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Directed Chaos as Global Mirage

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Farah is an idiot. He was never my favorite columnist. He can't even make a proper citation, and so the Kissinger article to which he refers is irretrievable.

Now Kissinger is an agent of the Chinese. Farah, get a life.

I must admit that my inability to access the specific article to which Mr. Farah refers was frustrating. After reading your comment I went back again and scoured the internet to try and find the piece. It was indeed disheartening. However, those passages he directly quotes from Kissinger and his own insights on Kissinger's world view as well as the New World Order (the mantra of the global elites) and "global banking masters" (that are all too real) warrant attention, not scorn.

I'm sorry, Carlos, but it is your view that perplexes me. I don't care that you disagree with this writer. That's fine. I often disagree with Thomas Friedman and other columnists that you yourself have offered here on this blog. To disagree (even vehemently) with a writer's thesis does not necessarily mean that HE is an "idiot" or that YOU are wrong. It only signifies your differing view, or a perspective the writer has that you yourself cannot see. But to simply dismiss him out of hand as "an idiot" is, I think, anti-intellectual.

This man is trying to say something here about a projected (or directed) alternative to "chaos" that demands our attention. Perhaps what is going on throughout the world and being managed or manipulated at the highest levels of civilized authority is beyond our powers to fully perceive. But we must try to perceive. For to accept it purely at face value according to established orthodoxy is, I think, naive at best and even dangerous to our own intellectual freedom.

This writer is dubious of our would be (or truly) "Masters of the Universe" and he is challenging us to look again, look harder and carefully.

By the way, Kissinger has been a worthy representative of our interests in China (and theirs toward us) since the 'Ping-pong diplomacy' of the early 1970s. He is most certainly a world class authority on Chinese interests and has very much been an "agent" for change. Now, to take that a step further in 2009 and ask whose interests he truly represents today--the United States', the American people's or the elite globalists'--is not idiotic. It is a serious question worthy of serious consideration--not denigration!

I'm afraid Farah is worthy of denigration. He's a right-wing fanatic who would fight for his Christian Armageddon down to the last Israeli. Now with his sloppy method of citation he shows he's not even a journalist. I'd be happy to "try to perceive," but he doesn't even offer me Kissinger's own words; instead I have to take his word for everything. I have respect for Kissinger, and if he wants to knock Kissinger down a few pegs then I want evidence from the source, not just his opinion that Kissinger is some "Chinese agent." Writing on the Internet is no excuse for tossing journalistic standards in the garbage.