ELEGIAC MOMENTS

ELEGIAC
MOMENTS

 

 

 

Dr. Eugene
Narrett, Ph.D
February 3, 2012
NewsWithViews.com

“The
dictatorship of party leaders supports itself upon that of the Press.
The competitors strive to … bring the people en masse…under
their own mind training.”[1]

Among
the most far-reaching proposals to emerge from the GOP primaries was
the suggestion by Newt Gingrich about changing the debate format.
He urged that instead of the current “game show” model
in which a network harlot or panel controls the discussion, apportions
speaking time (and, thus, “electability”), limits and
trivializes the matters discussed (the more personality conflicts
the better) that there simply be a time keeper with two candidates
asking each other questions and speaking for up to three hours as
Lincoln and Douglas did many times.

Like
many structural changes in American life, that one would be wonderfully
beneficial and is very unlikely to happen. For one thing, the mass
media which serves the interests of the Directorate (chief among whose
interests is distracting, stupefying and degrading humans) will never
relinquish its control of the key features by which candidates vie
for office. Only the totally owned or the totally trivial are encouraged.
For another, Mitt Romney, much less ‘the President’ would
never agree to debate the former speaker unmediated by a dumbing-down
agent: his ‘platform’ is a series of one-liners; he is
totally insincere or self-deluded in trying to present himself as
even a slightly conservative Republican. The fact that he has been
endorsed by Bob Dole and John McCain, two designated losers and party
insiders is revealing; that and the fact that he was governor of Massachusetts
which means he had to govern in accordance with the far left one-party
legislature and ‘the Vault,’ the local term for the Directorate
in the greater Boston area.

Similarly
instructive were the celebratory photos of Romney, front page above
the fold with the lead story, run by the Boston Globe the
days of the primary and day after. This is the Nanny State-globalist
kiss par excellence.

Watching
FOX news, the “fair and balanced” network that permits
some moderately conservative voices among the many Statist ones that
otherwise dominate the media, it is clear that they, about as much
as the other networks are and have been eager to get the primaries
over and done with and anoint Romney and GOP nominee. This also is
instructive as is the increasing illiteracy and puerility of their
coverage. A ‘narrative’ is established and everything
that the candidates say and do is compressed into this superficial
and biased ‘story line.’ The deformation is akin to the
scripted jocularity and almost universal lack of intelligence of the
talking hair styles and their electronic gadgetry. The greater the
gadgetry, and it becomes more grandiose each season, the more superficial
and arrogant the ‘commentators’ and ‘news anchors’
become. To watch two hours of network ‘news’ is to study
a sample of the nation’s decay, and the way this decay of language,
thought and truth is managed. It is to be stunned by horrible examples
of pseudo-humans armored with the silver plate of arrogance.

For
the same reason, the most wonderful and central moment in the campaign
was when Gingrich punctured a CNN ‘moderator’ for the
“character assassination” as one pundit honestly called
it in the South Carolina debate. The resulting cheers from the audience
reflected the feeling of the American people about media arrogance,
dishonesty, bias and superficiality. This will not change so Gingrich’s
detailed proposals become all the more important to articulate. His
remarks after the Florida primary were examples of how Executive Orders
could be used for good (shrinking government).

Observing
focus groups of citizens discuss the issues reveals genuine concern
and some insight. But the main thing shown is the degree to which
literacy is crumbling under media-public school stupefaction. Most
people no longer have words to express the ideas many of them still
know are needed to halt the disintegration of America. There no longer
is any need for outsourcing, financial assaults or massive illegal
immigration to destroy the nation: the decay of language, and thus
of thought will complete the job in a generation if the process is
not reversed. For that one needs to banish Television and the worst
monopoly-union of all: that of the public schools and their moronic
regiment of conditioners and managers.

It
would be nice to have zero taxes and have the Federal Government run
on tariff income (the East Asian nations do plenty of that against
us). The main benefit would be shrinking the size and the power of
a State apparatus that has become fascistic as most social malfare
States tend to do, selling their spurious compassion as a means “to
eat you with, my dears.” But since no President directs the
nation (although a savvy and experienced one, or even a rather shallow
change of pace like George W Bush) can bring many new, different and
better people into lower levels of the administration and this can
make a big difference), zeroing out Federal taxes is a dream. The
media so far has taken an avuncular, amused and trivializing attitude
to Ron Paul because it sees him as a good way to fragment Conservative
votes. Were he ever to be nominated, or even to get close to being
nominated, the media savagery would begin and continue. Were he somehow
elected in the face of this massive hostility, which is not possible,
he would be controlled in office, dealt with one way or another. The
vibrancy of his message grows with the damage caused by the welfare
State and its impoverishing monetary games.

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To
have a very low tax rate and an extreme simplification of the Byzantine
tax code (a boondoggle for accountants and nightmare for everyone
else) is the best one can achieve, at this point. Eliminating several
dozen Federal ‘Czars’ and numerous Cabinet Departments
(“Education”) would do much to reduce the power of the
STATE over the people and its tendency and intention to destroy the
Republic and the people through mandated institutions and programs.
“Mandates” are recent code for commands. There is a corporate
and military model in government now that should alarm citizens.

