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11 January 2011
By Jeff
Gates
The most
promising trend in geopolitics is the transition from
hydrocarbon-based economies to knowledge-based
societies. Leadership for that change is emerging from
Arab nations.
The appeal
of the Knowledge Society is apparent. Who could object
to nations preparing their citizens for the 21st
century? Yet unless knowledge is changed, the result
could worsen an already dangerous situation.
The sharing
of values and knowledge has long been the best way to
bridge cultures and promote peace. That strategy is
now essential to counter the success of those
promoting The Clash of Civilizations.
Bahrain,
Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar and the United Arab
Emirates are breaking new ground with education models
that build on state-of-the-art information and
communication technologies.
This is the
inevitable path for the Middle East and North Africa.
Yet despite the best of intentions, if knowledge
itself is not changed, the impact on Arab societies
could aggravate trends that undermine progress.
Just
consider the costs when knowledge is corrupted….
How Zionists Corrupt Knowledge
Those who
induced the U.S. to war in the Middle East deployed
knowledge like a weapon. With lengthy pre-staging, a
narrative emerged that made it appear plausible—even
desirable—to invade Iraq in response to the
provocation of 911.
In
retrospect, we now know that the knowledge on which
the U.S. relied was false. All of it.
Iraqi WMD.
Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda. Iraqi meetings in Prague with
Al Qaeda. Iraqi yellowcake uranium from Niger. Iraqi
mobile biological laboratories. All false, all
traceable to pro-Israelis and all portrayed as true by
media outlets dominated by pro-Israelis.
The
Knowledge Society holds great potential to connect the
Arab world globally. And to build with the West
cross-border understanding and empathy. That is the
Knowledge Society at its best. At its worse, knowledge
can be exploited to manipulate behavior.
The ongoing
manipulation of thought and emotion in the U.S.
typifies the danger. When Arab nations grasp the
common source of the false knowledge that brought war
to the region, both the perils and the promise of the
Knowledge Society will become apparent.
Yet even
the risk of being seduced to war understates the
threat. In the modern era, psychological operations ("psy-ops")
are routinely deployed to create consensus opinions
and generally accepted truths—akin to the truth of
Iraqi WMD.
Mindset Manipulation
The
modern-day battlefield is the shared field of
consciousness. Where else could consensus opinions
reside? Or generally accepted truths. There too are
found "field-based" phenomena such as credibility and
celebrity that are also deployed to exploit thought
and emotion.
When waging
field-based warfare, the power of association ranks
near the top as effective weaponry. For example, with
global public opinion the target, Zionists arranged
for U.N. testimony in February 2003 by Secretary of
State Colin Powell who vouched for intelligence
showing that Iraq had mobile biological weapons
laboratories.
When the
U.N. Security Council and a global television audience
watched the testimony of this former four-star
general, what they saw was his reputation for honesty.
By the power of association, his credibility "bled
over" to grant legitimacy to phony intelligence.
General
Powell was only a celebrity prop in an elaborately
staged play meant to enhance the plausibility of a
global war on terrorism. That war began six weeks
later.
Where other
than in plain sight could such duplicity succeed? You
can be watching field-based warfare and still not see
it.
Even now,
Powell may not yet grasp how two field-based
properties (credibility and celebrity) were key to the
psy-ops that seduced the U.S. to war for an Israeli
agenda.
Freedom from Deceit
Mental and
emotional exploitation lie at the heart of how
knowledge is corrupted to catalyze conflicts,
manipulate behavior and influence affairs from afar.
With a
solid grasp of the methodology of deceit, the
Knowledge Society can expose and, by design, displace
those complicit in this cunning form of combat.
In
preparing for the 21st Century, Arab
nations have an opportunity to free their citizens
from the exploitation of those who for centuries have
abused knowledge for their selfish ends.
Much of
that abuse now proceeds through the unfettered freedom
allowed finance. Educated over decades in a
"consensus" mindset, lawmakers worldwide now believe
in financial freedom as a proxy for personal
freedom—regardless of the real-world results.
For the
Knowledge Society to realize its potential, modern-day
information and communication technologies must make
these various forms of duplicity apparent and the
perpetrators transparent.
Only with
widespread knowledge of how facts can be displaced
with false beliefs can the Knowledge Society be
protected from such treachery.
Jeff
Gates is author of Guilt By Association—How Deception
and Self-Deceit Took
America to
War.
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