2. Identifies and Names the
Other as Intimate Enemy
The claim that the Secular vision
expresses its values and beliefs through the Warrior’s Quest vision
and so identifies and names the Other as Intimate Enemy is based upon
a) political history and b) Secularism's view of women
and sexuality. In this Big Story, common themes
2 and 3 are more closely intertwined.
Historically, Secularism arose during
violent revolutions, and the use of violence as a form
of social change is philosophically, politically, and
practically unchallenged. Notably, the military has
been the secularizing agency that overthrows traditional,
religiously back governments. The two major secular revolutions
of the twentieth century—Communist Russia
and Maoist China—remained military dominated
societies in which nonviolent dissent was brutally repressed. Neither
Secular America nor any other highly identified materialistic
Secular state has set itself apart from the Warrior’s
Quest view of the Other as Intimate Enemy. There is
scant but cosmetic difference between the core dreadful
fear of the Abrahamic, Scientism and Secular Big Stories. Collectively,
they were mid-wife to the opening of the apocalyptic
Nuclear Age.
The key insight for Earthfolk is that secular states
normally require compulsory military service. In this
way, the Other as intimate enemy is subliminally institutionalized.
In America, this shift towards anchoring the Other
as Intimate Enemy into the social psyche occurred as the Age of Darkness
opened. Before then, military conscription ("the draft") was
activated only when a war was declared. In 1940 President
Roosevelt ("FDR") introduced and in 1948 President Truman
reactivated the "Peace time draft."
The Selective Service
System is the drafting institution.
It continually updates a national database of draft-age
men and women. Where a young person once had to go
to a SSS local office to register, now most states require registration
with the SSS at the same time an application is made
for a driver's license. In short, teenagers have
the "choice"—either commit
to the Warrior's Quest's vision of Intimate Enemy or "You
cannot drive a car!"
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