betty remarked: Then Our Hero returns with Caesar’s laurels to his fawning Left Progressive audience here, including whoever else The Big 0 has conned into thinking he is a “great man” [or at least a politically useful one].
Spirited: The circle must be made complete before we can clearly see it as a circle and not merely an arc. That said, consider the following quote from “In the Shadow of Leviathan....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377776/posts
“The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia,” notes Mishin, “and a bloody test it was.”
Who financed the bloody test? “Wall Street,” says Mishin.
In his book “The Naked Capitalist,” W. Cleon Skousen exposes the unholy alliance of bankers and capitalists collectively defined as “Wall Street” by Mishin. Skousen verifies his findings through the writings of Dr. Carroll Quigley, both a professor of history at the Foreign Service School at Georgetown University and mentor to Bill Clinton. In his opus, “Tragedy and Hope,” Quigley deliberately reveals one of the world’s best-kept secrets: the existence of a gigantic leviathan of political and economic power poised to seize control of the planet.
The gargantuan power complex says Quigley, has been - right from the start - controlling Marxist-Communist-Socialist groups,
“...the power that...Left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power but...the power of the international financial coterie.” (p. 954, Tragedy and Hope)
Why did Quigley expose the existence of the global financial coterie? Because he says, it is now too late for the little people to turn the tide. He urges them to not fight the noose that is already around their necks, for they will only hang themselves.
“On the other hand, those who go along with the immense pressure which is beginning to be felt by all humanity will eventually find themselves in a man-made millennium of peace and prosperity.” (Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, pp. 4-6) See the funders here: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDes c.asp?type=funder
Today, there is at least one well-respected ‘right-wing’ website that refuses to publish “In the Shadow....” Why? Because of the “Wall Street” connection. Supposedly, Wall Street is on the side of traditional values America. And while there yet remain many business leaders who are loyal to traditional values America, a check of Horowitz’s website, DiscovertheNetwork/Funders will reveal the extent to which powerful Wall Street insiders support a globalist NWO, which means that very large numbers of Americans unknowingly work for and spend their hard-earned dollars in businesses that are betraying all of us.
For example: Do you buy Playboy? Use porn? Then you are unwittingly financing the destruction of traditional values America. Is your favorite soft-drink Coca Cola? Coke, along with 100 other Wall Street insiders is spearheading a drive to impose a global tax on Americans. Again, check out Horowitz’s website.
Our Republic’s founders warned that only a well-informed, virtuous people—people characterized by impulse control-— can be a free people.
Truth is often bitter, and the bitter truth is that moral corruption and ignorance rather than virtue and true knowledge characterizes the majority of Americans today. And as corrupt people are characterized by lack of impulse control,-—their eyes are bigger than their stomachs, wallets, etc-—they naturally elect leaders who likewise lack impulse control in order to ‘get what they want.’ Consider for example, the voters who keep Barney Franks in office.
And now the connection between corrupt leaders-—including corrupt educationists-— and corrupt bankers-Wall Street insiders comes into focus, for it’s insider Wall Street corporatists and bankers who market the addictive vices, ie. porn, sex, McMansions for ‘everyone,’ etc. Meanwhile, corrupt media floods the airwaves with seductive vice and propaganda, corrupt educationists dumb Americans down, and corrupt politicians, jurists, etc. obligingly redefine vice as ‘new rights,’——modernity’s version of yesterday’s ‘bread and circuses.’ Voila! A manipulable ‘barbarian constituency motivated by destructive impulses’-—a weapon of both destruction and control-— has been created by globalists who wield it against traditional values forces and America itself.
Wall Street letting Playboy fall into bankruptcy must be a clever ruse.
So very true, spirited irish! The Republic's Founders were very well aware of the "downside" of human nature. As you note, only "impulse control" can keep a person and a society in good order. I do believe the Framers would have agreed with you about this.
The problem is, without a moral center, there is no source for "impulse control." What society has evidently lost, in the post-modern period, is any idea of a moral center. Previously, the moral center was derived from the laws of God, or Natural Law (if one is not a theist). Our materialist, empiricist culture has failed to produce any rationale for a new moral center that can serve a good and just society. With God "gone," and Natural Law disparaged, no substitute has yet been found; and I strongly doubt one is being sought.
What we are left with is what I'd call the Naked Individual. He stands alone, with no helps beyond his own (puny!) powers. Thus we proceed to the laws of the jungle, a sort of "every man for himself" mentality. The implication being: What is good for me personally is "moral."
But you cannot build a peaceful, prosperous, just and good society on a "moral code" or "moral foundation" like that. IMHO FWIW.
Go figure.
Thank you so very much for your excellent, perceptive essay/post, dear spirited irish!