MizNickson, I surely do appreciate this sentence: 'What I am attempting is to skirt the depths of paranoia by using real world data, and actual documents, as well as planning that is in the public domain and established fact.'
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Five years ago I overhead an interesting quote and the person who gave it was kind enough to attribute the quote to George Santayana, from the only novel that Mr. Santayana ever wrote: "The Last Puritan." They say he worked on that novel in his spare time and it took him 35 years to finish it.
George Santayana was a member of the elite class of whom you've written here. From what little I've read of his non-fiction work I've gotten the impression that GS was quietly outraged by the cruel exploitations his brahmin class practiced against the lower classes, especially the middle class.
They say GS was an atheist. I find that hard to believe. He lived the last decade of his life in a convent in Rome, cared for by Irish nuns. George Santayana died in their care in 1952. From my experience, Irish sisters of that generation did not truck with atheists.
Anyway, 'The Last Puritan' gives readers a fair glimpse of the hard-hearted vanity, self-righteousness and vainglory of the so-called elite. The most elite of them all is Satan and he's doomed. That's gotta tellya somethin' right? Satan is the strawboss to whom these mortal elites are enthralled:
Luke 4:5-8 > > And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
I’ve been reading George Santayana in earnest for the last couple of years, after reading Michael Knox Beran’s very fine volume on WASPS. I first dove deeply into the writing of Henry Adams, then Santayana. In Santayana I feel as though I have found a long-lost friend. He is a marvelous prose stylist, and I enjoyed immensely the reading of his semi-autobiographical novel “The Last Puritan” as well as his memoirs, “Persons and Places.”
You can read any number of intelligent reviews of Santayana’s work, but I think the most germane piece was the 1911 lecture on “The Genteel Tradition” published in 1913 in “The Winds of Doctrine” then expanded and published in 1931 as “The Genteel Tradition at Bay.”
Santayana’s mother’s first husband was a member of the prestigious Sturgis family of Boston, and when she died, he received an inheritance than enabled him to leave his teaching duties at Harvard’s philosophy department. Although born in Spain, he was raised in high Brahmin/WASP culture in the last few decades of the 19th century in Boston. He came to loathe the arrogance, certainty, Protestant pietism, coldness, and artificiality of the “agonized conscience” of the cultivated New England mind.
In my mind, what makes Santayana so important — besides the deeply humane and well-crafted prose of his philosophical works — is his ability to know, as both insider and outsider, the Yankee culture that produced such enormous wealth, such amazing scientific and commercial innovations, and such a stable, if inward, society. Ultimately, he found it stifling and impossible to endure, which is why he left America for good when his mother died in 1911.
I think his critique stands as a near equal to the De Tocqueville’s critique of American democracy. Both understood the marvels our our civilization as well as the sewer of our culture.
The bottom line for me is this: Santayana reveals how the pietistic millennialist obsessions of the Puritans survived the 17th century, how they subtend the compulsion to indulge in a form of manipulation of others because it is required for your own salvation — with the conviction that you are doing your “subjects” a favor they may not even grasp. This conceit is what animates the freak show of American evangelical life up to the Aboilitionist movement, the deification of Lincoln and justification of the slaughterhouse of the Union’s military subjugation of the South’s desire to secede from the Union, as well as the post-Darwinian American Protestant faith and the emergence of not only the “Social Gospel” but the cultural poison of Progressivism, with its “scientific racism” and “scientific banking” — both of which are grinding our nation to the bone as I type.
So yes, I think Santayana is germane to life in Absurdistan, but not as a finger pointed to Satan but as a finger pointed to theological doctrines anchored in a deep and troubling characterological flaw in our human makeup that shape shifts from religious to political forms of manipulation, control, violence, and compulsion.
Very nice! My Phelpses were a breakaway who went up to Canada to dig the first deep cut on the Welland Canal, and continued to be engaged in what I can only describe as an ecstatic Christianity, that moved thru the Underground Railroad, and then onto the Social Gospel. One of them even built a camp meeting summer place with gingerbread cottages where people could summer and go to revivals and church and so on. Even the generation in the 1920's - Edith and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes were heavily into hands on work with the less fortunate. If you look at their summer schedule in Murray Bay pre WW1 it was wildly charitable AND social, changing seven times a day, and five daily meetings on what to do about this or that. So I would posit that the very second a man or woman disconnects from an intimate relationship with the divine he or she disobeys this: Avito Vire Honore - and then all hell comes to visit. So my posh grandmother who was a social climber and world traveller who bankrupted two husbands, was VERY stern about other people's behaviour. And held everyone to a standard she couldn't reach herself. She was a member of the court party, always angling for preference, and entirely willing to judge and take inventory and bully.
Mr. J. Duncan Berry, this phrase you wrote..."how they subtend the compulsion to indulge in a form of manipulation of others ..." fit me like a glove from the age of 13 to the age of 33. At that point, the Good LORD made his move on me and I knew I had to make a choice: keep living that life of grasping manipulation, or turn myself over to the Man Upstairs. I have chosen the Upstairs route. Learning the skills and discipline of Christ's spiritual warfare against Satan is something that should begin in earliest childhood but as far as I can tell, such education is pointedly ignored. During the past week, I've been thinking about this passage from the New Testament, Jesus speaking:
Luke 11:11-13 > > If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
The crux of those questions (to me) is the phrase, "If you then, being evil... ." Those 5 words strike me as a blanket indictment of the entire human race, all nations, all people, cradle to grave. Evil is the default human condition. George Santayana seemed to recognize the overall, generalized presence of that badness but he didn't know what to do about it because there is nothing in the power of merely human intellect capable of grasping the full meaning and cause of atomic decay and death. All of the man-made religious gobble-gobble has failed to elucidate the simple spiritual facts of the matter: life and death, good and evil are spiritual, supernatural powers. The controversy we endure is between the Christ of God and God's apostate son, Lucifer. There will not be any kind of man-made political or religious solution to the gathering darkness and escalating confusion of the present Moment.
