Chapter Six
THE CREATOR OF THE NEW NEW WORLD ORDER
It is somewhat surprising that there has been so little emotion generated by the victory in the Cold War. Perhaps this is because we all sense that the Real Cold War is far from over.
At the same time the Cold War with Communism was being fought, another Cold War was occurring that most people in the United States knew little or nothing about. The Real Cold War had Joseph Campbell as its Commander in Chief.
Campbell understood something about the Cold War that the generation who came to leadership in the United States of America after the Second World War never understood. Joseph Campbell understood that communism never stood a chance of capturing control of the governments of the world. Joseph Campbell understood communism was a losing proposition because Campbell knew something about people that Marx and Engels never glimpsed. People have to believe in god: the survival of authority as well as the survival of mankind is a product of man's belief in God.
I'll let Joseph Campbell explain: "The comparative study of the mythologies of the world compels us to view the cultural history of mankind as a unit; for we find that such themes as the fire-theft, deluge, land of the dead, virgin birth, and resurrected hero have a worldwide distribution--appearing everywhere in new combinations while remaining, like the elements of a kaleidoscope, only a few and always the same. Furthermore, whereas in tales told for entertainment such mythical themes are taken lightly--in a spirit, obviously, of play--they appear also in religious contexts, where they are accepted not only as factually true but even as revelations of the verities to which the whole culture is a living witness and from which it derives both its spiritual authority and its temporal power. No human society has yet been found in which such mythological motifs have not been rehearsed in liturgies; interpreted by seers, poets, theologians, or philosophers; presented in art; magnified in song; and ecstatically experienced in life-empowering visions. Indeed, the chronicle of our species, from its earliest page, has been not simply an account of the progress of man the tool-maker, but--more tragically--a history of the pouring of blazing visions into the minds of seers and the efforts of earthly communities to incarnate unearthly covenants. Every people has received its own seal and sign of supernatural designation, communicated to its heroes and daily proved in the lives and experience of its folk. And though many who bow with closed eyes in the sanctuaries of their own tradition rationally scrutinize and disqualify the sacraments of others, an honest comparison immediately reveals that all have been built from one fund of mythological motifs--variously selected, organized, interpreted, and ritualized, according to local need, but revered by every people on earth."
Campbell continues, "A fascinating psychological, as well as historical, problem is thus presented. Man, apparently, cannot maintain himself in the universe without belief in some arrangement of the general inheritance of myth. In fact, the fullness of his life would even seem to stand in a direct ratio to the depth and range not of his rational thought but of his local mythology. Whence the force of these unsubstantial themes, by which they are empowered to galvanize populations, creating of them civilizations, each with a beauty and self-compelling destiny of its own? And why should it be that whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination--preferring even to make life a hell for themselves and their neighbors, in the name of some violent god, to accepting gracefully the bounty the world affords?"
Since Campbell understood that man cannot sustain himself without "some arrangement of the general inheritance of myth", Campbell realized that the communist vision of a godless one world government was a hopeless cause--it possessed no myth! Since Campbell knew that Communism would never provide the unifying force that could deliver mankind from the "nuclear incinerator," Campbell took it upon himself to deliver to us that New Myth that would provide the foundation for the New World Order.
In the last chapter we traced how Campbell developed his myth of government. By defining the evolution of government in western civilization as a male-dominated sexist intrusion on the earlier myth of Mother Right, Campbell set the stage for disqualifying every vestige of authority for governments that relied on the Creator for their justification.
Campbell intended to totally alter the structuring principles that provide the self-image for the peoples of western civilization. The purpose of this alteration was to provide the grass-roots support that will provide the public support necessary to empower a One World Government, a One World Government that will be justified by...what?
When we answer that question we will see the Real Cold War, a War that rages around us today, a War that has already created Revolutionary changes in the United States of America and in most of the developed countries of the world, a Cold War--but a War to the death nonetheless.
As we have witnessed the bankruptcy of the Russian Revolution, the flaws of communism have become self-evident. The abolition of individual initiative in the economic sphere produces a moribund economy incapable of providing for a modern industrial state, and the absence of a sustaining myth creates an identity crisis within individuals that suffocates the spirit of a nation. Joseph Campbell saw these changes coming and, just as the Cold War between Russia and the United States was beginning, Campbell worked to correct the flaws within the Russian model of Government in Service to the People.
As Campbell clearly stated, without a unifying myth to sustain it, no government could long endure. Campbell constructed such a myth, a myth he knew would provide the "structuring force" behind the government that would rule the New World Order.
At the heart of Campbell's myth was the idea that man was god. In order for this idea to dominate the mind of man, the Creator must be destroyed. Campbell intended to construct a new foundation for government in Service to the People, a foundation that relied totally on the will of man for justification of its authority. Such a justification could only be logically valid if the will of man was seen to be exactly equivalent to the will of god.
According to the American idea of Government, survival is a gift of the Creator. The Creator has bestowed as an inalienable gift the Right to Life. The Will of the Creator ensures that Gift, and government is only an instrument through which the Will of the Creator is enforced on earth. That idea defines the fundamental difference between the Communist and American ideas of government. That difference will not be swept under the carpet of history.
There is too much at stake. The elimination of the idea of the Creator from the United States is a problem that affects every citizen in the United States of America--no--every citizen of every nation on earth. Here's why: In the government created to rule the New World Order the question of individual Rights will be answered in one of two ways: either rights are bestowed on people by people, in which case people have the Right to withdraw Rights, or Rights are an inalienable gift from the Creator that government has been created to protect. No third option exists. We must choose between the two. Our choice will determine the form the government of the New World Order takes.
While the problem posed by the elimination of the idea of god as the foundation of government authority is important to everyone in the future, the problem is immediately relevant to all citizens of the United States of America. The entire justification of government authority in the United States is based upon the presence in reality of a Being outside the mind of Man who Created Life and who has a Plan to make the purpose of government the ensuring of certain Rights to individuals.
Very few people seem to sense what would happen to the authority of the government of the United States of America if the idea of a Creator like the One who was self-evident to the Founders of this nation is nullified on this planet. The authority of the government of the United States would be seen to be based on a fantasy, and it would never be possible to convince reasonable people that authority based on fantasy had a Right to exist, much less to govern.
There is no danger that the idea of god will be eliminated entirely from this planet. There will always be something that people believe actually creates and controls reality. This "something" will correspond exactly with what people have historically call "god." The only question to be decided on the earth today is which ideas will rule the New World Order.
The fact that the United States of America has now surrendered without a fight the ideas upon which the nation was founded has to be seen to be one of the most surprising events in human history, especially when that surrender is seen in light of the lengths to which the United States was willing to go to defend those ideas in the past.