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Modernity Simplified to the level of a
'poor-man' (i.e., one with limited
ability, time, or even inclination, to
carefully read, write, and reason
about the period one lives in)
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A Gestalt Shift in PERSPECTIVE is
Required to Understand this Book
Caption Perspective (Image courtesy of Desiree L. Rover)
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About Zahir Ebrahim
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice
activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon
Valley (http://tinyurl.com/zahir-patents), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests.
His maiden 2003 book was rejected by countless publishers and can be read on the web at
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Table of Contents
Chapter-1 Introduction Modernity Simplified 6
Chapter-2 Behavior Control 10
Chapter-3 World Order 57
Chapter-4 Arc of Crisis 70
Chapter-5 Conspiracy Theory 79
Chapter 6 The Fable of the Bees and Empire 95
Chapter 7 Medicine in the Service of Empire 112
Chapter-8 Science in the Service of Empire 140
Chapter-9 Islam in the Service of Empire 166
Chapter-10 Muslims in the Service of Empire 199
Chapter-11 FBI-Militancy in the Service of Empire 209
Chapter-12 Obedience Training 220
Chapter-13 White Man's Burden 260
Chapter-14 The Oligarchs 283
Chapter 15 The Omnipotents 299
Chapter-16 Redemption 315
Chapter-17 A Noble Life 328
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Modernity Simplified
TM
What is all this verbiage by Project Humanbeingsfirst really all about? Is there a reductionist
and simplified explanation at the level of a 'poor-man'?
Yes. In the simplest terms: 'Might defines right'.
This leads to “Hegemony is as old as mankind”.
That in turn leads to the following psychological pathocracy – some call it empire:
● If we don't have real enemies then we have to create or imagine some, and yell 'we are
being attacked' in order to, principally:
● a) justify one's hegemonic barbarianism upon others; and
● b) motivate an unwilling plebeian peoples into sacrificing for the conquests of the
oligarchic elite.
Euphemistically, today as the winning empire, this is called “imperial mobilization”.
Grotesquely, for previously defeated empires, it is called “quest for Lebensraum”.
That's all there is to it.
All which follows is only in further examination of how that is accomplished under the veneer of
“democracy”, because, in the absence of such deception, “democracy is inimical to imperial
mobilization”. That quoted statement was made by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1997 book: The
Grand Chessboard – American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.
This “quest for Lebensraum” (German word for acquiring more space as an imperative), ahem,
“imperial mobilization” of the ruling oligarchy, the ubermensch (German word for superior,
above all others), just happens to be the age-old quest for one-world government in disguise.
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It is to be achieved piece-meal, incrementally, one fait accompli at a time, one fabricated crisis
at a time, one manufactured war at a time, one real or imagined pestilence at a time, and one
catastrophe at a time.
The psychological pathocracy of modern statecraft requires continuous threats, crises, and
uncertainty, to corral the democratic instincts of the modern public into accepting the
unpleasant totalitarian agendas of the ruling oligarchy.
The solution presented for addressing each uncertainty is the next baby-step towards
centralized global control of all humanity in a global empire of the financial oligarchy.
That world order, the new world order, as we can already perceive even in its initial stages, is
governed with moral relativism wherein, legal opinions as those proclaimed by a United States
Justice before its Supreme Court, prevail:
'Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no
absolutes, that a name, a phrases, a standard has meaning only when
associated with the considerations which give birth to nomenclature. To those
who would paralyze our Government in the face of impending threat by
encasing it in a semantic strait-jacket, we must reply that all concepts are
relative.'
The term 'oligarchic elite' refers to people who are several notches above – and more hidden
from public view in their enormous wealth and their secretive exercise of 'social engineering' –
than what is typically understood by the term 'ruling elite', or simply the 'elite'. The latter often
refers to the generally affluent 1% of any society, more interested in being rich and running
corporations than in 'social engineering', and many among them can be found in the Forbes'
richest people listing.
But one will never see a Rothschild, or David Rockefeller listed in Forbes billionaires list. That's
perhaps because they are trillionaires, with all their massive wealth legally hidden behind
private tax-exempt foundations, and in their opaque ownership of private banks, which in turn
own many a private central bank! They can muster vast sums of private monies for 'social
engineering', and administer untold funds through their tax-exempt foundations and think-
tanks. They are the proverbial 'king makers' who craft 'errand boys' to do their policy bidding.
To unmask them all before fait accompli is Project Humanbeingsfirst's imperative – i.e., before
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it's all a done deal.
Ex post facto, narrators can rehearse the deceptions and their disentanglement all in the
comforts of one-world government. And of course laugh their way to fame and fortune just as
today's narrators call it erudite scholarship to openly rehearse the settlement of the Americas
and the genocide of millions of its indigenous peoples.
Even the sixth graders in elementary schools today throughout the North American continent
learn of the choice between the gattling-gun (force) and the small-pox laden bacteriological
warfare (treachery) magnanimously offered to the indigenous natives, without batting their own
eye-lids or offering a few tears in compensation.
Detachment from history and from previous generations who inflict crimes upon the 'lesser
humanity', the 'untermenschen' (German word for 'lesser peoples'), evidently washes away
both the evidence and the guilt. But not the bold and often truthful narratives which become
openly public, and their bearers lauded scholars and touted academics.
In the transition to the modernity of today, the euphemisms have become considerably refined
with the march of Western civilization. It is now the more egalitarian choice between
“democracy” (euphemism for force) and “revolution” (euphemism for treachery) under the
dialectical “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”, that is being magnanimously
offered to the indigenous natives along the “arc of crisis” in the “Global Zone of Percolating
Violence”. The objectives unfortunately remain the same as in antiquity – by hook or by crook
usurping what does not belong to one. The two quoted descriptive phrases are once again
Zbigniew Brzezinski's, respectively from a January 15, 1979 Time magazine article titled
'IRAN: The Crescent of Crisis', and from Brzezinski's already mentioned 1997 book.
Thusly, in the case of our modernity as well, perhaps only our progeny might also bear truthful
witness to the crimes and sham of intellectualism of their hypocritical ancestors – scholars,
leaders, military-men, holy-men, politicians, teachers, news-bearers, both in the West and the
East, on the left and the right – who hath proclaimed to stand for truth, but who only aided and
abetted vile hegemonic power with their own convolutions and confabulations. Modernity du
jour is entirely unwilling to unravel their confusing and deceptive narratives.
We must wait a 100 years, or perhaps only 20, before anyone who is a somebody will again
truthfully proclaim how new 'smallpox laden blankets' were used to fashion one-world
government. Before then, it is all to be dismissed as 'conspiracy theory'.
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