With all the discussion of riots, protests and “autonomous zones” the focus on the Woke movement and Antifa (see below) misses the broader control of society by forces for whom the former are simple tools.
What do we stand to lose - and to whom?
The destruction of everything that competes with the corporation and the state: the family; the individual; the freeholder; the freelance; the family business; the inventor; main street; our right to our own labour and free time; perhaps our children, certainly our birthright, those universal, natural and common rights beyond the authority of any government or international body to dismiss.
The assertion that there are forces who would reshape society to their benefit often elicits guffaws.
We simply ask the wrong question. Schools neglect to enlighten students that the answer is less important than the question. Ask a poorly-framed question and a true answer may tell you little. As every politically-motivated fact checker knows, reframe the question ever so slightly and you can change the answer.
Who or what are the forces that seek to reshape society? Well, to a great extent, they already have.
Modern society is the direct creation of heavy industry and its successors. Corporations influence education but also shape society: holding down wages; creating flows of migrant labour; eliminating competition; shifting the burden of taxation from corporations to workers; eliminating national borders, duties and customs; buying politicians through the lobby system and eliminating the independent voice, physically if necessary; using international institutions to subject nations to the will of corporations; and if that fails, creating pretexts for war in order to grab resources.
Then there’s the reshaping of people: the elimination of everything small* that rivals the authority of the big: We forget that before WWI small companies and farmers, inventors and family businesses dominated the economy. This required the participation of all members of society, an ancient piece of clockwork in which all played a role.
Its destruction was not accidental. In retrospect one can see that the huge forces deployed to change society were not organic nor grass root. Activists turn out to be funded by corporate foundations and intelligence agencies; advised by psychologists and public relations consultants, social engineering institutes and universities; and turned into the New Normal through cultural programming conducted by publishers, Hollywood and the corporate media (Tom Secker at https://www.spyculture.com and the involvement of author Aldous Huxley with mind control experiments in Spies in Academic Clothing: The Untold History of MKULTRA and the Counterculture).
The women’s liberation movement turns out to have been manipulated by intel agencies, and likewise Black feminism (Gloria Steinem exposed). Despite the huge advances and mixed blessings for women, the Corporatist Media still finds it necessary to pump the message of women “having it all”.
It now takes a couple to earn the same income as one spouse earned in the 1950s. Women point out that their wages remain lower than the equivalent male. Isn’t that the point, if the intention is to bring down male wages and thus wages overall?
Welfare legislation was written explicitly to expel fathers from poor homes. The CIA and its mafia contractors sold drugs into Western cities to finance wars abroad. Prisons were privatized and criminal legislation explicitly rewritten to increase the flow of poor people, mainly Black men, as inmates providing low-paid (slave) labour to corporations. Aggregate these policies and it is hard to escape the conclusion that the Black population has been targeted for suppression if not eugenic control.
Non-profit organizations have been key to achieving these societal changes. These non-profit are the corollary of for-profit: two arms of the same corporations. The for-profit sells the product, the non-profit manipulates the worker and the consumer. These are not charities as the uninformed fondly believe, they are not “giving back” any more than John D Rockefeller when he handed out dimes to children. They are pursuing the corporations’ objectives by other means.
The society of pre WWI was dominated in many countries by family businesses, small entrepreneurs, trades people, inventors and farmers — as Germany and Northern Italy are to this day. Much of the rest of the advanced world has witnessed the broad destruction of family-owned farms and businesses.
We forget that the formation of companies, incorporation, was strictly limited until the mid-1800s. If the 1950s and 1960s were the peak of the free market, it took only 100 years from the launch of corporations to the destruction of the free market. As ever, when politicians use a phrase like “free trade,” they mean the opposite.
Was society reshaped by accident or with intent? This is important because it helps us guess what’s coming next. Or, as the Fabian H. G. Wells put it in his novel and the movie (below): Things To Come.
The rise of international trade lifted corporations above the nation state and out of its orbit; beyond the ability to tax and regulate. This can be considered a natural evolution of the market, though corporations certainly lobbied for it. Organizations like NAFTA, the WTO and the European Union primarily exist to facilitate corporations and were explicitly structured to do so.
Similarly the raison d'être of financiers: their first and most closely held credo is, never gamble with your own money. So credit is used to pump and dump, to inflate asset values and sell them to the unsuspecting before crashing the market, bankrupting borrowers and seizing assets. This has been done so often that it is beyond contention (The Great Crash, 1929, by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955).
