1.
MY INTRODUCTION TO YOUR INITIATION ~
"Man
is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman a
rope over an abyss."
"I
teach you the Superman. Man is something to be surpassed."
--- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Self reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three
alone lead to sovereign power." --- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is."
--- Walt Whitman
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." --- Aleister
Crowley: The Book of the Law
My Son, the time has arrived
to make formal what you have confidently awaited for some
years. Of all your brothers, sisters, and cousins, as well
as the offspring of my close allies, I have chosen you to
be heir to my empire. All the trust funds, foundations, and
accounts through which my empire is controlled shall pass
into your hands upon my retirement. All my alliances, understandings,
and enmities with my handful of peers around the globe shall
gradually become yours. Over the next twenty years we shall
collaborate closer and closer, you and I, until, we finally
act as one.
For ten years you have
toured my empire in a succession of managerial assignments
and are now familiar with the outward operations of my crucial
banking, foundation, governmental, and think tank organizations.
Until now, my advisors and I have deflected your questions
as to how and if my diverse operations and holdings, which
seem autonomous and even contradictory, are integrated into
an organic whole to serve the dynasty's interests. The fact
that you asked these questions, rejecting my carefully nurtured
public image as an idle, coupon clipping philanthropist, was
a major factor in the high esteem in which I hold you. Most
of your competitors found puppet leadership in any one of
my organizations so awesome and gratifying that they immediately
eliminated themselves from the contest for the top position
which you have won. Such men of limited vision are necessary
for my success. They bend unconsciously to the subtle pressures
to which I expose them. They can be led in any direction I
choose by simple-minded rationalizations aimed at their vanity
without being privy to my motives which would be short lived
secrets in their undisciplined and envious minds.
Most important in your
selection as my successor, however was your psychological
nature which has been faithfully reported to me over the years
by my associates many of whom have advanced psychological
training. A man in my position must have total mastery over
his emotions. All actions affecting the power of the dynasty
must be taken on the basis of coldly reasoned power calculations
if the dynasty is to survive and prosper at the expense of
its subjects and rivals. All power is impossible to those
whose pursuit is ruled by sentimentality, love, envy power-lust
revenge, prejudice, hatred, justice, alcohol, drugs, or sexual
desire. Sustained power is impossible to those who repress
all their irrational longings into their subconscious only
to have them return in compulsive, out of control behavior
that inevitably leads to their ruin. Although often clothed
in the rationalizations of power calculation, compulsive behavior
is at root, the emotionalism of a frightened child, desperately
projecting his inner agony into a reality he is afraid to
under stand, much less master.
Although you now must
begin to pursue it consciously you have already displayed
the alienation from your emotional nature that is so essential
to achieving real worldly power. You must recognize your emotional
nature as a primitive survival mechanism that was appropriate
for the jungle and perhaps useful to common men, but useless
for the tasks that confront us finance capitalists. Attachment
to what you do, just because you do it, is the primary psychological
characteristic of ordinary mortals. Such cognitive dissonance
spells disaster for us. Our emotional mechanism makes our
lives worth living, but is no guide to the occult arts of
intrigue. So, continue to gratify your senses and emotions
fully at your leisure. As long as the empire prospers you
will have the resources to indulge in systematic gratification
which will leave your irrational urges sated and, therefore,
powerless. You will never be in the unenviable position of
the middle class strivers who must, from lack of resources,
repress their emotional natures if they are to attain any
power whatever during their lives. Typically, they end up
taking their pleasure from the victories and cruelties of
their struggle. Thus, their end ceases to be power and they
eventually defeat themselves with reckless behavior in pursuit
of dominant thrills.
I have brought you into
seclusion with my most trusted advisors in order to inaugurate
a new phase of your instruction. Your formal training in the
"official" political-economic world is now complete. This
weekend will mark the beginning of your training in the occult
technology of power that lurks behind outer appearances. As
your tutors will explain, "occult" or secret knowledge is
the basis of all power in human society, so I use the word
"occult" advisedly, in its pristine usage. As I am sure you
are aware by now, productivity in itself does not secure power
and therefore does not secure the gratifications of life.
After all, slaves can be productive. None of my organizations
in which you served so well are concerned with advancing the
techniques of satisfying human needs and desires. Rather,
all are dedicated to the surreptitious centralization of productive,
but especially coercive, efforts in my hands or in creating
the intellectual climate in which such veiled control would
be tolerated in the future. I destroy or paralyze productive
efforts that cannot be ensnarled in my web
After a break Professor
A. will take the floor in order to put finance capitalism
into full biological perspective. His short talk will be followed
by similar abbreviated summaries by his six associates, all
of whom you know well. The rest of the weekend will be devoted
to forthright fielding of your questions.
2.
PROFESSOR A. ON THE ROLE OF FRAUD IN NATURE ~
"Are we not all predatory
animals by instinct? If humans ceased wholly from preying
upon each other, could they continue to exist?" --- Anton
S. LaVey
"Nature, to be commanded
must be obeyed " --- Francis Bacon
Organisms typically base
their success primarily on deception and rely on actual force
or mutually advantageous trade (symbiosis) as little as possible.
This should be nearly self-evident, but is generally overlooked
due to the moral codes we elitists foist on our subjects.
Let me give a few examples in case the moral culture has to
some extent impaired your powers of objective observation.
Camouflage is universal among predators and victims alike.
Blossoms imitate fragrances and colors which are sexually
attractive to certain insects in order to effect pollination.
Dogs bark ferociously and feign attack on enemies of whom
they are, in fact, terrified. The Venus Fly Trap plant lures
flies to their deaths. Men proclaim their altruism to others
and even themselves while they selfishly scramble for personal
advantage. If you doubt that fraud is normal in nature you
should read section 3 of the first chapter of Robert Ardrey's
"The Social Contract" for a wealth of fascinating examples.
(Of course Ardrey fails to grasp the full application to contemporary
human society of his brilliant insights into man's animal
nature.)
Human mental prowess and
communicative powers have merely provided superb elaboration
on nature's old theme of fraud and added its own distinctive
feature: self delusion. Primitive animal hierarchies are based
on bluff and bluster, and each member is well aware of and
accepts, at least temporarily, its position in the hierarchy.
The same wild enthusiasm and fascination for dominance and
submission rages in human hearts. However, fraud is taken
one step further. Not only is fraudulent bluff and bluster
used to achieve dominance but fraudulent altruism and collective
institutions are used to conceal dominance once achieved.
Human hierarchies, in contrast to the animal variety, are
best sustained when the members are deluded regarding the
oppressive nature, or better, even the very existence of the
hierarchy!
Visible rulers are highly
vulnerable. Thus we see visible rulers claiming to be representatives
of God, the common good, the material forces of history, the
general will (either through vote or intuition), tradition,
or other intellectual "spooks" that serve to lessen the envy
of the ruled for the rulers. Encouraging such self-delusions
among the masses of the ruled is universal for visible governments.
However, such spooks are little protection for the leaders
of such systems against their sophisticated elite rivals and
no protection against men like your father. The Roman Empire
was unquestioned by the mass of its subjects for centuries,
but the Emperors lived in constant fear of coup and assassination.
By embracing deception
wholeheartedly at every level, finance capitalism, or rule
through money, has fashioned the ultimate system yet devised
for the secure exercise of power. Men like your father, the
hidden masters of finance capitalism, govern those who govern,
produce, and think through invisible financial tentacles,
the operations of which will be elucidated later by my colleagues.
