Us and Them

There are some billionaire hedge fund owners and multinational CEOs who donate to divide civil society by investing in sites like Breitbart and hate media outlets like Fox News.  CommonDreams.org 

"Investigative journalist Jane Mayer wrote a book about their efforts titled Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.

“In April of 2016, the SPLC documented Breitbart’s embrace of extremist ideas and racist tropes such as black-on-white crime and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. Further analyses showed how under executive chair Stephen Bannon, Breitbart’s comment section became a safe space for anti-Semitic language.”

Anti-Union groups like Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have been funded in the millions.

What makes social justice and equality such a threat towards these elites that they  fund parties who are willing to take babies away from their mothers, incarcerate African Americans, support anti-semitism, Islamaphobia, denigrate indigenous people and support pornographic misogynist rape culture?

Since Canada follows US trends we can expect that right wing political parties are also supported by Corporate capitalist elites. Even CBC news has been tainted by right wing apathetic tones.

The spike in "public" support or acceptance of right wing attitudes came suddenly after Donald Trump got elected.  Our Prime Minister changed his tone from holding up indigenous rights to cheering for pipelines.

In a nutshell, the white supremacists have revealed to my imagination this Orwellian animal farm scenario:

People who are brown, Islamic, Jewish, female, intellectually curious, LGBTQ and poor - are the enemy.  Who else is left?  The ruling elite along with those who can be manipulated by propaganda.

So what is next if this hierarchy remains and rules?  A planetary playground for billionaires and their servants. One way or another - all life that cannot be exploited will be removed. Which takes us back to the Nazis who imprisoned and killed anyone who didn't subscribe to their goal of world domination.

In some states Christianity has been hijacked and changed to an evangelical cult to not only accept the brutality of Trump's campaign but to make him a God. Forget the centuries of Christian teachings of Jesus. The second coming is Money. It can change everything that invests in its supremacy as long as humanity has been emptied of conscience and compassion.  It is built on contempt for all natural life.  It is power without flesh. The worship of the monster revealed as greed, which will bring suffering to everything that is beautiful and worth living for.

Addiction, drugs and pollution will be the weapons of those who cannot tolerate any other kind of power beyond their own. If the land is flooded and the forests on fire, they will purchase land where it is not.

It won't be capitalism or communism or fascism - it will simply be the dark hole of power, the mindless, heartless machine. There will be no conscience to reveal the suffering of ourselves or others. Language will dissolve into clicks.  Knowledge will be erased. Whatever beauty can be found in nature will be a desert.

So if we do not voice our shared or diverse views, if we are irritated by people who have different experiences, people who have different faiths and wear different clothes, and you look forward to a time where everyone is just like you, and everything is what you like - you are helping the silencing of humanity.

The Other is Killing Us

There is a theory which holds that "the surge in far-right support, in otherwise moderate countries such as Sweden, is a one-time response to current events – especially to the surge in migrants and refugee claimants who entered Europe in 2015 and 2016 amid the Syrian civil war." Doug Saunders writes in The Globe and Mail.

You might see the surge in media articles on racism and the need to be "woke" as blaming white people too easily, or the feminist voices on sexual harassment in the work place as portraying men as scheming predators.

Whichever side you are on, it feels like the "other" is killing us. And the "other" IS killing us. But the "other" is not the one who is usually blamed.

The "other" does not appear in public as a particular race or gender or even a personality type. This "other" is the anthro-hyena.

The anthro-hyena appears to be human, talks, walks and dresses like a human but has developed into a creature who is beyond the sentiment and emotion of the human. Neither is it a wild hyena who mates, hunts and lives on the African plains.

The anthro-hyena has a particular set of skills and an obsession to scheme and control social systems. His/her aim is dark manipulation and this will destroy all life on our planet unless we identify the activity as a singular threat.

Human culture has identified the evil "other" through stories, religious doctrine and psycho-analysis. Labels such as psychopath, the devil, satan, criminal, enemy or killer - have been well used to identify evil activity, but the anthro-hyena is much smarter and less noticeable than those we identify as threats to a functioning society.

The anthro-hyena is not the richest king , CEO, Prime Minister or President because he works behind the scene, advising, scheming and lobbying. Once identified she or he might be classified as psychopathic, rich or successful but the nature that makes her so dangerous is her ability to move around and influence institutions so as to bring about their destruction while appearing to be essential to the institution.

The anthro-hyena comes in all genders, races and classes. They adopt the language and persona of whatever group they choose to work in. They appear to represent us, whoever we are and wherever we might be. They learn the skills and discipline of the profession they adopt. But that is just their platform.

The anthro-hyena will not be the troll stalking the comment section or the killer stalking the street - the anthro-hyena will be organizing, coaching and manipulating others to do that. The devastation of society will be a strategy that links all elements so that (1) the actors believe they are working on their own behalf, and (2) the action will seem human, natural, and caused by the politics that preceded them.

However the architects and designers of the event or string of events, are never recognized or named. They slip into and out of the corners like shadows in a nightmare.

The anthro-hyena doesn't plan a new movement, protest or political group. He/she feeds the conversation by adopting a fake persona and providing the "propaganda", the "ideology" and the "doctrine" to enable the followers to do the work of fronting the movement.

For example, the oil pipelines create division among different groups. The ones who believe we need the oil and the jobs and the ones who live, work, eat and drink the resources where the oil is to be shipped. It's easy to see why each side supports their argument, but the anthro-hyena is not interested in finding common ground or coming to a workable solution. The currency is inflaming the issue, making both sides appear ridiculous, angry and even violent. Hauling out stereotypes alienates us from the basic issue.  Name calling, ridicule, fear and destruction is skillfully massaged.

The anthro-hyena also finds funding to do the work that he does not identify with. His or her name will not be shown with any movement for long. Once the destruction of social spirit has been achieved, he/she will have moved on to the next project.

Fascism and war are the products of the anthro-hyena's machinations. He/she has achieved his goal if a nation or continent dissolves into war, because the anthro-hyena has succeeded in redefining human identity, re-distributing our activity. The goal is not just to torture millions of people but to get humanity to forget who they are, to keep them confused and alienated from their better natures.

Capitalism has managed to do that as it moves from a simple exchange of goods to re-creating the world and all its inhabitants into a singular obsession - the gross domestic product.  Living organisms  flail and become lost when reduced to a singular goal or obsession.

Religion has managed that too after the anthro-hyena has inflamed the worst in human nature, so that the spirit is blinded by the imperative to control the masses.

The rule of law once separated from the care and concern of community becomes an instrument of oppression rather than justice.  The silky tones of the anthro-hyena seduces us to agree to and be subdued by rhetoric and rant.

Medicine becomes poison when the goal is rendered down to the limits of profit. Science becomes a weapon when the only results we are interested in, are those that bring in money.

Money becomes a false god when it is worshipped blindly. Politics loses its essential drive when campaign funding is the arbiter of success.

This planet dies when people struggle under the doctrine of the anthro-hyena's persuasion that we cannot survive without fossil fuels.

Our only defence against the anthro-hyena is to revere life, protect the environment, sustain the oceans, keep the forests, protect the vulnerable and honour the fragile.

When the surge in far-right movements is the result of current events it's because we have been drowned in ideology that the other is killing us. That other might be the anthro-hyena not those driven from their home from starvation and land clearances. That other might be the ego in each of us that we dare not interrogate, dissociated from our family and the organic matter between our ears.