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Academia Iluministă (77)
Introduction:
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 dispatched 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:
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.” –Sigmund Freud
“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.” –Jim Morrison
“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.” –Howard Mumford Jones
“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.” –Aristotle
“On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin’s remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.” –Ellen Willis
“Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.” –Simone Weil
“The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.” –Mikhail Bakunin
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The Historical Dialectic:
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for something.” –African Proverb
BE UNDER NO ILLUSIONS. You are living in one of the most important epochs in human history, if not the most significant of all. This Age began in 1989, the year that will come to be seen as the beginning of the end for all the dominant structures of the Old World Order. Where we stand now is at the juncture of old and new humanity. The War of Enlightenment, which has been raging since the time of Copernicus, can finally be won. The ignorant, greedy, superstitious and selfish past – the age of mad religions, evil monarchs and super rich tyrants who have dominated and degraded humanity – can be put behind us once and for all.
“What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism. This history can be related even now; for necessity itself is at work here. This future speaks even now in a hundred signs, this destiny announces itself everywhere; for this music of the future all ears are cocked even now. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.” –Nietzsche (writing in the 1880s)
“I WANT ALL OF YOU TO GET UP OUT OF YOUR CHAIRS RIGHT NOW.” –Howard Beale (Peter Finch) delivering his “mad as hell” speech in Network.
In 1789, the French Revolution decisively ushered in the Modern Age. The American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the establishment of the American Republic had signalled the beginning of the end for the era of powerful monarchs, but America was a distant colony of the British Empire and not yet a giant on the world stage. Its liberation did not provide a fundamental psychological rebooting of the human mind. Europe was where the world was controlled and only in Europe could the transformation to modernity truly begin. The decisive blow was struck in France, which thus takes the honour of being the first modern European nation and world power. When one of the most powerful monarchies on earth fell to a people’s Revolution, and the King and most of his ruling order were executed, the irreversible signal was broadcast to the world that it was no longer business as usual for the ruling elite. Now the people would have their say.
The age of monarchs did not however properly end until the bloodbath of the First World War. In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsar who was executed by Bolsheviks in the following year. 1918, the year in which the global cataclysm ended, also saw the end of the powerful German monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II. In the meantime, the British monarchy, terrified of its people, was compelled to change its name from the Germanic “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha” to the English “Windsor” – a fake name for a disgusting, fake family.
The one hundred and twenty-nine years from 1789 to 1918 is how long it can take for a dialectical age of the World to be fully resolved. The Illuminati-inspired American and French revolutions began the modern world but only a World War completed the job.
The 1917 Russian Revolution was the beginning of the next phase of the dialectic: class war between the rich capitalist elite (who took over from monarchs and the nobility as the power elite) and the ordinary people. A war between capitalism and communism was inevitable, but, before it could break out, a new dialectical force appeared on the scene, a synthesis of capitalism and communism called Fascism (or “National Socialism”). Fascism was based on the concept of a capitalist elite being subordinated to a totally dominant national leader (a Duce or Fuehrer). The Leader allowed the capitalists to make healthy profits, but only if they did his bidding.
Capitalism, in Fascist countries, was harnessed to State policy rather than to free markets. Fascism and communism were both based on the same economic model of an enormously centralised command and control system under the charge of a totalitarian, paramilitary political party. The central difference was that communism outlawed private ownership of industry whereas Fascism was happy to use the capitalist class as its economic agents. National Socialism in Germany was spectacularly successful, transforming a nation in economic ruin and chaos, suffering from disastrous hyperinflation and enormous unemployment, in a few short years. Of course, most of the reason for the success lay in the fact that the whole nation was given over to rebuilding the German military machine to its former glory and providing the infrastructure – such as autobahns – to allow rapid deployment of forces to any part of the nation.
In the modern day, China has much more in common with Hitler’s National Socialism than it does with Marxism. Like Hitler, the Chinese totalitarian Communist Party now actively utilise the capitalist model of private ownership under central direction. Technically, China is no longer a communist nation but National Socialist i.e. Fascist. National Socialism has proved to be an extremely effective way of running economies – far superior to free market capitalism – because it is capable of avoiding the disastrous, irresponsible, greed-fuelled boom and bust cycles of irrational free markets.
Markets are like tiny, hysterical children, driven by greed during boom and fear during bust. There is no rationale at work, no controlling mind. National Socialism, on the other hand, provides a coherent framework, aligning the interests of the State with the capitalist economy.
Contemporary America is not governed by politicians but by banks, corporations and lobbyists. Non-elected entities, unaccountable to the people, direct the destiny of America. Politicians are irrelevant and have no real power at all. Elections are meaningless and are performed merely for show. It doesn’t matter who’s in charge, Democrats or Republicans. Wall Street, and the Jews and Freemasons of Goldman Sachs in particular, run America. America isn’t a nation; it’s a corporation run by business and banking interests, and a large army of lawyers.
The Illuminati’s economic system – which can be variously called social, public or meritocratic capitalism – has, technically, a certain similarity to centrally controlled National Socialism, with the critical difference that there is no totalitarian party in charge and no Fuehrer. In social capitalism, there are no privileged elites, no dynastic families, no inherited wealth, no free market mayhem, and no boom and bust.
In social capitalism, the most meritocratic individuals set economic policy according to the needs of “positive liberty”, the doctrine of actively seeking to improve the quality of humanity. All economic activities that seek to degrade, exploit and sedate “the masses” are outlawed. Free markets are fine, to the extent that they support meritocratic objectives. They are never fine if their purpose is to make disproportionate wealth for greedy capitalists who have no interest in the Commonwealth.
Despite all the obfuscation of economists, economics is a simple subject. It is in fact entirely a function of politics. In the nineteenth century, capitalism was production-oriented. That suited the political need to build an advanced industrial nation with a complex infrastructure. Capitalist goods were sturdy and long lasting. A person might own a single pair of shoes for years. Production capitalism was about functionality and utility: everything had to be useful, practical and enduring. But what happens when the infrastructure is built and everyone has their indestructible shoes?
After WWI, American capitalism had to reinvent itself. It switched from production to consumption and the birth of the consumer, who has been the focus of capitalism ever since. People no longer bought things because they needed them but because they wanted them. This was a revolutionary change. Now the purpose of capitalism was no longer to manufacture useful things but to stimulate demand for, essentially, useless things. This suited the political agenda because consumers, with an immense number of choices regarding what goods and services to buy, saw themselves not as cogs in a machine but as free people. Democracy, freedom and capitalism became effectively synonymous, and were always presented as a single package. So, if you were hostile to capitalism, for example, you would be branded an enemy of freedom and democracy.
The major competitor of capitalism was communism. This was also production-oriented but because it banned private ownership, profit-making and extra reward for harder work and better ideas, production proved inefficient, cumbersome, non-innovative and the goods produced were slipshod and ugly. In other words, the politics of communism and its hatred of salary differentials, hence of any incentive for anyone to try hard and come up with new ideas, inevitably gave rise to an unmotivated workforce manufacturing low-quality goods. There was no market to test goods, and no competition between rival companies since the State prohibited commercial competition.
While the Soviet Union produced endless ugly junk, capitalist America produced endless exquisitely produced junk. Americans liked their glossy junk that they were free to choose much more than the Soviets liked their shoddy junk that didn’t work most of the time and which offered them no choice.
Communist China was once like the Soviet Union, and in fact even more backward, but when it became “National Socialist” China, everything changed. The Chinese started manufacturing reasonable-quality consumerist junk that massively undercut American prices. So, the whole Western economy started buying enormous amounts of Chinese goods. Credit was handed out like candy to allow people to buy as much as possible. Major American corporations began transferring their production facilities to China, hence work started to dry up in America. As jobs became scarcer, the salaries of the low-paid were driven down.
Ordinary American people couldn’t afford repayments on their mortgages. Consumption stuttered and went into reverse. The global economy stalled. All the hidden debts in the system were suddenly brutally exposed and enormous numbers of people started defaulting on their loans. Banks, having loaned incredible amounts of money to all and sundry in order to maximise their profits, and retained practically no capital reserves (because the more they loaned, the higher their profits were, so why not loan every last cent, thus massively inflating the profits of the banks and securing gargantuan bonuses for the senior personnel?) were now all technically insolvent since they didn’t have the capital to meet their immediate financial obligations. That had never been a problem in the past because they could borrow what they needed from other banks, but now the other banks were in the same boat and couldn’t lend – the whole system had imploded. The game of musical chairs had ended and there were no chairs left at all.
According to the laws of free market capitalism, the entire banking system should have gone out of business, but of course that would have meant the death of capitalism itself and political chaos. So all the rich people were allowed to keep their wealth and the gullible taxpayers had to bail out the bankrupt banks. Now it was the State rather than the private banks that was groaning under an unmanageable debt. Governments all across the West had to slash public spending. Millions of workers were laid off and salaries frozen for everyone else. But the rich bankers kept getting their vast bonuses – now paid for by the taxpayers. The rich had found their holy grail – the privatisation of profits (i.e. they keep all of the profits in the good times) and the socialisation of losses (i.e. the taxpayers pick up the pieces when the high-risk games go wrong).
That’s the world we live in now. Capitalism is dead, replaced by capitalist socialism – the most monstrous economic miscarriage ever known. The rich, as the controllers of the global economy, simply get governments to transfer the losses of private corporations to the State sector. America could easily have declared itself officially socialist and proclaimed that the State was now running the entire economy, including the banks, since the taxpayers had effectively paid for the whole shooting match.
Ask yourself this – why are you paying for something even though you don’t get to own it nor to enjoy any of the profits (vast bonuses), which go to the people who screwed up the whole thing in the first place? Is that the act of a rational people? Moreover, how can employees of insolvent banks be getting bonuses at all (these are not of course paid out of genuine profits since there aren’t any – instead they’re paid directly by the taxpayers)? The reason they are paid bonuses is that that they will all leave if they don’t get them, and the banks will collapse. In other words, they’re blackmailing the taxpayers and extorting money from them with menaces. Why don’t the people lock them up in jail as if they were Mafia hoodlums (which is effectively what they are)?
Contemporary economics is a madhouse. Politicians aren’t in charge of it. The super-rich are. The whole point of Western economic policy is simply to prevent the rich from ever losing their wealth, and to keep saddling the taxpayers with ever-increasing debt. The official economic objective of the West (though never expressed in these terms) is: KEEP THE RICH RICH.
The West is terrified of what would happen if the wealth of the rich were allowed to be challenged. Banks would collapse, the stock market would endure the biggest fall in history and the entire political and economic system of the West would die. To avoid this, we keep the rich rich. They have a gun pointed at our heads and we are doing nothing to disarm them.
We are now playing out an economic catastrophe. There are hedge funds in America that are betting so heavily against the Euro that they are making its collapse almost inevitable. Bur if the Euro goes down, so does the global economy. So American capitalists are actually using the levers of capitalism to destroy capitalism in order to make massive profits from the collapse.
What these retards have failed to understand is that without capitalism, all of their ill-gotten gains will be useless.
When ultra-capitalists are betting on capitalism to fail, you know that the system has become insane. This is what it means to have “free markets” in charge of the global economy rather than intelligent politicians and economists with a clear agenda.
Neither Communist China nor Nazi Germany would ever have permitted free marketeers to destabilise the economy. Under Hitler, all of the hedge fund managers would have been put in concentration camps. In China, they might well have been shot as criminals.
Is it not an astonishing thing that although Western taxpayers have had to effectively buy the Western banking system, not a single politician anywhere suggested that governments should henceforth be running the banks for the public and not the private good and that all future profits would be returned to the citizens? Why weren’t all the rich bankers, who had spectacularly failed to run their banks responsibly, fired and replaced by publicly accountable officials? Why weren’t all of the enormous bonuses stopped? Who arranged the bail out? – expensive gangs of ex Goldman Sachs executives! Well, surprise, surprise. That’s like putting vampires in charge of the blood bank.
The American, hence world, economy has been hijacked by the rich elite and its only purpose is to protect the wealth of the rich come what may. The Afghanistan War bankrupted the Soviet Union, but the debts of the communists were as NOTHING compared with the debts of today’s capitalist West. If the Soviet Union was a failure, the capitalist West is an enormously bigger one. Why has no one in the media commented on this salient fact?
The degree of anti-socialist indoctrination to which Westerners have been subjected is so extreme that no one even suggested that the banks should be “socialised” from now on and that their specific remit should be to grow the economy in a stable way without boom or bust cycles fuelled by insane greed and hysterical fear. What sane person would say that banks shouldn’t have that function of serving the interests of the people? As it is, the purpose of banks is to generate enormous bonuses for a select few Jews and Freemasons. That’s their raison d’être.
Free markets must, ultimately, be under political control. If they’re not then they invariably submit to oligopolies and cartels and become irredeemably corrupt. All information relating to all markets should be freely available to all participants in the market at exactly the same time. There should be no hidden gambles going on such as those of hedge funds. Everything should be transparent, including all of the identities of all participants.
Capitalism, hitherto, has been about materialism, about producing objects, mostly of a junk nature. What’s the point? Capitalism doesn’t need to be about objects. Imagine a world with only ten percent of the objects that we have right now. Imagine that to fill the gap, ninety percent of the human working population wasn’t involved in producing and selling objects but in creating and delivering educational services covering all conceivable subjects. Imagine that you could make a living from teaching the subject you love best and that everyone around you was doing exactly the same. We all sell our knowledge to others and they sell their knowledge to us, and we all become smarter. There’s barely an object in sight. We go shopping for new knowledge, not for new disposable objects. Imagine an enormous marketplace in knowledge where we pick and choose what to learn – rather than an enormous marketplace in objects where we pick and choose what junk to take home with us and that we use to define who we are (“Hey, look at me, I own this set of objects so I must be cool and desirable.”).
All that really matters is that you should have a viable job. It doesn’t matter what you’re selling as long as there’s a marketplace for it. Objects need not be the main point of capitalism at all. It could be anything: art, culture, knowledge, music, spirituality, whatever you like. All that matters is that money should flow round the system, allowing everyone to live comfortably.
Imagine that you taught classes several times a week, and you also attended classes of other people. Instead of accumulating objects, you accumulate knowledge. Some subjects might have much higher demand than others and therefore the teacher can ask for more money. Some teachers might offer cheaper classes in order to boost numbers. Some might want a select audience and charge high prices, and thus we see all the normal marketplace mechanisms coming into play, but without an object in sight.
If we lived in a knowledge economy rather than an object economy, wouldn’t we become enormously smarter? Wouldn’t the quality of the human race rise prodigiously? Wouldn’t crime fall, and social deprivation? We would have a much more informed, cultured human race, with far fewer needless objects collecting dust. The planet would be much cleaner if we could avoid all of the pollution associated with industry and replace it with the ultimate “clean”, eco-product: ideas. We live in a staggeringly stupid and unimaginative economic system where we define ourselves by what objects we own. We have thereby turned ourselves into objects. We’re barely human at all.
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The capitalism versus communism dialectic was taken on a detour by WWII when the capitalists and communists were compelled to unite to defeat the extremely dangerous hybrid form (National Socialism). Then it was business as usual – the “Cold War”.
In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolised the end of communism. Yet, amazingly, it also signalled the beginning of the end for capitalism, although no one realised it. Borrowing from Hegel and Marx, Francis Fukuyama produced a brilliant but absurd book proclaiming that History had come to an end because “liberal democracy” had now manifestly defeated all challengers. Liberal democracy would be rolled out all across the globe and that would be it for the rest of time.
This demonstrated better than anything else the demented triumphalism of the capitalists. The leading capitalists now thought they were gods and routinely referred to themselves as “masters of the universe”. Given that there was no longer any viable alternative to capitalism, the leading capitalists could afford to dispense with all concerns over social fairness and demand ultra-capitalism based on zero government interference in the workings of markets. All controls were removed. Regulation practically vanished. Everything the capitalists wanted, they got. All sorts of laws restricting and controlling markets were repealed. Retail banks could start having investment bank functions. The amount of capital reserves they legally needed was shrunk to almost nothing, allowing every dollar invested in the bank to be maximally leveraged (meaning that the risks were magnified to a ridiculous degree). The whole economy of the West began to revolve around a single factor: house prices, the primary barometer of family wealth. While house prices went up, all bets were successful and everything seemed to create healthy profits. People actually convinced themselves that house prices could never fall. Mortgages were given to ninjas – “no income, no job or assets”. At this point, the system had become insane. The idea was that ninjas could keep borrowing against the rising value of their home and keep paying the mortgage: the ultimate Indian rope trick.
Of course, if anything went wrong, if house prices failed to go up, the whole system was CERTAIN to collapse. Not just to collapse, but to take the whole global economy with it. Any sane form of government, any economic system based on reason rather than voodoo, would have seen it coming a mile off. After all, isn’t one of the primary tests of a rational system the ability to analyse, predict and take evasive manoeuvres? A few experts – very, very few – did give warnings, but were promptly ignored and called doomsayers. No one in casino capitalism likes a party pooper. Voodoo beats reason every time.
Sure enough, house prices finally fell, and so the financial crisis descended on the world in 2008. After three years, things aren’t getting any better. In fact, the warning signs are all there again that we are on the verge of not just recession but the greatest Depression in human history. If it comes, and the odds are now maybe 50/50 or worse – does any leader on earth have any grasp of what’s going on, or any ability to control events? The markets have consistently crushed the politicians.
What is the “market”? It’s essentially a small, elite group of cartels intent on making money in whatever circumstances. When they act in any particular direction, the rest of the market – the hangers on, the sheep, the dumb cattle – does the same. Any effect is instantly massively magnified. Most players in the market aren’t reacting to any rational analysis of anything at all; they are simply reacting to whether indices are going up or doing. If they’re going up, the investors feel great and invest more. If they’re going down, they start to panic and sell.
The market is therefore a small group of hugely influential players harnessed to an enormous number of small players who are infected with greed or fear in an instant. The stock market can crash by hundreds of points in minutes because someone has spread a plausible rumour of impending disaster. Such rumours aren’t accidents; they’re agreed strategies by big players to “short” the market. The more they can drive down the market, the more money they can make.
Once they’ve driven it down, they can then of course buy at the new cheap prices and make a huge profit as the prices surge upwards again. So, they profit whether the market is going down or up and, more often than not, they’re the ones making it go down or up. Small players can’t have any significant effect at all on the market by themselves. Only the big players can set the trends. The whole system is geared up for manipulation and corruption, and none of it is ever meaningfully investigated.
So, this “market”, outwith the control of any government on earth and susceptible to extreme manipulation by organised cartels of big players, can change the economic climate in a second and induce ferocious greed or equally ferocious fear. Moreover, there are enormous computerised trading systems in operation and these aren’t under any human control at all. They are totally reliant on the skill of those who programmed them and anyone who knows anything about programming knows that all programs contain bugs and some of these bugs only appear in unusual situations – exactly the unforeseen and untested situations that occur during rapid boom or bust. And this is supposed to be a sane system! Who’s flying this plane?!!!
We’re over the ocean, and we’ve just realised there’s no pilot in the cockpit and there’s a catastrophic fuel leak. That’s capitalism for you. It’s utter insanity to leave anything to any “invisible hand” of any market unless you can rationally define the hand, all of the parameters associated with it and its entire scope of its operation. If you can’t, you have no choice but to tightly regulate it.
So, the death of communism had the unexpected effect of delivering a fatal blow to capitalism too, though that was the last thing that people grasped in 1989. They thought the opposite had taken place; the absolute vindication and perpetual triumph of capitalism. Yet that’s exactly when hubris takes over and, as the ancient Greeks understood so well, nemesis is sure to follow. Capitalism removed all the factors that had kept it relatively sane. The reason for this was that the rich elite demanded the removal of all obstacles blocking their path to ever-increasing profits. Governments gave them whatever they wanted and there was an enormous boom, with most of the money going to a tiny elite.
In relation to Barack Obama, the great hope of democracy, political analyst Drew Westen recently wrote in the New York Times of Obama’s failure to reshape the country: “A final explanation is that he [Obama] ran for president on two contradictory platforms: as a reformer who would clean up the system, and as a unity candidate who would transcend the lines of red and blue. He has pursued the one with which he is most comfortable given the constraints of his character, consistently choosing the message of bipartisanship over the message of confrontation. But the arc of history does not bend toward justice through capitulation cast as compromise. It does not bend when 400 people control more of the wealth than 150 million of their fellow Americans. It does not bend when the average middle-class family has seen its income stagnate over the last 30 years while the richest 1 percent has seen its income rise astronomically. It does not bend when we cut the fixed incomes of our parents and grandparents so hedge fund managers can keep their 15 percent tax rates. It does not bend when only one side in negotiations between workers and their bosses is allowed representation. And it does not bend when, as political scientists have shown, it is not public opinion but the opinions of the wealthy that predict the votes of the Senate. The arc of history can bend only so far before it breaks.”
400 people in the USA have as much money as the bottom half of the American population – 150 million people!!!
400 versus 150,000,000.
400 versus 150,000,000.
400 versus 150,000,000.
400 versus 150,000,000.
400 versus 150,000,000.
Is this sane? Is it rational? Is it comprehensible? Where is the REVOLUTION?!!! What kind of person tolerates this situation? How can anyone think this is the right and proper way for a country to develop? 400 private individuals, unaccountable to the people, have the same power as 150,000,000 Americans. Is that what the Founding Fathers intended? Wasn’t the separation of powers supposed to stop any group acquiring too much power? Why wasn’t it applied to private individuals? Why were the rich allowed to stand outside the separation of powers? Precisely because of that, they were allowed to use their enormous wealth to buy the political system lock, stock and barrel. They controlled the politicians, but no one controlled them. That’s the law of wealth. Wealth makes you a king above the law, a dictator with absolute power.
The rich became mad with vanity, greed and power. And they have brought destruction upon the rest of us, while suffering no consequences at all. The people are so powerfully brainwashed by the elite’s media machine that no one has taken any action against the rich.
That same situation of infinite power in the hands of the elite applied in pre-revolutionary France. The monarchy and aristocracy though they were immune. Then came 1789 and the world changed forever.
1789 is coming again. The countdown has begun. The arrogant elite are no longer held in high esteem. They are no longer respected or even deemed competent. They are now viewed as crooks, robber barons, carpetbaggers, looters, spivs and conmen in it purely for themselves. The total erosion in the reputation of these people will reap a terrible consequence in due course. They are now living on borrowed time, blissfully unaware of the storm coming, as oblivious as the elite of France at the start of 1789.
If they were at all rational, the rich would surrender ninety percent of their wealth to pay off the huge debts that their criminal irresponsibility and recklessness had on the global economy, and they would still be able to live in luxury. But we know they never will. The dialectic always plays out to the end. These infinitely greedy people are incapable of doing the right, honourable and rational thing. And thus they will reap their inevitable “reward”. 1989, exactly two centuries after the French Revolution, saw the birth of another critical dialectical strand that’s having an enormous impact on our world. It was the year Englishman Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. The internet has been a revolution in itself but it also has another unprecedented effect: it’s a Revolution ACCELERATOR.
In past ages, books, newspapers, radios, music records, film and TV all served as social accelerators, but these were almost always controlled by gatekeepers working for one elite or another. What makes the internet radically different is that the gatekeepers can be bypassed. The “word on the street” can become the word all around the globe, without the elite having the vaguest idea what’s going on. The internet allows the elite to be taken out of the loop.
The sociological phenomenon of “other-directedness” goes hand-in-hand with the internet and massively magnifies specific effects. Other-directedness involves such things as peer group pressure, fashion, group-think and hysterical contagion. Other-directed people are not truly in control of their own behaviour. They are so influenced by others that they quickly adopt whatever posture and opinions are held by the dominant and “coolest” group. Fashions, opinions and memes can spread astoundingly quickly. Viral contagion can infect the internet overnight. A person can go to bed unknown and wake up next morning known all around the globe if something he has done has gone viral.
There has never been a phenomenon like the internet. The world hasn’t even begun to wake up to its true power and the changes it is bringing to the world. It has brought to life Marshal McLuhan’s concept of the “Global Village”. Everything is now local. All boundaries are breached and annihilated. Everything is converging. The existence of different cultures is coming under threat – the world is heading relentlessly towards a single, global culture. The Muslims of the Arab Spring were heavily influenced by American and European ideas. Eventually, Islam itself may start to collapse as Muslims identify more with the global culture than with daily prayers and reading the Koran.
One thing that now seems sure to happen is the death of “tradition-directedness”: life guided by ancient books and ancient bearded leaders. The great weapon used by tradition-oriented societies was separation. Community elders could literally stop the young people from being contaminated by outside influences by using physical barriers. Now anyone with an internet connection has access to the whole world. WALLS DON’T MATTER ANYMORE. It’s no use parents denying their children internet access. All it takes is for one person to have access and all the rest will get access via that person. And if parents don’t allow access, they cut their children off from the world and make them backward.
What caused the Muslim uprisings? – the internet. Many of the Muslims spoke of “freedom”, their idea of freedom clearly being based on Western notions. To that extent, these Muslims are becoming more liberal. But on the other hand, Islamic jihadist extremism has also been massively accentuated by the internet. So we see another effect of the internet – the disappearance of the middle ground. People become more liberal or more extreme. The mid-ground is a position of compromise but on the internet all extremists can find many voices every bit as extreme as theirs, so they no longer feel any need to compromise.
The Tea Party is an internet phenomenon. So is the conspiracy theory world. Conspiracy theorists create more and more bizarre theories, being fed all the time by the crazy input from millions of fantasists. The 9/11 conspiracy theory nonsense could never have happened as it did in the absence of the internet. Immense numbers of half-baked opinions, factoids, misquotations, distortions and curious facts and oddities can be spun together to create immense webs of conspiracy. Viral transmission provides a rocket boost and the natural tendency of most people to ignore reason and analysis (Logos) in favour of exciting stories and fantasies (Mythos) means that billions fall under the spell of absolute nonsense. How is it that billions of people believe in the Torture God of Abraham if not by a complete suspension of rationality? Humans are extremely prone to believing what they want to believe and ignoring everything else.
A conspiracy theorist is someone who accepts as true everything that supports the conspiracy theory and rejects as false everything that contradicts it. Indeed the contradictions are deemed misinformation and disinformation put out by the conspirators to put people off the trail. A few factoids and anomalies can be combined with fantasy, wishful thinking and a political axe to grind to create something that takes on a life of its own. BULLSHIT can be magnified to a ridiculous degree, and, as Hitler observed, the bigger the lie the more likely it is to be believed. People believe what they want to believe and if lots of others believe it too then it becomes reinforced, socially acceptable and hence TRUE! The internet can therefore make eccentric but popular ideas mainstream and credible.
The internet is a magnifier, accelerator, exaggerator and reinforcer. It makes the world more extreme. A more extreme world is where unthinkable things become thinkable. All bets are off. Black swan events become commonplace rather than the exception.
We can think of the world being converted not into a single global village but several such villages, each belonging to an extremist tribe, each hating the others. Intolerance will grow in all directions. Even liberals will become more intolerant.
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As we have noted, the death of communism had the unintended consequence of delivering a fatal blow to capitalism. Flushed with triumphalism, the leading capitalists bullied and manipulated the governments into removing all brakes from the capitalist greed machine. Capitalism went out of control and in 2008 the Western banking system became technically insolvent i.e. capitalism had died on the operating table, but no one was willing to “call it” and pronounce the time of death.
Instead, the capitalists did the most outrageous and hypocritical thing imaginable: they invoked socialism to save them. In effect, private businesses transferred all of their debts to the State, but without transferring any control. It was the WORST POSSIBLE OUTCOME for the people.
They got all the debts dumped on them, with no formal ownership or control over anything. Why did the people get the debts but not the profits? “No taxation without representation!” the American Revolutionaries declared in the War of Independence. Yet now the American people have been swamped by enormous debt and taxation and they don’t have a single representative on the boards of any of the private institutions that needed to be bailed out. Is that not INSANE? The Americans have been betrayed by their leaders. They now have the constitutional right to remove the government from office, just as they had the right to remove the rule of the British Empire. It’s time for the American people to act.
The world has allowed the mad ideology of “free markets” to dominate economics. What is the aim of ALL of the participants in these free markets? TO MAKE MONEY! Generating profit is their sole preoccupation. A market does not care about reason, education, knowledge, quality, goodness, morality, virtue, moderation, caution, stability or any of the other qualities that we would expect to be exhibited by a benevolent government. It’s asking for disaster to harness government to an inherently unstable and irrational greed machine.
There’s a place for free markets but only within a carefully defined framework. The markets have to be subservient to government, not government to markets. We now know for a fact where free market economics leads us – CATASTROPHE. Free market economics is now as dead as communism. Just as every individual is free to do whatever they like within the LAW, markets should be allowed to operate freely within the legal framework that is imposed on them to ensure economic stability. The stability of the market is the main point, not its freedom, because unfettered freedom will sooner or later generate a catastrophe.
It always comes back to the same issue – who’s in charge? Should elected governments run a country, or private, unaccountable individuals in charge of banks and corporations? Should markets devoted solely to profit making (usually resulting in astonishing and deranged risk-taking and corporate immorality) be the economic engine of a nation rather than rational policies dedicated to stable growth and the improvement of the nation and its people? Isn’t it time the people were in charge rather than the rich?
All instabilities will now be massively and instantly magnified by the internet and global computer systems. Stock markets in every world have effectively merged to create a single stock market. All markets tend to go up or down at the same time because they are all reacting to each other. Any local rumour can become a global rumour in an instant. There are no firewalls separating systems any longer. In ships, to prevent them from sinking, it’s essential to have separate compartments in the hull. A breach to one compartment can result in localised flooding, but the ship continues safely on its way because all of the other compartments are unaffected. In the new global paradigm, we’ve lost all the safety compartments and firewalls. The situation is RADICALLY UNSTABLE. Any event can sink the ship or burn down the whole building.
It’s absolutely no coincidence that financial turmoil and excessive greed have reached unprecedented levels in the last twenty years. The scale of the gap between rich and poor that has appeared within this timescale is simply breathtaking. The number of major financial crashes that have occurred around the world in the last twenty years is without precedent. Yet no one in power has any idea of what’s really going on. They haven’t understood that we are perched over financial apocalypse because there are no safety mechanisms built into the global financial system. It’s like a nuclear reactor without a single control rod to moderate the chain reaction. And what happens to an uncontrolled nuclear process? – it explodes catastrophically. It’s a BOMB.
We are so close to Armageddon that it’s simply terrifying. And what’s even more terrifying is that the people charged with running the world are patently clueless about what’s going on. They are driven by the markets and the markets are the detonator for the biggest financial explosion of all time. Who will challenge the markets? Who will face down the rich? Who will build firewalls, watertight safety bulkheads and insert sufficient control rods in the financial reactors? Well, NO ONE AT ALL.
We’re on a runaway train and we’re rapidly running out of track. The buffers are now right ahead of us. Be in no doubt at all, the final dialectical crisis is almost upon us. It cannot be avoided. The current system will definitely fail. It cannot save itself because it doesn’t know how to. It doesn’t understand itself. It will perish through ignorance. In the end, stupidity is a terminal condition.
The real issue is what is to be done when the shitstorm arrives. Who will pick up the pieces? To whom will the world turn? If the world were sane, it would of course turn to its sanest, most rational, most talented people, but as we know all too well, the world is neither sane nor rational and anything could happen. We could get Fascist “strong man” dictators, or religious Messiahs. Fundamentalist Islam could sweep the world. All manner of nightmares are possible.
That’s why it’s critical for all sensible people to be ready to speak with a single voice and promote a single clear agenda. That’s why The Movement proved a monumental disappointment. Instead of preparing the agenda for a New Society, the members blabbered on about New Age bullshit, hippie crap and 9/11 garbage. In the end, several members of The Movement thought that their most important task was to investigate other members of The Movement and pronounce McCarthyite denunciations. What the fuck! When a group starts eating itself, you know it deserves to perish.
That’s the fast road to nowhere. We hoped people would write constitutions and declarations, that they would set up political groups and stand in elections, that they would seize the chance to prepare to implement a New World Order. Ho, ho, ho. No chance of that. It takes talented and smart people to do such things: a rare commodity within The Movement. Instead, there were legions of self-indulgent fantasists and bullshitters caught up in their own tiny, unimaginative worlds. How on earth could it serve anyone’s interests to open yet another thread on 9/11? Droning on about it will change nothing at all. Creating a New World Order will certainly change things…so why don’t you devote your time to that rather than to ludicrous, unproductive conspiracy theories?
“You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.” –Nietzsche
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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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