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Gordon Duff: “Primordialism” And The Decline Of Human Culture

April 17, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff · 40 Comments
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AMERICA, ISRAEL, AFGHANISTAN, ALL THE SAME

“TAPPING THE REPTILE BRAIN”

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER

Any discussion that challenges how people are conditioned by repeated lies and
planned mythology is doomed to fail.  The human mind has been debased to the
point where it no longer learns as part of survival but takes in lies like a rat eating a
corpse.  Nearly every assumption we are expected to build on, from the phony
heroics of Rudy Giuliani or the utterly discredited 9/11 investigation to the imaginary
War on Terror was created in whole or part as a fiction, to entertain, amuse or to kill.
The glue that holds Washington, Kabul, Tel Aviv, London, Zurich and Geneva
together is war profits, drug money and oil speculation.  What makes it all possible is
the lies we call news, lies, staged terrorist “events” and wars where, if we didn’t
supply the enemy ourselves, we would be using cluster bombs against spears.
Building an enemy is far more important than defeating one.

Every word we are bombarded with separates us, American against American,
Christian and Jew against Muslim.  This is the plan, dehumanize everyone to
everyone, then slaughter is little more than disposing of trash.  Americans looked on
Red China in the 50s and 60s as a society built on hate.  Albania armed its entire
population, buiding bunkers for each family, half of Russia had moved underground
and East and West had maneuvered half the 3rd world into killing each other, all
over the insane ideas that the East was Communist and the West Capitalist, when, in
fact, both were thinly veiled military dictatorships playing at politics as little more than
cover.

CHILDREN AS SOLDIERS

We have over 5000 years of history, a history where organized murder under the
term “war” has become the norm.  I always thought the Trojan Wars, fought over
Helen’s promiscuity, as the dumbest war in history until the last Bush administration.
Even if 9/11 were as stated, a conspiracy done by an Arab terrorist group, something
no longer in evidence, a fact suppressed in most media, were true, the two wars we
are stuck in are enigmatic.

    * Bin Laden denied involvement in 9/11, accusing Israel for arranging the attack.
All bin Laden admissions since have been debunked as coming from Israel itself
    * No training camp has ever been located in Afghanistan nor has there ever been
evidence that one had existed.
    * There is no evidence of an Arab terrorist organization in Afghanistan or Pakistan
prior to the US invasion after 9/11.  In fact, there is no evidence Al Qaeda ever
existed prior to 9/11.
    * The Afghanistan war has had one purpose, to end the Taliban embargo on
Heroin trafficking, the industry that has helped the US and Israel gain political control
of every corrupt government in the region

What we have created, is a meat grinder, turning our own sons and daughters into
soldiers, not to defend America from terrorism, but indoctrinated to fight a “holy war”
against the brown people of the world and the religion of Islam.  Calling this war and
so many others anything but race war and ethnic cleansing is a lie.  That so many of
our troops are black and brown, Hispanic and even Muslim is ironic.  We have now
had several cases where our troops have massacred their own.  Is it any wonder
why?

WAR IS NEVER HUMAN, NO MATTER HOW WE PACKAGE IT

The infamous 2007 Apache helicopter video depicting the moral failure of our forces
in Iraq was leaked with excellent timing.  With Israel facing worldwide criticism for
ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, doing to them exactly what American
did to its own native population, this video gave Israel some breathing room.  I hope
Israel thanks their Chinese friends for helping provide this cover.

When our own “Christian warriors” return from the Middle East, and the reality of
being duped sets in, many simply can’t survive.  This makes me think of the Israeli
pilots sent to strafe the USS Liberty.  These were decent men sent on a brutal and
criminal mission.  Americans died but those who took part in the murder died to.
Nobody survives committing an atrocity, nobody but a sociopath.  Sociopaths never
make it into war, they stay in government where they belong.  Those who can’t
survive the rigors of government become pundits, lecturers or, worst of all, attempt
to be journalists.

