I thought of you yesterday, Robert, when I flipped open a 1946 edition of “Brave New World” I had specifically ordered to verify a quote from the foreword I had been unable to find online. Here is the quote (different from the one I was seeking to corroborate) that made me think of your essay on decentralization (specifically the last se…
I thought of you yesterday, Robert, when I flipped open a 1946 edition of “Brave New World” I had specifically ordered to verify a quote from the foreword I had been unable to find online. Here is the quote (different from the one I was seeking to corroborate) that made me think of your essay on decentralization (specifically the last sentence):
“The result, pretty obviously, will be a series of economic and social changes unprecedented in rapidity and completeness. All the existing patterns of human life will be disrupted and new patterns will have to be improvised to conform with the nonhuman fact of atomic power.… There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.… To deal with confusion, power has been centralized and government control increased. It is probable that all the world’s governments will be more or less completely totalitarian even before the harnessing of atomic energy; that they will be totalitarian during and after the harnessing seems almost certain. Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism.”
According to a recent article by Stefan Stanford republished from AllNewsPipeline.com, there are ten stages in a genocidal program and we have reached State 9. According to Stanford (quoting Genocide Watch), " in this next portion of the 10 Stages of Genocide we’re looking at, stage 9 or ‘active extermination,’ once it begins in earnest, the only thing that can put a stop to it is ‘rapid and overwhelming armed intervention."
Are we prepared to stand up to those who are intentionally and brutally killing us?
Some are. Many are not. That's the way it always is. In 1776, the majority of the country remained loyalists, and only 10% actually fought. It was enough.
I thought of you yesterday, Robert, when I flipped open a 1946 edition of “Brave New World” I had specifically ordered to verify a quote from the foreword I had been unable to find online. Here is the quote (different from the one I was seeking to corroborate) that made me think of your essay on decentralization (specifically the last sentence):
“The result, pretty obviously, will be a series of economic and social changes unprecedented in rapidity and completeness. All the existing patterns of human life will be disrupted and new patterns will have to be improvised to conform with the nonhuman fact of atomic power.… There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.… To deal with confusion, power has been centralized and government control increased. It is probable that all the world’s governments will be more or less completely totalitarian even before the harnessing of atomic energy; that they will be totalitarian during and after the harnessing seems almost certain. Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism.”
Sound familiar?
Once again, I am in your debt, Margaret Anna Alice
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According to a recent article by Stefan Stanford republished from AllNewsPipeline.com, there are ten stages in a genocidal program and we have reached State 9. According to Stanford (quoting Genocide Watch), " in this next portion of the 10 Stages of Genocide we’re looking at, stage 9 or ‘active extermination,’ once it begins in earnest, the only thing that can put a stop to it is ‘rapid and overwhelming armed intervention."
Are we prepared to stand up to those who are intentionally and brutally killing us?
Some are. Many are not. That's the way it always is. In 1776, the majority of the country remained loyalists, and only 10% actually fought. It was enough.
Charles, I covered the 10 Stages of Genocide in this piece from over a year ago, and I argued that we were already at Stage 10 (Denial):
• “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier)