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.
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.
Aug 13, 2023·edited Aug 13, 2023Liked by elizabeth nickson
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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.'
_______________________________
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.