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Subject: 3rd WORLD RESOURCES BOOKS (pt 2): Brave New World Order
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:03:01 GMT
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        The following is from the quarterly magazine, THIRD WORLD
        RESOURCES: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF RESOURCES FROM AND ABOUT THE THIRD
        WORLD; subscriptions to the 24-page hardcopy edition are $35/year
        (organizations) and $35/two years (individuals). For rates outside
        North America, write to: Third World Resources, 464 19th Street,
        Oakland, CA 94612-2297 USA. See also their conference `twr.nl' on
        PeaceNet, or email to tfenton@igc.org (Tom Fenton)
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Topic 123       BOOKS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  2 of 16 
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***<BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER. MUST WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE?> Jack  
Nelson-Pallmeyer. Orbis Books, Walsh Bldg., Maryknoll, NY  
10545. 1992. xv + 176 pp. ISBN 0-88344-785-1. Notes, index. 
Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer begins his book with a quote from  
Aldous Huxley's <Brave New World> in which John--joyous over  
the prospects of "O brave new world"--provokes this response  
from Bernard: "And anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you  
actually see the new world?" 

In leading the military charge against Iraq during the Gulf  
War, the Bush administration has given us a glimpse of <his>  
version of the new world order. "This new world order,"  
Nelson-Pallmeyer contends, "is being founded on an updated  
version of manifest destiny." The updated version is cloaked  
in rhetoric about "moral duty" and peacemaking and the "hard  
work of freedom" and, yes, "kicking butt." 

Huxley's <Brave New World,> Nelson-Pallmeyer emphasizes, "is  
a chilling reminder that utopian rhetoric must always be  
carefully scrutinized." "Because an authentically new world  
order is a real need in our time," he continues, "we, like,  
John, may be too eager to embrace it without first having  
seen or experienced it." 

Nelson-Pallmeyer's dual aim in this simple to read and  
straightforward book is "to unmask the veneer of moral  
purpose surrounding the U.S.-led war in the Middle East and  
the new world order it reflects and ushers in" and to call  
Christians to begin a radical transformation of national and  
international priorities. 

<Brave New World Order> begins on a global level by exposing  
the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the  
International Monetary Fund as economic means of "sapping"  
the Third World of its riches. Subsequent chapters describe  
the social and economic decay of the United States, analyze  
"the dangers and dynamics of [the] National Security State,"  
and the U.S. military's frantic search for enemies in the  
present post-Cold War period. In Chapter six Nelson- 
Pallmeyer explains how the Gulf War closed the door on any  
possibilities for economic revitalization in the United  
States and for a new world order "in which conflicts could  
be resolved through negotiations rather than violence." 
The final two chapters of the book bring in the Gospel  
imperative to combat the idolatry of blind patriotism and  
hold up the reign of Jesus as paradigm and hope for a truly  
<new> world order. 


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