'The Butchering of the Spring Herd'
.....a piece on the indoctrination of America's youth, over the past 20 years, into contemporary and socially accepted slavery.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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Fear the Round Eye-ed Devil
Fifty years ago, very few people had ever heard of depression, there were barely any cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or autism and kids didn’t walk into their schools and blow away their classmates before premeditatingly killing themselves.
The divorce rate was next to nothing, there was no such thing as a “misery index” and no one ever thought of prescribing you a pill to ease the suffering of symptoms, they cured or treated the actual disease instead.
So, now today, what do we do different then we did fifty years ago?
I remembered an article I read in 1990 on the growing problem in Japan of ‘Karoshi’, the early deaths of seemily healthy people, a sudden spike in cancer rates, heart attacks of 40-somethings, coupled with a rise in school-place disobedience, and ever-increasing violent crime committed by youth, in a country that, historically had been one of the safest countries on Earth. The article was on the over-worked Japanese citizen, the break-down of the traditional Japanese family, the sudden aspiration of the average Japanese to abandon age-old Japanese culture and indulge in wanting to be more ‘Western’. However, Japan was on top of the world. They were the leaders in technological development, their economy was on fire; arguably the best in the world, and their work habits were touted as the envy of the world by the American government.
That was 1990.
So what happened?
Tokyo became the most polluted city on Earth. Suicide became the number one killer of citizens between the ages of 18 and 34. The divorce rate rivaled that of America. Seniors were being institutionalized in record numbers.
Cases of rape went up.
Cases of murder went up (in a nation where it was once unheard of).
Cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and stroke went up.
Finally, Japan’s economy imploded. In what the United Nations celestially named the “Japanese Asset Price Bubble”, Japan collapsed into a dark economic recession.
Rewind, several hundred years: when the first Europeans came to Japan, they marveled and noted at the amazing Japanese craftsmanship and fine metalwork. Japan was a land of old traditions, of discipline, of respect for elders, and of harmony with the land. The Japanese family was the core unit of its civilization. Elders were respected as fountains of wisdom and cared for in such a manner. Children were revered as the future and vigilantly nurtured and taught time-honored Japanese customs. And it remained that way for the following centuries.
Shortly before WWII, Japan had abandoned very little of its traditional ways, and its average income per citizen was nearly 10X that of an American, and goods and services in Japan cost less than half of equal services in the States.
Enter World War II.
Following the war, the United States began an aggressive campaign to rebuild the economy of Japan. So-called American experts were rushed to newly built schools and Japanese children were taken from the villages and taught the ‘Western’ work ethic, all in the name to rebuild its country. Women were drug from the home, children were sent to school seven days a week, and school-aged boys as well as grown men were taught that working until you dropped dead was a noble and honorable way to die.
The aggressive campaign to rebuild Japan by the United States government was an experiment and prototype of how they would later rebuild the American curriculum here at home. The problem is we implemented it before we finished out experiment with Japan, or did we?
The collapse of the Japanese economic machine led to a time period that traditionalists call the “Lost Decade”. In a state of panic and despair the Japanese government and educational system went into emergency mode. They convened and looked back over the last 50 years to see just why they ended up in the state they did.
The Japanese began a campaign to return Japan to its days of glory. They took the idea of building itself in the image of the United States and abolished it. They fundamentally rebuilt their education philosophy. Along with science, math and technology, they began to once again teach Japanese history, tradition, and culture. Class weeks were cut from six or seven days a week to five days a week, and in many parts of the country, four and even three. Businesses implemented a new theory called the Tokyo Way, defined as: progress by improvement throughout all aspects of life. Traditional and ancient family values were encouraged. Next, they scattered the central bank to the wind, empowering once again, the independent community bank, breaking the chains of financial serfdom that nameless, faceless bankers had imposed on them a half century earlier.
The results? Destroying the national bank (the equivalent to the Federal Reserve in the US) rendered the nameless and faceless multi-nationalists powerless. Japanese citizens now pay no income tax. In 2010, Japan’s GDP growth was 4%, the highest in the world, while the Japanese workforce has actually shrunken. Citizens are spending less time at work, more time in their homes, and more time with family and parents. The government empowered the citizen and stopped the crippling regulation of day to day life. Only about 12% of the nation of Japan has tillable land suitable for farming, yet government regulations now favor the independent merchant, tradesman and farmer. Japan imports very little food. Japanese farmers were once again allowed to practice centuries-old farming techniques and their yield increased. Local and independent farmers now support a nation of millions on only a tiny slice of tillable land.
The education system in this country is little more than day care for the family that has been enslaved to corporate America. It’s simple really. The multi-national banking system loans the money to corporate America so the banking institutions own the companies we work for. The banks give us credit cards that we rack up with debt, they then manipulate currency volume and interests rates to keep inflation at an attractive level for them. We get our paychecks which we use to pay off our debt, in a sense giving it right back to the banks that we all work for. We essentially work for free.
Until we learn to live debt free, and America once again becomes a nation of independent citizens, independent of debt and independently skilled we will always be a nation enslaved and eternally indentured to our employer. Until we structure our society back to where family, friends, and community is the central and sacred focal point of existence instead of our place of employment and our co-workers, and chase for the dollar to pay our ever mounting debt, we are a nation and civilization doomed.
