Travels with Harley in Search of America: Motorcycles, War, Deracination, Consumer Identity by E. Michael Jones

Author:E. Michael Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fidelity Press
Published: 2011-12-06T08:00:00+00:00

Biker culture in this regard was as much a symptom of war as it was a protest against it and the invisible social engineering which followed in its wake. Biker culture was, as Wolf points out, a bohemian subculture, which means that the returning GI s had declared war on the family, marriage, and monogamy after their country had declared war on Japan. Deracination and the military had been the opening barrage in this war. In fact without real wars like World War II and Vietnam, we never would have had the culture wars of the 1960s because, as every thinker from time immemorial has known, war destroys morals.

Wars also cause revolutions. In fact, as Nisbet points out, "War is by nature revolutionary in its impact upon a people. How could it be otherwise? Its values . . . are antithetical in the extreme to the values of kinship-based society with its consecration of tradition, conventionality, and age or seniority." It was Lenin who claimed that "national wars are virtually made to be turned into revolutions."

The cultural revolution of the 1960 was no exception to this rule. The net result of three major wars within a 20 year span was all too predictable: "moral guidelines are loosened, and the line between good and bad becomes ever more indistinct." The Jacobins of the 1960s became experts "at exploiting war in the name of revolution and revolution in the name of war." Nisbet notes that it was von Clausewitz who "laid down the vital principle that modern war demands a large scale reconstruction of the society that participates in it." The net result of America's involvement in the wars of the 20th century was social engineering which changed American society into institutionalized revolution, whose main theoretical framework was the Roman law which made the Roman empire possible. According to those principles,

A sovereign defined as being not under the law but its very source, contract rooted in will or volition in place of ascribed or fixed states, and, far from least, a conception of society composed of atomlike individuals, rather than of impenetrable social groups and associations, that in fact, has proved to be the framework of modern warfare, capitalism, and nationalism.

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