By Jon
Rappoport
We are
now told it's selfish and greedy to promote freedom for the individual. It's
old-fashioned. It's passe. It's dangerous. It's nothing more than a ruse
floated by the rich to hold down the poor.
Forget
about the fact that the next Einstein or Tesla, growing up in what has become a
collectivist society, could be slammed with Ritalin, Prozac, and even heavier
drugs---because they're "abnormal."
Someday,
an anthropologist will write a celebrated history of this country, and it'll be
all about cultural trends and group customs, and no one will even remember
there was such an idea as The Individual.
By that
time, the population of what was once the United States will live in a
theocracy dedicated to Mother Earth, and every day for half an hour, the people
will kneel and pray, together, from coast to coast, for mercy from this Mother.
And the
people will be happy doing it---such as they understand happiness. They will
glorify The Group. They will live under the great dome of the Flying Drones and
they will rejoice in their solidarity.
They will
willingly submit to all forms of surveillance, because it is in the interest of
the Whole, the collective, the mass. After all, who would depart from the rules
and sentiments of The Group? Only the outcasts. Only those bitter clingers who
still believe they are unique individuals and have desires and power. Who needs
them? Who wants them? They're primitive throwbacks. They're sick and they need
treatment.
If you
look, you can see the changes taking place right in front of your own eyes. You
can see The Individual fading out as a concept. You can see its
replacement---the group and its needs---coming on strong. You can know where
we're heading.
One day,
you'll be able to tell your grandchildren there was once a time when there was
a completely different conception of existence, and you'll be able to regale
them with stories of the impossible. Stories of individuals.
Of
course, they won't believe you. They won't be able to fathom what in the world
you're talking about. But that doesn't matter. They'll listen in rapt wonder,
just as we now admiringly contemplate tales of strange creatures and mountain
gods of the ancient Greeks.
It'll be
fun to look back on our time.
Don't
worry. It doesn't matter. History is merely an anthropological catalog of
trends, a series of customs. We pass from one epoch to another. What was true
and important in one time becomes meaningless later.
Just
"come together for the great healing." That's all you need to think
about now. It'll all work out. And if it doesn't, you won't remember the
failure anyway.
Coda:
What's that? I can't hear you. Speak a little louder. Oh...I see. You're saying
we the people are getting ripped off by our leaders and their secret
controllers. Yes. Well, sure, that true.
And
yes...if we all came together perhaps we could throw off these controllers and
assert our independence once again. Yes.
But then
I ask you this:
After
we've won the great battle, what do we do next? Do we parade around, from town
to town, from city to city, a hundred million of us, a great caravan, extolling
our group victory? Is that what we do for the rest of eternity?
Or did we
fight and win the great battle for another reason?
Did we
perhaps fight and win so we could reestablish the individual as the basis and
the object of freedom?
Wasn't
that really the reason we were in this fight?
If you're
going to fight and fight to win, it helps to know why you're in the battle, why
you're really in it.
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