Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Powers-That-Be Are Terrified of the Mass Awakening Taking Place Worldwide
Oligarchs are seizing more overt control in most countries in the world, the worldwide economy is on course for another - even bigger - train wreck, countries are cracking down on freedom and becoming more tyrannical, we are in a permanent state of war (and see this), and companies like BP are destroying our natural resources without any checks and balances.
But as Andrew Gavin Marshall points out, the elites are actually terrified of the mass political awakening which is occurring worldwide.
Marshall collects quotes from flexian Zbigniew Brzezinski - Obama's former foreign affairs adviser, National Security Adviser to President Carter, creator of America's strategy to lure Russia into Afghanistan, and creator of America's plans for Eurasia in general - to make his point.
Listen to Brzezinski's own words (consolidated from various writings and speeches, and edited as if they were a single passage):
For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial domination.
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. There are only a few pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the world that are not politically alert and engaged with the political turmoil and stirrings that are so widespread today around the world. The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination.
America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world's population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power. The need to respond to that massive phenomenon poses to the uniquely sovereign America an historic dilemma: What should be the central definition of America's global role?
[T]he central challenge of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global political awakening. That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing.
It is no overstatement to assert that now in the 21st century the population of much of the developing world is politically stirring and in many places seething with unrest. It is a population acutely conscious of social injustice to an unprecedented degree, and often resentful of its perceived lack of political dignity. The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches.
The youth of the Third World are particularly restless and resentful. The demographic revolution they embody is thus a political time-bomb, as well. With the exception of Europe, Japan and America, the rapidly expanding demographic bulge in the 25-year-old-and-under age bracket is creating a huge mass of impatient young people. Their minds have been stirred by sounds and images that emanate from afar and which intensify their disaffection with what is at hand. Their potential revolutionary spearhead is likely to emerge from among the scores of millions of students concentrated in the often intellectually dubious "tertiary level" educational institutions of developing countries. Depending on the definition of the tertiary educational level, there are currently worldwide between 80 and 130 million "college" students. Typically originating from the socially insecure lower middle class and inflamed by a sense of social outrage, these millions of students are revolutionaries-in-waiting, already semi-mobilized in large congregations, connected by the Internet and pre-positioned for a replay on a larger scale of what transpired years earlier in Mexico City or in Tiananmen Square. Their physical energy and emotional frustration is just waiting to be triggered by a cause, or a faith, or a hatred.
Politically awakened mankind craves political dignity, which democracy can enhance, but political dignity also encompasses ethnic or national self-determination, religious self-definition, and human and social rights, all in a world now acutely aware of economic, racial and ethnic inequities. The quest for political dignity, especially through national self-determination and social transformation, is part of the pulse of self-assertion by the world's underprivileged
The misdiagnosis [of foreign policy] pertains to a relatively vague, excessively abstract, highly emotional, semi-theological definition of the chief menace that we face today in the world, and the consequent slighting of what I view as the unprecedented global challenge arising out of the unique phenomenon of a truly massive global political awakening of mankind. We live in an age in which mankind writ large is becoming politically conscious and politically activated to an unprecedented degree, and it is this condition which is producing a great deal of international turmoil.
That turmoil is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have been throughout history. They have political consciousness. It may be undefined, it may point in different directions, it may be primitive, it may be intolerant, it may be hateful, but it is a form of political activism.
The other major change in international affairs is that for the first time, in all of human history, mankind has been politically awakened. That is a total new reality – total new reality. It has not been so for most of human history until the last one hundred years. And in the course of the last one hundred years, the whole world has become politically awakened. And no matter where you go, politics is a matter of social engagement, and most people know what is generally going on –generally going on – in the world, and are consciously aware of global inequities, inequalities, lack of respect, exploitation. Mankind is now politically awakened and stirring. The combination of the two: the diversified global leadership, politically awakened masses, makes a much more difficult context for any major power including, currently, the leading world power: the United States.
The people of the world are waking up to the reality of what is happening. If we wake up fast enough, we can reclaim our power and dignity, and shake off those who would steal everything we have, including our money, opportunity and freedom.
To see the context of Brzezinski 's quotes - and for a great analysis of the ways in which the powers-that-be are trying to counter the mass awakening, read Marshall's essay.
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Brzezinski sounds pretty noble here, but I would have to wonder what his motivations are in light of the fact that he is one of the power brokers for the elite. At this time the deception and manipulation is running pretty deep.
ReplyDeletein a word... good.
ReplyDeleteOur situation is dire but necessary. The Global Elite seem to have forgotten natural laws which are simple, cannot be manipulated long-term and center around "balance". The World is out of balance. It will re-balance. A lot will be hurt in the process because those in power do not want to lose it. Power is now poison. Sad that there are humans who really want to control the world and for them to have such control, many die and starve and have violence inflicted upon them. Kind of gross, if you ask me. But that is one man's humble opinion. A man who really has nothing so has nothing to lose. When the oil gusher hits the world and it is beginning to - those power elites are going to be fighting each other more, more and more....natural law always rules the day.
