I spent an afternoon the other day strolling through the Valley View
Shopping Center in Dallas. Its once fine stores are slowly closing one by
one. In their place, quaint Mexican vendors with amateurishly painted signs
and sparse stores now hawk their wares as they would in a seedy swap meet.
Valley View was never upscale like ritzy Highland Park, but 18 years ago
when I arrived in town, Valley View was a place where one could wander among
big name stores and professional marketers. Clothes were always top fashion.
The restaurants were havens of delectable eating. One could spend a day there
and feel like he was immersed in value. It was an uplifting experience. Today
it is Death Valley. Today it is tamales and rap music, velvet paintings of
Christ and plump Latina women chattering like magpies. South of the border
culture is slowly snaking its way into Dallas. How long will it be before it
is encroaching on Yankee environs?
Sure, there are still many pockets of high class and taste throughout
Dallas and the country. But the writing is on the wall. A lower culture has
invaded a higher culture, and all the pitiful political correctness of our
establishment is not going to be able to cover it up if our Republican
quislings in Washington grant amnesty to the 15 million illegals spearheading
the invasion. With amnesty will come the next wave, which will be 30 million,
then 60 million, then death of the America that the Founders envisioned.
Keynesian economics and liberal multi-culturalism have done this to us,
and not one in a hundred of our pundits grasps the connection these two
ideological perversions have to the death throes such as Valley View. These
death throes maculate America like a cultural psoriasis, yet our statist
intelligentsia repeatedly conjure up embarrassing justifications for
continuation of the economic and social policies that spawn them.
But what else are we to expect when intellectuals have spent their adult
lives espousing the dogmas of fiat money printing and open border
multi-culturalism as “rational policies” to pursue for America? They will not
be eager to face up to the actual denouement of such policies 40 years later
when that denouement is the transformation of a great nation into a rash of
Death Valleys. They will instead flee from the resultant realities into
the house-of-mirrors sophistry that makes up statist apologetics today.
Unfortunately there is no lack of herd mentalities among our pundit class who
are more than willing to endorse liberal academia’s view of the transformation.
Where patriots see amateurishly painted signs and an illiterate dumbing down
swallowing us up, liberal pundits see “democratic culture” and “egalitarian
justice.” The squalid decadence and economic tumult of life with open borders
and fiat money malfeasance escape them.
Big Brother Obama
Our puppet President chimes in with his contribution to all the tumult and
depression by making George Orwell look amazingly prescient. “Perpetual war
for perpetual peace” is a major theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four in which
its three regional governments of Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia are
constantly at war while claiming peace to be their goal. Have not our wars of
Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, Bosnia, Iraq II, Afghanistan, The Libyan and
threatening Syrian interventions validated Orwell’s prescience? Have not Big
Brother’s ruthless spy agencies in the novel manifested in our own NSA and
IRS to further validate that prescience?
Winston Smith’s job at the Ministry of Truth was to rewrite (i.e.,
fabricate) the economic statistics so they were more favorable to Big
Brother’s regime. And our own BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
Washington, is doing the same thing today with massaged “hedonic
calculations” for jobs, GDP, inflation, etc. Only rubes and leftist
apparatchiks believe their sanitized numbers.
Obama and Bush have turned out to be criminal brothers; but then savvy
patriots saw that coming before the Community Organizer took office.
Insidious authoritarianism has guided both of their administrations, like it
guided the smarmy Clintons and Senior Bush before them. Like it guided the
obsequious Carter, the Machiavellian Nixon, the psychopathic LBJ, the amoral
Kennedy, and the imperious Roosevelt. Only Reagan avoided capitulation to
Orwellian artifice; but even he was more promise than performance. His
eloquence covered the tracks of his statism.
What our pundits (and as a result, our people) don’t see is that
Keynesianism is one of the primary sources of Orwell’s “perpetual war for
perpetual peace.” Ever since 1936, war has been used by American presidents
as a means to escape the down cycle of the Keynesian boom-bust economy, or at
least mollify its intensity. Why? Because war does three things for a
president that is suffering a serious economic downturn, and thus in danger
of losing the next election to the opposition and his reputation to the
historians.
1) It diverts the people’s attention from their economic misery. 2) It
unites the unthinking masses with lots of votes behind the president. And 3)
it allows his administration to inflate the money supply in spendable
currency that circulates easily from war manufacturers to wage earners, to
supermarkets, clothing stores, gas stations, bars, and movie houses. It
creates a resurgence of the boom, temporary and false though it may be.
Just as the drug addict resorts to more injections of “heroin” in his down
cycle to reignite the high he experienced previously (temporary and false
though it may be), so also do modern presidents and politicians resort to
injections of “liquidity,” i.e., money printing, to bring about an attempt at
recovery. One is physiological stimulation of the individual’s body, and the
other is financial stimulation of the nation’s economy. But they are both the
same in principle and governed by the same natural laws. Keynesians are
merely “liquidity junkies” instead of “drug junkies.” When Lawrence Kudlow
bellows out on his nightly show that the Fed needs to do its job and inject
more liquidity, he’s playing the pusher to Wall Street and Main street junkies.
The Fabian Source
So Keynes and Orwell were ideological brothers, both Fabian socialists in
England during the early twentieth century. Keynes preceded Orwell by 20
years, but each were powerfully swayed by the Communist Revolution and its
aftermath, and fell victim to the Marxist misunderstanding of capitalism.
Both realized the totalitarian nature of the Marxist-Leninist paradigm and
wrote in opposition to it, but did not write in defense of freedom. They
wrote in defense of the Fabian form of socialism that was to replace freedom
and capitalism with gradual collectivist statism.
Their ideological works have now materialized to saturate all modern
societies. Keynesianism dominates mega-state economic policies, and
Orwellianism dominates mega-state political structures. Tyrannical
collectivism has taken over the world via Keynes’ monetary counterfeiting and
Orwell’s ruthless thought police.
