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 Invasion of the Mind
Snatchers
Nelson Hultberg
nelshultberg@aol.com
Jun 23, 2003
More and more Americans today are coming to understand the terrible
truth about our Federal Government -- that it seeks to dominate
us as citizens, to mold us into a society of dutiful Stepford
Wives totally beholden to the wishes of elite politicians, bureaucrats
and bankers. Those who study history, independent of the public
school system, understand that this state aggrandizement process
has been under way for the past 100 years in America in one form
or another. And that it is taking place because too many of our
citizens sanction such dictatorial usurpation and actually work
diligently for its implementation.
This process
has resulted in the lion's share of our earnings being annually
confiscated by these governmental elites and then redistributed
to despicable projects of waste and war to further their dream
of world collectivism. It has led to the shocking debasement
of our currency and an endless escalation in the cost of staying
alive. It has brought about the degeneration of our economy from
a robust engine of industry and personal self-reliance to an
effete conglomeration of bloated consumers subsisting on financial
gimickery and debt addiction. As a result, America, once a proud
land of muscular factories and productive people, has become
a stuporous society of shopping malls and welfare crybabies.
Once scintillating lives of freedom are now humdrum tenures of
conformity to the insufferable Nanny State.
Why this process
is taking place is one of the most disheartening questions of
our time. What follows is an an attempt to show why and how it
is unfolding. There are other reasons as to "why and how"
than the one given here, for no country's evolution into despotism
is due to a singular, clear cut cause. Tyranny's evolution is
always a highly complex process with many convoluted and puzzling
forces all coalescing to bring about freedom's demise. This essay,
however, is a look into one of the most important of those forces.
A very popular
and frightening science-fiction movie in 1956, called Invasion
of the Body Snatchers, is an apt metaphor for what is taking
place in our country. In the movie starring Dana Wynter and Kevin
McCarthy, a network of aliens are slowly and secretly taking
over the bodies of the citizens of a small town by use of mysterious
cadaver-like "pods" that are left in their backyards
and basements. Once transformed into an alien, each citizen then
tries to recruit the rest of his family and friends. It's absolutely
chilling in its impact -- one of the great science-fiction movies
ever.
Today's collectivists,
working so assiduously to transform America, are like the aliens
in that movie. They permeate our entire society and are after
not our bodies, but the enslavement of our minds and souls. Ideological
fallacies and moral inversions are the mysterious pods that these
aliens leave in the cerebral backyards of our lives. They are
aliens because they wish to destroy our system of natural liberty
and limited government. And even though most of them believe
what they are doing is right, they are far from innocent, for
they have chosen to blank out on the horrendous ramifications
of what they are doing.
Teaching a False Ideal
It begins in
the school system. All modern authoritarian political movements
of history require recruitment of an intellectual vanguard to
proselytize the masses into accepting the authoritarian rule.
This vanguard is recruited from the "ablest and brightest"
of the nation involved. History shows how leading intellects
of Europe used this strategy starting in the 1880's and 1890's
to move Germany, Russia, and Italy into authoritarian political
systems by the 1917-1930 period. What history also shows (if
one wants to view it objectively) is that the same thing has
been going on in America for many decades, only on a much more
subtle level. The problem is that our media and our scholars
quickly lose their objectivity when analyzing their own political
system and the propagandistic methods used to promote it. Thus,
history's lesson is ignored for modern day consumption in order
to further the recruitment of the American intelligentsia into
promotion of the ideology of collectivism.
Instead of
being forums for the transmission of the values of civilization
to the young, our colleges and universities have now become the
breeding ground for this statist recruitment process, in which
the better students get swept up in the "false ideal"
of collectivism. These better students then proceed out into
the world to positions of intellectual, political and economic
leadership, to proselytize the masses into this alleged ideal
just as church missionaries used to go out into the world to
spread the gospel. The difference being that the missionaries
were spreading good, while today's collectivists are pushing
fallacies.
