American Beauty Part I

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.” – Christopher Lasch

Some would think that the mindset of fascism had long died away and been left for  historians to ponder over while the rest of us thank our lucky stars that we are no longer part of the original riptide. Some would say that it has been largely buried in the generational refuse tips of our tragic past. The problem is, past events are never really buried or forgotten. We either learn to recognise the shoots of extremism or we choose to ignore them once again. By doing the latter we ensure that the old dark ways are brushed off and given a fresh new lick of paint from the propaganda can. We ensure that they return stronger than ever with the power of technological advances gained from the “creativity” of War.  

The result of the Second World War was over 65 million dead, millions more wounded, children orphaned, families broken up and generations of emotional trauma. The irony is, after such intense suffering, and with time healing some of the wounds, the immediacy of the slaughter no longer shocks us. The “Brave New World” of our “Techtopia” has dulled the senses and heightened the need to escape and consume; to forget the reasons why such evil manifested and why it is coursing up through the our collective roots once again.   

Much has been written on the possibility that the United States of America is suffering from a return of corporate-suited Nazism. Sure, it is an emotive word. We think of jackboots, Hitler’s speeches at Nuremberg, the concentration camps and the infamous Swastika flag. Theories as to why such extremism is reappearing have been sporadically debated and politely discussed right up to the present time. Seemingly watertight measures have been implemented to ensure such a global genocide could never happen again. Nevertheless, it is clear now, that the fascism and the desire to control and subdue sentient life did not die. Those that believe in the superiority of race, culture and creed remain as strong as ever, with a fake veneer of technological saviour-faire tacked onto what has euphemistically known as “Globalisation,” “a New International Order” or more appropriately, a New Pathocracy made up of primary psychopaths atop a hierarchical power structure of corporate totalitarianism. 

This emerging Fourth Reich had its inception in the National Socialism that was simply transplanted along the “rat lines” of America and Germany; a complete pathogen that infected the government, intelligence and finally the sociological landscape of the USA itself. The more inclusive and peaceable history of this country was hijacked by these same pathogenic strains culminating in the assassination of J.F. Kennedy, in turn paving the way for the Bush dynasty and the coup d’etat of September eleventh.

   

Many of the architects of the present administration bulldozed their way to power on the platform of Project for the New American Century a geo-political blueprint for fascist control. 1 The 9/11 attacks fit snugly into their overall game-plan for a "new pearl harbour-like event" and the ideology for perpetual war, with the global “war on terror” acting as lubrication for the needed climate of fear and thus the acceptability of a new world villain to act as cover for resource grabs and empire building.

It would be foolish to think that George W. Bush had the mental wherewithal to embody the Presidential traits that so many longed for. Indeed, psychologists in a recent report costing $1.2m in public funds for research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, on “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,” came to some unexpected conclusions – at least for the neo-conservative Congressman and officials. The report found that “conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in ‘fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity’.”2 The authors stated that many proponents of conservatism (read neo-conservatism) from the past and present all “preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality” linking such luminaries as Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the right-wing talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, as suffering from the same “affliction.” The research also focused on Bush Jr. himself, citing him as a textbook case in which his moral certainty, dislike of nuance: “…can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic clichés and stereotypes.”

The more George W. Bush talked of God and democracy, the more our reality reflected the opposite. Denial is the means by which American minds are fattened up for the kill. The more we are able to relinquish our beliefs that people “couldn’t do that” the more likely it is that a neo-con brand of Nazism is alive and well and about to collectively beat down our doors. Indeed, it has given birth to a 666Ib fascist Leviathan in Zionist diapers ready to finish what was started in 1938.

It is from this backdrop that organized paedophilia, prostitution, pornography, human trafficking, arms sales and finally war, cannot be separated. They feed off each other’s existence and come into being from this same ponerogenesis of nations and social systems. Organized crime has already been assimilated into most Western establishments and institutions or conversely, has erupted from within due to this same pathological infection. 


Notes

1 www.newamericancentury.org/  - “The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.” See: ‘Dick Cheney’s Song For America’ By David Armstrong Harper's Magazine, 0017789X, Oct 2002, Vol. 305, Issue 1829. It was also published in unclassified form most recently under the title of ‘Defense Strategy for the 1990s.’
2  ‘Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve’ by Julian Borger, The Guardian, August 13, 2003.