The Wonder Springs Chronicle

Sheep or Wolves

8 December 2010

Volume 12, Issue 48

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Back when I still lived in Seattle I began to put together a teaching block that was entitled “Sheep 2 Wolves.” This basic premise was that the Bible called God’s people sheep, because it really spoke to a latent sheep reality, not God’s design, or his will for the church, or for humanity in general.

When I began to question people about being called sheep. The response was pretty much totally sheepish. Put in more specific terms the response went something like, “My life is decent, my material needs are met. I have a little money left over to do some personal things. I don’t want to do anything that would upset the moderate level of security I have made for myself and my family.”

Over the years I have asked a number of people variations of the question, “What will you do if tomorrow turns out to be significantly different than today?” One of the first times was during a visit to New York City during my schooling while in the military. The retired couple I had the opportunity to stay with was living in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn. When I asked a variation of that question their response was simply, that type of change is impossible — we refuse to look at that possibility.

When stationed in Augsburg, Germany, it was the closest and most accessible American garrison to the Dachau concentration camp. After visiting the very sanitized remains, the place was still ominously oppressive. As a result, I began to read from the post library, materials about the holocaust and the motivation, or lack thereof, that allowed so many Jews to become sheep led to slaughter. In this literature terms like “living dead” became almost mundane.

Many years later I learned that one of my uncles that fought in World War II was among the first liberators of the camp. So I decided to give him a visit to see if I could get him to give me some details of what he saw and learned at Dachau. Since I am the only veteran amongst all of the Miller grandkids, and using my best spy training, I attempted to get him to talk about this experience. After a couple of excursions through the military and specific efforts to bring that travel to Bavaria, as close as I could get was the front gate of the camp. From there we were instantly transported back to Harrington, Washington, and discussions about pruning apple trees.

There have not been any Cult Football posts for the last couple of weeks for I have been working on getting materials organized and to begin to put together a equity private placement for PREFER Ltd. On Monday I finished a preliminary draft, basically an outline with some of the bullet points filled in. As I have begun to talk with people about this possibility, I began to think that what PREFER is proposing to do is far outside what anyone has ever been exposed to, and they don’t really have an educated basis to deal with this possibility.

These people are not stupid, but some of America’s best, brightest and most successful. American’s generally however have been so successful for so long, they have yet to fully realize, perhaps in some people — begun to realize, that the sloppy agape prosperity of the last generation is not going to come back in the same way we would like to see that happen.

In the context of American exceptionalism, whether you believe that to be true or not, the American people have basically become European, not so much in the contemporary sense, but in the sense of the end of the opportunity frontier. There is no reason to do anything any different or new, because out there on the frontier there are wild animals, some of those wild animals are wolves, and we all know that wild wolves eat the sheep. So Americans, as do the present socially democratic Euro Zone people, look for the shepherd, their government infrastructure, to take care of the sheepfold.

You may know that all our domestic breeds of dogs are descended from Eurasian wolves, as are all other kinds of wolves. So it isn’t all that hard to envision a myth of Noah and his family sitting around a campfire, the ark resting on a ridge higher up on Mount Ararat, and the couple of ark wolves, come up to get their ears scratched. As time went on, when the people began to eat meat again, the wolves were around to clean up after the kill. Sometime shortly after that, the wolves became tired of humans just sitting around and discussing there greatness, and some wolves decided to strike out and take care of their own.

Perhaps you didn’t know, most of the fairy tales we have about the big bad wolf, are really European fairy tales, created once the big bad wolves had become mostly extinct in Europe.

If you move to primitive lands and native people groups, you don’t find this fear of wolves but more respect, perhaps mutual respect. Indigenous people groups have even used wolf packs has models for small self-sustaining people bands, forced to live by hunting and gathering.

Furthermore there is no real science that wolves have ever attacked and killed people. Those people found in the wild that may have been eaten by wolves may have been killed by other means. It further shows that wolves, unless trained through human wolf hunting and other control measures, are not afraid of humans, but more so — reluctantly curious. The greatest fear of a human sheep is for people to know, contrary to their human vibrato, they are really in their hearts, nothing but timid sheep.

Where are these wolf tales going?

Just like many native peoples, we need to learn about how the real world works, so some of us must begin to understand wolf packs as a model for successful communities of humans. Could it be that the wolves learned that wisdom from us to begin with? We humans have become so domesticated, like stupid sheep, we no longer are able to fend for ourselves and need the government shepherd to take care of us.

