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The
Making of the Enemy:
Part One of Two -
Part Two Here
Only in America
By
Manuel Valenzuela
12/19/05 "ICH"
-- -- The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will
see the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to
manipulate the fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic
tendencies of the population. The level of control over the masses
and power over the nation in the years after 9/11 by corporatists
intent on hijacking the country became, to them, a rousing success,
thanks to the intense levels of fear and hatred engendered by the
horrific events of that day. In the span of a few infamous days the
corporatists had unleashed massive psychological warfare upon us,
its effects still lingering in the minds of millions. Suddenly,
those in power had become the puppeteers of the citizenry, free to
manage us as they saw fit, our fragile and damaged psychologies
traumatized, our thinking, human minds replaced by our more
primitive, mammalian instincts and behaviors. An entire nation had
succumbed, thanks to television, to images and emotions no people
had ever witnessed, repeated over and over and over again. The
making of America’s new enemy had begun.
The manufacture, marketing and dissemination of
bogeymen enemies, both real and fictional, for a long time endemic
in American society, has always worked to perfection, becoming the
inertia used to control the population. It becomes the energy needed
to maintain America’s permanent wartime economy. The creation of
unseen bogeymen into supernatural evildoers fits the perfect mold of
how the American citizenry has been brainwashed over the years
through the use of Hollywood movies and television, with the
constant themes of good versus evil, of fantasy and sensationalism,
and of course the always needed happy ending, where the good guy
always triumphs over the villain.
The struggle against America’s enemy, conveniently
chosen and designed to fit the policies and goals of those in power,
is purposefully made out to be like a struggle in a typical
Hollywood film of good and evil characters, where America is seen as
the force of good confronting the evildoer afflicting the world, a
hero that ultimately, in the end, will triumph, leading to the happy
ending that in reality rarely, if ever, bears fruit. Yet to the
reprogrammed mind of the average American, our conception of real
life rewired, our brainwaves reconfigured through the incessant
fictions and altered states of reality bombarded into our heads by
movies and sitcoms, the battle of superhero and evildoer must
continue, because America can do no wrong, it is the shining beacon
on a hill, the savior of humankind, incapable of committing human
evil, fighting forces intent on destroying the nation. Inevitably,
in our warped mind good always triumphs over evil, the hero always
gets the girl and normalcy eventually returns to life.
To say that televised fantasy bears no resemblance
to real human outcomes is an understatement, yet in a fictional war
that remains but a fleeting illusion in the minds of the population,
becoming more intangible than visible, hardly affecting the daily
lives of the majority, the deception works like magic thanks to the
blitzkrieg of propaganda sent out through the airwaves. In a sense,
the so-called war against America’s enemy becomes a Hollywood
production, existing in the conscious of the people but never truly
being felt, its puppeteers hiding its reality and its truth, the
keepers at the gate filtering what needs to be seen and what does
not. Our reality is what they make it to be, after all.
Voiced loudly by America’s paid opinion makers yet
hardly seen, the struggle against our new enemy exists as if in a
vacuum, yet the citizenry gobbles it up like fast food, devouring
what is spoon fed them, believing, like they have been trained to do
since birth, that this Hollywood movie is a frightening reality,
yet, as always, will invariably end with good defeating evil, and
America killing our enemy. Never mind that we are more likely to be
struck by lightning than killed by a bomb or act of terrorism.
Such is the power of movies and television and
newscasts that from an insignificant group of terrorists, concerned
mostly with expelling America from their lands and toppling American
sponsored despots, a giant evildoer can be created, mutating from
our hired freedom fighters of times past to the dreaded terrorists
of today, mutating from friend to enemy, possessing super human
strength and powers, seemingly dying and being reborn, capable of
destroying the mightiest nation the world has ever seen.
These fictions, of course, were pure deception, yet
inside the minds of average Americans they are as real, and as
serious, as any threat America has ever confronted. For the
Establishment has wished it so, knowing that having enemies
translates into power, control and vast sums of wealth for
themselves, all at the expense of the masses who can be easily
steered any direction they are needed to take. American society has
been, for the last century, conditioned to exist in a state of
anxiety and fear, not of internal factors, which are much more
dangerous, but of the external enemy that seemingly arises like a
phoenix from the ashes of those previous ones now discarded, their
usefulness having died out, reborn to become the new barbarians at
the gates.
America’s tomorrow will be made to confront the same
Madison Avenue marketing techniques that have for too long now
steered the population in the direction of control through fear of
enemies, both real and concocted. For the corporatists and elite
wishing to retain the power, wealth and control of the nation, the
population must always have conditioned and ingrained inside them
the fear of bogeymen and the uncertainty of violence. The masses
must be made to believe that external enemies, both alien and
clandestine, are a menace and threat to destroy their way of life
and the very foundation of the nation they inhabit.