The
Second Amendment has never been as important as now but the framers
surely would notice that the discrepancy between a citizen’s
and the State’s armaments and technology is extreme and growing.

When
Rick Santorum said that “everyone who breathes” MUST buy
‘health insurance’ in Massachusetts or pay a fine (more
than two thousand dollars on your tax bill) he was correct. To watch
Romney shake his head ‘no’ reveals mendacity. The mandatory
‘health care’ type of fascism should be exposed daily.

About
the media trivializing what is a very important process: they will
tell us endlessly about Rick Santorum’s ill three-year old daughter,
lead every ‘item’ on him with an update of her condition;
they will glory to show us his ninety-one year old mother just as
they jabber endlessly about tactics, “exceeding expectations”
and everything but the issues. It is sad that the Senator’s
daughter has a terrible condition; it is lovely that his mother is
vigorous, happy and proud to make an appearance or three with her
son. This does not mean that the media machine should be fed pabulum
to disgorge upon the public. They become frenzied about a former wife’s
comments fourteen years after the fact, if the former husband is a
serious and conservative Republican candidate but they have no interest
in the Secretary of State’s interesting domestic arrangements.
Nor do they need to, but let them drop the pretence of objectivity
and fairness. As Gingrich said, with little exaggeration, the current
President and Romney are the “favorite candidates” of
George Soros: there it is.

Through
Bain Capital, Romney has extensive ties to the Bilderberg, Trilateral,
CFR groups and the Aspen and Brookings Institute.[2]

The
Keystone pipeline that should run from Canada to Houston carrying
almost limitless supplies of gas and oil from shale sands is important
for the economy for many reasons: jobs, lowering costs of fuel, food
and many other products; removing one of many excuses for the State
Department to pander to OPEC, etc. What may be most revealing about
the Administration’s opposition to it, however, is that to block
something so needed (and in such a bizarre and troubling way, via
the State Department and some claims about “national security”)
shows the extent to which the Directorate feels it can give Americans
a series of ‘in-your-face’ moments. The last three-plus
years have been a major exercise in this process. This indicates that
a stage of overt, Nanny-State fascism with a superficial smile is
largely here. “The New Idol” as Nietzsche called the State
is here and the sooner it is reduced in size, and the more it is reduced
the better for every human’s sake. The “cold monster”
as Nietzsche also termed it feeds on human energy and intelligence,
masticates and mangles them and then dribbles out a toxic residue
as ‘benefits’ while completing the process of facilitating
management of generic human inventory. One would like to believe it
is a bad dream but experience and study shows it to be a dark reality.

Note
that ‘affirmative action’ is almost never criticized or
even mentioned anymore: it has become a sacred cow. Ron Paul mentioned
it briefly in response to a set-up question about how many Hispanics
he would appoint in his administration (the other three candidates
pandered in various degrees); and also briefly in commenting on how
the destruction of the housing market began. But almost as much as
“no-fault divorce” and how this industry has destroyed
fathers, children and families and contributed to myriad problems
in this nation, from health to education to facilitating the unguent
suasions of the national security state and its ‘protections’
no one says a word. The room of the nation is filled with ‘800
pound gorillas’ that, like the Emperor’s new Clothes cannot
be mentioned. That always is a bad sign for a nation: when signal
truths cannot even be mentioned. When was the last time a significant
national figure dared a substantive critique of feminism? Because
the media would destroy such a person, the media must be radically
revised if the culture can have a chance to recover from the past
45 years.

Now
that the media have constructed and reiterated the narrative of a
triumphant Romney in Florida we learn that its ‘winner-take-all’
format violated RNC rules, as a January 1 letter from the head of
the RNC specified to Florida officials. Apportioning the delegates
23 – 15 – 7 – 4 would preclude grandiose claims
and prognostications, the meat of the distraction machine. It also
would have changed the extent of campaigning in the State. But here
as in most things, public life follows a script. All means must be
tried to change the terms of the debate to expose realities.

The
media is indoctrinates and in the guise of “coverage”
covers up life, destroying the ability to think and communicate by
destroying language. That’s why persistent and detailed comment
on how the media destroys the chance to have a meaningful campaign,
that is, discussion-debate about how to save the nation is so important.
That’s why glorying in the denotative and affective range of
language is a culture-restoring act. That’s why intelligent
and detailed discussion of what must be done to repair some of its
major wounds is very important. Perhaps the extreme financial, economic
and social crises that have come to a point in the past five or fifteen
years can be meaningfully addressed now that the problems are so acute
and the destructive forces so clearly in view.

Dr.
Narrett has published a short Memoir, Thanksgiving available
here.

Eugene
Narrett blogs
on literature, cultural identity dynamics.

Eugene
Narrett’s recent book Culture
of Terror: The Collapse of America, on Amazon.

© 2012 Eugene Narrett
– All Rights Reserved

Footnotes:

1.
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (NY 1962; 2006, Alan Helps
one-volume abridged edition from the English translation of Charles
Atkinson), 395, section “The Press” in Chapter 19, “Philosophy
of Politics.”
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