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

That is a lesson plan the modern hectoring hegemons – those who through many calculations,
seed wars, pestilences, calamities, debt slavery, those who instigate nations to fight, those
who turn brother against brother by incubating traitors, stooges, fools and useful idiots among
them – have deftly followed over the past two centuries. So long as these traitors of humanity
exist among us – and I don't see how the Mir Jafar/Mir Sadiq among every people can ever be
fully eliminated – the battle will always go to those who remain superior in the Art of War.
Plebeians know nothing about the Art of War – and so we are easily mobilized into the streets,
sometimes for pecuniary gain, sometimes as the method of last resort to vent steam against
tyranny. Such social engineering principles are well understood by those who plan these
outcomes and harness the predictable mass behavior for their own purposes. Their effective
counter can only come by combining shrewd political intellect with un co-opted political power
which can defend against these incessant onslaughts upon the powerless and rather
predictable masses of human beings.
Neither does such a political intellect, nor such a political power, visibly exist today in the entire
'arc of crisis', the 'global zone of percolating violence', both self-serving characterizations of Dr.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the diabolical author as well as the covert architect of The Grand
Chessboard. The reason it has been eviscerated is not merely by happenstance, or because
the 'lesser peoples' just love to live under autocratic rule. But by calculated design of the
hectoring hegemons themselves who have continually brought to power, aided and abetted, in
many cases entirely financed, in other cases militarily and politically supported, the many vile
dictatorships and superficial egotistical kingdoms (spanning the gamut from benign as in
Bahrain to draconian as in Saudi Arabia) in these very nations in which they today raise the
banner of “revolution” for “democracy”. Is this such a surprise that they now fully effectuate this
banner? The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) even openly advertised instigating
“regime change” being the new foreign policy calculus of the lone superpower for the twenty
first century, violently replacing the molding stability of its own previously favored tin-pot
dictatorships with the vibrant instability of “revolutionary times” – the singular catalyst of all
transformations.
As already quoted above, comprehending Machiavellianly poisoned apples presented to Snow
White: 'Lawmakers approved the measure, which "applauds" demonstrators demanding
democratic reforms and "strongly condemns" Gaddafi's response.', is really not rocket science
– unless one is a complete imbecile, or superlatively naïve. The remaining logical conclusion
therefore, when one pretends to not comprehend, is that one is among the fifth columnists!
The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity 76 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim