In many ways, the last hundred years or so have seen a series of grand metaphysical arcs transform humanity. In prior centuries, nation states existed as mostly independent, individuated entities as many of the modern structures which now comprise the geist of ‘globalism’ hadn’t yet existed because the necessary mechanisms had not yet been developed.
Perhaps the first true seeds of globalism began to germinate in the occult gestations of the Bavarian Illuminati and other offshoot groups which grew to span the globe throughout the 1700 and 1800s. These groups all preached a form of universalism, a variety of utopian ideals encompassing humanity as one ascendant race, one brotherhood to circumvent the perceived authoritarian and monarchical structures that had hitherto enthralled Europe, and by extension its vast global colonies.
Most of humanity was steered by one overarching metanarrative, which was that of the Church, and the vestiges of the Roman Empire which had splintered into a kaleidoscope of polities sharing its thematic heart. Even though the post-Westphalian system was said to have created the first truly independent modern states, they were still united under the arch of these tentacular metanarratives to the extent that an observer from the distant future—perhaps tens of thousands of years hence—could easily imagine the development of the European world as a singular civilizational impulse.
Even though to us the languages and cultures may be different, to this faraway observer, they would seem all dialects of the same parent tongue, the cultures, economies, and national impetuses all closely intertwined. The artistic movements, too, spanned many countries. Movements like the Baroque were not trammeled by border or artificial construct. The very ethos of the people was like enough to be deemed of the same grand gesture, from the perspective of a foreigner from a different cultural map, like Asia. This is all to say that no matter the perceived differences, on some level Western people were one common organism moving to the same bodily rhythms.
In previous ages the types of modern communications networks required to attune a large body of people to the same rhythms hadn’t existed. And so this organism, though fairly uniform, was not quite as in thrall to the lockstep of overriding narratives as it potentially could be.
At the turn of the 20th century, things began to change. The stirrings of vast movements shook the world and initiated a sort of self-assembly process. Political entities formed, diffused through each other, absorbing into larger protozoa of movements that were like the formation of an underlying consciousness. The metanarrative of the previous age had long suffered a slow decline, leading to a vacuum to be filled with the seductive narratives of a new age.
Newborn political structures scrambled to take advantage of this, sensing that to control humanity’s narrative would be to steer its future; and at that point the West was the compass which guided the rest of the world.
Slowly but surely, groups like Lord Alfred Milner’s infamous Roundtable Movement became precursors to the first globalist structures like the League of Nations. Milner was influential in a series of such groups: from the ‘Ginger Group’ and the ‘Monday Night Cabal’, based on Milner’s own previous ‘Kindergarten’, and ultimately the eponymous and secretive ‘Milner Group’. Such groups sought to bring together influential people to align thinking and policy on war, guiding humanity’s general direction through the lens of the British Empire.
Without losing ourselves down the rabbit hole, we can say that Milner and his cohort—the likes of which included Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, Cecil Rhodes, and every other influential baron and titan of the day—orchestrated conflicts from the Boer War to WW1 to advance their stake. Their movement was influential in fashioning the modern globalist think tank system, initially represented by such groups as ‘The Inquiry’ in the post-WW1 period, which later became the Council on Foreign Relations. Famed researcher Carrol Quigley said of them thusly:
For these men were organizing a secret society (in
1891) that was, for more than fifty years, to be one of
the most important forces in the formulation and
execution of British imperial and foreign policy.
The power and influence of this Rhodes-Milner group
in British imperial affairs and in foreign policy since
1889, although not widely recognized,
can hardly be exaggerated.
Any effort to write an account of the influence
exercised by the Milner Group in foreign affairs in the
period between the two World Wars would require a
complete rewriting of the history of that period.
These people had seized humanity by the yoke and succeeded in steering its very course toward favorable rhumb-lines. They had become lead authors of billions of destinies. And as any decent writer knows, the best way to capture your audience’s attention is with drama and a climactic show.
There is a certain hypnotic effect to drama-fueled pageants like wars. Psychologists have long held that trauma and stress induce a type of suggestibility on people previously thought to be impervious.
To these scriptwriters, war was the ultimate theater of the divine; an engine of occult societal transmutation. And with the advent of mass communication via telegraphs, airplanes, and the rapid networking of railways, wars had grown to become global spectacles of the mass collective unconscious, grand bloodletting rituals whose purveyors had attuned them to the rawest of human experiences; through this newfound ability to relay events and ideas throughout the globe, war itself became humanity’s orgiastic release, a metaphysical orgasm of chaos and destruction which allowed the occult librettists to restructure critical narratives, bridging mankind toward new visions of the future.
