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Academia Iluministă (76)
Jiren Gray a adăugat 5 fotografii în albumul The Revolt of the Spectacular Society.
by Adam Weishaupt – Book 3/7
The Anti-Elite Series – Book 3/7:
Blurb:
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of not just communism but also of capitalism. The removal of its dialectical Cold War enemy allowed capitalism to release the brakes and bring about an enormous transfer of wealth from the ordinary people to the privileged elite. It is estimated that the richest 400 Americans are worth as much as the 150 million poorest Americans!
These figures spell doom for capitalism. The arrogance of the super rich now rivals that of the French aristocracy in 1789. The numerous stock market crashes that have occurred since 1989 have exposed capitalism as fundamentally unstable and destroyed the claims of the capitalist elite as trusted and competent stewards of the economy. Moreover, the elite have transferred to the taxpayers the debts their financial mismanagement incurred, while retaining the excessive profits they made when they were sowing the seeds of the greatest “bust” in history.
The elite traditionally control not just the economy but also how people think. To maintain their power, they have to seduce and condition the ordinary people into sharing their value system and acknowledging their wealth as legitimate rather than stolen and absurdly disproportionate. By controlling what students are taught at schools and colleges and by ensuring that the media reflects only their ideology, the elite exercise total mind control over the population.
They create a “Society of the Spectacle”, full of images of perfection, of captivating, beguiling events staged on a monumental scale. The people, entranced, worship at the cathedrals of capitalism. They are addicted to the spectacle, to the perfect lives of celebrities, royalty and the super rich.
Yet it has proved a disaster for capitalism to over promise and under deliver. People want their own taste of paradise now, but they are realising that the doors are open only to the elite. Anger, frustration and discontent are growing everywhere. All of the conditions that fostered the French Revolution are being recreated.
The Situationist International, the Dada movement, the Futurists and the Punk rockers were all revolutionary groups of the twentieth century who opposed the ruling order. Has their time come again? The Communards were Parisian revolutionaries of 1871, whose revolt was put down with ferocious violence by the authorities. Will the 21st century international brigade of Communards succeed where their spiritual predecessors failed?
What is the difference between “Catholic” and “Protestant” thinking? Do Catholics have more respect for expertise while Protestants believe themselves smarter than any experts? Does the 19th century racist, American “Know Nothing” Party sum up Protestantism?
Do capitalism, Protestantism and democracy go together, while community, Catholicism and meritocracy are a rival set of natural partners? Does a New World Order require the overthrow of the WASP – White Anglo-Saxon Protestant – political and economic model? Democracy and capitalism must be obliterated. It’s time for meritocracy and a new economy based on education not capitalist consumption as the central driver and focus. Humanity progresses through advancement of the mind and spirit, not through the acquisition of material objects.
Learn about meritocracy and why this is the inevitable, dialectical successor of democracy.
The New World Order envisioned by the Pythagorean Illuminati is one where merit and equal opportunities replace privileged elites; and meritocracy – rule by the most talented – replaces WASP democracy – rule by the manipulated puppets of the Power Elite.
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A Book Review:
“Another excellent book from a series of excellent books by the Pythagorean Illuminati. If you have any interest at all in life’s greatest mysteries you need to read all the books by the true Illuminati. You should also check out the Illuminati’swebsitewww.armageddonconsp
The three authors of these books are very talented writers who make complicated subjects understandable to everyone. I appreciate their writing style very much.
If you have heard anything about the Illuminati before it was probably from some conspiracy theorist telling you how evil the Illuminati are and how they control the world. This couldn’t be any further from the truth. The real Illuminati are an ancient secret society founded by the genius Pythagoras. Some of the greatest minds in history such as Hegel, Leibniz, Plato, Goethe, and many others have been members of the Illuminati. The goal of the Illuminati and all the people who feel an affinity towards them is to transform this world into a rational Meritocracy. If you aren’t quite sure what that is think of the society portrayed on Star Trek and you will have the basic idea. I desperately want to live in that type of world. Why are we not revolting and doing everything in our power to make that type of society a reality?
This book asks that same question. We all need to wake up and seriously consider where this world is headed if nothing is done. Protesting isn’t going to be enough. If, like me, you live in America, you live in a country that committed genocide on one race of people and enslaved another race of people. To this day we continue to oppress all of these same people and millions of others around the world. This enrages me. As Noam Chomsky points out over and over America is the true rogue state. We are the main obstacle to a functioning international society. We need to do everything in our power to stop the oppression that America causes at home and abroad. Perhaps reading this book will help us get angry enough to begin taking action. If we don’t do anything you don’t need to be a genius to figure out what is going to happen to this planet and all the species that inhabit it.” –BG
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Sexual Liberation of Society:
“I do think I’m a bit of a masochist. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s not something I noticed until recently. I think it’s common for people who witness abuse in their household. They can never smell how beautiful a rose is unless they get pricked by a thorn.” –Rihanna (fan of being spanked!)
People are continually acting out domination-submission rituals in all aspects of their lives. It’s time for this sado-masochism to be removed from the social, economic, political and psychological spheres. Instead, it should be located in the sphere of sexual play. Our sex lives should become far more ritualised and BDSM-oriented.
There are four sexual types: dominants, submissives, “switches” (who can switch between either role with equal enthusiasm – many people are in fact stuck in one role or the other so switches are quite rare) and “equals” (who are neither dominant nor submissive but who could probably play at being switches).
Radical psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich was convinced that the solution to the problems of society lay in the free flow of sexual energy. Most people have become armoured and locked in terms of their character and sexual persona. Their orgasms are either disappointing or non-existent. There’s an epidemic of frigidity, erectile dysfunction and sexual neurosis. Few people have genuinely great sex lives. Hence, in Reich’s view, there’s a huge amount of psychic tension, frustration and resentment in the world that finds neurotics and psychotic outlets. Most disturbed behaviour is caused by unsatisfactory sex lives.
Reich dreamt of a world of “orgone accumulators” that could literally bathe the world in orgasmic energy and release all of the orgasmic blocks that beset people.
We agree with Reich that the world needs far more high quality sex. Sex should be at the core of the New World Order. The religious leaders of the Old World Order have tried to demonise sex and confine it to the missionary position in the dark in the bedroom, with no noise, between married couples only. We advocate dungeons, torture chambers, orgies, black masses, sex magick, sex rituals, sky clad ceremonies, burlesque, striptease, peep shows – a whole world of sexual exploration; everything that makes Jews, Christians and Muslims apoplectic. The burqa should henceforth be turned into fetish gear for kinky dom-sub sex. Sex is a perfect weapon to kill Abrahamism. It’s time for a Reichian sexual revolution, for rivers and oceans of orgasm, for orgasm to rain from the heavens as delicious orgasmodrops that make the land bright and fertile.
Orgasm melts those dreary fanatics with long beards and strange clothes.
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Hypersex.
We’re all Kinky Now:
So, you think you’re well clued up on the state of sex in the world today? Think again. Take Britain as an example. This country is undergoing an extraordinary sexual revolution where regular sex is being replaced by a much more powerful and purer form of sex – hypersex.
Consider the following cases. On a popular Internet dating site, a beautiful 19-year-old Londoner says she’s looking for adult fun with a married man over 30. She says she ‘gets wet just thinking that he is cheating on her’ and promises to let him ‘cum all over me’ on their first date. A breathtaking 18-year-old blonde from Cumbria who describes herself as very posh says she’s seeking a black hunk, or maybe two, for an ‘intimate encounter’. A Yorkshire blonde sporting an impressive cleavage in her photo declares her exclusive interest in men in uniform: policemen, soldiers and sailors. But, she adds, traffic wardens and members of the Salvation Army need not apply.
The sex lives of these women are driven by a particular sexual peccadillo. Only partners who can satisfy it are sought. The conventional route to sex – falling in love/lust with someone for their own sake and then going to bed with them – has become redundant. Now sexual fantasy takes precedence over romance.
The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, the champion of the concept of the hyperreal (the ‘more real than real’), put forward a persuasive case that the modern world is groaning under fakeness, artificiality and simulation, to the extent that these have become more representative of our real experiences nowadays than reality itself.
Why is a TV show like Friends so popular? For Baudrillard, the reason is that this programme presents a simulated, idealised, hyperreal account of friendship that’s vastly more appealing than the messy friendships we actually have. Viewers start to relate more to Rachel, Joey, Chandler etc and to take more interest in their fake lives and dramas than they do in the real lives of their real friends. The same is true of the protagonists of soap operas, dramas, Reality TV and so on. If Baudrillard is right then the prefix ‘hyper’ can be attached to every human activity. Islamic and Christian fundamentalism become examples of hyperreligion where people start to adopt a preposterously idealised and inflexible view of their beliefs, rendering compromise impossible. Self-immolation, as the final expression of the ideal, becomes practically mandatory.
The Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui, went out in a blaze of hyperviolence, leaving tapes to immortalise himself that he would never see. The wealthy are more and more the hyperwealthy, demanding greater and greater rewards for their increasingly nebulous talents, and engaging in hyperspending to flaunt their riches. The overweight aren’t just fat these days, they’re hyperfat (“morbidly obsess”). Supermodels are hyperbeautiful. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt aren’t merely famous, they’re hypercelebrities. We’re drowning in a hypersea of impossible ideals and fantasy lives, and everyone craves their share of hyper experiences for fear, ironically, of missing out on ‘real’ life. Enter hypersex, the one supremely potent arena where most people can hope to get a slice of the action.
Baudrillard describes an extraordinary sexual event that he witnessed in Japan: ‘Prostitutes, their thighs open, sitting on the edge of a platform, Japanese workers in their shirt-sleeves (it is a popular spectacle), permitted to shove their noses up to their eyeballs within the woman’s vagina in order to see, to see better – but what?’ Incredibly, he has missed the whole point. Seeing ‘something’ isn’t the issue for these Japanese men. What could be more hypersexual than to pop out from work at lunchtime, and within minutes to have your head lodged between a beautiful model’s glistening thighs and be pressed right up against her pudendum, smelling her perfume, feeling the embrace of her flesh, in intimate contact with the most intimate part of her body. It’s hypersex overload, a bombardment of all the senses and requires no further explanation or justification. If you don’t “get it”, your libido’s obviously shot.
In the jaw-droppingly bizarre TV show Sex in Court, a woman is found “guilty” of not giving her fiancé oral sex and is ordered to attend a course on fellatio. The “jurors” were obsessed with the concept of reciprocity. If he licked her, they asserted, she should suck him. None of them considered the precedent they were setting: that a woman should be “persuaded” to perform sexual acts abhorrent to her. This is just one step from advocating that she should be pressured to have sexual intercourse against her will.
In the “newspaper” The Sunday Sport, a parade of glamour models were asked to comment on whether they enjoyed “bum fun”. Two teenagers were interviewed by the paper and allegedly claimed they were Britain’s biggest “slappers”, had slept with hundreds of “lads” and particularly enjoyed gangbangs and “roastings”. On an online dating, a brand new profile appeared on one of the sites, posted by a beautiful brunette (37, and a mother) from the North East of England. She said she was in an unhappy, sexless marriage and, rightly or wrongly, she was now seeking adult fun. Within twenty-four hours, fifty-five men had listed her as one of their favourites and many had rated her photograph as ten out of ten. In all probability, she received scores of offers of casual sex. Many would be from weirdos and desperadoes, of course, but no doubt a few were from hunky, desirable men. Imagine this woman’s state of mind. One minute she felt like an unwanted frump, the next she was being treated as a goddess by a legion of slavering men. She had opened the door to the hyperreal and, above all, to hypersex.
Soon, she was online constantly, no doubt addicted to the cyber veneration she was receiving. The number of men who rated her as a favourite continued to grow, soon passing one hundred. So, go on ladies, if you’re feeling a bit unloved and in need of an ego massage, post an attractive picture of yourself on a dating site, declare that you’re actively seeking adult fun and within minutes your inbox will be deluged with messages from men begging you to sleep with them. The script for how the brunette’s online sexscapade would inevitably play out was written long ago. She would meet several men for casual sex, her behaviour would alter radically, and even her inattentive husband wouldn’t fail to notice. Arguments would erupt, the truth would come out in the midst of one blazing row, and in six months’ time she would be separated from her husband, and awaiting divorce. She would join the ranks of single mothers, and she and her ex-husband would be searching for separate homes, thus doing their bit to fuel the housing boom. Such is the relentless logic of hypersex.
Of course, most postings on dating sites still belong to “old-world” sex. Dinosaur women still provide ridiculous lists of the qualities they demand from prospective partners. Their musings reflect the tedious Mills and Boon/Pride and Prejudice mindset to which so many women seem bonded. One declares that her ideal first date would be “walking hand-in-hand on a deserted beach in the moonlight listening to the waves.” Contrast this with the hypersex posting of a 28-year-old Merseysider who listed her interests as: “sex sex sex blow jobs pussy lickin anal.” Sensational semi-nude photos accompanied her profile. She said of herself: “hay guys u can see what am intrested in so come and get me i like to **** as much as i can been caled a slut in the past but hay i like sex i do do come on message me xxxxxxxxxxx.” Her ideal first date would be: “drinks then some of the above…”
There’s simply no debate about which of these two will attract more male attention. Hypersex always wins, so when are the dinosaurs going to get with the programme? Another beauty, a Scottish stripper, said in relation to a prospective first date: “no date just sex.” This could easily be the motto of hypersex. She said of herself: “hi i am a single woman looking for a man for no strings attached sex i like trying new things like loads of kinky sex mmmmmmmmm if u think ur brave enough leave me a message if not **** off.”
An Ann Summers’ “sex shop” prominently displayed an eyecatching nun’s outfit, given a suitably hypersex spin, of course (i.e. you would never catch a real nun wearing one). Perhaps it won’t be long until hijabs, niqabs and burqas are similarly fetishised. Think of the irony; the very items of clothing designed to protect a woman’s modesty will be transformed by hypersex into the precise opposite – the quintessence of immodesty. What will those who wear these garments do if they discover that nymphets using the self-same garments as fantasy-sex aids populate bedrooms all over the country? The power of hypersex is unstoppable, sweeping aside all obstacles and all religious taboos.