Dominance in all aspects of society is surreptitiously accomplished
while the great majority of the ruled, and even most of the
visible leaders, believe themselves to be fairly autonomous,
if harried, members of a pluralistic society. Nearly everyone
believes major decisions to be the vector sum of autonomous
pressures exerted by business, labor, government, consumers,
social classes, and other special interests. In fact, the
vectors of societal power are carefully balanced by us so
that any net movement is in a direction chosen by us. The
only fly in the ointment is the occasional, but extremely
messy, interferences by competing financial dynasties. This
disconcerting problem will not be a major topic for this weekend.
I now yield to Professor
Q. who will elucidate the central secrets of your father's
immense money power.
3.
PROFESSOR Q. ON OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AS THE KEY TO POWER ~
"The theory of aggregate
production which is the point of the following book, nevertheless
can be much easier adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian
state than the theory of production and distribution of a
given production put forth under conditions of free competition…"
--- John Maynard Keynes ~ Forward to the German Edition of
the General Theory (September 7, 1936)
Throughout history, secure
ruling elites arise through secret, or occult knowledge which
they carefully guard and withhold from outsiders The power
of such elites or cults diminishes as their occult knowledge
is transformed into "scientific" knowledge and vanishes as
soon as it becomes "common sense." Before analyzing the secrets
of the finance capitalist money cult let us glance for historical
perspective at occult astronomy, the oldest source of stable
rule known to man of which astrology is hut the pathetic remnant.
As soon as men abandoned
the life of wandering, tribal hunters to till the soil they
needed to predict the seasons. Such knowledge was required
in order to know when to plant, when to expect floods in fertile
valleys, when to expect rainy seasons, and so on. Months of
backbreaking work were wasted by the unavailability of the
calendar, a convenience we take for granted. The men who first
studied and grasped the regularities of sun, moon, and stars
that presage the seasons had a valuable commodity to sell
and they milked it to the fullest at the expense of their
credulous fellowmen. The occult priesthoods of early astronomers
and mathematicians such as the designers of Stonehenge, convinced
their subjects that they alone had contact with the gods,
and thus, they alone could assure the return of planting seasons
and weather favorable to bountiful harvests. The staging (predicting)
of solar and lunar eclipses was particularly effective in
awing the community. The general success resulting from following
the priesthood's tilling, planting, nurturing, and harvesting
timetables insured the priesthood's power. Today's Christmas
holiday season continues the tradition set by ancient priesthoods,
who conducted rituals on the winter solstice to reverse the
retreat of the sun from the sky. Their invariable success
was followed by wild celebrations. Popular knowledge
of seasonal regularities was discouraged by every manner of
mysticism and outlandish ritual imaginable. Failures
in prediction were blamed on sins of the people and used to
justify intensified oppression. For centuries people who had
literally no idea of the number of days between seasons and
couldn't count anyway, cheerfully gave up a portion of their
harvests, as well as their most beautiful daughters, to their
"faithful servants" in the priesthoods.
The power of our finance
capitalist money cult rests on a similar secret knowledge,
primarily in the field of economics. Our power is weakened
by real advances in economic science (Fortunately, the public
at large and most revolutionaries remain totally ignorant
of economics). However, we established money lords have been
able to prolong and even reverse our decline by systematically
corrupting economic science with fallacious and spurious doctrines.
Through our power in the universities, publishing, and mass
media we have been able to reward the sincere, professorial
cranks whose spurious doctrines happen to rationalize in terms
of "common good" the government supported institutions, laws,
and economic measures upon which our money powers depend.
Keynesianism is the highest form of phony economics yet developed
to our benefit. The highly centralized, mixed economy resulting
from the policies advocated by Lord Keynes for promoting "prosperity"
has all the characteristics required to make our rule invulnerable
to our twin nemeses: real private competition in the economic
arena and real democratic process in the political arena.
Laissez-faire or free market, classical economics was our
original attempt to corrupt economic science. Its beautiful
internal consistency blinded economists for many years to
the fact that it had virtually nothing to do with current
reality. However, we are so powerful today that it is no longer
possible to conceal our imposing institutions with the appearances
of free competition Keynesianism rationalizes this omnipotent
state which we require, while retaining the privileges of
private property on which our power ultimately rests. Although
the interim reforms advocated by Marx in his Communist Manifesto
such as central banking, income tax, and other centralizing
measures can be corrupted to coincide exactly with our requirements,
we no longer allow Marxist movements major power in developed
countries. Our coercive institutions are already in place.
Any real steps toward communism would mean our downfall. Of
course, phony Marxism is an excellent ideological veil in
which to cloak our puppet dictators in underdeveloped areas.
Secondarily, the power
of the lords of money rests on an occult knowledge in the
area of politics and history. We have quite successfully corrupted
these sciences. Although many people are familiar with our
secrets through such books as 1984 by the disillusioned George
Orwell, few take them seriously and usually dismiss such ideas
as paranoia. Since real politics is motivated by individual
self-interest, history is viewed most accurately as a struggle
for power and wealth We do our best to obscure this self-evident
truth by popularizing the theory that history is made by the
impersonal struggles between ideas, political systems, ideologies,
races, and classes. Through systematic infiltration
of all major intellectual, political, and ideological organizations,
using the lure of financial support and instant publicity,
we have been able to set the limits of public debate within
the ideological requirements of our money power.
The so-called Left-Right
political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it accurately
reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the population
on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from
arising in their minds. The Left supports civil liberties
and opposes economic or entrepreneurial liberty. The Right
supports economic liberty and opposes civil liberty. Of course
neither can exist fully (which is our goal) without the other.
We control the Right-Left conflict such that both forms of
liberty are suppressed to the degree we require Our own liberty
rests not on legal or moral "rights," but on our control of
the government bureaucracy and courts which apply the complex,
subjective regulations we dupe the public into supporting
for our benefit.
Innumerable meaningless
conflicts to divert the attention of the public from our operations
find fertile ground in the bitter hatreds of the Right/Left
imbroglio. Right and Left are irreconcilable on racial policy,
treatment of criminals, law enforcement, pornography, foreign
policy, women's lib, and censorship to name just a few issues.
Although censorship in the name of "fairness" has been useful
in broadcasting and may yet be required in journalism, we
generally do not take sides in these issues. Instead we attempt
to prolong the conflicts by supporting both sides as required.
War, of course, is the ultimate diversionary conflict and
the health of our system. War provides the perfect cover of
emergency and crisis behind which we consolidate our power.
Since nuclear war presents dangers even to us, more and more
we have resorted to economic crisis, energy shortages, ecological
hysteria, and managed political drama to fill the gap. Meaningless,
brushfire wars, though, remain useful.
We promote phony free
enterprise on the Right and phony democratic socialism on
the Left. Thus, we obtain a "free enterprise" whose "competition"
is carefully regulated by the bureaucracy we control and whose
nationalized enterprises are controlled directly through our
government. In this way we maintain a society in which the
basis of our power, legal titles to property and money, remain
secure, but in which the peril of free, unregulated competition
is avoided and popular sovereignty is nullified. The democratic
process is a sitting duck for our money power. Invariably
we determine the candidates of the major parties and then
proceed to pick the winners. Any attempts at campaign reforms
simply put the rules of the game more firmly under our government's
control.
Totalitarianism of the
fascist of communist varieties is no danger to us as long
as bastions of private property remain to serve as our bases
of operation. Totalitarian governments of both Right and Left,
because of the vulnerability of their highly visible leaders
to party rivals, can be manipulated easily from abroad. Primarily,
totalitarian dictatorships efficiently prevent new money lords
that could challenge our power from arising in whole continents,
civilizations, and races.