ReplyDeleteHow did the PUSSY Tom Perrielo end up on the top of this article???? He is a big government liberal, as Virgil Goode said a New York City attorney
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't trust Brzezinsky; I sense another liberal smokescreen here. Do you think he really means something like Negri and Hardt's concept of Multitude?
ReplyDeleteIn any case, if there is such a thing as a global awakening, what power and dignity will remain for the West to claim?
Please see M. Nadesan's Ch 6 in Governing Childhood into the 21st century: biopolitica... (2010) for a discussion of the resource ways driving perceptions of this threat by the Rand Corp. and Brzezinski, as well as the authoritarian and repressive appratuses being unleashed to contol "unruly" populations.
ReplyDeleteWashington's blog: send me an email and I will send you the chapter directly...
This blog could have said what it needed to say in one or two paragraphs. Some of the fear he is talking about may be coming from his inability to write without incessantly repeating himself.
ReplyDeleteBrzezinski is taking the mick...he`s laughing at the political construct and the fact that the dim witted are being sucked in.
ReplyDelete"It is no overstatement to assert that now in the 21st century the population of much of the developing world is politically stirring and in many places seething with unrest. It is a population acutely conscious of social injustice to an unprecedented degree, and often resentful of its perceived lack of political dignity."
Who created this reaction??? The financial collapse was designed, just like the sham war on terror...these people are reacting to NWO constructs...WE and they (the reat of the world) are being set up for WW3!!
"The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches.
"Sheared perceptions"...who gave them these perceptions..you don`t have a free media in Amerika and Europe, so heck knows what chance the rest of the world has!!lol
"The youth of the Third World are particularly restless and resentful. The demographic revolution they embody is thus a political time-bomb, as well. With the exception of Europe, Japan and America, the rapidly expanding demographic bulge in the 25-year-old-and-under age bracket is creating a huge mass of impatient young people."
It was commonly understood that dragging these people into the first world economy would be very hard...THAT WAS BEFORE THE DESIGNED FINANCIAL COLLAPSE...now these people have no chance..we are being prepared for war and the respective elites in China and India would happily engage in a global human cull!!
Brzezinski's words are aimed at low ranking NWO serfs and in reality, they mean nothing, unless you believe in the NWO constructs.
It is frankly AMAZING that Brzezinski can say how the world thinks, but omits the fact that they don`t believe Muslims carried out 9/11.LOL
My Setac...your language. Calling someone names? My family knows the Perriello family well. The world is very small as I am from another country. The name you used to describe that honorable man is completely incorrect and unnecessarily rude and frankly, your own words do our fair Earth and humanity a disservice. Name calling is something that I left behind when I was a young child. Please consider maturing. Much is at stake. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to Suffering. That is all my friend.
ReplyDeleteOh yea,Now as far as TAKING OVER IRAN,DREAM ON..The WHole world WIll Go into REVENGE MODE..I MEAN THE WHOLE WORLD,And ANother thing I thought ISRAEL is the STRONGEST MILITARY in the WORLD ? WHy dont they DO IT BY THEMSELVES ? Either way from what i read is they Are going to be in for a BIG BIG,VERY BIG SURPRISE
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ReplyDeleteI don't know who Mr. Perriello is, but your sentiment was beautifully stated.
At this point, fear and anger is humanity's greatest threat.
America is the strongest military in the world, not Israel. That is one reason why we end up being the world's policeman.
ReplyDeleteAs for unrest, I wish I saw more of it here in the U.S. But Americans are too comfortable. We have too much of everything, even the poor, compared to other countries. However, as more of the middle class joins the poor in not being able to pay their bills, maybe the riots will increase.
My own fear is that the political activism of the youth he describes is no pro-freedom, but rather pro-Islamic and Statist. Too many youth are easily led down the primrose path of these deceptive ideologies because it "feels good" or they buy into the claptrap that these ideologies are somehow more "tolerant" and less "racist".
ReplyDeleteTheir brains literally aren't fully formed when they are inculcated with these ideas and therefore they have not yet developed the empathy and experience layers that would help them understand the full implications of Shariah law or the actualities of the practice of socialism and communism.
They were not yet alive or were barely born when the Berlin Wall fell, so their only connection with that reality is the stories we tell them. It's altogether too easy for them to visit East Germany and say "This doesn't look like it was so bad" or to visit Auschwitz and think "Maybe this was all just a hoax".
It's scary for the elites, yes. But it can be equally scary for the rest of us if we don't get correct information to young people. And fast.
Fear and anger are the only hope for humanity.
ReplyDeleteUntil we all get pissed off enough the hostile elite will just keeep stealing and killing more and more.
The Western bankers own the worlds reserve currency, the US Dollar. It is losing its grip and will become a regional currency soon. The Western bankers will lose in this deal so the claim that the financial crisis was done on purpose is foolish. The world reserve currency is as good as it gets and no one will trust these banksters again for decades. It is highly unlikly that these people will be allowed the reins to the new world reserve currency if there is a new one.
None of the shallow thinkers who claim this was done on purpose have ever came up with an answer to what is written above. I doubt they ever will.
It is merely a smoke screen. They have planned a world war to eliminate most of the population. They are shrewed in their plans to only have enough people left to be able to control. People need to understand this. Don't think for a minute that that speach was not part of their plan.
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