The Neototalitarians 1

Neoconservative is a misnomer.
The term is more correctly " NEOTOTALITARIAN". I know you thought that the totalitarian regimes were over and done with. Not so. What we have hitherto witnessed through the 20th century and into the 21st is the Darwinian evolution of Totalitarianism, a Survival of the Fittest, if you will, whereby we shall see the natural selection of a newer and more efficient Totalitarianism.

One of the facets of Totalitarianism was the State of Constant War. This war was waged against enemies exterior to the country and enemies within. If no such enemies exists, what then? They must be created and nurtured and brought along to an adulthood of emnity.
For example, who created Al Qa'ida? You may answer, unthinkingly, Osama Bin Laden. With a little reflection, you will see that this is quite wrong. The nations of the West, and in particular the United States of America, created Islamic Jihadism to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Many terrorist and jihadist groups were funded and equipped by the USA in order that the Soviet Union be brought low.

At present, the nation of Iran, a singularly incompetent choice for a Great Enemy, is being assiduously groomed by the Neototalitarians as the new object of the State of Constant War. Now, what about the enemies within the nation? I think an afternoon and evening spent listening to political radio shows and TV shows will admirably demonstrate the growing tendency to demonize various groups. The process is not yet been perfected, but it is ongoing and shows enormous promise of neototalitarian benefits.

What else do we see? In the past, books were burned. In the recent past, museums in Baghdad were looted of thousand of years of history, creating a disaster similar to that of the burning of the Library of Alexandria. All authority outside the official Ideology must be destroyed, and the remains of the past which did not encompass Totalitarianism are items for the dust bin. (On wonders whether the New Totalitarians said that if these antiquities agreed with their Neototalitarian policies, then they were superfluous. If these antiquities disagreed, then they were pernicious and should be destroyed.)

We see torture resurrected as an instrument of policy and the offenses of Abu Ghraib are nothing if not disturbing simulacra, both premonitory and memorious, of the institutions of the Thought Police in Orwell's 1984 as well as the Spanish Inquisition. If we remember Totalitarian bombast, just look and listen to those of the present day and see the close connections between our elite and the totalitarian elites of the past. I quote from Axel Brot's article Germany: The Re-Engineered Ally:  

"...since the 1970s, patient, alliance-building ideologue-adventurers, think-tankers and journalists, have crept up through the institutions, using and being used, joining the fantasies of redemption, revenge, plunder, and control over the world, into an action program for employing American power... "It is the remarkable lack of decorum, the intentional staging of bullying language, rich in threats and insults, the resentful hypocrisy, the slightly unhinged display of bad faith when diplomacy and suasion are the order of the day, that has convinced even some of the "just-a-bad-patch" hopefuls that the bad times are here to stay. "  

Are there Totalitarians or not? Ask the question: How long will the American pre-eminence endure?

It will not be answered...yet. It is too reminiscent of the claims in the past that certain totalitarian regimes would last a thousand years...a millenial empire.

Soon, however, as the evolution takes it course, you will find the Neototalitarians readier to answer the question. However, as the Neototalitarians claim that their new Reich will last 1,000 years, you will notice that they will yet demure from identifying too closely with past dictators and re-cast their claim in Churchillian terms, saying that if the USA were to indeed last 1,000 years, this - "this" being whatever new and destructive holocaustic war in which we are currently involved- will be called "Our Finest Hour."

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