Despite the continued elevation of consciousness the world across, the Moabite Centrix continues its depredations in regards to the world’s wealth and complete, Geo-political, full-spectrum dominance of every aspect of human activity. The increasing coalescence of overt power in the hands of the German nation, as the central and most hegemonic representative of the so-called European Union, has shown its hand as well as what it has planned for the Unite States and the rest of the world as soon as it has brought its constellation of satellite nations fully under the economic and political control of the potential daughter of the 3rd Reich Führer, Adolph Hitler, Angela Merkel, and the unabashedly awakened home of Nazi International – also known as the 4th Reich – Deutschland. A full understanding of the current events at the level of geopolitics must delve into numerous topics of a seemingly unrelated nature, but that are all tied together by the unseen influence of the Moabite Centrix, an ancient evil manifest and unrepentant, wielding unrestrained power in the modern day.
Following WWII and the exodus of important scientists from Germany into both the West and East by pre-agreement with the Allied Powers, the technological sophistication that Nazi Germany had acquired during their world-wide search for ancient technology and their dealings with extraterrestrial/dimensional entities was disseminated into the governmental, intelligence and military communities of the United States and Russia. In the US, this process was implemented through Operation Paperclip, which seeded nascent American intelligence and space organizations with former Nazis who retained their Eugenicist belief systems but who contributed their knowledge of certain then-innovative technologies that would propel the United States to the forefront of the public technological arena. In the East, Russia received a large number of German Scientists who were involved in paranormal and psychic research in an agreement hammered out between the allied forces and what would become the phalanx of German Industrialists who would take the war in a new direction following the formal ending of hostilities.
It is important to note – again and again, as I do often in this series – that the Nazis never surrendered at the end of WWII. As the historical and modern-day representatives of the ancient Moabite imperative, which is anti-God, anti-morality, upon realizing that the war could not be won militarily, the Nazis abdicated power in Germany proper as the war came to an end – under the guise of internecine coups and the establishment of a new, non-or-reformed Nazi leadership for Germany - instead concentrating their efforts upon moving their bases of operation to Antarctica and South America, in particular, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other countries. With their primary bases located under ice domes in Antarctica, from which their Foo Fighters could traverse the globe and take advantage of the energetic properties of that region of the Earth as well as continue their technological research and probable relationship with otherworldly Others that alternately take on the guise of alien or demon, depending upon perspective.
The importance of the recently retired Pope Benedict, AKA Joseph Ratzinger, having a Nazi past and sympathies cannot be overstated. While he spent a later lifetime denying the perceived ills of Nazi visions of world domination and their ideological and eugenicist leanings, it is well known and documented that the Catholic Church heavily supported the Nazi agenda before and during WWII. While some Apologists will say that it was necessary for the Church to seem to comply with the Nazi agenda – as the Nazis comprised the ruling party of Germany – the fact that the secret military order of the Nazis was founded upon the exact model and principles of the Jesuit order of Catholicism – as laid out clearly in the preceding link – and included in its highest ranks people who were priests of that order and Catholicism in general speaks volumes. That the new Pope, former Cardinal, Jorge Borgolio, under the name of Francis I, is an ethnic Italian (born of 2 Italian immigrants to Argentina) from one of the primary countries the Nazis retreated to following WWII is also no coincidence. Pope Francis capitulation to his Nazi controllers includes his potential collusion in child-trafficking charges, and who, for political reasons related to national stability and support of the government forces then in charge, potentially sacrificed priests of his own order to those selfsame forces.
That the new Pope is a Jesuit, and that the Jesuits have been the fomenters of hideous orgies of pain and bloodshed throughout the developed world and are in fact currently leading the way in the heralding of a new religious order with the soon to occur disclosure of the alien presence on and around the Earth, goes hand in hand with the end-time prophecies foreseen by so many as occurring in these days and times. Petrus Romanus, the Last Pope, the abdication of Pope Benedict, an event of such rarity it has not occurred in centuries. increasing energetic shifts in space weather, which is drastically affecting the atmosphere and weather of Earth as well as other planets in the Solar System, all lead to the realization that fundamental change is nigh upon the world. The elite powers of the world, under the direction of the Moabite Centrix, are well aware of this and the mainstream media (MSM) is heavily involved in keeping these truths away from as many people as possible until it is too late for anyone to do anything about it or inquire into the plans and nature of those who profess to rule humanity but who are, instead, hell-bent upon its enslavement and destruction.
