Libertarian National Socialist Green Party

We live in a time where people, aided by the convenience of civilization and its religious mythology, have become completely detached from reality in the sense of conditions which affect us all, occurring continuously as a product of events, or causes.

In many ways, the person of this current time is more concerned with social perceptions of reality than they are with reality itself, since so little of their lives deal with actual concrete changes. They're used to explaining things to others and making themselves understood by justification or any appeal to social devices like morality or money-making.

Because of this detachment, the average person of this age, when confronted with hard reality of a problem or coming change which is for the worse, will - and this is telling - not argue that the change isn't going to occur. Rather, they'll try to rationalize it away, appealing to "higher" forms of thinking like sentiment or political obligation.

It's a sign of great unhealth when it is considered more important to give a reason for things being how they are, than it is to start the hard work and reality-based planning necessary to change them. Confronted with a disaster in the works, the average person today says, "Well, we can't offend these people, and we can't act in this manner, so I guess it's just a shame."

What a passive and self-defeating worldview, if not an outright self-hating one. The non-socialized individual looks toward the changes he or she will make so that the future is different in certain ways, but the over-socialized individual looks toward public perception and tokens of goodwill instead. I didn't mean to upset anyone, he or she rationalizes. Therefore it's okay that I lose.

This attitude crops up regarding many important issues. Talking to people about race, one gets all sorts of responses. "Some scientists say race isn't important." Or they'll speak up bravely about how race has been used to oppress. Neither of these assertions of dubious actual "proof" changes the bottom line: Indo-Europeans are a minority, and will soon be bred out of existence by genetic groups who are much more common.

Similarly, there's hilarity when one mentions casually, "Did you know that we're polluting our planet, overpopulating it and overdeveloping its land to the point of extinction of natural ecosystems?" Everyone's an expert, instantly, and wants to argue about whether global warming is real, or pollution can be avoided, or nature is needed - tiny issues tangential at best to the question: are we or are we not destroying our environment?

Another great place to observe this denial-phenomenon in action is in the political sphere regarding the coming war with Iraq. Whether we want to moralize and consider ourselves better than Saddam Hussein, or talk about how evil nuclear weapons are, the fact remains that Israel receives more foreign policy consideration than any country on earth, and that Israel has WMDs including biological, chemical and up to 400 nuclear devices.

But you don't hear any of these hard line realities from the media, or from your government, or from citizens around you. Of course not. As society is explained to them, all of their incentive is to keep illusion alive.

The media make their money from generating sensational stories which require none of your intervention. Read/watch, comment, and then move on to the next thing. Don't do anything about it; long-term struggles that aren't apocalyptic make difficult headlines. Your government is a democracy, which in other words means paid entertainers who represent a series of paid lobbies. They don't look at the whole, or the bottom line; they speak up for those pay them, and avoid other "troublesome" issues like ethnic extermination or worldwide destruction of natural environments.

This is what it is to be part of an age of denial, when our symbols - whether derived from our religion, our money or the existence technology affords us - are more important than what's actually going on. Symbols make one's intent more important than the outcome, so as long as you meant well, it's okay if you vote, consume and "feel" your way into extinction.

However, the cracks are showing in this "great" system, and daily more people are seeing that television is more important than reality to most people, and the wheels in their heads are slowly turning. The person of the next age will be the one who regardless of intention, television soudbite or priestly unction, can face reality and change it, much like our past ancestors.