Libertarian National Socialist Green Party

Painting Yourself Into a Corner

Seeing the world as being in the hands of a conspiracy lets one divide it into two forces. Whatever side opposes one's own politics is seen as being covertly in control of society, and the revolutionary mindset emerges: if we can just destroy this Other, what will be left is us, the morally good side. This is why most revolutions kill intellectuals and, replacing an old rotten empire with a new corrupt one, declare victory and dissolve.

Yet something is clearly rotten in our society. Massive pollution leaves much of our water and air and land toxic, and we overconsume daily while bombing distant groups of people so that they conform to our governmental model. Dissidents are suppressed. In these acts, the participants have no connection to a central enemy. Confront them and they'll bleat, "I was just doing my job!"

In an interconnected society, a centralized clandestine controller with a hidden agenda is too easily identified. What can be done is to insert the human equivalent of a computer virus, an idea that sounds good and has consequences which aren't obvious. In the case of pollution, we all accept that we need jobs, local industries need money, and a side effect of industry is additional toxins in our air, water and land. Ten years later we're "shocked and surprised" to find our environment is toxic; we were just doing our jobs.

Where traditional Indo-European society believed that the significance of actions and events was more important than the physical and tangible products of their outcome, after the influence of Judaism, the newly liberal and egalitarian West espoused a materialist individualism, which meant that the significance of actions was less important than what was left over, most notably the profit and the survivors.

The attitude that it was better to do what was right than to survive at the expense of doing what was right, and that sustenance came from nature and there was no such thing as "profit," or material wealth taken out of the natural system, was soon vanquished. The new liberal belief styled itself as more "compassionate" and "sensitive," and valued the survival of individuals and the profit to which they were entitled over any sense of collective direction.

A thousand years later, the religious component of this belief has been dropped. Liberal democracies proclaim they are reforming older evil systems and bring a revolution of democracy and freedom to the nations they bomb into submission. Because of the egalitarian sentiments of liberalism, race- and caste-equalizing policies are the norm.

Our leaders, thinking they're doing the "right thing" and needing votes to keep their power alive, cater to egalitarian interests balanced with monetary needs of industry. The left sees the monetary methodology and screams, "Aha! The vast right-wing conspiracy!" while Nationalists see the egalitarian dogma and begin visualizing Z.O.G. in their breakfast cereal.

Conspiracy is necessary to the revolutionary vision. Revolution is what occurs when you believe you can shoot the bad guys and, by leaving only those who are morally "good," change society overnight. A more seasoned look at the situation suggests that we need a value change, and playing the blame game will just paint us into a corner. Our situation is a mess because our values have become decadent, and only fixing that will deliver us from paranoia and failure.