The final piece to the current puzzle involves the recent goings-on on the tiny isle of Cyprus, a haven for Russian-money that was in possession of a financial sector heavily over-sized in comparison to its natural population. That financial sector was targeted by the leader of the European Union, Germany which is under the control of the Moabite Centrix, for destruction, the monies of that Russian cohort of “investors” appropriated under the guise of repayment of the bailout given to Cyprus to save it from an exit from the Euro monetary system and the European Union itself. Cyprus, which had been considered a relatively stable nation surrounded by the unstable nations of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, lying as a jewel of the Mediterranean, became the test model and warning for the rest of Southern Europe. A warning that was sent loud and clear, with the threat of personal wealth confiscation in the form of bank account taxing in order to eviscerate these nations at the individual level in response to the ongoing Austerity raiding that has overcome the resistance most of these countries had been fomenting against German/Moabite hegemonic and economic control.
This model of economic control stemming from the premier power in Europe, and the premier economic and political power on the face of the earth, Germany, is slated for North America in the very near future. Already, the winds of Austerity are blowing through the political corridors of the United States and Canada and have been for a while. The agendas of the Neo-Cons and Nazi International, i.e. the Moabites are one in the evisceration of the economic might of the West and the United States in particular in fulfillment of their age-old plan of total world hegemony. It has become very clear that the election and installment of Barack Obama has only been a continuation of policies well in place for over a decade now and continuing an agenda that is decades, centuries and millennia in the making. Once Europe is fully under the control of the Moabite agenda, the United States, Canada and the rest of the Americas are next in line for full-spectrum political and economic domination and the final stage of New World Order implementation. That total control of the immediate neighborhood and hinterlands is finally within the sight of Hitler’s tochter and those who control her.
Bringing it all together, the political and economic hegemonic dominance of the Moabites through Nazi International and their modern homeland, Germany, is the sign that the global consolidation of control under a One World Government is on the verge of being completed. The Vatican and the Catholic Church, as the vehicles of popular religious control of the spiritual meta-narrative and their preparation to introduce an “extraterrestrial savior” to the human family plays into the larger goal of the Moabite Centrix to supplant the worship of the natural deity of the multiverse, known under many names and guises all of which serve only as markers of the All, or Source, with the worship of a lesser entity who, of necessity, is a reflection of their propensity toward demonic and external cooptation by forces in some ways higher than human-kind, but in other ways lesser. These forces can be considered extra-terrestrial or ultra-dimensional even though they have been involved in human affairs for millennia and potentially have been upon and surrounding this planet before the birth of humanity under the guise of the Archons of Gnostic Christianity fame.
And yet, despite the appearance of their overwhelming victory, it shall not be. These are the times of trials and tribulation for many in the human family as we are bombarded from space by energetic inputs that awaken bouts of emotional excoriation that typify the experiences of the ensouled during these trying days. As the Earth itself is changing, humanity is changing. The shifts in DNA, as reflected by the recent findings of quadruple helix DNA, the entry of our solar system into a new region of space, the undeniable elevation of consciousness reflected in the world wide revolutionary movements and the changes being manifest at the individual level of life as lived, for many, are irrefutable evidences reflecting the new state of being. The tide has turned and the impetus has shifted as the Earth has completed the 25,000 year procession of the equinox and now finds itself on the upswing from a negativity-ruled period of 12,500 years to a more positively-oriented time-frame of equal length. The current period of tribulation is only the necessary cleansing period, the time of the Apocalypse, which really means, revelation or disclosure, when parsed in the original Greek.
It is indeed a time of revelation as our inner truths are laid bare and all that has been done in the Dark is revealed to the Light. The Moabite Centrix, despite their ancient war against God, cannot and will not win.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. ~ Isaiah 54:17
RIP Joseph Ehrlich. Your wisdom and brilliance are missed.