THIS is what is missing from churches. We spend so much time talking about evangelism, and how to get people into our shrinking churches, when for the most part we don't even understand the purpose of churches. They are to be the ship that saves us from the evil of this world, through faith in Christ Himself, the only one who ever lived who was not evil. There is a reason churches have a peaked ceiling over the chancel, and why the interior of a church is called the 'nave.'
Thank you for your personal courage to eschew the golden lure of the "Illuminati". I appreciated your comments about early learned dining table manners that if not followed immediately cued the members of the "In Class" to freeze you out of their confidences and honesty. I have felt that sudden freeze out several times in my life. I am reminded of the dinner scene with Cate Blanchette and Leonardo DiCaprio in the "Aviator" where Howard Hughes fails the test of acceptance. I sincerely hope that middle American/Suburban women wake up and understand that abortion is not the litmus issue for a politician but rather his policies against the onslaught of Socialism and elite control of our destinies.
Thanks for your perspective and view from the inside. The Lever-Pullers believe themselves to be sovereign in every regard. There are special places in Hell for each of them.
It is a standing joke on the Right these days that "1984 was not intended as an operating manual." It is indeed hard for me to imagine that Orwell viewed the horrific society he portrayed as desirable. So I wonder at your inclusion of '1984' with 'Brave New World', etc. Otherwise, I am intrigued by your observations, scary though they are.
@LEJoiner : Your question was regarding Huxley, not Orwell (which is where the other thread goes)? My understanding is that Huxley was "one of them" by family, but not of them, in spirit. BNW was a prescient warning about the eugenics-laced future promoted by his father and brother Julian. This is gleaned from my discernment of the intent of BNW and it's ultimate hero, the Savage, John, plus some videos here and there, featuring Aldous himself. The distinction you seek is important. Regards.
Of course I am serious. The joke is that the Left is operating as if Orwell wrote an operating manual. Clearly he was taking what he saw of Soviet Russia to a fictional extreme—the idea he was advocating that path would be hard to swallow. '1984' is a tragedy, a disaster for its protagonist.
I listened to a few minutes of the podcast you referenced. Sorry, can't take a whole hour of these two guys just chit-chatting and speculating. Give me something I can read, please, with facts.
Ah well maybe they’re an acquired taste but that is what they do. They chat about a subject, make inferences and let the listener draw their conclusions.
If you’re looking for a ‘factual’ peer reviewed document of evidence I believe you may struggle. Have a good day.
Hi Elizabeth, very interesting post. You name a lot of the figures in this post. I would only suggest an emphasis on the central banks, which (1) operate "independently" from government, and (2) are owned, through various backroom maneuvers, by a very tiny number of families worldwide. Their goal is worldwide unlimited debt slavery and the reintroduction of feudalism and a massively declining quality of life for all but themselves...I go into the specifics here:
Fascinating. Thank you. The 'corral' builders that have led us here. Of course (for me) there were clear hidden (and not so hidden) agendas to reduce human agency and human values. It is most definitely an anti-human world we now occupy.
There are many groups we can look to who have played their parts and connecting dots can be certainly be challenging. Thank you for connecting some of them. Even if we ultimately can't agree on all the details, it's quite obvious to some of us, that there has been an anti-human plan in place. I assume and hope those groups behind it are fracturing and weakening. So much is coming out and increasingly they look desperate.
I think many people will leave the planet (as intended) but I don't think 'they' will be in charge. I imagine a positive future, and rekindled human values, particularly around self-sovereignty and freedom. Won't necessarily be easy getting there.
I’m just an old cowhand from Wyoming so some of the people you mentioned are all new to. But I love your thought provoking writing. My quarter was well spent this week.
Elizabeth, my jaw drops, always, at what you have been a witness to, and the incredible way you have of describing it. It is not only lapidary and stunning but also FUNNY. I laughed out loud at the lines about Blavatsky. I experience gratitude line by line at your writing, for the sensation of cloudy mysteries clarified at last, things being nailed down! At last. I wonder if you have the answer to my nagging question: Did Rudolf Steiner really and truly break with Blavatsky, and/or what does that kinship mean, of anything, about him, even if he did break it? If Steiner was correct about Ahriman, (incarnated evil possibly worse than Lucifer) and it seems he was (his nature would be "perfectly cold" and come in through "electromagnetism" circa 1998) then Steiner was (I guess) a "good guy" but how the hell over water did he spend three minutes with absurd/Satanic Blavatsky? And why do I feel guilty for asking? The "break" does not quite do it for me.
Not actually asking you to know or answer this, mostly just saying this is one of my nagging questions and Steiner people generally can't seem to cope with it at all. I also used to think I was an appreciator of DH Lawrence but the more I think about it the more he creeps me out. Orwell, if I understand it correctly, was murdered. Suggesting he was on the side of light. I DO read 1984 as a lamentation. Not a guide book. (Not that you came down on one side, but it's come up in the comments.)