Perhaps a few words on
ideology proper are in order before I conclude. The only valid
ideology, of course is rational egoism, that is, the maximization
of the individual's gratification by whatever means prove
practical. This requires power over nature, especially, when
possible, power over other humans who are the most versatile
and valuable tools of all. Fortunately, we do not have a society
of egoists. Money lords would be impossible in such a society
as the mental spooks and rationalizations by which we characteristically
manipulate and deceive would be a laughing stock Under such
circumstances a policy of live and let live or true "laissez-faire"
anarchy might be the only alternative. Certainly a hierarchical
order would be difficult to maintain by force alone. However,
in the current era, while minds are yet in the thrall of altruistic
collectivistic, and divine moralistic spooks, the egoist's
rational course is to utilize such spooks to control others.
The next speaker, Professor
M., will detail the key institution of our power: Central
Banking.
4.
PROFESSOR M. ON THE ECONOMICS OF CENTRAL BANKING ~
"It (a bank) can take
the depositors' goods, the goods that it holds for safekeeping,
and lend them out to people on the market. It can earn interest
on these loans, and as long as only a small percentage of
depositors ask to redeem their certificates at any one time,
no one is the wiser. Or, alternatively, it can issue
pseudo warehouse receipts for goods that are not there and
lend these on the market. This is the more subtle practice.
The pseudo receipts will be exchanged on the same basis as
the true receipts, since there is no indication on their face
whether they are legitimate or not. It should be clear that
this practice is outright fraud." --- Murray Rothbard: Man,
Economy, and State
"The bold effort the present
bank has made to control the Government, the distress it has
wantonly produced,. . ., are but premonitions of the fate
that awaits the American People should they be deluded into
a perpetuation of this institution (The Bank of the United
States), or the establishment of another like it." --- Andrew
Jackson (December 2, 1834)
As you have a doctorate
degree in economics from a great university I will touch as
lightly as my verbosity allows on facts accepted by economic
"science" and proceed to occult aspects of Central Banking.
Since the division of
labor is the key to all human achievement and satisfaction,
a system of exchange is crucial. Barter is hopelessly complicated.
A command economy, in which each does and receives what be
is told, is also hopelessly cumbersome and fails to take advantage
of individual initiative, ability, and concrete knowledge.
A medium of exchange, money, is the obvious solution. (Even
our highly centralized economies on the socialist model now
enthusiastically embrace money as an indispensable simplifying
tool in their economic planning.)
When left to themselves
people of a given geographical area settled upon a durable
luxury commodity, usually gold or silver, to use as money.
Because money is a store of value as well as a medium of exchange,
people saved part of their gold income rather than spending
it all. This gold was often stored in the vaults of a local
goldsmith, the precursor of the modern banker, for safekeeping.
The depositor received a receipt that entitled him to an equal
quantity and quality of gold on demand from the goldsmith.
At some point the goldsmith realized that there was no reason
he could not loan out some of the gold for interest as long
as he kept gold on hand sufficient to meet the fairly predictable
withdrawal rate. After all, be simply promised to pay on demand,
not bold the gold as such. Better yet, be could simply issue
more receipts for gold than be bad gold and the receipts,
renamed notes, could circulate freely among the populace as
money.
However, he soon found
that there was a definite limit set on this process by reality.
Not all the extra notes issued circulated forever among the
public. The rate of note redemption began to increase rapidly
as the receipts passed into the hands of people unfamiliar
with his reputation and especially when competitive goldsmiths,
always eager for more gold reserves, came into possession
of his notes. To prevent a disastrous run on his gold reserves,
note issuance had to be kept within bounds. But the spending
power of over-issuance was a grave temptation. Especially
relished was the power over governments, industry, and merchants
that the miraculous loan power of the goldsmith could obtain.
Many succumbed to temptation, overextended themselves and
brought ruin to their depositors while others slowly became
wealthy bankers by pursuing conservative loan policies.
At this point, according
to economic "science," Central Banks are instituted to protect
the public from periodic financial catastrophe at the hands
of unscrupulous fractional reserve bankers. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Central Banks are established to
remove the limitation on over-issuance that reality places
on competitive banking systems. As early as ancient Babylon
and India, Central Banking, the art of monopolizing the issuance
of money, had been developed into a perfect method for looting
the general public. Even today many bankers copy the traditions
of the earlier exploitive priesthoods and design their banks
to resemble temples! Defenses of Central Banking are simply
part of the deception that lies at the heart of all power
elites.
Let us look at the way
a new Central Bank is created where none has existed previously.
We bankers approach the Prince or ruling assembly (both of
whom always want more money to fight wars or to curry favor
with the people and, typically, are ignorant of economics)
with a compelling proposal: "Grant our bank a national Charter
to regulate private banking and to issue legal tender notes,
that is, force our notes to be accepted as payment for all
debts, pubic and private. In exchange we will provide the
government all the notes it prudently requires at interest
rates easily payable with existing taxes. The increased government
purchasing power thus created will simultaneously assure the
power an prestige of the currently precarious nation and stimulate
the sluggish, credit starved economy to new heights of prosperity.
Most important the violent banking panics and credit collapses
caused by unscrupulous private bankers will be replaced by
our even handed, beneficent and scientific management of money
and banking. Our public-spirited expertise will be at the
disposal of the state while we remain independent enough of
momentary political pressures to assure sound management."
For a while this system
seems to work remarkably well with full employment for everyone.
The government an public does not notice that we issuers of
the new notes are using the notes we create out of thin air
to surreptitiously build economic empires at the expense of
established interests. Because of the legal tender laws, few
of the new notes issued by the Central Bank are returned for
redemption in gold. In fact, private banks and even a few
foreign banks may begin to use the Central Bank's notes as
reserves for further issuance of credit. Soon enough, though,
prices begin to rise as the added notes increase demand relative
to the quantity of goods and services. As the value of their
savings decline more and more foreigners in particular begin
to question the value of the Central Bank's notes and start
to demand redemption in gold. We, of course do not take responsibility
for the rampant inflation when it comes. We blame inflation
on evil speculators who drive up prices for personal gain,
as well as the greed of organized labor and business who are
promptly made subject to wage and price controls. Even the
consumer can be made to feel guilty for agreeing to pay the
high prices! Mistaking symptoms for causes the government
accepts the banker's analysis of the problem and continues
to give the Bank free reign in monetary policy.
By slowing the rate of
note issuance periodically, the ultimate crisis stage is postponed
until many decades after the original Central Bank Charter
was granted. Before the rapidly dwindling gold reserves on
which faith in our Bank depends is exhausted we abruptly contract
our loan volume to private industry and government as well.
With the contraction of the money supply a great deflationary
crash begins in earnest with all its attendant unemployment,
bankruptcies, and civil strife. We do not take responsibility
for the depression. We blame it on evil hoarders who are refusing
to spend their money and the prophets of doom who are spoiling
business confidence. The government accepts this analysis
and leaves monetary policy in our hands. If things go well
we bankers channel the fury and unrest into puppet movements
and pressure groups that carry our agents into full control
of the government. Once in charge we devalue our outstanding
bank notes in terms of gold and make them inconvertible for
all but possibly foreign Central Banks and begin plans to
restore a "prosperity" that will be totally ours.
When lucky, we are able
to confiscate the gold of private citizens as punishment for
hoarding during the climax of the depression.
Once the old order is
subdued during the chaos of the crash and desperation of the
depression, the field is open for our full finance capitalist
system to be realized. If the money lords behind the Central
Bank can avoid lapsing into political and economic competition
among themselves a new and lasting order can be established.