The Moabite Series
1. Who are the Moabites: The modern context
2. Connecting the Moabite Dots and other Sundry Articles of Faith and Disbelief
3. Japan, Germany and the shifting Moabite Reality
4. Moabite Moves: Setbacks, retrenchment and false-flag realities
5. Endgame or False flag? Moabite positioning on the global chess board
6. The Moabites, the Pope and the Cypriot Model for World Domination
I’m no fan of pie-in-the-sky dreaming.
This is why politicians are always caught with their pants down and their bank accounts open, their integrity compromised. This is why corporate raiders and profiteers are concerned primarily with the bottom line, lining their pockets with obscene bonuses and wondering why anybody would complain. This is why preachers and priests do terrible things to children and the emotionally compromised. This is why we hate ourselves, secretly in our inner hearts and souls, desperately seeking salavation outside of ourselves because to look within and actually do something about what we find there is too painful to work with directly.
Perhaps it is mercury retrograde right now, but communications are at a standstill. People are standing on virtual street-corners screaming out their truths and not caring who is listening or responding back. The babble is continuous and it is rising as space weather increases and the sun pops off flare after flare, as things go downhill even further in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, as politics in the USA heat up, as our lives continue to progress along their winding paths and our personal dramas ratchet up a notch or three, all connected, all beholden to the same energetic input that must find its resolution through some form of activity, some means of resolution. All of the voices, shouting, screaming, crying, complaining, querulous and fearful at heart, the anger, the rage but a front masking the underlying terror. Despite the noise, there seems to be no resolution possible. They all can’t seem to hear each other because the chatter in their own minds is too loud.
That is what most everybody thinks. That is what our life experiences seem to tell us, at least. The life experiences that make up our personal history. Our childhoods with our parents and siblings, our time in school, our friends, our secrets and our shames, our triumphs and our joys. These are the things that we count on to represent our journey through life, these are the things that we recount when people ask us about ourselves, who we are, what our biography is, what our life is about. For those of us who are a bit more thoughtful, we might even put them in some sort of topical order and call that our path through life, as if the details of our journey are the sum of our experience and make up the totality of what we have gained along the way.
2012 is a year of destiny. So many people are saying so many things about so much. What is going to happen? Is the world going to end? Is it going to be a year like any other? Is life going to get better for more people or worse? Are bad things going to happen, are good things going to happen, or both?
Depending upon your viewpoint and perspective, the world may indeed change for better or for worse, believe it or not. The power of intention is under-rated, for the most part. In our personal lives, if we are not consciously following a path of personal transformation, our intentions are ephemeral and shift with the moment. Our motivations are decided by our emotional states, by circumstances or by whimsy. We don’t necessarily pay close attention to where we might be coming from or what we might intend in general. Depending upon our level of self-knowledge, this could result in the expression of a life without direction or motivation.
As we are indoctrinated in the cultures of our countries, so our intentions, thoughts and actions are a reflection of that subliminal indoctrination and we come to express, individually, a national character that is distinct and recognizable in other countries as we represent ourselves and our countries in our travels. The extent to which we consciously become aware of this process of indoctrination and how deeply we internalize it ourselves determines the extent to which we then become responsible for the intentions, thoughts and actions of the nations within which we have each achieved self-awareness, to greater or lesser degrees.
It takes a year such as 2012 and the attention of a vast number of people to bring sub-surface intentions and thought-processes, both individual and collective, to the surface. It takes a year like 2012 and the strident arguments, the passionate contentiousness, the awakening realization of billions of people that we are all in this together to consciously make a shift in this world that will result in its betterment. It takes a year like 2012 and the recognition that the pyramidal control structure that has been in charge off the planet for far too long is not our only alternative when it comes to governance. It takes a year like 2012 and the understanding that Banks have not been the repositories of security for the populace that they’ve advertised themselves as being for so long. It takes a year such as 2012 for people to understand that divide and conquer results in the empowerment of a minority to the detriment of the majority.
