Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:00:15 -0700
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From: Kirby Urner <pdx4d@TELEPORT.COM>
Subject: [Q-P] More pro-USA historical narrative
To: QUAKER-P@yang.earlham.edu
Notice how senators are now having their arms twisted by arms
merchants to double if not triple the defense budget, now that
we've all been dumbed into submission by NATO's show of force
on LAWCAP TV.
Certainly our friend in China (earlier posts) is on target re
military Keynesianism hard at work -- the only way this regime
knows to keep the big wheels turning is through lavish spending
on killingry, which can only be sustained over the long haul if
the inventory gets depleted now and then.
Hence my suggestion to our friend that we change the name to
"military Orwellianism" as this is precisely the model George
Orwell predicted for our world in his famous novel '1984'. As
I posted previously, in my essay on that topic (military
Orwellianism):
The new orders for military equipment and the
non-appearance of any peace dividend post the
Cold War proves that the prime contractor
irrigation system (military Keynesianism) is
still lawyer-capitalism's best answer as to
how to pump the economy using government
spending.
Even though the USA is $5 trillion in debt
(the annual surplus a mere drop in the bucket),
it continues its profligate spending on killingry,
and pushes very hard to get governments and
military gangs (those legitimized by DC) to
purchase large orders of same.
In order to justify such a course, the USA needs
to prove that its arsenal is an instrument of
foreign policy and a vital asset on the world
stage. This means bringing situations to a
boiling point in critical areas where these
weapons can be used.
The idea is to keep the Russians compliant using
loans as leverage, and to keep hatred and suspicion
of the Chinese at a low boil, while meanwhile using
lots of cruise missiles and bombers on TV, making
the case to USA viewers that big military budgets
are the way to go for the foreseeable future.
Because I'm a serious student of USA history, I'm not stupid
about the critical path writings of our Medal of Freedom winner
R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller provides the kind of analytical
tools our global university students need in order to
understand how the fight against fascism in WWII brought us to
this rerun in the form of NATO versus Yugoslavia. Russia and
Serbia were allied with the USA against fascism in that
chapter. What happened to put the USA and Russia on opposite
sides this time?
In the Fuller Syllabus, post-FDR lawyer-capitalism takes over
the management of USA affairs and initiates the Cold War (aka
WWIII) against the Soviets. LAWCAP is that "military
industrial complex" which Eisenhower warned us about, and which
Secretary McNamara and his cronies during the Vietnam Era
typified to the hilt. LAWCAP's dirty war in Indochina is well
documented in Col. Fletcher Prouty's book 'JFK', which mentions
Fuller several times as an important source of analysis (partly
for this reason, Prouty's website also links to mine (note that
Prouty was the real life character upon whom Oliver Stone's
fictive 'Man X' in the movie 'JFK' was based)). It's because
LAWCAP went so deeply against the grain of Founding Father
principles as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and
Constitution that our Medal of Freedom winner pronounced the
USA we have known to be "bankrupt and extinct" in his book
'Grunch of Giants'.[1] Every 6th grader should by now know
this basic fact about the historical literature, part of our
heritage as Americans.
LAWCAP is now puppeting NATO -- but is losing its grip on the
USA in the process. Not everything is going entirely to plan
in this attempt to make Russia play the villain in a new "war
on fascism" -- because many on both sides have long memories
and still know how to look beneath the propaganda machine
pretty effectively, to pinpoint the critical command and
control circuits and the true motivations behind them. A lot
of analysis coming from both the USA and Russia actually
dovetails quite precisely, as Military Orwellianism is no
stranger to either, after this many decades of Cold War MADness
(mutual assured destruction).[2] Russia and the USA both see a
lot of buggy programming in need of an overhaul. The curriculum
is broken. USAers are way too dumbed down for their own good,
thanks to all the boob tube brainwashing which has largely
taken away their freedom to think coherently.
So whereas LAWCAP TV is showing us NATO's hollow victories in
the Balkans, the Fuller School is persisting with an alter-
native version of historical events: NATO is losing this war,
but the USA and Russians are coming out on top, Germany too
(many Anglos mediating). The corporate sector sees the writing
on the wall and knows that a profitable future based primarily
on civilian high tech (military applications entirely
secondary) is very much within reach. Military Orwellianism
runs counter to the USAs most secure pathway into the future by
this time. Investment bankers are not so completely out to
lunch as those DCers manning the White House these days. Many
Swiss know the score.
A lot of Pentagoners are just starting to realize that this is
the emerging private sector wisdom (others have long been in
the loop). This scares them somewhat, as suddenly this is not
the war they were most prepared to fight in war college. That's
because LAWCAP's curriculum is very weak in science (as evidenced
by its so-called Dismal Science of Economics) and contains many
blind spots. War colleges of the future address this deficiency,
and will be grateful in retrospect for the USA's dedication to
upholding high educational standards for its military brass.[3]
I've continued to communicate with our friend from China,
sending him http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/gst2.html by email
at his request (to circumvent the firewall keeping him from
checking my website directly). Many in China are already quite
familiar with the Fuller Syllabus and will find my brand of
General Systems Theory (GST) quite helpful in keeping them up
to date re what's what re survival issues of the day.
Note also that Robert Anton Wilson links to my website's
http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/grunch.html from a number of his
entries in his new book 'Everything is Under Control' (a
dictionary of conspiracies, real and imagined).[4] I've
mentioned this before on Quaker-P. This accounts for a lot of
the emails I get from a younger set which tracks RAW's stuff
rather avidly. They want to know why all the interesting math
I'm teaching via my Oregon Curriculum Network website isn't
percolating through their own high school math classes very
quickly.[5] Why is the osmosis process so slow? As I point
them to other web pages and cyberspace resources, they begin to
get a clue, plus realize LAWCAP hasn't a hope in hell of
winning its fascist-style propaganda war against the American
people at this point. The USA has all the crucial cards in
hand by now and is destined to triumph, big time.
God bless America.
Kirby
[1] http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/grunch.html
[2] http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/bosnia.html
[3] http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/mathcenter.html
[4] Check www.amazon.com for more information (for
Prouty's and Fuller's books too).
[5] http://www.4dsolutions.com/ocn/
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