Out of chaos comes order.
Who said the following:
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
A clue? His initials can be represented by the numbers 1 & 8.
The lies and the fodder and the attempts to create chaos are not new. They are as old as civilisations. They are the mantra for the rulers who seek to retain their power and control at all costs.
They will use fear and then soundbites to disrupt us psychologically. All lies or half truths but enough to persuade a significant number who still trust the devil to look out for their interests.
Knowledge has to be worked for but as Professor Stephen Lukes pointed out in his thesis on the third dimension of power it is not what we see that is the most important but what they leave out. Create chaos in the mind and the powerful can fill it with untold crap. If we could see reality then their stories and pictures would be dismissed.
“If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.” Atom Tate
Today it has been announced that schools will not be allowed to use resources… from so called anti capitalist sources: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/27/uk-schools-told-not-to-use-anti-capitalist-material-in-teaching
which in itself is impossible given that many parts of history do not make sense without the discussion and analysis but the point as Lukes states is to hide from the imagination anything that challenges what Gramsci describes as the hegemony of the ruling class.
We are living in a reconstruction of the Dark Ages. Not one where there is little or no information but one in which the information pumped out by power is often intentionally false and misleading. The aim is to divide us.
Trump and the Cummings/Johnson axis are anti democratic pollutants dressed up as saviours.
To create an illusory and fake history and to deny young people access to alternative philosophies, economic and political realities and historical detail is similar to ‘burning the books’. Totalitarian and fascism is en vogue in the corridors of power once again and the outcome in all probability will yet again be catastrophic.
The next step is to get young people to buy in to fascism and totalitarianism. Many deaths will follow and all the while the ruling class establishment sit pretty.
It is up to us to unite and fight as ever was.
James Finlayson