Of course, there is another choice. There always is. If we individually decide that we want 2012 to be the best year of our lives, then we can make it so, no matter what happens in the world around us. And if many people make that decision and affect each other’s intentions, thought processes and actions, then, together, we can all make 2012 a year to mark the progression of years through the timeline of evolution and consciousness, to make this year a banner year despite the intentions of the minority in power and despite whatever may happen around us in the world. Come comets, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, cold spells, hot spells, droughts, famine, pestilence, disease, the world as it is perceived is as we decide it to be, subject to the infinite power of intention.
The contradictory nature of spirituality and nationalism confront all spiritual seekers at some point of their personal evolution. And yet, our specific circumstances, our dharmic inheritance as it were, serves a purpose in the unfolding of our spiritual destinies as nationless Citizens of the World. Coming to grips with one’s Past and integrating it with one’s Present is a key component in the journey towards Transcendence of the material plane of existence, which can mean many things to many people. For me, personally, Bush’s War on Terror and Obama’s War on Liberty aftermath has left me struggling, caught within the grips of an extreme case of cognitive dissonance as my training and upbringing as a member of the American Warrior Class(AWC) surges within my mind. Memories of soldiering, the endless repetitions of the National Anthem, Pledge of Allegience and Star Spangled Banner during my early years combine with the direct military indoctrination of my young adulthood and the subsequent, rough cameraderie of soldiers, as well as the life and loves that have formed an indeliable impression upon me in the Past have made me the man that I am in the Present. I would not be who I am now, if it were not for who I was then.
The expression of this dichotomous viewpoint, the struggle between the World and one’s current circumstances and understandings is the stuff of spiritual elevation. In each moment, it is possible for us to let goof the Past, to die to who we were in order to become who we are meant to be. As an example, it is as if there were a grand template of Rahkyt out there somewhere, a vision of perfection and peace whereby I realize my inherent probabilities, manifest at the highest level of Being, the possibilities of my spirit and my soul. A similar vision exists for all of us, regardless of our stations in life, or our individual experiences, because we are all One, connected at every level of interaction, our actions and reactions being determined by the chaotic effects of stimuli too many and diverse to specify ranging from an vast number of options spanning both space and time, creating matrices of chance and probability that result in our individualized Destinies, sending us upon life-journeys of perfection and peace, despite the emotional highs and lows of illusory materialism that distract us from what is really going on, beneath the surface drama of life and its attendent trials and tribulations.
It almost goes without saying that the connection of body and mind, and some aspects of the spirit, to the collective of humanity is of necessity a mandatory expression of Oneness and that Nationalism, even considering all of its ills, is reflective of this subconscious desire of disparate groups of humanity to express this reality, given their shared ethnic and cultural affiliations. Group-mind, mob behavior, both have an aspect of shared consciousness at the level of the human sub-conscious, binding individuals together in ways that are scientifically documented and verifiable through varied methods utilized by the mass media, corporations and governments in order to direct and control populations.
This body I inhabit is formed of Stardust born of Earth, third planetary body from Sol, one solar system among many clustered within the Milky Way galaxy, reflecting the Infinite Array, expressive of the expansive nature of both matter and consciousness and the continuing evolution of the multiverse, transcending time and space within the remorseless imperative of the evolutionary process occuring within the soul of each moment, born anew with each thought and subsequent action at every level of Creation Become. My experiences and genetic programming, explicit towards the manifestation of my own personal destiny as a microcosm of our shared, collective destiny, the fulfillment of an imperative born far beyond my, or our, capacity to conceive of in its awesome and terrifying immensity.
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I saw red. I charged that kid and knocked him down and, before the teachers pulled me off of him and through the gathered crowd of screaming elementary schoolers, I had pounded the back of his head into the pavement a good 5, 10 times. I remember being in the office afterwards and, rather than the Principal’s words, or some feeling of shame being my primary memory, it is the expression on this kid’s face – chastened, and kind of scared – of being beaten by someone younger and smaller than him. Neither of us got detention, or kicked out of school, or sent home for the day. It was a playground fight, and that was it. I’m not even sure if our parents were notified. And even though i saw that kid around after that, he made sure to avoid me until his family left that duty station. It was a conflict based upon power; he thought he had it, but found out he didn’t. Nice and simple. No complications.