I greatly look forward to your writings, and only took a while to read this one because I was ferrying a fiberglass trailer from Buffalo NY back to central CT. Incidentally, the poverty between said geographic regions, especially if you get off I 90, as I did, hits you like a total assault on all hope you ever had or will have, for the "America" whose name is still in the faded Trump flags on the rotted porches. I'm not taking this moment to cast cynicism on him but feeling a deep grief about the whole vast graveyard of killed hopes, since forever, but especially since Wikileaks, 2016. American poverty, but extreme poverty that has eaten into everything, everything, is not a subject. I think I understand why. It's too depressing and it raises the hellish specter of the monetary system as it is politely called. The Beast System put in place by Alexander Hamilton, who made sure we're forever the Crown and never the free nation we have been PSY Oped to believe we are. We're still England, monetarily, due to the triumph of Hamilton over Jefferson, as regards the new nation''s response to war debt. Your readers will correct me if I seem to overstate or misunderstand. (And this is not your theme in this piece, I know.)
I get my sense of all this from my late friend Richard Kotlarz, monetary and American self-styled outsider historian (writings at www.richkotlarz.com.)
Canada—all I ever had in my head was PSY Ops about…nature, ice, snow, ruggedness, moose, and decency. You're a very important flashlight in the dark.
I plan to study Niagara Falls—the American side and the Canadian side.
Canada has something we don't have. What is that something?
Yes, that is the thing Ihave come to. England never quite got its tentacles out. And they have been trying to destroy America ever since. One foul action after another. The deaths in WW1 and 2, that THEY started to make money…..the Civil War. ALL the assassinations…I am not deeply acquainted with Steiner, but Blavatsky and Gurdieff are ludicrous characters. I mean 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮. Thank you, I profoundly appreciate.
Our Canadian California-based nephew came back to visit Ontario recently. He has lived in California for about 20 years. When chatting with him about American politics and current events, he stressed to us repeatedly he is stunned by the sharp increase in poverty in America. It saddens him deeply. This, clearly, was planned, not happenstance.
May God have His way. May those in power who do not love North America be exposed and corrected. Amen. So be it.
1) My dh's favourite hat reads: "I drink Scotch - and I know things." Indeed, he does. And this "knowing things" comes with age and experience. We are both in our 70s, and we grew up and experienced Ontario small city life in the 50s and 60s. With that, we have seared in our memories a contrasting template of a very different era: an era where, in the main, a family with one breadwinner could own a modest home and have some savings. An era when there were community standards, virtue, modesty and morals. Elizabeth "knows things". Some other current scribes know things. And we are blessed they are able to share with us on such platforms Thanks so much, Elizabeth.
2) For an amusing look at the contempt with which elites hold us, watch "Rat Race." We are mere commodities.
3) It never occurred to me that 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World were planning manuals. I thought they were cautionary tales. Both, I guess. Three other dystopian novels: "Lord of the World" by Robert Hugh Benson, 1907; Michael D. O'Brien's "Father Elijah," 1996; and "Windswept House" by Malachi Martin, 1996.
4) Since the beginning of this time of absurdity, I have oft mused on the thought that those who resisted and pushed back seem to have (largely) escaped the physical and emotional madness. I mean, aren't we the rebels, the ones who stood firm despite strong opposition? Wouldn't we be the ones they first wished to target? Of course I have no illusions that we are not in the crosshairs for Round 2.
Thank you for writing about this topic. I’m curious to know more about America’s founding. Considering the prominence of these bloodline families, how was a country like America even allowed to exist, let alone thrive? Have you written about this already? Sorry if I’m late to the game...
Yes. My wife and I catered for the rich and powerful in the San Francisco Bay Area. We catered at the Bohemian Grove. Everything E. Nickson says about the evil arrogant powerful bastards is true. I've seen it and heard it myself.
It's highly informative to hear about this distinction from an insider.
I grew up in two much younger cities (Enid and Ponca) where the founding families were still around, and where older people remembered and admired the founders. Those founders got rich, but always took care of their cities and employees. Ordinary people felt like citizens.
The cities remained culturally healthy and prosperous until 1980, when the all-consuming Share Value monster LBOd and closed the companies.
I've lived in other cities where the founders grabbed the money and absconded to fancier places. Those cities declined much faster.
I listened to the 43 minute speech of Huxley’s linked in the article. Huxley’s message, from beginning to end, is a warning of how these methods of manipulating people psychologically can be so dangerous in the wrong hands.
It’s just one speech, but in this speech Huxley is a prophet, not a sinister genius laying out his plan to control the masses. Huxley asks his audience to first become aware of these experiments, and then to use some imagination on how they can be used for evil purposes, and resist them.
I know! But he went onto seed his cult throughout Hollywood, it was picked up by Tavistock and the CIA and his ideas caused havoc. His error was that he thought the senses, the drugs, the spiritualism were a doorway to God. Instead a doorway to hell. Mistake made by millions.
