The Dialectical Merry-Go-Round
by Mark Walter Evans
06-March-2007

The conventional understanding of the political spectrum as a line segment, moving from left to right, and back again, is a false model. A line segment is a two-dimensional geometric figure, while the real world contains at least four dimensions, if you include the dimension of time.

A valid model for the political cosmology should be more analogous to the functioning anatomy of the human mind. The human mind runs simultaneously on many paths, and struggles within itself between the tendencies of the two poles-of the left and right hemispheres, between the intuitive and the analytical, between light and darkness, and between good and evil. This is the field. He who comprehends the field knows how to play it.

An Alternative Vision of the Political Spectrum as a Mobius-Continuum in a Four-Dimensional Field

Could it be that the appellations of "Left" and "Right" — that carry such weight and stir such controversy across the cultural and class, political, and social chasms in our society-are the tendencies of social groups locked in lopsided "left" or "right" hemisphere brain functions? Could it be that the schism or gulf between the left and right in politics, and the supposed dichotomy between "left" and "right" hemisphere brain functions are socially engineered divisions that foster schizophrenia and contention, and in turn create mass schizophrenia and socio-political strife? Have artifical divisions in psychology and political science been deliberately imposed upon society by indoctrination over the last hundred years? What better way to foster a society of fragmented individuals and divided, isolated blocs of socio-political formations? To be whole, one must understand that the left and right hemispheres of the brain/mind are a single continuum, a single mind that functions as a whole. The political spectrum, also, is a continuum, a four-dimensional field that may be comprehended by the individual mind. The whole person is able to use the analytical and abstract reasoning capacity of the left lobe together with the creative, intuitive and emotive functions of the right lobe in a cohesive, functioning unit.

It is because human beings are complex and able to comprehend at least four dimensions that I doubt that the political spectrum is a mere two-dimensional "left-right" line segment. I also question in whose interest it is that we have been taught by the media and the educational system to think in such narrow, one-track, linear terms. Can it be that we've been manipulated? Some people can be controlled by lethargy; for others, bread and circuses suffice. But it is vitally important to the power elite to control the politically conscious among the masses by creating divisions and strife.

Various theorists have posited alternative models to the left-right line-segment in recent years. Some have suggested a circle. The Libertarians have come up with a square model. Critique, the late journal of trans-political discussion, devoted an issue to the subject in the late eighties ("Beyond Left/Right," Winter, 1987). The Utne Reader followed suit a few years later. So far, however, none of these attempts at mapping the socio-political geography have succeeded because none of the charts have seen fit to honor the power elite or assign to them their true position-on top.

THE TRANSCENDENTAL THEORY OF POLITICAL DIALECTICS

Although I am fully persuaded that a visual rendering of the political landscape would strongly resemble Hieronymous Bosch's tableau of Hell, I have come up with my own linear chart, unique in the annals of political-spectrum cartography because it accords the power elite their own transcendental chair, above the fray:

• Most people have never heard of the Corporate Union, the I.B.I.W., let alone considered that it gets lonely at the top, and that, to better facilitate the smooth functioning of World Affairs, the ruling class has had to organize, the same as any trade union.
• "I" stands for International. These folks, the core of the power elite of the Group of 10 and Switzerland, are the real Internationalists, beside whom a mere communist or card-carrying World Federalist is a pale wallflower.
• "B" stands for Brotherhood because these guys are all men, and there ain't no blacks among them, neither.
• "I" stands for Illuminated because these guys have imbibed some heady Masonic-theosophical metaphysics, which has caused them to believe that they are "as Gods."
• "W" stands for "Wise Men" because these men are sophisticated, urbane, cosmopolitan, and well educated, and they believe that it is their calling, nay, their duty, to rule over the planet.

Beneath the clouds of their lofty Olympian aerie, or further down the pyramid, depending on how you look at it, the Power Elite in America have set up tax-exempt foundations to facilitate the coordination of Left/Right activities, in order to implement the greater dialectical (or thesetical) process and move history in the direction that the I.B.I.W. deems necessary for the greater "good"-which is not necessarily the greater good or comfort of the masses, but rather the greater good of the collective interests of the families which constitute the electoral college, as it were, of the I.B.I.W., the Supreme Council of the corporate interests of the ruling class.

