#13.7 Peace Revolution Podcasts 51 thru 55

Episodes 51 through 55 – Education and Freedom

2012-3-25: #51 Truth is the Enemy of the State / The Irony of Secrecy

Those who have been following along with us, that is you have now become somewhat more aware of what Solzhenitsyn had to teach us, you'll love how Peg Luksik explains Outcome Based Education * (OBE). The parallels are obvious, especially regarding remediation. Succinctly, this changes the role of education from training people, of whatever age, how to use their minds (how to think in order that one's actions produce more accurate and reliable results) to assessments of people based on arbitrary standards of performance. The ultimate goal is collectivism.

A few notes of our own that relate: Notice the word “control” in common usage is always to be observed as a presumption of authority, whereas in normal human relations we recognize true leadership in any human enterprise by attributes of “command” which bear on our assessment of how well that person uses, or has used, their mind to determine actions which are more accurate and reliable than your own or than most others you know. We audaciously condemn this practice as a system of mis-education run erroneously and unlawfully (natural law) by the authorities. Consider the ramifications and make your educational decisions accordingly based on your own circumstances.

By the way, the very same paradigm described here as applied to education also has even wider reference to science and is enforced through research grants, promotions, lectureships, etc. This marks a distinct corruption of science itself. As we have already seen, that is if you have been following along so far, this corruption is not new. We reiterate that the “feet of clay” of science, so called, is limited to what it studies (what is allowed and disallowed to study) and in this regard what outcomes are prescribed beforehand determine what science studies; data that supports an outcome desired by those who pay for the science (from whatever source or motives, public or private) will be accepted, that which does not will be discarded. We would normally consider this practice fraudulent, but factors such as “the noble lie” take care of this so that the truth is rarely seen by the general public.

Then the episode turns to a brief discussion of the related subject of social psychopathology. After all, if there are such who would deliberately attempt to control others (psychopaths) through whatever means (OBE and its equivalents in science) and many of these people do tend to gravitate to the levers of state power, I don't see how any possible effort to establish (the or an) VEN can avoid considering this subject and its implications.

Richard Grove describes the Trivium, the way to learn anything as:

Grammar -> Logic -> Rhetoric

Knowledge -> Understanding -> Wisdom
Input -> Process -> Output

Learning the fallacies provides self defence (there are extensive notes on the link). Grove considers belief systems as counterfeit knowledge; illusion accepted as truth, which is inherently irrational. This ultimately leads to democide; the killing of people by their governments, whether it's through conscription into armies or simple genocide. Combined with occulting (secreting) of useful information and substituting this pre-defined dataset, the system becomes a control mechanism by deception. Belief is regarded as the rest stop on the way to knowledge.

This episode closes with Corbett Report Interview 475: Curing Statism with Stefan Molyneux, the Canadian podcaster philosopher.

Homework:

Psychopathology:
Hervey Cleckley- The Mask of Sanity
Martha Stout- The Sociopath Next Door

Learning Fallacies:

Aristotle- On Sophistical Refutations

2012-4-1: #52 The Art of Observation and the Law of Identity

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) certainly figured it out at least by 1870. We should all pay attention as we want to make sure we do not repeat the history he describes. We shall eventually bring his critique to bear on the recently re-encountered John Galt speech as part of the dung sifting required to separate truth from deceptions.

You may likewise possibly enjoy Leonard Peikoff (the philosophical heir of Ayn Rand), his Introduction to Logic, as he reels off all the excuses for irrationality, including the amusing one that one should throw away that which has always worked simply because it is too old or out of fashion! The implications of these views have been all around us for more than 150 years at least.

It is of course one of the intentions of this episode to place Spooner's critique alongside the irrationalist's attacks on logic so that the picture emerges of a group of unscrupulous people whose law among themselves is “do what thou wilt” regardless of logic or any other consideration but what they can and intend to do. This too is the fatal flaw in Rand's work as she on one hand extols logic while giving a pass to irrationalists if they are among a certain group of people she refers to as “producers.” The implications here are obvious as well.

Then Grove and Heller discuss predators, which ties all this together.

This episode concludes with a discussion of the trivium method with Gene Odening. Of interest is his discussion of the relationship between inquisitions and trials for witchcraft and laws etc. directed against modern terrorism as fundamentally motivated by the desire of some (using the church or government) to steal the property of others (terrorists or witches). His discussion of logical fallacies is core material of the course.

Homework:

Lysander Spooner- No Treason: the Constitution of No Authority (1870)
Sr. Miriam Joseph- The Trivium

Logical fallacies:
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

Steve Snyder's speed reading method (mentioned by Gene Odening.

2012-4-8: #53 Philosophy Beyond Doctrine / The Constitution of No Authority

This episode is almost 4 and half hours long, devoted to Spooner's 1870 essay, No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority. If you hadn't decided to read it before (as it was previously referenced under Homework), you'll get to hear it here. His critique, what he knew then is astounding in itself, is certainly relevant right now. You also get to know Manly P Hall's lecture, Philosophy Beyond Doctrine. Regardless of its length, we consider the information and ideas in this episode of vital importance in regard to the formation of (the or an) VEN.

Hall gives us a useful definition of selfishness, which Ayn Rand never does; selfishness is that which deliberately takes advantage of others. One therefore cannot be selfish all alone, it requires others either as pawns or hosts, since this definition of selfishness defines parasites. Once selfishness of this kind is dispensed with, we can get rid of the desperate ideas to always be right or to greedily possess all, leaving just how to be intelligently unselfish as a result. Of course there will always be those who assume quite incorrectly that the only way to become unselfish is to allow the state (or those who stand behind it) to act selfishly instead. If you have been following along, you'll be able to pin the appropriate logical fallacy to arguments of this kind and dispense with them.