The divorce rate was next to nothing, there was no such thing as a “misery index” and no one ever thought of prescribing you a pill to ease the suffering of symptoms, they cured or treated the actual disease instead.
So, now today, what do we do different then we did fifty years ago?
I remembered an article I read in 1990 on the growing problem in Japan of ‘Karoshi’, the early deaths of seemily healthy people, a sudden spike in cancer rates, heart attacks of 40-somethings, coupled with a rise in school-place disobedience, and ever-increasing violent crime committed by youth, in a country that, historically had been one of the safest countries on Earth. The article was on the over-worked Japanese citizen, the break-down of the traditional Japanese family, the sudden aspiration of the average Japanese to abandon age-old Japanese culture and indulge in wanting to be more ‘Western’. However, Japan was on top of the world. They were the leaders in technological development, their economy was on fire; arguably the best in the world, and their work habits were touted as the envy of the world by the American government.
That was 1990.
So what happened?
Tokyo became the most polluted city on Earth. Suicide became the number one killer of citizens between the ages of 18 and 34. The divorce rate rivaled that of America. Seniors were being institutionalized in record numbers.
Cases of rape went up.
Cases of murder went up (in a nation where it was once unheard of).
Cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and stroke went up.
Finally, Japan’s economy imploded. In what the United Nations celestially named the “Japanese Asset Price Bubble”, Japan collapsed into a dark economic recession.
Rewind, several hundred years: when the first Europeans came to Japan, they marveled and noted at the amazing Japanese craftsmanship and fine metalwork. Japan was a land of old traditions, of discipline, of respect for elders, and of harmony with the land. The Japanese family was the core unit of its civilization. Elders were respected as fountains of wisdom and cared for in such a manner. Children were revered as the future and vigilantly nurtured and taught time-honored Japanese customs. And it remained that way for the following centuries.
Shortly before WWII, Japan had abandoned very little of its traditional ways, and its average income per citizen was nearly 10X that of an American, and goods and services in Japan cost less than half of equal services in the States.
Enter World War II.
Following the war, the United States began an aggressive campaign to rebuild the economy of Japan. So-called American experts were rushed to newly built schools and Japanese children were taken from the villages and taught the ‘Western’ work ethic, all in the name to rebuild its country. Women were drug from the home, children were sent to school seven days a week, and school-aged boys as well as grown men were taught that working until you dropped dead was a noble and honorable way to die.
The aggressive campaign to rebuild Japan by the United States government was an experiment and prototype of how they would later rebuild the American curriculum here at home. The problem is we implemented it before we finished out experiment with Japan, or did we?
The collapse of the Japanese economic machine led to a time period that traditionalists call the “Lost Decade”. In a state of panic and despair the Japanese government and educational system went into emergency mode. They convened and looked back over the last 50 years to see just why they ended up in the state they did.
The Japanese began a campaign to return Japan to its days of glory. They took the idea of building itself in the image of the United States and abolished it. They fundamentally rebuilt their education philosophy. Along with science, math and technology, they began to once again teach Japanese history, tradition, and culture. Class weeks were cut from six or seven days a week to five days a week, and in many parts of the country, four and even three. Businesses implemented a new theory called the Tokyo Way, defined as: progress by improvement throughout all aspects of life. Traditional and ancient family values were encouraged. Next, they scattered the central bank to the wind, empowering once again, the independent community bank, breaking the chains of financial serfdom that nameless, faceless bankers had imposed on them a half century earlier.
The results? Destroying the national bank (the equivalent to the Federal Reserve in the US) rendered the nameless and faceless multi-nationalists powerless. Japanese citizens now pay no income tax. In 2010, Japan’s GDP growth was 4%, the highest in the world, while the Japanese workforce has actually shrunken. Citizens are spending less time at work, more time in their homes, and more time with family and parents. The government empowered the citizen and stopped the crippling regulation of day to day life. Only about 12% of the nation of Japan has tillable land suitable for farming, yet government regulations now favor the independent merchant, tradesman and farmer. Japan imports very little food. Japanese farmers were once again allowed to practice centuries-old farming techniques and their yield increased. Local and independent farmers now support a nation of millions on only a tiny slice of tillable land.
The education system in this country is little more than day care for the family that has been enslaved to corporate America. It’s simple really. The multi-national banking system loans the money to corporate America so the banking institutions own the companies we work for. The banks give us credit cards that we rack up with debt, they then manipulate currency volume and interests rates to keep inflation at an attractive level for them. We get our paychecks which we use to pay off our debt, in a sense giving it right back to the banks that we all work for. We essentially work for free.
Until we learn to live debt free, and America once again becomes a nation of independent citizens, independent of debt and independently skilled we will always be a nation enslaved and eternally indentured to our employer. Until we structure our society back to where family, friends, and community is the central and sacred focal point of existence instead of our place of employment and our co-workers, and chase for the dollar to pay our ever mounting debt, we are a nation and civilization doomed.
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