Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Readers will notice that we didn't begin todays's special issue on yesterday's remarkable events with "America is attacked." America wasn't attacked. America isn't the World Trade Center, nor is it the Pentagon. At least those things don't represent our America, nor should they for our readers.

The media spin masters would have us think that those things represent America, only to encourage a misuse of our Patriotic sentiments...a misuse which has been going on for far too long and which is bound, unfortunately, only to continue as a result of yesterday's intentional plane crashes.

In the following Special Bulletin we intend to present some of our own views and reprint some very interesting articles from around the world. Numerous are the thoughts that come to mind as a result of incidents like these. Let's try to take just a few in a logical order.

Some thoughts on Sanity.

Ours is an age of insanity. What's black passes for white, what's bad passes for good, and what's ugly passes for beautiful. So what we should keep in mind as we attempt to analyse a few of the elements of today's events is that insanity is the norm, and sanity is the exception to the rule. No possibility is too outlandish in our day and age, no silliness beyond that which can and should be expected.

The first insanity is that people should live and work in buildings that are 1500 feet high. And an insanity that follows close on the heels of that one is that our degree of adjustment to that first insanity is such that instinctively our hearts are broken, our ire is provoked, and our sense of reality is replaced with a sensation of the surreal when we witness and then contemplate the complete destruction of a 110 story skyscraper.

If we lived in a sane world, the thought that 12 million people would choose to live and work on an 11 mile by 1 mile Island, piled on top of each other 1500 feet into the air, just to keep the world's financial fiction spinning and steaming and churning, just to keep the pockets of the relatively very few wealthy stuffed ever more and more to capacity while the rest of the world's men and women remain enslaved as wage-earners and deprived of the liberty of property ownership...that thought would be surreal. And a visit to Manhattan by a man who was familiar with the countryside and who knew the land and who was intimately aquainted with God's creation because he received his sustenance from the land and not from a supermarket or a vending machine...that Manhattan visit would throw him into a heart-breaking, anger-producing, surreal funk from which he could recover only by an escape back to the land.

If we lived in a sane world, the thought that thousands of people stuffed into a 1500 foot tower controlled or managed or micromanaged the fictional (and yet all-too-real in the destructive and opressive sense) financial transactions of millions upon milions of people, who never set foot on Manhattan Island let alone visit the Tower...that thought would be mystifying, mind-blowing, and dis-orienting to the common man, much as today's events were so for so many "viewers" and "listeners."

Unfortunately, in our world all these things are normal and what sends us into shock is the disruption of these silly activities and the collapse of this crazy icon of modernity. But in a sane world, assuming the tragic issue of the loss of many innocent lives could be set aside for just a moment...in a sane world, the elimination of most of the center of the world's usurious financial system would and should bring a breath of fresh air, a sigh of relief, and a hope for a better day.

But, obviously, in this, our insane world, none of those things are to be, at least not in the immediate future. Most certainly, none of them will come to pass if we allow ourselves to be mesmerized by the constant bleating of the spin doctors and mind-control experts on the evening news who will sigh and sympathize with all those who are suffering emotional shock over the destruction of, as dear Peter Jennings put it several times last night, the "icon of American Capitalism." As long as we allow our natural emotions of sympathy for the victims of the airplane crashes, a distinct and separate issue, to be mixed up with notions of defending "our way of life," we will remain unable to objectively fix what it is that is wrong with our insane world.

One thing's for sure. What's essentially (as opposed to incidentally) wrong with our insane world is not the crashing of airplanes into the World Trade Center. That is a symptom. The disease is far worse.

From the perspective of the natural law, the domination of the world by money is criminal and illicit. And the concentration of the world's real wealth (land, machines, factories and other means of production) into the hands of a few such that most are deprived of any substantial property ownership, is as criminal and as illicit.