Thanks. Trying to find info on Huxley and The Children of the Sun cult was difficult. Huxley's experiments with psychedelic drugs and mescaline was a red flag. After your repIy, I watched the 1958 Mike Wallace interview with Huxley. Right out of the box, Wallace asked Huxley what are these "forces" Huxley talks about driving us to totalitarianism. Huxley's response was: overpopulation. Major red flag for me. So I searched "huxley tavistock" and found this: https://strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/11/huxleys-ultimate-revolution-the-battle-for-your-mind-and-the-relativity-of-madness/
I can't vouch for The Strategic Culture Foundation, but the 3-part series comes with multiple source footnotes. As for The Children of the Sun, they used a a German name, SonnenKinder. Very disappointing to learn that Huxley, while publicly warning about manipulation of the masses and the march of totalitarianism, was involved in groups (cults?) promoting that very manipulation. The wickedness is more widespread and deeper than this cynic believed.
"Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the "Children of the Sun", a Dionysian cult comprised of the children of Britain's Roundtable elite. Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Sir Oswald Mosley, and D.H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover... Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford by H.G. Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during World War I and the spiritual grandfather of the Aquarian Conspiracy."
Yes, Tavistock is behind it all…. Also, if you believe this nonsense, they are supposed to tell you what they are doing, otherwise it doesn’t work for their skewed “ethical” system.
One of your readers in a comment, asked how you gained moral fibre. How did all of us, reading here, develop the skill of seeing-through, or smelling the shit? Born with it? I can recall as a small child listening with another part of myself when adults spoke; I had the distinct impression that many of them said one thing but were either lying or meant something else entirely. Their lips moved but meaning did not emerge, at least for me.
I had a terrifying father whose ethical compass was unerring. Rebelled for a while, but his and his culture were clearly right, healthy, equitable and strong. It is a feeling of rightness, deep intuition…just hardwired maybe? .
"...a feeling of rightness, deep intuition..." sounds about right to me.
allow me to add my speculation on where this comes from:
living with careful attention to the health of ones' heart/emotional center? simple caring and compassion as primary state of being? (whatever the heck that means, i don't know, really. but to me, such a "vibration" surely exists-- like a sweet kind of delicate, yet powerful living spirit/entity that remains alive within us as long as we choose to value its' presence, listen to it and keep an eye out in defense of it.)
seems to me, as Charkate says, we are indeed "born with it". probably everyone is? but then the cold, prevailing madness of humanity soon descends upon us in our vulnerable, impressionable-child condition via repeated unconscious painful betrayals and abuses of trust. before we are even able to grasp it, our brains disconnect us from this finer/higher-grade element of being human in the interest of survival of the greater biological organism. it is precisely this finer element within us that is constantly struggling to be born so it can breathe the totality of the wild, beautiful, free spirit of life into this base human beast whereby all of our self-created ills and social maladies shall be easily and permanently remedied.
I think people’s souls flee, leaving the impression of NPCs. Non playing characters. But the only valuable thing to do is to act ethically no matter what and take the consequences, what else is there? Money? No. Success is horrid generally, I have found. People like your success not you. Love living with careful attention to the health of one’s heart, the delicate …just really beautiful.
I listened to the A. Huxley speech. I did not find him to be encouraging this revolution, but deploring it while still admitting it was the likely outcome for mankind.
I do not quite understand how Huxley could play around with Occult, and be such a clear thinker. I am such an enemy of it, that I have to think he got lost in it.
A good warning to inquisitive and supple minds. There are dangers along these paths of exploration for which our ‘modern’ perspective provides no defense.
This is a curious parallel with today's Yuval Noah Harari ... a normie friend of mine has read his book (I haven't) and thinks he's "warning us"! I tried to show her that he is Schwab's stooge in bringing about the Great Reset; she resolutely insists Harari is a good guy.
Well it is good to be open to different opinions, and your friend by reading Harari’s book has more direct knowledge than I, but I do get a much more sinister impression from Mr. Harari than I do Aldous Huxley. Perhaps if Huxley had been Stalin’s pocket intellectual I would suspect his motives more, as you and I suspect Harari’s motives.
Once Huxley and his friends signed onto the Children of the Sun, they entered the world where "do what thou wilt" brings a legion of pain. And everything you think and do is twisted. That's what is happening to today's public intellectuals. That is why everything that comes out of their mouths is a lie and seeds misery. Huxley in his later year was not the Huxley of his youth.
MizNickson, I surely do appreciate this sentence: 'What I am attempting is to skirt the depths of paranoia by using real world data, and actual documents, as well as planning that is in the public domain and established fact.'
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Five years ago I overhead an interesting quote and the person who gave it was kind enough to attribute the quote to George Santayana, from the only novel that Mr. Santayana ever wrote: "The Last Puritan." They say he worked on that novel in his spare time and it took him 35 years to finish it.
George Santayana was a member of the elite class of whom you've written here. From what little I've read of his non-fiction work I've gotten the impression that GS was quietly outraged by the cruel exploitations his brahmin class practiced against the lower classes, especially the middle class.
They say GS was an atheist. I find that hard to believe. He lived the last decade of his life in a convent in Rome, cared for by Irish nuns. George Santayana died in their care in 1952. From my experience, Irish sisters of that generation did not truck with atheists.