There were innumerable ways that wars helped accomplish this. Not only presenting a perfect psychological substrate by which malleable humans could be manipulated into higher biddings, but more importantly, creating the favorable economic conditions—and by that it’s meant destruction and privation—by which great new ‘resets’ could be imposed on our fundamental governing systems, be they economic, institutional, cultural, or spiritual.
There’s a reason why wars have typically upended not only the economic orders and financial status quos of the world, but also inaugurated new eras characterized by entirely new cultural ethoses, like the ‘golden ages’ which succeeded both WW1 and WW2 like some sort of manic highs. These periods dredged up society’s base grounding, pulling survivors into new and unknown directions while quietly re-mythologizing the past. It featured vast liberalization booms followed by the consolidating of industries under increasingly fewer titans.
It’s all thanks to the unique set of circumstances that wars, particularly ones of global proportions, provided. The modern post-classical era has seen society stratified into increasingly complex mechanisms akin to intricate watch movements, the gears, cogs, and switches of which are the byzantine schematas of intra- and international regulations, laws, statutes, and backdoor ‘old-family’ handshakes.
To spider through such frameworks is to navigate a puzzling tangle; it’s a dance unfavorable to those with greater visions of disrupting the entire systemic order for personal gain.
No, for such people—and groups—the only solution is to burn the web down, smash the gear-works to facilitate entropic conditions, a brief suspension of time and reality where rules cease to exist for that one precious moment: la petit mort; the chaos-spark where anything goes, and the very substrates of reality can be quietly overwritten. It is the birth of new leitmotifs for all, authored in the void.
It’s akin to hackers freezing the operating system with a hidden command prompt to access the core subset instructions, tweaking and violating the sacred sovereignty of the Base Command.
These moments are akin to magical rites, harnessing the most primordial of human instincts, alchemizing them to induce the mass hypnosis of reshaping trajectories—subsequently recorded as historical narrative.
One such example can be clearly seen from this 1917 speech by John Dewey:
Reprinted below for emphasis:
Some have remarked that the best way to unite all nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time.
Before a common menace, North and South America, the Occident, and Orient have done an unheard of thing, a wonderful thing, a thing which, it may well be, future history will point to as the most significant thing in these days of wonderful happenings.
They have joined forces amply and intimately in a common cause with one another and with the European nations which were most directly threatened. What few dreamers hoped might happen in the course of some slow coming century has become an accomplished fact in a few swift years.
In spite of geographical distance, unlike speech, diverse religion, and hitherto independent aims, nations from every continent have formed what for the time being is nothing less than a world state, an immense cooperative action in half of civilization.
Of course, Dewey worked with the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations all his life, and promulgated a lot of other ideas conveniently promoting the homogenization of humanity:
In 1933, Dewey called for a synthesizing of all religions and "a socialized and cooperative economic order." In the July 1908 Hibbert Journal, he wrote: "Our schools...are performing an infinitely significant religious work. They are promoting social unity out of which in the end genuine religious unity must grow."
Which quickly went from the above to this:
Harari, an influential author and professor, made the call while giving a talk on the “future of humanity.”
According to Harari, the power of AI can be harnessed and used to reshape spirituality into the WEF’s globalist vision of “equity” and inclusivism.
Speaking with journalist Pedro Pinto in Lisbon, Portugal, Harari told the elitist audience:
“It’s the first technology ever that can create new ideas.
“You know, the printing press, radio, television, they broadcast, they spread the ideas created by the human brain, by the human mind.
“They cannot create a new idea.
“You know, [Johannes] Gutenberg printed the Bible in the middle of the 15th century; the printing press printed as many copies of the Bible as Gutenberg instructed it, but it did not create a single new page.
“It had no ideas of its own about the Bible: Is it good? Is it bad? How to interpret this? How to interpret that?”
Harari then revealed that he and his allies at the WEF have a solution to the supposed problems he’d just highlighted.
“AI can create new ideas; [it] can even write a new Bible,” he declared.
“Throughout history, religions dreamt about having a book written by a superhuman intelligence, by a non-human entity,” he added.
As perverse as this may initially seem, the frightening part is that the very facilitators of this technology have already espoused the selfsame idea.
In a previous article, I had already highlighted how the chief scientist and founder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, believes humans will find ultimate enlightenment through AI as a sort of all-knowing spiritual advisor:
In a recent interview, OpenAI’s own founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, gives his vision of the future. And it is one many people will find either troubling or outright terrifying.
Some of the highlights:
-He believes these AI he’s developing will lead to a form of human enlightenment. He likens speaking to AI in the near-future as having an edifying discussion with ‘the world’s best guru’ or ‘the best meditation teacher in history’.
-He states that AI will help us to ‘see the world more correctly’.
