ideology, Categories, and Radical Nominalism: Part 3-- The Green Roots of Sanders
Dear Reader, welcome to Part 3. If you are stumbling across this blog post having not yet looked over Parts 1 and 2, I'd advise you to take a gander at those first, otherwise, what I'm about to say will not make much sense. If you like it, and are intrigued, feel free to share and let me know. If you want to strangle me, Haha, you're too late, I'm going into exile. If you are considering a lawsuit, please get in line, my Attorney is on call.
So, Bernie Sanders is not a Socialist, he is a Green. Let that sink in. For some, that may seem to enhance his credibiliity. For others, it is irrelevant or confusing. And to others, it is humorous and brings up the image of Hippies dropping Acid and communing with Nature, or Naturist Ewell Gibbons eating Tree bark on the "Tonight Show". To me, I see Druids sacrificing Babies to the Tree Gods in Thuringia. Or something like that.
I will skewer, slash and burn Sanders Green Ideology, mainly for fun, but also as an act of Love for those millions of people facing the shock of their lifetimes when they find out that their beloved "Not a Socialist" Icon is just a little Schicklegruber in disguise.
First, a little bit of History. This is going to be awkward. Alright, out with it.
The "Green Movement" was launched as a Psychological and Intelligence Warfare Project by the European Oligarchy in the late 19th Century, as an attempt to stop the spread Globally of the "American System" of Economics, as designed by Alexander Hamilton, advanced by Abraham Lincoln and his advisor, Henry C. Carey, and associated leaders in Europe such as Friedrich List, Sergei Witte, and the Japanese leaders of the Meiji Restoration. The American System rejected Free Trade, Communism and Slavery. It places the General Welfare of the people, and the development of people at the center of economic policy. Not money. It sees no inherent conflict between Capital and Labor, rather a Harmony of Interests. It rejects the notion of "Limits to Growth", and sees unlimited potential in the development of the creative powers of the Human mind. And, it sees the relationship between Humanity and Nature as coherent, not antagonistic, since we are part of Nature.
The 19th Century saw the proliferation and revival of a variety of movements, which properly can be described as Cults. You might say, I am a hypocrite for labeling and categorizing people, a practice I condemned earlier. Actually, most of these formations described themselves this way, as they were consciously adopting the practices of the old Pagan and esoteric Religions going back to the Pre-Christian Era. There were new and modern synthetic religions and philosophies which coalesced around certain intellectual figures, from Nietzsche, to Aleister Crowley, Bakunin, and others.
The actual launching of the Green Movement was courtesy of the "Order of the Golden Dawn", founded by Crowley as a Secret Society of Freemasonry, with heavily Satanic overtones. Their project was to bring about the "Age of Aquarius", and overturn the Age of Pisces, (the Fish, symbol of Christ) Essentially, they were a movement to destroy Western Civilization. There was a location in Europe, Ascona Switzerland, where these cult leaders, Nihilists and Pagans would gather from year to year, a kind of 19th Century Woodstock for the Elites. They would smoke Hashish, practice Dionysian Dance, engage in Roman style Orgies, and write. Many of these people had diverse outlooks, Anarchists, Communists, Artists, Transcendentalists, Eastern Mystery Religions, etc. What they all had in common was their hatred and fear of the 19th Century United States, which had initiated the Industrialization of the World, the ending of Slavery and illiteracy, and defeat of Colonialism.
So, in summary, what we may know as the Counterculture today, was launched at this Hippie Commune for Oligarchs in Ascona in the late 19th Century, and this is the origin of the so-called " Green Movement". And, oddly enough, this Green Movement became the most fertile recruiting ground for a rag tag group of disgruntled WWI veterans in Germany who had cooked up their own Pagan Cult of Nordic Superheroes called the Thule Society, which evolved into...you guessed it, the Nazi Party of Germany.
So, chew on that for a bit, and I'll have more soon, lots more.
