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 Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian.
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I have received an e-mail from an American businessman doing business in China. With his permission, I will quote it without mentioning his name or any particulars that could identify him. Just an American businessman in China. I will call him John Doe. Period.
You can imagine how many American businessmen are doing business in China! A large number of them transfer to the ÒPeople's RepublicÓ that high technology which the dictatorship needs for the development of post-nuclear superweapons able to destroy or neutralize the Western means of retaliation on which Mutual Assured Destruction and hence peace have rested. Thus, the West will be annihilated or become a Chinese colony, a kind of North Atlantic Hong Kong.
But surely the U.S. businessmen do not want to be annihilated and they will be worse off in a Chinese colony? This enigma is solved if you live in the United States and know many Americans as they really are, and not as some of them want to see themselves as they shout on television with feeling how great America is and how ready they are to do or die for its sake. Tacitly, many Westerners are not concerned about the survival of the West, and care only for their own private lives.
On the next day after the election of Nov. 2, we learned that 40 percent of those entitled to vote had not voted. And in the election of 1996, the figure was about 50 percent! Of course, it can be said that some of those who did not vote had read John Stuart Mill's criticism of majoritarian elections and decided not to vote. But I can assure you that only several university professors in the United States have read that criticism because John Stuart is their salaried job. Many of those 40 percent or 50 percent simply do not care about who is the U.S. president or what China is doing to be able to annihilate the West without Western retaliation. This is all ÒpoliticsÓ and how on earth ÒpoliticsÓ may concern them? The word ÒpoliticianÓ is not a good word in the United States. That's it: ÒpoliticsÓ is for Òpoliticians,Ó while good folks have their own good concerns, such as money.
John Doe says in the first line of his e-mail about my Internet column: ÒI want to tell you that you have been doing a great job recently.Ó
Amazing! An American businessman in China reading my column instead of reading only stock exchange quotes and other important texts. John Doe goes on:
ÒYes, I am a businessman, but I also have a deep understanding of what is going on in the Middle Kingdom [the traditional name of China, implying that it is the center Ñ the middle Ñ of the world]. I feel I have a good pulse of the society and the government. I am worried.Ó
Such individual exceptions do, fortunately, occur. In my article of 1978 I argued that the CIA did not actually exist because intelligence/espionage vis-ˆ-vis dictatorships requires genius, not just U.S. university degrees and previous high posts. A senior CIA analyst, who was an exception (a man of genius), became a lifelong friend of mine and told me that the CIA predicament was even worse than I had described it, but he was alone in a huge pro-Soviet bureaucracy and hence powerless and afraid that he would be deprived of his pension if he said publicly that I was right.
In the second line of his e-mail, John Doe asks: ÒHow can we get you more visibility?Ó I answered him:
ÒI (and you and other like us!) are that boy in Hans Christian Andersen's tale who shouted that the Emperor has no clothes. The Òpolitically correctÓ adults conformed to the general willful blindness. The moral is that no matter how persuasive our message is, this willful blindness will remain. I have my 700-page book online. My previous book (about my life in Russia) was published by Harper & Row and received over 100 reviews, which compared me to (among others) Mark Twain, Orwell, Voltaire, and Dostoyevsky. Saul Bellow (a Nobel Prize novelist) has defined my present book as the only book that can save 'the sightless and hence doomed West.' But literary agents and publishers will not touch it with a barge pole.
ÒWhat is necessary? A top-notch publicist, able to organize publicity in mainstream TV and the mainstream press as per my future contract with him. But he costs $10,000 for four months, and I do not have the money.
ÒI co-founded in 1986 a nonprofit Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc. I could receive tax-deductible grants and donations. But grant-seeking and donations-hunting is a full-time job, and I am busy, writing my weekly column and editing my 700-page book in case a literary agent or a publisher turns up.Ó
But to return to John Doe's e-mail. He continues:
ÒPeople who come here (i.e., tourists and most business people) don't have any knowledge of the place. They see Shanghai and Beijing and are so impressed. When I tell them what goes on here [for example, 10,000 executions a year, forced labor camps, etc.], or about the real mentality of the people and their government, they cannot believe me. They think that I am crazy.Ó
Some Americans have been obsessed with the world-imperial dream. Far more Chinese are obsessed with the same dream in reverse. Instead of Òthe rotten bourgeois democracy,Ó being established in Iraq, they dream of establishment of beautiful Chinese Communism all over the world, as predicted by Marx, Lenin, and Mao, whose 110th birthday was celebrated last year.
John Doe writes:
ÒThe thing that worries me the most is the twisted view of reality and history that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] propaganda and education machine has infected its people with (even well educated ones). They feel they have been victimized by the West and the Japanese, and their sense of entitlement to take their rightful place in the world is strong. But, what does that mean? What is their rightful place in the world? That's scary because it obviously means On Top! The other thing that worries me is the youth.
ÒChinese youth in the power areas of China (on the coast) have been emboldened with this nasty sense of nationalism and feeling of entitlement that the CCP has successfully implanted over the years. This has been magnified and emboldened by their new economic success.Ó
The dictatorship and many or most Chinese, are united in their dream of Chinese global superiority.
ÒOne day we are going to read that 'We didn't know they had these capabilities for.Ê.Ê.Ê.' 'We just didn't know they could do that.' But then it will be too late. The Chinese have already told us their strategy. Deng Xiao Ping said to the Chinese that they must lay low and keep a low profile until they have the advantage, and surely that is what they are doing.Ó
But what about John Doe's business? Does he sell high technology that may be useful for post-nuclear armament? No! To his financial detriment, but Òout of principleÓ and for sake of Òthe future of the West,Ó he is engaged in Òvery low tech businessesÓ of no conceivable strategic use, and he says to me in conclusion: ÒKeep up the good work.Ó
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For more information about Drexler's Foresight Institute and its lobbying in Congress, see www.foresight.org
To learn more about the Chris Phoenix report, suggesting a Ònano Manhattan Project,Ó go to crnano.org.
For information about the Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc., including how you can help, please e-mail me at navlev@cloud9.net.
The link to my book online is www.levnavrozov.com. You can also request our webmaster@levnavrozov.com to send you by e-mail my outline of my book.
It is my pleasant duty to express gratitude to the Rev. Alan Freed, a Lutheran pastor by occupation before his retirement and a thinker by vocation, for his help in the writing of this column.
Lev Navrozov's (navlev@cloud9.net] new book is available on-line at www.levnavrozov.com. To request an outline of the book, send an e-mail to webmaster@levnavrozov.com.