Such a vision
very subtly conveys the notion that mankind is capable of achieving
an egalitarian world where there will be no poverty, no disparity
of wealth, no prejudice, no ignorance, no wars -- in short a
heaven on earth. The requisites for bringing about such a world
are to erradicate the "nefarious workings" of the free-market
through centralization of government power in Washington, and
then eventually move to some form of world governing body. This
is necessary because it is allegedly capitalism and man's drive
for profits which are responsible for the strife, wars and poverty
from which the world suffers. Western civilization, having been
built upon capitalism and profit, must be razed and replaced
with a new civilization that will usher in this heaven on earth.
It is a powerful
futuristic vision that is insidiously instilled into callow minds
who lack the necessary sophistication to resist. Being young
and prone to idealism, they perceive "political centralization
and a one-world government" to be an ideal just as the students
in Marx's day mistook his "dictatorship of the proletariat"
as some sort of ideal. Thousands of highly intelligent students
spring forth from this brainwash every year to enter the world
and spread their newly learned convictions that capitalism and
Western civilization are the "roots of all evil."
These "ablest
and brightest" of our youth advance over the years into
prominent careers as teachers, journalists, publishers, movie
directors, ministers, politicians, bankers, and businessmen --
all the time working for and promoting collectivism. Yet they
don't see themselves as working for anything dictatorial. They
think the political centralization and Keynesianism taught to
them by their mentors will heal the strife in the world, cure
the poverty of the ghettos, smooth out the prejudices between
races, etc. They think gold money is primitive and inflation
progressive. When they push for more and more centralized government,
more and more taxes, more and more regulations, more and more
"liquidity" from the Federal Reserve, they are working
for what they think will be a more benign civilization. They
think they are working for an "ideal."
As the great
philosophers tell us, it is ideals that are the primary movers
of men throughout history. Our tragedy is that we are educating
one generation after another with "false ideals," and
the evidence that would expose the falsity of those ideals is
not allowed a respectable place in our public schools due to
those schools' control by government bureaucracies and the statist
viewpoint.
The New World Order
One of the
most influential institutions resulting from this indoctrination
process is what is called the Trilateral Commission. This is
an international group of about 300 elite intellectuals, statesmen,
bankers, and businessmen founded in 1973 by billionaire banker
David Rockefeller as a spin off from the older Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR).
The Council
on Foreign Relations is like the Trilateral Commission, only
much larger; it is composed of approximately 4,000 prominent
leaders in business, government, and education, etc. It was formed
in the 1920's by a group of progressive intellectuals of Woodrow
Wilson's era led by the openly acknowledged Marxian socialist
Edward Mandell House who was Wilson's chief advisor. Its officially
stated purpose was to coordinate America's foreign policy with
other nations to create a more peaceful and orderly world. But
in actuality, its originators designed the organization to lead
America into world collectivism.
The group today
claims vague educational goals as its purpose, but numerous public
statements from its leaders indicate that its policies are clearly
directed toward transforming U.S. sovereignty and national independence
into some form of all-powerful world government. It has, since
the days of its inception, been patiently working for this goal,
and its spin-off group, the Trilateral Commission, is doing likewise.
In his book,
With No Apologies, the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater
tells us that while David Rockefeller publicly launched the Trilateral
Commission, the brains behind its formation was CFR member Zbigniew
Brzezinski, whose 1970 book Between Two Ages set the tone
for what is now referred to as a "New World Order,"
in which the major nations of the world -- the U.S., Europe,
Japan, etc. -- link together to plan and direct the fortunes
of the rest of the world. In short, Brzezinski condemns national
sovereignty as outdated and unworkable, says that we need to
rewrite the American Constitution, and eliminate our system of
federalism in favor of a more centralized government in Washington
and eventually subordination to a world government. Note 1
Here we have
a profound demonstration of how ideas shape the unfolding of
history. The Trilateral Commission and its parent, the Council
on Foreign Relations, are the end results of many decades of
ideological corruption in our colleges and universities beginning
as far back as the late 19th century. The men of zeal who are
inducted into the Trilateral Commission have been indoctrinated
with false philosophical, political and economic theories that
have their origin in the works of powerful collectivist thinkers
such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, and
John Maynard Keynes. The overwhelming majority of academics throughout
the West have been taught to revere such false theories (that
declare laissez-faire capitalism and gold money to be a "chaotic
and unworkable system" of economic organization), and they
have in turn taught the elite Trilateral members this erroneous
conception of history and economics. Is it any wonder then that
the Trilateral members, in their zeal for order and armed with
egregiously flawed ideological views, are driven to try and "help
the people of the world" by centralizing them under one
rule. This is the nature of intellectual men and women; most
of them will always attempt to further the cause of what they
feel to be right.
