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America is currently at war with an enemy which is destroying us culturally, and will lead, eventually, to slavery. But most Americans don’t know that we are at war and are blissfully ignorant.
This ignorance reminds me of the 1999 theatrical flop, “Wild Wild West.” In this movie, set in post Civil War America, President Grant (Kevin Cline), has a great line, which as it turns out, bears great application to our modern American culture. Upon learning, to his surprise, that the arch-villain was planning and waging a war against the United States he yells, “I didn’t know that we were at war. You have me at a great disadvantage.”
Today, and at this very moment, a similar war is being waged against the United States of America. A war in which prevailing ignorance of its existence has put our country at a similar disadvantage. But this war is not one of bullets, tanks, planes, bombs or paratroopers. It is an ideological war and ideological bullets are being fired in a prolonged and protracted war against American society and culture.
Those waging this war against America know that our society and culture must not only be demoralized but turned into a moral wasteland. The enemy knows that their utopia can only be built upon the ashes of anarchy and chaos. They therefore make war against all the wisdom that has come to men through the ages of experience. They seek to overturn and destroy the very foundations upon which society, government and religion rest.
Anarchy usually leads to tyranny, so moral anarchy is the goal. A “psy-ops war” then, is being conducted against us where infidelity, atheism, unchastity, intemperance, civil corruption, greed, avarice, and ambition–personal, political, and national–are all glorified and promoted–in an effort to weaken us and our will to resist. The casualties in this war include those who have been pulled and thrust into new fields of action–hence the “peaceniks” who have mutated into environmental, NAMBLA, or GLSTEN activists. And new lines of thought–the moral relativists mutating into the worship of “self-esteem”, a belief in aliens, magic and “new age” psychology.
These cultural activists are able then to shake the faith, undermine the morals, and pollute the lives of our American people. So much so that they are thrown far off balance in all of their activities: economic, social, political, and religious. As a result, liberty and freedom stand in danger of being replaced. And what’s worse, replaced by the greatest, most widespread, and most complete tyranny that has ever oppressed man.
In a lecture I attended in 1984 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB agent, described how the Soviet Union’s “Active Measures program” was used against target countries (see also this fantastic 1984 interview of Yuri Bezmenov). He listed how they would:
- produce, promote and distribute illicit drugs
- produce, promote and distribute pornography
- design ways to get a society interested in sex, and more sex
- promote senseless and culturally destroying music and art
- infiltrate the media to steer efforts to weaken society morally (1)
Today, who can say that they have not been affected by this moral decay? Today–if we wish to avoid the consequences of this ongoing Cultural Revolution–we must awake and arouse ourselves to a sense of our awful situation. We must realize that we are at war and return fire.
But this is a war which must be fought by individuals, families and groups who seek moral reformation, for it is a war which must begin within the chambers of each person’s heart. Let me explain in the words of Ezra Taft Benson:
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
“Human nature can be changed, here and now,” said David O. McKay, and then he quoted the following:
“You can change human nature. No man who has felt in him the Spirit of Christ even for half a minute can deny this truth. .
“You do change human nature, your own human nature, if you surrender it to Christ. Human nature has been changed in the past. Human nature must be changed on an enormous scale in the future, unless the world is to be drowned in its own blood. And only Christ can change it.” (2)
You see, America’s real arsenal of freedom is found in her liberty-loving faith, moral character, and beliefs.
Former President of the United State, John Adams, understood what protected, prospered and made America great. In a letter to a friend many years after the war, he explained what it was that really won the Revolutionary War:
“The Revolution was affected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people…. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.” (3)
Will America collectively remember what made her great? Will we change our minds and hearts? Before it’s too late?
