Today we live in the era of big government and big business. We
confront the fact of gigantism in our most important institutions. Our
media organizations are huge machines, and the same can be said of many
school districts. As individuals we are subject to these giants. We are
pushed and shaped by them — sometimes alienated, even dwarfed by the
irresistible power of devices so monstrous that we cannot even
comprehend all that goes into making them what they are.
Large organizations are bureaucratically organized. They rely on
rational excuses for existing. They employ regulations and rules that
call for uniformity, standardization, and the reduction of thought and
action to a set of formulas. In corporations it is called “company
policy,” in communist countries it is called “the party line.”
Big business and big government produce a kind of efficiency. This is
efficiency in the sense of control. Huge bureaucracies instantly respond
to commands from the top echelon. A large bureaucratic machine can spit
up more outcomes in less time than a small or unsystematic machine. Its
size and economic scale allows a large institution to crush individuals
under its heel, because the mere individual is too small to oppose
something with millions of arms and legs and brains.
Large organizations pride themselves on a kind of fairness which is
predicated on the reduction of the individual to an approximation called
the “mean average.” Statistics are the main weapon of big government and
big business for eliminating the very idea of the individual and
replacing him
with a mathematical equation that becomes the basis for the smooth
operation of every cog and lever. This makes calculation within the
machine much easier. Equality and interchangeability, which nowhere
exists in reality, is assumed as a working principle of big
organizations. Individuals are thereby made equal by a process of
bureaucratic dehumanization. All unique human traits are erased, all
specialness is ignored, because a machine cannot deal with the
individual as a unique person. Such uniqueness cannot be reduced to a
statistic, an average, or made to fit a formula.
Not only does this aforesaid assumed equality of all human beings
destroy individuality, but the resulting uniformity crushes freedom. The
formulas under which all large institutions function take the place of
independent thought. The outcome is a kind of stupidity.
It is this stupidity that leads our big institutions to attempt their
“big solutions” to intractable human problems. Consider the great
catastrophes of the 20th century. Big government has waged wars on
poverty, crime and drugs. It even attempted to fight a war to end all
wars. Fiasco is added to fiasco, calamity upon calamity, because big
government and big business seem incapable of admitting their mistakes.
The U.S. government’s immigration, trade, and industrial policies are
nothing short of national suicide. U.S. business has entered into
partnership with the butchers of Beijing whose ideology declares that
big business should be wiped out, its main leaders shot or imprisoned.
Most of America’s big businesses are no longer American. Instead of
being patriotic they are internationalist. According to the Cox Report,
America’s leading companies are willing to give away vital technological
secrets to the Chinese in order to win access to China’s markets.
Serving Chinese customers is more important than protecting America’s
technological advantages in war and peace.
In education the situation is intolerable. American students know
less and less with every passing year. A subtle socialist content
continues to grow like a cancer on the curriculum. Gendered education,
multiculturalism and bilingualism has taken our schools and universities
by the throat. In
terms of transmitting the tools of free thought and expression, our
educationist machine has given us an education that makes people stupid.
Our young people today are taught the most idiotic notions about
relationships, morality, community, history and politics. These notions
cause trouble in the family, in the community and in Washington, D.C.
Today we have a government that is run by these miseducated individuals.
This situation is not only exasperating, it is downright scary because
the Chinese and the Russians have nuclear missiles aimed at us.
Whatever liberal apologists claim, we have a catastrophic situation
in the presidency of Bill Clinton. Last year when I was visiting New
York and Washington, I was asked the same question by two different
Englishmen. One of these was a former Member of Parliament I met in New
York, and the other was a journalist from a leading British newspaper
who I met in Washington. The question they asked me was, “Is your
president merely a gangster, or is he a traitor?”
The situation is far-gone, indeed, if such questions can be seriously
asked by intelligent foreigners.
But of all our institutions, the most important to a free country are
those that transmit facts and ideas. Any monopoly over information, any
uniformity or enforced conformity in writing and thinking is tyrannous.
This is true whether the aforesaid uniformity and conformity comes from
a
political dictator or a corporate elite.
What, after all, has enabled our country to elect Bill Clinton?
America’s big media has misinformed and miseducated people by the tens
of millions. These institutions have misled us across the board — on
one vital issue after another. Whenever possible the media have covered
Clinton’s tracks, they have played down his crimes, so that the most
corrupt president in the history of this country could not only win
reelection but avoid conviction and imprisonment. Our big media
demonstrates a lockstep narrowness and a haphazard approach to facts.
The context of world-shaking events is often dropped. Many important
stories are lost in the cracks.
In terms of the American media, its bigness has led to an erosion of
sincerity and credibility. When billions of dollars, tens of thousands
of employees and hundreds of managers assume control of the “truth,” you
get the distortions and the stupidities of the six o’clock news. That is
why Internet sites like WorldNetDaily are becoming so important. Passion
for the truth, diversity of opinion, and individual freedom are enabled
by an interactive network which allows small organizations or dedicated
individuals to get an important message or story out to the public.