Anyway, 'The Last Puritan' gives readers a fair glimpse of the hard-hearted vanity, self-righteousness and vainglory of the so-called elite. The most elite of them all is Satan and he's doomed. That's gotta tellya somethin' right? Satan is the strawboss to whom these mortal elites are enthralled:
Luke 4:5-8 > > And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
I’ve been reading George Santayana in earnest for the last couple of years, after reading Michael Knox Beran’s very fine volume on WASPS. I first dove deeply into the writing of Henry Adams, then Santayana. In Santayana I feel as though I have found a long-lost friend. He is a marvelous prose stylist, and I enjoyed immensely the reading of his semi-autobiographical novel “The Last Puritan” as well as his memoirs, “Persons and Places.”
You can read any number of intelligent reviews of Santayana’s work, but I think the most germane piece was the 1911 lecture on “The Genteel Tradition” published in 1913 in “The Winds of Doctrine” then expanded and published in 1931 as “The Genteel Tradition at Bay.”
Santayana’s mother’s first husband was a member of the prestigious Sturgis family of Boston, and when she died, he received an inheritance than enabled him to leave his teaching duties at Harvard’s philosophy department. Although born in Spain, he was raised in high Brahmin/WASP culture in the last few decades of the 19th century in Boston. He came to loathe the arrogance, certainty, Protestant pietism, coldness, and artificiality of the “agonized conscience” of the cultivated New England mind.
In my mind, what makes Santayana so important — besides the deeply humane and well-crafted prose of his philosophical works — is his ability to know, as both insider and outsider, the Yankee culture that produced such enormous wealth, such amazing scientific and commercial innovations, and such a stable, if inward, society. Ultimately, he found it stifling and impossible to endure, which is why he left America for good when his mother died in 1911.
I think his critique stands as a near equal to the De Tocqueville’s critique of American democracy. Both understood the marvels our our civilization as well as the sewer of our culture.
The bottom line for me is this: Santayana reveals how the pietistic millennialist obsessions of the Puritans survived the 17th century, how they subtend the compulsion to indulge in a form of manipulation of others because it is required for your own salvation — with the conviction that you are doing your “subjects” a favor they may not even grasp. This conceit is what animates the freak show of American evangelical life up to the Aboilitionist movement, the deification of Lincoln and justification of the slaughterhouse of the Union’s military subjugation of the South’s desire to secede from the Union, as well as the post-Darwinian American Protestant faith and the emergence of not only the “Social Gospel” but the cultural poison of Progressivism, with its “scientific racism” and “scientific banking” — both of which are grinding our nation to the bone as I type.
So yes, I think Santayana is germane to life in Absurdistan, but not as a finger pointed to Satan but as a finger pointed to theological doctrines anchored in a deep and troubling characterological flaw in our human makeup that shape shifts from religious to political forms of manipulation, control, violence, and compulsion.
Very nice! My Phelpses were a breakaway who went up to Canada to dig the first deep cut on the Welland Canal, and continued to be engaged in what I can only describe as an ecstatic Christianity, that moved thru the Underground Railroad, and then onto the Social Gospel. One of them even built a camp meeting summer place with gingerbread cottages where people could summer and go to revivals and church and so on. Even the generation in the 1920's - Edith and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes were heavily into hands on work with the less fortunate. If you look at their summer schedule in Murray Bay pre WW1 it was wildly charitable AND social, changing seven times a day, and five daily meetings on what to do about this or that. So I would posit that the very second a man or woman disconnects from an intimate relationship with the divine he or she disobeys this: Avito Vire Honore - and then all hell comes to visit. So my posh grandmother who was a social climber and world traveller who bankrupted two husbands, was VERY stern about other people's behaviour. And held everyone to a standard she couldn't reach herself. She was a member of the court party, always angling for preference, and entirely willing to judge and take inventory and bully.
(I adored her)
Mr. J. Duncan Berry, this phrase you wrote..."how they subtend the compulsion to indulge in a form of manipulation of others ..." fit me like a glove from the age of 13 to the age of 33. At that point, the Good LORD made his move on me and I knew I had to make a choice: keep living that life of grasping manipulation, or turn myself over to the Man Upstairs. I have chosen the Upstairs route. Learning the skills and discipline of Christ's spiritual warfare against Satan is something that should begin in earliest childhood but as far as I can tell, such education is pointedly ignored. During the past week, I've been thinking about this passage from the New Testament, Jesus speaking:
Luke 11:11-13 > > If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
The crux of those questions (to me) is the phrase, "If you then, being evil... ." Those 5 words strike me as a blanket indictment of the entire human race, all nations, all people, cradle to grave. Evil is the default human condition. George Santayana seemed to recognize the overall, generalized presence of that badness but he didn't know what to do about it because there is nothing in the power of merely human intellect capable of grasping the full meaning and cause of atomic decay and death. All of the man-made religious gobble-gobble has failed to elucidate the simple spiritual facts of the matter: life and death, good and evil are spiritual, supernatural powers. The controversy we endure is between the Christ of God and God's apostate son, Lucifer. There will not be any kind of man-made political or religious solution to the gathering darkness and escalating confusion of the present Moment.
THIS is what is missing from churches. We spend so much time talking about evangelism, and how to get people into our shrinking churches, when for the most part we don't even understand the purpose of churches. They are to be the ship that saves us from the evil of this world, through faith in Christ Himself, the only one who ever lived who was not evil. There is a reason churches have a peaked ceiling over the chancel, and why the interior of a church is called the 'nave.'