A war timed for this period of consolidation provides the
perfect excuse for the regimentation required to crush all
opposition.
Professor B., a former
Chairman of a Central Bank, will explain the functioning of
the Central Plank in the typical, fully developed finance
capitalist system.
5.
PROFESSOR B. ON THE FUNCTION OF THE CENTRAL BANK IN THE MATURE
FINANCE CAPITALIST SYSTEM ~
"We are undone, my dear
sir, if legislation is still permitted which makes our money,
much or little, real or imaginary, as the moneyed interests
shall choose to make it." --- Thomas Jefferson
"From now on depressions
will be scientifically created." --- Congressman Charles
A. Lindberg, Sr.-1923
In its pristine form a
Central Bank is a private monopoly of a nation's money and
credit issuance supported by the coercive power of the state.
That the Central Bank be directly in our hands is vital until
our new order is firmly established throughout the governmental,
business, intellectual and political spheres of society. After
our order is consolidated, formal nationalization of the Central
Bank with great fanfare is usually advisable in order to dispel
any lingering suspicion that it is operated for private gain.
Of course only loyal agents of the dynasty are allowed to
obtain high offices in the Bank and our power remains intact.
Obvious private monopolies are always the targets of sharp
reformist agitators. Only the most paranoid, however, can
see through the public facade to the private monopoly of the
nationalized or quasi-nationalized Central Bank.
The Central Bank is the
primary monopoly on which all our monopoly power depends.
The occult power of the Central Bank to create money out of
nothing is the fountainhead that fuels our far-flung financial
and political empire. I will make a quick survey of a few
of the ways this secret money power is brought to bear.
Basically, the power of
our Central Bank flows from its control over the points of
entry into the economy of new, inflationary money which it
creates out of thin air. Ordinarily, bills of exchange, acceptances,
private bonds, government bonds and other credit instruments
are purchased by the Central Bank through specially privileged
dealers in order to put the new money, often only checking
accounting entries, into circulation. The dealers are allowed
a large profit since they are fronts operated by our agents.
Our purchase of government securities pleases the government,
as our purchase of private debt pleases private debtors. As
a quid pro quo to assure "good management" our agents are
given directorships, managerial posts, and offices in the
corporations and government's so benefited. As the addiction
to the narcotic of inflationary easy credit grows and grows
we demand more and more control of our dependent entourage
of governments and corporations. When we finally end the easy
credit to "combat inflation" the enterprises and governments
either fall directly into our hands, bankrupt, or are rescued
at the price of total control.
Also, we ruling bankers
control the flow of money in the economy through the wide
authority of the Central Bank to license, audit, and regulate
private banks. Banks that loan to interests outside the loyal
entourage are "audited" by the Central Bank and found to be
dangerously overextended. Just a hint of insolvency from the
respected Central Bank authorities is enough to cause a run
on the disobedient bank or at least dry up its vital lines
of credit. Soon the banking establishment learns to follow
the hints and nods of your father's agents at the Central
Bank automatically.
Further, the periodic
cycles of easy money and tight money that we initiate through
our control of the Central Bank cause corresponding fluctuations
in all markets. Our inner circle knows in advance the timing
of these cycles and, therefore reaps windfall profits by speculating
in commodity, stock, currency, gold, and bond markets. Monopolistic
stock and commodity Exchanges are a vital adjunct to our power
made possible by our Central Bank power. We do not allow a
fair auction market to exist, but make a great show of "tough"
government regulation to create a false sense of confidence
among small investors. With the aid of our regulatory charade
and financial power we are able to maintain Exchanges tailored
to our entourage's need to manipulate stock prices at the
expense of independent investors. Our privileged specialists
on the floors of our Exchanges, aided by the propaganda of
our financial press and brokerage houses, continually play
on naivete and greed to drain the savings of the unwary into
our coffers. The stock, commodities, and securities held in
trading accounts by the Exchange and brokerage houses provides
us with a clout far beyond our own actual holdings with which
we can manipulate prices and win proxy fights for corporate
takeovers.
Little danger to our lucrative
racket exists from public-spirited regulation. Our manipulations
are so complex that only the most brilliant experts could
comprehend them. To most economists our Exchange operations
appear to be helpful efforts to "stabilize" the market. We
ruling bankers, if able to keep peace among ourselves, become
richer and richer as time passes without the annoyance of
exerting productive effort of benefit to others.
The next speaker, Professor
G. will discuss the secrets of social legislation and policy
that do so much to cement our power.
6.
PROFESSOR G. ON SOCIAL AND BUSINESSLEGISLATION AND POLICY
~
"There is no proletarian,
not even a Communist, movement, that has not operated in the
interests of money, in the direction indicated by money, and
for the time being permitted by money--and that without the
idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion
of the fact." --- Oswald Spengler: "Decline of the West"
"Also at the (SDS) convention,
men from Business International Roundtables… tried to
buy up some radicals. These are the world's leading industrialists
and they convene to decide how our lives
are going to go…
We were also offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us
to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in
the center as they move to the left." --- James Kunen: "The
Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary"
The danger to our system
clearly is not that the "people" will spontaneously rise up
and dispossess us. The "people" never initiate anything. All
successful movements are led from the top, usually without
the knowledge of the movement, by men like your father with
vast resources and brilliant plans. The real danger arises
in the upper-middle classes. Occasionally, these people make
vast fortunes through some brilliant technological innovation
in their business or through the favor of local politicians
that escape our influence. Because of their ignorance of the
reality of our power, however, the new rich usually fall easily
into our hands. For instance, they seldom realize until too
late that the dozens of loans they may owe to apparently independent
banks can be called simultaneously with a mere nod from your
father. Graver danger is presented by those whose enterprises
are so successful as to be self-financing. Since the advent
of the corporate income tax truly self-financing corporations
are extremely rare. Most disquieting is when these upstarts
acquire the covert or open support and advice of your father's
major international antagonists. This is particularly dangerous
in countries with long democratic traditions where it is difficult
to make our arbitrary rulings stick.
The best solution is to
enact comprehensive taxes and business regulations in the
name of the common good. Such measures reduce the incidence
of significant upstart competition to manageable levels. This
policy, of course, strangles innovation and productivity.
Reduction of the GNPs in countries under your father's control
would be acceptable in the interests of secure power under
the pretext of conservation, ecology, or no-growth stability
except that if carried too far your father's clout vis-a-vis
his international rivals would be impaired. The most difficult
problem for the money lord is determining the level of social
and economic freedom he dares allow for the sake of his international
power. Only method is to maintain a home base of carefully
monitored, relative freedom on which to base the economic
and military strength required to maintain an empire of totalitarian
dictatorships abroad. The following measures, however, are
found necessary by nearly all money lords:
1. Steeply Graduated
Income Tax ~ Income tax does not affect us because our
money was accumulated before the tax was imposed and most
of it is now safely protected in our network of tax exempt
foundations. Foundation income and capital can legally be
used to finance the bulk of our social, economic, literary,
and even political propaganda. In a pinch it is easily diverted
to illegal uses. Expensive "studies" required by our profitable
economic operations can be legitimately financed through foundations.
To the middle classes,
however, income tax makes life into an endless treadmill.
Even the most productive find themselves unable to accumulate
significant capital. They are forced into the clutches of
our Central Bank entourage for injections of the inflationary
credit which we are privileged to create out of nothing. The
self-financing wealth of the legendary 19th Century robber
barons and early Twentieth Century tycoons is no longer possible.