The “dogging” (outdoor casual sex with strangers, often in group situations and with spectators) and swinging industries continue to grow apace, and activities like bukkake (best not to ask!) are increasing in popularity. Then there’s the well-known phenomenon of old romances being re-ignited by sites like Friends Reunited, often fatally undermining current marriages.
The stark truth is that the sexual terrain of Britain has changed beyond recognition. People can indulge their sexual fetishes as never before. Hardcore porn, catering for every conceivable taste, is easily accessible on the Internet. Homes are awash with R18 adult DVDs and a plethora of sex toys (women are addicted to Rampant Rabbit!). Conventional relationships can’t keep up and no longer accommodate people’s sexual natures. Hypersex is here to stay, and it’s time society faced up to the revolution that’s occurring in bedrooms all over the country.
All debates about sex, drugs, education, marriage, the family etc ought to be viewed through the prism of hyperreality. The tragedy is that no politicians, no policy-makers, no Think Tanks, no opinion formers, are philosophically literate, and they certainly haven’t heard of Baudrillard. They continue to churn out their ancient nostrums, their “solutions” to the problems of an old world that no longer exists. They haven’t begun to comprehend the nature of the new paradigm we have all entered.
The logic of hyperreality has chilling consequences. Increasing polarisation is inevitable. The gap between rich and poor will widen. Eventually there will be a violent standoff between the hyperrich and the hyperpoor. The hypereducated will soon be like a different species to the hyperuneducated. The hyperreligious will come into open conflict with the hypersecular. Hypercelebrities will bestride the world like Olympian gods, and sprinkle hyperdepression in their wake as all the rest of us look on and know that our lives will never match these dream existences. Hyperdrugs will wreak havoc; hypersex will destroy the traditional family. Computer-generated hyper-virtualreality will further erode any sense of what is real. People will live in online fantasy worlds such as those provided by Second Life.
Britain has been declared the worst place in the advanced world in which to bring up a child. Not a single commentator observed that hyperreality is the true cause of this catastrophe. The British, with their poisonous hypertabloid newspapers, their hyperdisdain for intellectuals, their enslavement to hypercelebrity and hyperreality TV, their slavish devotion to fairytale hyperroyalty, their hyperconsumerism, hyperobsession with house prices and propensity for weekend hyperbingeing on alcohol have created a hyperhell. They are the hyperdamned.
When will the world face facts? We’re all kinky now, our excesses are out of control and are destroying us. Sure there are medicines – hypermedicines – but they’ll make us feel hypersick before they make us better, and none of us has the stomach for that. It’s time for a hyperreality check.
From the book Hypersex by Adam Weishaupt (coming soon).
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Trouble in the Promised Land:
“The fight to make a living even for people who have a decent job creates a lot of side effects. People are bitter and angry in a country that is rich but the people are poor.” –Shai Dagan
People are starting to talk of an Israeli Summer following the Arab Spring. It’s said that 90% of the Israeli population are discontented with the direction of their country. While a few Israelis are fabulously rich, the average take-home salary is £18,350. The people are now beginning to perceive that they themselves are in a sense victims of a dictatorship – not of the Arab kind but of the plutocratic kind. Israel’s economy, like that of America, is a plutonomy – it’s for the rich and driven by the rich.
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An old Jewish joke – “If you have three Jews in a room, you’ll get four opinions.” Don’t they mean six given that all Jews are two-faced? When will Jews do the decent thing and renounce and denounce their Devil-God, abandon circumcision and declare that they are not the Chosen People?
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Is Sarah Palin an Illuminist?:
Sarah Palin recently denounced “crony capitalism” and America’s “permanent political class.” All we need now is for her to pronounce community superior to family and to proclaim the God of Abraham the Devil and we could be giving the hockey mom a call. Then again, she would need an intellect transplant to raise her IQ by about 100 points before that could ever happen.
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The Psychological Experiments that should terrify everyone:
PEOPLE ARE DELUDED ABOUT THEMSELVES. One subject that has ruthlessly exposed the ugly truths of human beings is psychology. A series of notorious experiments should be etched permanently on people’s minds to remind them of what they really are. These experiments touch on every aspect of the human condition and reveal why human history has taken the shape it has, and why people believe and act as they do.
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The Obedience Experiment:
The infamous Stanley Milgram experiment proved that two thirds of human beings, under the direction an authority figure in a white coat, would be prepared to administer a fatal electric shock to another person who had failed to answer questions correctly. Milgram and others guessed that perhaps only 1% – psychopaths – would deliver the lethal shock. In fact, two out of three of us will do it. And now we know why the Germans who worked in the death camps did what they did. And we know that two thirds of us who express our revulsion for the Nazis would do exactly the same as the Nazis did if we were ordered to (particularly, if we had been indoctrinated to hate a certain group of people and if we were told we would be executed if we disobeyed the orders).
When you consider the Nazis, don’t regard them as “Other”, regard them as “Us”. Scratch the surface and we are all Nazis underneath, none more so than the Jews themselves as their Bible proves conclusively and as their conduct in the West Bank and Gaza Strip demonstrates.
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The Conformity Experiment:
American social psychologist Solomon Asch showed in the 1950s that at least a third of us are conformist to an extreme degree. Conformists crave the approval of others and are terrified of straying from the consensus. They are the perfect victims of peer group pressure.
Asch’s experiment involved nothing more elaborate than straight lines of different sizes drawn on pieces of card. The subjects of the experiment had to compare the cards and say which line was longer, and the answer was always entirely obvious. The catch was that each subject was sitting amongst a group of what he thought were follow subjects but who were actually stooges working for Asch and who were under instructions to confidently say that line A was longer than line B even though this was patently false. Rather than disagree with the group opinion, one third of the test subjects chose to agree that A was longer, contrary to the blatant evidence of their own eyes. Many others were extremely uncomfortable when it came to contradicting the others. This is a perfect test of “other-directedness” – the tendency to let others shape your behaviour.
Asch’s experiment was extreme. A less blatant version of the experiment would have raised the proportion of other-directed individuals to even higher levels. Most people like to think of themselves as “individuals”. They’re not – they’re members of groups and they are excessively susceptible to group think.
Advertisers, marketeers, politicians, religious leaders and opinion formers are cynically aware of the extent to which people should be treated as groups rather than individuals, thus massively simplifying the opportunity to manipulate and exploit them. Once a tipping point is reached within a group dynamic, the whole group rapidly adopts the same opinion. Look at the rise of Islam. In its earliest years, most people easily resisted Islam (in fact for the first thirteen years of Islam there were only 100 – 150 Muslims), but Mohammed managed to produce an extremely strong group identity amongst his followers and they didn’t buckle under the pressure. Indeed, it was their minority group that then began to sway the less strong-minded and less cohesive majority group and, when the tipping point was reached, the majority came across almost as one to join Islam. It might have been expected that many would have held out against this strange new semi-Jewish religion of monotheism, but they didn’t. Soon, that entire part of the world was fanatically Islamic and has remained so to the present day, and continues to convert many others in Third World countries.
This shows how a small group with an extremely strong identity can overpower much larger groups with a less established identity. People are desperate to have an identity and the group that can offer the most solid identity always wins. That’s why crazy religions have been so successful. Why did Christianity defeat the Roman Empire? – because the identity of the Romans became fragmented. The Empire was vast and, by the end, all sorts of barbarian tribes were classed as Roman citizens. They often had extremely little in common, and subscribed to radically different cultural and religious beliefs. They had precious little in common with Rome. The Christians on the other hand were a fanatically cohesive group, willing to die for their beliefs. Where others were full of doubts and fears, the Christians had absolute conviction. Their victory thus assured. The fanatics always win.
In 146 BCE, long before Christianity cursed the world, the Romans destroyed the city of Carthage, killed or enslaved the entire Carthaginian population and practically erased all traces of Carthage’s existence. Cato the Elder’s insistent demand of “Delenda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed) was carried out to the latter, though he himself was not there to see it, having died three years earlier.
If Christianity had come up against the Romans of Cato’s era, every one of them would have been crucified. Christianity would have been exterminated. The Roman identity of Cato’s era was easily the match for Christianity. The Romans of that time had a monumentally powerful identity and will, as any conquering nation must in order to create a great empire. They would have recognised the danger of Christianity and dealt with it. By the time of Rome’s decline, the Romans no longer had the will or identity to resist and they were at the mercy of Christianity.
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Chinese Whispers – the inevitable erosion of meaning:
British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett working at Cambridge University during the First World War was inspired by a game of Chinese Whispers to see what would happen when people were asked to repeat an unfamiliar story they had just read. What he discovered was that people change the story to fit their existing knowledge, and it’s the revised story that they then remember, and often it has little relationship with the original story.
Bartlett proposed that people operate within a ‘schema’ – a cultural, historical and intellectual framework in which to place and organize their memories. Everyone applies a particular personal context to things that happen to them and it’s not an event per se that they remember but the event intertwined with this context which they have placed over it but which had absolutely nothing to do with the event itself. This has serious implications for such things as eyewitness testimony and false memory syndrome. A court is expecting a person to accurately report what they observed, not to embroider it with a schema that completely changes the raw data.
False memory syndrome can be caused by an invalid and distorting schema being applied to a certain event. The schema “memory” is then remembered rather than what actually took place. A religious person, for example, may refuse to believe that they have behaved in an unholy way, and, with the help of their constructed religious schema, they will reinterpret whatever took place to ensure that their behaviour was consistent with their schema i.e. they make up a story that suits their own beliefs about how they conduct themselves. Such people are lying through their teeth but genuinely believe they are being truthful. They would pass a lie detector test. People who lie to themselves and believe their own lies can fool anyone. After all, they fooled themselves.
If you were working on artificial intelligence, would you apply a schema memory to an android or get it to report exactly what it observed? If you did the latter, you would have made it radically inhuman. If you did the former, you would make it extremely unreliable – just like real humans!
We think Bartlett’s work has even broader significance. It affects everything – humans do nothing but apply schemas. Abrahamists apply an Abrahamist schema to all of their experiences. They are looking for ways to validate their belief system, and reject anything that casts doubts on their beliefs. In other words, schemas are like “rose-tinted spectacles”. They make you see everything in a certain way and you become blind to anything you don’t want to see. We’ll say that again – you BLIND yourself to what you don’t want to see.
Why are so many lovers fooled by the infidelity of their partners? It’s not that they don’t see what’s going on. They certainly do. However, they then apply a schema which removes their suspicions and they go on living in blissful ignorance. It’s a brilliant ego defence mechanism. Who wants the truth? For most people, the truth is unbearable so they devise ways to ignore it.
Another crucial consequence of schemas is that they shape the way in which you understand something. If you read our website for a second time, you will have a radically different understanding of the material from that which you gained on first reading. The reason for that is that the very process of reading all of that material has changed your schema for understanding it. With anything complex, you often have to read it numerous times to get anywhere near understanding it properly. But people don’t have time to keep re-reading things, so most people go around with a schema for what such and such a thinker supposedly said, but which is often hopelessly wrong. We can tell from the emails we receive that some people get what we’re saying almost spot on, while others have invented their own version of what we’re saying that we can’t recognise at all – in fact sometimes it’s the precise opposite of our message!
You can’t teach someone more than they know. What they know is their schema. An Abrahamist couldn’t hope to understand Illumination. Their Abrahamic schema would make the task impossible. To learn, you must be highly rational and open minded, able to keep adjusting your schema. If you are locked into a dogmatic schema, you can’t learn. It’s almost impossible to teach Muslims anything because they are locked into the Koranic schema which shuts down all open and honest thinking.
You grow in knowledge to the extent that you can alter your knowledge schema. What we have discovered is that once a person exceeds a certain level of knowledge, their schema becomes almost infinitely flexible. This means that they can learn new things at an astronomical rate and grasp an author’s intentions immediately. It’s as if they are able to apply the schema that the author himself applied. Whereas most people have to wait for new knowledge to slowly penetrate an existing schema (this is what “learning” means), a really smart person grasps meaning instantly i.e. learns on the spot. They thus acquire knowledge and understanding at a dizzying rate.
Just as money goes to money (i.e. the rich get richer) so does intelligence go to intelligence i.e. the smart get smarter. A “genius” is a person who has passed the tipping point of acquiring new knowledge. He learns new things effortlessly, as soon as he hears them or reads them. He instantly forms creative new connections with his existing knowledge base, and new ideas spill out an astonishing rate. A genius becomes a kind of God in their field of expertise. He understands it inside out. While others are plodding along in the slow lane, the genius is on the fastest autobahn in the world with no other traffic, and his foot is pressing on the accelerator ever more heavily. He’s heading for escape velocity – into areas beyond all existing human knowledge. And that’s the precise definition of a genius – someone who thinks what no other human has ever thought or imagined. In his area of expertise, a genius is smarter than the whole human race. He’s smarter than seven billion people! He’s smarter than everyone who has ever lived. Can you even begin to conceive how smart that is? Could God himself know more?
But for those following in the genius’s wake, it’s as if they’re trying to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. They’re desperately trying to adjust their schema to his, but for most it will take a hell of a long time, if indeed ever. Even today, most people have ZERO idea of what Einstein achieved.
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Man’s inhumanity to man:
In the shocking Stanford Prison experiment in 1971, Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building to study the psychological effects of being assigned the role of prisoner or prison guard. Twenty-four students were randomly assigned roles in the prison. To the amazement of Zimbardo, the students playing the prison guards quickly adopted extreme authoritarian personas and subjected some of the more troublesome prisoners to torture! As for the prisoners, most became highly passive and suggestible. They meekly accepted physical abuse, and even attacked each other at the instigation of the guards. The experiment grew so out of hand that it had to be stopped after six days. Decades later, Zimbardo gave expert testimony on behalf of one of the soldiers accused of abuse in the Abu Ghraib scandal since it was all horrifically familiar to him.
