Evolution by the Papacy

In their steadfast desire to remain viable, the catholic church has resorted to the use of scientific technique to continually place itself as a perennial moral center in the psyche of the masses. This is accomplished using the highly learned order of the Jesuits, who have always highly prized knowledge. Assimilating new science as it is discovered, especially discoveries in the realm of psychology, has been especially fruitful. Propaganda, psychological acceptance of certain theologies, and popular culture itself are molded with the precision of the scientific technique. This is more pronounced in the modern age, where technology has amplified both the potential for control as well as differentiation.

Total Onslaught #3 The Secret Behind Secret Societies

A candid look at the origins of secret societies such as the illuminati, the freemasons, and the Jesuit Order. What constitutes freemasonry? What is their agenda? Includes a look at the Skull and Bones Society, the Knights of Columbus, and the well known leaders of our world and their involvement in unseen intrigues. (www.amazingdiscoveries.org - Full Series Available on DVD or VHS Format)

The Obfuscation of My Education

"Meanwhile science as technique was building up in practical men a quite different outlook from any that was to be found among theoretical philosophers. Technique conferred a sense of power: man is now much less at the mercy of his environment than he was in former times. Scientific technique requires the co-operation of of a large number of individuals organized under a single direction. In practice , the purposes to which scientific skill will be devoted to depend largely on chance. The men at the head of the vast organizations which it necessitates, can, within limits, turn it this way or that as they please. The power impulse thus has a scope which it never had before. The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skilfulness of the process is valued. This is also a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote. The modern world, at present, seems to be moving towards a solution like that of antiquity: a social order imposed by force, representing the will of the powerful rather than the hopes of common men."
- Bertrand Russell (1945), 'A History of Western Philosophy'

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."
- Edward Bernays (1928), 'Propaganda'

Tyranny of the Status Quo

In 1980, Milton Friedman produced his documentary and book titled, "Power to Choose." In it, he outlines his view of economic and government reform. In a succint and logical manner, Friedman advocates the return of the American economic structure and government to that of a total free-market policy grounded in a consitutionalist political framework. He provides evidence of the detriment to society that socialist welfare programs, government bureacracy, and worker unions produce despite all their good intentions precisely because they allow the force of special interest to take control of idealistic policies. The removal of these programs in favor of a completely free-market place, with extremely minimum government involvement, would produce the quality of economic growth that England saw in the 19th century, Hong Kong in the 20th century, and Dubai in the 21st century.The beauty of his argument is that it gives evidence, based upon natural principal, of the benefits of economic freedom that are part, parcel, and integral to the ideal of total human and individual freedoms.

The One Percent Doctrine

Ron Suskind's new book is beginning to play the rounds in the media, painting a picture of what it was like in the White House beginning September 12, 2001. Obviously this is kind of a cover up for what we would really like to know, i.e. what was happening in the White House before September 11, 2001.

http://www.ronsuskind.com/theonepercentdoctrine/

Democracy is Dead

Irving Kristol the father of Bill Kristol, who is head of PNAC and that other conversative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. Bill Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard, often thought of as the leading outlet for the neoconservative movement. The White House alone receives 30 copies a year.

Corporate philanthropy should be dis-interested. If they are not, then corporate money can be used to shape public opinion. If public opinion is changed by corporate money then the public is no longer in control of their democracy.

Economic Citizenship

As the economic abilities of the nations of China and India continue to grow, how will the interpretation of citizenship for second generation asians accept the growth of their ethnic homelands.

The association of economic power and ethnic civilization has a major effect on racial prejudices.

Consciousness

The ability to imagine is the fruit of the random fluctuations at the quantum level of space-time that is filtered up to the realm of the cellular mind and organized and processed in a statistical way. Man himself is in a constant state of pattern recognition and analysis.

Economic Racism

Note the numerous economic deals that are currently tinged with the scent of racism. Notably the Dubai Ports World deal, Arcelor and Mittal steel, Petrochem of China being blocked in its acquisition of Unocal, Japan and its car companies. Whereas European and American deals are hardly ever blocked.

Mysticism

After the dissolution of an oppresive religion that demands control and complete submission, the mystical vision of the universe is repeatedly born. This occurs in all religions. It is akin to the repeated cyclical nature of civilizations as Russell has noted in his anthology.

Darwin

The concept of evolution that has been attributed to Charles Darwin is in reality a cultural conceit. The presupposition that Darwin was the first man on the planet to intuit the concept of evolution as a vehicle of change for all things is hard to accept when the ancients were well aware of his vision. We are not berating Darwin completely though, for it is unknown whether any man before him had attributed evolution to individual species, an important insight, but it seems rather perverse to accept this conclusion first and then extrapolate the concept of evolution to everything else.

State-Owned Corporations

It might be possible that the state owned yet capitalistic nature of China's communist nation might need to be emulated by Western cultures as democracy is eroded by the meritocratic power of corporations and their nepotistic selection of leaders. Workers need to have a say, and if all workers are citizens, then it is logical to conclude that these corporations must be controlled by the people, via the government.

Investigate the state-owned business culture of China and advocate for its style as being an eventuality to sustain a decent human society.

Some political theorists already are considering some kind of altered communism to combat the failures of capitalism during a period of globalization.

Free Speech

Why has free speech become so ineffective? Isn't the promise of free speech that each individual is at all times defended from oppression?

Evolution

Perhaps the idea of evolution occuring during the lifetime of an individual needs to be reexamined. The experience being added to the DNA blueprint, would be of great evolutionary benefit. In the consummation of a new DNA strand by two individuals, what is the force that propels the evolutionary adaptations that nature dictates into the newly formed helix? It does not seem to be in nature's best interest to grant us long life if she does not benefit from the vast experiences that we collect.

Capitalism

What effect does being publically traded have on a company? What are the future projections for a capitalist society as companies push more and more for a bottom line. For example, the recent floating of Elvis Presley's estate as a publically traded company, with future expectations of "growth", begs the question of how further Presley memorabilia is to be sold. At what point does hawking a piece of memorabilia saturate the market and lose the intrinsic value that a piece of memorabilia offers? In fact, in today's world it has become almost next to impossible to find a piece of exotica with mediocrity of the global landscape becoming increasingly uniform. What about capitalism itself? Pro-capitalists push the fact that capitalism pushes forward technological growth, largest of the economic tentposts. But a long range model or forecast of the possible effects of capitalism, even without a mathematical aspect to it, it can be seen that large aspects of the slower paced world will be left in the dust.

Clique

People in an unstructured environment become friends with people who they aspire to be rather than who they really are. If a source of structure is identified, it is deemed discriminatory, hierarchical, or meritocratic. Is it possible to identify a source of structure that is equitable both externally and/or internally? Group dynamics would infer that if individuals within a group policed each other, an automatic hierarchy would form based upon external features. This is because unless the tools of intelligence acquisition, and a subsequent and arbitrary ranking metric were provided, the conclusion of an acceptable order would be improbable...unless forced.