The New Epoch

In yesterday's [day before, now; under 'Everything In Its Time & Place'] blog I spoke of 'the (New) Soviet Man'.  I would like to elaborate a bit on that subject; and in the light of recent events.  Whereby the clash between the 'Left' and the 'Right' is proving to be coming to a head.

Part of it is summarized in socialist jargon like 'social justice,' and now something called 'economic justice'.

'Economic justice':  Is there a problem, say, with a wide gap between the income of a CEO and that of the worker on the shop floor?  Yes - and especially in line with the 'modern' notion of what is (or at least to recently was) called 'the 20:80 society,' wherein the elite are (were??)  planning on a society whereby 20% of the populace will - would - be handsomely paid for their services and loyalty to The System, and 80% of the populace will - would - be considered as 'useless eaters,' to be dealt with as cheaply as possible by TPTB, including their dispatch - to say, death.  Murder most foul; by various means.  Including epidemics.  But that aspect of this, and such expressions by ideologues (in the very same vein as 'social justice,' and what the lefties actually mean by it),  is not what I will be speaking to here.  

I want here to speak to the likes of the following bit of made-up conversation (to make, or at least establish, my point):

Socialist: 'We [the elusive 'We'] should/need to take from those who can afford it and give it to those who need it more.'   

Republican: 'That's theft.'   

Socialist: 'No it isn't.  It's justice.'  

Republican: 'Justice?!  That's a ridiculous use of that word.'

Socialist: 'It's economic justice, you racist.  It makes for a fairer society.  A Just society.  It's  Equality at work.'  

Republican: 'And what about 'liberty'??'       

Socialist: 'Liberty?!  Ha!  That's simply a code word for selfishness.  Your day is over, Neanderthal.  We need the New Soviet Man.  Not the Individual.  Look what he has done to the planet.' 1 

Well; yes.  And:

A pox on both / your houses. / But especially to / the 'capitalist' one; / and especially therein /  to the concept / of usury. / The object / of your system / of interest-bearing currency / is to make money. / Not goods and services / per se. / That is silly - / of low / consciousness / really. / Not high. / We need - and are / going to / move into / (whether some / like it / or not)  - / a new epoch / for all humanity. / And that means / to do away / with money / per se, / and substitute / for it / a divine way / of being / with each other / on our long-suffering / Mother / Earth / Now about / to ascend / along / with us / to / higher / reaches.

But not the New Soviet Man way.  That is the Way of those who believe in the 'philosophy' of Whatever It Takes.  By Any Means Necessary.  The End justifies the Means.  In other words:

Tyrants.    

Here's an example of their sort of thinking.  It is from an article in the 'Correction, Please!' section of The New American magazine of November 17th, last. 2  It's titled: 'Disease-controlling Agencies Can't  Control Themselves,'  and speaks for itself; thusly:

"ITEM: An article by Sam Stein in the Huffington Post states: 'As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country's top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it not for budget cuts.

   "Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has 'slowed down' research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases.'

   "Collins told the news site: 'Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this  that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.'"

"ITEM: A commercial being run by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, referring to the Centers for Disease Control, states that 'Republicans voted to cut the CDC's budget to fight Ebola.'"

"ITEM: The Agenda Project, a 'progressive' political organization, has been running vicious and misleading ads that blame reductions in the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health for the Ebola outbreak this year.  The campaign is entitled 'Republican Cuts Kill.'

   Writing about the campaign, Erica Paine, 'the president of the Agenda Project Action Fund that backs the political ads, says: 'Like rabid dogs in a butcher shop, Republicans have indiscriminately shredded everything in their paths, including critical programs that could have dealt with the Ebola crisis before it reached our country.'"

Wow.  Those 'rabid dog' Republicans.  What meanies.  What heartless creatures.  What….well.  We get the point.

So, what's the real truth of this matter, then, Erica; you bitch???

The article goes on:

"CORRECTION: All would be well if only taxpayers were trimmed more and the budget trimmed less -- or so we are told.

    "Thousands of deaths in West Africa now speeding in our direction are apparently the fault of parsimonious legislative brutes who insist on following the path of least assistance.  [Nice one, William.  That's William P.Hoar; regular Contributor to TNA.]

   "Well, this isn't so.  But lies do carry a certain amount of weight to those who wish to believe them.

   "The promoters of big government as the solution to all our ills always have an excuse when things go wrong.  And the answer is inevitably even bigger government.  The fact that the federal government is almost $18 trillion in debt hardly enters into the thinking in much of Washington.  [My emphases throughout.]  In the case of the National Institutes of Health, among others, the alleged fault for the lack of an Ebola vaccine seems to boil down to not having been given enough money -- as if tax dollars came from an endless well, each and every cent in its budget were vital, and waste represented a mysterious concept.  That is a situation not found in this world.

   "As a rule, it matters less how much is pumped into a bureaucratic budget than how the money is spent.  Government agencies, as do the families that fund such agencies, need to set priorities.  The Centers for Disease Control is supposed to do what its name says -- control diseases that represent a public hazard.  It continues to go well beyond that mandate.

   "Over the years, it is true, there have been some cuts proposed, and some even implemented, by both Republicans and Democrats in Washington in certain areas of public health spending.  When this happens, it usually means there is a decrease in the rate of growth…Trying to blame the spread of Ebola on public-health budget adjustments is ludicrous.

   "The funding issue involving public health is far different from the way it has been repeatedly represented in certain political advertising and by evidently destitute officials barely getting by in impoverished circumstances.  [Poor put-upon people.  Adopt A Bureaucrat.]