It appears that the situations people are placed in and the roles assigned to them can turn them into monsters or pathetic victims. Once again, we see a psychological defence for the actions of the Nazis in the death camps. Simply to be a guard in such a place is almost to guarantee that you will become a monster. If liberal Stanford students could abuse fellow students within hours, what would Nazis do to Jews they were raised to despise?
Yet the Stanford experiment perhaps goes much further than just the prison situation. What about police brutality? Why are police so uniformly appalling in every part of the world? What about managers in offices? Why do so many seem like little Hitlers? To give a uniform to a person or to place them in a position of authority often seems to release an inner monster. It’s as though they have been given official permission to become mini-tyrants.
And perhaps the concept of PERMISSION is the true meaning of the experiment. You don’t in fact need a uniform and you don’t need official authority. Look at the rioters and looters in the UK. Some of them behaved appallingly towards anyone who got in their way. One man was actually killed for standing up to them. Many people were burned out of their homes. Did the fact that so many people were involved give all of the participants the notion that they had group permission for what they were doing? If a person believes himself to have permission, does he lose all personal accountability? Does he think he can get away with anything?
The people at the top of banks and businesses seem to lose all sense of restraint. They believe they can do whatever they like. The law has granted them permission. They are masters of the universe. They are untouchable. And thus they become psychopaths.
Richard Nixon thought he could get away with anything in the White House. Why wouldn’t he think that? He had killed endless thousands in illegal bombing missions in South-East Asia during the Vietnam War. Did anyone stop him?
If you have no internal moral compass, do you have any limits?
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The Bystander Effect:
In New York in 1964, a young woman was savagely killed in front of 38 witnesses. None made any attempt to intervene and none called for help. This has been labelled the “Bystander Effect”. If there are many people present, each person thinks that someone else will do something, so in the end no one does anything. No one sees it as their job to get involved. No one wants to endanger themselves. And thus criminals can do whatever they like in broad daylight and stand a good chance of getting away with it.
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The Fake Patients:
Between 1969 and 1972, clinical psychologist David Rosenhan arranged for eight psychiatrically healthy individuals (three women and five men, including himself) to have themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals around the United States. They each presented with a single symptom: that they were hearing a voice which said things like “empty”, “dull” and “thud”. They had been instructed beforehand by Rosenhan to act completely normally once admitted. Despite the fact that they were all completely sane, they were detained for periods as long as eight weeks. Seven were given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, which was said to have gone into “remission”. None of them were told they were sane. All were forced to admit to being mentally ill even though they had said they were now feeling fine and had stopped hearing voices. As a condition of their release, they had to agree to take antipsychotic drugs.
After Rosenhan’s revelations, one of the institutions exposed by him challenged him to send new “pseudo-patients” and said it would detect them all. In the following weeks, 193 new patients were admitted and of these 41 ordinary patients were identified by clinical consultants as “impostors” and 42 more were suspected of being impostors. Rosenhan then devastatingly announced that he had in fact sent no one.
Rosenhan’s paper on the scandal appeared in Science in1973 and was called “On Being Sane in Insane Places”. It dealt a devastating blow to the psychiatric profession, suggesting that they were not merely diagnostically incompetent but actually a serious danger to their patients. Rosenhan concluded, “It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals.”
It was also apparent that once a certain label had been applied to a patient, it was almost impossible to escape this label, no matter how wrong it was. Moreover, there was a huge element of dehumanization involved. Patients’ opinions about their own condition were completely ignored. They were regarded as unreliable witnesses. Their protestations of sanity were frequently taken as deliberate attempts to deceive the psychiatrists and further proof of their mental illness. This was classic Catch 22 territory. In order to get out, a sane person had to agree he was mad, but if he admitted he was mad then he had provided justification for keeping him in. The successful strategy for being released was to completely agree with the psychiatrist’s opinion regarding your condition. If you agreed with him that you were a schizophrenic in remission, and that you would take your drugs, then he would let you go. If you told the truth that there was nothing wrong with you, that you felt fine and didn’t need any drugs then you would be detained.
When he was first admitted to the psychiatric ward, Rosenhan noted: “Minimal attention was paid to my presence, as if I hardly existed.” So, psychiatric wards go a long way to making sane people mad, or mad people much madder.
Is it not truly shocking that normal people are not detectably sane in the opinion of the so- called experts on the subject? Does that mean we’re all mad, or that psychiatrists are mad?
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To Choose or not to Choose:
In 1976, Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin conducted an important study in a New England nursing home called Arden House. The experiment was simply to investigate what would happen to the residents of two different floors of the House if they were allowed slightly more or less control over their lives. The residents of both floors were given plants and film shows, but whereas those on one floor got no say over their plant and how to tend it or when to view the film, those on the other could choose the plant and look after it themselves, and also choose which night of the week to watch the film. Eighteen months later, twice as many of those in the “choice group” were alive compared with the non-choice group. Taking control of your life, it seems, makes you live longer.
If you passively wait for things to happen, as most people do, you are already dying inside. You must be active in life, taking the initiative, choosing your path through life.
The rich elite are always on the front foot and they live much longer on average than the passive hordes waiting for their lives to be decided for them. People learn to be helpless and prove extremely good at it – so good they die earlier!
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. LIVE LONGER! If you don’t control the agenda, someone else will, and not to your advantage. Control the agenda or it will control you.
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Learning to see:
Vision is astonishingly complex. Most people think of an eye as much like a camera, taking objective pictures that some kind of “inner viewer” then “sees”. But the case of a blind man who recovered his sight tells a disturbingly different tale.
Born in 1906, Sidney Bradford lost his sight at 10 months old. Corneal grafts restored it at the age of 52. Sadly, he found the rediscovered world a confusing and disappointing place and died just two years later.
Studies on blind people who have had their sight restored indicate that we “learn” to see. Our visual system operates nothing like a camera. If it did, a blind person who regains his sight should immediately see exactly like a normal person. It would be as if we had cleaned dirt off the lens of the camera. But blind people with restored sight have no idea what they’re seeing. They have to be taught.
Our visual system is more like a self-learning camera that is continually adjusting itself to make sense of what it is being pointed at. It is the product of a complex accumulation of visual knowledge. A blind person who has not undergone that process is presented with an incomprehensible array of unidentified shapes. He can’t make any sense of what he’s seeing. Perhaps the baffling visual distortions that accompany an LSD trip give some indication of how it must seem for a blind person to suddenly see again.
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The Benefits of Patience:
In 1968, the psychologist Walter Mischel wrote a seminal book called Personality and Assessment. Curious about the way his own three daughters were highly impulsive at age 3 and much less so a year or two later, Mischel constructed an experiment in delayed gratification at the Bing Nursery at Stanford University.
The experiment was simple. Hundreds of 4-year-old children were asked to decide whether to have one marshmallow right now, or wait a while and get two. By chance, Mischel discovered an amazing fact. Those children who waited to get the two marshmallows were much less likely to drop out of college, use cocaine, get fat or end up in prison. The kids who just couldn’t hang on and grabbed the marshmallow asap tended to have considerably less good outcomes.
Nearly everything worthwhile in life comes from a core of disciplined behaviour. A star student is someone who can apply self-discipline when it comes to his studies. All hard work involves deferred gratification. Alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity, crime and getting into debt are all manifestations of instant gratification. You have to have something NOW. You can’t wait another moment. And if you can’t wait, you inevitably fail in life.
With the marshmallow test, we could literally identify all of the future problem people at 4 years old! We could then take remedial measures to stop them screwing up their lives. We could condition them to become much more disciplined. We would save tens of millions from lives of dismal failure brought on by their addiction to instant gratification. Sadly, capitalism is an economic system based on instant gratification and panders to everything that is worst in people.
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Group Think:
Henri Tajfel, a Professor of Social Psychology at Bristol University, developed a series of experiments known as the Minimal Group Studies. He was seeking to establish the minimum basis on which people could be made to identify with their own group and show bias against another group. In 1971, boys at a comprehensive school viewed abstract paintings by Klee and Kandinsky and were then assigned to the “Klee” group or the “Kandinsky” group. The assignments were entirely at random although the impression was given that the boys had indicated a preference for the group they were put in. Even though the boys didn’t know who else was allocated to their group, whenever they were offered the chance to award “points” to anonymous members of the Klee or Kandinsky group, they always gave more to “their” group. So even though the boys neither knew who was in their group nor who was in the other group, the mere fact of being assigned to a group made them start to prefer that group and see the other group as “different” and somehow as the enemy. The boys always sought to advance the interests of their group and penalise the other group, even though they had no idea who was who.
We almost instantly identify with a group. Group identity is astonishingly powerful and we can see its power in all areas of life: sexism, racism, nationalism, classism and religious bigotry. It’s always “them and us”. “We” are the good guys and “they” are other, different, strange, the enemy.
Patriotism and religious extremism are designed to milk group identity to the full. It’s easy to treat others badly once they are exposed as “them”.
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Unreliable Witnesses:
Elizabeth Loftus is famous for her experiments showing that memory does not provide an accurate record but is in fact influenced by what happens after a witnessed event. It’s as if the memory is a kind of unstable clay mould and, before it gets the chance to set, it can be heavily influenced by subsequent events. The “memory” that eventually gets stored is massively contaminated by everything that happened afterwards (which had nothing at all to do with what was actually witnessed). Questions by police can change the way an event is remembered. If they suggest something, their suggestion can easily become part of the memory. If some piece of information is shown to the witness – such as a colour, a piece of clothing or whatever, that information is incorporated into the memory.
What this means is that witnesses are extremely unreliable. Their memories can be reconstituted as a result of post-event experiences. Just as police are expected not to contaminate crime scenes, nor should witnesses have their memories contaminated if they are to be in any way reliable.
Loftus went on to show that just as a memory can be reconstituted by suggestions and information coming after the witnessed event, so can the same mechanism be used to implant a whole false memory. She demonstrated that 30% of subjects could be given specific information in the present day that then resurfaced as part of a false childhood memory.
Memory is astonishingly and alarmingly fluid. Many people may be capable of inventing entirely fake versions of things that happened to them. They can forget terrible things they did and invent a new scenario in which they did nothing wrong. Many religious people simply ignore their endless sins and imagine themselves paragons of virtue.
As usual, Nietzsche got there first: “People lie unspeakably often, but afterwards they do not remember it and on the whole do not believe it.” In other words, people continually create false memories of their own conduct. They would be genuinely astonished if you accused them of lying.
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Shouldn’t all of these experiments be well known? Why are they stuck firmly in academic circles? Most people believe utter bullshit about themselves and others. They have no idea just how flawed, fallible, vulnerable, manipulable and exploitable most people are, including themselves.
Isn’t it time to take the radical step of telling people the truth about themselves? The truth will set us free!
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The Book of Pho’:
Look out for The Book of Pho’ – published by Hyperreality Books – coming out soon.
Visionary hip hop artist Pho’ is now the Movement’s BAD BOY. Is he angel or demon? Is he a sinister Nation of Islam infiltrator forcing women to wear burqas? Is he riding two horses with only one saddle? Will he fall off? Is he a “Smurf in a Gargamel cloak” (as the Inquisition labelled him)? Is he actually an Illuminatus? Is he “A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma”? Man of Mystery, Pho’ will reveal all. It’s the publishing sensation of the decade. His book blows open the conspiracy.
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Academia Iluministă (74)
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of “Adam Weishaupt” – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.
The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the “Demiurge”; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.
If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his “Chosen People”, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the “God of All” entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the “Original Sin” of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s “son”, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.
Of course, the Chosen People of “God” have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan? Remember that this same “God” ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical “believers”.
Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.
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Quotations:
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” –Oscar Wilde
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.” –Oscar Wilde
“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.” –Aristotle
“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.” –Plato
“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.” –Thomas A. Edison
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure; all crime in the end is the crime of the community.” –H. G. Wells
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Charles Fourier:
THE ILLUMINATI ARE inextricably linked with the concept of a “New World Order”, and our enemies claim we have a supremely sinister vision of what the future world should look like. Well, judge for yourselves.
To create any new society, it’s essential to understand what has gone wrong with existing society. The functional unit of contemporary society is the family, so the family must be the focus of any attempt to change the world.
Can the family be said to have provided a successful foundation for our social relations? Do you feel that other families are on your side or are in some sense your enemy? Some families have proved phenomenally successful, while many more have failed dismally and most simply muddle along on the slow lane of mediocrity. Why should the family be celebrated as something magnificent when, according to any objective analysis, it is largely a failure? We live in a world that promotes freedom and choice. So shouldn’t society provide an alternative to the family and give everyone a meaningful choice? Instead of living in isolated, anti-social little boxes (houses), many families could be brought together to live in planned communities, where the presence of many people can dilute the eccentricities and neuroses that dominate so many households.
Psychological profiling could be used to match families that are likely to work together in harmony and friendship within a community environment of solidarity and mutual support. The concept of community has never been taken seriously by any government, and never given the opportunity to prove its viability. Yet the theory of community has been studied by many great thinkers, none more so than Frenchman Charles Fourier (1772 – 1837), a philosopher and utopian socialist, notable for having coined the word feminism. The Communards of the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871 were greatly influenced by his persuasive advocacy of the importance of community. Can his radical ideas be brushed off and applied in the contemporary world to move us all away from the dog-eat-dog family model of society, where families engage in a vicious, competitive struggle for resources, to a harmonious and cooperative community model of psychologically matched families working together for the common good?
Fourier was insistent that cooperation was the secret of a healthy society and would enormously improve the productivity levels of workers, each of whom would be rewarded in direct proportion to their contribution (i.e. hard work would be incentivised).
Fourier, inspired by the phalanx – the basic military formation of the ancient Greeks that relied on cooperation and coordination of the soldiers who had to move as a disciplined whole if they wished to secure victory – applied this name to the new communitarian entity that he wished to be the basic unit of society rather than the family. “Phalanxes” would be housed in huge, beautiful buildings called Phalanstères that were like grand hotels.