The tax-exempt foundations dispense their ill-gotten capitalist largesse (much of which derives from interest collected from the national debt, as well as various surplus-value scams) all along the political spectrum-to left, right and center, as well as to the foggy bottom of the political underworld, the "fringes" of Left and Right. Although the power elite transcend the political spectrum and are seldom visible in the political arena (the Roosevelts and Bush were two exceptions), their fingerprints are all over the whole thing, and their bag-men are in almost every camp of any size.

Beneath the tax-exempt foundations, the I.B.I.W. has established think tanks which target various segments of the political spectrum and serve as transmission-belts for implementing policy directives. These think-tanks formulate the unique language (dialectics) tailored to suit and influence the thinking of the various strata across the political spectrum. On the "left," for instance, you have the Institute for Policy Studies, (IPS) and the Cambridge Policy Studies Institute. In the Rockefeller "center" you have the Brookings Institute. On the "right" you have the Hoover Institution and the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS.) The Cato Institute determines the Libertarian party-line.

In turn, the various sectors of the spectrum are kept at loggerheads with each other, through their foundation-fed dialectics, in accordance with the famous Roman axiom "divide and rule." In the manner of Medieval Venice, the power elite divide and finance both left and right, determine the nature and terms of a series of orchestrated dialectical conflicts, and thus, to a greater or lesser extent, control history itself.

Various sectors of the spectrum are apportioned various analyses or historical truth that are seemingly antithetical to the "hands" held by other players. In the dialectical (thesetical) process, the I.B.I.W., via the Foundations, sets political formations in conflict, each holding a thesis or antithesis originating in the think tanks. The syntheses that are hammered out by means of this process of orchestrated dialectical conflict, become in turn a new thesis, or antithesis, and thus the historical process is "shepherded" by the ruling class elite.

THE PRETZEL AS MODEL FOR THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM

It is this constant enmity or political strife within the spectrum which gives the whole thing its incredible dynamism, its electric drive. It is what makes the merry-go-round turn, as they say. The various "stations" along the spectrum, are like seats on the merry-go-round: segregated, isolated, and locked into specific "party-spirit" consciousness. The true geometry of the spectrum, however, is neither a line segment, nor a circle, but more on the order of a Mobius strip, or a pretzel.

On the ground, (the main stage) in the United States, all power has been given to the high command of the Democratic and Republican parties-two wings of the same bird of prey. The power elite have found the bipartisan party system to be the most trouble-free, the most efficient, and the easiest to manage in America. Although many Americans are able to see through the bipartisan scam, their options are so limited when they go to the polls that they generally vote for one or the other.

The Democrats and Republicans throw mud pies at each other. On the Republican Right, a subsidized windbag like Rush Limbaugh will channel CIA disinformation, heave heavy salvos at Bill Clinton, and bedevil "Liberalism" in general, in order to keep the controversy going and make the poor benighted masses think that there actually are major differences between "Conservatives" and "Liberals." Again, it is all one continuum. On the economic level, what differences that exist are minor and can be boiled down to who gets the gravy, how much, and when. In this controlled dialectic, these economic "differences" figure as mere adjustments in the greater thesetical process.

The main controversy between the two major parties, (fostered over the course of the last several decades), are differences of Culture and Life-style. To the "Left" of the Democratic mainstream, traveling as camp-followers in the Democratic train, are powerful interest-groups of the Gay Lobby and the Pro-Choice Lobby.

On the Republican "Right," in fearful symmetry, are aligned the forces of the "Christian" Right and the Pro-Life lobby. The camp followers of both the major parties, set in battle array for the "Culture Wars," or Kulturkampf of the '90's, are funded amply by the tax-exempt foundations. Some Foundations, like the Pew Charitable Trust, the Lilly Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation, even go so far as to cross-fund, that is, finance both sides.

That any intelligent person can be so blind as to miss the significance of the bigger picture and not stop at least to wonder why the Foundations fund both sides, is amazing. It would be funny if it were merely a Punch and Judy show. As it is, the power elite, as puppet masters, are staging a spectacle on the stage of history. Against the "thesis" of so-called "Christian" capitalism and family values, they have pitted the anti-thesis of gay liberation and abortion values.

