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Discussion on Inverted Totalitarianism

ByEvil von Scary

Aug 15, 2011

With the amount of email we get from contributors and subscribers alike sometimes things can get pretty interesting in discussions from different opinions of various researchers. Having different opinions I think is a very good thing especially in the “conspiracy research” field as it forces us to take a look at all of the different angles instead of allowing a cult of personality having the ultimate and final say. In this spirit I will post some different points between researchers on various subjects as it can only serve to let us all learn more whether we agree with an opinion or not. It always amazes me though the wealth of information out there with the contributors and subscribers of the Evil von Scarry Show. Thanks to all who have tuned in so far and contributed!

The following is just a sample of what normally happens on some academic topics. This one in particular is about inverted totalitarianism and an article entitled Zero Point of Systematic Collapse written by Chris Hedges. I have taken some steps to block the identity of the contributors (who don’t want to be known) and added graphics, links, etc for the readers. Original messages were straight up text. -EvS

From: George

Chris Hedges: Zero Point of Systemic Collapse
We stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments.

Democracy, a system ideally designed to challenge the status quo, has been corrupted and tamed to slavishly serve the status quo. We have undergone, as John Ralston Saul writes, a coup d’état in slow motion. And the coup is over. They won. We lost.

We will not, especially in the United States, avoid our Götterdämmerung. Obama, like Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the other heads of the industrialized nations, has proven as craven a tool of the corporate state as George W. Bush.

Our democratic system has been transformed into what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin labels inverted totalitarianism. Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the corporate state. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, a free press, parliamentary systems and constitutions while manipulating and corrupting internal levers to subvert and thwart democratic institutions.

Political candidates are elected in popular votes by citizens but are ruled by armies of corporate lobbyists in Washington, Ottawa or other state capitals who author the legislation and get the legislators to pass it. A corporate media controls nearly everything we read, watch or hear and imposes a bland uniformity of opinion. Mass culture, owned and disseminated by corporations, diverts us with trivia, spectacles and celebrity gossip.

In classical totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi fascism or Soviet communism, economics was subordinate to politics. “Under inverted totalitarianism the reverse is true,” Wolin writes. “Economics dominates politics – and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.”

The ideology of globalization, like all “inevitable” utopian visions, is being exposed as a fraud. The power elite, perplexed and confused, clings to the disastrous principles of globalization and its outdated language to mask the looming political and economic vacuum. The absurd idea that the marketplace alone should determine economic and political constructs led industrial nations to sacrifice other areas of human importance – from working conditions, to taxation, to child labor, to hunger, to health and pollution – on the altar of free trade.

“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial,” Orwell wrote. “That is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.” Our elites have used fraud. Force is all they have left.

Our mediocre and bankrupt elite is desperately trying to save a system that cannot be saved.

More importantly, they are trying to save themselves.

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Phil/////// to me

EVS,

This concise editorial is well written, but I do not agree with the author’s primary assertion:

The preceding definition of the term ‘inverted totalitarianism’ is a realistic premise, however the following two hypothesis miss the mark:

1- The absurd idea that the marketplace alone should determine economic and political constructs led industrial nations to sacrifice other areas of human importance – from working conditions, to taxation, to child labor, to hunger, to health and pollution – on the altar of free trade.

The ‘marketplace alone’ did not lead industrial nations to sacrifice the author’s list of social needs – on the altar of free trade because the ‘marketplace’ is controlled by the international bankers. Industrial nations were not misled by the ‘marketplace’, the industrial nations were misled by the international bankers into using the ‘marketplace’ as an economic scapegoat.

The significance of my point is illustrated by the author’s concluding false assumption:

2- Our mediocre and bankrupt elite is desperately trying to save a system that cannot be saved. More importantly, they are trying to save themselves.

The international banking ‘elite’ are anything but mediocre and bankrupt, the industrial nations are mediocre and bankrupt because of the crimes of the international banking ‘elite’. The ‘elite’ are starting up a global scientific totalitarian oligarchic police state because they have deceived the world into believing the world’s political leaders are just incompetent and corrupt politicians whose policies are bankrupting the world’s economies, when nothing is further from the truth.

The world’s economic problems are not happening by accident and the world’s economic problems are not happening because of unforeseen and unsolvable conditions. The world’s economic problems are occurring because they are orchestrated by the elite and the world’s political leaders are knowingly complicit in carrying them out.

The elite, and their minions, are not ‘trying to save themselves’, they are succeeding in instilling the false perception in the public’s mind that the world’ financial problems are because of random economic forces and bad policy decisions.

That is why I do not agree with the author’s thesis, but he/she may be on the right track.

Phil

thanks Phil, as always your commentary adds to all of our knowledge. Much appreciated. Hope all’s well, Cheers

S to me

for remedy, study sect. 15 and 38 to 42 of the crim. code. (the contributor is making reference to the Criminal Code of Canada in particular Defence of Property )

Bye!
S.