These buildings were envisaged as having four floors, with the most talented occupying the top floor and the least the ground floor. Relative wealth was determined by your job, which was assigned on the basis of merit, interest and dedication. Also, unpopular, unpleasant jobs that no one wanted to do attracted higher pay.
Fourier regarded “trade” as Jewish and Jews as the “source of all evil”. He advocated that they be forced to perform farm work in the Phalanstères. He asserted that poverty was the cause of most of the ills of society, hence there must be a decent minimum wage for everyone, including those unable to work. This is perhaps the first appearance of the “basic income” doctrine – everyone in society should have a guaranteed amount of money to live on – although it was assumed that anyone who could work would work and no one would choose to opt out and simply take the money (if they were neither ill nor unemployed against their will).
Fourier wanted to liberate everyone – every man, woman, and child – and he regarded liberation as having two primary aspects: intelligence, nourished by education, and joy, nourished by the healthy expression of human passion. Everywhere, he saw intelligence and joy under attack. Education for the vast majority of people remained rudimentary and religion continually constrained all joyful activities. Work also undermined joy, so he wanted to crack the secret of turning work into play.
People who love what they do will invest far more time and care into it than those who hate their work. They will do a far better job and be enormously more productive. They will feel fulfilled, contented, at one with their work. The most depressing thing is to be alienated from how you spend your time because that’s what constitutes your life. To love life, you must love how you spend your time, and you never will if you’re trapped in a job you hate and you’re only doing it because you have no alternative. That makes you a slave, and there’s nothing worse than that. People and work must be harmonised. The State should find what people like doing and give them jobs that involve that activity, in the company of others who enjoy it too. Work should be the centrepiece of a joyful life, not the thing from which people flee.
Most people spend their lives dreaming of their free time and of the “weekend” when work mercifully stops for 48 precious hours for many people. Countless individuals are driven by this permanent Sisyphean treadmill of work, play, work, play, ad infinitum. Play takes on a kind of insane, desperate character with many pumping themselves full of drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of their lives. Precious few use their spare time to dig their escape tunnel from their prison camp. They never get out.
Life can be good only when work and play coincide – you love what you do to earn your living. Soccer players are immensely envied because they relish what they do, are paid a fortune for it, enjoy all the finest things in life because of it, and received endless adulation. Most soccer players are morons, but, hey, you can’t have everything, can you?
Fourier was a zealous proponent of a New World Order based on harmonious, communitarian collaboration. The Illuminati share his vision.
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The Phalanx Model of the World:
“PHALANSTERY” (ALSO CALLED PHALANX): a socialist community as planned by Charles Fourier; any communal association; the buildings housing such a community; a grand hotel-cum-monastery.
Origin: French phalanstère (phalange (phalanx) + (mona)stère, monastery).
Fourier’s utopian vision was of a world organised into self-sufficient phalanges (phalanxes), each consisting of about 1,600 people sharing common buildings (phalansteries) – very much like modern university campus halls of residence – and working about 5,000 acres of land to grow the foodstuffs for the community (i.e. the phalanx was designed to integrate urban and rural features and provide self-sufficiency in food and drink). Educational facilities were to be provided, along with workshops for handicrafts. Regular entertainment would be laid on and everything would be rationally organised to provide a happy and harmonious social life. Those doing the most menial, unpleasant tasks or the most challenging and demanding, were to be paid the most from the commonwealth, while those doing the easiest and most pleasant jobs would be paid the least. The phalanx were to be linked into suitable cooperative groups and finally into a great federation.
Theoretically, each phalanx could be self-governing with its own unique character, like an ancient Greek city-state, or a whole group of phalanxes might agree to have a common government. This model is supremely flexible. It is the political equivalent of atoms and molecules in chemistry. The basic political atom is the phalanx and these atoms can be joined to create molecules of different sizes. Is this not an inherently better system than a one-size-fits all democracy with a single centralized government? It offers far more freedom, choice, flexibility and dynamism and can accommodate on an equitable basis radically different political and religious approaches to life. Phalanxes that have different outlooks can ignore each other while having friendly relations with those on a similar wavelength. Basically, everyone in the world can have a bespoke political and social system if they can find 1600 other similarly minded people.
Is this not the future? Is this not how the world should be, a world of choice and liberty? Imagine a whole world where the family square box (house) model of the world is abolished and is instead replaced by a phalanx model where each phalanstery resembles a campus university, with educational facilities at its core. There would also be many bespoke workshops for hi-tech companies, design companies, and so forth. Each phalanstery would have a medical facility, and a group of phalansteries a hospital. There would be shared entertainment complexes and shopping areas.
With this basic model, we would have the building blocks to create bespoke societies and city-states. Everyone would be able to have their own utopia where they are surrounded by those who share their values. There wouldn’t be a capitalist corporation in sight, nor any bank “too big to fail”, nor any irrational market.
Fourier dreamt that there would be millions of these phalanxes all across the world, loosely ruled by a benevolent world omniarch (“ruler of all”), or a World Congress of Phalanxes.
Fourier, an ardent advocate of equal rights for women, believed that the traditional family home oppressed women and that they would be much freer within a community, supported by many other women. He considered that all important jobs should be open to women and men on an equal basis and aptitude alone should decide who was given a particular job. He was keen to speak of women as individuals rather than as appendages of men (as they were normally characterized). What he saw of marriage so horrified him that he himself never married.
A compassionate man, Fourier was sympathetic towards the plight of the sexually rejected (and perhaps he suffered that fate himself). He had the rather charming idea of jilted suitors being led away by a corps of fairies who would administer a love cure. More intriguingly, he proposed a card-index system of personality types that could be consulted by people looking for casual sex. He also defended homosexuality.
For the world to be completely changed, the institutions of the world must be completely changed and the unit that is most in need of change is the family. Dysfunctional families abound.
Every such family causes endless problems for society. We can’t go on like this. The boil of family dysfunction must be lanced, and the easiest thing is to dilute the family by placing it within a community context. The psychological toxins present in so many homes would be enormously diluted in a community environment where everyone is exposed to far more people. In a phalanstery, children could enjoy a boarding school environment in one wing, while the parents would be nearby in another wing. Children could spend quality time with their parents while not being constantly subjected to the parental madness that afflicts so many households.
Many psychiatrists regard the family home as one of the most disturbed and dangerous places in the world, the source of endless mental illness via child abuse, spouse beating, bullying, trying to fit children into a parental mould of unrealistic expectations and so on. Schizophrenics often become markedly healthier when removed from the family home and then relapse when they “recover” and are sent home i.e. it’s the home environment that seems to be responsible for the schizophrenia. Stupid parents will inevitably infect their children with stupidity. Obese parents will have obese children. All of the neuroses of parents will be passed on to their children. Fanatical religious beliefs will be passed on. Are alcoholics and drug addicts fit parents? Are the permanently unemployed good role models?
The family home is catastrophic for many people. Nothing is more important than that its harmful effects should be negated as much as possible. Community is the answer.
The optimal solution is to allow quality time where parental love and nurturing are at their best, but to enormously reduce overall contact time between children and parents so that all the neuroses, bad habits and mental toxins don’t have a chance to be transmitted. Everyone will be much healthier and happier.
Fourier’s basic design for a phalanstery consisted of three parts: a central block and two wings. The central block was intended for quiet activities and included communal dining rooms and kitchens, meeting rooms, libraries, studies and lecture rooms. One of the wings was for heavy labour and noisy activities including carpentry, hammering and forging. Noisy children had a play area here. The other wing contained ballrooms, activity areas and reception areas for meetings with outsiders. Private apartments were located throughout. Some have compared phalansteries to land bound ocean-liners.
The strength of a community is that it offers access to a much wider range of talents than those of parents alone; it takes a lot of the pressure off parents (the children are no longer in their pockets all the time and they’re not totally reliant on them); childcare can be spread out and any neurotic parental behaviour diluted. Any extremist views are likely to be moderated. If parents are genuinely interested in bringing up their children in the best possible way then one thing they will have to recognise is that they’re not ideal for the job, and many others must help with the task. That goes for ALL parents. There’s no such thing as a perfect parent. An African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” That’s exactly right.
Never forget Philip Larkin’s incendiary poem, This Be the Verse:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
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Our world will be far better off adopting communes as the fundamental unit of society. At a stroke, people will be far more cooperative and the deadly, cutthroat, soul destroying game theory competition between families will at long last come to an end.
Sinister governments love the family because it is the ideal means for spreading the ideology of “divide and rule”. If families are all working against each other in a ferocious contest of self-interest, they will pose no threat to the entrenched elite.
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Psychological Profiling:
FOURIER BELIEVED THAT THERE are twelve fundamental passions: the five senses (touch, taste, hearing, sight and smell); four soul passions (friendship, love, ambition and parenthood); and three “distributive” passions: la papillone, la cabaliste, la composite.
“La papillone” is the love of variety. Anyone would be driven crazy by a production-line job of mindless repetition. Even lovers grow tired of each other and have affairs. Fourier considered that endless drudgery stunted and repressed human beings. So, it’s essential to eliminate all tedious or unpleasant jobs using automation.
“La cabaliste” revolves around rivalry and conspiracy. Fourier intended to utilise this positively by creating healthy competition between different teams of workers to see who could produce the most goods, or the goods of the highest quality. The mistake that Communism made was to try to eliminate competition when, in fact, all societies need some degree of competition as an incentive and to act as a team builder and unifier. The trick is to get the right balance and prevent competition from becoming sinister and poisonous. As for conspiracy, people love conspiracy theories and conspiring. Even the task of arranging an orgy with the sexy couple at the next table (!) involves a conspiracy of sorts. These secret arrangements are delicious in all contexts. Secret societies are a manifestation of la cabaliste.
“La compositer” is the most satisfying of all because it is about creating a composite of the other passions, so, for example, it might involve a delicious meal (the senses) in good company (the soul) while discussing the details of a conspiracy (la cabaliste).
Fourier, obsessed with numbers, produced a list of 810 psychological types derived from these twelve passions. Multiplying by two (male and female) gave a figure of 1,620. Thus each phalanstery was in some sense a microcosm of society, containing a couple of each possible psychological type.
Fourier thought his Law of Passional Attractions i.e. matching up those with the same passions, would revolutionise society in the same way as Newton had revolutionised physics. This is probably the first appearance of the idea that society is best shaped via a study of people’s psychological types and matching them accordingly.
Interest in Fourier erupted in the 1960s, with hippie communes imitating many of his ideas. They particularly liked his advocacy of sexual liberation and free love. He accepted sadism and masochism among consenting partners as well as sodomy, lesbianism, homosexuality, pederasty, bestiality, fetishism, sex between close relatives – in fact anything at all so long as it was consensual.
As for women, he considered that men had effectively turned them into slaves. The level of any civilization could, he said, be determined by the extent to which its women were liberated. He rejected the tyranny of patriarchy and believed that the family structure inherently subjugated women. It turned women inwards to spouse and children and alienated them from society. In the phalanstery, family arrangements were entirely different and much more outward looking.
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Fourier is a truly great visionary. His ideas concerning turning work into play, a variety of work to prevent boredom, a designed community, sexual liberation, an educational emphasis, a hatred of oppression, an appreciation of the importance of psychological profiling, his championing of feminism, mark him out as a man well ahead of his time. Perhaps the world is only now ready for Fourier.
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Saint-Simon:
Frenchman Henri de Saint-Simon (1760 – 1825), a contemporary of Fourier, was an advocate of meritocracy, in the shape of a scientific technocratic elite who would run society according to rational, objective principles and repeat the success of science in the social sphere. Saint-Simon was the founder of French socialism, the first utopian socialist, and one of the influences on the thinking of Karl Marx.
He advocated the abolition of the law of inheritance (with the right of succession transferred from the family to the State) and the creation of a social fund. Society itself would be the sole owner of all the means of production and would entrust the running of industry to the most able. His system is thus a meritocratic, socialist technocracy run according to scientific laws. He regarded bureaucrats as parasites.
Saint-Simon called for the emancipation of women and insisted that they must be treated with complete equality in relation to men. He advocated the equal distribution of property, power, culture and happiness. In his view, freedom and equality could be attained only through a science of society based on community living. A scientific society would surely resolve the problems of the poor and lowly.
It’s interesting to note that Western socialist utopian thinkers have always championed the cause of experts, intellectuals and meritocracy while Western right-wingers are often extremely hostile to intellectuals and favour democracy over meritocracy. Whereas the left wing thinkers want smart people to be in charge and for society to emulate the scientific method and be based on rational laws, right-wingers want the rich and privileged to be in charge, and for the ordinary people to be in thrall to idiotic religions of faith, irrationality and superstition.
It’s time for the world’s smart people to unite and defeat the religious and political right wing once and for all. Right-wingers are stupid, driven by simplistic slogans and infantile analysis of complex matters. They always prefer moralising to scientific evidence. The intelligentsia have to bring to an end the rule of the stupid – the Dumbocracy, the Idiocracy, the MORONarchy.
It’s time for a Smart Society led by smart people obeying reason, logic, science, philosophy, technology, mathematics, psychology, sociology and art. One generation is all that’s needed to transform this benighted world of ours.
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Human Castes:
“When the conditions of men are very unequal and the inequalities are permanent, individuals become little by little so dissimilar that each class assumes the aspects of a distinct race.” –Alexis de Tocqueville
HAVE WE NOT GENERATED such conditions and inequalities in the present day? In fact, the privileged class aren’t so much a different race as a different species. The elite have no empathy and sympathy with the lower orders, no understanding of how they live, and worst of all, no interest.
