Tuesday, November 21, 2006

[congress] conscription is back on the discussion board

There’s a current congressional discussion of the reintroduction of conscription. It matters not that the Democrats have decided not to at this point – all that matters is that the issue has been re-introduced into people’s minds for them to mull over for a while. And the men and women of the state who introduce these things – they meet barriers from the populace and drop it, only to reintroduce it later in another form. They must do so because there’s a very patient agenda that is being worked towards.

This blog has
recently expended energy on what some would see as spurious activity – pinning the root cause of the current troubles to the 4th player, which those who know know and those who don’t reject. The High Finance, in other words. And the Finance is linked to the global strategy of the UN and is funding all the strife, as it always has, as well as fomenting more. It’s good business.

It is not a club, any more than the blogosphere is a club. After all, business is business and knows no true friends. It’s just that once you rise to a certain position, you slip quite easily into a new, more comfortable lifestyle, a certain ‘clubbable’ atmosphere and a growing feeling of exclusivity. You have a financial buffer now and people begin to defer to you. You sit in first class lounges. All very flattering. And like minded people surround you.

Certain people from above deign to address you and even suggest you can be included and you’re even more flattered. I’ve seen that in the last few days where certain bloggers, full of invective against the establishment, allow themselves to be drawn into that establishment when it smiles upon them.

That’s how it starts. Oh yes, and it’s very difficult to extract yourself and when you do, there’s a certain tolerance from them at first, then annoyance, then they just abandon you. It’s like your father rejecting you. Rather than that, some get deeper and deeper into this exclusivity thing.

Even in the tone of this post you can sense my own overweening attitude which, of course, is essentially unfounded. Exclusivity and influence are the two tenets of this non-club and they’re enormously seductive. Even now I don’t know how to deal with this thing.

There are things which go with it in the macro sphere which don’t immediately meet the eye: militarized atmosphere in society, colour coding, redrawing of artificial geographical boundaries, hierarchical structures and managerialism, restriction of movement and database tracking of people, destruction of trees for goodness sake [don’t know why – it’s the Joni Mitchell syndrome], the locking in of all people from a young age into a debt economy – the bank as mother pig and we the little piglets, globalized agenda and so on.

Bloggers will blog, millions of words will be uttered, congress will gradually be won over, as will parliament and gradually it will be forced through, along with ID cards and summary detention. I would say it’s relatively easy to track the agenda of the last 16 years. There’s plenty on record. And it’s equally easy to track the next 16.

2 comments:

  1. Well no chance of conscription here in Blighty. I doubt in the US too in all seriousness.

    High finance would not be the driver either; just the usual right wing hardcore who want to make kids behave like them and rednecks who think cordite air is good for everyone.

    One thing I would like about conscription is that it would make everyone wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to international relations; instead of leaving to the elite you eloquently sum up in your piece.

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  2. I take your point but I was conscripted and wasn't too happy about it. Bad memories of those days. The strange thing was I also joined up later. It was the compulsion I think I detested. I know the regualrs don't like the conscriptees.

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