Paradise Lost
The high Tibetan plateau is one of the most beautiful places in the world. It is a vast and rugged landscape. You can’t farm at these high altitudes, the entire economy is based on yak-herding. Tibetan Buddhism has overlooked its prohibition against eating meat because yak-herding is the only sustainable economy on the plateau, and the southern farms did not produce enough to feed the upland tribes.
In the early part of the twentieth century, Tibet banned automobiles because they scare the yaks. Many Tibetans approached Lhasa on their knees, so cars were bothersome. Tibet also banned foreigners, to preserve its culture. Pretty smart. The Tibetans had a kind of paradise, and they didn’t want the modern age or modern man to ruin it.
Travelers to Tibet reported that Tibet was a poor country. Life was harsh, nature was cruel, and robber bands operated freely. Lhasa could not extend law enforcement outside the capital city. There were no modern conveniences, and you had to live under a complex system of superstitious customs. But you could not find better people, and living adventurously in rugged nature won the enthusiasm of every foreigner who encountered Tibet’s magic.
Compare with your neighborhood. Do you trust your enlightened neighbors? Are you warming up frozen food for dinner? What’s on TV tonight? Is the American dream working out for you? Is Barack Obama your spiritual leader? Why? Do you really think you have a better future than the Tibetans have under Communism?
When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1949, the Tibetan army fought bravely, but they only had a few rifles, no trucks, and the Red Army easily killed the Tibetan soldiers.
Since 1949 China has been resettling Chinese into Tibet, building roads and factories and mass housing. The Chinese are eliminating Tibetan culture and the Tibetan people. It’s a genocide.
You’ll notice that Obama is silent about it.
A prophecy about the the fall of Tibet was given to the XIIIth Dalai Lama in the 1920s. But he was unable to organize a military force during his lifetime powerful enough to defeat the Chinese Red Army of the future. The present XIVth Dalai Lama has never given any indication of resisting China’s invasion by force, except when Chinese soldiers were chasing him and trying to kidnap him. When his own life was at stake he was interested in being protected, otherwise he has resorted to the “universal one consciousness” formula of occult escapism, “They are really us and we are really them (so why can’t we all get along on my terms)?”
The image of the nice, kind, forgiving XIVth Dalai Lama on the world stage has won him a lot of naive friends, but this Dalai Lama has perpetuated the false image of Buddhist pacifism to smiling naive people who know nothing about Tibetan history. There were many armed wars between Buddhist monasteries in Tibetan history. At one time in Tibetan Buddhist history, around the tenth century, Tibet had the most powerful army of all its neighbors and was a conquering nation.
The environmentalists should be sorry to see the Tibetan environmental paradise lost. But you don’t hear much from them about the Chinese occupation, or Chinese industrialization, or the Chinese Communist genocide against the Tibetans. Why not?
If China had never invaded Tibet, and if Tibet had allowed a little modernization (the Dalai Lama was in favor of modernization), Tibet today would be a destination for eco-tourism and Buddhist tourism. It would be hailed as a pristine example of buddho-enviro-cultural decentralized whatever. The enviros would parade around in Tibetan clothes and proudly display their handicrafts. The mythos of Tibet is so strong, it could serve as a “source,” a paradigm of what tribal cultures ought to do in the Age of Green.
But instead of buying Tibetan handicrafts and supporting a truly eco-friendly culture, today’s enviro liberals shop at Wal-Mart for cheap Chinese junk.
What’s wrong with this picture?
What’s wrong with this picture is green socialism. The greens may squawk a bit about China’s industrial pollution, but they are not really serious about preserving one of the most beautiful and pristine environments in the world, Tibet, from Chinese modernization because the same global controllers pushing green socialism are pushing China’s development to number one world power.
You see, the green socialists aren’t really interested in the environment. If they were, they would be lining up to block China’s industrial development. But that’s not how it works. The greens are socialists first, and the environment is just a convenient excuse for taking total control.
Funny, isn’t it, that after all these decades of green socialism, the green socialists don’t have a Mecca they can migrate to, they don’t have one single example of a traditional culture rejecting modern industrial development and living sustainably on the land that they can point to as a green model. That’s because they don’t really want any models like that. They don’t want tribes blocking modern industrial development, they want global taxes and control over everyone’s energy use. They want government subsidies for solar and wind projects. They are even defining this technology as “green jobs.”
But the green jobs promise of the Obama administration has already failed. A year ago Obama was talking about the Spanish model. The Spanish model of green subsidies resulted in an unemployment rate over 20 percent in Spain, and dangerously high debt loads threatening national bankruptcy. Obama doesn’t talk about Spain any more. The green energy model is a recipe for national bankruptcy. But no one is calling Obama out on his green lies.
There is no such thing as sustainable green socialism. Obama was lying to you. On purpose.
The green agenda is supported by governments, corporations, and wealthy investors. So why haven’t these heavy hitters put together one single “sustainable” green community? Stupid college kids would volunteer in droves to live in the “green community of the future.” Why isn’t there even one such functioning master model after decades of green propaganda?
Because the green agenda is global socialism, global taxation and energy control, not decentralized anything.
Industries are keenly interested in saving money. Corporate engineers will modify products and factories for maximum energy efficiency. They don’t need a government financial incentive to innovate energy efficiency or green bureaucrats to control them.
The greens are on the wrong side. Instead of supporting industrial development, they should be supporting native peoples against the intrusions of the modern world. But how much of the environmental effort goes into this project? Not much. That’s because socialists aren’t against modern development, they just want to profit from it and control it.
Green socialism is really fraudulent environmentalism. It’s a global control agenda, not a leave-it-alone agenda.
The problem with the greenies is that they are lefties. They are in favor of government control, including UN control, over land use and energy use around the world. But the greens have no better idea about how to organize an industrial economy than the Soviet Union had. Industrial economies aren’t green, and fiddling around with green products is just whistling in the wind. Either you favor modern industrial development or you don’t. Either you favor the elimination of native peoples by armed socialism or you don’t.
Those “green” products you are buying at Wal-Mart are just green marketing, a green veneer serving to mask the real New World Order economy. High technology isn’t green. “Economic recovery” isn’t green. Third-world automobile factories aren’t green. The cheapest source of mass power is nuclear. Nuclear power isn’t green. Capitalism isn’t green. Socialism isn’t green. Yaks are green.
If you would like to join the Tibetan yak culture and go green, God bless you. But you will have a hard time adjusting to a diet based on yak butter, you will have to give up your career aspirations and your video games, and you will have to be a better fighter against socialism than the Tibetans were. If you aren’t up to the cultural readjustment and the fight necessary to stop Communism, that’s fine, but shut up already and leave the rest of us alone.
Tibet is only one example of a traditional tribal culture overwhelmed by modern military force. Tribes with primitive weapons simply cannot stand up to the military power of modern weapons. The take-away lesson is, if you want to build a genuine society based on better values than soulless genocidal Marxism, you will have to build an army capable of defeating aggressive union thugs and the armed LIberation Front, and you will have to eliminate the feminist, gay, black, and Hispanic subversive infiltrators. Notice that all of these people are better organized and better armed than you are, and more serious about taking power over you than you will ever be.
When socialism wrecks the economy and your local police force is laid off, the edge will go to the black and Hispanic armed gangs in your local neighborhoods. They are armed with automatic weapons, Marxist slogans, and an income stream from drugs. What are you armed with?
Oh, I forgot, your survival plan is to get food stamps from the government when the money runs out. Maybe Obammy will save you. Maybe you’ll get a green job. The government wants to spend more money, maybe you’ll get some of it. Maybe your compassionate liberal friends will share their food with you when yours runs out. Maybe you can sustain a meaningless life in the multicultural suburbs for a while longer. You can whistle socialist slogans while they pick your pocket and tell you what to think.
Or maybe your future isn’t any brighter under ObamaMao than the Tibetans’ future is under the Chinese occupation.
Something to think about while you are shopping for green Chinese junk at Wal-Mart and dreaming that you are “saving the planet” by buying the right products.
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