"The End Of Passion, The End Of Belief, The End Of The World" by Adam Parfrey When we entered into the Gulf War --a battle fought for the minds of television viewers as much as for Kuwaiti territory-- President George Herbert Bush welcomed us to the New World Order, the euphemism for the Supranational Corporate State. In the NWO, isms of the past are pitched into the memory hole and reconfigured as criminal beliefs. Nationalism? Corporate cartels no longer observe existing law or boundary. Political views are judged for their efficiency as conduits of international trade. Native land becomes Balkanized third world territory while the native hero is represented by billionaires like Ted Turner or George Soros, who are canonized by mass magazines for their worldwide influence and power. Racism? Negative value in a world in which corporations configure themselves as materialistic missionaries among new masses of multicultural buyers. In the era of Novus Ordo Seclorum, only a few Islamic countries adhere to old-style religion. New World Order devotionals are hawked by digital avatars who sell faith as a method by which followers can enrich themselves (e.g. Deepak Chopra, Creating Affluence and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success). Those who despair of locating a believable human shepherd subscribe to media-sponsored scriptures of angels, or aliens, or angelic aliens. In a universe where all is for sale, the dollar sign remains the sole remaining index of belief. The more dollar signs we collect behind our names the more we earn respect, even devotion. In in the novel 1984, George Orwell wrote of "Doublespeak," the state language designed to inspire fear by the evasion and confusion of meaning. In the Supranational Corporate State, language has become a tool by which true intent is disguised or disavowed. Corporate aphorisms-like "Just Do It!" --are devised to be unencumbered by common usage or distracting connotations. The tagline must encourage active behavior-such as extracting cash from one's pocket--and be instantly recognizable, a mnemonic device that imprints the conscious mind every time it hears or views the endlessly repeated mantra. New World Order ideology is Doublespeak mind control, in which ideas, meaning and belief are forgotten, overlooked or overwhelmed. An ideology deprived of ideas or ideals is most deviously manifested through culture--Pop Culture. The huzzah of entertainment provides important distraction from corporate subterfuge. Actual news stories are now written-off by ministers on the mass market payroll as "paranoia" and "conspiracy theory." Movie stars. Sports stars. Murderers. Tabloid gossip. Pop culture noise is so ever-present and overwhelming that it removes the ability of the masses to believe--let alone think about--anything. The inability to read, to contemplate, to consider, is in fact a new epidemic known as dyslogia, a disease caused by the devastating overflow of information. The supranational corporate system controls the mind so imposingly that nearly all its serfs are deprived of understanding their total immersion in the system. The doctrine is spread through trance of the everyday, battering the mind with a hyperkinetic confusion of words and images aimed at depriving the psychic slave of instinct and self-protection. Or belief. Without a sense of self and self-respect, the individual reaches for a placebo among the never-ending array of corporate products. The placebo of "entertainment" helps to forever expand the NWO icon of the $ and tether the qualitative into its service. Art police are not required in an environment which convinces the masses that the $ is their leader and sole determinant of behavior and philosophy. When Nietzsche announced the death of God, art criticism became the primary arbiter by which the value of the human species was judged. It is now obvious that those empowered to judge art, or sell art, promote the sterile and soulless as the means whereby power can be maintained and money can be made.