Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

PREFACEdestructive stupidities of war can be eliminated fromhuman affairs until some common political controldominates the earth, and unless certain pressures due tothe growth of population, due to the enlarging scope ofhuman operations or due to conflicting standards andtraditions of life, are disposed of. To avoid the positiveevils of war and to attain the new levels of prosperity andpower that now come into view, an effective worldcontrol, not merely of armed force but of the productionand main movements of staple commodities and the driftand expansion of population, is required. It is absurd todream of peace and world-wide progress without thatmuch control. These things assured, the abilities andenergies of a greatly increased proportion of humanbeings could be diverted to the happy activities ofscientific research and creative work with anever-increasing release and enlargement of humanpossibility. Such a forward stride in human life, the firststride in a mighty continuing advance, an advance towhich no limit appears, is now materially possible. Theopportunity is offered to mankind. But there is nocertainty, no material necessity, that it should ever betaken. It will not be taken by mankind inadvertently. Itcan only be taken through such an organisation of willand energy to take it as this world has never seen before. 2In other words, the creation of this new world order must be planned.It must be planned by a conspiracy. He called it the open conspiracyin 1928. A dozen years later, he was still calling for world socialismin the post-war world. In his book, The New World Order, heproclaimed: "Gan one doubt that the 'scientific world' will break out inthis way when the revolution is achieved, and that the development ofman's power over nature and over his own nature and over this stillunexplored planet, will undergo a continual acceleration as the yearspass? No man can guess beforehand what doors will open then norupon what wonderlands." 3 A grand vision, indeed!Six years later, his faith was in tatters. In Mind at the End of ItsTether, he lamented: "The end of everything we call life is close athand and cannot be evaded." 4 Ours is a closed universe, yet we needsomething beyond it." 'Power' is unsatisfactory." 5 He had seen wherehttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/preface.htm (2 of 8) [5/26/2000 1:47:59 PM]