Millennium
by
Joseph J. Schiller
Copyright 1993
This book is dedicated to the abolition of the conspiracy of silence in Western culture regarding feminism. This may seem a contradictory statement, considering the excess of press feminism gets, but the feminist press is an instrument of propaganda and therefore only presents one side of the issue. Why no one comes forward to discuss the other side is a wonderment, considering the implications for civilization. This omission seems to be coming to an end. Rush Limbaugh seldom misses an opportunity to discuss feminism in a negative light these days, but the fact that his commentary is completely negative tips us off that he is also one sided.
One guesses that feminism is not discussed because the negatives would tend to drive a wedge between husband and wife and make marriage an even more problematic institution than it now is. And because the power already in women's hands through their capacity to make life intolerable for their husbands is well recognized and males are unwilling to risk it. And because the media, due to the nature of the work, attracts mainly liberals.
Finally though, perhaps it is that survival depends on environmentalism, and the implications are such that humanity would not go along if it knew. The main implication is that civilization cannot go on because environmentalism is incompatible with it. This is rather easily seen. Pollution is a name for the transformation of the environment. Transforming an environment that we were made from must be deadly to us. People cause pollution and many people cause much pollution. There is no moral way to rid oneself of some portion of humanity, therefore morals must be dispensed with and since morals are an integral part of civilization, civilization must go too. This seems bad, and of course it is for anyone now living, but we will adapt, those few remaining, and prospects for them will be much better.
This state of affairs for humanity was in the cards from the beginning, as the writer of Genesis clearly knew. In our literal age, we find Genesis ununderstandable, but, understood symbolically, it simply says that consciousness in a finite being is incompatible with long term survival. It knows too little and therefore alters critical features of the environment without understanding. When the advantage of comprehending causality allows the numbers of this species to reach a certain threshold, its modifications will become deadly to itself.
However, it might be that humanity will serve as a bridge species to another of longer duration, say a whale. Looking towards the future, one guesses that the excesses of technological humanity will lead to some catastrophe, probably economic, which will lead to an outbreak of disease and war, which will lead to a great die off.
The remainder of the species will adopt a primitive lifestyle, which will allow it to continue until the next ice age. Survival then will send it to the ocean.
This book is organized around a Theory of Ideology. By this it is meant that ideology can be organized into a continuum as pictured in the above graph. Book I is an outline of the theory based on history. Book II is a collection of essays discussing aspects of the theory. Book III directly describes the theory and then discusses its implications.