When it comes to teaching the art of music, any good teacher would tell a student that focusing too much on the notes would result in a rigid and wooden performance, but focusing too much on the music\u2019s feeling would cause a loss of rhythm. Both the notes as well as the feelings should be balanced to gain harmony and make the piece come alive.<\/p>\n
Strange how we could easily identify with the abovementioned example when it comes to music, but when it comes to governing policies and political ideals, we fail dismally to see the same dynamic. It is either the strict law of the letter or a cacophony of disharmonious chords. The difference being that nowadays both have been elevated to levels of supreme aesthetics. Ugliness has become the new beauty and harmony is caricatured.<\/p>\n
This has become the condition of politics and idealism in Europe today. No doubt, other parts of the world could also attest to this. However, Europe \u2013 being the cradle of Western mankind \u2013 this tendency reveals how the West has become old, sick and ready to implode. The Western satellite countries such as North-America, Australasia, and what\u2019s left of South Africa, still try to radiate the once bright beam of enlightenment. For how long still is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n
Just as the Roman Empire of old, Europe has run out of steam. Where tolerance and apathy were the vices of old, they are the virtues of today. This cultural vacuum that it has left in its wake is now being filled with everything considered dysfunctional and pathological, yet dangerously filled with unbridled youthful vigour.<\/p>\n
Wise words were once written by William Butler Yeats:<\/p>\n
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/em><\/p>\n The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/em><\/p>\n Are full of passionate intensity.<\/em><\/p>\n In this bastardised Fourth German Reich, aka the European Union, paedophilia is soon to be legalised<\/a>. What first started off with gay rights has now opened the gates of hell to other deviant practices with paedophilia and polygamy being the next in line. Peculiarly enough, the EU has motioned to ban bestiality. Animals thus have achieved more legal protection against sexual predators than children.<\/p>\n In general, Yeats has reminded us that it is not the first time in history that we are dealing with such abominations. In fact, hardly a generation goes by without these tendencies occasionally crawling up through the crags. The difference being that European civilisation seems to have lost the will to fight this off. The European has lost his fighting spirit. Whereas crimes against children would become legal in Germany, crimes against children in the UK such as grooming gangs who kidnap and prostitute hundreds of underage white girls get away with impunity. Gone are the days when mob justice took care of these problems.<\/p>\n More emancipation for women appears to give rise to more emasculation for men. Whereas feminists, paedophiles and gays are fighting their way to the top, Western man has been forced to introspect on his historical wrongdoings and has lost his ability to fend for his family, his sense of honour and duty both confined to history.<\/p>\n The plot sickens though.<\/p>\n Sociologist Doug McAdam mentions in this clip<\/a> how he once attended a revolutionary gathering where the killing of newborn white babies was discussed, and how a fellow attendee was \u2018booed down\u2019 after he apologetically dared to utter that killing white babies seemed to be pushing matters a bit too far. The one-dimensional revolutionary mindset is reaching star status in the West, and one wonders if the Russian artist Marat Guelman\u2019s depiction of Christ and Lenin holding hands with Mickey Mouse is not blasphemy after all, but an omen of what\u2019s to come. In revolution, confusion reigns supreme, with everything being right and wrong at the same time. In Guelman\u2019s sculpture we see Christ (love and humility), Lenin (hate and arrogance) and Mickey Mouse, the figurehead of Disneyland, the world\u2019s most successful paedophile child grooming facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n The spirit of destroying the Western world has clearly reached a turning point and the auto-destruct timer has been set. Our cultural elites have turned the West into a virtual suicide cult, not unlike Jim Jones\u2019 People\u2019s Temple Movement, where the handful of deviants who refused to be poisoned were dragged into the fray and killed nonetheless. Only by identifying these ills could we be made aware of the tactics that are used and how to counteract them.<\/p>\n However, for a more closer study of these tactics, it would be a good idea to start with the spiritual father of the US democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who wrote her Master\u2019s thesis on the works of Saul Alinsky (1909 \u2013 1972). His twelve rules for radicals are undoubtedly part of the whole package designed to destroy the West. These rules<\/a> are:<\/p>\n * RULE 1: \u201cPower is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.\u201d Power is derived from 2 main sources \u2013 money and people. \u201cHave-Nots\u201d must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.) It would take quite a sick but committed individual to come up with this, yet this indicates how the enemies of the West are at pains to destroy it. Dare we not mention the worrisome fact that the contender for the White House has this as an ideological backbone, perhaps more so than the US Constitution.<\/p>\n It\u2019s fairly obvious that these tactics are working in full swing. Add a dash of Marcusian repressive tolerance \u2013 that tolerates only opinions from the left \u2013 and we can conclude that there are elites at work in destroying the Western way of life very thoroughly. Not to mention how the once hallowed corridors of academia have been filled with tenured radicals who are writing and lecturing on topics that are quintessentially unsavoury for Western posterity, dumbing the youth down and hardening them under the guise of enlightenment.<\/p>\n The West today is culturally rich but spiritually weak, and cannot see the trees from the forest anymore, their stunted spiritual development possibly preparing them for the next generation of fascism, brought on by computer games, narrow-minded conformity and an inability to see beyond the facade of feigned public opinion.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s hope it\u2019s not too late then, so we can once again rejuvenate in the sounds of great composers and poets who have an understanding how harmony and spirituality could be reunited again, advancing our sense of humanity to the next level.<\/p>\n To quote Yeats once more:<\/p>\n And what rough beast, it hour come round at last,<\/em><\/p>\n Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to teaching the art of music, any good teacher would tell a student that focusing too much on the notes would result in a rigid and wooden performance, but focusing too much on the music\u2019s feeling would cause a loss of rhythm. 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\n* RULE 2: \u201cNever go outside the expertise of your people.\u201d It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don\u2019t address the \u201creal\u201d issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
\n* RULE 3: \u201cWhenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.\u201d Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
\n* RULE 4: \u201cMake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity\u2019s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
\n* RULE 5: \u201cRidicule is man\u2019s most potent weapon.\u201d There is no defense. It\u2019s irrational. It\u2019s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
\n* RULE 6: \u201cA good tactic is one your people enjoy.\u201d They\u2019ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They\u2019re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different than any other human being. We all avoid \u201cun-fun\u201d activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
\n* RULE 7: \u201cA tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.\u201d Don\u2019t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
\n* RULE 8: \u201cKeep the pressure on. Never let up.\u201d Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
\n* RULE 9: \u201cThe threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.\u201d Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists\u2019 minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
\n* RULE 10: \u201cIf you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.\u201d Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management\u2019s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
\n* RULE 11: \u201cThe price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.\u201d Never let the enemy score points because you\u2019re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you\u2019re not part of the solution, you\u2019re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
\n* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.\u201d Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)<\/p>\n