Corporations’ other concern is to keep prices high by avoiding overproduction and eliminating competition. Commoditization is the process by which a market becomes so diverse that a once-valuable product becomes a no-brand, generic commodity. To avoid this corporations create artificial scarcity. They eliminate competitors. They limit production.
A huge workforce is not required. Only a cheap workforce. Overproduction is tied to the concept of eugenics but also to schooling a new sub-class of worker, no longer educated to the level that produced the generations of inventors in America and Europe. As with the overproduction of product so, too, in the minds of Corporatists the “Overproduction of Children" (Margaret Sanger, 1934).
In 1939 an executive director of the National Education Association said his organization would “accomplish by education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by compulsion and force,” writes John Taylor Gatto (Bibliography).
“In the project offices of the Rockefeller Foundation, its president Max Mason said in 1933 that a program was underway to rationalize social control and the control of human behavior inspired by the genetic work of Hermann J Muller at the university of Texas, financed by Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations.
“Muller had used x-rays to overwrite the genetics of fruit flies, raising the hope that it might be possible to create life and shape it as you want it to be. For his work Muller won a Nobel prize. Muller said planned breeding was necessary to drive progress and he was supported by the scientists of the day.
In his Geneticists' Manifesto, signed by 22 other scientists, Muller said the conscious guidance by the state of human sexual selection was called for. A project of racial hygiene, “in which scientific research shaped society. Can we develop so sound and extensive a genetics that we can hope to breed in the future, superior men?” he asked.”
The most telling finding lay in the 1910 minutes of the Carnegie Foundation's Endowment for International Peace. The trustees asked themselves "if there is any way known to man more effective than war to so alter the life of an entire people". This information forms part of the testimony of Norman Dodd, investigator for U.S. Congressman B. Carroll Reece's Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations, of 1953. Congress was responding to public complaints about changes to education.
After the war their minutes note that women had been pushed out of the home and into the war factories. They reasoned that if they could get control of education, they could prevent a return to the pre-war way of life - thereby cementing the changes brought by war.
The Reece committee concluded that between 1933-36 there had been a non-bloody revolution. That a few foundations had funded efforts to change the beliefs of the American people through education and propaganda. Finally it noted that people had changed their beliefs without resistance.
And so we reach the present day. Where does this lead? That depends on people being awake rather than simply Woke.
* Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher.
What do we stand to lose - and to whom?
The destruction of everything that competes with the corporation and the state: the family; the individual; the freeholder; the freelance; the family business; the inventor; main street; our right to our own labour and free time; perhaps our children, certainly our birthright, those universal, natural and common rights beyond the authority of any government or international body to dismiss.
Society has already been reshaped
The assertion that there are forces who would reshape society to their benefit often elicits guffaws.
We simply ask the wrong question. Schools neglect to enlighten students that the answer is less important than the question. Ask a poorly-framed question and a true answer may tell you little. As every politically-motivated fact checker knows, reframe the question ever so slightly and you can change the answer.
Who or what are the forces that seek to reshape society? Well, to a great extent, they already have.
Modern society is the direct creation of heavy industry and its successors. Corporations influence education but also shape society: holding down wages; creating flows of migrant labour; eliminating competition; shifting the burden of taxation from corporations to workers; eliminating national borders, duties and customs; buying politicians through the lobby system and eliminating the independent voice, physically if necessary; using international institutions to subject nations to the will of corporations; and if that fails, creating pretexts for war in order to grab resources.
Then there’s the reshaping of people: the elimination of everything small* that rivals the authority of the big: We forget that before WWI small companies and farmers, inventors and family businesses dominated the economy. This required the participation of all members of society, an ancient piece of clockwork in which all played a role.
Its destruction was not accidental. In retrospect one can see that the huge forces deployed to change society were not organic nor grass root. Activists turn out to be funded by corporate foundations and intelligence agencies; advised by psychologists and public relations consultants, social engineering institutes and universities; and turned into the New Normal through cultural programming conducted by publishers, Hollywood and the corporate media (Tom Secker at https://www.spyculture.com and the involvement of author Aldous Huxley with mind control experiments in Spies in Academic Clothing: The Untold History of MKULTRA and the Counterculture).
The women’s liberation movement turns out to have been manipulated by intel agencies, and likewise Black feminism (Gloria Steinem exposed). Despite the huge advances and mixed blessings for women, the Corporatist Media still finds it necessary to pump the message of women “having it all”.
It now takes a couple to earn the same income as one spouse earned in the 1950s. Women point out that their wages remain lower than the equivalent male. Isn’t that the point, if the intention is to bring down male wages and thus wages overall?
Welfare legislation was written explicitly to expel fathers from poor homes. The CIA and its mafia contractors sold drugs into Western cities to finance wars abroad. Prisons were privatized and criminal legislation explicitly rewritten to increase the flow of poor people, mainly Black men, as inmates providing low-paid (slave) labour to corporations. Aggregate these policies and it is hard to escape the conclusion that the Black population has been targeted for suppression if not eugenic control.
Non-profit organizations have been key to achieving these societal changes. These non-profit are the corollary of for-profit: two arms of the same corporations. The for-profit sells the product, the non-profit manipulates the worker and the consumer. These are not charities as the uninformed fondly believe, they are not “giving back” any more than John D Rockefeller when he handed out dimes to children. They are pursuing the corporations’ objectives by other means.
Things to come
We forget that the formation of companies, incorporation, was strictly limited until the mid-1800s. If the 1950s and 1960s were the peak of the free market, it took only 100 years from the launch of corporations to the destruction of the free market. As ever, when politicians use a phrase like “free trade,” they mean the opposite.
Was society reshaped by accident or with intent? This is important because it helps us guess what’s coming next. Or, as the Fabian H. G. Wells put it in his novel and the movie (below): Things To Come.
The rise of international trade lifted corporations above the nation state and out of its orbit; beyond the ability to tax and regulate. This can be considered a natural evolution of the market, though corporations certainly lobbied for it. Organizations like NAFTA, the WTO and the European Union primarily exist to facilitate corporations and were explicitly structured to do so.
Similarly the raison d'être of financiers: their first and most closely held credo is, never gamble with your own money. So credit is used to pump and dump, to inflate asset values and sell them to the unsuspecting before crashing the market, bankrupting borrowers and seizing assets. This has been done so often that it is beyond contention (The Great Crash, 1929, by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955).
Corporations’ other concern is to keep prices high by avoiding overproduction and eliminating competition. Commoditization is the process by which a market becomes so diverse that a once-valuable product becomes a no-brand, generic commodity. To avoid this corporations create artificial scarcity. They eliminate competitors. They limit production.
Using war to change everyday life
A huge workforce is not required. Only a cheap workforce. Overproduction is tied to the concept of eugenics but also to schooling a new sub-class of worker, no longer educated to the level that produced the generations of inventors in America and Europe. As with the overproduction of product so, too, in the minds of Corporatists the “Overproduction of Children" (Margaret Sanger, 1934).
In 1939 an executive director of the National Education Association said his organization would “accomplish by education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by compulsion and force,” writes John Taylor Gatto (Bibliography).
“In the project offices of the Rockefeller Foundation, its president Max Mason said in 1933 that a program was underway to rationalize social control and the control of human behavior inspired by the genetic work of Hermann J Muller at the university of Texas, financed by Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations.
“Muller had used x-rays to overwrite the genetics of fruit flies, raising the hope that it might be possible to create life and shape it as you want it to be. For his work Muller won a Nobel prize. Muller said planned breeding was necessary to drive progress and he was supported by the scientists of the day.
In his Geneticists' Manifesto, signed by 22 other scientists, Muller said the conscious guidance by the state of human sexual selection was called for. A project of racial hygiene, “in which scientific research shaped society. Can we develop so sound and extensive a genetics that we can hope to breed in the future, superior men?” he asked.”
The most telling finding lay in the 1910 minutes of the Carnegie Foundation's Endowment for International Peace. The trustees asked themselves "if there is any way known to man more effective than war to so alter the life of an entire people". This information forms part of the testimony of Norman Dodd, investigator for U.S. Congressman B. Carroll Reece's Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations, of 1953. Congress was responding to public complaints about changes to education.
After the war their minutes note that women had been pushed out of the home and into the war factories. They reasoned that if they could get control of education, they could prevent a return to the pre-war way of life - thereby cementing the changes brought by war.
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” -- Maximilien Robespierre
The Reece committee concluded that between 1933-36 there had been a non-bloody revolution. That a few foundations had funded efforts to change the beliefs of the American people through education and propaganda. Finally it noted that people had changed their beliefs without resistance.
And so we reach the present day. Where does this lead? That depends on people being awake rather than simply Woke.
Ignorance being the secret to tyranny — a revealing quote of
Maximilien Robespierre, purveyor of terror on behalf of the French
State.