I had no idea at that age what that word meant. I found out soon enough though, because I heard it plenty more times when we left Greece and moved to Del City, Oklahoma. There were two major conflicts there; one with a little racist who lost his steam when alone (and I left him, weeping, after knocking him down) and another with a kid who threatened my position in the nerd-herd that I avidly grazed the late-70s standards of fantasy and sci-fi with which – along with increasing bullying by larger groups (entire classrooms and friendship groups) – solidified my impression and experience of ‘my Self’ as an ‘outsider’.
The last ‘childhood conflict’ occured as a senior in Medical Lake, Washington when I was attacked by a kid who was too slow to hit me (I left him, bleeding from the nose, tagged by a chair that he fell into, after swinging and missing me by a mile), which pretty much ended my experience with the ‘sweet science’ of pugilism. He was also decidely racist, although our conflict was primarily one of insider versus outsider, with him being the outsider in that situation. Late teenhood and skill at atheletics – as well as the birth of hip hop and my identification with the b-boy & girl movement – brought me out of the shell I had formed in response to the hostile environments of my early teen years, with the skills learned during that time period, in art, music and reading, allowing me to empathize and interact with many different social groups while still remaining popular enough to be voted ‘co-Most Talented’ Senior year.
When I graduated from High School and went to Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Georgia, I saw and broke up more fights there in one year that I’d ever seen in my entire life. Being an all-black environment was also a major paradigm shift for me, but there were many other boys there, and girls, from Spelman – the girl’s school across the street – who had grown up in a similar type of situation. Even though I was not a pacifist, I was never challenged directly during that year. The year after that, I was in the Army myself and certainly not a pacifist. The only serious incident(s) during this time came as social groups on the first and second floors of our basic training barracks became divided by race and I, as de facto leader of our floor and Assistant Platoon Guide, was pit, face to face on numerous occasions, with my Country and Western singing and Break Dancing opposite, who probably would have been a friend in any other context.
I smile and nod, because I know what they mean. But the fire of combat that girds the loins of those inclined toward national service once filled me as well, and the closeness to deployment that I came in 1991 – being stationed in Kaiserslautern and Nurenberg, Germany, for most of that time – was a sobering time period, called to constant Alert, Unit prepared to move out as we simultaneously moved troops through the European Theatre southwards through Italy and Turkey, into the Gulf on a daily basis. Listening and reading about the stories of young and idealistic soldiers today gives rise to a pang in the heart as I recognize my younger self in them, although their experiences do not mirror the American Soldier’s general experiences in the Gulf during that 3-week period in the Spring of 1991, when that ‘conflict’ was at its most intense.
Despite the world-spanning nature of current world conflicts, warfare remains as basic as human instinct. When living in Greece, off-base, me and the other American kids would skirmish in the backstreets of Hersonissos with the Greek kids, chucking dirt clods and rocks, cursing each other and sticking to our own small clusters of America and friend groups, while retaining that distinctive American trait of ‘owning’ the ground we stood on, no matter what country we were living in. Those childish fights were fought on the basis of difference and territoriality and, even though none of us American kids were from that country, we viewed their incursions into the space we considered ours as deadly challenges. Even at the macro-level of geo-politics, the United States feels that the world is its ‘Hood.
Perhaps America should bring back the draft. Perhaps, by inculcating this younger generation of Americans with a shared sense of duty and the experience of living and dying besides other Americans of diverse backgrounds would give our country that final push into making the societal changes that need to occur in order to move us past the strict racism and classism that still permeates our society. Perhaps when a Senator’s child fights alongside brothas from the hoods of Philadelphia and New York, and the child of New England wealth serves beside the children of undocumented immigrants from Mexico, their shared experience will nullify the effects of the growing gulf between the haves and have nots in this country. Perhaps when the children of Illuminati die beside the children of the World, the senselessness of intolerance will finally make sense.
