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AEI Insights, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2020

vs. womb-like continental landmass of Afro-Asia; Erective and explosive vs. reflective and
implosive; an Omnipresent (ever seafaring and trading) extroverted male vs. humble,
handcrafting, waiting female. Masculine, phallusoid, progressively erected temporal linearity
vs. periodic menstrual leakages of femininity in regressive cycles of stagnation. Clearly,
anything beyond that was deemed inconsequential.
Physical, material, ideological, active, polarizing, determined vs. metaphysical, spiritual,
esoteric, atmospheric, inclusive, holistic. No wonder that all operationalized ideologies
originated solely in Europe. What else, since no one ever, but Asians revealed any significant
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religion to the world. Ideology penetrates, religion embraces.

AgitProp – Non-stop

Gradually, the imperial civilizing mission (Expansion is a path to Security) got a new form,
often under the watchful care of ‘Five Eyes’. It became a moral duty – R2P (Responsibility to
Protect), as much as the parental duty is to raise their infant child. The handsome, masculine
and strong Western Prince Charming has one duty – to emancipate his Eastern Sleeping
Beauty. Giving a ‘kiss’ meant projecting the western physical military presence, Christianity
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and commerce. Who was/is the Eastern Sleeping Beauty?
Rudyard Kipling’s famous 1899 poem, The White’s Man Burden offers some answers while
describing the Eastern peoples as ‘half-devil and half-child’. “The blame of those ye better /
The hate of those ye guard” – Kipling warns and instructs, he describes and invites. In his
classic novel of 1847, Tancred – The New Crusade, much celebrated British Prime Minister
Benjamin Disraeli claims “A Saxon race, protected by an insular position, has stamped its
diligent and methodic character of the century. And when a superior race, with a superior idea
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to Work and Order, advances, its state will be progressive…All is race!” Quite an intellectual
acrobatics for Disraeli himself, who was neither Saxonic nor Christian.

Over the period, western Catholic missionaries constituted one of the most powerful and
influential lobbying voices for this civilizing mission. It was of course weaponisation of
religion, a notorious misuse for ideological purposes. Same like today, fanatics then and there,
were identified, manipulated and further radicalised, to say ’inspired’. In that time Europe, they
would have usually got hired as the AGITPROP – an Ideological police by the predatory elites
which hid behind the Feudal European states.

Naturally, the justifications were looked upon in any Biblical narrative. E.g. the re-invoking
the Genesis story of Noah’s three sons, and interpreting it as the ‘duty’ of Japheth (Europe) to

9 To this end: Inventive, proactive, scientific, rational, disciplined, sell-controlled/self-constraining, sane, sensible,
practical, ‘mind-oriented’, independent, and most of all paternal West. The East, of course, was on the opposite
side and inferior: imitative, passive, superstitious, lazy, irrational, spontaneous, insane, emotional, exotic, body-
oriented, dependent, and above all, child-like. Tall, matured ‘masculinity’ vs. immature and physically
underdeveloped ‘femininity’. The masculine phallus of military, industry, technology, shipping and trade that is
welcomed, if not heartedly invited, to tap and drill the womb-like dwell of resources, while at the same time
seeding the ideological semen of ‘civilization’.
10 To this very day, most of the so-called Multinational/Cross-continental Trade Pacts are closer to the capitulation
agreements (like those that Britain imposed on China after the Opium Wars) than to any fair, balanced and
mutually beneficial commercial accords. Their stipulations are regularly kept away from public eyes. When was
the last time you have seen one of them publicly available? No wonder, what a popular language of today calls
barriers to trade are in fact the remaining socio-economic sovereign rights and other rarefied checks-and-balance
instruments of nation’s well-being that these Trade Pacts are derogating. “By hook or by crook” – as the Dutch
East India Company formulated it in its XVII century business model moto.
11 The novel itself is named after the Norman leader of the First European Crusades, that later became the Prince
of Galilee, and regent of the satellite Europe’s state on the territory of today’s Syria and Turkey – Antioch.

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