Thank you for your personal courage to eschew the golden lure of the "Illuminati". I appreciated your comments about early learned dining table manners that if not followed immediately cued the members of the "In Class" to freeze you out of their confidences and honesty. I have felt that sudden freeze out several times in my life. I am reminded of the dinner scene with Cate Blanchette and Leonardo DiCaprio in the "Aviator" where Howard Hughes fails the test of acceptance. I sincerely hope that middle American/Suburban women wake up and understand that abortion is not the litmus issue for a politician but rather his policies against the onslaught of Socialism and elite control of our destinies.
Thanks for your perspective and view from the inside. The Lever-Pullers believe themselves to be sovereign in every regard. There are special places in Hell for each of them.
I do hope so.
It is a standing joke on the Right these days that "1984 was not intended as an operating manual." It is indeed hard for me to imagine that Orwell viewed the horrific society he portrayed as desirable. So I wonder at your inclusion of '1984' with 'Brave New World', etc. Otherwise, I am intrigued by your observations, scary though they are.
@LEJoiner : Your question was regarding Huxley, not Orwell (which is where the other thread goes)? My understanding is that Huxley was "one of them" by family, but not of them, in spirit. BNW was a prescient warning about the eugenics-laced future promoted by his father and brother Julian. This is gleaned from my discernment of the intent of BNW and it's ultimate hero, the Savage, John, plus some videos here and there, featuring Aldous himself. The distinction you seek is important. Regards.
No, and a search on 'The Sheep Farmers' yields nothing regarding Orwell. Do you have a link?
I am perfectly aware of the Orwellian developments in our society—hence the joke.
So sorry I missed the joke 🤦🏼♀️ I thought you were being serious!
Have a look on sheepfarm.co.uk it’s Huxley’s Brave New World episode 4 podcast.
Of course I am serious. The joke is that the Left is operating as if Orwell wrote an operating manual. Clearly he was taking what he saw of Soviet Russia to a fictional extreme—the idea he was advocating that path would be hard to swallow. '1984' is a tragedy, a disaster for its protagonist.
I listened to a few minutes of the podcast you referenced. Sorry, can't take a whole hour of these two guys just chit-chatting and speculating. Give me something I can read, please, with facts.
Ah well maybe they’re an acquired taste but that is what they do. They chat about a subject, make inferences and let the listener draw their conclusions.
If you’re looking for a ‘factual’ peer reviewed document of evidence I believe you may struggle. Have a good day.
Hi Elizabeth, very interesting post. You name a lot of the figures in this post. I would only suggest an emphasis on the central banks, which (1) operate "independently" from government, and (2) are owned, through various backroom maneuvers, by a very tiny number of families worldwide. Their goal is worldwide unlimited debt slavery and the reintroduction of feudalism and a massively declining quality of life for all but themselves...I go into the specifics here:
https://neofeudalism.substack.com/p/goals-motivations-and-strategies
Fascinating. Thank you. The 'corral' builders that have led us here. Of course (for me) there were clear hidden (and not so hidden) agendas to reduce human agency and human values. It is most definitely an anti-human world we now occupy.
There are many groups we can look to who have played their parts and connecting dots can be certainly be challenging. Thank you for connecting some of them. Even if we ultimately can't agree on all the details, it's quite obvious to some of us, that there has been an anti-human plan in place. I assume and hope those groups behind it are fracturing and weakening. So much is coming out and increasingly they look desperate.
I think many people will leave the planet (as intended) but I don't think 'they' will be in charge. I imagine a positive future, and rekindled human values, particularly around self-sovereignty and freedom. Won't necessarily be easy getting there.
I'll look forward to reading more. Best.
And I thought they all had it in the bag and then came Donald Trump
I’m just an old cowhand from Wyoming so some of the people you mentioned are all new to. But I love your thought provoking writing. My quarter was well spent this week.
Elizabeth, my jaw drops, always, at what you have been a witness to, and the incredible way you have of describing it. It is not only lapidary and stunning but also FUNNY. I laughed out loud at the lines about Blavatsky. I experience gratitude line by line at your writing, for the sensation of cloudy mysteries clarified at last, things being nailed down! At last. I wonder if you have the answer to my nagging question: Did Rudolf Steiner really and truly break with Blavatsky, and/or what does that kinship mean, of anything, about him, even if he did break it? If Steiner was correct about Ahriman, (incarnated evil possibly worse than Lucifer) and it seems he was (his nature would be "perfectly cold" and come in through "electromagnetism" circa 1998) then Steiner was (I guess) a "good guy" but how the hell over water did he spend three minutes with absurd/Satanic Blavatsky? And why do I feel guilty for asking? The "break" does not quite do it for me.
Not actually asking you to know or answer this, mostly just saying this is one of my nagging questions and Steiner people generally can't seem to cope with it at all. I also used to think I was an appreciator of DH Lawrence but the more I think about it the more he creeps me out. Orwell, if I understand it correctly, was murdered. Suggesting he was on the side of light. I DO read 1984 as a lamentation. Not a guide book. (Not that you came down on one side, but it's come up in the comments.)
I greatly look forward to your writings, and only took a while to read this one because I was ferrying a fiberglass trailer from Buffalo NY back to central CT. Incidentally, the poverty between said geographic regions, especially if you get off I 90, as I did, hits you like a total assault on all hope you ever had or will have, for the "America" whose name is still in the faded Trump flags on the rotted porches. I'm not taking this moment to cast cynicism on him but feeling a deep grief about the whole vast graveyard of killed hopes, since forever, but especially since Wikileaks, 2016. American poverty, but extreme poverty that has eaten into everything, everything, is not a subject. I think I understand why. It's too depressing and it raises the hellish specter of the monetary system as it is politely called. The Beast System put in place by Alexander Hamilton, who made sure we're forever the Crown and never the free nation we have been PSY Oped to believe we are. We're still England, monetarily, due to the triumph of Hamilton over Jefferson, as regards the new nation''s response to war debt. Your readers will correct me if I seem to overstate or misunderstand. (And this is not your theme in this piece, I know.)