Of course,
it doesn't hurt the Trilateral members' motivation in all this
that they see themselves as part of the leadership elite that
is to organize, advise and run this future One World Government.
Power has consumed men throughout history, and it is no different
today. Its lure takes well-meaning men and makes them zealous
and arrogant; it makes them believe that the Gargantua of government
can be controlled once unchained from the Constitution because
it is in their "well-meaning hands." When this
lust for power is united with irrational ideas such as Keynesianism,
central planning, social welfarism, one-world government, etc.,
then individual liberty is overwhelmed with disaster and despotism.
This then is
one of the important links in the chain of causes moving America
closer and closer to an egalitarian world dictatorship -- the
Trilateral Commission's elite power brokers who spend their lives
working for the "false ideal" of world collectivism
which has been taught to them by our government dominated school
system.
"In my
view," wrote Goldwater, "the Trilateral Commission
represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and
consolidate the four centers of power -- political, monetary,
intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilaterals truly intend
is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the
political governments of the nation-states involved.As managers
and creators of the system, they will rule the future."
Note 2
President Clinton's
Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbot (a Trilateral member),
succinctly expressed the organization's long range goal recently
in Time magazine: "In the next century," he
declared, "nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states
will recognize a single, global authority.National sovereignty
wasn't such a great idea after all." Note 3
Protectors of the
Empire
In ancient
Rome after the Republic had expanded into Empire, there evolved
a super elite of ruthlessly skilled soldiers whose sole job was
to look after the Emperor and protect him at all cost; it was
called the Praetorian Guard, and its responsibility was to perpetuate
the rule of the reigning despot in power, to guard him against
all enemies, to use whatever means necessary to extend his power.
Goldwater likened
the CFR and Trilateral Commission to a new Praetorian Guard for
our age. The job of these highly influential academics, politicians,
bankers, and businessmen is to insure the perpetuation of America's
centralized state and pave the path for its merging into a World
State by any means. "To accomplish this purpose," he
writes, "they [mobilize] the money power of the Wall Street
bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic community
-- which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free foundations
-- and the media controllers represented in the membership of
the CFR and the Trilateral." Note 4
A very apropos
analogy indeed. The combine of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission
is a modern reincarnation of Caesar's corps of elite soldiers
pledged to protect despotism -- not literally in terms of
physical prowess, but much more sophisticatedly in terms of intellectual
and financial prowess. The New World Order requires a new
methodology of usurpation, and these ideological authoritarians
have risen up to provide it in spades.
This New World
Order that is taking shape among the intellectual and power elites
of modern civilization has no place in its goals for national
sovereignty, economic freedom, objective law, and decentralized
government. Such values as these (the cornerstones of America)
are in the minds our leaders today the causes of war, poverty,
inequality and chaos. WORLD ORDER, rather than INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
is what these power elites seek; and they intend to do away with
the founding principles of America to achieve it.
Such a vision
is 180 degrees wrong, for war, poverty and chaos are not caused
by economic freedom and objective law. They are caused by the
very central planning and arbitrary law that world collectivism
is structured upon. But rationality and truth are never the hallmarks
of men of zeal in pursuit of power over their fellow men. Hubris
of the most blatant kind moves the New World Order elites.
Their methodology
has worked well for the past 100 years: Teach a subtle, socialistic
serfdom to the more intelligent of our youth under the guise
of an "ideal" society in which there will be no more
poverty, hardship, and inequality in life if only we will construct
a government that has the ability to print money at will and
is far reaching enough to control all the political-economic
endeavors of man. Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing
reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory
hole.
Their total
state is not here yet, but it's on its way. When it arrives,
it will be as Tocqueville warned, "unlike anything that
ever before existed in the world." It will be a dreadful
omnipresent power that "compresses, enervates, extinguishes,
and stupefies a people" until they are "reduced to
nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals,
of which the government is the shepherd." Note 5
Imagine a Swedish
style social welfarism (with 75 percent tax rates) mixed in with
a neo-fascistic global corporatism in the manner of the original
movie Rollerball, that has to contend with desolate outback
sectors of the world like we saw in Mad Max. This is what
the 21st century holds for us.
In the Introduction
to Brave New World, Aldous Huxley wrote, "A really
effi-cient totalitarian state would be one in which the all powerful
executive of political bosses and their army of managers control
a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because
they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned,
in present day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda,
newspaper editors and schoolteachers." Note 6
The "army
of managers" Huxley was warning about is already upon us.
They are the statist intellectuals in our colleges and universities.
They have a powerful control over the minds of our ablest and
brightest youth, and they're turning them into the most dutiful
of apparatchiks for a new world collectivism.
What Manner of Man?
In light of
the above, the questions that we as a people need to ask ourselves
are as follows: Why are those of collectivist persuasion on the
political left not content with merely correcting the flaws of
the original American vision? In other words, why are they not
satisfied with merely assuring equal rights for all minorities
and all women? Why do they also advocate massive redistribution
of individual wealth and the regimen-tation of our economy with
draconian bureaucracies? Why do they persist in debasing our
currency year after year? If they were really champions of freedom,
prosperity and justice as they claim, then should they not fight
for equal rights and free enterprise, rather than the forced
collectivization of society into a centralized welfare state?
Should they not seek a financial system based upon money with
intrinsic worth, rather than one based upon whim and artifice?
The historical
evidence is abundantly clear. Capitalism works! Gold retains
its value! A free enterprise system with gold as its money produces
phenomenal wealth that ENDURES. It allows men and women to be
free to live as they please, while knowing that their life's
work will not be destroyed by political rulers. And it does so
for all classes, producing a rising tide that lifts all boats.
The problems attributed to capitalism (inflation, depressions,
monopolies, shortages, etc.) are not caused by businessmen in
a free-market, but by government intervention into the marketplace
to convey favors and privileges to special groups. In other words,
our problems stem from our evolution into fascism, which is what
extensive government regulation, monetary inflation, and profit
confiscation is. One merely needs to read Ludwig von Mises' Human
Action, George Gilder's Wealth And Poverty, and Ayn
Rand's Capitalism:
The Unknown Ideal
to
validate the overwhelming merits of a "laissez-faire"
economy as compared to the "government regulated" economy
we suffer from today. One needs only to read Ferdinand Lips'
Gold
Wars
along with Congressman Ron Paul's and Lewis Lehrman's The
Case for Gold
to
grasp the paramount necessity of basing all nations' currencies
on the gold standard.
Why would anyone
of genuine intellect and integrity wish to eradicate such a free
and prosperous society? Such a stable and reliable money? Why
would anyone evade, suppress and ignore the literature that so
irrefutably authenticates the merits of freedom? One's only conclusion
is that despite their vehement fight for the liberation of blacks
and women from the "shackles of the 19th century,"
advocates of the liberal welfare state are, at heart, loathers
of freedom. They are in pursuit of tyranny under the guise of
a "New World Order."
But why would
anyone despise freedom? What manner of man would wish to change
a free economy into a regimented one? An open society into a
closed society? Gold into paper? In other words, why would anyone
want to change a vibrant society with individually earned
ascent and descent between classes into a stagnant society with
bureaucratically granted movement up and down the class
ladder? Why would anyone want to give up the dynamic resplendencies
of the American Founders' vision for the stultifying servitude
of ancient collectivism?