-He envisions the future governance of humanity as ‘AI being the CEO, with humans being the board members’, as he says here.
So, firstly, it becomes clear that the developers behind these systems are in fact actively and intentionally working towards creating a ‘TechnoGod’ to rule over us. The belief that humanity can be ‘corrected’ into having more ‘correct views of the world’ is highly troubling, and is something I railed against in this recent article:
But what is disturbing is how Sutskever echoes Harari’s visions of a more “correct” religious experience dictated or in some way curated to us by these utopian AI systems.
But getting back to history and wars.
These nebulous conglomerates used the wars of the 20th century to not only consolidate power in the more obvious ways, destroying rival enterprises, subjugating countries after leveling their industries so as to buy them up for pennies on the dollar, but also, the wars were used as cultural dam-breaks to etch away tradition and calcified societal norms in order to usher in waves of new movements that would uproot thousands of years of human development.
It’s no coincidence that the infamous Frankfurt School which was the cauldron from whence spawned almost all the modern cultural ills—from identity movements to critical and intersectional philosophies—was itself originated during the Weimar Republic—that neutered and debased of post-WW1 German states which had been turned into a perverse laboratory of the elite.
Wars reshape realities. Through the baptismal fires of their culminating moments, the guiding rails are reforged, and through the smoky chaos we hardly notice the sleight of hand.
Just as John Dewey explained in the earlier excerpt, WW2 was used to restructure Western reality around the new binary of the Cold War: the diametric poles of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the new normal of the nuclear specter accepted wholesale by the Western populace as if it were scripture. All of society had been restructured around militarism, even the language changing subtly. The income tax, for instance, was raised to a new post-war standard an order of magnitude higher than was previous, all to support the new status quo of unrestrained and limitless MIC funding.
A variety of changes can be listed, but the fact remains: the world of the post-war had quickly become unrecognizable to that of the pre-war, as if some civilizational page had been turned at the behest of a higher power. And always, in the end, these changes favored the scriptwriters of the banking families who were invariably able to use these times to ‘modify’ the system’s internal code—whether it was the Bretton Woods agreement during WW2, the subsequent Marshall Plan, or the annulment of the very same Bretton Woods in the turbulent 70s, crisis-ridden from more regional wars.
But the point of all that is to understand that war has always been the crucible in which the bankster class had re-synthesized our shared narratives.
But things are changing.
The modern age has seen a number of developments which gravely curtail this recursive pageant. The first and largest has been the advent of nuclear weapons. In many ways they’re an extremely irritating and inconvenient obstacle for the scriptwriters. Simply: by virtue of their M.A.D. deterrence, nuclear weapons have made it very difficult, or nigh impossible, to start war; or at least a World War. Since the advent of intercontinental ballistic missiles in particular, few are lunatic enough to wage full scale war against a fellow nuclear-armed power.
This has resulted in the stratification of the world into various blocs, but no convenient way for the elites to effect their favorite of ablution rites. Though they can still take the current framework a long way, playing with more subtle contrivances at the edges of reality, the global war scenarios which were their emetic feasts have become unfeasible. The systemic financial purges that their global hegemony sporadically required could no longer be counted on. And worse yet, the global mind, too, could no longer be re-encoded with the occult power that full-scale war provided at a touch.
This, as you can imagine, was a most serious of problems.
But if that wasn’t bad enough, then came the modern era and its advent of hyper-interconnectivity. The past decade in particular has seen this thorn become a lance in the haunches of the banking boar. You see, it turns out that war is much harder to sell to a public that can expose your lies in real time, fact-checking your every disingenuous utterance before it’s even had a chance to echo through the digital amphitheater.
The online clampdowns were a natural consequence of this. The militarization of terms like ‘hate speech’ and ‘mis/disinformation’ quickly became the final desperate tools in the elites’ shopworn bag. And they soon found themselves at the dawning of a new era, where the old standbys and holdfasts of their regime could no longer be used to yield the customary results.
Imagine if the charade which sold us the Iraq War had been done today, Colin Powell’s murky vile vial performance immediately set upon by millions of Twitter fact-checks and dissident independent media uproars animating the sympathetic beltway forces. Could it still work? Judging by the fact that the last decade and a half has seen the longest dearth of kinetic-interventionism since darn-near the U.S.’s founding, it would seem to be a working deterrent.
For instance, note that since WW2, the U.S. has typically averaged multiple major kinetic interventions per decade without fail:
From the Korean War in the 50s to Vietnam in the 60s and 70s, the Latin American interventions in the 80s, like the invasion of Grenada and Panama. Followed by Desert Storm in 1990, several major NATO bombing operations on Yugoslavia. The 2000s saw the substantial Afghan and Iraq wars and the NATO Libya war of 2011. But since then, it’s been quite silent as far as large scale kinetic interventions go—why is that?
