Newton’s third law of motion has proven the test of time since
he first stated it in 1686. If we were to apply the same concept to political
history, we might say,
A nation
that rises to a great height will fall to an equally great depth.
At first glance, that seems to be merely clever wordsmithing.
However, historically, it does seem to play out exactly that way. Most
countries tend to ebb and flow as to their prosperity, but those that rise to
great heights, particularly those that rise to become empires, tend to crash
with a weight equal to their strength at the height of their power.
If we consider that point when we observe the present dominant
empire, the US, we would expect that, at the point that the empire is teetering
on the edge of collapse, we would see signs of rot within the government, the
economy, and even within many of the people. The closer we get to the tipping
point, the more this would be borne out by lunacy in the media, the courts,
even the hallowed halls of education.
So, let’s have a peek into present events – events that may not
be the most crucial in the state of the union but are indicators that the
system is self-destructing.
The following are three briefs on articles that recently
appeared in the same publication on the same day (they have not been edited by
me):
“Mike Adams Reports the Boston Herald to the FBI for
Recommending That Those who Oppose Vaccines Should Be Executed by Hanging”:
Mike
Adams, the owner of the Natural News website,
is filing a complaint with the Boston FBI against the Boston Herald for publishing a violence-inciting
editorial attributed to the Boston Herald. The
editorial claims that vaccines don’t cause autism and that it ought to be a
“hanging offense” for anyone who opposes this conventional theory.
“Black Student Group at UC Santa Cruz Threatens Takeover”:
The African/ Black Student Alliance (A/BSA) physically occupied
a building on the UC Santa Cruz campus and was granted all of its demands,
which includes mandatory ‘diversity training’ for all incoming students. Now
they are threatening more civil disruption if their new demands are not met.
“Tim Allen’s TV Sitcom Cancelled After He Said Being a
Conservative in Hollywood Was Like Living in Nazi Germany”:
Tim Allen
starred as a positive conservative character in the ABC sitcom, Last Man Standing, which was canceled despite high
ratings. The cancellation comes two months after he made a comment on a talk
show comparing living as a conservative in Hollywood to Nazi Germany.
No need to go into the entire articles. You get the point. The
fact that these articles appeared on the same day in the same publication
exemplifies the fact that these are not isolated incidents. They are a part of
an overall social/legal/cultural trend that we see not only in the US, where
these incidents occurred but in much of what was once known as “the free
world.”
These
incidents represent the antithesis of
freedom. They are the acts of individuals and small groups taking the position
that they should be afforded the authority to determine the behavior of all
others. They represent power without
accountability and have the support of the rulers, media, and
courts.
But, how
is it that they have become so pervasive? How are they even acceptable points of view? The answer lies in one
word: education.
This danger was predicted by a young Thomas Jefferson, when he
stated, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of
the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Mister
Jefferson was, to my mind, the greatest visionary of his time. He was eminently
educated. He entered the prestigious College of William & Mary in 1760 and,
upon graduation, rounded out his education under the great George Wythe in
Williamsburg, Virginia. In Mister Jefferson’s day, education was the keyto higher understanding.
He studied
architecture, which led to his creation of several iconic buildings, whose
designs are still studied today. He studied ancient history and improved upon
the Athenian Republic when creating an outline for what would become the United
States. He studied economics and successfully knocked down the ideas of a
central bank and income taxes, as proposed by Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis
in George Washington’s cabinet. These accomplishments were inspired by his education.
A half-century ago, I was sent to school in Boston, which had
long been regarded as the centre of higher education in the Western Hemisphere.
In my final years there, I spent endless hours discussing higher concepts with
others in and around the lawns of Harvard University, expanding my outlook. At
that time, the emphasis in higher learning was on the expansion of the powers
of reason—the ability of each individual to make use of existing knowledge in
order to expand upon it. This was seen as essential, as those who were learning
there were being prepared to lead the next generation in politics, economics,
manufacturing, invention, and most every other endeavor.
And, yet, what was considered the very best in America has
become, in many ways, the worst. Today, the nation’s universities, from
Berkeley in California to Columbia in New York, have become the exact opposite
of what they were created to be. Instead of cultivating the powers of reason in
order to expand upon previous achievements, universities in America have become
bastions of oppression, decrying and even punishing any thought that’s not
strictly politically correct. And nowhere is this more true than at Harvard.
It’s become a centre for collectivist thinking and a factory for the oppressors
of the next generation.
To be sure, the students themselves did not create this
atmosphere. But huge grants to both professors and schools have assured that
the mindset of the instructors and the goals of the schools themselves have
become the indoctrination of a future generation of leaders to a collectivist
way of thinking.
The result of years of such indoctrination is that the US is
today a culture in which the collectivist agenda is being pushed by those who
are the most educated and respected. Not surprising then, that the media, the
courts, and the public themselves now see collectivism as high-minded and fail
to grasp what the American Founding Fathers knew: that a successful and
progressive society is built upon freedom, not Orwellian domination.
Unfortunately, it’s ever-true that we’re the product of what we
learn. More importantly, a country that’s successful in indoctrinating its
youth to believe in oppression will bear fruit and become an oppressive nation.
The US rose to an unprecedented height in its developing years.
In its decline, that hasn’t merely been diminished—it’s been reversed. Although
some Americans do still grasp the Jeffersonian concept of freedom, the overall
thrust of the nation is the opposite. The US still exists, but America has
departed.
