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This is a clarion call to adults who are parents or who hope to be.

There is a maddening (word choice is literal) civil war reaching a climax in the west, and most dangerously in the USA. I thought to define it as an intellectual civil war, but there is little about it that can be called intellectual.  Intellectual means chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience. Nothing about this current raging conflict meets this definition.

Many call it a spiritual or psychological civil war, and that does indeed seem more accurate because the battleground for this war is between our ears. But it is not only for minds, it is for the entire human body. It is for who gets to define “what is.” What is good for us as individuals? To eat? To wear? To read? It is about what is real? What is true? What is good for us as a society? It is for who gets to define what it means to be human; body and soul. All in all, this highly consequential battle for who gets to define boundaries. Do human beings get to define them for themselves – as individuals and as cultural groups? Or does a group of “benevolent intelligentsia” (oxymoron of the millennia!) make the choices for everyone else?

Boundaries are physical (between nations or property lines), and psychological (between healthy individuals and groups). Boundaries are legal and philosophical confining words and terms to a specific clear meaning.

A boundary is:

1. Something that indicates a border or limit.

2. The border or limit so indicated.

3. That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

As most modern-day professional white-collar Americans know strong, flexible personal boundaries protect us from others emotionally but also prevent us from hurting others. Personal boundaries are our chosen protective filters that block out negativity, pressure or hurt from reaching you. Healthy boundaries are like the healthy membrane on a cell the regular input for human thriving.

Civilization is an advanced state of wise choice about boundaries; intellectual, cultural, and material in human society marked by wise healthy consistently enforced boundaries. To choose is to make rules, set limits and close off some options. Etiquette, diplomacy and manners are all ways of respecting boundaries.

A human being or group who will not or cannot choose its own limits is barbarian. It is a dog-eat-dog world in which the only rule is that “the fittest will survive” and the rest are used. Such a human being is reduced to living amorally like the beasts.

What is the motivation for those who seem to reject all boundaries of every kind in these strange days of extreme relativism? Why do they try to force all of us to do the same?

One way to understand it is to consider: Have you ever had the misfortune of knowing a narcissist? This is a person who rejects repeatedly (and sometimes aggressively) all boundaries of every kind to manipulate and control others, and to deflect all blame for his own actions. The elite intellectual world of the West seems to have developed a case of systemic malevolent narcissism in the approach to all human affairs, domestic and international.

Obtaining answers to quite obvious questions such as “What is a woman?”,  “What is a nation?”, “What is fairness?”, ”What is biologically true?”  is impossible from the elite “highly educated” class who rule our nations today. They wish to keep all definitional concepts in a state of perpetual flux. They need to be able to change them as needed to enforce their authority as “the experts.” (The most devastating phrase they have rendered fluid, subject to only their perspective, is “national security interests.” The slippery nature of this concept is causing untold death and destruction.) All these examples of being unwilling to be precise are characteristic of the tactics of narcissistic manipulation being weaponized against us and our children, fostering physical, psychological and emotional dependency on the authority of a small group.

Our children and grandchildren need us to stand up now against this systemic emotional and psychological abuse that is reigning down on us from all 360 degrees. We need to bravely refuse to cooperate with psychological enslavement to a class of people whose openly stated values are “human beings are just animals,” “everything is always about power,” and “free will is a myth.” We need to reject this ruling class with everything we have and win this war on reality for our children.

It is an unprecedented David and Goliath moment. This class controls publishing, entertainment and education – and is found in both political parties. This class controls the mainstream media and even large parts of our intelligence agencies.

To win this war we have to regroup. We have to rewind to the most primal basics on which all psychologically functional human beings ought to all be able to agree. The thing that is most real.

That is the biologically encoded desire of parents to see their children – not just traverse childhood in a healthy fashion – but be happy adults and thrive in adulthood, and have healthy children of their own. It is neurologically healthy and normal to want this outcome and to wish to raise children with the skills needed to be successful adults. It is dysfunctional and insane to be indifferent to the fate of your adult children. Human beings can agree they are different from animals. Their love and familial attachment do not end naturally (although they can be severed) as almost every animal does (the familial pod or herd social structure of highly intelligent species such as elephants is the next closest).

We who love and care about our children must reject the idea that “Human beings are basically good.” It is false. While designed by our creator to be good, each of us has the ability to be selfish and choose to reject the good. History proves this to be the case. Throughout human history, many have had an intuitive understanding that the mind can be manipulated. This knowledge is not new. The tactics of using manipulation to control people for power are not novel. These tactics have been a primary tool of aggression of the oppressive elite since the beginning of time.

The final battle in the war for our children’s minds is climaxing now because of the global web of social media, and oligarchy-level global business interests. These technologies have given the predatory class a vision of how they might cement permanent control. How they might build a new society in which ordinary men are nothing more than the hackable animals of the elite, scanning a QR code before every move we make, so we can be fully controlled.

The degradation of our society into a dystopia is not inevitable. It is not preordained. We are not the Roman Empire. Quite the opposite. We are free and sovereign people living under a law structure that gives us the right and obligation to consent to who governs us. We are not alone in isolated villages waiting for something bad to appear. We have immediate access to intelligence daily (albeit mixed with propaganda from the predators). This has never before been the case when past empires fell. We are living in an age in which WeThePeople can more powerfully than ever exercise our duty to defend our freedoms.

What has been the case since the beginning of time is that pride comes before the fall. It is enviable that the hubris of the predatory class will be their downfall. Like Icarus the Greek character, a mortal who wanted to be a god, who thought he could defy the truth, he flew too close to the sun with wings made of bird feathers and wax, and died in the sea. We are that sun. WeThe People of the United States are the light that the modern-day Icarus has flown too close to. We hold the legal power to withdraw consent to the systemic narcissistic abuse being heaped on us by our ruling class. We must act, daily, in small, medium and big ways

For the sake of our children and our children’s children, for the sake of our evolutionarily exceptional social construct that is “government by the consent of the people as our highest ideal,” we must all bravely face the stark reality. We must all fight it with all our hearts, minds and souls. We fight it most basically by speaking the truth always and often to others. We who have any spare time or energy fight in the school boards, HOAs, local, state and federal races. We fight it by reducing our time in on-line activities and getting involved with real life. Most of all we fight it by embracing and insisting on healthy boundaries as needed for civilization.

Katherine Novikov is the Executive Director of the Diamond Mind Foundation.  The mission of the small family foundation is to help people see without distortion.  

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