MANUEL VALENZUELA: America’s Tomorrow

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by Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust

Burden on Those Yet to Come

Throughout human history certain patterns continue repeating themselves over and over again, becoming, if careful attention is paid to study them, a direct harbinger to what tomorrow’s cultures and societies will be like. The inevitability of what a future generation’s destiny will become is oftentimes discernable from the accumulated sins of the fathers that came before as well as those of the grandfathers that no longer exist, over years accruing and building upon each other until the future becomes the unstoppable rollercoaster birthed from the damage that was done in the past.

Tomorrow’s fate follows the path of the slow-to-evolve human condition and of our raw animalistic emotions and psychologies that have for millennia remained unchanged, following the same direction and trends, the same inability to change, though multiplied by advanced technologies, societal complexity, environmental stresses and increases in populations. It can be read buried inside the forgotten writings of historians and in the investigations of anthropologists, for the patterns endemic to our existence are bountiful, traversing oceans and continents, sparing no corner of human habitation, prevalent to all peoples and all times.

What we will become can be analyzed by studying the research of evolutionary psychologists and that of modern day zoologists. The patterns of our descendants can be deciphered examining the perpetual hierarchy of castes and the habitual social engineering of entire groups demonizing humankind for tens of thousands of years. It can be foretold by the never ending rule of peasants by the Establishment, the exploitation of the masses by the elite and by the willing, seemingly masochistic subservience of the many to the will of the few, as if authoritarian systems of governance are inbred into the human condition, making us mammals thriving on the suffering and heartache ingrained with being governed by tyrants and despots.

Human history, both biological and of civilization -- with its massive amounts of evidence left behind, accumulated and now known -- does not lie; telling us the human condition has been a constant throughout time, following the psychologies, behaviors, emotions, culture, needs, wants and instincts that have walked with us since the genesis of humankind. Through the study of the past and of ourselves, therefore, our future can be deciphered and better understood. For what is the future but days yet to come built atop the accumulated ruins of the past, its lessons and errors and triumphs forgotten? What is the future but the heavy burden left behind by past generations whose complicity or failure to act passes on to those young or not yet born? What is the future but the accumulated knowledge of past civilizations imprisoned and silenced by our inability to know who and what we truly are, our denial and ego becoming the demons condemning us to perpetual years of unnecessary turmoil?

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[Clara T]

1. From that excellent article

Facilitator of America’s Tomorrow

  "If America’s today is any indication of how America’s tomorrow will develop, the past and present must be scrutinized, and understood, for in exploring the sins and errors and tribulations and events of days preceding our own time we can peer directly into, as far as we can go, into America’s tomorrow, trying to understand the course our nation is headed toward.  The patterns of history are omnipotent, never invisible or clandestine, waiting eagerly on the periphery for us to wake up and hear the trumpets signaling and warning us to the troubles waiting America’s tomorrow.

  America’s tomorrow will arrive like a thunderbolt created during an ominous storm of fear and psychological fragility, striking without warning, its concussion reverberating throughout the land. An attack by the enemy will be declared, its images aired repetitiously by the corporatist media, unleashing wave after wave of human emotion and tragedy for all of us to absorb.  The attack will be horrific, a new Pearl Harbor reincarnated, devastating lives and infrastructure, its severity magnified a million-fold by the instruments of propaganda, the tools of power releasing a hypnotizing cocktail of fear, hatred and xenophobia amongst the citizenry.

  Tens of millions of people will instantly become, once again, the marching army of drones and automatons for those in power, engendering legions of  “good Americans,” their minds under the spell of human wickedness, ready to sacrifice their blood, children, treasure and freedom in the name of security, acting on animal instinct, looking at government for protection, willingly enslaving themselves to the dictates of criminals and murderers.  Calls for vengeance abroad and greater security in the fatherland will emanate from our monitors, becoming the calls to prayer listened to by the faithful.