Although your grandfather owed his start to just those wide-open
conditions, he was among the first of the super-rich to advocate
the erection of the tax wall that is now in place. Please
note that in democratic countries eternal vigilance is required
to prevent our tax shield from being riddled with loop holes
by conniving legislators, who are usually of the tax oppressed,
upper-middle class origins themselves.
2. Business Regulation
~ When upstarts slip through our financial tentacles and
tax shields, perhaps with the aid of outsiders, a second line
of defense becomes vital licensing in the crucial area of
broadcasting has proven particularly necessary. This makes
serious upstart-led mass political challenge impossible. Harassment
by bureaucrats armed with arbitrary and voluminous industrial
safety regulations is a new and increasingly effective technique.
Security registration requirements, "to protect the small
investor," can cause fatal delays in an upstart's ability
to raise capital on the stock market. Ecological considerations
are easily perverted to stymie the plans of those who would
upset the stability of our carefully planned system.
Anti-trust law, however,
is our ultimate weapon. The handy doctrine of "pure and perfect"
competition which we have fostered in our universities is
ideally suited to convict any successful competitor, at our
discretion. If the competitor charges a lower price than ours
he is accused of "unfair competition" aimed at driving us
from the field to impair future competition. If he asks the
same price as we, he is open to the charge of collusion. If
he charges more than us, he is obviously exploiting his "monopoly
power" at the expense of the consumer. Fortunately, the rulings
of our bureaucrats are so complicated that even when successfully
appealed in court many years elapse before the ruling is rendered.
By then our goals are often achieved through harassment.
Product quality, safety,
and testing regulations are excellent methods by which we
insulate our established industries from potential competition.
Beside raising the costs of entry into the auto business,
for instance, the cost of "safety" can be passed to the consumer
along with a healthy profit mark-up.
3. Subsidies, Tariffs,
and Foreign Aid ~ Although direct subsidies can occasionally
be procured for our entourage of corporations by appealing
to the masses' desire to preserve jobs, this exploitive technique
is usually too obvious. Tariffs are easily passed, but lead
to retaliation against our foreign holdings. Foreign aid and
soft (sure to be defaulted) government guaranteed loans, however,
fill the bill perfectly under modern conditions. Foreign aid
maintains our empire of foreign dictators abroad while providing
guaranteed, highly profitable sales to our corporations at
home base. Foreign aid should always be contingent on the
purchase of goods, usually military hardware, that only our
entourage of firms can provide. Few have the courage to oppose
such altruistic aid to the "starving masses" of the "third
world."
4. Centralization of
Power ~ Real division of power between national, state,
and local government is dangerous to our system. When local
politicians have real autonomy, even in limited spheres, they
can do much to enable upstarts to challenge our power. Our
program is to bring all levels of government under our sway
through such innovations as federal aid, revenue sharing,
high federal taxation, and regional government.
5. Alliance with the
Lower Classes ~ In order to keep our valuable regulatory
machinery in place and under our control we must have the
mass support of the numerous lower classes against our vigorous,
but scarce middle-class rivals. The best method is to provide
the lower classes with subsidies at the expense of the middle
class. This creates a mutual hatred that prevents the middle
class from appealing effectively to the lower classes for
support. Social security, free health care, unemployment benefits,
and direct welfare payments, while doing nothing for us directly,
create a dependent class whose support for our critical measures
can easily be made part of a package deal. Please note also
that the major labor unions began with our financing and are
led to this day by leaders of our choosing. No one can rise
to or remain at the top of a rough and tumble union without
our financial backing. In spite of their rebellious rhetoric,
bought union leaders are the source of our power over the
management of firms with widely held stock. Unions are the
ultimate weapon for destroying otherwise invulnerable, self-financing
rivals. Further, downward flexibility of wages and prices
which obtains without widespread unionization would increase
the ability of the economy to survive without our aid during
the economic crises we create.
Bread and circuses are
as useful today as in Roman times for mobilizing the mob against
our staid adversaries. Next, Professor D. will describe our
education policies.
7.
PROFESSOR D. ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ~
"In our dreams we have
limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect
docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions
fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work
our good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk .
. . The task we set before ourselves is a beautiful one, to
train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life
just as they are. So we will organize our children into a
little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the
things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect
way in the home, in shop, and on the farm." --- The
objective of Rockefeller "philanthropies" stated by him and
Gates in Occasional Letter No. 1 of Rockefeller's General
Education Board.
"A general state education
is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like
one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that
which pleases the predominant power in the government ---
whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or
the majority of the existing generation --- in proportion
as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism
over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the
body." --- John Stuart Mill
In order to maintain our
system of power, the institution of universal public education
is indispensable. The anarchy of private education in which
any manner of dangerous ideas could be spread cannot be tolerated.
Thus we make private education financially impossible to all
but the few mostly the elite offspring of our financial entourage,
by means of burdensome taxation and regulation. The primary
purpose of public education is to inculcate the idea that
our crucial institutions of coercion and monopoly were created
for the public good by popular national heroes to blunt the
past power of the malefactors of great wealth. Crucial is
to create the impression that, although the people have been
exploited in the past, today the wealthy are at the mercy
of an all-powerful government which is firmly in the hands
of the people or do-gooding liberals.
For those of more sophistication
who reject this Pollyanna view of reality, we promote the
"liberal reformer mentality" which holds that a new era of
reform is on the verge of crushing forever the last vestiges
of money lordism. Of course, the reforms, after taking shape
as a bewildering myriad of regulatory agencies and taxes,
are found to be ineffective in subordinating our power to
the popular will, whereupon we stir up another era of progressive
reform.
Our contrived Left-Right
spectrum which our compulsory education helps to make universal
is valuable in assuring that this charade does not get out
of hand. The Pollyannas in the middle are neither dangerous
nor useful in this endeavor. What is needed is a feeble, but
persistent right-conservatism to moderate and emasculate the
liberal reforms. Conservatives tend to resist all the advances
in centralized, government power that we lead the liberals
to see as necessary in order to totally end the "undemocratic"
power of money in society. Conservatism would rather promote
a "pluralism" of competing interests in which money is the
medium of competition than risk the excesses of "big government,"
When "liberal" reforms show signs of exceeding our intentions
and actually threaten to place our key institutions in the
hands of the people, we can always count on the conservatives
to defend our power under the illusion that they are defending
the legitimate rights of "free-enterprise capitalists." On
the rare occasions when conservatives call for subjecting
our enterprises to laissez-faire competition, we can count
on the dominant liberal reformers to insist on more government
interference, unaware of our desire for such, in effect, self-administered
regulation.
The Right has such a fear
of the Left's dream of democratic collectivism and the Left
such a hatred for what it sees as the Right's elitist, rugged
individualism that there is little danger that they will ever
join forces to overturn our government-backed monopolies even
though we violate the ideals of both left and right.
Centralization of control
at the state, or preferably national level, assists in building
the climate of opinion we require in public education. Failing
to obliterate local control, other methods nearly as effective
are available. Our overwhelming financial clout in the publishing
industry can induce relatively uniform textbook selection.
Further leverage can be created by promoting teacher colleges
and teaching machines. National teacher's associations and
unions are also an excellent power base from which to foster
our programs of indoctrination.
With our great influence
in publishing and publicity we are able to, selectively popularize
educational theorists whose views are incidentally beneficial,
compatible, or at least not in conflict with our own goals.
This way we obtain sincere, energetic activists to propagate
our desires without having to reveal our motives or even existence.
