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Chapter 5: The History of Ideology.Ideology is not a naturally unfolding phenomenon. It is created artificially. For this reason it's manifestation is not directly related to a specific time-line, locality, nationality, sex or culture. It can be created, modified, augmented, guided, both at will and at any time and any place. It is also the most powerful force known, for shaping the face of civilization. It has in past times moved people to perpetrate acts of such violence and brutality as to set aside a person's natural humanity. In most cases ideologically motivated acts of violence involve the most extreme crimes. That these acts are ideologically motivated, rather than represent isolated cases of individual insanity can be judged by the universality with which they unfold. It is for this universality, rather than time-dependent development, that a historical perspective becomes useful - in fact it becomes an essential element of history for one to explore, because of its enormous impact on society in terms of deep reaching effects. No other cause has affected humanity more massively and deeply than the power of ideological axioms. In some cases it has destroyed the very life of large segments of society. Axioms are generally accepted perceptions that appear as self-evident truth, but may not necessarily have any relationship to reality, whatsoever, while people act upon them as though they were true. Therefore, if the axioms of society can be manipulated, the society's responses to certain criteria can be controlled. This process has been frequently exploited to rouse nationalistic responses that the manipulators of society required to achieve certain desired goals. This process is frequently applied to set up the conditions for war, or to rouse fear, or to enable murder that mankind's normal responses would not allow. The manipulation of the society's axioms for nationalistic responses is well known, and its effects are also known. However, the manipulation of the society's axioms to achieve murderous responses is far less recognized, although in some cases they blend together with axioms for nationalistic responses. Unfortunately one can observe a tremendous escalation in the creation of murderous axioms throughout the last century. This escalation has grown so enormously that it now threatens the very existence of humanity. While this historic trend represents not a natural process, its history needs to be understood regardless of the fact that no natural forces are involved, because these forces have severely darkened the last century of mankind's civilization, and now threaten to have consequences of a magnitude that may determine mankind's future for centuries to come, if not for all times. The development of this trend unfolded out of small beginnings, although the fundamental axiom rarely ever changed. The fundamental axiom involves the proposition that the elimination of certain targeted groups of people is desirable, even necessary for the good of society. Targeting selected groups of people The ideology behind the axiomatic belief that leads to the systematic elimination of groups of people can be traced back to the work of Reverend Thomas Malthus (1766-1834). Thomas Malthus, an employee of the British East India Company, had determined that the world was too small for mankind, that mankind's population needs to be scaled back artificially. Francis Galton (1822-1911), the cousin of Charles Darwin's, added to this theory (on the strength of Darwin's theory of evolution) by proposing that the 'culling' of humanity should logically begin by eliminating the weakest elements of society, such as the poor, the sick, the primitive elements, etc.. His proposition became the doctrine of eugenics, which in turn was used by many agencies to shape the axioms of humanity to enable large scale murder. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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