Of current events
I am a patriot. I love America. It is a great and wonderful country that I would gladly stand and fight for. The ideals that the forefathers put forward were an efficient and beautiful series of baselines designed only for the good of its citizens. I therefore don't mean to imply that I would undermine it or its leaders in any way. Not that any of the following would be true, but were someone intending it to be, it would be possible.
Though I cannot help but observe that, were I intending to undermine an advanced capitalist nation in order to proceed to a communist order, I would be exceptionally proud of myself for coming up with a plan consisting of the series of events that follow. The mishmash of events that have occurred in the past fifteen years can be wrapped up, if one wishes to have the final goal in mind, into four stages.
Firstly, excepting small skirmishes, the United States had a ten year period of quite since the first Gulf War. In this time, people have had a long opportunity to settle down and be lulled into a sense of peace and security. Between the absolute military supremacy over any other force in the world and the vast seas in the middle, seeing the US as an untouchable entity is a very easy thing to do.
Secondly, some of the absolute worst things that any single person could imagine happening to our homeland become reality. The targets, being of such a high profile, not only affect the local population, but affects millions upon millions, across the entire country, within and without its borders. Each person, in some way shape or form, is affected on a local and personal level. This act shakes the confidence that was had with the security of their nation, reducing each individual to a state of feeling small, insignificant and helpless in regards to the threat.
Thirdly, the executors of this heinous crime are claimed to be of a terrorist organization which happens to already absolutely hate America. This organization would not deny responsibility because A: it is the excuse that they are looking for to fight; B: it is to their advantage that they would be able to claim "bragging rights" of such a sophisticated and coordinated attack on a foreign and common enemy; C: were they to deny affiliation with the attack, who would believe them? They are terrorists after all...
Fourthly, the government maintains and escalates the public's feeling of being targeted and of helplessness by means of continued thwarting of "plots" and arrests of terrorists and continual military contact with the "enemy", thereby making the public realize how much they "need" the government and how much they are helpless without it and how overwhelming the whole problem is. Thus, as dependence grows, liberties vanish in the continued struggle to keep its public "safe" from the impending threat.
Not that I am claiming that any of this is happening. Surely this situation can come about from good intentions, but it is also very capable of coming out of bad intentions. No absolute reform takes place over night. With the robust and redundant systems of the US government, it would take many many years to reform without violence, but unfortunately it is the trend with this system to continue in that direction. It has happened many many times in the past, so what makes it impossible to happen now? People in general are no smarter than they were five hundred years ago. Molecules and the contents of tree bark do not dictate who rules a country. Thus, I don't propose for people to be skeptical or suspicious, but rather to be watchful and conscious of the world.
Though I cannot help but observe that, were I intending to undermine an advanced capitalist nation in order to proceed to a communist order, I would be exceptionally proud of myself for coming up with a plan consisting of the series of events that follow. The mishmash of events that have occurred in the past fifteen years can be wrapped up, if one wishes to have the final goal in mind, into four stages.
Firstly, excepting small skirmishes, the United States had a ten year period of quite since the first Gulf War. In this time, people have had a long opportunity to settle down and be lulled into a sense of peace and security. Between the absolute military supremacy over any other force in the world and the vast seas in the middle, seeing the US as an untouchable entity is a very easy thing to do.
Secondly, some of the absolute worst things that any single person could imagine happening to our homeland become reality. The targets, being of such a high profile, not only affect the local population, but affects millions upon millions, across the entire country, within and without its borders. Each person, in some way shape or form, is affected on a local and personal level. This act shakes the confidence that was had with the security of their nation, reducing each individual to a state of feeling small, insignificant and helpless in regards to the threat.
Thirdly, the executors of this heinous crime are claimed to be of a terrorist organization which happens to already absolutely hate America. This organization would not deny responsibility because A: it is the excuse that they are looking for to fight; B: it is to their advantage that they would be able to claim "bragging rights" of such a sophisticated and coordinated attack on a foreign and common enemy; C: were they to deny affiliation with the attack, who would believe them? They are terrorists after all...
Fourthly, the government maintains and escalates the public's feeling of being targeted and of helplessness by means of continued thwarting of "plots" and arrests of terrorists and continual military contact with the "enemy", thereby making the public realize how much they "need" the government and how much they are helpless without it and how overwhelming the whole problem is. Thus, as dependence grows, liberties vanish in the continued struggle to keep its public "safe" from the impending threat.
Not that I am claiming that any of this is happening. Surely this situation can come about from good intentions, but it is also very capable of coming out of bad intentions. No absolute reform takes place over night. With the robust and redundant systems of the US government, it would take many many years to reform without violence, but unfortunately it is the trend with this system to continue in that direction. It has happened many many times in the past, so what makes it impossible to happen now? People in general are no smarter than they were five hundred years ago. Molecules and the contents of tree bark do not dictate who rules a country. Thus, I don't propose for people to be skeptical or suspicious, but rather to be watchful and conscious of the world.
posted by Cyphoid at 6:59 AM
2 Comments:
Bravo.
"Molecules and the contents of tree bark do not dictate who rules a country." haha, well put!
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