Check out this quote from an article by J. R. Nyquist:
“Ancient political thinkers wrote about basic human corruption. When exposed to money and power for any length of time, people tended to become spoiled. The occasion of this spoiling heralded bloody upheavals and revolutions. In America and Europe we have already seen a social revolution. The attitudes of our grandparents have been disputed and set aside – in matters of church, state and family. New attitudes have taken their place. Our grandparents were strict in ways we are not strict. They were disciplined in ways we are no longer capable of discipline. They were frugal, and the Great Depression was real to them. Today we borrow money, and we borrow again. We are addicted to debt.”
The rest of the article is well worth the read, here is the link: http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/1026.html
The quote above is spot on and I think it pretty well describes why the sheeple have multiplied. And it seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon. I can see the gradual decline in my life time of 52 years (so far). And while it was gradual at first, it seems to be gaining speed. The last 10 years seems to have bred more sheeple than the previous 42 years of my life. I think there are many reasons for this, decline of the family unit, increase in dependence on credit, new technology that becomes obsolete in a few months (in the small minds of the sheeple) and has to be bought again so that they have the “Latest greatest” gadget.
Guess I’m old fashioned. I do have a cell phone and mine last at least 2 years. I only replace it when it fails or when the cell phone carrier has stopped supporting that model. And I buy based on my need, not on what is fashionable. I don’t give a shit if it surfs the net, takes pictures or plays games, I want it to make and receive calls, period.
But I digress. We have become a country of soft, weak people. The day is coming when our enemies are going to exploit this weakness and I’m afraid the day is near. Who we think are our friends are in truth, our enemies and are allying against us. China and Russia have become military allies and are rearming themselves. We are helping China build their military by buying all the “Made in China” shit at Wally World and other stores. In the process, we are weakening ourselves and out economy.
When the economy collapses (and it will), most Americans will sit around, wringing their hands and wait for the government to do something. Our military is spread out around the globe and our enemies will strike.
Two more quotes:
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when we are far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.” - Sun Tzu
War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in thirty or forty years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will need to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall beelectrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at anotherchance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist.”
Dmitrii Z. Manuilskii
Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 193)
The fall of the Soviet Union was a deception that had been planned for many years. The fall of the Iron Curtain heralded the fall of our guard, just as our enemies hoped it would.
Watch a movie that was made in the 1980’s, “Red Dawn”. A very politically incorrect movie that became something of a cult classic. It was about the invasion of the Soviets and their allies against the USA. It is a snapshot of what happened in one small town in Colorado. But I think that it captured what life was like in a small town at that time. Tough people that raised tough kids. The kids knew how to hunt, camp and shoot guns (gasp!!).
I grew up in a city of about 160, 000 people. We spent a good bit of time out in the country camping and shooting. I never cared much for hunting myself but love to shoot. I had cousins that grew up in a small town in Texas of about 4000 people and I used to go visit. Seeing unlocked pickups in the high school parking lot with guns in racks in the back window as pretty common.
My mom remembers boys carrying their .22lr rifles to school and leaving them by the door, just in case they saw a rabbit on the way home.
Contrast that to now, today, out attitudes towards raising kids, guns, everything. Kids can get into trouble for drawing a picture of a gun in school, much less actually having one. Doctors are questioning kids when they examine them as to if they have guns in their houses.
We have become weak and it will destroy our society. Most Americans think the being self-sufficient means drinking tap water instead of bottled water (it has to be so much healthier, right?). They bitch about the price per gallon they pay for gas while sipping from their .5 liter bottle of water that they paid over a dollar for.
When I say weak, I’m talking about the population of the US.
There are some wolves out there that know how to survive, that won’t follow the sheeple herd to destruction. Find them, learn from them, become one of the pack. Shed your sheepish mentality and become strong before its too late. When our society collapses, when our enemies invade, it will be the strong that survive. The sheeple will die or be herded into “reeducation” camps. We will have an opportunity to fight our invaders and possibly get our country back. In the process, we will build a stronger society and hopefully learn from our mistakes. Or we may very well die in the process but at least we will die on our feet fighting, not on our knees.
One more quote from J.R.:
“We must not suffer a recession, say the Americans. We cannot support a war, even in the defense of our own long-term interests because our country has no interests worth dying for. Let the dollar fall. Let our enemies take the oil fields. What will the world do against us? They must export to us, they must send oil to us; they must eat our bonds, our treasury notes, our worthless paper currency. This is how it has always been. This is how it must always be. If the Russians are deploying bombers and making dry runs at the American homeland, we do not care. Let them play their silly war games. We aren’t alarmed. If British intelligence has detected Chinese preparations for a surprise attack against the U.S. Navy, let us pronounce a decided “HO HUM” and go about our business. Let us shop until we drop. Let us watch cable television until the rest of the world sinks out of sight. Why should we contemplate the boozy Russian or the desperate Chinese? Why should the distant hovel interest us? We are fat from eating, and our eyes are glazed from entertainment.”
‘Nuff said! Randal