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- Subject: 3rd WORLD RESOURCES BOOKS (pt 2): Brave New World Order
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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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