NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.2

1. Introduction - Part 2

Whereas the sub-urban achieves stagnation through its particular decadence, the rural has skipped ahead to full fledged nihilism. The urban may prove more like the latter than the former. Small, relatively isolated rural communities have been hit hard by economic globalization, especially the agricultural, timber and mining sectors. Many family farms have seen generational land foreclosed to pay debt incurred recently. Timber has been curtailed due to market forces and environmental concerns.[8] Mining has given way to recreation and tourism - a poor substitute. The close-knit ruralites have witnessed economic hardship and resultant social consequences, including unemployment, displacement, and general despair. These people may not easily escape their surroundings into televised illusion and distracting decadence. The lies justifying control do not apply or relate to most ruralites; hence, less easily swallowed. Survival is more immediate. Dying small towns are difficult for the residents to ignore. An unresponsive government ignores most issues unconcerning big money, and brands the objecting ruralites as racist, redneck subversives.[9] Efficiency will tolerate no real opposition to mythical progress. The tactics are similar to those employed against the so-called left. A divide-and-conquer approach has been utilized to direct rural resentment toward the population centers, while portraying rural concerns slightly akin to criminal behavior. The dissident is always insane, and purged for the good of everyone, especially anyone so misguided to object significantly. The April, 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bomb blast was a predictable nihilistic lashing out. Each death has been distastefully exploited for maximum gain to justify a crackdown. The machine acts quickly, thereby achieving the most favorable slant for the official power structure. Law enforcement may be fully mobilized without much public opposition. Long term policy may be identified and implemented by this approach. Conspiracies are unpredictable, whereas 169 unfortunate deaths may rationalize anything by (false) logical connection. Automatic weapons may be demonized, even though no firearms were involved in the crime. Anyone or anything may be thus targeted, including constitutional rights. Hence, an important document becomes window dressing for the police state.

[9] Never mind, not all such rural folk are white. Hispanics, Anglo whites, American Indians, and blacks, among others, feel similarly. The racial politics have been emotionally charged, thus precluding any rational debate from ever occurring. Agitation propaganda may always be used for maximum advantage. It also effectively divides rural and urban interests...