Lurking beneath the surface of the UFO Phenomenon is a kind of millenialism, a belief that the "world" is going to end soon. Strieber now says that this refers not to a physical but to a mental "ending," though he was not always of this opinion. I also subscribe to a "mental" ending scenario BUT, behind this will come a huge physical change, worldwide, caused by the fact that the piper will eventually have to be paid for the billions of human beings who are now living on the Earth. In spite of what Rush Limbaugh would have us believe, there is no free lunch and what the economists call "cost externalization" cannot go on forever: for a very long time, yes -- but not forever.
Thus the UFO has appeared amid the intellectual and moral swamp of the second-half-of-the-twentieth-century, to a world shocked by the trenches and gas of World War I; the mass bombing, Death Camps and nuclear fire of World War II and finally by the slow, steady decline of civilization and civility nearly everywhere. Our perception of the UFO is colored by these things, as it must be, especially here in the United States, where a polluted and worthless mass media cannot even get local city hall activities right. The appearance of Others is thus mixed and matched with the other "news" and we have to try to deal with it while we are confused, baffled and most of all angry, usually at those we are told to be angry with by that same mass media. One of the results of this is to be seen in this newsgroup where the hot air and bad faith outguns actual content by a ratio of 25 to 1 or so.
This is as it should be, as it is desired to be, by those who in the end rule. That is, they do nothing to truly disturb the inherent tendencies in their citizens to loath and distrust each other. The polyglot empire they are trying to run, made up as it is of immigrants from around the world, is probably inherently un-runnable, but they don't care -- as long as the checks clear. But in our time the checks are getting closer and closer to not clearing as our economy slowly crumbles. Thus you see the spectacle of entire American family-clans leaving the country for the tax advantages. The same thing happened to Rome.
When Ufology appeals to the U.S. government for access to "UFO secrets" it is appealing to functionaries, low-level employees, of the current world-wide empire, run (badly) from the top by a few dozen powerful families. The original Constitution is just a scrap of paper, a useful fiction, as Black agencies spy on the entire world with secret budgets equal to the GNP of Belgium. The Roman Emperor had the Privy Purse, the Black Budget of his time, and with it he could do ANYTHING. So it is today except there is no Emperor since modern public relations do not allow one. No, we have layers and layers of cut-outs today, but the job gets done just the same.
So, how does the Big Money crowd rule? Well, in part they rule through the so-called political parties, which they fund. Let us take a look at one of these parties and how it works, and then follow that up with a look at what all of it means.
The Republican Party in the 1990s is an amazingly constructed tool of elite design that commands the fanatical loyalty of millions of Americans who should be its hated enemies. At the top of the stack are the members of Lundberg's Super Rich, part of the international, intermarried, plutocratic group trying to cement a hold on the economies of the whole world through things like the U.N., GATT and NAFTA. Next on the list are the big corporate lawyers and executives, second-level inheritors (like Dan Quayle and George Bush) and the truly high-powered government officials and academics that make up the line management of the United States. Below them come mid-level inheritors and businessmen and the up-and-coming statewide elites and other public officials. Below them come a few hundred thousand small businessmen and salaried employees of both large corporations and government. Then, at the bottom, come millions of hourly workers (victims of the policies of the leaders of their own party) who vote Republican because the Democrats are the party of Godless liberals, nigger bitches, baby-killing abortion doctors, lesbian feminists and AIDS-riddled homosexuals. That should put things into their proper, Limbaugh-like, perspective.
When I was a kid, my home town of Carrollton was a little city with a local elite who were solidly Republican and convinced that they were on their way to becoming little Rockefellers and Carnegies through the newspapers, banks and other businesses they were then running. Today the businesses are all closed, the banks are owned by out-of-staters and the local WalMart has wiped out our local inheritors. What happened? Well, as Lundberg shows so well in The Rich And The Super Rich, the real battle in the United States has always been Big Money against Some Money against Small Money, a conflict Small Money may win for a while but in the end must certainly lose.
Everything we see in government and the mass media has a referent to this world, a world of dog-eat-dog conflict and vicious infighting, vicious because the participants know the real stakes--the continuation, for the next several generations, of their families above the degradation that most Americans have to live with every day. Most rank and file Americanos in the end care little or nothing for their progeny and do not provide for them, sending them out into the world on their own, with nothing, yet with the expectation that they will somehow "get along." This is madness, yet it is the mental state of more than 90% of our people. And it is no accident, for if the worthless products produced by Big Money are to be bought, the buyers must have nearly zero concern for the future. Cui Bono?
In a nutshell, since World War II the old-line Taft Republicans (Small and medium-town "Main Street" people and the farmers) have been wiped out. Their place has been taken by a sludge of semi- educated, new-urban, salaried and hourly workers (Dittoheads) frightened by what has happened to the country but not knowing one damn thing about how it got that way. They are herded down the chutes of oblivion by half-wit television preachers (themselves making millions off their insipid flocks), radio flacks (ditto) and glad-handing, traitorous politicans who make noise about doing what "America" wants while their palms are out to the Big Money crowd. Since our politics are so debased that only about 35% turn out for non-Presidential elections this sludge is sufficient to vote in anyone if conditions are right.
And conditions can be made right at any time. Our American sludge is continuously whipped to a frenzy by the Mass Media, this institution owned or controlled by Big Money and now the active tool of a psychological warfare campaign aimed straight at the mystified members of the "New Majority." Helpless they are in its demonizing grip and they now believe, in their millions, that the problems of the country are all caused by nigger mothers and diseased queers, the niggers degraded by their inferior genes and the queers condemned by deviant desires beyond the imaginations of God-fearing, kitchen-drinking, child-molesting Fundamentalist Americanos, sexually obsessed (with young children and big tits) though they may be. Topping it all off is the presence of 300 million guns, most of them owned by this sludge, which every year becomes more inclined to open fire--on nearly anyone, the victim being a family member or fellow employee much more often than it is someone who really deserves to die, like a baby-killing doctor or a pinko-fag-liberal.
This is a harsh indictment and many will disagree. But does it not fit the tenor of the times, a time when half-smart farmers from the Midwest blow up whole buildings with fertilizer, just like any banana republic? This writer grew up in the Midwest and an organization called the Minutemen was headquartered just a few miles down the road. I played baseball with the sons of Robert DePugh, a name some may remember, the leader of the Minutemen who was framed by the FBI in 1968 and sent to Federal Prison. These modern "militias" are not new, they are merely the continuation of what was going on the 1950s among mass-media-educated, rural, white Americans threatened and confused by the New World Order, a term coined a long time ago: Novus Ordo Seclorum.
Is it possible for a public and a society in such a state to make a correct response to the advent of "Visitors?" No. The level of distrust and bad faith prevalent in the USA today is high, very high, and the immediate reaction of Americans today is to strike out viciously at what is feared, what is not known, what is different. A certain amount of this is always present but in our time this reaction has been raised to public policy status. In this sense our elites have degraded us to levels rarely seen in history, atomized and isolated us, made many of us less than human. Millions of Americans are cut off from their families, from their history, from any history, and thus are barbarians as wild and dangerous as those who swept down on Europe from the steppes over a thousand years ago. The current fashion in the United States is to put the minority male in this particular box but, let me tell you, as one born and raised in rural Missouri, they ain't got nothing on some of the guys I know. It's just who gets the ink and for a while we got some of our own back.
Until this deeply seated inhumanity, inculcated in many of us by a culture and society geared in the end ONLY to making money for the very few, is faced for what it is, we are going nowhere, not just in the UFO arena but in the larger arena of civilization itself. And that will lead us to Part 5 in this series.