We do not want an educational system that produces hard-driving
individuals bent on amassing great wealth and power. Therefore,
we discourage education that would develop the potential powers
of students to their fullest. "Liberal" education that stresses
knowledge for its own sake or even sophistry and sterile mental
gymnastics is of no danger to us. "Relevant," vocational,
or career-oriented education also poses no danger to our power.
Education that prepares students to accept a cog-like existence
in our military-industrial-social-welfare-regulation complex
is ideal. Progressive education with its stress on "social
adjustment" also produces the conformity we require of our
subjects. Emphasis on competitive sports may produce a certain
amount of disruptive competitiveness among the participants,
but primarily has the effect of creating life-long voyeuristic
spectators who will enthusiastically sublimate their competitiveness
into endless hours of following college and professional sports
on the boob tube. Space spectaculars and dramatic political
infighting are also marvelous diversions with which to occupy
the masses.
Anyone seeking social
change will gravitate to the field of education. Our strategy
is simple: Let only those succeed whose influence would be
compatible with our power. Encourage all who would develop
the passive or receptive mode of existence. Discourage all
who promote the aggressive or active capacities. Build a great
cult of salvation through endless education, touting it as
the "democratic" path to success Deride the frontal approach
to success of the "outmoded' rugged individualist.
Before yielding the floor
to Professor X., who will discuss the role of secret societies
and prestigious clubs, I would like to comment on the demise
of religious education as a vehicle for social control. Religion,
in its time, was a remarkable weapon for inculcating subservience,
altruism, and self-abnegation among our subjects. We did not
give up this weapon voluntarily. Your grandfather, for one,
supported the Baptist faith well after most finance capitalists
had turned wholly to secular ideologies. However, a trend
toward rationality in human affairs plods along inexorably
quite outside the reach of our power. Only in our totalitarian
dictatorships can this trend be quashed entirely. In the semi-open
societies in which our money power is based, the forces of
reason can only be impeded and diverted. Some have theorized
that, eventually, widespread rational egoism will overturn
our order. I am confident that secular faiths and just plain
confusion will suffice to sustain our power for many centuries
to come.
8.
PROFESSOR X. ON PRESTIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS AND SECRET SOCIETIES
~
"Every compulsion is put
upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
In protest, I declined election to the National Institute
of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline
the
Pulitzer Prize." --- Upton
Sinclair
"It is useless to deny,
because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of
Europe--the whole of Italy and France and a great portion
of Germany, to say nothing of other countries--is covered
with a network of these secret societies, just as the superficies
of the earth is now being covered with railroads." --- Benjamin
Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), July 14, 1856
In preserving and protecting
our grasp on nations we must exert veiled control of all major
opinion molding associations and especially prestigious clubs
which attract the leaders in various fields and do so much
to influence the dispensing of commanding positions in government
and business. Associations of the leading scholars, businessmen,
writers, religionists, artists, bureaucrats, newsmen, ideologists,
publishers, broadcasters, and professional men as well as
special interest groups representing laborers, farmers, consumers,
racial minorities, and so on must be subtly kept under the
broad limits of our sway. Since membership dues and fees are
never sufficient to support their ambitious activities, voluntary,
non-profit organizations are easy prey for the nearly unlimited
financial resources of our entourage. However, our real motive,
to further our political and economic power, must not be revealed
in the process. Our policies must be laboriously rationalized
in terms compatible with prevalent ideologies and moralities
or the material advantage of the groups involved. Leaders
of such groups are remarkably quick to accept our rationalizations
when financial support is extended. We engage in outright
bribery only as a last resort, and then, only in extreme cases.
Our long-range interests are better served by temporarily
postponing a policy victory than by risking exposure of our
power by attempting outright bribery. In fact, clumsy bribery
and intimidation attempts are characteristic of our foolish
nouveau-riche opponents.
As an example, if we decide
that federal rather than state chartering or licensing of
corporations would further our control over the economy, we
would not simply order politicians and opinion leaders to
support our desires. Corporations not relishing central control
would be suspicious that something was afoot and might expose
our plot. Our strategy would be as follows:
1. Sacrifice one of our
less competent management teams in a well-publicized corporate
scandal in order to focus attention on the "widespread problem
of corporate corruption under current, lax regulations."
2. Through well-funded
agents, thrust into the publicity spotlight intellectuals
or groups who already support federal licensing as a piecemeal
step toward socialism. (One can find pre-existing supporters
for nearly any measure with sufficient effort.)
3. After the issue is
before the public, offer to support through foundations the
"objective" study of the federal licensing proposals being
discussed with an eye toward proposing legislation. Often,
simultaneous support for studies by disreputable, irrational
groups who will oppose the proposal is useful as well. Provide
no platform for
well-reasoned opposition.
4. When a ground swell
of support appears to be building provide the interested lobbying
organizations with plenty of funds to grease the palms of
politicians. The enactment of the federal licensing law thus
appears as the will of society. Last-ditch opposition automatically
appears mean spirited, obstructionist, reactionary, and paranoid,
serving only to discredit our opposition.
In our fully developed
system of finance capitalist thought control and promotion
control, our hierarchy of prestigious associations is capped
by a single prestige society: The Council of World Affairs.
This organization is a front for the secret society of which
your father is head. This secret society is made up of the
people who have spoken, plus six others not present. You are
replacing Professor Q. who is to retire shortly. Eventually
you will replace your father. We thirteen are your father's
advisors and only confidants. All other agents are misled
as to the bulk of our objectives and motives. Their knowledge
is restricted to the details required by their assignments.
The penalty for disloyalty is death.
The Council is invaluable
for propagating our policy decisions to our entourage without
revealing our motives and strategy. In many instances, policy
can he successfully sold to our entourage and thus transmitted
to the multitudes by merely airing it along with appropriate
rationalizations in a single awe-inspiring session of the
Council. The informal power of the Council is such that our
policy manipulations are usually attainable without the clumsy
exercises in brute power that invariably snag the independent
power seekers. The Council is at the heart of what is called
the Establishment and we are at the heart of the Council.
At the Council's inception,
we worked hard to attract the successful of all fields with
all the prestige that our money power could buy. We had to
work hard convincing the independent, self-made Council members
to move in harmony with our policy objectives. We had many
failures. Now everything is changed. Membership is no longer
a reward for success as much as it is a prerequisite for major
success. Without Council membership only the most outstanding
can achieve national prominence. With membership, glaring
mediocrities, with the "right" attitudes, achieve prominence.
In fact, mediocrities are much more adapted to propagating
our policy rationalizations and less likely to detect and
oppose our ulterior motives. A power lusting mediocrity is
not likely to judge his benefactors too harshly or inquire
diligently into the nature of the power structure that brought
him what he fears was undeserved success. The vanity of even
idealistic, committed humanitarians militates against such
a course.
The Council is now a giant
employment agency of loyalists ready to parrot our public
line from the commanding posts of government, foundations,
broadcasting, industry, banking, and publishing. Although
Council members are encouraged to take sides and bicker over
the diversionary issues we create to entertain and enfeeble
the populace, their solidarity in defending our power structure,
root and branch, when pressed is a sight to behold! And to
think that most see themselves as righteous defenders of the
public good while they dismiss whispered rumors of our power
structure as "kooky paranoia."
Classical secret societies
with elaborate circles within circles no longer play a major
role in finance capitalist power structures. Most wide membership
secret societies have degenerated into middle class excuses
for escaping the wife and kids once a month for the company
of men. But secret societies were a major weapon of our bourgeoisie
forebearers in their struggle with the old feudal order of
kings and princes. Under authoritarian despotism of the old
style, the secret society was the only place a free-thinking
man could express himself. Through threats of exposure, loyalty
oaths, patronage, deception, and rewards we bound such malcontents
into a fierce force for our revolution. The multitude of degrees,
occult mumbo-jumbo, and vague humanitarianism concealed the
real goals of our secret societies from the bulk of the membership.