It is the fear, anxiety and insecurity of man that
blinds thinking and births subservience to power, making of us
primates desiring the comfort and security of our masters. Through
fear we allow our impulses for survival to dominate, the emotions of
tribalism and xenophobia to thrive, and our trust in upper hierarchy
to permeate. Therefore, if an enemy of unnatural power and ability
can be concocted from which to frighten the population into
submission, into granting away its rights and freedoms, its blood
and treasure, made to trust that its survival is dependent on the
protection of its overlords, an entire nation can be brought to its
knees, impotent to revolt and seek change. Willingly the people
kneel in submission, allowing themselves to be ruled by today’s
version of yesteryear’s totalitarians, the corporatists.
Through the spreading of our fear the power of the
Establishment arises, and expands. Enemies that are created and
given prominence can capture the minds of hundreds of millions of
people, and can make us subservient to the dictates of power. Is it
any wonder, then, why for decades, and some would say a couple of
centuries, enemies of America have existed, lingering in our
consciousness, becoming great threats to our way of life, dying and
being reborn, evolving and adapting, changing according to the
times, and yet always hating us for our way of life, for our
freedoms and our democracy? Yet somehow Americans manage to thrive,
our lives are lived in comfort and gluttony, our nation rarely, if
ever, attacked, our people rarely, if ever killed.
From Indians to Mexicans to Spanish to Filipinos to
Germans to Soviets to Communists to Vietnamese to Arab Muslims to
the future Chinese an external enemy has always been a threat, a
thorn on our side, seemingly rising out of thin air, molded by the
hands of greed addicts, warmongers, criminal capitalists and
authoritarian corporatists, allowed to be born in order to cover up
for the real and much more dangerous enemy.
External enemies have always existed in our reality
because they are an invaluable tool to those who aspire to control
the people and the resources of the planet. What was the Cold War
but a charade used to gain control of and dominate southern nations,
rich in natural resources and cheap labor, and to control their
people, and hence their economies, both through market colonialism
and the use of proctors? What is the so-called war on terror but a
charade for the geostrategic race being waged to control the oil
fields of the Middle East and Central Asia, knowing full well that
oil is not finite and that the nation that controls the oil will
invariably control the world?
The Birth of Enemies from the Middle East
Hidden behind dark corners, lurking underneath beds,
fantasy bogeymen not known or understood are mutated by marketers
and propagandists who understand human psychology well into demons
haunting the deep and frail recesses of the human mind. Humans not
known or understood, alien in culture and language, masked in
foreign appearance and color are easily transformed into creatures
evil and degenerate, threats to the vitality of so-called freedom
and democracy. For ignorance invariably leads to fear of the
unknown and, if propagandized correctly, an entire population can be
easily manipulated into allowing itself to be controlled and
exploited by the Establishment. The ingrained mammalian instinct of
security, both of the citizenry and that of their children, can be
easily exploited by the corporatists, made to be of paramount
importance, manipulated as only being made secure by purchasing the
products of the corporation and by acquiescing to the draconian
measures of the state.
Through the televised media, the attempt to birth
perpetual fear into the populace has never been easier to
accomplish. Images, sound and opinion can be bombarded day in and
day out to the easily receptive American citizen, many of which have
become dumbed-down couch potatoes spoon fed their thoughts through
the monitor they have become addicted to. Through the manipulation
of televised images and sounds, the doctors of propaganda can
hypnotize and control the thoughts of Americans, using all tools at
their disposal to concoct the perfect bogeymen.
The evildoers designed to captivate the
fear-controlled mind of the masses are created to serve the
interests of the Establishment, helping to steer the population in
the direction most beneficial to the elite while at the same time
working to mobilize millions into supporting the activities and
illegalities ultimately detrimental to the people themselves.
During the so-called Cold War, for example, the
enemy created was the dreaded Soviet Communist, birthed to unleash
terror in the dreams of average Americans. At the time, America’s
military industrial complex, along with the omnipresent corporate
world, saw that a nation in a perpetual war footing could be more
readily controlled, its people made to serve the interests of the
Establishment. Using a cocktail of jingoism, nationalism,
xenophobia, fear mongering and hate baiting, the propagandists were
successful in breeding a hatred of anything related to Soviet
Russia, including its innocent citizens. Through the control of the
masses, manipulated to accept and even demand a perpetual war
footing, profits to corporations became enormous, power over
government became real and control over the course of America became
a reality.
With the population in the stupor of fear and
hatred, dominated by fascinations of nationalism and
sensationalistic displays of greatness, its collective mind occupied
by the rabid pursuit of Soviet defeat, the corporatist dominion over
America, as well as the Third World, triumphed, giving rise to a
geopolitical chess match for corporate control over the lands,
resources and peoples of the underdeveloped world. This game, a
fight for profit, power and hegemony, resulted in the ceaseless
poverty, disease, under-education, exploitation and death of
millions of human beings, for generations now their destinies made
to subsist in endemic poverty, with talents eroded and lives in
perpetual limbo, their lands and economies still to this day not
having recovered from the devastation the Cold War years spawned.
