The Old World Order

Regular readers are used to seeing various myths of propaganda debunked within these commentaries. However (until now) one of the most-insidious – and thus most-important – constructs of propaganda has not been addressed: the supposed “New World Order”.

The immediate and obvious point to make here is that readers should/must immediately become deeply suspicious any time we are bombarded with a label which contains the word “new”. Implicit in every such label (by definition) is the concept that “this time it’s different”, because if it wasn’t different it wouldn’t be “new”.

“This time it’s different” is a cliché in Western societies. But it’s not revered as an aphorism of wisdom. Rather, it is scorned as the mantra of idiots. This same point was made in a previous commentary which debunked and rejected the ludicrous propaganda euphemism: “The New Normal”. The same analysis applies to both propaganda lies.

Why is the concept that “this time it’s different” (or this time it’s new) universally scorned by the more-intelligent members of our societies? Because such individuals subscribe to older, tried-and-true expressions of human thought:

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Or, simply:

There is nothing new under the Sun.

Contexts change. Principles are immutable. Those who refer to paradigms as being “new” or “different” (in categorical fashion) simply lack the capacity to perceive all the similarities to the previous paradigm(s). There is no “New Normal” in our societies, but we can also reject this particular lie by simply looking at the details of this (false) paradigm, itself.

This time it’s (supposedly) “normal” that unemployment (for the masses) is worse than at any other time in our history. Wages (in real dollars) are now as low as they have ever been in any time in our history. Meanwhile, the debts (among the masses) have never been higher. Poverty has never been as severe or as endemic. We never before had a class of people we now know as “the Working Poor”.

In short, for the vast majority of our citizens (the Little People) life has never been worse. But instead of our (corrupt) governments telling us how they plan on fixing all of these problems – which they created – they pat us on the heads and tell us (via the Corporate media) that now all this is “normal” (i.e. things will now always be like this).

Meanwhile, for the small minority at the very top; we see the precise, mirror opposite. Their incomes have never soared higher at such a dizzying rate. The hoards of wealth which they have amassed are orders of magnitude larger than anything ever before seen in our societies. They control (through their massive stock holdings) a much larger percentage of our Corporations than at any time in history. But the taxes they pay have never been lower.

In short, for the tiny minority at the top we see the opposite extreme: life has never been better. But instead of our (corrupt) governments telling us how they plan on re-balancing the worst wealth-inequality in the history of our societies – which they created – they pat us on the heads and tell us that now this too is “normal” (i.e. things will now always be like this).

As a matter of the most elementary logic; extremes can never be “normal”. As a function of both the laws of mathematics and the dynamics of human behavior; extremes always correct – back towards some more rational equilibrium which can be described as “normal”. The New Normal is not only a complete lie, it is a very silly/obvious lie.