This is why the Woke can be manipulated to any purpose. The Woke and their organized muscle will turn against any target, or even upon each other, at the flick of the propaganda switch. Why? Because the ground has been prepared, cultivation of knowledge is replaced not just with ignorance (the absence of knowledge) but the rejection of logic as patriarchal.
Upon this barren desert any mirage can be conjured. The bull horn being academe with its grievance studies, amplified by the Corporatist Media and the political pantomime. They would march with Röhm’s Brown Shirts; their empty heads as open to any ringing declaration as an adolescent Komsomol.
These young hot heads do not magically find themselves in positions of such influence. We can be confident they are being used to serve a greater interest.
Gareth Jones had reported from Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy, and when he arrived in Germany to interview Joseph Goebbels in 1933, he found the same atmosphere, the same techniques, the same manipulation of youth. The following report is worth quoting at length: Methods Of Nazis, Fascists And Bolsheviks: Striking Similarities of Three Movements, Gareth Jones for the Western Mail & South Wales News, June 10th 1933
“Virtue is impotent without Terror. Terror is only Justice prompt, severe and inflexible.”
This is why the Woke can be manipulated to any purpose. The Woke and their organized muscle will turn against any target, or even upon each other, at the flick of the propaganda switch. Why? Because the ground has been prepared, cultivation of knowledge is replaced not just with ignorance (the absence of knowledge) but the rejection of logic as patriarchal.
Upon this barren desert any mirage can be conjured. The bull horn being academe with its grievance studies, amplified by the Corporatist Media and the political pantomime. They would march with Röhm’s Brown Shirts; their empty heads as open to any ringing declaration as an adolescent Komsomol.
These young hot heads do not magically find themselves in positions of such influence. We can be confident they are being used to serve a greater interest.
Bolsheviks, Italian Fascists and Nazi parallels
Gareth Jones had reported from Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy, and when he arrived in Germany to interview Joseph Goebbels in 1933, he found the same atmosphere, the same techniques, the same manipulation of youth. The following report is worth quoting at length: Methods Of Nazis, Fascists And Bolsheviks: Striking Similarities of Three Movements, Gareth Jones for the Western Mail & South Wales News, June 10th 1933
As in Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia, youth is in the saddle in Germany today, and that is one of the similarities which strike one who has been both to Russia and Germany.
There are young men everywhere in responsible positions. A young man whom I met and whom I thought had, on account of his youth, quite a minor position turned out to be the President of one of Germany’s most important provinces!
The use of force is another feature which Germany has in common with the Soviet Union, and this leads to the disregard of the individual and to the worship of the State. The State is to the Nazis and the Bolsheviks the God before whom all must bow and to whom individuals must offer up their most sacred rights….
But the idealism of the Nazis and of the Bolsheviks has its dark side of intolerance and their faith is that of the fanatic who, driven by deep emotion, keeps his mind completely closed to another point of view.
The ‘Nazi Party has almost as complete control’ of the State in Germany as the Bolsheviks have in Russia or the Fascists in Italy; and their method of keeping power is very similar to that of the Bolsheviks and the Fascists. They have captured the whole life of the country; they have put Nazis in control of offices, of factories, of newspapers, of debating clubs, of boards of directors, of every little organisation. Nazis have been made, Commissars of Bavaria, of Saxony, of Wurttemberg. They have been put in the key positions in the police force. Thus, within a few months, the Nazis have entrenched themselves in so skilful a manner that only a civil war could drive them out.
To dig themselves still further in power the Nazis have formed a secret police of many thousand members, with rights of search which almost make them counterpart of the Soviet O.G.P.U. As in Russia and Italy, letters are opened and there are house searchings for counter revolutionary propaganda and for weapons. To British people this intrusion into the sanctity of the home seems preposterous but it must be remembered that for two or three years Germany has almost been on the verge of civil war and that Bolshevism was seriously feared.
As in Soviet Russia and in Fascist Italy, the press is Government controlled and independent newspapers have been muzzled. Still appearing under their old titles, these newspapers are but a ghost of their former selves and scarcely venture to breathe a word of’ criticism. Liberty of expression has also vanished and the careful guarded way in which Germans now talk makes one think of Moscow or of Rome.Just 120 years before the Bolsheviks and Fascists, another man had roused the youth to a frenzy of social justice, Maximilien Robespierre:
“Virtue is impotent without Terror. Terror is only Justice prompt, severe and inflexible.”
* Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher.
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