If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build the credibility and the authenticity of your propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you although you are his enemy. On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. By way of deception, thou shalt do war.
Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic. This kind of neo-colonialism can be even more deadly than the old administrative variety because it is far more difficult to fight. If this at first seems far-fatched, take a look at the 1987 executive order that effectively put the domestic economies of African nations into the hands of the U.S. Department of State, the Treasury Department, the military, and the Central Intelligence Agency. The signs are already there. This page is intended to help break through that confusion.