The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Independent Media Center

mobilization” is being constructed in baby steps using that very DNA of full spectrum
psychological warfare and controlled “revolutionary times”.
Pick up Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, and Bernard Lewis' Crisis of Islam, and read
them both in the context and references outlined here and the absurd FBI graph will start
making sense. Then pick up Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard and the concept of
“doctrinal motivation” necessary for “imperial mobilization” will start making sense:
“It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad.
This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military
intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international
supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular
passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's
sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is defense
spending), and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional
soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts.
Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.” (pgs. 35-36)
“Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may
find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in
the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat. .... More generally, cultural change in America may also be uncongenial
to the sustained exercise abroad of genuinely imperial power. That exercise
requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and
patriotic gratification.” (pgs. 211-212)
Compare all that book knowledge with the empirical reality, and Bertrand Russell's 1952 book
The Impact of Science on Society will start appearing more self-servingly prophetic than
Nostradamus:
“There is, it must be confessed, a psychological difficulty about a single world
government. The chief source of social cohesion in the past, I repeat, has been
war; the passions that inspire a feeling of unity are hate and fear. These depend
upon the existence of an enemy, actual or potential. It seems to follow that a
world government could only be kept in being by force, not by the spontaneous
loyalty that now inspires a nation to war.” (Ch. 2, pg. 37)
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