In 1954, Hollywood was making the animated film version of George Orwell's metaphorical anti-totalitarian classic Animal Farm. The State in Animal Farm, represented by the ascendant ruling class of the pigs, holds power over memory itself. The pigs deny elements of their mission to the other animals and then deny that they have done so, in order to make the animals under their rule lose the ability to trust their own judgment. This creates a "nightmare world," in which the ruling clique controls, not only the future, but also the past, while flooding the plain of discourse with lies. The books ending, in which the animals finally come to realize that both groups that try to rule them are equally corrupt, is a trenchant rejection of the binary worldview. Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA in 1954 and his brother John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, along with the help of CIA operative Howard Hunt, "arranged" for Hollywood to script that only the pigs were corrupt, and had ultimately patriotic rebel animals overthrow them. The Dulles brothers and the CIA elites realized that the message in the book Animal Farm contradicted all of what the United States was saying about their Hegelian contrived Cold War.
The psychological hangover of all this prevarication as Orwell wisely points out, is that the delay in "getting it," is a dangerous time. We must understand, how the State, as Orwell called it, today in the name of the Pentagon and CIA, and the entire intelligence community and their paid mercenaries around the world, came to be a hideous monster plotting to terrorize American civilians and challenge freedom throughout the world.
On February 3, 1959, the tragic death of Buddy Holly shocked the young rock and roll world, when he died in a plane crash after performing a concert at The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. For the rockers at Woodstock and all of us, it would become, "the day the music died." Two days later on February 5, John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, picked up a secure phone in his home, and the told the CIA voice on the other end of the line to get him a certain Russian oligarch. With that call, the upcoming visit to Moscow by Eisenhower, at the invitation of Khruschev was cancelled. A few days earlier Khruschev had informed the U.S. State Department, that the United States had indeed won the Cold War, and was seeking an honest peace, and an end to the contrived Cold War. The honest overture for peace was denied by the war mongering Pentagon and the CIA. In May of 1960, the U-2 American spy plane was shot down while illegally flying over Russia, and the Paris Peace scheduled for May 17 were made very contentious, and ended only igniting the tensions of the Cold War. This set the stage for Cuba and the Bay of Pigs failed operation, and forced Nixon crony Meyer Lansky and the CIA's illicit narcotics operations out of Cuba to Miami, and Lansky's chosen heir American mob boss Santo Trafficante.
George Orwell, in his book 1984, spoke of a very grim picture of what the world's society might bring about with power in the hands of an uncontrollable powerful secret elite, which controlled the life and death, the economic status, and all the significant movements, words and thoughts of every member of society. The essence of Orwell's foreboding message, is how does one man assert his power over another? By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough, he must be suffering. Then, you can be sure he is obeying your will, and not his own. Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is destroying human minds and sense of conscience, and putting them back together again in new morphed forms of consciousness and ideology, like supply-side economics. Orwell writes of the ultimate depravity, the most destructive ultimate result of man's fatal flaw, of being compromised and corrupted by power.
The "attacks" on 9/11 are akin to the Reichstag fire on the German Parliament, on February 27, 1933, four weeks after Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor. The fire was conveniently blamed on a Communist Jew, when the fire was actually started by one of Hitler's murderous "brown shirts." Our domestic political fantasy life since 9/11, finds us in an unnerving time loop in this country. Very much on its own, history seems to be running in reverse, and knowledge is not seen as a public good, but as something suspect, dubious or even ungodly, as it was for example in Italy in 1633, when the church put Galileo on trial, for his heretical view that the earth was in orbit around the sun.
These past years since 9/11, have produced a prison house of the mind, insidiously endeavoring to promote a fleeting fraudulent terrorist phantom and the darkness of ego. It has produced a degradation of the thinking mind, afraid of what it knows.
Our society and the corporate media, has mentally transported the rank and file back into the darkness of tribal war and shrieking, far from the tolerance that came with American religious freedom and the liberty of our conscience.
What is good, as opposed to evil? Does it mean it mean the evil of specific terrorist organizations, or the evils of the American political cultures, from which they came about?
Our civil discourse has morphed into a "civil disguise," something like, "I have a great future behind me." Post Woodstock civilization has been restored to passive apathy, while the faux intellectual language of righteous empire cravenly moves on in its killing operations. Life becomes a constant paradox, where the best illusion wins, because we have been taught a lesson-less past, while everywhere we look today, we see the price of unchecked power.
We must reclaim and renew a civil and spiritual discourse that adheres to three basic principles: 1. Facts and truth matter, even if we don't like them. 2. Universal moral principles matter, even if they have consequences we would prefer not to face. 3. Clarity matters, such as distinguishing between terror elements abroad and the political culture that breeds it domestically, with tax cuts for the rich, and the denial of universal health care, and social services for the general populace.
Our historic mission of reclamation, must be to establish truth in the world. This can be carried out not just by the isolated individual, nor by the atomized and manipulated masses, but by that class which is able to effect the dissolution of all classes, subjecting all power to the dis-alienating form of a realized democracy, to councils in which practical theory exercises control over itself and conscientiously surveys its own actions. It cannot be carried out, until all individuals are directly bound to universal history of truth, until dialogue has taken up arms to impose its own conditions of conscience upon the world.
Post Woodstock America, we must finally wake up to the heist of our democracy for the corporate and personal enrichment of the one percent. Yet, is it too late? Has the corporate of government become firmly intact, with no change possible? This is what Herbert Hoover thought when he was elected in 1928, and what the British East India Company thought in 1773. No, we have not reached the point of no return. If anything, we are the verge of a new awakening, a new Enlightenment, with the new blue wave of Progressive Democrats and the green new deal. They are standing up, and telling the truth, and demanding a rejection of the fraud of neo-liberal economics that is destroying the world and the rights of man.
It has been said, that Democracy is essentially an act of faith. When that faith we share is purposely eviscerated, we will greatly suffer at the hands of the maniacal, and manipulative few. We all want to live in this country and bequeath to our children the best of future generations. We must fight and overcome those who are imposing their stark utopia over us. We must make decision about our future democracy.
As Thomas Paine so wisely said, "Men whose principles are founded on avarice are beyond the reach of reason. The rugged face of society, checkered with the extremes of affluence and want, proves that some extraordinary violence has been committed upon it, and calls for justice, redress and reclamation.
Let us hope! As St. Augustine said, "Hope represents our faith in the future. Hope also has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage. Anger at what is happening, and the courage to do something about it."
This is the essence of our reclamation post Woodstock, and it must not fail.
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