The roles of the "Illuminated" Masonic Lodges in European
revolutions were decisive in our final victory over the old
order.
I now yield the floor
to Professor Y. who will discourse on the real "secret societies"
the Modern Finance Capitalist State: the National Security
Institutions and Intelligence Agencies.
9.
PROFESSOR Y. ON COVERT OPERATIONS AND INTELLIGENCE ~
In our fully developed
state-capitalist systems we have found absolute control of
governmental intelligence gathering and covert operations
to be vital.
Besides providing a valuable
tool in our struggle with rival dynasties, such control is
now an integral and necessary part of our day-to-day operations.
Large intelligence communities are inevitable, given the system
of all encompassing governments which we have imposed upon
the world during our ascent to power. Our power would be short-lived
indeed if the pervasive influence and power of these iron-disciplined
intelligence agencies fell into the hands of mere politicians,
especially those beyond our control.
We do not allow intelligence
agencies to pursue the "national interest," the way the public
conceives "spies" to operate. Politicians cannot be permitted
to divert the power and influence of our intelligence community
from the esoteric requirements of our Money Power to petty
political struggles.
Neither nationalistic
aspirations of races and peoples nor ideological visions of
intellectuals for humanity can be allowed to pervert intelligence
and covert operations. Our rationalizations, both within the
intelligence community and to the public at large, must be
diverse and flexible, but the intelligence community must
further without exception the inexorable goals we have set
for humanity.
No crisis is more serious
for our Money Power than an attempt by a head of government
to assume personal control of intelligence and operations
or to by-pass existing agencies by setting up parallel ones.
Such intrusions must be met decisively. Although a contrived
scandal to remove the offending politician from office is
the first line of defense, we dare not shrink from assassination
when necessary.
Perhaps the most accurate
overview of our intelligence community can be achieved by
visualizing it as a "nationalized secret society." Our predecessors,
in their struggle against the old order of kings and princes,
had to finance secret societies such as the Illuminati, Masons,
German Union, etc. out of their own pockets.
At great expense and risk
such secret societies were able to infiltrate the major governmental
and private institutions of the nations that our noble predecessors
targeted for take over by the Money Power. Such bureaucratic
takeovers are expensive and time consuming. They can be considered
complete only when promotions, raises, and advancements are
no longer based on objective service to the stated organizational
objectives, but are in the hands of the infiltrating group
and its secret goals.
How much easier it is
for us, the inheritors of a fully developed state-capitalist
system! By appealing to "national security" we are able to
finance and erect secret societies of a colossal scope, far
beyond the wildest dreams of our path breaking predecessors.
Besides the benefits of public financing reaped by these "nationalized
secret societies," we obtain a decisive advantage from the
fact that these our "spook" operations are sanctioned by law!
Maintaining discipline,
loyalty, and secrecy is no longer solely a matter of propaganda,
blackmail, patronage, and intimidation. Although these remain
important tools, especially in emergency cases, ordinary discipline
among initiates (now called agents) can be encouraged by appealing
to patriotism and can be enforced in courts of law by prosecuting
"national security violations."
As massive as our intelligence
community has become in itself, we still operate strictly
on the finance capitalist principle of leverage. Just as a
rational finance capitalist never owns more stock in a corporation
than the bare minimum required for control, intelligence operatives
are placed only in as many key positions as are required to
control the target organizations. Our goal, after all, is
agent control of all significant organizations, not intelligence
community member ship for the entire population.
The organizational pattern
of baffling "circles within circles," characteristic of classical
secret societies, is retained and refined by our intelligence
community. That "one hand not know what the other is doing"
is essential to the success of our operations. In most cases,
we do not allow the operatives themselves to know the ultimate,
and when possible, even the short-range objectives of their
assignments.
They operate under "covers"
that disguise our goals not only from the public and target
groups, but from the agents themselves. For instance, many
agents operating under "left cover" are led to believe that
the agency, or at least their department, is secretly, but
sincerely motivated by socialistic ideology. Thus, they assume
that the intelligence agency's ultimate goal is to guide left-wing
groups in "productive" directions, even though they cannot
always see how their own assignment fits into those assumed
goals.
Other "left-cover" agents,
those with right-wing predilections, are encouraged to believe
the agency is simply "monitoring" violence prone, subversive
groups in order to protect the public. When such agents are
asked to participate in or even lead radical activity they
assume that the ultimate objective is to fully infiltrate
and destroy the organization for the good of the country.
This is very seldom the case. We waste little or no money
protecting the "public" or defending the "nation."
Agents operating under
"right-cover" are handled in symmetrical fashion. Agents with
right-wing prejudices are encouraged to believe the agency
is right-wing. Left-prejudiced agents are asked to operate
under "right-cover" in order to "monitor" dangerous rightist
organizations. Most intelligence agents remain blithely ignorant
of the big picture which is so clear to us from our spectacular
vantage point. Very few have enough information or intelligence
to reason out how their specific and sometimes baffling assignments
promote the legislative, judicial, operational and propaganda
needs of our Money Power. Most would never try. They are paid
too much to think about such things.
Agents with a "gangster-cover"
are of two types. First, there is the sincere gangster that
draws his salary from an intelligence agency. He is led to
believe that the gangland "Godfathers" control the government
agency for their own purposes. Actually, the situation is
the opposite. The agency controls the gangster for other purposes.
Second, is the sincere crime fighter who is led to believe
that the agency is at tempting to infiltrate and monitor the
gangsters as a preliminary step to destroying organized crime.
Such "upstanding" agents commit many crimes in their zeal
to rid the country of organized crime!
To envision how we operate
in this lucrative field, let's briefly look at the mechanics
of dope smuggling. Police and customs officials are told to
leave certain gangsters alone, even when transporting suspicious
cargoes. This is made to seem perfectly proper since it is
well known that secret police infiltrators of organized crime
must participate in crimes in order to gain the confidence
of gangsters.
What customs agent would
want to upset a carefully laid plan to "set-up" the underworld
kingpins of dope pushing! But the agent, as well as the police
who cooperate, are mistaken in believing that the purpose
of the assignment to help smuggle dope is ultimately to smash
organized crime. If he could see the big picture, as we can,
the agent would see that practically all our dope is smuggled
by federal intelligence agents and secret police! How ever
could such a volume be transported safely? Real harassment
and prosecution is reserved for those who enter the field
without our approval.
Here is our organized
crime strategy: On the one hand we pass laws to ensure that
mankind's favorite pastimes (vices) are illegal. On the other
hand, we cater to these "vices" at a huge monopoly profit
with complete immunity from prosecution.
A new and growing methodology
of our intelligence community is psychologically and drug-controlled
agents. Properly, these are referred to as "behavior modified"
agents, or, in the vernacular, "zombies." With the use of
hypnotic drugs, brain washing, sensory deprivation, small
group "sensitivity" training, and other behavior modification
techniques, the scope of which was hinted in the movie "Clockwork
Orange," complete personalities can be manufactured from scratch,
to the specifications of value structure profiles we design
by computer to suit our purposes. Such personalities are quite
neurotic and unstable due to defects in our still developing
technology, but still useful for many purposes.
