Saturday, April 20, 2013

Boston in a perspective


Sadly we watch as our nation goes through another period of mourning.  It’s difficult enough when someone loses a family member or close friend to any untimely tragedy, but these occurrences are somehow different.  It is much easier to understand an accidental death, or even one brought about in the commission of a crime.  Attacks aimed at ordinary citizens due to a difference in ideology, brought about by propaganda, indoctrination and misinformation, are much harder to understand.  In the case of attacks, such as 9-11, and the recent Boston Marathon bombing, the loss of life, limb, and peace are attacks against us all as a nation.  They are in fact an attack upon the whole of humanity brought about by irrational hatred. 
 The saying “The pen is mightier than the sword” is as true today as at the time of its origin.  The only difference is the speed at which ideas can be spread and expanded upon and the pen and paper has been replaced by electronic communicative devices.  The Russian premier Nikita Krushchev predicted that Communism would defeat our way of life, not with weapons but with propaganda. The insidious creeping of hidden indoctrination evidences itself daily.  It is very easy to be aware of the effects of indoctrination in other ideologies when we see them acted out in violence.  It has always been easier to see the splinter in our enemy’s eye than the log in our own.  What we fail to see in ourselves may be much more heinous than the violence perpetrated by others. 
The danger of losing our country and way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to acts of physical violence is minimal.  The loss of those ideas we hold dear, nationally, are being eroded by propaganda promoted by our news media, the purchase of voter base through appeasement, the promotion of skewed values and historical misinformation put forward by our educators.  Our nation, assuredly, is attacked from the outside but the real danger is within.  That danger is self-inflicted ignorance because we are too lazy or lack the time to explore and seek the truths and dispel the falsehoods.  It is far too easy to look at the United States as good or bad. We have been led to believe one or the other and the real fact is that throughout our history we have been both.  When our sources of information are tainted by educators, parents, preachers and peers our beliefs may or may not have validity.  If it is important we owe it to ourselves to seek the truth and we owe it to our children even more so.
I believe that within each of us exist the seeds of both good and evil.  Whichever receives the most food will become predominate.  I think that the reason most radical purpose is generated in the young is because they are the most susceptible to whatever is fed into their minds.  That is one reason Communism, fundamentalist Islamists, and anti-American sentiments are so prevalent in today’s world.  Whenever there is a collective dictatorship, the first thing that is eliminated is any source of knowledge that disagrees with those in control.  That can be seen in countries all over the world.  That used to be why our form of government was feared by communist and socialist nations.  Control of the educational system is the only way the future can be swayed in the direction of an ideology.  Eventually those educated become the educators.  A self-perpetuating trek toward either a individual dictator or a government controlled by a few at the top of a bureaucratic food chain. 
We can look at the young people involved in acts of terrorism and ask how anyone can hate enough to kill innocents.  The answer is simply that they were taught to hate and in their young minds the acting out is a form of heroism.  They see the enemy not as a living human being but simply as an enemy, a thing not a life.  In this we can see the true effect of indoctrination and propaganda.  We need to beware.  Our own society is in a period of flux, deeply into the educational indoctrination and media propaganda stages.  Not so much in terms of government but in terms of restructuring our society to the point of submission

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