I get my sense of all this from my late friend Richard Kotlarz, monetary and American self-styled outsider historian (writings at www.richkotlarz.com.)
Canada—all I ever had in my head was PSY Ops about…nature, ice, snow, ruggedness, moose, and decency. You're a very important flashlight in the dark.
I plan to study Niagara Falls—the American side and the Canadian side.
Canada has something we don't have. What is that something?
Yes, that is the thing Ihave come to. England never quite got its tentacles out. And they have been trying to destroy America ever since. One foul action after another. The deaths in WW1 and 2, that THEY started to make money…..the Civil War. ALL the assassinations…I am not deeply acquainted with Steiner, but Blavatsky and Gurdieff are ludicrous characters. I mean 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮. Thank you, I profoundly appreciate.
Our Canadian California-based nephew came back to visit Ontario recently. He has lived in California for about 20 years. When chatting with him about American politics and current events, he stressed to us repeatedly he is stunned by the sharp increase in poverty in America. It saddens him deeply. This, clearly, was planned, not happenstance.
May God have His way. May those in power who do not love North America be exposed and corrected. Amen. So be it.
You think? (I'm Canadian and intrigued by your question.)
O/T: " ferrying a fiberglass trailer" Caught my attention; I'm a fan of molded-fiberglass travel trailers ('MrLynn' on FiberglassRV.com); wrote about getting a Casita (https://walkingcreekworld.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/the-molded-fiberglass-obsession/ ); now have an Escape.
FOUR THINGS:
1) My dh's favourite hat reads: "I drink Scotch - and I know things." Indeed, he does. And this "knowing things" comes with age and experience. We are both in our 70s, and we grew up and experienced Ontario small city life in the 50s and 60s. With that, we have seared in our memories a contrasting template of a very different era: an era where, in the main, a family with one breadwinner could own a modest home and have some savings. An era when there were community standards, virtue, modesty and morals. Elizabeth "knows things". Some other current scribes know things. And we are blessed they are able to share with us on such platforms Thanks so much, Elizabeth.
2) For an amusing look at the contempt with which elites hold us, watch "Rat Race." We are mere commodities.
3) It never occurred to me that 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World were planning manuals. I thought they were cautionary tales. Both, I guess. Three other dystopian novels: "Lord of the World" by Robert Hugh Benson, 1907; Michael D. O'Brien's "Father Elijah," 1996; and "Windswept House" by Malachi Martin, 1996.
4) Since the beginning of this time of absurdity, I have oft mused on the thought that those who resisted and pushed back seem to have (largely) escaped the physical and emotional madness. I mean, aren't we the rebels, the ones who stood firm despite strong opposition? Wouldn't we be the ones they first wished to target? Of course I have no illusions that we are not in the crosshairs for Round 2.
Apparently they call us the goats, as in separate from the sheep. GOAT = Greatest Of All Time. If you want to talk double meaning!
Thank you for writing about this topic. I’m curious to know more about America’s founding. Considering the prominence of these bloodline families, how was a country like America even allowed to exist, let alone thrive? Have you written about this already? Sorry if I’m late to the game...
Early America was seen as a mess of peasants, dirt, and eating squirrel, so they left it alone till the Civil War, which they probably started.
Britain did not voluntarily relinquish the American colonies.
Yes. My wife and I catered for the rich and powerful in the San Francisco Bay Area. We catered at the Bohemian Grove. Everything E. Nickson says about the evil arrogant powerful bastards is true. I've seen it and heard it myself.
That sounds like a fascinating tale.
Do tell.
Una...Me: I've told the tales before. We catered for the rich on Pacific Heights in SF and for the powerful at Bohemian Grove.
It's highly informative to hear about this distinction from an insider.
I grew up in two much younger cities (Enid and Ponca) where the founding families were still around, and where older people remembered and admired the founders. Those founders got rich, but always took care of their cities and employees. Ordinary people felt like citizens.
The cities remained culturally healthy and prosperous until 1980, when the all-consuming Share Value monster LBOd and closed the companies.
I've lived in other cities where the founders grabbed the money and absconded to fancier places. Those cities declined much faster.
Mine were very serious Christians, therein the difference. I think.
I listened to the 43 minute speech of Huxley’s linked in the article. Huxley’s message, from beginning to end, is a warning of how these methods of manipulating people psychologically can be so dangerous in the wrong hands.
It’s just one speech, but in this speech Huxley is a prophet, not a sinister genius laying out his plan to control the masses. Huxley asks his audience to first become aware of these experiments, and then to use some imagination on how they can be used for evil purposes, and resist them.
I know! But he went onto seed his cult throughout Hollywood, it was picked up by Tavistock and the CIA and his ideas caused havoc. His error was that he thought the senses, the drugs, the spiritualism were a doorway to God. Instead a doorway to hell. Mistake made by millions.
Thanks. Trying to find info on Huxley and The Children of the Sun cult was difficult. Huxley's experiments with psychedelic drugs and mescaline was a red flag. After your repIy, I watched the 1958 Mike Wallace interview with Huxley. Right out of the box, Wallace asked Huxley what are these "forces" Huxley talks about driving us to totalitarianism. Huxley's response was: overpopulation. Major red flag for me. So I searched "huxley tavistock" and found this: https://strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/11/huxleys-ultimate-revolution-the-battle-for-your-mind-and-the-relativity-of-madness/
I can't vouch for The Strategic Culture Foundation, but the 3-part series comes with multiple source footnotes. As for The Children of the Sun, they used a a German name, SonnenKinder. Very disappointing to learn that Huxley, while publicly warning about manipulation of the masses and the march of totalitarianism, was involved in groups (cults?) promoting that very manipulation. The wickedness is more widespread and deeper than this cynic believed.
Keep up the good work, Elizabeth!
"Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the "Children of the Sun", a Dionysian cult comprised of the children of Britain's Roundtable elite. Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Sir Oswald Mosley, and D.H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover... Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford by H.G. Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during World War I and the spiritual grandfather of the Aquarian Conspiracy."
modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=AquarianConspiracy
See also "Children of the Sun" by Martin Green: archive.org/details/childrenofsunnar0000gree_z0g3
Yes, Tavistock is behind it all…. Also, if you believe this nonsense, they are supposed to tell you what they are doing, otherwise it doesn’t work for their skewed “ethical” system.
One of your readers in a comment, asked how you gained moral fibre. How did all of us, reading here, develop the skill of seeing-through, or smelling the shit? Born with it? I can recall as a small child listening with another part of myself when adults spoke; I had the distinct impression that many of them said one thing but were either lying or meant something else entirely. Their lips moved but meaning did not emerge, at least for me.
Looking forward to reading the next instalment.
I had a terrifying father whose ethical compass was unerring. Rebelled for a while, but his and his culture were clearly right, healthy, equitable and strong. It is a feeling of rightness, deep intuition…just hardwired maybe? .
"...a feeling of rightness, deep intuition..." sounds about right to me.
allow me to add my speculation on where this comes from:
living with careful attention to the health of ones' heart/emotional center? simple caring and compassion as primary state of being? (whatever the heck that means, i don't know, really. but to me, such a "vibration" surely exists-- like a sweet kind of delicate, yet powerful living spirit/entity that remains alive within us as long as we choose to value its' presence, listen to it and keep an eye out in defense of it.)
seems to me, as Charkate says, we are indeed "born with it". probably everyone is? but then the cold, prevailing madness of humanity soon descends upon us in our vulnerable, impressionable-child condition via repeated unconscious painful betrayals and abuses of trust. before we are even able to grasp it, our brains disconnect us from this finer/higher-grade element of being human in the interest of survival of the greater biological organism. it is precisely this finer element within us that is constantly struggling to be born so it can breathe the totality of the wild, beautiful, free spirit of life into this base human beast whereby all of our self-created ills and social maladies shall be easily and permanently remedied.
I think people’s souls flee, leaving the impression of NPCs. Non playing characters. But the only valuable thing to do is to act ethically no matter what and take the consequences, what else is there? Money? No. Success is horrid generally, I have found. People like your success not you. Love living with careful attention to the health of one’s heart, the delicate …just really beautiful.
...NPC's that bite like reptiles, i might add.
"....what else is there?" nothing.
"money? no. success is horrid generally." only the fearless, passionate & deeply wise say such things. my heart sings to hear that, thank you.
Well they are mind controlled by reptiles or the human equivalent so that makes sense
You are asking: "Are the lied to as culpable as those lying?"
The answer is YES. That is the point of my posts about my little sister and Emily Oster (linked therein)
https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/my-little-sister-the-mass-murderer
...both pointing to the larger question about the responsibility of the victims
Being a victim does not make you innocent
We couldn't possibly be more different, you and I.
I am the abused bastard with the alcoholic step-father from the wrong side of the tracks.
You talk about the guilt of 'your' side; I will do the same for mine.
I listened to the A. Huxley speech. I did not find him to be encouraging this revolution, but deploring it while still admitting it was the likely outcome for mankind.
I do not quite understand how Huxley could play around with Occult, and be such a clear thinker. I am such an enemy of it, that I have to think he got lost in it.
A good warning to inquisitive and supple minds. There are dangers along these paths of exploration for which our ‘modern’ perspective provides no defense.
This is a curious parallel with today's Yuval Noah Harari ... a normie friend of mine has read his book (I haven't) and thinks he's "warning us"! I tried to show her that he is Schwab's stooge in bringing about the Great Reset; she resolutely insists Harari is a good guy.
Well it is good to be open to different opinions, and your friend by reading Harari’s book has more direct knowledge than I, but I do get a much more sinister impression from Mr. Harari than I do Aldous Huxley. Perhaps if Huxley had been Stalin’s pocket intellectual I would suspect his motives more, as you and I suspect Harari’s motives.
Once Huxley and his friends signed onto the Children of the Sun, they entered the world where "do what thou wilt" brings a legion of pain. And everything you think and do is twisted. That's what is happening to today's public intellectuals. That is why everything that comes out of their mouths is a lie and seeds misery. Huxley in his later year was not the Huxley of his youth.
Good point.
Interesting comment about the seemingly satanic Harari.