The primary virtue of
"zombies," of course, is loyalty. Agents that are subconsciously
programmed for the assignment at hand cannot be conscious
traitors. All a "zombie" can do is reveal how compulsive and
psychotic he is with regard to his "cause." Even to trained
psychologists he simply appears to be the proverbial "lone
nut." Although the "zombie" may have memories of psychotherapy
at a government agency when questioned under hypnosis, this
is unlikely to raise suspicion in the mind of court-appointed
psychologists. After all, "lone nuts" should be kept in insane
asylums and subjected to psychotherapy! At most, the government
hospital will be reprimanded for letting a loony loose before
he was cured.
Until our techniques can
be perfected the use of "zombies" must be restricted to "national
dramas" designed to justify the growing power of our centralized
governments over the lives of our people. Most suicidal radicals
and "crazies" who so mysteriously avoid arrest for years at
a time are "zombies" conditioned to terrorize the public in
the name of some irrational ideology. After repeated doses
of such terror, the public is conditioned to accept the necessity
of our intrusive police state with very little objection.
The way is clear for an
accelerated program of behavior modification research to be
conducted mostly at public expense in the name of mental health
and rehabilitation. Such research can be conducted with little
complaint in prisons, refugee camps, drug rehabilitation centers,
government hospitals, veterans hospitals, and even public
schools and day care centers. Mental institutions, methadone
maintenance centers, and prisons are fertile fields for recruiting
the deranged or drug-addicted persons most suitable for "zombie"
conversions. Of course, only a few of our most trusted agents
actually participate in the creation of "zombies." The brilliant
researchers and experimenters who make most of the breakthroughs
earnestly believe that their techniques are destined strictly
for the betterment of mankind.
Inevitably, a fraction
of the population objects to behavior modification as an infringement
of man's "sacred" free will even if they are convinced that
our intentions are benign. We carefully leak a few scandals
to satisfy such persons that our experiments are being kept
within bounds and that excesses are being stopped. Our artificial
scandals exposing the "excesses" of coercive psychology are
carefully designed to make the researchers seem incompetent
and clumsy to the point of maiming and killing their "patients."
This effectively conceals the fantastic strides we have made
toward total behavioral control. Great things are going to
be possible in the future.
I now return the floor
to your father for his concluding remarks.
10.
MY CLOSING REMARKS ~
My son, you surely have
many questions about my strategy in the seemingly momentous
economic and political crises that are shaking national and
international affairs. You and I will begin handling them
in detail shortly. For tonight, let me be brief. Most of the
current national upheavals are stage-managed to consolidate
our monopoly position in government and business against the
continual nuisance of economically competent, but politically
naive competitors. Likewise, most international crises are
managed to exert pressure on our obstreperous, reluctant puppet
dictators in underdeveloped areas. These events are fairly
easy to manage. I expect to place such management in your
hands as soon as possible.
The real challenge lies
in dealing with my international peers. These are the real
crises since they are crises of my power structure, not just
of my subject populations and puppets. In the vast chess game
with my peers there are no rules and no proven tactics. Mutual
vulnerability, alone, limits the conflict. My peers and I
have labored for decades to erect a world government and banking
system under which we could all share finance capitalism's
millennium without the nightmare of internecine warfare. With
the advent of nuclear war a new world order seemed particularly
desirable. I say ostensibly we have labored for world government
because none of us are sure the others will ever voluntarily
surrender sovereignty to the group. The schedule set after
the last World War has not been met. So far, the world government
idea has served mainly to enthuse collectivist intellectuals,
and secondarily to veil each finance capitalist's maneuvers
for supremacy from the rest.
The future course of finance
capitalism is difficult to predict. Our empires are too fragile
to risk all-out battles for supremacy among ourselves. Our
power would dissipate to second echelon wealthy during the
struggle. Yet we continue to chip away at rival empires on
the premise that offense is the best defense. On the other
hand, purely political leaders are helpless before our money
power. When Caesars arise, they are of our making.
Perhaps our system will
simply remain much as it is, secure on the national level
and disturbingly pluralistic at the international level, until
reason and egoism have developed among our populations to
such an extent that our occult technology of money power becomes
obvious to all who think and must yield to either anarchy
or a more advanced form of deception.
11.
AFTERWORD BY THE TRANSCRIBER ~
"The names of some of
these banking families are familiar to all of us and should
be more so. They include Baring, Lazard, Erlanger, Warburg,
Schroder, Seligman, the Speyers, Mirabaud, Mallet, Fould,
and above all Rothschild and Morgan." --- Dr. Carroll Quigley:
"Tragedy and Hope"
Any resemblance of these
characters to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Any resemblance of their methodology to that of real ruling
elites is purely intentional. The extent to which I represent
or exaggerate the self-conscious, intentional power technology
of real politico-economic rulers and their unity is for the
reader to decide after studying available empirical evidence.
I am providing a bibliography
of relevant historical works to aid the curious reader. I
have included no works written from spurious pluralistic suppositions
no one seems to consider pluralism as a proposition requiring
evidence since they are flooding the market. Unfortunately,
many works listed affirm that ideas rather than individual
struggles for wealth and power propel history; that is, they
view the elites they observe ruling the world as ideologically
motivated. Thus we have the spectacle of the Right claiming
that major finance capitalists such as the Rockefellers or
Rothschilds are "communist" conspirators or "socialists."
On the other hand, we see the Left claiming that the same
people are bent on imposing laissez -faire capitalism, or
in a slightly more realistic vein, are fanatical proponents
of fascism. Virulent white racism is another ideology foolishly
ascribed to the ruling class by the Left. This opinion is
nicely balanced by the charge from the Right that the elite
wants to "mongrelize" and thus submerge the white race. As
usual the elite, completely free of prejudice, supports both
sides of this battle for its own ends.
As should be clear by
now, I believe that finance capitalists (Ferdinand Lundberg
has dubbed them finpols, or financial politicians) are understandably
attempting to make their power as extensive as possible without
incurring the severe risks which plague pubpols (public politicians).
(It seems that only the most daring finpols are willing to
take on the additional risks of pubpoldom, perhaps only because
they are denied the reins to the family's fortune by more
privileged relatives.) Pubpols lose their privacy and thus
their right to sexual impropriety in addition to incurring
vulnerability to electioneering and worse in "democratic"
countries. In most areas of the world the lot of the pubpols
is even worse. Purge, assassination, and armed coup are regular
events. While totalitarianism of Right or Left at home eliminates
the shield of secure private property desired by finpols,
laissez--faire is likewise rejected out-of-hand as hell-on-earth
by enlightened power-seekers.
Egoism, mitigated only
by the reality of circumstance, is the motive to realistically
attribute to healthy elites. An elite under the spell of mental
spooks could not hold sway for long. Although finpol statism
is increasingly a crisis for its victims, there is as yet
no evidence that the elite itself is in serious crisis. Even
inflation, the current crisis for the powerless, is simply
another crisis to be managed toward the end of consolidating,
extending, and refreshing elite power. No doubt the depression
which must inevitably follow will be managed to even better
effect at the expense of the masses.
I have classified the
bibliography into the categories Right and Left. In each list
I begin with the most objective works and proceed to the works
most infected with mental spooks and emotional hysteria. These
books should be read for empirical data, not theoretical insight.
A list of less ideologically biased works is provided as well.
I quote and recommend authors, not to imply support for my
scenario where there is none, but to credit a few of those
who have provided grist for my thoughts.
12.
BIBLIOGRAPHY ~
"We
are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what
men do, and not what they ought to do." --- Francis Bacon
Indispensable Thoughts
on History, Economics, Politics, Philosophy, and Human Nature:
