You live in a fascist creating factory and you always will, until our economic system and the international political economy changes.
The IMF, World Bank & Wall Street, dominate global economics. With Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) and Structural Adjustment Loans (SALs), they are able to dictate neo-liberal economic policies, such as the privatisation of public enterprises and resources. They do this within their own countries and in third world countries.
These institutions are supported by a media and entertainment industry, that glamorises the Western lifestyle, in order to sell it on to third world countries, as something to aspire towards. All the time, the Western propaganda machine is working both ways, reminding its own citizens, that they are the bastions of civilization and democracy. The barbarians are forever at the door, and we must civilise them. Even though the average North American emits 11 times more energy related CO2 than the average African (2021 data).
Multi National Enterprises (MNEs), sell back exploited third world resources in the form of processed goods, for example cellular phones and vehicles, subject to further economic control mechanisms such as import tariffs, high interest loans and built in redundancy, to name a few.
From time to time, third world countries rebel against this economic tyranny imposed on them. They may wish to use a currency, decoupled from the world reserve currency or privatise their resources and reject SAPs. This is when the Western Military Industrial Complex (WMIC) steps in. With the help of economic elites, within the host nation, who have suitably swallowed Western neo-liberal propaganda, the WMIC begins a campaign of bombing the host nation into the stone age. This is usually done on behalf of Western neo-liberal capitalists and their mammonist ambitions, but can also be linked to Judeo-Christian hyper religiosity. This was the case of the right wing NEOCONS, with their Project for the New American Century (PNAC). A two decades long ‘war on terror’. It was a manufactured war, to maintain Western economic and military hegemony, with the added bonus of destabilising countries that stood against Israel’s brutal Apartheid policies, illegal occupation of the West Bank and military blockade of Gaza. Effectively, the ‘war on terror’ turned targeted countries into failed states, with millions of dead citizens. Their resources could be easily exploited and their militaries no longer provided a threat to the Israeli settler colonial project, which continued to create further lebensraum on indigenous people’s land.
The ‘war on terror’ was spear headed by Tony Blair and George Bush. Two politicians, well known for being Christian zealots. As it continues to this very day, Iran, after Sudan (another genocide), with Israel supplying weapons to the RSF, carrying out the genocide, is the last country on that PNAC ‘terror’ list. You will be hearing a lot of propaganda coming your way, in the following weeks and months, about how evil the regime in Iran is. Countries always need to be demonised first in the eyes of the gullible public, before they can be obliterated by the WMIC. Try not to get suckered for the umpteenth time over another fake regime change war, it’s embarrassing.
Two newspaper headlines below:
When these illegally invaded, third world countries, are war torn and most areas are unsafe to inhabit, people start to flee in search of a better life. They go to the countries, whose media, they have been indoctrinated with, in search of that freedom. Most of the time, these refugees don't realise themselves, the number that's been worked on them. More often than not, they have bought into Western propaganda completely, and believe their countries’ ‘regime’ got what it deserved. They are in for a rude awakening. Many former Iraqis, Syrians and Libyans who decried their governments, now regret opening the gates to the imperialists. Their lives and countries are ruined.
No one is born, wanting to be a refugee in a foreign country, thanks to another bankers war …
When these refugees, start flooding Western borders, citizens in the West, most of whom, are oblivious to their own countries’ foreign policies of economic exploitation and perpetual wars for profit, suddenly start paying attention. Why are all these foreigners invading my space?
It's a natural instinct, to circle your wagons from these ‘outsiders’ and believe your way of life is being threatened. Couple this, to a self inflicted economic crisis (such as global Covid lockdowns), and jingoism inevitably starts to get ratcheted up to new hysterical heights.
The rise of the far right begins. People start becoming more religious, singing their anthems in the streets and running around with their flags and beating up on ‘outlanders’. These right wingers can be found in the form of a brutish, Tommy Robinson or a pseudo intellectual such as, Douglas Murray. Either way, the far right is on a horrible spectrum, that finally culminates in an Anders Breivik or an Adolf Hitler.
Below, a South African expatriate, comments on the rise of the far right, in the United Kingdom:
No historian worth their salt would deny, that the Great Depression, caused by the collapse of the stock market in 1929, helped lead to the rise of the far right in Europe. And it will happen again. It's busy happening today. A self constructed shit show. As the average Joe and Jane in the West, begin to feel the economic pinch caused by the banking class and WMIC, and can't even afford basic healthcare, a scapegoat will be looked for. Islamophobia appears to be the flavour of the month.
It is interesting to note that the most right wing countries happen to be ethno nationalist and hyper religious. You will see their flags, their faith and their ethnicity proudly displayed in their citizens’ online profiles. One of their favourite pastimes, is to project the rancid racism they suffer from, onto poor refugees and immigrants, or onto the people who point this out. They will never think to look in the mirror and reflect for even a brief moment. God forbid!
Mammonism, is of course, a serious mental disease and cannot be cured with more of the same. If you are not a fan of fascism, then I would suggest you start to excommunicate yourself from the Western economic system of Federal Reserve Banking, Legacy Media and its bully, the Western Military Industrial Complex. Start thinking about the people whose lives are made so miserable, in order for you to maintain your Western lifestyle. Get out of the fascist factory.
About the author:
Shilo Bunce holds degrees in Political Leadership & Citizenship & International Politics (Hons). He is interested in working towards sustainable world peace, universal healthcare, housing, food security and systems education for all earths inhabitants. He has a keen interest in propaganda, mythology and humankind’s persistent obsession with religious cults and pseudo science. When he isn’t doing this, he’s teaching and practicing calisthenics and enjoying life with his family.
Another excellent article about the world we inhabit
Thanks Phoenix. I think we should start a podcast.