   "As reported by the Washington Times on October 14, 'Ebola falls under the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases branch, whose funding has grown more than $100 million from $281 million in 2010 to $390 million in 2014…'  How about the supposed slashing of the National Institutes of Health?  Not quite.  Notes the Times, the statistics put out by the NIH itself 'show that the division that handles infectious diseases has seen its funding jump from less than $1.8 billion in 2000 to $4.8 billion in 2010.  Funding has dipped since then, to $4.4 billion in 2014.'  [Wow.  Call the Undertaker.]

   "Again, it is how such monies are spent that does make a difference.  Consider the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF).  This was funded, as explained not long ago by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for Politico.com [so the left-wing knew], by a series of annual mandatory appropriations.  'Over the past five years, the CDC has received just under $3 billion in transfers from the fund.  Yet only 6 percent -- $180 million -- of that $3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity. Especially given the agency's postwar roots as the Communicable Disease Center, one would think that 'detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats' warrants a larger funding commitment.'

   "Rather, as the governor noted, the Obama administration

   'has focused the CDC on other priorities.  While protecting Americans from infectious dis-

   eases received only $180 million from the Prevention Fund, the community transformation

   grant program received nearly there times as much money -- $517.3 million over the same 

   five-year period.     

      'The CDC's website makes clear the objectives of community transformation grants.  The   

   program funds neighborhood interventions like "increasing access to healthy foods by 

   supporting local farmers and developing neighborhood grocery stores," or "promoting im- 

   provements in sidewalks and street lighting to make it safe and easy for people to walk

   and ride bikes."  Bike lanes and farmer's markets may indeed help a community -- but 

   they would do little to combat dangerous diseases like Ebola, SARS or anthrax.'

   "Proper choices make big differences in life and in governing.  While it may be somewhat unfair to blame too little health research on, say, the president's many vacations that are paid for by the taxpayers…it is indeed pertinent to pay attention to what particular departments do with the finite amount of funds that are in their budgets…"

and so forth, in that vein; including the comment:

   "Here are some of the federal government's purportedly vital projects funded by NIH and their price tags: $295,364, determining that male fruit flies are more attracted to younger female fruit flies than older female fruit flies; $350,000, researching how golfers perform better when using their imagination; $548,731, acquiring evidence that heavy drinking in a person's thirties can lead to feelings of immaturity, while in their twenties it would not [???]; and, $666,905, researching how fictional characters in books, movies, and television shows can help a person feel better about life…"

I could use some of that latter info.  I'm not doing so good right about now…                 

First, let me say: No wonder the Left hates the John Birch Society so.  They keep calling them on their effing lies, with solid research into socio-econo-political matters in this country.  I wish a good, solid round of applause to the JBS for their yoeman-like service to this nation over the years.  Long may their banner yet wave.  

Next.   The far Left is infested with people who have no morals, except the 'moral' of Whatever It Takes.  By Any Means Necessary.  Straight out of the Saul Alinsky 'Rules for Radicals' handbook for revolutionaries (excuse me; 'community organizers').  They are liars, and bitches, and sons of bitches.3  And they need to be called on their disgusting actions.  Before - and in conjunction with their control over the Mainstream Media - they succeed, in their nefarious attempt at takeover of this nation.  Not just for its own sake; but In order to merge it into their collectivist New World Order.  Which, without the American Constitution to block it, will roll over individual rights in the world like a Nazi blitzkrieg. 

I won't have it.

Nor should you, either.  Citizen.              

And thus endeth the lesson for today.

But just to summarize, in conclusion:

I am not a socialist.  I do not believe in a big, all-powerful government, which controls the individual's life to within an inch of it.  That does not allow for a healthy exercise of the divine right of free will.  So there's that.

At the same time, I do not believe in a system of exchange characterized by interest-bearing money (& thereby, Money as Debt).  As I have said before: We should - need to - be sharing our goods and services with one another - and giving of our best in the process - simply out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.  Our of, in a word: Love.  'And all else will be added unto us.'  To  say: that way (that Way), we open the doorway to Abundance for everybody.  Not just a (favored) few.

I am talking about the 'descent' of the kingdom of Heaven on Earth.  At long last.   

Think about it.  And come to your own conclusion on the matter.  Is it that time.  Or is it not.

And let's get on with bringing it in.  

Before it's too late.  And we miss our Window of Opportunity.  As we descend further into the ugly other matter we are faced with:

our shadow side; taking over.  Yet once again.


So: What do we do?

A: Lay new track.  Out of the coming definitive confrontation between Left and Right; thesis and anti-thesis.

And go Up.  Taking the best of both - the Truth of both - with us.  Into

a state, and stage, of Synthesis.

The beginning of the End of polarity consciousness.

Needing us to tune into it.

Now.


And the clue as to how to proceed?

A: The quality of Service.

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footnotes:

1 This is On The Occasion Of a Peaceful (And Candlelit) Demonstration Yesterday Outside City Hall In Downtown Long Beach For Something Their Placards Called 'Economic Justice'

2 'The New American' is the magazine of the John Birch Society.  Yes; you've heard of them.  They are a particularly vicious category of "rabid dogs," aren't they.  Aren't they???  Read on…

3 at this stage of the operation of the History Unfolding process, that is to say…

   playing their parts well.   Too damn well, sometimes, for my taste…….

   And here's to hoping that they will releases their parts, in The Play, when the time for the curtain calls come.