Libertarian National Socialist Green Party

One of the hardest things to comprehend as a human is context. When in a task of many different parts, it is easy to become fixated on the most immediate work and forget about the larger picture.

Such is a description of the time in which we live, on several levels.

First, morality - originally a form of ethics designed to make it easy to separate the destructive actions from the positive - has through its function as a promise against social ills, over time, become a religious and political goal in itself.

It took so little time, on the grander scale, for the idea of benevolence in such a form to go from "do no wrong" to "prove you are doing right or you are wrong," but one thing's for sure: it has provided a great means of control. Movie audiences, voters, UN delegates and newspaper readers all automatically fear that which is labelled "wrong."

Second, money. This was originally a device to make barter easier, because bartering was how goods and services were distributed. Now, thanks to years of its necessity in a context detached from function, and the religious attitudes of protestants which hold that earning money is a signal of one's approval rating with God, money has become the quest in itself.

Finally, democracy and individualism, and "rights." These were once a means of preventing tyranny. Now to state any opposition to these concepts is to face tyranny of a new form when the forces of global "justice" come bomb your nation, ignoring the destruction and massive killing of civilians in the name of the "higher" concepts of individual "freedom" and moral right.

These changes can be explained by looking at how humans become dependent on anything, including a parasite. At first it is extraneous, but then at some time or event, it becomes useful in a small capacity. Soon it's part of the team. Soon after that, preserving it becomes part of the goal of the team itself.

Nature simply makes things function. There is no moral judgment inherent therein, nor any long-term planning, but a binary determination of problem-solving: does this make the problem go away, most of the time? If yes, it's part of the system. Time, perhaps millions of years, will tell in the future how effective it was in the long-term.

When we see certain systems as "natural," such as the competition of capitalism or the demographic changes currently effecting America, what we are seeing is this compromise instinct at work. When events change, natural systems adapt. It is for those who can predict and plan to figure out whether each change should occur or not. Without that leadership capacity, both harmful and healthful trends are integrated into a society, producing the result of lack of planning: a system compromised across the board.

Fortunately, that this is happening in our current society is starting to become obvious to people, as we fight strange wars for small middle eastern tribes while our politicians waffle on almost every important domestic issue, and as drugs, gangs, rape, violence and over-sexualized children act out media-fed roles and become easy prey. None of the official talking heads worry about these problems as a whole, because they're too worried about keeping the domesticated parasites happy.

Last week, George W. Bush spoke up against Affirmative Action in order to appease one audience and play them against another, as Martin "Plagiarism is a Family Value" Luther King, Jr. Day approached. When he speaks of "moral certainty" about either of these issues, he is not talking about the future: he's talking about keeping the voting blocs of white Americans and African-Americans, respectively, considering their interests "represented." This both bolsters his credibility and distracts people from larger issues.

In the meantime, Paul Wolfowitz, who is a Jew and has been an advisor to every American president since 1973 except one, gave a series of interviews in which he expounded on his view of the Iraq war as necessary while gushing aides spoke of how "intelligent" and "perceptive" he is. The hope here is apparently that Americans will take these aides at their word, and trust Paul to be objective about American interests, even though by his religion he has sworn to a larger goal, that of Judaism itself.

These events are not unrelated. It is a social climate and "intellectual" attitude in the United States that has made them acceptable. This attitude is one that suggests the importance of balancing our parasites against one another, without considering the values or vision behind the whole. As our kingdom burns, we're worried about parasites like the economy, morality or social approval which were originally used to more easily make real what we as a society value.

Parasitism is like the old objects one has around a house after living somewhere for ten years or more. They're not needed, and not part of the mission, but because they're there and it takes effort to remove them, they stay. However, when one looks to the larger context, their irrelevance is seen, and they can be replaced. If there's one hope for the future, it is the sensible among us being once again able to see this context, and act upon it.