We’ll see what happens with the any new conflicts this nation finds itself in in coming years. Libya, Congo, maybe Syria or Iran. But I know that I ain’t gonna study war no more, no suh. I experienced enough conflict during my child and young adulthood, and have experienced conflict of a different, but just as psychically damaging, type as a man. But there are those out there, perhaps some of you reading, now, who have experienced so much more. We all have to decide when enough is enough, and when it is time to count our blessings and cry out, “Peace, be still!”
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The cult of Individualism has a long and sordid history within the evolution of social consciousness. As the culmination of succedent eras of cultural and economic appropriation, Globalism succeeds in its transference of values and ideals stemming from Western moral and ethical mainstays across a planetary spectrum, its technological sophistication masking a very basic, human drive toward excess accumumation of material wealth based upon an underlying fear of deprivation. The Evolution of Corporate Entities as agglomerative collectivities amassing obscene amounts of wealth for a priviledged few stands at the apex of a pyramidal hierarchy of intention that represents the impetus of a materially-based culture millenia in the making. The inbred xenophobia of the Globalist system is, perhaps, an indirect result of a consciously directed effort to dominate and control the world’s markets through economic and political control. In addition, the widespread dissemination of western media (movies, music, etc.), the English language as the language of the Global Era, clothing and foodstuffs through Aid agencies (USAid, Goodwill, etc.) serve to foster an appearance of encompassing benevolence, affecting all aspects of material culture in societies subject to the good will of the developed nations.
Given Globalism’s perceived multicultural veneer, some discussion of cultural appropriation and the theft of the black body may be helpful. The hoary beards of hook-nosed Elders nestle upon cloaked and sunken chests hoarding hardened hearts that hearken back in time to the early formation of Christianity, the Middle Ages of Europe (Ashkenazim and Sephardic Jewry, the Talmud) and beyond; the Curse of Ham and the experience of the Moorish Invasions of the Iberian Peninsula lighting the way to the Triangular Trade Era, otherwise known as the Maafa, and the accumulation of wealth and power west of the Atlantic ocean, in the Americas.
In today’s parlance, and, as an example of cultural appropriation, Hip Hop’s domination of the Global scene is seen as an affirmation of the multiculturalism and inclusivity of the Globalist agenda. The unspoken assertion is, “look at the African-Americans, blinging and singing, rapping and tapping their way to the heights of material success. If the children of slaves can do it, anybody can!” Appealing directly to the sensual and economic, hence, material, aspects of the Self, the forms of Hip Hop expression represents the dreams and desires of their primary consumptive audience. The shift in emphasis from conscious Hip Hop – in the late 1980s – to “Gangsta Rap” and “Booty music” reflected a conscious decision on the part of music moguls across the spectrum as this music became more popular with white, suburban teens far removed from the Urban jungles referenced in those sordid, misogenistic and formulaic fantasies of fast women and easy money gleaned from a burdgeoning and, possibily, govenment-instigated dope game. This shifting of of Hip Hop’s primary audience from black American to white American (who make up between 60 – 70% of all Hip Hop music purchased, by most estimates) audiences mirrors earlier examples of white American cultural appropriation of black American musical innovations in America, namely, Jazz and Rock and Roll.
Continuously subject to such stimuli, the outer Selves of individuals of all races become saturated, immersed within this virulent stew of xenophobic programming that acts to reinforce the institutional biases of a system that finds certain groups of people at the top, and other groups of people at the bottom. In the Now, to the eyes of many, it seems that what had previously been evident as societally and institutionally enforced segregation and repression has now become a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty and disfunction. What is usually left out of the equation, though, is the Multimedia Effect (ME) and its insidious effect upon marginalized populations. Taken alongside historical realities ranging from the devil’s deal of integration, where black communities were divided rich from poor and children bused from their neighborhoods to suburban or cloistered neighborhoods, to the questionable influx of different types of drugs into previously thriving black communities, the constant bombardment of the outer Selves, sheltered by black bodies, continuously reinforces their status within a society that sees them primarily as entertainment fodder and criminals, as reflected by the current makeup of prison populations the country across.
