The ethnostate may be the newest, rather ‘loose’ and re-imagined form of government to possibly take place during the one hundred years of the 21st Century. Division along racial and ethnic lines, accompanied with violence tears countries apart. Ethnostates will turn social destruction, over time, into constructive forces through “devolution”, meaning the powers once held by the large central governments of the past will fracture into more local, regional, provincial and ethnic authorities because no other available system of governing will seem to be able to function in many areas of America and the rest of the free world.
Every day we may not even hear much about many of the ‘ethnic horrors’ (criminal acts) taking place because a negligent news media may choose not to spread the word. Ethnostates may be “messy” to achieve, with its radical protests and riots in the streets, but this may be the only way to re-think and re-imagine the fundamentals of statecraft in the 21st Century.
Ghettos, sprawling housing projects, suburbs, smaller cities within big cities, even separatist militia groups are just the beginning of ethnostates starting to pop up inside America, and elsewhere, exerting control over their own destinies in spite of what obsolete central governments want done. Central governments will be relegated primarily to handling issues of national defense and the ethnostates will determine the rights and freedoms in their own ADI, areas of dominant influence.
To dominate is it better to be feared or loved? Feared because you will never be loved by all. In the animal kingdom it is fear that controls the subordinates into submission and servitude.
However, the aura of the ‘all-knowing’ is misleading and deceiving. Those ‘in the know’, exuding confidence and knowledge to the masses, are too often incompetent and outright uncertain of their knowledge and decisions in too many situations, even careless at times, so much so, that the security of nations have been compromised throughout history. Frightening conditions may exist, or be created, that the public may never know even existed due to the decisions by those supposedly ‘in the know’.
Making matters worse, the news media may hear of certain risky, careless decisions being made in certain situations and not report it widely because it does not fit their own ideas of truth and reality, and instead preoccupy themselves with more trivial, more titillating matters. The news media’s own neglect exposes its own potential weaknesses, incompetence and carelessness.
Spreading chaos and fear is the way of informing the world that it has effectively duped its citizens which opens the door for ‘bad actors’, inside and outside a country, to take advantage of every opportunity and weakness. Failure in communication could be a planned ‘power grab’ to demonstrate superiority over those unwilling or unable to resist. To get a liberal citizenry to act and react, called action-reaction politics, stick extremist, destructive, radical ideas in their faces and watch them turn conservative…and vice versa to get a conservative to act and react.
When forging the United States our forefathers stole, counterfeited, fought and pirated their way across the Mississippi River, and all the way out west, which demystifies the origins of the USA. In America, political saviors are those who are not restrained by the moralities they preach while setting out to eradicate all those who get out of line, or get in the way, of the “grand plan”.
These days you eliminate your political enemies through calculated political chaos to keep the electorate divided, dazed and confused. You do this via character assassination and/or by attacking the messenger’s ideas no matter who they are or what they are saying, by constantly impugning their credibility day in and day out, every day of every year. Opposing groups and/or political parties need threats and enemies to rally its supporters, through violence if necessary, and violence comes in all forms.
Unfortunately for Americans violence on TV, in films, videos and video games is often “make-believe” violence…..or is it? Well, not necessarily, if you believe in “copycat killings” and other similar violent acts against man and nature. Furthermore, terrorist acts are not just acts of violence but are acts of performance for national and world attention for others to copy.
What is the effect of continuous and powerful doses of make-believe violence upon the human psyche? Individual criminal acts of violence, local riots or massive, violent acts of terrorism are carried out by the actors or “new stars” of the 21st Century. Through a single, well calculated act of violence an ordinary member of the world audience can take center stage, grasp 15 minutes of fame and possibly even re-write and change history forever rivaling the greatest leaders’ achievements.
The American people are saturated with recreational and commercial, make-believe violence and these illusions are epidemic potentially creating problems and challenges we may not really be prepared for. Americans consume a heavy diet of illusion, make-believe violence and violent rhetoric which may turn once passive audiences into aggressive actors.
If movies and TV influence the way we talk, communicate, move, play, dress and so on, how then can it NOT affect our morals and thinking behavior? Are you affected much more often and more deeply than you may even be aware of? Does our unceasing availability of illusion and make-believe trigger uncontrollable urges in some of us? Are our perceptions becoming warped? Is make-believe and reality blurring together leading to the ‘death of reality’?
Incessant entertainment is the latest drug of choice in America with make-believe violence being an integral part of much of it. Nowadays, we consume the illusion, or the “make-believe pill”, without much thought as to any potential side effects. Critics charge that dependency, prejudice and abuse are possible side effects. Can we even hope to reverse the damage potentially caused by destructive and self-destructive practices?
For a clue to the possible “solutions” start by simply looking at the products created and distributed by the illusion and ‘make-believe’ industries.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE FALL 1997