Narratives of the Past which Justify Atrocities of Today
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell, "1984"
Excerpts from Atrocity Gods by Ashley Howes:
If the EU is going to craft new 'Holocaust Denial' legislation, surely it must first be defined. Mainly it is used to label those who, in the opinion of the one using the term, minimize the suffering of Jewish Holocaust victims and thereby foster the potential for future state-organised mass murder.
The imagery of the über-industrial Holocaust is so gut-wrenchingly horrific that anyone challenging the story is deemed criminally guilty of intent to incite racial hatred or civic disorder.
The subjectivity involved in evaluating intent explains the many glaring examples of double standards surrounding the 'holocaust denial' controversy.
For example: the 'establishment' historian Raul Hilberg states that the number of those murdered in Auschwitz was not four but one million, whilst the total number of Jews who died in WW II was not six but five million. When he makes such revisions, this is not considered 'denial'.
Yet when an 'unapproved' historian such as David Irving cites the same figures or, for example, that the gas chamber at Auschwitz is a post-war Soviet construction, during his trial in Austria he was not allowed to bring in the Auschwitz director to testify because no question regarding the truth or falsehood of any aspect of the Holocaust was allowed.
In most courts where such cases are tried, there is virtually no defense against 'denial' accusations even if the revision in question is generally agreed-upon by 'non-denier' Holocaust historians.
Not only do these surreal double standards make Kafka appear a realist, but also the changing story makes defining the Holocaust, let alone 'denial', almost impossible....
Even assuming such a thought-crime statute were to be passed, it should not exclusively refer to those denying only the Jewish Holocaust during WW II.
The point is often made that the Jewish Holocaust receives disproportionate attention because other genocides, such as in Ukraine, Armenia, China or Russia, are generally ignored.
Although true, this still misses the key issue, namely the Holocaust's main function as propaganda, whose purpose is to preserve our sense of self-worth and honour by demonizing the enemy in order to deflect attention away from the atrocities perpetrated by the victors.
For example, it is time the Allies cease 'denying' a literal holocaust (death or sacrifice by fire) that we perpetrated against about 900,000 Germans, mainly civilian women and children in phosphorous-aided firebombing raids.
We deliberately burned them to death, thousands of them roasted alive in airtight bomb shelters which remained so hot from the raging flames in the fire-induced tornadoes outside that, when the doors were opened long after the raids were over, the sudden inrush of oxygen caused families of desiccated corpses to spontaneously burst into flames. We literally roasted living people to death....
Many say that the main value of remembering the holocaust vividly is so that 'never again' as civilised peoples will we allow such horror to arise in our midst; this is a convincing point, and usually sincerely made.
However, by overlooking much of the overall story in favour of allowing one particular slant to dominate the meta-narrative and thus core identity of 'modern' society, we are already doing it again.
How else to explain how we believe that since 1990 we have starved and slaughtered well over one million Iraqis, mostly women and children, through sanctions, bombing and invasion all in the name of 'justice,' 'decency' and 'freedom'?
The only way we can buy into such self-serving deception is because of this powerful belief in our own righteousness.
This belief allows us to 'deny' that we have perpetrated such war crimes because, thanks to our meta-narrative, we do not perceive ourselves as capable of such crimes even while actually committing them, as we collectively do today.
Belief trumps facts every time...
To understand this dynamic as it plays out today, we need to examine the nature of the belief system.
Since the WW II Holocaust narrative helps shape our belief in who we are as people by defining our role in this seminal period of modern world history, its function is similar to that of a deity - in this case one whose imagery focuses on atrocity, cruelty, injustice, anguish, hatred and so forth.
Strangely enough, the past and current examples of our crimes mentioned above are not because of 'holocaust deniers' who in essence question the veracity of this 'Atrocity God', but its adherents who believe that by 'worshipping' images of hatred, injustice and brutality they can in turn dish out atrocity themselves without doing wrong, because 'they' who make us fear atrocity, deserve to suffer it themselves, while 'we' who fear and fight against atrocity, are always reasonable people acting in reluctant but heroic self-defense.
This sort of view allows Israel, for example, to keep taking more territory in the name of self-defense without seeing the glaring hypocrisies involved.
Zbigniew Brzezinski remarked on this during a recent congressional hearing about Iran, namely that after some sort of attack on 'us' - false-flag or otherwise - we could then go after them 'defensively'.
This deceptive view is far more than simple self-serving opportunism: it is sincerely believed, something most critics and victims do not understand.
Shortly after he left office, President Clinton said that his biggest mistake early on was to assume that his opponents were aware of their hypocrisies; however, later on he realised that they truly believed they were doing the right thing, which is why they were so powerful....
Any aspect of human life that is essentially good, uplifted, decent etc. can be so perverted, be it speech, food, dress, thought, love, marriage, community, solitude, scholarship, monasticism, religion, politics, parenting - and so on ad infinitum.
Such deception covers up our naturally good, kind nature, polluting us with the poison of hatred-spawning aggression from which comes all the horror of immorality, societal neurosis and war.
Perfectly good people are capable of this, as proved not only by the literally millions of atrocities perpetrated during WW II, but also by the ways in which people continue to perpetrate more of the same while denying them - and again: sincerely so.
Even if we are 'good' and happen to be facing those possessed by such demons, the way to 'overcome' them is not by becoming worse demons ourselves, because such aggression only intensifies the demonic 'us-versus-them' dynamic, making the Atrocity God stronger as 'He' seduces more of 'us' into being willing inhabitants in His hell realm.
First we should not buy into deceit-derived 'us-them' dynamics; then, starting with our own view, we must find a way to perceive 'them' as 'us' and in turn invite them to feel similarly.
In this way, we become of the same kin, which has the same root meaning as 'kind'. True kindness is a virtue, not a vice or weakness - contrary to what so many pseudo 'conservatives' nowadays preach!
I agree that many people "believe" the hypocritical garbage that's fed to them. However, the ones doing the feeding most certainly do not believe it.
They are simply after power and control.
Thus, they cannot be stopped by "kindness" and will only be stopped if they are forced to stop.
And so it continues, decade after decade, century after century.
This is life - a continuing struggle between those who want to reign supreme in the glory of earthly power and those who just want to live free and in peace until they return to their Lord, The Creator.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
the ones, who invented the "gas-chamber"-myth, most likely they were American Zionists, must have known that they were inventing the story, but my guess is, that those not directly involved in producing this war-propaganda, do actually believe in it.
Qrs"This is life - a continuing struggle between those who want to reign supreme in the glory of earthly power and those who just want to live free and in peace until they return to their Lord, The Creator."
The struggle is an Education. The course is Right and Wrong. The Power is knowledge. The goal is escape. Here is the crucible that tests you. Every man is tested with temptations. The Wise man shuns the WRONG and promotes the Right.
Peace is the WAY
Knowledge is the gift
Escape from this hell of mans creation is your GOAL.
Now just fracking DO IT! K!
First you take D.C. Then you take New York.
and you're right - peace is the way and knowledge is a gift -
A gift that the greedy continually try to hoard and control, in an effort to mislead and exploit the ignorant.
But, they are rapidly losing control over it.
With the internet, the cat is out of the bag and there is no way to get it to go back in.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
The Rich man Never controls knowledge. He manipulates your understanding to his gain and your loss.
Use YOUR gifts Fight the bankers manipulations. Claim your prize.
Leave this nasty place to the evil coin happy money changers.
First you take D.C. Then you take New York.