It has become increasingly difficult for the ruling class to ‘sell’ these wars in the modern social-and-independent-media-dominated online landscape. The MIC and banking class’s phony war-selling performances have become too easy to countervail and riddle with holes. Their facile logic chains too susceptible to debunking by the slew of modern indie/dissident journalists, be they the Klarenbergs, Matés, Taibbis of the world, or even big-house stalwarts like Tucker Carlson.
The ebb against the establishment’s fake narratives has long begun; now the tide is turning. The fact is: they can’t sell wars with the same ease as before. And if they can’t sell wars, that means they can’t perform their grand orgiastic rites to birth new narrative shifts they’ve designed for humanity, those new terms of service they’ve become so accustomed to imprinting onto the insensate, war-deafened masses.
So, where do they go from here?
The natural culmination is their adoption of the cultural ‘war’ as surrogate to the real wars they can no longer instigate. The culture war on our minds and identities is the new WW3 they had hoped to stoke into the lustral fires of our mental recoding ritual; it’s why they’ve chosen identity as the main vector of attack. The problem is, the facsimile doesn’t quite have the same effect.
Only the thundering cannonades and physically destructive manifestations of mass death could leave humans blind, deaf, and dumb enough to be totally refashioned into obedient, trauma-wrought golems. The culture war was launched against a prepared, armor-clad humanity. Instead of the hoped-for clean sweep, they’ve now found themselves enmired in a pitched battle of psychic attrition; and for once, it’s a level playing field.
Unlike in the fire-and-brimstone clashes of real war, where tangible resources are essential to compete against titanic powers—kingly sums of flint and steel and riches galore—on the digital battlefield, knowledge is the apex weapon: the great equalizer. Anyone with a mind and an internet connection can bring down kings, scupper empires—or at least chip away at their foundations enough for others to finish the job.
Here, charisma is the Manhattan project, knowledge, intuition, and facility of research are the sulfurous mounds and salt-peter trainloads squealing down the forge tracks at the bomb-making plant.
For once, it’s a war which sees the elite at a distinct disadvantage. Their designs have never cleaved to logic or reason, but when they’ve wielded the bludgeon of vast industries and firepower, such shortcomings were never a hindrance. But in the domain of the modern war, their weapons are blunted steel, voices brittle whispers compared to the roars of awakened culture warriors being actualized throughout the globe at every moment.
Sure, they still wield the power of vast propaganda organs, furnaces into which untold bales of money are shoveled each day. But even these devices are often stripped of their reach, their edges dulled immediately upon contact with the online community which grows increasingly bolder and more resistant to their wiles. Menticidal campaigns worth billions are instantaneously gelded by overwhelming ridicule—the bombing runs of meme warfare. Just look at the recent fiasco surrounding the ruinous Budlight campaign, among others. In real war, it’s the equivalent of a merchant marine fleet being sunk by some guerilla force in a single short-lived ambush.
Now, they’re losing control of the narrative because they’ve over-extended their forces into a salient of extremity so abhorrent as to wake even the most dormant of reluctant resisters. They did it because they had no choice: they can only push forward, only accelerate towards extremes, like a man on fire unable to stop running; for to yield even a single step or beat is to face collapse.
So they’ve tried other desperate vectors of attack: biological warfare as another surrogate to the wars that made it all so simple. But even that didn’t last for the same reasons outlined above. Though it was quite a powerful sally against humanity, the Covid hoax did not achieve even a fraction of the global control its purveyors envisioned. If it were up to them, we’d all be cattle-tagged with digital QR codes and force-vaccinated on a monthly basis. Instead, their propaganda organs faced fierce resistance in a playing field of information where the masters no longer hold the advantage.
They were forced to scuttle it early, all the restrictions pulled back; a campaign decades in the making dragged in only ambiguous results. And now a counterattack launched by the resistance threatens to expose and destroy them entirely. The leading presidential candidate as we speak, for all his faults, is one of the staunchest and most outspoken anti-Vax fighters on the planet. Disaster awaits them.
Their last-ditch effort relies on a wall of static distortion as a blinder to keep up the incessant pressure at all costs. To break that even for a moment is to lift the needle from the record, allow the universe’s natural order to intercede on their carefully constructed gossamer reality.
But for them, there can be no calm, no brief respite, or caesura in their compression of psychic frequencies, lest the void be revealed: the absence from which everything sprouts, and in which all possibility exists. Now, only the katechon of our awakening instincts can secure our future by becoming the permanent bulwark of man against the eroding darkness.
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