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Politics / GeoPolitics May 03, 2014 - 12:49 PM GMT

By: Andrew_McKillop

Politics

Warfare Quest Goes Millenial
The conventional definition of “millenarianism” and millenial cults identifies them as usually found in pre-western or so-called primitive societies. They always feature deliberate acts of fantasy and social delirium. Cults often includes sexual abstention and a sharp reduction in pregnancies and births, which for us would mean breeding fewer consumers who - later on - can imbibe war-crazed claptrap. In so-called primitive societies, millenarian cults often include “extreme risk” sport activities, with frequent death and injury because cult adepts believe they cannot be harmed and are untouchable.


Just like our Western elites!

For predictable but totally inexcusable reasons the glove puppet media of the West, loyally beating the war drum against the Russian Bear, never says that any war against Putin's Russia (or anybody else's Russia) is technologically impossible, economically impossible, financially impossible, and gosh its important, would harm efforts to Protect the Climate by emitting mucho greenhouse gases.

You imagine that Putin might have nuclear armed ICBMs? Oh yes, but they don't work and Russians drink so much vodka they don't know how to fire them! If 'WSJ' and the other liars didn't yet publish that piece, I can concoct it for them at a modest fee.

The new Millenial warfare cult cuts across previous and existing Elite Bleats and upstages them but adding war cult to the elite's poker hand is far from adding a joker to their already un-funny mix and mingle of bleats, whines, memes and themes. As you maybe noticed – all of them help drag down the economy. But “it doesn't matter”.

As I argue in other recent articles, I believe there is a good prima facie case for claiming the elites suffer from dangerous group-think schizophrenia. They are literally not responsible for their actions.

Praise God and Pass the Munitions
The voter-herd is thought of and treated – at best – as halfwitted, and more often as simple vermin by the elite. No, they don't love you. By dint of propaganda, the voter-herd will soon buy the message that Putin is another Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Milosovic or maybe Frankenstein. Creative “management of the future” can then move another dangerous and delirious step further because one key facet of millenarian cults, and also a key facet of our elites, is to avoid the future and-or destroy it.

Yes there are advantages – but only for the elite. Pushing sanctions and goading Putin militarily on the ground or “in theater” will provide them a fabulous excuse for why the economy tanked to nothing in another huge market crash. It wasn't our fault! We were defending the Kiev Flash Mob!

Another market crash is long overdue, and they know it. While Designer Wars were already part of the elite's furniture, stage props for what they think is a Morality Play, these wars had to be small and clean (and therefore low emissions) wars against small Rogue States. They were also of course squeaky-clean in moral terms, weren't they?  Throwing away this so-courageous caution – always pick on countries which can't fight back – the new Millenial War Cult of “our” elites shares several other key features with millenial cults in the so-called primitive societies.

One of the amazing features of these cults is that existing but previous logic is transformed overnight, for example existing forms of religious belief are inverted, folded and mutilated into the New Thing. Previous rituals which meant one thing now mean something totally different. What was previously bad is now good, and vice versa. Stage props can be highly complicated and can be very big. We could make an analogy for our society – build a cathedral but use it as a satellite communications centre or as a hammam bath. Anything but the previous normal use!

All over the Ukraine, according to the glove puppet media APCs or armored personnel carriers are running around, army helicopters, an occasional fighter jet, and other stage war props are everywhere. Like the famous Myrmidon or Ant Men fighters of Greek myth, masked fighters in army fatigues without insignia are popping up and strutting their stuff. Itching for a fight. Previously they were clerks, postmen or unemployed, or whatever.

The millenial cult takes over and transforms the scene. Fast.

In so-called primitive societies, these cults spread incredibly fast – no need for cellphones and Internet. Mass adhesion and belief in the cult, however crazy when seen from the outside, is rapid and nearly total. It can also end in the equivalent, in these societies, of civil war and nearly total social breakdown. Today, because our elites are plumb crazy, they will fold and mutilate existing previous themes and memes into their new War Thing. They will fold in any other handy memes and themes - we will likely soon hear that the Ukraine crisis is a major stage in the struggle for Agenda 21 and the Green World.. The Kiev Flash Mob “government” will tell us, loud and proud, that it will cut the Carbon Footprint of The Nation, of course when the Separatist Terrorists and Russian Bear have been smashed.  Praise God and send us the munitions!

At that precious moment when the Terrorists are laid low in Ukraine, the Gulfstream jet of Al Gore will touch down at Kiev's Boryspil airport, after spewing copious amounts of aviation kerosene residues in the lower stratosphere. This will be a Defining Moment for protecting Ukraine's future. For an un-modest fee, probably paid by the State Dept., Gore will gurgle inanities to the hand-picked crowd.

Delirium Tremens
Germany's industrial, banking and corporate elite has already panicked. It wants all talk of sanctions, let alone war, to be removed from the scene. Let bizniss be bizniss!

But the German elite is fighting a Millenarian Cult which absolutely rejects any logic.  Because the present crisis is so millenarian, it feeds off its own delirium. Upstream of it, we have a schizoid political elite unable to make logical decisions. For example, its group-think belief is that Ukraine was sadly subjugated to Soviet oppression and therefore it uses too much Carbon Energy. The IMF already said exactly that and its coming austerity plan will certainly and surely correct it through good old fuel poverty – because “there is no alternative”.

The New Ukraine also urgently needs to increase its already impressive national debt – to enable “creative finance” to play with it, strictly to the profit of authorized players. Its new Western-approved Oligarchs (not the old model vodka-flavored Oligarchs) can be nudged into fully abandoning all industry, starting with its coal mines. Just like in Western Europe, Ukraine can then import all the coal it needs from Russia. Isn't that a clever idea? This would, further down the line, and further down the crazed logic of “our” delirious Western leaderships enable sanctions against “Vlad the Vampire” to be extended – hitting his coal exports as well as everything else. That will really hurt him!

Ukraine can likely export a little bit more energy to the fatuous debt-riddled West European societies, thanks to fuel poverty, and the “struggle to reduce carbon footprint” can dramatically improve the New Ukraine's status as a major debt-trade platform. Here again, the IMF is working on that one.

The elite narrative is that by eliminating the previous corrupt and degenerate leadership, an even more corrupt and degenerate elite can be shoehorned in to play with the new and increased debt pile! The unwashed Ukrainian masses will be condemned to mass unemployment – as in the West – and this all makes sense because “there is no choice”.

A very handy slogan. Millenial good sense  - for the brainwashed and the brain dead.

Logic is Verboten
Logic counts for nothing in millenarian cults. They are sometimes described by ethnologists as a spontaneous mass rejection of logic. So its off-limits to argue that the millenarian economic roadshow called IMF Debt-and-Adjustment will stoke further and larger social conflicts, because conflict is the ultra-natural sequel to the programmed trashing of any notion of the word, and the reality, of “society”.

Millenial cults in fact often deny the existence of society – exactly like Britain's Margaret Thatcher who proudly blathered that “there is no such thing as society”, but happily she is now dead and buried – wags say with a wooden stake through her heart to keep her down when the Moon is high. In any case, her burial was a key event in British society, which still exists. And she does not.

The Ottoman Empire also no longer exists, and its real swan song was World War I. For completely irrational reasons and for some time the Ottomans had been beefing-up their presence in the Balkans  in  the few decades before 1914. This inevitably drew in other powers – like flies are drawn by dog poop. No logic was needed. Monkey see – monkey do. War was inevitable.

German industrialists and bankers can scream as loud as they like, but no logic is wanted on board for the South Korean ferry boat sailing to Millenial War in the Ukraine, and maybe to even bigger things using Ukraine war as a handy start point.

One final point is this. Millenarian cults or movements often turn revolutionary. The existing elite does not dance to the music or does not produce a good enough circus act to keep the mob happily on-side. The elite gets bumped off and History proves this, for example by mass population movements – the people walk away as far as they can from their disavowed elite. Sometime the elites just get killed and nobody misses them. Meddling with society, even pretending “society does not exist”, blows back on them as a distinct one-way loss of respect.  They blew it but they don't know it – yet.

By Andrew McKillop

Contact: xtran9@gmail.com

Former chief policy analyst, Division A Policy, DG XVII Energy, European Commission. Andrew McKillop Biographic Highlights

Co-author 'The Doomsday Machine', Palgrave Macmillan USA, 2012

Andrew McKillop has more than 30 years experience in the energy, economic and finance domains. Trained at London UK’s University College, he has had specially long experience of energy policy, project administration and the development and financing of alternate energy. This included his role of in-house Expert on Policy and Programming at the DG XVII-Energy of the European Commission, Director of Information of the OAPEC technology transfer subsidiary, AREC and researcher for UN agencies including the ILO.

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