{"article":{"id":138949,"heading":"Religiously Organized Tooled for Brave New World Order","author":"crucial arts interactor","created":"2005-11-09 02:34:36","modified":"2005-11-09 02:34:36","last_modified":"Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:34:36","article":"<p>First, I want to say something out in the open: I'm openly anti-religionist (i.e. critical\/against formally organized spirituality in the context of states or state-religions and their pattern of habits); ...but i'm not anti-spirituality (i.e. a private activity of the self, sometimes shared with other autonomous persons). Okay, now that that's cleared up: <br><br> So, anyway, I've been avoiding reading religionist-oriented materials for a long time, having had my share of interactions with such easily fooled in this category. Last time i dealt with a group of 'em i said something like: <br><br> 'If 10,000 others who believe just as staunchly as you were to stand up and challenge you, you'd all be fighting and not remembering a word of your so-called \"love\" interests.' <br><br> So you can see i'm not big on reading the ideas of the religiously dogmatic (not that other faiths, i.e. the faith of social science, isn't full of it either; but that's another article). Tho i *can* see how they're fooled. i was (and most certainly am still in varying degrees) also, in a big way, by the compellers that be. <br><br> But when i found Bill Moyers, that dude who used (?) to be a mainline TV interviewer (he interviewed Chomsky once, even) writing as an observer about religionists, i *had* to stop and see what he was saying. <br><br> And it's pretty damn heavy; but fits. Especially if you have done your homework and see the larger picture about how human beings called \"elites\" have a habit (or \"disorder\"? oh no, not THAT can of worms!) of organizing the masses to carry out their own severely alienated aspirations. <br><br> Like this \"New World Order\" that Bush #1 was talking about. Didn't you see that in \"_Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media_\"? Maybe you should watch it again. <br><br> If we are to challenge the religiously tooled, then in my view we are going to *have to* demystify the meta game that their handlers all play. Even though that means that what will come with it is also a general demystifying of the way authority works in general. And that means, ahem, that a lof of what passes for \"alternative\" will be demystified in the process... <br><br> It's the only way i see of nipping this whole game in the bud, so to speak. <br><br> Or, shall the Left's vanguards opt for an un-winnable \"civil war\" which could very well develop (which will also serve the interests of Bush II and his owners)? <br><br> Or perhaps people called \"elites\" on the Left and Right are happy with just keeping their \"constituencies\" distracted with the same old games (i.e. single issues, mobilization on command--against domestic variations of the parade of enemies, etc.), while this cuntry turns into another Mexico (etc.). <br><br> Whatever they choose, a lot of us stand to lose in a big way. <br><br> Perhaps it's time to toss away your college and highschool and hated-work homework and opt for some background insights: <br><br> \"Propaganda is perhaps the most serious threat to the modern world.\"--Jacques Ellul in _Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes_ <br><br> www.buildinfreedom.com\/ft\/propaganda.htm <br><br> The National Security Archive: <br>  <br> www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv <br><br> Noam Chomsky on 'crisis of democracy', the trilateralists, menace of liberal scholarship, Watergate as 'small potatoes'  :  chomsky.info <br>  <br> or www.zmag.org\/chomsky\/ni <br><br> Sabotaging idealists: <br>  <br> www.radio4all.org\/anarchy\/sabot.html <br><br> www.cointel.org <br><br> ex-CIA high achiever, now dissident, John Stockwell (dangerously charismatic, no b.s.): <br>  <br> www.thirdworldtraveler.com\/Stockwell\/John_Stockwell.html <br><br> Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind, includes: <br>  <br> \"Neither God, nor Master, nor Moral Order:  <br>  <br> Anarchy as Critique of Morality and Moralism\": <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anarchist-studies.org\/article\/articleview\/43\/2\/1\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.anarchist-studies.org\/article\/articleview\/43\/2\/1\/<\/a> <br><br> pssst, pass this around please! (and do re-write if you think it can be done better!)<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"www.omniparticle.com\/burning_ice2.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Was reading Bill Moyers' article (http:\/\/www.omniparticle.com\/burning_ice2.html) about this stuff that Bush II has been supporting, and as I read, knowing what I know about statecraft, I couldn't help but to see how, as usual, people are being hyped-up and divided for interests that they're not aware of.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/11\/138949.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}