Sanity and Rationality
Give Way
The answer
to this, of course, is multi-faceted. But far and away the primary
reason is the false worldview taught to all young people today
from grade school on. Outrageous philosophical fallacies and
socialist falsifications of economics and history have gained
sway in the academy and the media to poison our citizens minds
against America and the concept of freedom. Such fallacies have
created a grossly distorted image of the way the world works
for the man in the street, in which freedom itself is seen as
inimical to human dignity -- where creative entrepreneurship
is portrayed as exploitation of the poor in-stead of their only
hope -- where gold is termed a "barbarous relic" instead
of history's proven store of value -- where wealth is thought
of as a part of nature and static instead of created by free
men and infinite -- where arbitrary government, the most brutal
violator of individual rights in history, is now held to be man's
"beneficent saviour."
All the values
that sustain civilized life (freedom, strength of will, independence,
honor) are endlessly denigrated in our schools and media today
with tyrannical sophistries designed to make us accept sloth
as normalcy, servility as dignity, weakness of will as compassion,
and government conveyed privilege as justice. The world of sanity
and rationality gives way to regimental nightmares of Orwellian
"newspeak" and "political correct-ness,"
in order for legions of middle-class sluggards to feel good about
them-selves while they live out their spiritually squalid lives
queuing up to the entitlement troughs of the mega-state. The
academy, once the bastion of objective value and truth where
the individual was primary, fragments into myriad cults of subjective
idiocy and senseless pedantry to worship the hideous idols of
Egalitarianism and Central Planning.
Pretty bubbleheads
preen daily on our financial networks, playing the shill to Wall
Street and Washington in order to lure unsuspecting Americans
into buying insanely overvalued stocks. The great market exchanges,
once prudent arenas of investment where the engine of capitalism
traded value for value, have become sham casinos staggering under
decades of massive Fed created debt and lurching into oblivion
on the greater fool theory. Yet our high level bureaucrats, led
by Alan Greenspan, exhort all Americans to consume still more
of their seed corn and seek still more fools.
Mole-like men
now posture as intellectuals with a perspective that extends
no further than the previous decade. Oliver Wendell Holmes' "one
story intellects" (the fact mongers, memorizers, and calculators)
wheel and deal from the corridors of power and slick TV talk
shows -- to spew out grandiose prescriptions for "government
investment" of our earnings along with absurd partner-ships
attempting to merge drone like bureaucracies, incapable of creativity,
with highly innovative private companies totally dependent upon
creativity.
Communism fell
to the only fate its barbaric nature could have produced -- brutal
starvation and debilitating chaos. Yet these bureaucratic mole-men
claim they will get the socialist utopia right this time,
that they have learned how to centrally plan the totality
of man's economic needs, that they know how to control
the hydraulic mastodon of federal power. We now can have freedom
without risk, plenty without work, and hope without heartache.
Such are the
illusions of modernity's short range mentalities. Such
is the fate of those who believe knowledge is numbers and truth
a remnant of primitive times, that technology is a substitute
for values and security more precious than liberty.
Such are the
irrational pretentions of our age. These monstrous absurdities,
being promoted today as humane social policies, are the result
of deeply flawed theoretical doctrines that have slowly
permeated our academic community over the past 100 years -- doctrines
such as absolutism of the general will, the labor theory of value,
the organic concept of society, moral relativism, majoritarianism,
and in-flationary monetary policy.
Such doctrines
have been handed down to us from the likes of Jean Jacques Rousseau,
Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Lester Frank Ward, John
Dewey and J.M. Keynes. They have produced what historian, Clarence
Carson, calls a "collectivist curvature of the mind."
Origin of the
Conspiracies
It is this
"collectivist curvature of the mind" that leads to
all the conspiracies (both secret and tacit) that move many prominent
and powerful people in our society today. Check out G. Edward
Griffin's website [www.freedom-force.org] and his very scary
article, "The Grand Deception," for a look into the
dark machinations that possibly lie behind much of the tragedy
that has transpired over the past century.
Once the Mind
Snatchers have worked their ideological venom into the brains
of our youthful intelligentsia during their schooling years,
they have recruited in most instances a lifelong collectivist
apparatchik for their cause. If that apparatchik is brilliant
and ruthless, he will rise to high levels in today's government
and banking circles. He will seek to join elite organizations
such as the CFR and the Trilaterals. He will seek relentlessly
to move the country toward the collectivist ideal of One World
Government.
