Sliding Down the Communitarian Slope by Berit Kjos - March 2, 2010

[ftwspursfan]

Remember the Communitarian THREE-LEGGED STOOL: A mandatory partnership between the public sector (government), private sector (business), and social sector (community, churches, schools, etc.) -- managed through Global Standards and laws established by national and international governments. This Communitarian system is fast leading the masses into a web of control involving food, health care (mental as well as physical), beliefs, values, education, lifestyles, business, etc.

It's not quite Communism.

It's certainly not American Capitalism!

It is (blow the trumpets) Communitarianism! The Third Way! And it changes everything, just as our president promised.

Daniel Henninger illustrates this new system well in his recent Wall Street Journal article titled "Obama's Business Buyout":

"It made perfect sense for President Obama to speak yesterday to the Business Roundtable. Businesses big and small could use a pep talk just now.... But instead of giving a speech about reviving business confidence in the economy, Mr. Obama gave a speech about reviving business confidence in him.

"The evening before this speech, Mr. Obama held a small White House dinner for some CEOs from household-name corporations, such as AT&T, Xerox, State Farm, Verizon, PepsiCo and GE. The reason for a linen-tablecloth dinner followed by a big speech to really big business is the White House has concluded it is wrongly seen as anti-business.

"I agree. This White House is pro-business. In fact, it's so pro-business it's proposing a virtual merger with the private sector. Ladies and gentlemen of the business community, meet your new partner—Uncle Sam.

"Under the terms of the proposed deal, the White House will drive the locomotive of the American economy and U.S. business will ride in the passenger cars. You're being told to get over it."[1]

continued at Cry, our beloved America: Sliding Down the Communitarian Slope*

[ftwspursfan]

Further in the article, Berit links to a 3-part series he wrote on Communitarianism. I'm going to link all 3 parts of that series so that this thread has continuity.

Part 1: The Seamless Communitarian System by Berit Kjos - 2001

Strange new labels have begun to define our schools, workplaces, clinics and other institutions. We all hear them, but few understand them: OBE, STW, TQM, CGM, PDC, HMO, Third Way.... What do they really mean? How will they change our institutions and affect our lives? Are they part of a local agenda or do they point to a global management system? Finally, the most important question, who defines the terms and sets the standards?

The answers are complex, but these true stories offer some simple views of the problem:

* Schools: A California teacher told seven-year old Sallie to stop talking with her friends about Jesus in order to "keep [church and state] apart." Her censure makes sense when we remember that the "outcomes" of UNESCO's worldwide Outcome-Based Education (OBE) system include politically correct attitudes. Sallie's loyalty to the Biblical God didn't fit the new standards. Today's systemic transformation includes rewards for schools and teachers whose students demonstrate -- on the new student "assessments" -- that they have conformed to the beliefs and values of a global citizen. (See Don't Mention Jesus and Zero Tolerance For Non-Compliance)

* The workplace: A Christian manager in an Illinois company lost his position because he refused to renounce the Biblical absolutes that formed the basis for his convictions. God's unchanging truth didn't fit TQM (Total Quality Management), which demands "continual change." Contrary facts disturb the consensus process and God's values could offend team members who live by another standard.[6]

* The church: A Colorado mother told her pastor about her concern over multicultural curricula and sex ed programs that introduced her son to contrary values. But the pastor equated any criticism of public schools with "politics" and showed no sympathy. He explained that the church's new "mission" statement didn't include "political issues" which might offend people -- especially unbelievers, the potential members now viewed as "consumers" in the new church management system.[7]

continued at Reinventing the World* 1-2001

[ftwspursfan]

Part 2 of 3: The Mind-Changing Dialectic Process by Berit Kjos

The power of DIALOGUE

This century-old plan [2] for “socializing” the masses gathered momentum when Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous, was chosen to head Unesco. Two years later, he wrote a book titled, "UNESCO: Its purpose and Its Philosophy." This 1947 blueprint for change called for a universal implementation of Georg Hegel’s dialectic process:

"The task before UNESCO... is to help the emergence of a single world culture with its own philosophy and background of ideas and with its own broad purpose. This is opportune, since this is the first time in history that the scaffolding and the mechanisms for world unification have become available.... And it is necessary, for at the moment, two opposing philosophies of life confront each other from the West and from the East....

