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it's all a done deal.
Ex post facto, narrators can rehearse the deceptions and their disentanglement all in the
comforts of one-world government. And of course laugh their way to fame and fortune just as
today's narrators call it erudite scholarship to openly rehearse the settlement of the Americas
and the genocide of millions of its indigenous peoples.
Even the sixth graders in elementary schools today throughout the North American continent
learn of the choice between the gattling-gun (force) and the small-pox laden bacteriological
warfare (treachery) magnanimously offered to the indigenous natives, without batting their own
eye-lids or offering a few tears in compensation.
Detachment from history and from previous generations who inflict crimes upon the 'lesser
humanity', the 'untermenschen' (German word for 'lesser peoples'), evidently washes away
both the evidence and the guilt. But not the bold and often truthful narratives which become
openly public, and their bearers lauded scholars and touted academics.
In the transition to the modernity of today, the euphemisms have become considerably refined
with the march of Western civilization. It is now the more egalitarian choice between
“democracy” (euphemism for force) and “revolution” (euphemism for treachery) under the
dialectical “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”, that is being magnanimously
offered to the indigenous natives along the “arc of crisis” in the “Global Zone of Percolating
Violence”. The objectives unfortunately remain the same as in antiquity – by hook or by crook
usurping what does not belong to one. The two quoted descriptive phrases are once again
Zbigniew Brzezinski's, respectively from a January 15, 1979 Time magazine article titled
'IRAN: The Crescent of Crisis', and from Brzezinski's already mentioned 1997 book.
Thusly, in the case of our modernity as well, perhaps only our progeny might also bear truthful
witness to the crimes and sham of intellectualism of their hypocritical ancestors – scholars,
leaders, military-men, holy-men, politicians, teachers, news-bearers, both in the West and the
East, on the left and the right – who hath proclaimed to stand for truth, but who only aided and
abetted vile hegemonic power with their own convolutions and confabulations. Modernity du
jour is entirely unwilling to unravel their confusing and deceptive narratives.
We must wait a 100 years, or perhaps only 20, before anyone who is a somebody will again
truthfully proclaim how new 'smallpox laden blankets' were used to fashion one-world
government. Before then, it is all to be dismissed as 'conspiracy theory'.
The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity 8 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim