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I'm writing to you this morning from beautiful St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, a city my eldest daughter and I are belatedly visiting for the first time.
Last night we had a wonderful dinner with Gerard Casey, retired head of the department of philosophy at University College, Dublin.
I had known of Professor Casey's work for years before meeting him in person at the Mises Institute. Back around 2009 I was driving him to the Atlanta airport and I gave him a book idea I thought would be perfect for him. A few years and 950 pages later he had written it -- Freedom's Progress?: A History of Political Thought. (In the acknowledgments he mentions our ride to the airport.)
At dinner, this man who loves and knows so much about Ireland (and Dublin in particular) said that they truly are ruled by people who hate them. I said that seems to be true for all of the West. He said it's nowhere worse than in Ireland.
I travel a lot, and everywhere I go there is so much that is beautiful and unique and worth preserving, and that our ruling classes are doing everything they can to homogenize and destroy.
I'll give you a small example of something unique here (but of course one could write a book on the subject). The Irish, unlike other Europeans, use the word "soccer," since "football" here refers to Gaelic football. Gaelic football and hurling are the top two sports in this country.
Unlike in the U.S., where the players earn seven- and eight-figure salaries (which, please understand, I do not begrudge them) and play for whatever team will pay for them, both of these Irish sports are played by amateurs who represent their counties and receive no salary at all, playing instead for the honor of the game.
Unfortunately, the people here are going to sit back and watch as the irreplaceable things that make them who they are slowly but surely get erased, all because they can't bear being called mean names.
Professor Casey says: we like to fool ourselves into thinking we have a rebellious streak, but we are in fact the most conformist people in the world.
Now, back to the United States: although I can think of perhaps a handful of exceptions, the ruling class here hates its people as well.
The naïveté from some people on the right about this problem is demoralizing. They think -- to name an example I confess I have not chosen at random -- the foreign-policy establishment really is looking out for their well-being. How I wish I could live in that world and enjoy that level of confidence in our rulers!
When David Wurmser, the primary author of the notorious Clean Break memo to Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, lays out why it is in the interests of Israel to eliminate the feckless Saddam Hussein, and then years later, via the shadowy Office of Special Plans in the U.S., pushes WMD claims any damn fool knew were false, he was trying to find whatever argument would satisfy the rubes so he could get the outcome he desired for other reasons.
These people are contemptuous of you, which is why it frustrates me when I see conservatives in particular echoing the b.s. arguments of the War Party. They are laughing at you.
People, I hate to break it to you, but they do not believe these arguments themselves. They are advancing them to put the shuck on the rubes, as the old slang expression went.
When in 2008 I co-authored an anthology for Basic Books on American wars from 1812 to the present, it became clearer than ever to me that these people cannot tell the truth to save their lives, and that they have no interest in telling the truth.
The Clean Break memo had laid out a series of aggressive actions in the Middle East, some of which were in fact followed under George W. Bush. Scott Horton joined Dave Smith for an episode of Part of the Problem in which he laid out the disastrous results. Wurmser himself proceeded to respond to Scott in a podcast episode of his own.
So Scott approached Gene Epstein, director of the Soho Forum debate society, and proposed the following resolution to debate with Wurmser:
"The Clean Break strategy has been a great success for the United States, Israel and the Middle East."
Wurmser did not even respond.
Can you blame him? Who would want to defend neoconservative foreign policy in a public forum -- especially if you saw Scott's debate with neocon Bill Kristol? It was based on officially promoted idiocies that its own architects didn't really believe, and its results have been horrific wherever we look.
Whatever motivates them, whether it's in the Middle East, Ukraine, or anywhere else, it isn't your interests. That thought never crosses their minds. And you know what crosses their minds even less than that? Whatever your opinion happens to be. Schoolhouse Rock lied to you about how these regimes operate.
So listen: it is not enough to say "I'm really cheeky because I oppose milk subsidies." That's a good first start, I will grant. But we aren't going to get anywhere until we realize that the ruling class does not suddenly become a race of angels dedicated to our welfare when the subject turns to foreign policy. These people hate your guts, and the lies they tell you reflect their contempt for you.
The best thing you can do is unlearn whatever they've lodged in your brain, and put the truth in there instead.
The best person to do that for you is Scott Horton with his Scott Horton Academy, which is available 24 hours a day and bursting with brand new truth-telling offerings (all of which are included when you join).
You will discover the other reason Wurmser doesn't want to debate Scott: Wurmser is the bologna, and Scott is the slicer.
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