Why is it that when we discover we have influence on someone, we
seek to reshape them into an image of ourselves, as if to create a clone of us?
The answer to this question depends on who we're talking about.
Ordinary people in real life seek to transmit their value system
to a younger generation because this is how they continue to “live after
death.” Since physical preservation (however good mummification may work) is
impossible to achieve, given that we must all die and turn into dust — living
through someone else, is a spiritual kind of self-preservation that's as good a
substitute for physical self-preservation as it can get.
But when it comes to an institution, the impulse is to seek being
recognized as a trend setter, and see everyone follow suit. The reason in this
case, is a quest for physical existence that will allow the institution to go
on living for as long as possible.
Here is how the logic works: If you are a leader in your domain,
you want to remain in the lead, but always worry that someone may adopt a
different value system, and be propelled ahead of you. Thus, while you're in
the lead enjoying advantages that no one else has, you work on convincing the
others to adopt every new trend you may come up with. If they do as you say,
they remain behind you at perpetuity, and you're never threatened by the
possibility of someone getting ahead of you.
The biggest institution that can be seized by this kind of
mentality, is the system of governance that nations adopt to organize their
societies and run them. While there is evidence that ancient rulers passed on
their religion to other societies, (religion being at the foundation of
political rule in ancient times), there is no evidence that such transfer was
done through coercion. It is simply that the others became fascinated by the
deities of those who came before them, and willingly adopted their ways. This
is how the mythologies of ancient Egypt were picked up by the Greeks and
modified to suit their own circumstances, then picked up from the Greeks by the
Romans, and modified again to suit the Roman circumstances.
The first time that governance — as a civic system meant to
organize and run a society — was imposed on others to make
certain that they will remain behind the leader and never get ahead, happened
at the start of the colonial era. Even Bernard Lewis who was often off the mark
in his interpretation of history, could not escape seeing the irony that the
illiberal imposition of one's own system on others, was done by none other than
those who called themselves liberal democrats.
Clifford D. May tells that story in the column he wrote under the
lamenting title: “Democracies die in daylight,” published on February 5, 2019
in The Washington Times. May quotes Bernard Lewis as having said that democracy
“arose in a limited region among people of Western Europe, and was transplanted
by them to their colonies overseas. It has flourished or at least survived in
some places; bequeathed by the departing imperial rulers, imposed or implanted
by the victors”.
And so, we recall that democracy in the places mentioned by Lewis,
was born as a result of the trauma that was caused by the advent of the
Industrial Revolution. The rulers at the time, had no choice but to look to the
fruits of that very Industrial Revolution to provide a cure, or at least help
alleviate the trauma. They came up with the idea of using the newly invented
firearms to go and colonize the weaker nations around the world, plunder their
resources, and use that wealth to raise the standard of living of their own
infuriated societies. When the calm was restored to those societies, the masses
were invited to participate in the governance of the country. Thus, was born
the modern form of liberal democracy.
That's how the colonial powers formulated the idea that no one
must be allowed to get ahead of them. They saw that the way to achieve this,
was to impose on others their own system of governance, to continually be in
charge of setting new trends, and to insist that the others must follow suit.
Call it what you wish, this was the germ that later blossomed into a fully-fledged
tyranny of the democracies.
Meanwhile, as time passed, democracy distanced itself from the
murderous colonial excesses of an earlier era. It came to be accepted by others
around the world, many of whom aspired to join the club and acquire the
promised privileges by adopting and following democracy's precepts.
But then came the Jews, and they pretended to be liberal
democrats. They colonized Palestine physically, and colonized America
spiritually. And they used American power to try colonizing the rest of the
Middle East.
They made no secret of their desire to be viewed as being superior
to everyone else. To this end, they went as far as pay American beasts running
to be president of the USA, and have them say publicly that Jews are superior
to Palestinians. They managed to turn the democratic tent that was open to all,
into an exclusive protection racket where those that haven't fled it, remained
hypnotized by the sorcery of Jews.
The net result is that in their never-ending effort to engage in
self-aggrandizement, the Jews did to democracy what a pig's stomach does to the
food that the pig eats. They eviscerated America into a pool of pig manure, and
brought the superpower down to a level at par with organic fertilizer.