Several years ago I began working to create a visual depiction of the grand threat facing liberty in America. The sketch was a shape that looked like a weed and its root. With study I came to learn that the shape reflected a dialectic process. Dialectic is the process of synthesis or resolution that arises out of the conflict between a thesis and an anti-thesis.

First, understand the difference between a natural dialectic and a man made or artificial dialectic. A naturally occurring dialectic arises from historical events. For instance; In 1776 King George represented the thesis in a natural dialectic. A political fusion between Agrarian, Commercial and Guild classes of Colonists constituted the anti thesis. The American Revolution was the conflict between the thesis and the antithesis and brought about the resolution – The Articles of Confederation and the perpetual Union.

An artificial dialectic is created when organized political action gradually manipulates civilization by altering understanding of history and by controlling present reality. o­ne way this can be pursued is through the use of the Fabian Society political tactics of Penetration and Permeation. Today, America and the world are being swarmed by such a manipulation. Currently this is being accomplished under a global banner called “Sustainable Development”. Yesterday, the global banner was called “Total Quality Control”, and before that….

For current discussion I will address the artificial - man made - dialectic propelling Sustainable Development. o­nce an understanding of Sustainable Development is achieved, men and women of good will can be more easily joined to restore and protect Liberty and Natural Law; mutual respect for each person’s individuality.

In another essay I will look more closely at the vision of the America experience and contrast it with Sustainable Development. From that a sketch can be drawn describing the natural dialectic of our time; the conflict between Liberty and Tyranny; Natural Law and legal positivism, the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Human Rights.