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deception? See Peoples' Guilt and America’s Profound Shame (
http://prisonersofthecave.blogspot.com/2007/04/preface.html#Americas-Profound-Shame ).
It is precisely to invoke that acquiescence to premeditated fait accompli that Zbigniew
Brzezinski self-servingly quoted in the opening pages of his seminal 1970 book Between Two
Ages – America's Role in the Technetronic Era, the following specious rationalization for the
turmoil to be purposely inflicted upon the 'lesser' humanity. The diabolically fabricated Hegelian
Dialectic as the means to usher in one-world government, and attributing that manufactured
zeitgeist to just the nature of transformation between two ages (for which nothing could be
done about since the human misery which it entailed was natural and inevitable):
"Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two
cultures and religions overlap. . . . There are times when a whole generation is
caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence
that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standard, no security, no
simple acquiescence." —HERMANN HESSE, Steppenwolf (pg. 7, book PDF)
As an establishmentarian hectoring hegemon, Brzezinski again invoked the same sort of selfserving
rationalization to perpetuate American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. He
began his subsequent 1996 book The Grand Chessboard with the chauvinist sentence:
“Hegemony is as old as mankind.” Thus, by the logic of it, making the rest of the book a
recipe for the exercise of America's uniquely unchallenged global power, and “especially its
capacity for military intimidation”, as the most natural human legacy for any supremacist
nation to pursue. Nothing could, or ought, to be done about that predatory instinct for
organized violence since “Hegemony is as old as mankind.” And therefore, Brzezinski naturally
proffered in his chauvinist conclusion, “In brief, the U.S. Policy goals must be unapologetically
twofold: to perpetuate America's own dominant position for at least a
generation and preferably longer,...” (Ibid., pg. 215; see Prisoners of the Cave, Chapter 1 ).
The report Of Ostriches and Rebels on The Hard Road to World Order, examines how that
specious recipe book for America's predatory primacy, as syntactically sugared war-mongering
as it is, is itself only half the truth. As the Jewish proverb suggests, 'a half truth is a full lie'. And
as the Mighty Wurlitzer knows, in order to be effective, the lie is different at every level.
Contrary to Zbigniew Brzezinski's erudite prose which underlies the many compositions of the
Mighty Wurlitzer, as the generation caught between two ages on the Grand Chessboard, we,
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