"You may categorize the two philosophies as two super-nationalisms, or as individualism versus collectivism; or as the American versus the Russian way of life, or as capitalism versus communism, or as Christianity versus Marxism. Can these opposites be reconciled, this antithesis be resolved in a higher synthesis? I believe not only that this can happen, but that, through the inexorable dialectic of evolution, it must happen....

"In pursuing this aim, we must eschew dogma - whether it be theological dogma or Marxist dogma.... East and West will not agree on a basis of the future if they merely hurl at each other the fixed ideas of the past. For that is what dogma's are -- the crystallizations of some dominant system of thought of a particular epoch. A dogma may of course crystallize tried and valid experience; but if it be dogma, it does so in a way which is rigid, uncompromising and intolerant.... If we are to achieve progress, we must learn to un-crystallize our dogmas." [3]

continued at Reinventing the World* Part 2: The Mind-Changing Process

[ftwspursfan]

Part 3: Managing the Masses through Global Standards and Continual Assessments by Berit Kjos

We are told that globalization calls for accountability and that accountability demands uniform, universal standards. That sounds reasonable, doesn't it? But what about standardized people? Or standardized beliefs and values?

Like it or not, such standards are here. A massive network of "quality" management systems have been weaving a web of control around the world. Each organization within this global network must assess and monitor the compliance of the people within its own sphere. And those personal assessments will be based on global standards for the envisioned 21st century citizen.

There is nothing inherently wrong with standards. But when global managers set standards designed to measure and monitor what they define as "cooperation," tolerance and beliefs, they undermine the rights guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution. And if our personal values must conform to the new global vision, the "land of the free" will cease to exist.[1]

Strange as it seems, today's international standards are designed to mold "quality" people as well as "quality" products. Aimed at standardizing human resources for the global workforce and "sustainable communities,"[2] they will be enforced through a variety of incentives and disincentives, both social and financial. Non-compliance will be costly.

Marc Tucker, director of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) and the master-mind behind today's partnership between schools and labor, has exposed some of the goals and incentives needed to enforce such standards. He suggests "breaking the current system, root and branch"[3] by orchestrating a radical "change in the prevailing culture -- the attitudes, values, norms, and accepted ways of doing things."[4] In a jubilant 1992 post-election letter to Hillary Clinton, he described his vision of the new cradle-to-grave education system:

"What is essential is that we create a seamless web of opportunities to develop one's skills that literally extends from cradle to grave.... in which curriculum, pedagogy, examinations, and teacher education and licensure systems are all linked to the national standards... a system that rewards students who meet the national standard with further education and good jobs....”[5]

continued at Reinventing the World* Part 3: Global Standards

[mattfivefour]

We are told that globalization calls for accountability and that accountability demands uniform, universal standards. That sounds reasonable, doesn't it? But what about standardized people? Or standardized beliefs and values?

And that is the issue ... and the peril. The movement toward globalization that we see today is just the thin knife-edge of the wedge. Where it leads is the real danger; and where that will be has been revealed to us in the Bible.

[Robert]

And just like a wedge, it will slowly separate the two parts, until they are divided. In this case, the attempt is to separate us from what we hold dear and force us into accepting a new paradigm that the "global community" deems appropriate.


Hopefully by then, we won't be here.

[micah719]

Recently I printed out this page and keep it in my notebook on my schooldesk. I get some weird looks and some nose-wrinkling, so please pray for the folks that they repent and learn to look at the world through the Bible and not at the Bible through the world.

Brainwashing & How to Resist It

[ftwspursfan]

I printed that out, micah, very cool!

Glenn Beck has been on this same subject this week also; see Glenn Beck: Ready for a New Economic Plan, America? - Glenn Beck - FOXNews.com
He is going to do more on this tomorrow night on Fox News.