Odd as it may seem, the biggest victims of the siege of Gaza are the Israeli troops
involved.  I know dozens who have served in the IDF, good and decent people.
Many are friends, close friends.  You can only lie to yourself so much.  How does
blowing up a water treatment plant make Israel safe?  Was Israel unsafe?  How long
can someone hate another because of race or religion and remain human?

Let’s look in our own backyard.

THE INTERNET AND “MOB MENTALITY”

In the early days of the internet, AOL, Usenet and CompuServe, internet communities
sprung up overnight, discussing everything from history to genealogy.  The
phenomenon of the “internet troll” came about, people whose anti-social nature was
sublimated by the “real world” became virtual lions, Hitleresque in nature, spewing
venom and hate with every peck at the keyboard.  Over the years, as internet using
began to reach tens of millions in the US alone, behaviorists began to see value in
exploiting this vast underbelly of psychopaths.  Could they be organized and
manipulated?  Is the next Oswald out there?

The behaviorists, funded by “think tanks” always seek one thing, funding for
research, always that magic moment when a porpoise can be trained to blow up a
ship or what if a rat could carry a bomb?  Where would we be without behaviors and
“think tanks.”  These groups recruit marginalized academics with personality
disorders to produce opinions “on demand” as though they were omelets.  Put a
glossy enough name, like The American Enterprise Insitute, behind a few angry,
confused and delusional types unable to survive in the real world, and you can begin
selling any idea as long as their is a client willing to pay.  The ideas almost always run
to one direction, the criminal acts of the powerful against decent people must always
be justified.

If a thief has looted your retirement fund or your job has been mysteriously
eliminated, the “theory” justifying this came from a “think tank.”

Behaviorists and “think tanks” also advise on policy.  Would people and organizations
like this advise a government to stage terrorist attacks on its own people in order to
pass draconian laws, create new, massive and useless agencies and start a
generation of war?  Could such organizations help restructure banking law to allow
“pump and dump”  groups to trade phony sub-prime mortgage instruments, inflating
5 dollars of real property into millions in collateral to cover billions in debt until
everything exploded?  Oh, you thought Acorn did this?

THE POWER OF THE PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY

The biggest impact the internet has had has been to explore the depths of the
human soul.  More hate, more threats, more insanity is spewed on the internet in
one hour than came out of Nazi Germany in 12 years.  With the sick, the paranoid,
the angry and the uneducated so easy to find, catalog and manipulate, manipulate
using some of the best scientific minds glad to work to debase humanity for a
paycheck, a subculture of minor “kooks” took on the power of a political movement.

Man’s most basic inhuman behavior is racism.  Cultural differences and religious
divides exacerbated by religion has brought us into the area of “primordialism,”
tapping behaviors once thought to originate in the medulla.  Thus, where Germany
justified their war in 1914 as an attempt to spread what they thought was the world’s
most advanced culture under the watchwords, “Gott Ist Mit Uns”  (God is with us),
we have expanded through a psyche bombarded by electronic media a descent into
the primordial ooze.  What we call “racism” or “hate” is, in actuality, the use by
technologically advanced societies and their scientifically perfected propaganda skills,
using control of every aspect of culture to dehumanize the “enemy” and barbarize
their own population.

Thus, the societal norm is to look on any chosen group, be it political, racial, religious,
ethnic or of alternative sexual orientation as, not only inhuman but as a threat.

“PRIMORDIALISM” GOES MAINSTREAM

In America, you could parade with a Nazi arm band or wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood,
carrying a burning cross, espousing threats to the “white race” and espousing
separatism and even violence.  Such organizations fell into such disrepute that their
behaviors became criminalized and they, themselves, were scorned.  Today, groups
advocating ideas far more violent, far more hate oriented than the Klan or Nazi party
walk the streets with heads held high.  Hiding behind such superficial concepts of
“family values” and “Christian Zionism” (a cult with beliefs tied to nuclear destruction
and forced conversion of Jews to Christianity) and allied with the “robber barons” of
the 21st century, the military/financial/oil/drug cartels that control half the world’s
governments, barbarism comparable to any era in human history, not only survives,
but spreads in ways previously unimagined.

