Well, you membership in the Birch Society says a lot. I do not subscribe to all of the society’s beliefs, theories, but they certainly have valid arguments.
“The information establishment reacted with a full-court press to vilify Bush and eventually to install our current pres_ent. While they succeeded in that effort, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. 0bama is not a statesman, nor a politician, nor even a half-decent manager, and his very success is going to torpedo him and everybody in his camp. Because the resistance I see rising now is several orders of magnitude greater than what I saw in the Seventies or Nineties. And, unlike his predecessors, 0bama is going to run into it head-on, and blindly.”
Wholeheartedly agree.
“A particular difference between now and the Seventies is that many folks are getting information now from radio and the Internet, which are verbal media, well-suited to logical argumentation. Flimsy structures and flaccid logic quickly get called out in this environment; whereas, in the Seventies, it was all TV, which works with flashing images, emotional presentation, and was dominated by Walter Cronkite (need I say more about that?)”
Spot on, and no, you need not say more about Walter.
” When newspapers and radio were dethroned by TV, using its emotional imagery to overthrow logic and common sense, the country took a noticeable turn toward the left. A return to print and straight discourse will almost certainly turn us back the other way; no matter that dead trees are no longer involved (newsprint).”
This is, in part, true. But we can’t start from there. You can take away all the entertainment tech. all you want, but unless our children are classically educated, we’re sunk. There’s a reason why tyrants like Mao, Hitler, and the like focus on our youth, and that’s because they youth are our future.
Conservatives must remove their children from public schools. Return to Biblical foundations and classical education.
“Does this make sense to anybody?”
Absolutely.
Attempts to link the multinational cabal of greedy power inebriates that currently rule us to historical conspiracies such as Adam Weishaupt's order of the Illuminati, well, I can do without that. It's practically irrelevant even if it can be demonstrated. What is important in the present situation is that we don't let ourselves or those in our protection be bamboozled into surrender. For that, we need clarity of thought and frank discourse, from first principles right down to daily life.
I got those things from several sources, the Birch Society being one. More important was a college degree which was heavy in historical, exegetical study of the Bible, including the original languages, which is where I learned how to read something without making it say what I might want it to mean. Training like that hardens one amazingly against the lures of deconstructionism and postmodernism, which look like sick jokes in comparison.
I am in the process of passing my gleanings on to yet another generation. It's the greatest fun in the universe, and it definitely wipes the eye of every tinpot socialist currently strutting his 15 minutes in the spotlight. Let the monkeys have their fun — it will be over very soon.