Let's look at a few numbers before we get into the subject
of perspective.
Those who live close to the Equator travel around a
circumference of 25,000 miles every 24 hours as the Earth rotates, which means they
travel at a little more than 1,000 miles an hour – and yet they don't feel it.
The Earth itself goes around the sun at the speed of 66,700 miles an hour – and
yet we don't feel it. Our solar system goes around the center of the galaxy at
the speed of 700,000 miles an hour – and we don't feel it. To the most distant
objects in the Universe, we travel away from them at half the speed of light
which is 338 million miles an hour – and neither we nor they (if there is
anybody out there) feel it.
Why is that? Because we lack the perspective that an
absolute point of reference could provide. Unless we accelerate or decelerate,
or we move at a steady speed closer to or away from something we use as a point
of reference, we cannot tell that we are moving if we move in a vast empty
space.
We know that the Earth is rotating because we see the effect
of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west; and we know that the
Earth is revolving around the sun because we see the seasons change during the
year. But we feel neither motion because the perspective given by the position
of the sun, and that given by the change of seasons are not perspectives of
motion but those of its effect.
Likewise, unless we have a point of reference that may or
may not be absolute, we lose the ability to weigh someone else's behavior, or
find a position for it on the spectrum of appropriateness. If in addition to
that, we develop an innate fear of the unknown, we stand a good chance of
developing a handicap when it comes to forging a relationship with the rest of
humanity because we'll feel alone as if marooned in empty space.
Normally, it is ingrained into us not one but an array of
points of reference we acquire first with the education we receive from our
parents at home, then from the society in which we live, and from our personal
experiences as we go through life. We use these points to judge the various
people and situations we encounter everyday by weighing them against one or the
other of the points of reference we carry inside us.
Can the array or a portion of it be partially damaged or
totally destroyed in some fashion? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. For
example, in a divorce that went badly, one parent can fill the child in its
custody (whose array of points of reference has not yet matured or solidified)
with so much hate about the other parent; the child will grow up believing that
the other parent is a monster. Something similar can happen at the societal
scale; and what follows is a fictitious example as to how this can be done.
Imagine a country where the leaders have developed an
infinite hatred for America .
They control the media, and so they instruct the people running it to collect
every video footage they can get, showing what is wrong with America – from the
riots, to the homeless, to police brutality, to the massacres in schools and
movie theaters, to the Katrinas, to the reporting on rape in the military and
on campuses, to the gridlocked system of governance, to the suicide of the
young and the veterans, to the extreme poverty and so on and so forth. If
nothing else about America
is told to that society, it will discard from its array everything positive it
may have collected in the past about America , and replace it with
something negative. And the hatred will be amplified.
Is there a country like that in the world? Not that I am
aware of unless North Korea
qualifies as one, but I wouldn't know because I don't watch their television or
read their print publications. However, there is one notorious group doing it
to another group openly and without shame. It is the Jews doing it to the Arab
and Muslim worlds using the media outlets they control in the English speaking
countries. Pursuing that policy, they have already managed to get America to destroy Iraq
once, and they are at it again trying to get America to destroy the rest of the
Arab and Muslim worlds.
Much – but not all – of what transpired with regard to Iraq is told in
eight articles that were composed by various writers. Gathered under the title:
“Iraq War Regrets?” and the subtitle: “Reflections on the present state of
affairs,” the articles were published as a symposium on August 16. 2014 in
National Review Online. The good thing about them is that they serve as a
backgrounder for the article that was written by Greg Jaffe and Greg Miller,
and published on August 13, 2014 in the Washington Post under the title: “Obama
administration shows little urgency for stemming Islamic State violence”.
This is an article that shows (1) what is happening now; (2)
how this is related to what happened in Iraq more than a decade ago, and (3)
how the Jews continue to demolish the perspective that America has of the Arab
and Muslim worlds; this being an effective strategy to incite the superpower to
destroy them the way it did Iraq.
It has been the Jewish habit throughout the ages to connect
with the greatest power in existence at any given time, and incite it to go
after the other powers in a manner that serves their interests. Those among
them who sit at the top of the Jewish food chain feed on the wreckage that
ensues, and leave behind the foot soldiers that made it all possible for them,
to pay the price with their own lives and those of their families.