So what happens if all this government sheep-care can no longer be sustained? I suppose some sheep will die of starvation. Probably some will become anarchists of violence. Most I hope will be forced in someway to realize they were not sheep at all, but just acted that way. In that light restoring vibrant communities based truly upon individuals will become more important. Wolf packs are self-sustaining communities in an ever-present wilderness. Just because we think we are so cultured doesn’t mean that society can’t quickly become a real jungle.

We began this discussion of Americans becoming like Europeans, but it was not all that long ago, that most of the European Union was the literal Roman Empire — until Rome fell. Over time the tribal remnants became unified into a church centered Holy Roman Empire. Then wars broke all this apart and it was reassembled, and then we see another form of redux. If it were not for the grace of God, through the battle of Tours in the ninth century and on the plains of Poland east of Vienna in the sixteenth, European countries would have become some sort of Islamic caliphate.

What all the sheep pundits and pontificators don’t seem to understand is just because we want to believe that the United States will continue to be united, is not enough. We have to bring about some type of mutually beneficial role for government and enterprise that increases informational energetic efficiency (sort of like a genetic code) rather than allow the continual increase in chaos and noise.

There is an early twentieth century concept of the economy of scale. This really is a natural law of applied entropy. Simply stated, when things get too big, their inertia of size, ultimately brings about their collapse. You don’t here that now anywhere within the paradigm we could loosely call world leadership. Our Business Ecology principle is, “Everything eventually runs out of gas.”

The European Union was formally founded in 1993 and while its demise has only recently become a question, there is a possibility it formally might not make twenty years. The reason for that is that the German Shepherds (smart wolf-like dogs — pun intended) will get tired of herding noisy and ungrateful sheep in other EU nations. This is further enhanced by the fact that the European Union is a modernized concept of the Biblical Tower of Babel, and not just in its headquarters building.

Contrary to the wishes of Barack Obama, his progressive allies in both the Democrat and Republican parties, the horizon is probably longer for the United States, but that same entropy applies in this country as well.

I recently heard that the congressional statutes that brought Texas into the United States included provisions that they could secede or break apart into five different states. In reality while a remote possibility at this time, the concept of “Don’t mess with Texas” is not only founded in natural law, it is also found in civil law.

What is unique about the United States however is her founding documents not only recognize the reality of natural law, they too codify provisions to limit imperial growth and the governance of an empire. It has really been only a century where that founding vision has been threatened, and since World War II where these provisions have been systematically reduced. It is just since the beginning of the War on Terror that the concept of an American Empire has been openly discussed.

In the words of Robert Gibbs, "Look, our foreign policy and our country is stronger than one guy with one website . . . and we should never be afraid of one guy who plopped down $35 and bought a Web address."

However WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange doesn’t seem to think that sheep rules are for him. That means that Gibbs statement may have been made through arrogance, but also a lack of knowledge to the extent of encrypted files that Assange may possess. Rome didn’t fall in a day, but the parallels of the demise of all empires are very predictable and the United States, until quite recently, has decided to follow that road.

Human history is full of problems encountered by human sheep, walking dead, and other such synonyms used to describe people who sheepishly take for granted their human responsibilities to themselves and also to their communities.

At Wonder Springs we many times state that collapsing the system doesn’t take any effort. It will happen all on its own, without a continual redux of the energetic informational structure. This power can’t come from the tower of Babel, but only the Bible and the reliance upon the sovereignty of God’s providence.

The United States was founded upon those Biblical and natural law precepts to create a secular nation. The redux of the United States will not come about by good people doing good things, but rather people again believing that God’s grace is the sole method of empowering humans to do anything positive to make their world better.

It was the Protestant Reformation that truly began the slow adoption of western values throughout the world. The United States followed along in this provision of God’s grace to redeem mankind, not just spiritually, but also in the common or natural world. God’s grace is the reason for the existence of the United States; our sheep, like Old Testament Israel, we will again be forced to learn that lesson.

On the flip side of that coin, it was the reliance of God that began the demise of Islam through the Reformation and thereafter. It is also our desire to reject God that has led to the rise of radical Islam today. Put bluntly, Islam and Globalism are basically the theistic and the atheistic forms of a religion that looks to Babylon for its power. That power is limited by the natural laws of thermodynamics, and it takes the wisdom of wolves, not sheep, to begin to understand this future and make the proper survival adjustments.