The “value added” by use of scientific methodologies in manipulating human
populations through exploiting primordial fears such as sexual humiliationor loss of
territory for “hunter gatherer clans,” has been to create an intellectual environment
that devalues knowledge and science as “elitism” and find virtue in fear and brutality.
Thus, any normal human advancement is suppressed.  The result is a caricature of
ourselves, as though we had been written into a Star Trek episode as an example of
a race in decline generally blamed on some obscure environmental toxin or
bombardment by an “evil” sub-atomic particle.

THE SIMPLIST BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES SET ASIDE

Humans are not supposed to eat their own young, but it is exactly what we are
doing.  While we mortgage the economic future of our children through worldwide
empires built on corruption and debt, building a series of oligarchical societies quickly
returning the world to feudalism, we similarly are raising a generation of our children
to fight wars, narco-wars, oil wars, wars meant to exploit resources and maximize
poverty, despair and breed another generation of extremism and fear.

Who would have thought that societies capable of unimagined technological
achievements, even capable of mirroring the miracles of creation and the universe,
would descend into a reptilian culture?  Simply follow popular culture.  Entertainment
is a mixture of post-apocalyptic horrors, dramas based on examination of rotting
human remains or adventure series exalting hatred and vengeance.

SYMPTOMS OF DECLINE, MY LAI OR BUCHENWALD?

Turn on your television.  You will be told that in some far off land, the son of a
poverty stricken shepherd is being taught to memorize the Koran.  You have seen
this message a thousand times.  You are told this child is learning to hate and must
be bombed out of existence by use of robotic drones controlled by American
teenagers at a base outside Washington DC.  When, day after day, we hear that a
school or market has been attacked in Pakistan or that an American drone has
mistaken a wedding party for a terrorist conclave are we repulsed and horrified or do
we feel some hidden satisfaction than an animal, strange and threatening has been
slaughtered?  That feeling, the fleeting joy at the death of innocents is the reptilian
brain taking charge.

In 1945, American soldiers liberated a labor camp in Germany.  Hundreds of dead
and thousands of dying were found, subjected in unimaginable inhumanity.  General
Eisenhower ordered the residents of the nearby town to be taken to the camp to
view what had gone on near their homes, their town, their churches, the churches
they attended without fail each Sunday.  Anyone in Germany found defending those
responsible, simply speaking out in public or private, is imprisoned.

In 1968, American soldiers murdered 566 Vietnamese civilians, many of them small
children, even infants.  One officer was said to have committed many of the murders
personally, machine-gunning women with babes in arms.  He was arrested.  A
massive outcry for his release spread across the land, the biggest single movement in
American history, a request that he be freed, despite the fact that tens of millions of
Americans had seen films of his crimes, seen the babies in the ditch.

Vietnam maintains a museum at My Lai, much like the one Germany keeps at
Dachau.  Israel, with American help, has amassed a huge nuclear arsenal and a
defense industry that turns out some of the world’s most advanced weapons.
American troops ride in Israeli vehicles, use Israeli UAV aircraft and Israeli military
electronics.  Israel, while arming to the teeth under the motto, “never again,” now
stands accused of the same crimes committed against its own people decades
before.

America also stands accused of these same crimes, murder, genocide, torture, just as
Germany had so long ago, just as America had before,  in 1968.  When America
chose to exalt a murderer, what door did we open?

About: Gordon Duff

Email : gpduf at aol.com

Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, grunt and 100% disabled vet. He has been a featured commentator on TV and radio including Al Jazeera and his articles have been carried by news services around the world. He has been a UN Diplomat, defense contractor and is a widely published expert on military and defense issues. He is active in the financial industry and is a specialist on global trade. Gordon Duff acts as political and economic advisor to a number of governments in Africa and the Middle East. Gordon Duff is currently working on economic development projects in Pakistan and Afghanistan to counter the effects of poverty and global extremism.