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THE NEW WORLD ORDER:
Threat Or Promise
By Kurt Saxon
A hundred years ago there was no Social Security, no unions and Welfare
was almost non-existent. "Over the hill to the poor house" was a common
expression directed at anyone who wasn't getting his act together. When bills were unpaid,
either the wife or the husband would throw up their hands and say, "Over the hill to
the poor house for us".
The poor house was usually an old building where the paupers got nothing but food and
shelter and not much more than enough to keep them alive. The county paid for it and
sometimes the community contributed food and cast-off clothing. There was little, if any,
medical care and the lifespan of the average pauper was short.
This was accepted, even by the paupers. People worked and put by for their old age or hard
times. Parents took care of their children and expected to be cared for by them in their
old age. The unfortunate or improvident died. The government was never involved. It was a
system that had worked for thousands of years.
That is the way things were until 1935 in the middle of the Great Depression. The
population had grown too large for the economic system to handle. Millions who could work
could find no work and there just were not enough poor houses and the need had grown too
large for county relief. The government would have to become involved.
Far-sighted politicians fought against government involvement in individual care,
regardless of how callous it made them seem. Near-sighted and even realistic politicians
urged government aid and a compromise was arrived at; Social Security.
It was a compromise since the age for collecting Social Security was sixty-five but the
average life-span was about fifty-five. Also, the payments were very low. Moreover, only
the actual worker, most often the male, could receive benefits. Housewives and children
were not eligible. So the government did not see much of a drain on the federal budget.
Few people know that the government was on the verge of collapse. Millions of starvelings
would have brought it down. But Social Security, such as it was and work programs, such as
the National Recovery Act and the Civilian Conservation Corps, kept government in power
until the Second World War.
Then the economy boomed. But it was a false economy as the cost of the war was put on the
National Debt. After the war, the spending went on. The National Debt rose, Social
Security expanded to include the worker's dependents, welfare increased, Medicare and
Medicaid set in, farm subsidies and even near luxuries for criminals. Unemployment
Compensation was instituted by the states. No one must suffer.
After the near collapse, the government decided it must never get so close to falling
again. The politicians did not sit around a table and plan it, of course. The idea just
got passed around and accepted by all. No matter what, come Hell or high water, hope the
collapse comes during someone else's administration, we'll have ourselves a Welfare State.
And they did it. They had to do it.
No one starves, no one really has to work, no one dies if money will keep him breathing in
and out. Old people don't have to live with grudging children. Defectives are kept alive
to reproduce their blighted kind. The National Debt goes up and up and the interest on it
gets harder to pay each year as the population of the incompetent and the elderly grows
year by year. Also, each year there are fewer and fewer competent people left to support
the system.
All this demands more government control over the life of the individual, higher taxes,
more rules and regulations. There is no stopping it and the alternative is mass
starvation, the destruction of our cities and the collapse of the government, followed by
the collapse of world civilization.
Unable to view the whole picture, more and more people are turning on their government.
They are like spoiled children, angered at parents who not only can not give them what
they want but who demand unwelcome responsibilities.
Our system has two generations of people born into the Welfare State. They have become so
used to security and privilege that they have come to feel betrayed by a government unable
to keep up the bounty and the freedoms they feel is their due.
Many people, unable to accept this growing inability of their government-parent to
maintain the lifestyle, security and liberties they have become accustomed to, have fallen
for the fantasy called "The New World Order". This, they are told, is a takeover
by a sinister group who will take away all privileges and enslave everyone.
Regardless of all the talk and writings, there is no real evidence of such a takeover
being implemented or even planned. Certain dishonest people, conspiracy-mongers, made up
the plot and began to promote the idea about a year after the collapse of the Soviet
Union.
They prey on the anxious and unprepared who are totally locked into the system, and do not
believe they can survive without it. Instead of encouraging them to learn
self-sufficiency, they demoralize them with the phony threat. This is a distraction which
keeps them from focusing on the real threat.
The conspiracy mongers make a good living selling tapes and books on the subject. Some
make an even better living selling such dupes assault weapons, ammo, camos, Boy Scout
equipment and commercial survival foods.
Regardless, those who see and even experience the decline of our system, want what they
grew up with. But barring that impossibility, they want order. The German's loved Hitler's
"New Order". The majority of Russia's ignorant masses loved Stalin's brand of
Communism. Lots of order there. On your TV you can see mobs of older Russians in Moscow
marching with red flags and demanding Communism be reinstated. People want order above
all.
Of course, the threat of The New World Order is frightening. But since the key word is
"order", it is also a promise. Consciously, people reject it. But unconsciously
they prefer it to the end of civilization as they know it. But they will not get it.
As a historian and a student of world affairs, I know there is no power-elite capable of
imposing any sort of new order on the U.S., much less the world. The simple reason for
this is that the population has grown too stupid and undisciplined to be organized or to
carry out orders and are too many to manage.
From a world population of one billion in 1850, our species will hit six billion by the
year 2000. There are just too many people and too few resources to support them for long.
Any attempt by a tyranny to cull the populations to a manageable number would result in
the total destruction of every city.
The main reason most people are still alive and any system works at all is due to the
strength of the system which the corporations, industries, institutions and politics began
many years ago. But now our system is on overload and it is just a matter of time until
its basic strengths are overcome.
Since the ignorant outbreed the intelligent, every system is becoming swamped by morons.
You have heard the phrase, "the dumbing down of America". The whole planet has
"dumbed down". In my state, Arkansas, an intellectual is anyone who can read
without moving his lips.
You have probably seen the TV ad for a reading course which says that only one out of four
fourth graders can read at a fourth grade level. That means that three out of four
American children are stupid. When I was in the fourth grade, the number would have been
more like one out of ten were unable to read at a fourth grade level.
So neither reformer nor tyrant can control the accelerating decline of the world's
systems. But every collapse in history has had its survivors. These have been mainly those
most independent of the system. They knew the basics of life and how to maintain it.
You do not know the basics of life; you are not supposed to. The powers that be do not
want you to know. The system is in the business of selling you the basics of life. And
when the system dies, the basics of life will be cut off and you may die with the system.
You will certainly die if you allow yourself to be distracted from learning to provide for
yourself and your loved ones. You can learn if you are one of those worthy to survive the
collapse. Otherwise, you are just one cell among nearly six billion other cells in the
body of our species. When the system dies, the human cancer cells, the fat cells, the worn
out cells and the cells unable to do for themselves will be culled out.
This is called culling by "Natural Selection", a concept shelved for
generations. You will live to see it. It is up to you to survive it.
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