Thursday, December 22, 2005

The Making of the Enemy — by Manuel Valenzuela

posted by Sean M. Madden at 8:37 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

While I can and do concur with your conclusions as to what is currently happening, I wonder why nobody has thought to examine the deficiencies in the educational system, that have made Americans always so susceptible to this type of manipulation. I can also see significant evidence to show that the same is now true in Britain.

Propaganda, as Goebbels so well showed, starts in the minds of the young, and to obtain real control, that is where the machine must begin. The church has known this for centuries, in particular the Roman Catholic church, which has practised this type of brain washing of young minds for centuries.

It is also true in Israel, where the Zionists have colonized the minds of most young settlers, who now believe it is their divine right to abuse the 'natives' in the land that Lord Balfour 'gave away' as British Foreign Secretary. Everybody nowadays conveniently ignores the part of the Balfour Declaration (1917) that states "A Jewish national home, without prejudice to the rights of non-Jews there." Also ignored is the fact that there was no mention of a separate Jewish State, either then, or when the League of Nations approved a British mandate based upon the Balfour Declaration, in 1922.

It is this 'mind control' that is inculcated in young minds by the schools systems now extant in most areas of the world, that pre-condition the innocent mind to accept what they are taught, and the propaganda that is present in their text books.

I have seen three educational systems at close range, and through personal experience. British, American and Filipino, where my children go to school. It is seeing the way the Filipino educational system has changed in the 26 years that I have lived here, that awakened me to the blatant propaganda that is inherent in all educational systems.

Under Marcos, the system perpetuated the phoney history that the American occupation deemed the best way of subduing the population. With the emphasis on Jose Rizal as a National Hero, rather than one of the firebrands who fought their occupation.

In the years of American college, and then working within a DoD school for dependents, I became even more familiar with the skewed history classes and propaganda extant in so many school systems.

To read North American history after growing up on British history, was to see two completely different stories, with totally different heroes and villains. As was also the case, when reading British, German, Japanese and American general's biographies after WWII.

I had to learn for myself, as certainly no school system that I have encountered, bothers to teach, what is so obvious to the thoughtful and discerning person. The history books are written from the perspective of the country in whose schools they are used.

Japan's current attitude is evident of that, as they are rewriting their history to eliminate any mention of the atrocities that occurred in all countries that they occupied. What are the new generation of the Japanese school children going to believe about the Chinese and Korean claims against Japan.

Just as US history books like to make it appear that there was no alternative to dropping atomic weapons upon Japanes cities, to end WWII. Most younger Americans do not even realize that the USA is still the only country to have used nuclear weapons against an enemy.

If there is ever to be a change in attitudes among the population of any country, it must start in the schools. Because that is where they are filled with jingoistic propaganda, that leads to a subservient populace that is easily manipulated by politicians in the pay of the many corporations that are busy establishing a global hegemony.

Tue Dec 27, 10:29:00 AM GMT  

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