The Reading Junkie

Whenever I see how likes/dislikes/reactions mushroom under a fresh post from a popular blogger on a popular platform, I think of a Petri dish with some primitive life form floating in it (bacteria, fungi, amoeba, etc.) and a person adding, say, sugar. All the single-celled creatures rush for food. They are highly-motivated, eager and, I dare say, happy in their single-celled way. None of them is depressed, preoccupied or anxious. They are unanimous in their rush for food. They are busy.

On 16 January, 1991, President George Bush announced the beginning of the New World Order which, in his words, would replace the “law of the jungle.” The NWO would bring about the end of nations, all of them subjugated and erased under a new system of global homogeneity (globohomo). But for such a “rules based world order” to reign supreme, it was necessary to have a military force that was equally supreme. Not just stronger than every other military force, but stronger than every other military force combined. Such a military force has never existed in all of human history – not even Alexander’s phalanxes, the Roman legions, or the Mongol Horde, could defeat everybody. Every conquering army, including all of the examples I just listed, eventually reached their limits and could expand no further. No military, no matter how large and powerful, is invincible, and certainly isn’t invincible everywhere. So the NWO did something different. They didn’t create an invincible military, they simply created the illusion that it was invincible. The NWO needed a victory that was so crushing and so one-sided, it would convince the entire world that any resistance against the NWO would end the same way.

Remember that old Hans Christian Anderson story about emperor who walked through the streets naked, and everybody had to pretend he had clothes, out of fear of death? Good thing it’s just a silly story and didn’t become reality, right? Aside from fairy tales, when we imagine totalitarianism, we reflexively invoke alleged examples from other countries and cultures. We rarely even invoke Nazi Germany. We say “This is just like Stalinist Russia!” or “This is just like Maoist China!” In reality, we are in an echo-chamber of our own making, and our perception of other cultures is just a mirror image of our own.