While America celebrates her freedom,
a worldwide network of organizations is tearing away the very foundations
of her hard-won independence. We see signs of this transformation
in the strange new labels for education, business, government and
other institutions: OBE, STW, TQM, HMO, Third Way....What do they
have in common? How will they change our communities and affect our
lives? Are they part of a local agenda or do they point to a global
management system? Who defines the terms and sets the standards? The
answers are complex, but these true stories offer some revealing glimpses:
Schools:
A California teacher told seven-year old Sallie
to stop talking with her friends about Jesus in order to "keep [church
and state] apart" Her censure makes sense when we remember that the
"outcomes" of UNESCO's worldwide Outcome-Based
Education (OBE) system include politically correct attitudes and
values. Sallie's loyalty to the Biblical God didn't fit the new standards.
Today's systemic transformation includes rewards for schools and teachers
whose students demonstrate -- on the new student "assessments" --
that they have conformed to the beliefs and values of a global citizen.
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The church:
A Colorado mother told her pastor about her concern over multicultural
curricula and sex ed programs that introduced her son to contrary
values. But the pastor equated criticism of public schools with "politics"
and showed no sympathy. He explained that the church's new "mission"
statement didn't include "political issues" which could
offend people -- especially potential members called "consumers" by
new church managers. [2]
The workplace:
A Christian manager lost his position in an company because he refused
to renounce the Biblical absolutes behind his convictions. God's unchanging
truth didn't fit the new Total Quality Management (TQM) which emphasizes
"continual change" Contrary facts disturb the consensus process,
and God's values may offend team members who live by other standards.
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Silent and unseen half a century ago,
this social revolution grew like a stream of water below the surface
of our culture for decades. Now, at the dawn of the new millennium,
the benign current has become a malignant torrent flooding the land.
Too powerful to be ignored, it challenges us to respond before the
old pathways and guideposts are destroyed in its wake.
Those who look back can trace the silent
triumphs of a diverse army of social "change agents" loosely linked
by a common vision of a united world, social solidarity
and a global spirituality.[4] The Aquarian Conspiracy,
Marilyn Ferguson's acclaimed 1980 bestseller show the collective heartbeat
of this movement: "A leaderless but powerful network is working to
bring about radical change in the United States. Its members have
broken with certain key elements of Western thought.... This network
is the Aquarian Conspiracy.... Broader than reform, deeper than revolution,
this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has triggered the most
rapid cultural realignment in history.... The Aquarian Conspirators
range across all levels of income and education.... They are in corporations,
universities and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in
factories and doctors' offices, in state and federal agencies, on
city councils and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in
volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy-making
in the country.... They have coalesced into small groups in every
town and institution. [5] It's true. Behind the familiar structure
of our communities, new rules and systems are paving the way for a
transformation few Americans dare even consider. Respected futurists
Alvin and Heidi Toffler summarized it well in their 1994 book, Creating
a New Civilization, which includes a foreword by Newt Gingrich.
They wrote, "A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind
men everywhere are trying to suppress it. This new civilization brings
with it new family styles, changed ways of working, loving, and living,
a new economy, new political conflicts, and beyond all this an altered
consciousness as well." [6]
The Tofflers were echoing UNESCO' plans.
"The challenge to humanity," declared its 1992 Commission on Culture
and Development, "is to adopt new ways of thinking, new ways of acting,
new ways of organizing itself in society, in short, new ways of living."
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The "new ways of thinking" call for
"lifelong learning" in politically correct ideology, continual assessments
to monitor attitudes, mandatory remediation for dissenters, and non-stop
participation in "dialogue" through consensus groups. It's all part
of building the global village of peace, unity and social control.
How will the public be persuaded to
trade constitutional freedoms for an intrusive management system?
Today' media is a major player in this revolution. But some of key
strategies were planned long ago. Just encourage "sexual freedom,"
suggested Aldous Huxley-brother of Julian Huxley, the first head of
UNESCO-in Brave New World (1932). "It will help to reconcile his subjects
to the servitude which is their fate."
Huxley didn’t know God nor consider
His sovereign hand in world affairs. We do! Long ago, He warned us,
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6) Having
ignored His Word, Israel became blind to reality. But we have both
His Word and the facts needed to take our stand, follow His directions,
fight the battle by faith, and seek His gracious victory together.
