Memewatchers (via Korey Snodgrass, from the comment section of The Daily Bell):

http://memewatchers.com/gerald-celente-calls-for-new-world-order

“Government is corrupt and abusive but it can be fixed all we need is transparent and direct democracy. Now thanks to the Internet it is all possible. Hurray!!! Big government is now finally gonna work. We are gonna create our own New World Order.

George Celente was interviewed by Alex Jones yesterday and during the interview he called for a New World Order controlled by Direct Democracy. Amazingly Alex failed to question him on this astounding proclamation, instead Alex simply replied ‘well it is no doubt our republic is broken’. Claims like these are very troublesome especially when they are coming from well known figures in the alternative media known to be allies in the fight against the New World Order.”

My Comment:

No, dear memewatchers. It is not “troublesome”.

It is to be expected.

Where have you been? Celente’s stuff is all over the net, he is interviewed on TV, and there is always a price for such acceptance and approval.

We have quoted Celente many times and we like what he says, when it is on specific topics. But we have seen how he picks up themes and even ideas that are in the air but never gets too concrete about anything. We said nothing, hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst.

Celente cannot change the terms of the debate.

The corporate-state cannot be fought on its own terms – mass acceptance, traditional outlets, PC-bounded debate. The medium will kill the message everytime.

James Altucher, the financial blogger, has already broached “Direct Democracy” (abolish the President and Congress and take referendums on the net directly). Gerald Celente is another. Both are from the financial media in New York. That is significant, surely. They are surely not outsiders in the financial media, however much they might adopt the language of outsiders.

And there will be many more such insider “outsiders” using the language of the politicians and the business classes.

This language – advertising, opinion-polling, perception- management, consumer satisfaction – is nothing more than the language of corporations and the methods of mass manufacture and distribution.

It is also the language of the state.

Government (posing as anti-government) will operate forcibly, through secret control of weaponry by agents of the NWO in each ostensibly sovereign state; through the infiltration and subversion of government organs on behalf of transnational rather than local interests; through the human rights regimes and NWOs; and through blackmail and bribery by the spy agencies and police forces of all kinds.

Anyone can see how this will enable the social media mafia (Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg, etc), the establishment media (CJR,  WashPo, NY Times, WSJ etc), the establishment alternatives (Nation, Democracy Now, Alternet etc), the speculator-hedge funds and banksters (Soros etc.), the psyops folks (probably Wikileaks, and other “controlled opposition” anti-empire and even anti-NWO mouthpieces) and the secret spy agencies (NSA, CIA etc) to come together to control what becomes an issue, what doesn’t, what the parameters of debate are, how problems are solved, and who profits.

With advertising, and behavior modification as highly developed as they are now, it will be nothing to sway the masses one way or other from behind the curtains. The wizard will be gone. But a whole team of puppet-masters will take his place.

Thus the corporate-communist convergence instantiated in Occupy Wall Street.

Local autocrats will be overthrown. In their place will come scientific tyranny, masquerading as Direct Democracy, Free Markets (if that’s your cup of tea) or Anarchist Socialism (if it’s not).

Different strokes, but the same folks.

There is no such thing as a large centrally-controlled republic.

There can only be federated republics.

A large centrally controlled republic is only another name for oligarchy.

Oligarchy, disguised as “direct participatory democracy” is secret rule by oligarchs.

Secret rule = Tyranny.

I do not  say that direct referendums necessarily lack merit. They might work, were we living in small city states…. and were the internet discontinuous, fragmented, and highly private…. and were most people rational, well-educated, self-critical and self-reliant.

But we aren’t, it isn’t, and they aren’t.

So Direct Internet Democracy will not be anarchism, right or left, and it won’t be Christian liberty. Nor will it be federalism or decentralization.

It will be the direct control of the masses through electronic networks, propaganda, surveillance, and co-option of alternative mouthpieces of all stripes, across the board.

Direct Electronic Democracy = Tyranny

I call it Direct Electronic Action for Tyrants and Demagogues

Which equals DEATH. The death of true liberty.

Still,  I let me be perverse and say that I don’t oppose OWS completely, because that is what the mass of people want.

The mass of people, of course, is not the majority of people. The mass of people is simply people acting as masses. Which is a different thing.

But nonetheless the masses are a lot of people.

Now, truth (little t) lives in some form in all people, no matter how far they seem to be from Truth (big t). And so the truth of this moment is exhaustion, fear, burden, terror. The truth of this moment is security.

People want security and are willing to give up their freedom for it.  So be it.

It cannot be too much worse than the nightmare that the corporate-state brought to the world in the 20th century.

Those who had liberty used it to worship power. State power and money power.

Now their worship of power is moving toward to its logical conclusion.

Yet, it isn’t for us to predict doom. We were not called to be Jeremiah.

So we will hold out some small hope.

OWS and Assange may be red flags, but red is as good a color as any. It beats being blue. Blue is sad, it’s fearful. You see red, you’re angry.

Anger is fear projected outward. It’s action. Even if the action is not so much direct action, as directed action.

Action –  good or bad, we’ll see.  Perhaps it will correct itself as it goes along..

Meanwhile, we tend our own garden and keep our distance, if not our silence..