What makes people choose military service? Why would a person risk their lives for another, for someone they don’t even know, or even for people that they hate? Is Nationalism dead? Does it need to die? With so many people disillusioned with the state of these United States, what reason is there to pledge allegiance to anything besides family and friends? According to some sources, less than one quarter of the U.S. congress has worn a uniform. Fewer than one in ten Americans has served their country by joining the military. With these kinds of statistics, what does military service have to do with being a good American, or patriotism?
During times of peace, the lives of American soldiers’ center around training – in the field and on post/base/installation – and rear echelon maintenance activities that leave plenty of time for fun and carousing, which is perfect for young people with few or no responsibilities to anyone other than themselves. My European Tour was just that, for almost three years. But when STOP-LOSS was initiated right before Desert Storm – the first Persian Gulf War – it became incumbent upon me to determine whether or not these subconscious and ideological pinions that had been inculcated within me and my fellow soldiers were indeed worth the possibility of giving up my life, and whether or not the cause for which we had been called into conflict was in line with a direct threat to the nation, its communities and families.
To make the decision to go to war requires a sober mind that, at the very least, understands a soldier’s mentality. That shares his concern about family and friends, protection and safety. That displays a certain level of connection to community and nation, as an extension of the personal circle of friends and family. While military service is no indicator of patriotism as an expression of personal nationalistic fervor, the experience of military service imbues citizens with a real-world understanding of the sacrifices that are made daily by those charged with defending the country and its interests. In times of warfare, accepting a military draft as one’s personal commitment to the common welfare is considered to be a matter of duty and responsibility. While there are many reasons why people act to circumvent or avoid such prescriptions, be they political religious, ideological or familial. Within the context of the national corpus, all citizens of a nation could be considered to be more or less responsible to and for that nation, at least according to their level of participation in its institutions leading to the accumulation and enjoyment of its national treasure, wealth and overall indices of political, cultural and social well-being. When a nation’s military is made up of “volunteers” from the lowest economic and social echelons of society, a “free” nation made up of “equals” supposedly represented governmentally by their ‘equals” has lost its way and become representative of the imperatives of a more Oligarchical type of polity.
In my own experience, military bases are the closest this country has come to truly egalitarian societies based upon a merit-based equality that discounts race and ethnicity and relies upon individual achievement in order to determine one’s ability to rise in society. And while this fraternal society has proven imperfect in many facets – as a reflection of the racial and economic trends of the greater society – it is a model that many Americans and non-Americans have used in order to achieve some facsimile of the American Dream. Those who grow up within the auspices of the military lifestyle are often remarked upon as displaying certain characteristics that reflect this upbringing, with a penchant towards egalitarianism, a certain adaptability and gregariousness that reflects their geographically diverse and socially vibrant youths. Upon reaching adulthood and entering the civilian world, either through work or college, the real life prejudices, inequalities and the harshness of the verisimilitudes of unabashed capitalism, racism and classism are often an unexpected wake-up call.
A higher purpose that is the same purpose that is shared by all of us who want the best for ourselves and our loved ones. Nations represent – to the individual – extended communities, which represent extended families, which represent us. By embracing our countries, we embrace our own highest aspirations. By believing in our countries, we believe in ourselves. And when that embrace fails, and that belief falters, the resulting trauma results in the kind of national and personal moralistic and spiritual dysfunction that afflicts nations on the verge of dissolution, rent within by competing factions and economic failure. Those whose expectations are left crestfallen by the weight of sheer despondency once the truth of much of this nation’s martial history is revealed are, perhaps, justified in their resultant lack of fealty to the national myths. As the legions of the disaffected grow, a certain listlessness and resentment becomes apparent in the national conversation, expressed as a strident, self-righteous indignation and declamation against the abuses of power. This describes the state of these United States, currently. The disillusionment with economic policies and social policies, the disillusionment with the state of racial relations, of sexual relations and of class relations soars as the American dream lies moribund, destroyed by enemies both domestic and foreign.