Just like the corporatist elite were able to control
their own masses, conquer the resources, lands and peoples of the
south, thereby enriching themselves beyond compare, manipulating
Cold War indoctrinated fears and hatreds to silence, control and
make indifferent the masses, using the media to maintain a state of
ignorance throughout the nation, so now in the Middle East and
Central Asia do they see the grand prize: further empowerment over
us as well as control of the world’s remaining underground fields of
oil. Once again, an enemy has been conveniently manufactured out of
the dark rooms of Madison Avenue focus groups to fit nicely into the
agenda of the corporatists and neocons in power.
Serving the interests of the corporatists,
fundamentalist Islamicists, of which only a small minority exists
willing to commit violence, make a great enemy from which to
hypnotize the population: unknown, alien, of different culture and
language, existing in multiple desired states, dark skinned,
invisible, violent and perhaps most importantly, of a religious
belief system at odds with the fundamentalist Christian orthodoxy
dominant in today’s America.
The systemic marketing of Muslims and Arabs and
Persians as external threats capable of destroying our way of life,
our religious norms, and the cherished charades of freedom and
democracy is, therefore, the perfect weapon launched against the
masses, for naturally we impute the actions of a minute lunatic
fringe with all Muslim people, allowing the terror of a few
miscreants to penetrate our fragile psyches and our even more
fragile belief structure.
Through the methodical brainwashing used in
Hollywood and the corporate media, the Arab/Persian is made to be a
rabid demon wishing death upon our children’s future, ready at any
moment to blow himself up, committing heinous acts of barbarity,
murdering and bombing and rampaging, for he is a terrorist, the
descendant of the Soviet, the next adaptation of American enemy, the
next marketable wonder the corporatists exploit to enrapture our
minds and control our lives.
The Arab/Persian as enemy serves to militarize the
mind of the population, to distract us from more ominous, internal
threats, to control and brainwash the weaker minded among us,
creating a marching army of “good Germans.” It helps mobilize the
country towards a perpetual war footing, acting as an excuse to wage
war, to increase the profits and wealth and power of the
corporatists, and to further lead America down the road to eventual
fascism. Through war the military-energy-industrial complex and the
corporate world can further engorge themselves, using the energy and
wages of the masses for the construction of their weapons of death
and suffering. Through war they can lay claim to the resources of
the Middle East, the all-important lifeline to continued economic
dominance.
Using Arabs and/or Persians – who just happen to be
native peoples of the Middle East, the very same lands saturated
with underground fields of oil that the military-energy industrial
complex craves – as the new American enemy gives our corporatist
government the perfect excuse to invade, occupy and devastate
desired lands with American imposed capitalism. Accorded the face of
evildoer extraordinaire, stereotyped and marginalized through the
lens of fiction, the Arab/Persian people, diverse and complex,
unknown to the undereducated, act as the key to unlocking the
American people’s historical reluctance to fight wars both immoral
and of choice.
If the Arab/Persian can be demonized to be hated and
feared by a population brainwashed by the hypnotizing glare of
television, the nation will be much easier to militarize, the
people’s children will be much easier to enlist as cannon fodder and
the internal policies of the nation will be much easier to control
and manipulate.
The sustained viability of the nation’s
militarization – and some would say the ongoing embezzlement of the
people’s treasure by corporatists – desired by corporatists in power
depends on the Arab and Persian and Muslim people remaining, in the
conscious of the masses, forever an enemy, always a demon, their
reputation strong enough to make of them a most potent adversary,
capable of hijacking airplanes, destroying skyscrapers and
threatening to strike fear amongst the population, as always hating
our way of life.
What better scapegoat than the Arab/Persian
population if one wants to conquer the resources of the Middle East
and Central Asia? What greater marketing ploy could be manufactured
to make enemies of the same people whose resources you desire?
And, with the war on terror acting as a vicious
circle of recruitment, by becoming a self fulfilling prophesy,
having violence beget violence, with more and more Arab people
incensed at the actions of America, ready to join in jihad where
only few extremists existed before, (Al-Qaeda has become a mass
movement, franchised and claimed by many insurgents, most of whom
have never met a real member of the group) thereby creating ever
more non-fictitious enemies, the military-energy industrial complex
has the capacity and will to continue the war into perpetuity, using
the anger on the Muslim street, along with the fear and hatred of
Americans, to further its own interests, exploiting both Muslim and
American, pitting one against the other, creating fictitious
conflict where none exists, concocting enemies out of two peoples
whose similarities as humans quashes our differences of culture.
For a citizenry made to fear an alien people of
which little is known about, with hatred and xenophobia running
through their veins, programmed by the keepers at the gate to demand
blood and death, can, at the push of a few psychological buttons, be
mobilized into a war frenzy where the human brain, thinking,
analytical and logical, is set aside and replaced by our primitive,
mammalian brain, full of primordial behaviors and emotions. Once
the population’s collective conscious has mutated according to the
designs of their puppeteers the march towards war, invasion and
occupation can commence.
Part two will be posted on Wednesday 12/21/05
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