learning from the nazis

When the United States escalated the arms race with the Soviet Union and sparked the "Cold War" you have to remember the situation. The US had just bailed out Europe for the 2nd time in just under 3 decades and the loss of American lives had the US army drafting 40 something males with severe health problems. But there was the Soviets. Perhaps if the diabolical Stalin had declined annexing most of eastern Europe in the aftermath of WWII; or maybe if Stalin hadn't insisted (from behind his seemingly infinite number of troops) that Germany be sectioned off; or perchance the Soviets never acquired the bomb then the "Cold War" never happens and America goes on about its business, but, let's face it, the Soviets never gave the west or the US any real choice in the matter. Soviet expansionism must be contained at all costs.

The problem is, of course, that America was always a free nation and free people don't understand how folk grow up to be villains like Nazis or Soviets or Suicide Bombers. Thus the United States began to adopt (and adapt to)modified principles of the most successful models of organization, efficiency, propaganda and nationalism known to man created by one of the most reviled man in history, Adolf Hitler.

And really, who could blame the Americans? The very fate of the world seemed to be placed upon Americas broad shoulders and the pace of the situation demanded and insisted on quick decisions that impacted every corner of the globe. Hard to imagine the US was ready to disband the army in 1914 eh? A mere 31 years later and America must now protect the world. Better find what works quick and get it going or the Commies will be marching down Main st. before you know it.

Going from an attitude of peace to an attitude of militarism was hard for Americans to embrace unless they worked in Washington. The military industrial congressional complex that now rules America under an iron fist of German Nazi era justice was formed in these early, tragic days that marked introduction to the destruction of the Constitution of the United States and the elimination of the liberties found therein. It marked the end of the old Republic and introduced what would become today's America: a modernized police state.

When you adopt the teachings of villains, you must kill your moral center, dull your ethics, compromise your integrity. When you practice this destruction of virtue, not only does a country lose the Great Way, it also spreads the disease and corruption throughout the body. If anyone marvels at the cruelty of Americans, marvel no more. 62 years of waiting for death to come from the Germans or the Soviets or the terrorists or the threatening China has made Americans mental. That's why we need all those antidepressants. We are all told we are doomed from out birth till we die many years later after bitter wage slavery. We are instructed to buy, buy, buy as a patriotic duty and find happiness and pleasure in our tvs, ipods and blu-rays. But these are things, devoid of any meaning but what we as a collective society place upon them. The real things, those of chi, are what matters but today Americans are deluded by the needs of an all powerful state. We have forgot what nobility and honor mean. We do not aid the weak, we oppress them. We do not intervene in Darfur because it yields no profit, not like the oil rich plains of Pan Arabia.

I suspect if Stalin were looking in on us from the afterlife he would surely say he had us all wrong and should have sought better relations with us so we could rule the planet in joint cooperation.