The
United States is now firmly entering the eighth stage of all
civilizations ~ Dependence with only Bondage ahead of it. Apathy has allowed
our constitution to be shredded in stage seven which led to our current state
of Dependence on the state ~ but soon an IRS monitored Obamacare program of
'Shared responsibility, or else' will usher in the Orwellian ninth stage of
militarized Bondage: Allen L Roland
Last year I wrote
that the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred
years and that these nations have progressed through a nine stage sequence: From
bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage
to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from
selfishness to complacency; from complacence to apathy; from apathy to
dependence; from dependency back again into bondage. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/03/19/the-nine-stages-of-civilization-were-in-the-seventh-apathy/
As Ramsey Clark,
former U.S. Attorney General, once correctly said
~ ”We’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a
slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a
plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.”
In our present
Plutocracy, we made the transition last year from complacency to national
apathy ~ but with the passage and implementation of Obamacare, along with an
increasingly militarized surveillance state, we have now entered stage eight,
Dependence on the state ~ which will soon be followed with
militarized Bondage by the state.
John
Adams once correctly defined the perils of dependence ~ " The
nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every
day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster
every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more
revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers
more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their
dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity
and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury,
foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of
society. "
Obamacare or 'shared-responsibility or else' is the most
visible evidence of the plutocracy's leveraged buyout of Democracy as we
officially enter stage eight of our rapidly crumbling civilization or empire ~
and no one nails this truth better than Bill Moyers. 5 Minute video ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hZ5tj4cN9Jk
Obamacare is a blatant but sad joke played
on an apathetic American public who are already becoming conditioned for
dependence by the plutocracy. Here's the hypocrisy of Obamacare in a single
sentence. 2 minute video ~ http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/health-and-medical-1/the-new-us-health-care-program.html
Part and parcel of this shift to Dependence is a growing
surveillance and police state ~ as clearly evidenced in the recent lockdown
of Boston. Henry Giroux noted this some point in his provocative recent
article in AlterNet ~ Did the Authorities' lockdown of Boston Give us a
Taste of The Police State Culture to Come?
Excerpt: "Militarism
thrives on the mass produced culture of fear and the spectacle of violence. It abhors dissent and flourishes in an ever expanding web
of secrecy. Both Bush and Obama have used the cult of secrecy and the threat
of punishment to silence whistleblowers, allow those who have committed torture
under the government direction to go free, and refused those who have been
“interrogated” illegally to take their case to the courts."
Giroux correctly concludes that
the American public at large is so immersed in fear and cruelty that they
are more than willing to surrender their rights at the first whiff of danger ~ and
that, I would add, is the most important step in the process of
moving from Dependence to a militarized state of
Bondage ~ the exploitation of fear
and danger for the benefit of the state or plutocracy.
Are
you aware that thousands of US police
including the FBI director and NYC Chief of Police have been getting "law enforcement training" from Israel?
What
are they learning from the very same thugs
who brutalize Palestinians daily? Very simply, that "All civilians
are probable criminals and should be treated that way."
Here
is an 8 minute RT Video interview with Max Blumenthal in 2011 on the intentional
militarization of the police force ~ which has now become painfully obvious
in the recent Boston Bombings.
Huxley correctly predicted in Brave New World that
the truth would eventually be drowned in a sea of irrelevance ~ which is
precisely the case now as we transition from Apathy to Dependence.
Truth talker Chris Hedges describes the symptoms of the
rapidly approaching last stage of
Bondage ~ for
it will indeed be marked by The Death of Truth "The
world has been turned upside down. The pestilence of corporate
totalitarianism is spreading rapidly over the earth. The criminals have seized
power. It is not, in the end, simply Assange or Manning they want. It is
all who dare to defy the official narrative, to expose the big lie of the
global corporate state. The persecution of Assange and Manning is the
harbinger of what is to come, the rise of a bitter world where criminals in
Brooks Brothers suits and gangsters in beribboned military uniforms ~ propped
up by a vast internal and external security apparatus, a compliant press and a
morally bankrupt political elite ~ monitor and crush those who dissent. Writers,
artists, actors, journalists, scientists, intellectuals and workers will be
forced to obey or thrown into bondage. I fear for Julian Assange. I fear for
Bradley Manning. I fear for us all"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34844.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34844.htm
As
a civilization or empire collapses from within ~ all citizens eventually are
seen as potential terrorists and the local police role changes from protecting
the public to protecting the plutocracy.
Seen
through clearer eyes
~ as Pepe Escobar explains ~ the recent Boston bombings police reaction was a
prelude to Martial Law ~
" What the
day-long delay in Dzhokhar's arrest indeed made possible was to turn Watertown
into a monster dry run for urban martial law - euphemized as ''lockdown'' - in a very near future. As
total militarization of civilian life goes - featuring, for instance, Homeland
Security running amok with hundreds of armored vehicles - this was a major
success. Meanwhile, on the ''legal'' front, the White House and the Justice
Department are firmly on track to finally suppress the Miranda warning; that
went into effect already two years ago, when an Obama secret executive order
ruled the Miranda warning would not apply to suspected terrorists." See article ~ http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-230413.html
The day is fast approaching when speaking the truth will be seen
as an act of terrorism, and we will finally realize that
we have become totally dependent on the state,
that our cherished individual freedoms were
trashed in that process and that it was
all done in the
glorious name of national security.
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and
will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and
otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men" : Voltaire.
Allen
L Roland
Allen
L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and
lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a
monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
