The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Part III

The essence of all sound analysis begins with definition of terms. Parts I and II provided readers with such definitions. Readers were provided with a partial summary of the past, Nazi Germany’s “Third Reich”, and an equally partial summary of the present – the Fourth Reich of the 21^st century United States of America.

The reason for the partial explanation of the Third Reich is, in part, a necessity of brevity. It’s not possible to provide any comprehensive look at the geopolitical phenomenon of Nazi Germany within the scope of this analysis. It’s also not necessary, since we are only interested in how it came into being.

This was explained primarily in two words: cultural insanity. The majority of an entire population was brainwashed with abhorrent propaganda. The German majority was convinced that it was “a Master race”, and on that basis, was capable of committing virtually any/every form of atrocity against lesser races, deemed to be “the Enemy.”

In Part II, readers were shown how cultural insanity has now been programmed into the majority of the U.S. population. It, too, has been deluded into the belief that it is a Master Race, via brainwashing such as its “Manifest Destiny”, and other, related forms of delusional propaganda. More conclusive, however, is the acceptance of torture, as a legitimate tool to be used against other human beings.

Torture requires us to sacrifice our own humanity. Torture doesn’t work. It is impossible to construct a rational, coherent argument in favor of legitimizing this barbarity. Yet the U.S. majority now supports the use of torture. Cultural insanity.

As promised in Part II, this only represents the beginning of our examination of the descent of the U.S. majority into cultural insanity. A previous commentary explored cultural insanity from an economic rather than geopolitical perspective: The U.S. Dollar is the new ‘Tulip’.

At the end of the 16^th century, the tulip plant was introduced to Holland. The Dutch people quickly developed first a love for, and then an obsession over this plant. Its universal appeal within this population caused it to become the de facto currency for that economy. “Tulipmania” was born.

This was a form of cultural insanity where a simple (but beautiful) plant was deemed to have value based purely on its aesthetic qualities, but without any regard to supply. Why was it a manifestation of cultural insanity for the Dutch to assign such incredible value to a flower? Because it could (and was) produced in relatively infinite quantities.

At the peak of Tulipmania, a single tulip bulb was exchanged as the full purchase price for a house. What did the Dutch people do as a result of the manic value which they had assigned to tulips? They produced lots and lots and lots of Tulip bulbs. It was insane for a population to believe that both value and supply could rise simultaneously.

The very familiar chart above shows a currency which has already been hyperinflated to worthlessness. Yet despite this unprecedented flood of new supply, the price of the USD has not collapsed to zero, but rather has risen to new extremes, versus other currencies.