The Synthesis, yet to be fully manifested, will in all probability be the Libidinal Economy that the Marquis de Sade prophesied and that professor Lyotard of U.C. Irvine presently promotes. That gives all you libidinal types, and especially you good-looking women, something to look forward to. But be forewarned: the I.B.I.W. is looking forward to it, too.

On the main stage of the political spectrum, that is, the platform where the Demos and Repubs duke it out, there is little "class consciousness," or mention of the doings of the Ruling Class, for the simple reason that most politicians and their camp followers of either ilk are either devoid of class consciousness or are quite consciously harlots, unable to bite the hand that feeds them. Under the stage, in the political underworld is another world where the literature in cacophonous counterpoint describes-often several scenes ahead-much of the action on the stage.

Sailing off the edges of the flat earth world of mainstream politics, in either direction, left or right, the political-spectrum pretzel folds in on itself, where finally, both ends twist and meet in a loop. Practically every faction of any size in the political underworld (the underside of the pretzel), has irregular financing; that is, the deficits are supplied by grants from the tax-exempt foundations, as above, or else from the CIA and a variety of other cutouts, and thus, indirectly, from the I.B.I.W., as above.

Left and Right formations on the underside of the spectrum often fear and loathe each other more than the conventional Punch and Judy Demo-Repubs do on the stage above. There are valid reasons for this. The Spotlight weekly, for instance, the organ of the crypto-Nazi Liberty Lobby of Willis Carto (in all probability a CIA, or BND [German Intelligence] front and definitely a "clothesline" for intelligence disinformation), peddles the big lie that Hitler, Himmler, and the S.S. never planned or accomplished the genocide of nearly six million European Jews, seven million Slavic Christians, and a million and a half Gypsies.

It is for this reason that The Spotlight, and similar radical-right formations are extremely efficient as channels for the "containment" of government and I.B.I.W. disinformation, occasionally "hanging-out" some very pithy (and valid) pieces of information. This phenomenon of the "modified limited hangout," and the function of disinformation, propaganda, and containment is critically important if one is to attain a transcendental vision and understanding of the dialectical merry-go-round

The case of La Rouche and his group, the NCLC, who were in the late sixties a faction of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) is also instructive. At one point in the early seventies, La Rouche, a.k.a. "Lyn Marcus," and his followers, the "Labor Committees," still in the Left, positioned themselves, through broadsides and combative rhetoric, to the "left" of even the Maoist Progressive Labor Party, in the waning days of the SDS. Afterwards, Lyn Marcus proposed a United Front of a new, galvanized Left, with himself as head, to the Communist and Socialist Workers Parties.

When the heads of the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party didn't fall in line, Lyn Marcus, in a prolonged fit of pique, conducted "Operation Mop-Up," commanding his cadres to crack heads of C.P. and S.W.P. cadres in a broad swath of cities throughout the North East in the Spring of 1974 as a supposed prelude to the "Revolution." Ultimately, LaRouche (Lyn Marcus) and those of his diminished followers that remained with him, were ostracized (journalistically and by being shunned) from the Left, and during the period of 1975-76 actually formed an alliance with the aforementioned Liberty Lobby. Simultaneously, the NCLC discarded Marx, discovered the economic "genius" of Alexander Hamilton, and remolded themselves as conservative Democrats.

Only the pretzel model of the political spectrum can explain how a group claiming to be the revolutionary vanguard possessing the bona fide latter-day Lenin (Lyn Marcus), can go to the left of the Maoists, form a United Front with an ultra-Right group like the Liberty Lobby, span the gulf between radical Left and radical Right for twenty years, and simultaneously pose as "conservative" (i.e. Hamiltonian) Democrats.

Only by maintaining an open mind, being willing to read, watch, and sift information from all points of the spectrum, maintaining always a healthy degree of skepticism and the analytical ability to ferret out disinformation by comparing dialectically opposite and contradictory positions, can one, with the full aid of the intuitive and creative juices of the whole mind, attain to political consciousness and the synthesis which is comprehension of the process of history and the true nature of Reality. To understand the dialectical merry-go-round, you must transcend it.