Mr. Griffin
is one of today's most brilliant and provocative intellects (see
his book on the Federal Reserve, The
Creature from Jekyll Island). He supports the thesis that there
is a SECRET conspiracy motivating modernity's drift into world
tyranny. It stems from a clandestine group of Fabian socialists
that was formed at the end of the 19th century by the statesman
Cecil J. Rhodes in Britain to recruit and educate a steady stream
of "advocates for world collectivism" through front
organizations such as the CFR and the Trilateral Commission.
He has termed this conspiracy the Fabian Network, and the tale
he tells in "The Grand Deception," if even remotely
true, is as horrific and sinister as it gets in the pages of
human history.
I certainly
agree with Mr. Griffin about the collectivist movement plaguing
our world. But in my opinion, the important conspiratorial elements
of this movement are TACIT rather than SECRET. It's a multi-faceted
phenomenon of many levels and subtlties, with its dream of world
domination openly advocated in all leftist circles. But
Mr. Griffin and I both surely agree on the source and the ultimate
goal of the collectivists. While we may differ on which method
of implementation is more important in the furtherance of collectivism
(clandestine front groups or open proselytization), we both realize
that it starts with the big thinkers of civilization such as
Rousseau, Comte, Marx, and Keynes, etc. It then works its way
into the academic arena to capture elite professors, where it
proceeds to poison generation after generation of the "best
and the brightest" of our youth. The goal is WORLD COLLECTIVIST
TYRANNY and the cessation of America as a sovereign nation. The
end of our free enterprise system and the Founders' vision of
liberty must naturally follow in order to complete the tyrannical
vision. My book, Reality's Golden Mean (hopefully to be
out by early next year), is all about this takeover of the American
people through a twisting of their minds.
Taught to Do Evil
Today's political
and financial leaders are, thus, smuggling America into global
collectivism because they have been taught to do evil by
perverted scholars throughout our school system who have lost
faith in the great truths of man's history. Deep and nightmarish
forces are at work lurking in the subconscious minds of today's
intellectuals that are poisoning the dreams and ideals of our
entire culture.
We have been
invaded by alien Mind Snatchers who are turning America into
a nation of sheep akin to the zombies we saw in Invasion of
the Body Snatchers. Like the pod people in that famous movie,
these Mind Snatchers have, over the past 100 years, saturated
many of our important institutions -- from government, to Hollywood,
to the schools, to the churches, to the media. They operate under
the guise of a "warped idealism" to work their invidious
goals into the minds and hearts of an unsuspecting people.
A gargantuan
crash of prosperity and freedom now looms up ahead as a result
of this ideological invasion and corruption. Out of the crash
will come a new society. Our only hope for that new society lies
in whether we, who have kept the faith of our fathers, can inform
enough of our fellow citizens as to what the requisites of freedom
truly are. If we can, then a rebirth of America will take place.
If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend
upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming
centuries.
Notes
1.
Barry M. Goldwater, With No Apologies, (New York: Berkely
Books, 1980), p. 294.
2.
Ibid., pp. 297-299.
3.
Strobe Talbot, "The Birth of the Global Nation," Time,
July 20, 1992, p. 70.
4.
Goldwater, op. cit., p. 300.
5.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1994),
Vol. II, pp. 318-319.
6.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, (New York: Bantam Books,
1967), p. xiv.
Nelson Hultberg
June 23, 2003
Email: nelshultberg@aol.com
 Nelson Hultberg is
a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas. His articles have appeared
in such publications as The Dallas Morning News, the San
Antonio Express-News, Insight, Liberty, The Social Critic, Ideas
On Liberty, and The AIER Report.
He is the author
of Why We Must Abolish The Income Tax And The IRS (laissezfairebooks.com
and amazon.com), and is presently finishing a book on political-economic
philosophy entitled Reality's Golden Mean: The Case for Libertarian
Politics and Conservative Values.
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