resourceful meek.
Keeping a low profile will be of the utmost importance. Prominent
leaders and heroes will be as lambs to the slaughter. Resistance will
need to be resilient, resourceful, and respectful of the power and
determination of the lunatics in authority, who will undoubtedly ferociously
defend their dying power. New ways of organizing will be needed, methods that
are less vulnerable to infiltration and sabotage. In our now totally
monitored society, transparency will likely serve better than
secrecy.
If this monster is to be brought down it is more likely to
be from a million pinpricks than from a killing blow. Our biggest
enemy will be wishful thinking and overconfidence. Our strongest
allies are likely to be humility and determination.
The voices of nihilism and despair point to the mounting evidence of
immanent climactic catastrophe as indicating a future with no hope
for the survival of human life. But of course, they cannot know this
for sure, no matter the weight of evidence. What does seem certain,
however, is that people who choose to remain dependent on an
"advanced" technological culture that cannot sustain itself, in the
face of exponentially increasing resource depletion and climactic and
environmental degradation, will not survive. Those unable to
reconstitute mutually supportive communities with simple, sustainable
technologies are doomed.
The tragedy is that the dominator culture,
caught in its death throws, is driven to disrupt and destroy community
wherever it finds it. Dominator culture, by its nature, must
continually expand at the expense of all other forms of social
organization and any sustainable methods of resource management.
On
the other hand, simple survival is the true measure of victory in the
coming struggle.
As M. Scott Peck reveals in reports on his work with facilitating
community (read A World Waiting to Be Born), only those motivated
and willing to adopt highly moral and ethical behaviors toward each
other are capable of forming community. What this says to me is that
the real challenge we face is not Political, not Ideological, and
certainly not Technological -- it is entirely Spiritual.
Those who
embrace honesty in all their relationships, including with the self,
and experience the Spiritual growth that is the inevitable
consequence of this commitment, will have the possibility of
survival. That survival will be possible for only a small remnant of
the world's population seems an inescapable conclusion in the wake of
the mad excesses and population explosion engendered by the
technological tyranny that has ravaged the world for so many
thousands of years now. It is possible to imagine a course of events
that leads to a gradual abandonment of this insanely destructive
culture, but it is impossible to imagine a very plausible sequence of
events leading to such a benign outcome.
All that really remains for us is to reach out with love and clear,
honest understandings to form bonds with our neighbors and relations
where possible, and respond with compassionate acceptance where it is
not possible. As a bare beginning we need to start non-judgmental
conversations with everyone who is willing.
The tide of history will
soon come in and wash away the ugly sand castles that this predatory
culture has erected and those who insist on continuing to inhabit
them. The Universe is kind to those who are willing to learn and kind also
to those unable or unwilling to learn, by putting them out of our
collective misery. We need not believe that we must attack the
ignorant and destroy them ourselves. Or, as Groucho put it, "Time
wounds all heels."
Wishing to all that they experience a growth in confidence in
themselves and their neighbors in this coming year -- a time that is sure to
produce as much opportunity for the spiritually prepared as it
produces suffering and destruction to those who are not.
Herb Ruhs, MD
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