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The best way to bury somebody alive, is probably to put the victim first into a coma. Then one can do with the victim as one pleases. This is largely what has happened to humanity throughout the last century of this currently accelerating human devolution. The people of humanity may be breathing, but they are not really conscious about anything that is or has been happening to them, and millions of people are indeed being buried alive under austerity impositions, U.N. demands for non-development, and an underground dope centered economy that controls the governments of many nations.
There are tough decisions to be made in the wake of the Vietnam War and everything that is staged upon it, but the "tough decisions" that are being made today are all fundamentally cowardly decisions. They are cowardly, because they vent the society's incompetence against the workers and producers who have been victimized by the incompetence of its rulers, and have been robbed poor and prevented from developing themselves. Now they are targeted again for the "tough decisions" arising from the society's stupidity in allowing itself to be led to destruction. The real tough decisions are those that depend on waking up from the dream, that depend on refusing to be further manipulated, that depend on applying all the already known fundamental principles of economy that have created bright epochs in human history - such as the manipulators fear and would have humanity ignore. Yes, there is courage required in going against the grain of the manipulators, whoever they are. These are the real tough decisions that must be made.
The destruction of love - a Civil War that never ended.
In real terms the U.S. Civil War that was fought against the U.S. constitution and its people, was never functionally concluded when the southern forces of the oligarchy were defeated on the battlefield. Only the particular theatre of the war closed down, in which the battle was fought with guns. There, the oligarchy was defeated. The war itself, however, never stopped. The Vietnam War needs to recognized as but another part of this still ongoing war of the oligarchy against human freedom and development that the United States of America once stood for, which war constantly assumes new phases. The millions of Vietnamese people that were put to death in the Vietnam War, were merely a sacrificial resource to be expended for the demoralizing effect that this war was to have on the people of the United States. That is why the daily body count was so important to be publicized. In fact, this murder-count measurement was the official criteria by which the "progress" of the war was judged.
In 1982, ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, a giant wall of polished black granite was erected in Washington DC, which commemorates the U.S. sacrifices the war had claimed. Inscribed on its face are 57,939 names of American soldiers and personnel who were killed in Vietnam. A similar wall that should carry the names of the Vietnamese people who were murdered in this war, would have to be more than ten times as long, maybe twenty times. It was never built. Perhaps it should have been build, because the victims it would commemorate were victims of the same cause. Perhaps such a wall will be build some day out of respect, when it becomes understood that all people who died in that war were sacrificed for a single purpose demanded by the world-oligarchy. On the other hand, the building of this memorial would then be useless, because any memorial is designed to serve as a constant reminder of the destruction that has been unleashed, and therefore serves no healing function. A memorial, as the term defines it, serves the subtle function of keeping the destructive effect of the war alive in the consciousness of the people who should rather be healed of the effect.
The extend of the moral and economic destruction of this war goes deep. The material cost has been great, but the destruction on the soul by this war is far greater than the material costs of fighting the battles. Even the sacrifices in terms lives lost were relatively minimal when compared to the long-term residual effect this war has had on the entire nation. In terms of casualties, the number of those who lost their life in that war compares, averaged over the years of fighting, to no more than 30% of the nation's normal casualties from homicides or traffic accidents. Still, the effect of the war-casualties on the soul of the nation was such that its entire moral structure had been altered. This deep seated destruction which superseded all else may perhaps not be repairable unless that which has been diminished by the war is being repaired and rebuilt from the ground up. What has been diminished by this war, is the nation's ability to love. For the inner healing of this loss to be possible, the truth about this war must be known and be acknowledged. Then, the healing can begin. It must be known that this war, and the modern problems that we face, are all related, and have roots that far beyond even the beginning of this century.
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