Notes
1. Bezmenov, Yuri, Remarks of a talk given in Salt Lake City Utah, December 1984.
2. Benson, Ezra Taft, “First Presidency Message: Born of God,” Ensign, July 1989.
3. Adams, John (American president, 1735-1826). Letter to Hezekiah Niles, 13. February 1818
Skousen’s “The Naked Communist” contains a list of about 50 objectives that Communists would try to achieve to overthrow the US and other free societies. They included infiltration of the legal profession, universities, the press, unions, churches, etc. It also included less-expected things like establishing state support of the arts to influence influence the arts, music, sculpture, etc. to portray ugliness as beauty. In other words, on every level, they wanted to detach society from any connections anything “praiseworthy” and replace it with garbage. Popular music, television, films, dance, sculpture, literature, and the fine arts have been largely undermined by agents who were deliberately inserted into these fields to accomplish this mission.
BTW, “The Naked Communist” was used as political indoctrination that was part of Air Force training back in the 1980s. I always found that surprising.
“The Naked Communist” was also used for a time as study material in official Church meetings, and was recommended in LDS General Conference by President David O. McKay and Ezra Taft Benson.
That doesn’t sound like anarchy that sounds like totalitarianism. Yuri Bezmenov provides methods of control that were used against the soviet populous. In comparison in what is going on here in the USA, corporate Brand America has taken control (with the governments blessing) using “psy-ops warfare” on its population. They even change to meaning of anarchy. which in my opinion is means “total self governance”.
Josh is correct. Anarchy involves a market place of values where people are able to have the freedom to choose between right and wrong instead of having the choice made for them, as such, bringing up anarchy is irrelevant to this essay. The point is that we have enemies who use non-physical tactics to weaken the morality of a country (such as how the KGB behaved), and thus we should use tactics (hopefully advocating non-physical tactics) to counter and defeat the enemy. This is why bringing up anarchy is irrelevant.
I can have two friends (A and B), B tries to get me to smoke and tries to persuade me. I am free to choose, but A notices and tries to ‘fight’ back by encouraging me not to smoke. A can be the LDS church, my parents, my friends, and anyone that cares about my decisions to try to persuade me. B can represent all the evil (or mislead) forces who try to convince me that such behavior is not vicious and/or sinful. This situation is a description of what happens in moral anarchy.
New situation: I, curious about a certain behavior seek advice, A (the controller of government) recommends a particular course of action. B disagrees with A’s philosophy and tries to convince me that a particular behavior is not damaging. Instead of countering B with the scriptures, logic, compassion, etc., A uses force to keep the “enemy” from influencing my decisions, because he may have intentions to weaken society by convincing me to do immoral behavior. In this situation, there is no moral anarchy, there is no freedom to choose righteously because the choice is largely made for me.
The question is not about if there are enemies trying to convince the populace that certain damaging behavior is right. The question is how do we combat them, by restricting the market of values through hypocritical violence? Or by combating them through truth in the battlefield of ideas? The author might lack confidence in his moral views being able to stand on the merit of its truthfulness and thus seeks violence to control the enemy. In moral anarchy, one must believe that his views are capable of standing under scrutiny. I am confident that the values of the LDS church is correct and that one can learn of its truthfulness by revelation, by experience, by logic, etc. I am confident in my views and can feel secure in a morally anarchist society. One danger of not having an anarchist society is sometimes A is not in control of government, sometimes B is, now people are only left with the argument for immoral behavior. Sometimes the truth is crushed by government, but when given a chance in the open marketplace of values truth shall stand through time.
Brett. I see what you’re saying, and think I agree with you. Anarchy is the absence of something, not two opposing influences battling in the marketplace of ideas. Very good.
Skyler and Brett: The moral anarchy I’m “talking” about is the absence of moral values and righteousness. When a man, family, or society has totally given up any kind of self-governance and given into the passions of the moment, that sort of thing.
As I stated in another article (see: <>):
Bezmenov’s superiors knew that in order to “soften up” a society or country they have to weaken that societies moral fabric. Which is why Cultural Marxism is heavily involved in getting agents to promote homosexuality, drugs, pornography, etc.
In the comment above I Apparently didn’t put the tags in right. The article reference is:
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenlybanner/marriage-and-the-traditional-family-a-world-turned-upside-down