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How Long Will Humans Tolerate Idiotocracies? American
politicians have been bemoaning the costs of the poorly reasoned aggression
against Iraq for the past several months. Knowing that reconstruction
of the country will cost much more than the $87 billion president
Bush has asked for, the once haughty US is now asking other developed
nations to share in the "burden" of bringing westernization to the
Middle East. Absorbed in this game of humble comeuppance, many humans
may miss the greater objectives behind these global events.
It is clear to many around the world that the United States is the apparent "bad guy" in the Middle East. Our unilateral policies have alienated former allies and displayed a greed for oil that easily drowned out our rhetoric about democracy and world security. The events of September 11th, 2001 can no longer be expected to generate sympathy or empathy from the world. We have used up much of our emotional collateral and good graces. The extent of ill-feeling towards the US government that is growing in the world must not be overlooked. Before the Iraq invasion, a Time magazine poll in Europe showed more people viewed George Bush as a threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein. Books that allege the US masterminded both the 9/11 attacks and the oil and drug motivated manipulations in the Middle East are best sellers over there, too. It would not be unreasonable to suggest that many, not just Arabs, would now cheer if the US were to suffer yet another catastrophe at the hands of unnamed terrorists. For the majority of humans who have not yet unlearned, this is exactly the attitude that the power elite wants to foster around the globe. It is a worldwide manipulation that focuses problems on national identities, and not the true powers that run them from behind the scenes. The same powers that built up the United States over its history will soon be ready to destroy it, once the nation has outlived its usefulness. Many can already hear the ticking time bomb of an unprecedented economic collapse. Once that happens, how long until anarchy and chaos reign as other countries attempt to fill the power vacuum created by our demise? Unless humans everywhere wake up to the game en masse, the coming chaos will be used as a call for greater centralization of power on a global scale. The beneficiaries of such a system would be the same ones responsible for causing the collapse in the first place. With a stronger governing system in place, the theft and abuse of the poor will accelerate to unprecedented proportions. The sad reality is that many will sheepishly agree to these most inhumane manipulations. With the fall of the US Empire, many may briefly feel "safer" that a major threat to world peace has been properly handled. However, it will only be a matter of time before humans realize that they have been duped again. As long as we continue to govern ourselves by the same power principles of debt-based currency and cultural superiority, the many on this planet will continue to exist for the benefit of the few. One conflict after another will be engineered because the root cause for human unhappiness will not have been addressed. Unlearners must continue to strive for the day when democracies are not always considered to be good simply because they are democracies. A more enlightened approach would require that results be delivered, not merely promised, before a system is deemed "good". This would save the world a lot of heartache. As the famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said, "Under Communism, man oppresses man. Under Capitalism, it is just the opposite." Until such a day, all governments, no matter what their political leanings, are merely idiotocracies. As the wealthy nations pretend to shoulder the burden of "corporatizing" the globe, it is the people who truly shoulder the burden of misguided perceptions that allow these crimes to occur unchallenged in the first place. The universal laws of Allowance and Like Attracts Like guarantee that things will not change on this planet unless we exorcise the idiot within. Whose Life are You Living? |