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 – 1859), an acute French social commentator, put forward an interesting argument that in caste systems based on religion or class, people know who they are and where they fit in. They don’t have unrealistic goals because the horizons of their caste are clearly set and there’s no possibility of travelling beyond them. But what happens in an apparently “open” society? Then everyone has potentially infinite horizons. Everyone thinks everything is possible. Everyone is permanently dreaming of the better life they think will come, then increasingly frustrated and disappointed when it fails to arrive. They are in intense competition with everyone else. Everyone is anxious and obsessed with status because status reflects how well you’re doing in life. In a caste system, your social position is fixed so you can’t be preoccupied with status. Only open societies become immersed in status wars. But at least in a true open society, you really do have the chance to rise to the top.
The worst possible society is the fake open society that is actually a cunningly disguised caste system. In such a system, you enjoy neither the security nor boundaries of the caste system nor do you have any realistic opportunities to realize your dreams. They permanently tantalize you, but they’re always out of reach. That’s the world we live in now. The West calls itself an open democracy that encourages merit, but it’s actually a closed plutocracy run by the privileged elite that opposes merit. The elite live in gated communities far from the madding crowd. They have an elaborate code of signs and symbols to exclude outsiders. They go to elite schools and colleges that are beyond the price range of ordinary people; they join special clubs and societies that are closed to the mob.
But the ordinary person nevertheless subscribes to the “American Dream” and still thinks everything’s possible. It’s not. Everyone in the world is plagued by dreams of a perfect life, all the more so because perfect lives are forever paraded in front of us. Our media is full of images and tales of celebrities and the super rich enjoying seemingly ideal lives. Most people look at such lives and then at their own and there can be only one conclusion – they are a total failure in comparison and their dreams are turning to ashes.
What could be worse than to raise the highest possible hopes and then never deliver? That’s our world. And it’s an unsustainable world. The dreams it instilled in people but failed to turn into reality will be the same dreams that cause the people to turn against the elite in a great Revolution. As soon as they understand that they have been deceived, that freedom and democracy are an illusion and that they are in fact participating in the most insidious caste system with an impregnable dynastic elite sitting on top of the world, they will at last revolt.
The elite thought they could get away with lying, with their propaganda and the perfect illusions of the Spectacular Society, but all they have done is load the bullets into the guns of their enemies.
The Old World Order are always striving to turn themselves into a dynastic nobility that permanently rules the world. With every passing year, as the gulf between the rich and poor grows ever wider, this becomes increasingly possible, yet it also markedly raises the prospect of the inevitable dialectical response – a people’s Revolution.
Tocqueville made a fascinating observation regarding a phenomenon that occurs within aristocratic societies – the identification of servants with their masters and accompanying alienation from themselves: “The servant ultimately detaches his notion of himself from his own person; he deserts himself as it were, or rather he transports himself into the character of his master and thus assumes an imaginary personality. He complacently invests himself with the wealth of those who command him; he enjoys their fame, exalts himself with their rank, and feeds his mind with borrowed greatness.”
We see the same thing happening in the UK with the Royal Family. Millions of working people love this anti-meritocratic, unaccountable, elitist family that despises the ordinary people and refers to them as “subjects” and “commoners”.
The same perverse phenomenon occurs in relation to celebrity culture. Billions of people spend their lives identifying with celebrities and living through them vicariously. By reading all the gossip about the celebrities, seeing the glossy photos of their luxury dream homes and the fabulous parties they attend with the “beautiful people”, they imagine themselves becoming part of this scene, and that they will be best friends with the particular celebrity they most admire.
Of course, this is pure fantasy. It’s how to live in bad faith, to create a fake life that demeans you in every possible way. Celebrity culture and royalty are obscenities. They must be abolished for the psychological well-being of ordinary people. We must topple all of the false gods.
Tocqueville said that in well-functioning aristocratic societies, the people had an instinctive trust in authority whereas in democratic societies there is an instinctive distrust. We see this all too clearly in the West where in every country everyone hates the government. Why is this? In aristocratic societies, the elite were better educated and cultured than the ordinary people and seemed much classier and more refined. The elite of today may have paid for a better education, yet they do not seem intellectually competent – think of the stumbling fool George W Bush – and nor do they seem classy, cultured and refined. In fact they often go out of their way to pretend to be “down with the people”. Yet by trying to blur the distance between rulers and ruled, they make themselves seem unremarkable and actually unfit for high office.
If the elite aren’t genuinely smarter than the ordinary people then the ordinary people will start to think they could do better. They will become convinced the government is not only inept but corrupt too, and that they are carrying out perverse policies to serve their own interests. Moreover, they will be right.
Tocqueville asserted that democratic societies were plagued by the right of “private judgment” where ordinary people felt entirely comfortable about criticising their rulers, something that was unthinkable in the great monarchies of old.
Tocqueville wrote: “Where the citizens are all placed on an equal footing and closely seen by one another, and where no signs of incontestable greatness or superiority are seen in any one of them, they are constantly brought back to their own reason as the most obvious and reliable source of truth. It is not only confidence in this or that man which is destroyed, but also the disposition to trust the authority of any man whatsoever. Everyone shuts himself tightly within himself and insists on judging the world from there.”
In the UK, the most elaborate measures are taken to protect the head of state – the Queen – from coming into contact with ordinary people and any prospect of having her position openly challenged. The media are invariably sycophantic towards her and no voices of militant republicanism are allowed to be heard. That’s the UK in the 21st century – barely changed from its feudal past.
The people of the UK are an embarrassment and it’s the black kids who rioted in London – who aren’t fooled by the propaganda of the elite – who probably offer the greatest hope of leading the UK towards a better future.
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Tocqueville put forward an interesting argument that in aristocratic societies, the opinions of the people were formed by great men – i.e. experts – while in democratic societies “public opinion” is the greatest influence on the positions people adopt. The “tyranny of the majority” becomes a huge problem. People don’t respect expert opinion but they do acknowledge popular opinion. Yet what if Ibsen is right and the majority is always wrong? In his brilliant play An Enemy of the People, Ibsen savages the idea that ordinary people know best, that the wisdom of the crowd is superior to the wisdom of the individual genius. As meritocrats, we agree with Ibsen. Popular opinion once regarded the earth as flat and stationary, and at the centre of the universe. Had the world listened to popular opinion, it would never have evolved. Billions of people subscribe to the popular opinion that Abrahamist religions reveal the truth of life. Of course, the real truth is that these religions are wholly false.
Modern politicians frequently employ “focus groups” to shape their policies. They abandon any policies that are unpopular. Since when did leaders let their views be dictated by the followers? No wonder there’s a leadership vacuum in our world. Nietzsche was keen to point out that modern trends have militated against strong leadership. He asserted that people in democracies are incapable of leading. They don’t know how – and he has been proved right. The only people making the running in democracies are the greedy elite. Politicians are their puppets.
Democratic politicians are particularly obsessed with the strongest force for forming opinion in democratic societies – the media, controlled of course by the rich elite. The media churns out propaganda, which is absorbed by the people and then regurgitated by them. The media has constructed a false consciousness for the people. Unable to think for themselves, most people will happily go along with whatever the majority think and the media invariably mould the majority opinion.
If Michael Moore rather than Rupert Murdoch ran the media in America, America would just about be a socialist nation by now. Most people have no firm views about anything because most people are not well educated, do not study philosophy and are extremely unreflective. They embrace whatever ideas they find most appealing from moment to moment, and those opinions are invariably the ones which are repeated over and over again by the media manipulation machine. Most Americans have been brainwashed to hate communism but most of them have no idea what it actually is. We guarantee that if most Americans read the works of Karl Marx, many of them would be joining the Communist Party tomorrow. Marx is a brilliant thinker and even if you finally reject his views, you can’t help but be impressed by his arguments and his deconstruction of the evils of capitalism.
Most people are “shorthand thinkers”. They reduce all complex subjects to a few simplistic signs, symbols and soundbites. So, virtually no Christians know anything about Christian theology: the religious philosophy that underpins Christianity. “Christianity”, for the average Christian, means: “Jesus loves me; Jesus died for my sins; Jesus rose from the dead; only if I believe in Jesus will I go to heaven.” That’s it. That’s the extent of their “understanding” of Christianity. Why should anyone take the opinions of these people seriously if they do not constitute a meaningful, well-considered system of thought?
Meritocracy is all about ensuring that only those with meaningful things to say will be listened to, and everyone else will be ignored. If you want to vote on economic policy, get yourself an economics degree. If you don’t have an economics degree or its equivalent then shut up in relation to economics since you literally don’t know what you’re talking about and why should any emphasis be placed on your ill-informed, half-baked, ignorant opinions?
We won’t make any progress in the world until we listen to the wise and ignore the stupid. Democracy, as all intellectuals have always understood, is a means of putting power in the hands of ill-informed public opinion. How can that be sensible and rational? Democracy goes hand in hand with Protestantism – it’s the cult of the loudmouthed moron who thinks bar talk constitutes philosophy; the self-appointed armchair expert who sneers at experts and thinks he knows better. It’s extraordinary how many badly educated people think they are right about everything. What that means is that they have contempt for education and regard it as essentially worthless. Meritocracy, on the other hand, regards education as the highest good, and it ought to be the axis around which the world revolves rather than the present mainstays of family, patriotism, religion and capitalism.
Tocqueville believed that the tyranny of the majority opinion would lead to intellectual stagnation. People, scared of disagreeing with the consensus, would stop using their reason and just go with the flow. In fact, stagnation was the least of it. Active dumbing down has taken place under democracy, a race for the bottom. Democracy has given us a lowest common denominator culture. There is almost zero intellectual content in the mainstream media.
Tocqueville made an astute observation about the American attitude to religion: “If we examine it very closely, it will be observed that religion itself holds sway there much less as a doctrine of revelation than as a commonly received opinion.” In other words, Americans believe because everyone else believes, not because they have spent any time studying the religion they profess to believe. Rather than knowledge, their beliefs are based on a) ignorance and b) whether or not they are popular. Truth content is neither here nor there.
Tocqueville asserted that in aristocratic societies, people identified only with their own class. They had intense loyalty to their own kind, and little to others. In a proper democracy, people can identify with everyone, and that makes their loyalty to each other much less intense. If you love everyone then in fact you love no one. The ultimate love is a craving for just one other person. Intensity is selective. You can’t be intense towards everyone. Democracy has the effect of simultaneously widening our empathy and sympathy base while reducing its passion. And perhaps this reduction goes so far as to finally diminish our regard for everyone. It makes us apathetic towards all.
In aristocracies, people are passionate towards some and indifferent towards most. In democracies, people gradually become universally indifferent. They are not motivated to be loyal to anyone other than their close circle, particularly their family. Thus we generate the game theory world of selfish families ruthlessly competing with each other: a nightmare.
Tocqueville wrote of aristocratic societies, “The notion of human fellowship is faint and men seldom think of sacrificing themselves for mankind, but they sacrifice themselves for other men.” Soldiers often say that they don’t fight for their country or any cause but for each other. Their primary loyalty is towards their platoon or company and to the fellow soldiers and friends upon whom they rely 100% in life or death situations. That breeds a strength of connection that non-soldiers will never grasp. Gangs too are intensely loyal to other members, while having hostility to everyone else. In democracies, people will fight for their families and that’s it. In theory, they should care about all of their fellow citizens but in practice they don’t. The best way to create a much wider loyalty group is via Fourier’s phalanx communities.
Tocqueville argued that democratic societies generate huge competitive pressures between everyone as they all strive to get the best jobs, houses, partners, schools for their children and so on. They become obsessed with their private interests and any enhanced empathy they may have had for others is destroyed. According to Tocqueville, the extreme individualism of democracy becomes mere egotism. Individuals grow solitary and deeply suspicious of others. Paranoia rises. Conspiracy theories spread exponentially.
As community is progressively destroyed by individualism, a side effect is for bureaucratic centralization to grow to fill the void of cooperation. Washington D.C. is created in all of its dismal “glory”, and its real function is to keep the peace between endlessly warring private factions that all hate central government.
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Democratic Atomisation:
“Despotism, which thrives on fear, sees in the isolation of men the best guarantee of its own survival, and therefore it takes enormous care to isolate them…Equality places men side by side, unconnected by a common tie. Despotism raises barriers to keep them apart: the former predisposes them not to consider their fellow creatures, the latter makes general indifference a sort of public virtue.” –Tocqueville
Democracy creates an atomised society, a bureaucratic, centralised despotism and a catastrophic indifference, if not actual hatred, between people, all of whom are ruthlessly competing for the same things. The authentic rat race has come to life and we have all allowed it to happen. We are no longer human. We look in the mirror and we try not to see the rat whiskers we all have.
Tocqueville said of centralised democratic government, “It does not tyrannize, but it interferes, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies people, until each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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India and the British Empire:
India was the jewel of the British Empire. Astoundingly, just a few thousand Britons controlled a subcontinent of one hundred million. How was such a thing possible? Why didn’t the Indians simply sweep the British away? Tocqueville was fascinated by what psychological forces had allowed the British to maintain their power for centuries.
His primary answer was the Indian caste system. The vast majority of people belonged to the lower castes and imagined they were being punished for wrongdoings in previous lives. If they wanted to improve their lot next time round, they had to stoically endure their grim lives. This karmic ideology makes people passive and accepting of ill treatment. It’s perfect for tyrants who want to control large numbers of people. The small number of highest caste Indians had no fellow feeling with their countrymen. If anything, they identified more with the British, whom they regarded as a high caste too. In fact, the British in effect reinvented themselves as the highest caste in the Hindu religion, higher even than the priestly Brahmins. They used the existing caste mechanisms for running India, but now they placed themselves at the top of the tree. So, everything continued much as before. The British had no need to interfere. They just collected the money at the end of the line.
The British upper class are superb at adopting airs and graces and presenting themselves as a deserving elite. The Indians genuinely thought the British were a superior caste and that it was wise to obey them. Once you’ve made people buy into your myth, you’ve got it made.
The Old World Order have effectively created a new caste system. They have made everyone else believe that they are a superior caste – as evidenced by their enormous wealth – and everyone has gone along with it. The people think to themselves that if they bring down the elite, the ultimate shit storm will be unleashed. Who will be able to run the world better than the self- styled “masters of the universe”? Without them, the world will surely fall apart.
The key task for the OWO is to control the media machine – their propaganda department, their Orwellian “ministry of truth” (which tells nothing but lies!) – and ensure that no plausible rival system is allowed to present itself to the people. Democracy, for all its rhetoric, is totalitarian. When have you ever heard any discussion of alternatives to democracy in the media? When has capitalism ever been seriously challenged in the Western media? Billions of people are led to believe that there is no alternative to the rule by the OWO. It’s either the OWO or chaos and ruin. The OWO actively prey on the fears of the masses.
Companies often say in their corporate brochures that they are only as good as their “people” – the employees. The same is true of nations. A nation is only as good as its citizens. That, in fact, is the guarantor that there is nothing to fear. If you believe that your nation has many good and great people in it then if the present system collapses, it will soon be replaced by something new and potentially much better. Far from being something to fear, it’s a glorious opportunity and probably the best chance you will ever have to make your personal mark.
The OWO have also benefitted from the social atomisation, inter-family competition and mutual indifference of those in democratic societies. Unlike the Muslims in the Arab uprisings, they have little inclination to gather together. Islam is all about community and religious tradition; the West is all about the family and individual. It’s enormously harder to get Westerners off their fat asses.
The collapse of the existing order is a great opportunity for you; what you’ve always been waiting for. Let’s get rid of the Old World Order. They have fucked our world and now it’s time for them to be fucked. The new world can be built very quickly – using the assets of the rich. They have forfeited those assets because of their crimes against the people and their criminal ineptitude in managing the economy. Their greed – and their greed alone – was the cause of the financial meltdown. Now they must pay.
The monarchy and aristocracy of the France of 1789 had no idea what was about to hit them. Their arrogance blinded them to what was going on. Their isolationist, privileged lives, where they never came into contact with ordinary people, meant that they had no idea of the fury of the people. They imagined their wealth, the law and, ultimately, the army would protect them. They were wrong on every count. The French aristocracy had engineered tax immunity for themselves, and no longer bothered to fulfil any of their duties to their communities. In the modern day, the super rich live behind huge gates, have no interest in the community at large and use top accountants to reduce their taxes to nothing.
Today’s super rich have repeated all of the same catastrophic errors as the French elite of 1789, and now history will repeat itself. The Revolution is surely coming.
The internet is a discontent magnifier and it can link people everywhere. All it would take is one giant heave and the Western elite will topple. All of their assets will be seized and meritocrats will establish a provisional government.
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” –W.B. Yeats (The Second Coming)
“A terrible beauty is born.” –W.B. Yeats (Easter 1916, commemorating the Irish Easter Uprising against the British Empire)
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats (He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)
It’s time to make our dreams real. It’s time for the ancien régime to fall. The elite have made themselves hated by everyone. Now it’s time to pay the piper. The ingredients are in all in place. Now, as in 1789, one spark is all that’s needed.
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The Illuminati Series – Book 5/6:
Blurb:
“I teach that all men are mad.” –Horace
What is the primary source of the world’s discontent, of all the toxins that poison the progress of humanity? What is the social unit by which the Power Elite enforce their policy of divide and rule to ensure that the people never rise up and overthrow them? What is the mechanism for the transmission of harmful, irrational and dangerous religious beliefs such as those of the Christians, Muslims and Jews? The answer is the same in every case – THE FAMILY.
The family is the ultimate sacred cow. Yet what is the archetypal “nuclear” family other than two mediocre parents and a spoiled, consumerist pair of children? How can this be the unit of human progress? How can this express humanity’s yearning to reach for the stars, to create a bridge to heaven and form a Community of Gods?
The family, as the core unit of society, is a catastrophe. And what about all of the failed families, the dysfunctional families, the families of the underclass? What positive contribution are these legions of defective families making? Aren’t they just a permanent drain on resources and a breeding ground of criminality?
Surely the human race can have an alternative to the family. Surely people can be offered a choice.
This book, by the Pythagorean Illuminati, explores the ideas of the radical 19th century French thinkers Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier. Did these utopian visionaries, advocates of a much more communitarian approach to life, offer the solution to humanity’s ills? Should Fourier’s concept of the “phalanx” – the perfect community – be the new basis of society? Is the kind of psychological profiling championed by Fourier, whereby like-minded people can be brought together as friends while natural enemies are kept separate, the key to stable, prosperous, happy communities and societies? Can “phalanx” communities be used to revolutionize politics and give people the sort of local autonomy and bespoke political systems they crave?
What is the “Panther Party” and can its meritocratic principles offer a new political paradigm? What are the great psychological experiments that show that human beings are a deeply unpleasant and self-deluded bunch? Is the Wizard of Oz the story of the Illuminati?
Is the current government of the UK the perfect representation of the Privileged Elite? Study the incredible links between the members of the British ruling regime, and see how astonishingly similar they all are. What is the Piers Gaveston Society? Do you stand a chance in life if you have not gone to the right schools, colleges and universities, nor joined the right clubs and societies?
What is the secret army that can liberate humanity? Is George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” the classic study of the world we live in today?
It’s time to wake up. It’s time for the truth. The Pythagorean Illuminati have resisted the Power Elite for millennia. Join the freedom fighters. Embrace the truth.
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A Book Review:
“Another great book from a series of great books by the Pythagorean Illuminati. If you have any interest at all in life’s deepest mysteries you need to read all the books by the true Illuminati. They are all written in an easy to read style and they all bring together philosophy, mathematics, science, religion, politics, and psychology into a grand unified theory of everything. You should also check out the Illuminati’s website www.armageddonconspiracy.c
The book “The Illuminati Phalanx” delves into many subjects but focuses on the concept of community. The book is named after the socialist community planned by the visionary philosopher Charles Fourier and the building that housed such a community which is called a phalanx. The book explores many of the ideas that Fourier championed and truly makes you want to be a part of one of these communities.
As of right now our societies view of community is almost non-existent. We have turned to the family as the main unit of society. This book shows how the family home is catastrophic for many people and toxic in varying degrees to everybody. It gives us a glimpse of the way the world could be if we turned from the family to community and I for one desperately want to live in this type of society.
This book will give you many great ideas for restructuring society but reading isn’t going to be enough. We must take action.” –BG
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“America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious building.” –Osama bin Laden, 7 October 2001
Rather an odd thing for a Muslim to say if 9/11 was a Mossad/CIA operation.
15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabians espousing Wahhabism, the most virulent form of Islam that calls for Islamic domination of the world and the global imposition of Sharia Law, for absolute intolerance of heresy and apostasy, for the wholesale destruction of Israel, for women to be totally subordinate to men, for Islamic theocracy to replace democracy.
Mohammed Atta, the Egyptian psychopath who led the hijackers, stipulated in his will: “The person who will wash my body near my genitals must wear gloves on his hands so he won’t touch my genitals…I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter.”
The Wahhabites particularly despised New York, with its Zionist powerbase in Wall Street, its large Jewish population, its sexually liberated women, its fondness for drink, drugs and partying. It was a perfect target.
The hijackers wanted to drive out the American infidels located in several military bases in Saudi Arabia. These infidels were defiling the sacred homeland of Islam, the holy ground where Mohammed himself once walked. They wanted to attack America for its constant support for Zionist Israel, regardless of the number of atrocities carried out by the Zionists against the Muslim Palestinians. They wanted to call, in the most dramatic fashion, for an Islamic Caliphate uniting all the Islamic nations. And they wanted to end the sanctions that had been imposed on Iraq for many years, leading to a humanitarian disaster that was harming children in particular.
Why don’t the “Truthers” think the Wahhabites were supremely motivated to strike against the Great Satan? It’s because they are absolutely ignorant of Wahhabism and have made no attempt at all to study it. Know thy enemy! The Truthers haven’t the vaguest idea who the enemy is.
Here’s the “logic” of the Truthers. The elite want to impose drastic controls on the people (true). A major terrorist incident would give them the pretext (true). Therefore, they conclude, the elite engineered the terrorist incident themselves. They seem entirely oblivious to the fact that many people all across the world hate America and wish it serious harm. They think, perversely, that only Americans are motivated to attack America (!). They also think that no one other than the CIA, Mossad and U.S. Special Forces are capable of pulling off a terrorist incident. They think that 9/11 was some extremely sophisticated operation that a bunch of “rag heads” could never have accomplished.
In fact, 9/11 was about as crude as you could get. Nineteen Muslims used box cutters and fake bombs to hijack four planes and terrify their passengers (none of whom would have expected to die since hijackings had never before resulted in suicide operations) and then crashed them into buildings not long after take-off. There’s nothing difficult to grasp. The only thing cruder would have been something along the lines of the previous Islamic terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in 1993 – when they drove a truck bomb packed with explosives into the public parking garage beneath the World Trade Centre. Their intention was that the North Tower’s foundations would be so weakened by the massive explosion that the tower would topple over and hit the South Tower, bringing both towers down and killing thousands. “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again!”
Why can’t people accept the blindingly obvious facts? Was 1993 a dry run by Mossad and the CIA? Surely the Truthers must offer a full explanation of 1993 as an inside job if we are to conclude that 9/11 was an inside job too. After all, it would be extremely bizarre to conclude that 1993 was carried out by Muslim maniacs but 9/11 wasn’t. If the Muslims did it once, they could certainly do it again, and do it better with a more effective plan.
Sharia Law – which advocates the stoning of adulterers, amputations of limbs for theft, the death penalty for homosexuality and apostasy – is supported by around 80% of Muslims. These people should not be regarded as gentle, compassionate, forgiving people. They are intolerant savages and anyone who has ever read the Koran knows that only the Torah exceeds it in terms of brutality and terror. Why would anyone think these people couldn’t be responsible for 9/11?
Most Muslims want Islam to be a central guiding principle of their society i.e. for Islam to be very much in the public sphere. They believe that democracy and Islam are entirely compatible, yet it’s impossible to believe that non-Muslim minorities would be properly protected in explicitly Islamic States. There’s no sign of genuine modernisation or enlightenment in any Islamic country, and failing to separate the State and religion in extremist countries can never lead to democracy – only to theocracy (like Iran).
We discuss 911 in more depth in an up in coming book “Inside-Dopsters and Conspiracy Theories” by Adam Weishaupt.
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The Wizard of Oz – Devil Worship?:
From the book “The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave” by Fritz Springmeier & Cisco Wheeler:
“The man who wrote the book The Wizard of Oz was a member of the Theosophical Society. L. Frank Baum lived in South Dakota and created The Wizard of Oz book as a theosophical fairy tale incorporating the ‘ancient wisdom’ of the Mystery Religions. The books have so much material from inside the secret world of the Illuminati that the few who understand the Illuminati wonder if Baum wasn’t an insider. The moral of the book is that we must rely upon ourselves, for we alone have the power to save ourselves. This was part of the original lie of Satan in the garden. Satan has simply dressed up the same original lie into different packaging and is distributing it worldwide as the most popular American fairy tale. L. Frank Baum explained how he came to write the book, ‘It was pure inspiration…It came to me right out of the blue. I think that sometimes the Great Author has a message to get across and He has to use the instrument at hand. I happened to be that medium, and I believe the magic key was given me to open the doors to sympathy and understanding, joy, peace and happiness.’ (Hearn, Michael P. ed., The Annotated Wizard of Oz. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973, p. 73.) In Baum’s time, the head of the Theosophical Society, H.P. Blavatsky had been putting out her journal called Lucifer. In other words, I highly suspect Baum knew what the Theosophical Society was all about, and that he himself was deeply into the occult. The book The Wizard of Oz came out in 1900. (It wasn’t until 1939 that the movie was made.)
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Shockingly, the real Illuminati do indeed love The Wizard of Oz, although, unfortunately, the Wizard is presented as a rather benevolent conman who means well rather than as a psychopath – like the God of Abraham. Dorothy and her friends overcome their fear of him, and they see that their belief in him is ill founded. It’s a tragedy that the dumb-dumb Christians didn’t realise that The Wizard of Oz is none other than their false, fake God and that if you get past the curtain, you see what a pathetic person he is.
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The Ayn Rand Game:
Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged, her hymn of love to the dollar, presented a tale of all of the super rich in America leaving the mainstream world to go and live in an idyllic, secluded valley in Colorado. By removing themselves from the ordinary world, they would force the “socialists” who were oppressing them to run the nation on their own. Without the help of the entrepreneurs, the socialists would surely fail.
We propose something along similar lines. All of the intelligentsia, the meritocrats, the rationalists should start developing a parallel society where Abrahamism and the super rich privileged elite play no part. The 20% of the world’s population who are smart enough to leave the past behind, will gradually isolate themselves from the rest and let them ooze back to the primordial slime whence they came.
Imagine the Abrahamists and the privileged elite trying to cope without any help from the intellectual elite. It would be a catastrophe. We can already see what nations are like without an intelligentsia – Islamic countries; totally backward. Islam should be held up as the supreme example of what happens when you reject reason in favour of faith, when you allow a whole society to be brainwashed by an irrational ancient book (the Koran).
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Anticipation:
Ian Kershaw, a biographer of Hitler, suggested that rival groups and individuals competed for Hitler’s approval by seeking to anticipate his desires. The same thing is true in the present day of celebrities and the super rich. Hordes of people spend their time wondering what they must do to secure the favour of these “gods”. Why don’t they live their own lives for a change?!
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The Death of the Past:
THREE DOCTRINES MUST BE KILLED OFF once and for all before humanity can move on.
1) The death of Abrahamism. This evil ideology is the unholy enshrinement of the master-slave doctrine. It proclaims that our purpose in life is to be perfectly obedient and to slavishly and unquestioningly obey our “rightful” masters. We must have “faith” that our masters always act in our interests and we must never use our reason (the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge) to challenge the established order. Anything wicked in the world is never the fault of the masters, but of disobedient slaves who lack sufficient faith – and they will be punished for their failings with eternal hellfire.
2) The death of karma. This evil doctrine proclaims that our current lives are the products of our past lives and if we are having a terrible time now it’s not because we are the victims of wicked regimes but because we are being punished for unspecified and unknown sins performed in an unremembered past existence. This justifies any conceivable atrocity and allows the blame to be transferred entirely from the perpetrator to the victim. The victim invariably deserved it.
3) The death of privilege and heredity. These are extremely similar to karma but now, instead of being punished for your own sins in previous lives, you are punished for the failings and sins of your parents. If your life is shit, it’s because your parents failed to hand onto you the advantages from which the children of the privileged benefit. If you’re not wearing a crown, it’s the fault of your parents for not belonging to the right bloodline. Your parents, not the elite, are entirely to blame for your misfortunes.
These three doctrines guide our world. They place the blame for everything on you or your parents. The elite, the masters, are of course never to blame. They are the Teflon rulers.
Only the most pathetic and moronic people would allow themselves to be suckered into believing the propaganda of the elite. In truth, they are responsible for EVERYTHING. All of the blame can be laid at their door because they are the ones with the power. It wasn’t you who destroyed the economy. THEY DID. You don’t have the power to wreck anything. THEY DO.
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Quality:
The elite are committed to quality. They want a quality education, quality health service, quality partners, quality jobs, quality consumer goods and quality places to live. When it comes to the masses over whom they rule, quality suddenly becomes quantity. Pile it high and sell it cheap. Stick the grunts and gooks in ghettos, in factories, in offices. Give them a production-line lifestyle, a sausage factory education. Let quality be what distinguishes the elite from the rest. The elite have “class” while the masses – anonymous and faceless – are just numbers that all run into one another.
You notice quality, but not quantity, except as an undifferentiated force. When the elite interact with each other, they see quality. Everyone has a “name”. They come from a “good family”. They have a distinguished family history. They are SOMEBODIES. They despise the nouveau riche because they are vulgar, have no class or quality, no name, no history. They are nobodies who got lucky.
As for the rest of us, we are all nobodies – the League of Nobodies. We are the bystanders, the anonymous crowd murmuring “rhubarb” in the background. We don’t count. We are too numerous to be counted. Our function is to be “boosters” – to boost the noise level when the elite are in town. It’s our function to scream and beg for the autographs of our betters (they, of course, never ask for our autographs). The elite look at us but never see us. We are to be the background colour, there to provide the atmosphere, but we are indistinguishable one from the other. We are an amorphous mass.
The elite are always developing themselves. They spend virtually no time watching TV because they have plenty of things going on in their lives – unlike the League of Nobodies who can’t get off their TV chairs.
Isn’t it time to stop being a Nobody? Then read The Last Bling King by Mike Hockney. Join the League for the Liberation of Nobodies. Become a name. Become a person. Make the elite SEE you.
They will certainly see you if you are ramming 100% inheritance tax down their throats, if you are campaigning for a Second Enlightenment to sweep away faith and privilege.
What do we say? NO TO CIRCUMCISION. MAKE IT ILLEGAL. NO TO THE TEACHING OF FAITH. BAN ALL FAITH SCHOOLS. Irrationality has no place in the modern world. Stupid religions must be persecuted, not allowed to grow. Make all the Jews, Christians and Muslims wear yellow Stars of David, Crosses and Crescents so that they can be seen in broad daylight for the retards they are. Every day, their absurd Torture God who orders fathers to kill their children, should be denounced as the Devil he assuredly is. He is the God of Terror, which is why so many of his followers are Terrorists. The War on Terror is the War against Jews, Christians and Muslims. They are evil incarnate. They think that the purpose of God is to enslave humanity, to deny human beings the right to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge i.e. to keep them in a state of perpetual stupidity. They think that a God who orders human sacrifice of members of your own family is to be worshipped rather than resisted to the uttermost end. These are the most fucking retarded people you could ever encounter: people who can’t distinguish good from evil, who can’t see that a God who orders a father to kill his son is an eternal monster, not God.
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Identity Construction:
NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT than who gets to construct identity. Forget parents, peer groups and decrepit traditions – find your true self and form your identity around who you really are rather than who others want you to be. Ditch the fake you, become authentic.
Nothing is more important than who gets to control the media message. Rupert Murdoch, a corrupt and depraved right wing fanatic who runs an empire of sleaze, criminality and cover-ups, has been allowed to control 40% of the UK media. How can anyone think that any person, let alone this monster, should be allowed such a monopoly over the channels of communication to the minds of the people? Would you give Satan 40% control of the media, and allow him to spin his web of evil 24/7? Yet Murdoch might as well be the Devil for all the damage he has done. Playwright Dennis Potter rightly wanted to shoot him.
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The State:
Only the State can drive the world forward. It is the engine of human progress. When people like Sarah Palin trumpet the “family” as the supreme good, where is her evidence that the nuclear family has ever achieved anything of worth? How can two mediocre parents create a high quality environment fit for the cultivation of Gods? Only the State has the scale, power and access to the finest minds to do so.
Stupid jobs make stupid people. Smart jobs make smart people. It’s up to the State to create those smart jobs. The family certainly can’t do it.
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Visibility:
Given the power of lobbyists, banks, corporations and media moguls over the government, shouldn’t their personal financial affairs be fully visible to the people so that we can see what they’re up to? We want full disclosure of their finances down to the last cent. We want to know exactly how much tax they pay. Those in power are the servants of the people, not their masters, so the people should demand complete disclosure of the financial affairs of the elite, of all people in positions of power and influence.
In order for the consent of the governed to be granted, it must be on the basis of complete transparency of ALL of those in power, whether elected or not. If the bosses of private banks and corporations can exert control over governments then they are part of the government and they must be as accountable as any member of the government. Otherwise, they are a shadow government that rules without accountability i.e. they are an unelected tyranny.
We demand the economic empowerment of the masses through an enormous redistribution of wealth from the privileged to the people.
We demand a system of total social mobility i.e. we demand the complete abolition of the force obstructing social mobility: privilege.
We demand that those people living on the margins, the fringes of society, be restored to the mainstream and have their dignity returned to them.
Nobody people versus Somebody people. It’s time for the nobodies to win. WE ARE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES.
SCABS – all those people from the unprivileged classes who defend the rights of the privileged. These people have a false consciousness and live in bad faith.
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The Panther Party:
WITH THANKS TO M.C. WINDBREAKER for his ideas concerning the agenda of the Panther Party. Can you do better?
1. CONTROL OF ALL LOCAL INSTITUTIONS.
2. FULL EMPLOYMENT.
3. GUARANTEED HOUSING OF A HIGH AND PRACTICAL STANDARD.
4. THE BEST EDUCATION.
5. UNIVERSAL, FREE HEALTH CARE.
6. FREEDOM FROM POLICE BRUTALITY AND LEGALIZED MURDER.
7. FREEDOM FROM UNWARRANTED STATE SURVEILLANCE.
8. A PROHIBITION ON ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.
9. JAILS TO BE CONVERTED INTO INSTITUTIONS OF REFORM NOT OF REVENGE AND PUNISHMENT.
10. A REVALUATION OF ALL INSTITUTIONS: THEY MUST OPERATE IN THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE AND NOT OF THE ELITES.
11. THE ADOPTION OF POSITIVE LIBERTY OVER NEGATIVE LIBERTY: THE STATE SHOULD BE ABOUT IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF PEOPLE’S LIVES THROUGH DIRECT INVOLVEMENT WITH THEIR LIVES (RATHER THAN LEAVING THEM ALONE TO GO SHOPPING).
12. AN END TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN MERIT. THE TWO-TIER SOCIETY OF THE PRIVILEGED VERSUS THE NON- PRIVILEGED MUST BE ABOLISHED.
13. A COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVE TO THE FAMILY TO BE PROVIDED, TO GIVE PEOPLE FROM DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES A CHANCE TO ESCAPE.
14. A RATIONAL REDISTRIBUTION OF MONEY IN SOCIETY: IT IS ABSURD FOR EXCESSIVE WEALTH TO BE LEFT IN THE HANDS OF AN UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE ELITE FEW WHO EXERT ENORMOUS POWER AND CONSTANTLY PROMOTE THEIR OWN INTERESTS OVER THOSE OF THE PEOPLE.
15. A COMPLETE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “ANTI-ELITE” LAW. We demand a new statute that empowers investigation of the wealthiest 1% of our society. We demand that the top 1% be subject to the following questions by a public legislative body: 1.Which educational institutions has the individual attended? 2. What clubs were attended by the individual during their time at these institutions? 3. Which private clubs, Masonic Lodges, and/or secret societies is the individual currently a member of? 4. What is the individual’s religion? 5. How much money has the individual earned in the past year publicly & privately. How much of this individual’s total earned was taxed? 6. Is the individual friends or relatives with anyone else listed in the top 1% wealth list?
16. THE PROVISION OF LOCAL ORGANIC FOOD CULTIVATION AND HEALTHY FOOD OPTIONS FOR ALL COMMUNITIES, PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH DIETS TRADITIONALLY HIGH IN JUNK-FOOD. A good, healthy diet for all is essential for a good, healthy society.
17. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MERITOCRATIC REGULATORY FUNCTIONS WITHIN GOVERNMENTS AT CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS. PRIVILEGE, NEPOTISM AND CRONYISM MUST BE ERADICATED FROM SOCIETY.
18. A LEGAL SYSTEM FIT FOR PURPOSE THAT PROVIDES EQUALITY OF TREATMENT REGARDLESS OF PERSONAL WEALTH. NO ASPECTS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. THE LAW MUST NEVER AGAIN BE BOUGHT BY THE WEALTHY. THERE CAN BE NO TWO-TIER LAW. THE LAW IS FOR ALL, EQUALLY, REGARDLESS OF WEALTH.
19. THE ABOLITION OF DEMOCRACY. This form of government has never been anything other a disguised plutocracy and oligarchy. The elite have always been able to manipulate democracy to suit their own ends. When a system is created that presents the illusion of people power but ensures that power is retained firmly by a moneyed elite, this is the most insidious form of tyranny.
20. THE END OF INSTITUTIONAL ABRAHAMISM. Abrahamism has never been radically separated from government, as it ought to have been. It tacitly impacts on all aspects of government and public discourse. It is embedded in all of the central institutions of State. This relationship must be terminated. There should be a full separation of Church and State to the extent that the State should hold commissions of enquiries into Abrahamic religions and determine whether they are compatible with civil and human rights and whether they interfere with education by valuing faith and superstition over reason and knowledge. It is unacceptable for humanity to be defined as the slaves of an unseen force. Humanity will have no supernatural master, especially no tyrant who orders fathers to perform human sacrifice on their sons. An entirely new spiritual space must be constructed, based on a radically new vision of God within the mathematical, philosophical and scientific domain. God must be brought into the world of reason, not of supernatural miracles.
21. THE END OF MONEY AS THE MEASURE OF HUMAN VALUE. Money must never again be used as a weapon by the elite to advance their interests and to oppose and sabotage the interests of the people.
22. THE END OF THE INDIGNITY TO WHICH MANY POOR PEOPLE ARE ROUTINELY SUBJECTED BY THE AUTHORITIES.
23. THE END OF THE DOCILITY AND PASSIVITY THAT IS ALLOWED TO INFECT HUGE SECTIONS OF THE PUBLIC.
24. SENSIBLE ALLOCATION OF LAND, FOOD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE & PEOPLE’S CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
25. IS ALL OF THIS BEYOND THE CAPABILITIES OF AN ENLIGHTENED, RATIONAL GOVERNMENT? WHY SHOULD IT BE?
NOVUS ORDO MUNDI
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Phantom; a Statement (Referring to the first phase of the Movement):
Magus,
After writing my letter expressing support for the “New Movement”, I am afraid that I have made a great mistake in doing so. While I still stand by my condemnation of the foolish, irresponsible and potentially dangerous actions of some members (with the full exclusion of Pho’), I have been left without any reasonable doubt that the New Movement is not capable of any real change. These people are stagnant, anti-intellectuals without any skill or capacity to change the world. At BEST, they will only harm newcomers by polluting their minds with their passive, sentimental dross and soft-hearted attitudes towards the very cause we have all taken up – to overthrow the Old World Order, to stop Abrahamism and pierce the ignorance of the masses with the Light of Reason.
The treachery of the Movement has gotten out of hand. Its members have resorted to the defacement of Pho’s reputation and to petty insults. The very people that created the Movement have been stabbed in the back, the goals of the Illuminati turned on their head in lieu of new sentiment. The Movement has become an abomination. It should be formally disowned and disbanded. I for one approve of the dissolution of M.
Let merit stand on its own. No starry-eyed drivel should strangle the very goals that we seek to achieve. A New World Order is not made with hugs and kisses, with heart-to-heart conversations or “unconditional love”. It is made with the sweat of hard toil upon the backs of genius, it is made with determination and devotion, it is shaped by skill and by art and a piercing intelligence that dims every star with its brilliance. All people that take an interest in the full vision of Illuminism stand on their own. They define the group – M failed because it was the precise opposite. Everybody should have a plan, a vision, a method and a project to work on. It is the task of the individual to distinguish themselves by their efforts. Many Eyes and One Vision. Let this be my last address, Phantom is no more.
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We entirely endorse this statement. The administrators of the Movement were on the whole engaged in something that, from the beginning, we found quite distasteful: a kind of New Age sentimentality based on “love will change the world”. Group hug, everyone. These people have now denounced us and repudiated us. We received a message from them a few hours ago to inform us of the fact. Well, that’s as it should be. It’s right that they should form their own independent group and put into action their own ideas, and we wish them good luck.
Their message was signed: “Torquemada and his Nuns (aka the admins of the Movement)”. That sounds like some sort of sex game, and we sincerely hope it is. The world needs as much BDSM in torture chambers as it can get.
It’s hard to build any organisation and you certainly can’t have sentimentalists and radicals in the same boat. We always advocated the separation of psychological types, and we feel enormously happier with the type of approach and stance advocated by Phantom. The ideology of emotionalism and “cosmic love” is one that is inconsistent with reason.
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The Path of Illumination:
To help disseminate the principles of Illumination, our work began quietly alongside our fellow Illuminati diligently exerting their efforts on another communications project. The intention is to train interested parties into capable leaders that can provide the foundations for a better society. Now that there are sufficient numbers of people to make this work possible, we will interact with interested parties in gradual stages so as to help them gain a basic foundation that will serve the better interests of humanity.
We welcome all atheists, agnostics, serious Gnostics and skeptics. The brave Faustian investigator, willing to doubt anything and willing to travel to ineffable depth and incomprehensible heights to find knowledge is the ideal seeker. Such people are rarer than the finest material treasures. They are Pearls among seekers.
The Illuminati recognize that nobody can usher in a new Golden Age without being sufficiently Enlightened in regards to the workings of the Universe. The knowledge that is shared is not dependent on us giving you any orders or direction, it’s entirely dependent on your own efforts. Persistence, Determination, Honesty and the Pursuit of Excellence are what will take you to the stars – not devotion to some spiritual “master”. We are not the voice of God, merely messengers. The voice is your own, our task is to help humanity awaken to a greater purpose in life and realize their own Inner Divinity, actualize their latent potential.
Our goal is to bring humanity to a new stage of evolution, to HyperHumanity, a Community of Gods, a Society of the Divine. The dreaded conspiracy theorists fear a New World Order, when the world they fear has already arrived and has been here for millennia. We wish to overthrow the Old World Order and usher in a new Golden Age that will bring us to this next stage of evolution.
This communication cell is to become a base for archiving knowledge and information relevant to the construction of a New World Order, to the refinement of the individual and the betterment of society as a whole. Discussions engaging in polemics are indeed welcome.
Preferred material for sharing belongs to the fine arts, to music and to science, to philosophy and psychology, literature and anthropology, esoteric theory and practice, to mathematics and the like.
We are not interested in conspiracy theories nor in new age pseudoscience; we are not interested in spiritual wise men spouting their latest “realization”, nor their own version of saving the world. People who have only an ephemeral interest in the betterment of humankind should leave. Those that want to shout our message off the rooftops and move on to their next obsession are not welcome here.
The serious-minded and committed seeker is welcome. Organized, well-grounded, skilled and refined men and women are most welcome. We wish to bring together the best of humanity and unite them under a banner that will once and for all topple the corrupt oligarchies that have rigged the world in their favour. This is a test of endurance. Patience will always triumph.
We are the Ancient Order of the Illuminati, the heirs of Pythagoras. Our Fire has burned for Aeons. The Flame of Prometheus lives on and ever more we strive towards Abraxas, the True God. Once more, the Temple of the Mysteries reveals itself to humanity. The time has come for all men and women to grow up and reach for the stars.
The trio involved are: Praetorian (Π), Cygnus (Ψ) and Sigma (Σ). They administer and guide interested parties in this Great Work.
Be a part of the Revolution. Be a part of The New Order of the Ages.
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Note that the above initiative is not undertaken by the same communication cell of the Illuminati that authored this series of books, but it is an approved cell.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four:
A tribute to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
In 1948, George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. Our “liberal” Western democracy claims that it has prevented Orwell’s chilling vision coming to pass. In fact, it has succeeded in producing something even worse. O’Brien, the sinister and manipulative senior member of the Inner Party who destroyed Winston Smith, the novel’s protagonist, would have been proud of what our society has “achieved”. Here’s why…
Through the Looking Glass by O’Brien.
Remember Room 101? – it contains the worst thing in the world. I invented it myself. My finest work, perhaps. Yesterday we had Winston Smith in there. He was terrified of rats. Such a prole.
Winston Smith. A snivelling individual if ever there was one. And to think he imagined that I, O’Brien of the highest echelon of the Party, might enter into an alliance with him.
Today I’ve decided to subject myself to an experiment. I’m going into Room 101, this time to be on the receiving end. I already know what the worst thing in the world is for me: the society
advocated by Winston Smith.
In I go, into a plain room with whitewashed walls. In a moment, the Incubus Drug – a gas that penetrates to the darkest corners of my mind where my profoundest terrors lurk – will be introduced into the air. It will gather my fears, intensify them, and bring them to life.
Here comes the gas. Already, I can visualise Winston Smith, smiling slyly at me. He will be my guide, just as Virgil was for Dante in The Inferno. I feel sick.
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The horror begins. We’re standing in a carriage of a train that travels underground. We’re both wearing pinstriped suits and carrying leather attaché cases. A crowd of similarly attired men is jostling us. I can’t breathe. I feel a panic attack coming on. Mercifully, we alight before I faint. We push through a throng, trudge up a broken-down escalator and emerge into a crowded street near St Paul’s Cathedral.
We enter a large glass building and sit down in an open-plan office full of…I can only describe them as human automatons. They’re worse than the proles. Telescreens display endless arrays of numbers. Telephones ring incessantly. Machines bleep. The automatons shout and scream. They seem to do nothing but buy and sell, but only in a virtual sense: no actual goods ever materialise. These automatons don’t do a single creative thing, just like our own proles.
All the while, Smith smiles at me…that same sly grin.
This nightmare continues for ten hours, and I thought we were cruel. Now I’m beginning to respect Winston and his kind.
We leave the building and again we descend into the crowded underground and perform our earlier journey in reverse. I imagine this is how the journey to Hell begins.
We exit at a mainline railway station and board a train. Again, I am jostled, forced to stand in stifling heat amongst a sweating, smelly horde who talk unceasingly about property prices and retail therapy (whatever that is). I’m breathless once more.
Winston is reading a newspaper. A cursory glance reveals that its authors would surely rise straight to the top of the Ministry of Truth. Every article is a Two Minutes Hate, not directed against an enemy power but some hapless individual or other. Everything they’ve printed is clearly false. In my society, the past is falsified to make it consistent with the present. In Winston’s society, the present is falsified merely to provide entertainment.
I notice that many women are reading magazines that could easily have been produced by our Pornosec, while others have their faces buried in novels that, as I realised after peering at one that had been discarded, may well have been created by our novel-writing machines.
At last we escape from the train. Winston is still smiling. All around us are posters, but they don’t proclaim the merits of Big Brother. Instead, they announce the alleged indispensability of soap powders and automobiles and a host of baubles and beads serving no purpose whatever. What’s wrong with these people?
We reach a small terraced house that apparently costs a million pounds even though you can’t swing a cat, and Winston invites me in. He switches on a telescreen and I watch a programme about the Thought Police. In Winston’s society, they are known by the brilliant name of the Politically Correct. I wish I’d thought of that. They gibber in a language almost identical to Newspeak. They terrify even me. Some of them would appear to be members of the senior Anti- Sex League.
Next, a grey man appears and Winston announces that this is the Prime Minister. I am taking notes because I have never encountered such a fine exponent of doublethink. I have to force myself to think that way…it appears to come naturally to the leaders of Winston’s society – the members of the Capitalist Democracy Party. This party is divided into three factions called Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat. I am unable to identify any way in which these factions differ. For all intents and purposes, this is a totalitarian regime.
The slogans of my Party are: War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength. The slogans of Winston’s Party would appear to be: Ignorance is Freedom; Stupidity is Strength; Inequality is Equality; Hypocrisy is Justice; Delusion is Truth. An excellent set of slogans!
Winston’s society has many Emmanuel Goldsteins. The people are expected to throw as much abuse at them as they can muster. The Enemy of the People now goes under various names: Osama bin Laden, the President of Iran, the President of North Korea etc. One Enemy of the People was called Saddam Hussein. They went to war with him over Weapons of Mass Destruction, which he told them he didn’t have, and, indeed, he didn’t. They, the proven liars, relentlessly called him a liar. How wonderful. A few years ago, one of the Goldsteins was called Gerry Adams and, in an attempt to mock him, they refused to broadcast his voice, but actors were allowed to do an impression of him and say precisely what he’d just said. How bizarre is that? I really am learning valuable lessons here.
Just as Oceania is always at war, so are Winston’s nation and its allies. They call it the War on Terror. Marvellous. It’s the perfect means to keep the citizens on a permanent war footing (allowing all sorts of civil liberties to be swept away) and in a perpetual state of fear from which only the Government can save them. Why didn’t BB think of it?
Next, I see a telescreen programme about the unemployed. These are unpersons in Winston’s society. It would be easy to find work for them all simply by reducing the number of hours worked by others. But the workers in Winston’s society refuse to consent to this because they prefer that others should be redundant than that their pay packets should be diminished. It brings a lump to my throat.
As I watch more programmes, I discover so many amazing facts about Winston’s society. There are more surveillance cameras than people. Even we haven’t managed that. Diaries are freely available in Winston’s society; but none of the citizens can write, and they’re all so brainwashed by consumerism that they don’t have any subversive thoughts to express anyway.
There are no dissidents in Winston’s society – there are only shoppers.
Winston’s society has people called “Spin Doctors” who are the equivalent of our senior officials in the Ministry of Truth. Not a word of truth ever passes their lips.
Yesterday, I told Winston that the Party required him to acknowledge that 2+2=5, and I had to torture him to make him see sense. Here, they agree without hesitation. I think that’s because they can’t count.
The leaders of Winston’s society don’t need to control the past or rewrite history – they just need to provide things for people to buy. The people know nothing about the past, and don’t care. A “glamour model” was asked if Winston Churchill was a Prime Minister, a President, a King or a Rapper. She answered that he was the first black President of America! A supermodel mistook the leader of the Conservative Party for a plumber (I better not let Big Brother hear about that). All of our elaborate tactics never produced results as effective as these: complete ignorance of everything that has ever happened. We must copy the non-education system of this society. Of course, I mean education.
It wouldn’t matter if all the clocks struck 13 in Winston’s society because time has become irrelevant, and the citizens themselves are irrelevant. They’re lower than the proles.
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The gas wears off. I’m back in Room 101. Well, what a turn up for the books. Far from being Hell, Winston’s society is a very Heaven, the realisation of all of Big Brother’s principles. I shall have to seek out Winston at the Chestnut Tree bar and shake his hand. He was right all along and will be welcomed into the Inner Party immediately. We shall implement Capitalist Democracy without delay. It turns people into morons, and they aren’t even bothered…as long as they can shop.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a human with a pound sign stamped on his face and pushing a shopping trolley – forever.
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Here’s how our modern society reflects Big Brother’s totalitarianism:
Big Brother = Capitalist Liberal Democracy. (No mechanisms exist, in any practical sense, to replace this form of government. It is therefore totalitarian.)
Inner Party = the Upper Class/Super rich. (The State is designed to meet their needs.)
Outer Party = the Middle Class. (They aspire to rise to the Inner Party, and are terrified of being relegated to proles.)
Proles = the Working Class. (They aspire to rise to the Outer Party, and are terrified of being relegated to unpersons. They spend all of their leisure time trying to blot out the appalling lives they lead. Heavy users of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. Excessive TV watchers, particularly of chat shows, soap operas, hospital and forensic dramas, detective shows etc).
Unpersons = the Under Class. (The State is reluctant to acknowledge their existence.) Doublethink: People are so stupid that not even in principle would they be able to understand that they hold hosts of contradictory opinions. Orwell’s warning about doublethink has been realised in every regard.
“Big Brother is watching you” = CCTV cameras, GCHQ, MI5, MI6, Special Branch.
Newspeak = political correctness. (To “narrow the range of thought”.) Emmanuel Goldstein – any enemy identified by the Government, or by tabloid newspapers.
Pornosec = Tabloid newspapers.
Two Minutes Hate = front pages of tabloid newspapers.
Party Slogans = the outpourings of Spin Doctors.
Ministry of Truth = Spin Doctors/Tabloid newspapers.
Ministry of Love = MI5/MI6/Special Branch/CO19/Police. The police have killed more innocent people than Islamicists.
Ministry of Plenty = Shops, particularly supermarkets, particularly Tesco: give the people plenty of what they don’t need.
Ministry of Peace = Ministry of Defence that continually engages in offensive wars.
Winston’s Diary: all freethinkers are labelled “mad” and are relentlessly mocked by tabloid newspapers.
Oceania’s perpetual war = the War on Terror.
Goldstein’s Book = “free speech” and the possibility of producing new political movements (but in practice neither is there free speech nor any hope of overthrowing the tyranny of Capitalist Liberal Democracy).
Fiction Department = Tabloid newspapers; Government League Tables; Official Government statistics.
In 1984, the Party maintains power by keeping its citizens ignorant. Capitalist Liberal Democracy does exactly the same thing. It provides a hopeless State education system so that the privately educated Inner Party members can maintain indefinite control.
In 1984, a huge effort goes into controlling the past, present and future (to serve the Party’s interests). Capitalist Liberal Democracy erases the past by avoiding teaching history in any meaningful way. It controls the future by placing its citizens in debt (Mortgages/Credit Cards). The proles had no chance in 1984, and they have no chance now.
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What are the discernible objects of Capitalist Liberal Democracy?
1) To maintain the Inner Party in their positions of wealth and power.
2) To generate hordes of compliant consumers who love to shop till they drop, thus sustaining the wealth of the capitalists (who own the goods being sold). “I shop therefore I am.”
3) To promote consumerism as the greatest good. People are relegated to mere units of consumption. Your value in society is directly proportional to how much you can afford to consume.
4) To prevent anyone from becoming too intelligent. (The Cassius Principle – “He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”)
5) To reject philosophy, science, history and indeed all academic knowledge, except insofar as it supports consumerism and the production of consumer goods.
6) To keep the people permanently stupid/ distracted/ in a stupor/ apprehensive, via dumbed-down TV, cigarettes, alcohol, tabloid newspapers, Hollywood movies, junk food, shops full of “desirable” junk, texting, web surfing, social networking, personal debt, mortgages, credit cards, War on Terror.
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WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!!
Down with Big Brother, down with Capitalist Liberal Democracy. There is only one escape route – Vote for The Meritocracy Party.
The End
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