  Under the pretext of securing the homeland from the terrorists wanting to destroy us for our cherished freedoms and democracy, the police state will be ushered in during the quiet hours of citizen fear and shock, blindly approved by the people themselves, preferring the modes of totalitarianism to being woken from their gluttony-filled, comfort-laden, fiction-living bubble.  In the darkness of America’s chaotic nights the spot lights of draconian measures will be introduced, and the America of yesteryear’s dreams will abruptly vanish into the reality of America’s tomorrow."

http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/print.php?storyid=1952&PHPSESSID=ee6891229fa43aa9aa3ed728d7a6dcbb

[ZapaPaine]

2. If ever there was a must read, this is it

If you can, take the time and read this thorough analysis of where we are. Pure vision and great writing. I highly recommend this article.

[Tace]

3. I Agree -- This Is A Good Read

I'll cross post to General Discussion. Cheers

[applegrove]

4. Thanks for the post. I look forward to reading it! n/t

[teryang]

5. Nothing does in a political order like a sound military defeat

And that is what the current group is looking at. Defeat abroad will engender political change at home. This is not to say that things won't get worse before they get better. They probably will get a lot worse. The military defeat will be presaged or accompanied by economic crisis. This defeat may be beyond the horizon of just an Iraqi conflict but the Iraq occupation is a milestone on this path.

While I agree with the general thrust of this author's opinion, his use of the future tense is somewhat overdone. We are already governed by a fascist/corporatist order with all the trappings.

Also, his general theorectical foundation, such as the relative immutability of the human condition is defective. We are incredibly adaptive. Cynicism regarding human nature is the fundamental underpining of the fascist worldview. The role of "zoology" is dubious. This is not to deny that there are certain cycles in human affairs and that study of the past does indeed reveal certain relationships. There is an obvious reluctance by Americans to admit that we already have fascist rule.

Obscurantism seeks to reduce human psychology to its lowest common denominator by the spreading of lies and the denial of information. As the advocates of total power seek to impose their will by manipulating the masses, they still must to a certain extent appease them. Hence, the stock market bubble followed by the housing bubble, these are the bones thrown to the masses. Mortages are in essence a feudal bond.

What is the next device? Colonialism and belligerence revived to appease a society devoid of social mobility. As the masses descend into poverty and enslavement, the outside threat is raised to lower the standard of success to mere survival and avoidance of coercion. The young and ambitious might think that perhaps the fortunes of war will enhance their future with declining prospects at home. The war creates a warrior caste that can be relied upon as a means of coercion. Those among non-uniformed services and private military contractors perhaps more politically reliable than uniformed personnel.

There is a theory that revolution only occurs when expectations are raised rather than lowered. This is the danger of propaganda about the American way of life, and the world's only superpower, and the greatest or wealthiest nation on earth. The latter propaganda may provide the foundation for their undoing, even unconnected as it is with constitutional principles, because it involves creating material expectations that aren't being met but to the contrary are being confounded.

In their greed, as the elites export Americas capital and jobs and finance virtually all efforts with unrestrained debt, they leave the polity behind, literally in a shambles, unable to adapt to a changing world. They are radically accelerating our society's decline and frustrating expectations that they themselves have raised. A police state immune from outside influence exerted by rivals might be able to frustrate dissent. But we are not immune from outside influence. There are other centers of power on the planet. The asian mainland powers are coalescing against us. The fascist party assumes without evidence that the balance of power is on their side. If they were confident of this, they would not have embarked on their path. It is the insecurity in their future which drives them, like Hitler, to further extremes.

When the distribution of resources can no longer be maintained due to corruption, inequity and injustice, the failure of warfare will no longer justify the imposition of tyranny by a criminal regime. The warfare itself is a distributive process where a non competetive aristocracy of failing, corrupt, corporate elites resort to outright seizure of resources. The seed of their doom is sown in the prosecution of politically expedient and morally unjustified warfare. Whereas, a military leader wishes to conserve resources, a fascist leader wastes them in heedless adventures.

As the former Nuremberg prosecutor, Benjamin Ferencz, has stated concerning the Iraqi experience, we are ruled by war criminals and fascists. He ought to know.