Homework:

Stanley Milgram- Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
The Lysander Spooner Reader

2012-4-14: #54 The Law of Personal Liberty / Outgrowing Slavery, Oppression, and Legal Plunder

This episode is dedicated to The Law by Frederic Bastiat (1850). I recall mentioning this work in another paper. If you have never heard of this great work before, well now's your chance. Of course it's important as a basis for (an or the) VEN.

I also note that Bastiat's observation that the law is a negative is echoed in the work of the Polish mathematician, Alfred Korzybski (despite his non-Aristotilian perspective), who pointed out the obvious nature of positive and negative statements, giving the negatives the greater importance entirely due to their relative scarcity; in any situation imaginable the positive statements easily outnumber the negative ones. In this light, the current public relations campaign against “negativity” is a deliberate attack on your ability to think for yourself because of course the negative statements about anything are more significant and will always make more difference in any decision than the more abundant positives. The truth of this is self evident to every normal child, why shouldn't it be obvious to more adults? Ah yes, most people have come through the public schools. That mostly explains it. They prepared us for belief over actually knowing and having an adequate ability to differentiate reality from illusion, the calculated assaults of the media on our thinking, etc. Bastiat's frontal attack on all “social engineers” was way ahead of his time, and of course remains relevant.

Bastiat's fundamental principle is that law is FORCE. We are obviously all ruled by natural laws, which include the weather (until certain people are found to be attempting to alter it – HAARP, etc. - stop it you fools, you'll kill us all! – ah yes, that's what they have in mind, be it noted, for after all they be psychopaths, if you have been following along). As examples of natural law being FORCE, consider that those who live in Southern California are FORCED to endure warm, sunny and dry weather most of the time, while those who live in Arctic Norway are FORCED to live with far more variant weather. It starts from there. But of course each place will have momentary dramatic reversals from the norm from time to time, and that too is by the law of nature. Since law is FORCE it should therefore be limited to things like protecting the lives, liberty and property of people who together agree that they will voluntarily pay for such services on some subscription basis. Anything more is strictly speaking, tyranny. Bastiat also later says that law is justice.

By the way, I find Bastiat's “pulling the pants down” off his targets, the socialists, social organizers, social engineers, legislators, etc. extremely humorous. Please enjoy this reading as the reader at least pronounces the French words and names correctly.

Homework:

Frederic Bastiat- The Law (1850)

2012-4-23: #55 Only Wisdom is Freedom / Why Tyranny Needs Your Ignorance to Exist

More grammar and applications of the course. You'll get to hear a 1961 lecture by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) at the end of this episode among other things.

Homework:

H. G. Wells- The Open Conspiracy

INTERMISSION

#13.6 Peace Revolution Podcasts 46 thru 50

Episodes 46 through 50 – Basic applications of the course
 

2012-1-17: #46 Liberty is Life / Practical Applications of Rationality

This episode could be considered a cornerstone of the entire course.

2012-1-21: #47 Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of Irrationality

#46 and #47 are really two episodes that are connected, the introduction for this episode is included within that for the previous episode. In the previous episode, we've looked at the positive side, now here's the negative.

We start with Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Here, we have a lopsided definition of what money is, with all usury and compounding deliberately written out of the narrative. Rand, like a number of others on her side of the equation, succeed in gaining followers by merely not reporting the whole truth. Rand was in my opinion (as was Friedrich Nietzsche before her) a worthy representative of all that “the powers that be” believe in, therefore everyone should study her work, not because it is right, but because it is an apt description of the misanthropic viewpoint from which much else that is truly evil stems.

I would also note that where various words like “fool” are used in this excerpt, we can lay the blame for the production of fools squarely on the educational system and the economic models used by the corporations as we have seen in past episodes. At the bottom of it all is the idea that certain people who presume to be as virtuous as they are wealthy can take advantage of everyone else as if they were animals, specifically cattle, while they imagine themselves as the good, the worthy, the entitled to rule, etc. when in fact they and everything they have done down through the corridors of time has been criminal in the extreme.

Then we have a section where Alex Jones describes the state tyranny that is in place and planned so that those Rand described can maintain their power over the rest of us believing as they do that vast wealth = vast virtue, when as history clearly demonstrates (and even the Bible reiterates) vast wealth usually comes from exactly the opposite of virtue. Jones advocates political activism which E. C. Riegel decried as useless, and we agree. Start with the bottom, not the top. Start with each local community, and within cities, each neighbourhood. That's where (an or the) VEN will have to begin and become a real solution.

Dave Emory then reads from “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer. This book is about the people who lived under Hitler's regime. We include this source in the homework for this episode and if you haven't already done so, reading or re-reading 1984 by George Orwell should provide some sense of where we are in history and time. The separation of government from the people has been a deliberate and gradual process maintained and financed by the elites against the rest of us. In the process, the government, which in the United States at any rate, was supposed to be of, by and for the people, has been transformed into a machine owned by certain people to represent and support their interests against the rest of us.

Then hear Disney's war propaganda; pay your income tax! With what we know now, especially about where income taxes really go, this should really make us all sick.

Then the first 3 or so chapters of “The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation” by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn are presented. It's probably time to read this whole book too as it is still relevant.

Homework:

Ayn Rand-

Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead

Milton Mayer- They Thought They Were Free
George Orwell- 1984
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn- The Gulag Archipelago
http://www.thechristianidentityforum.net/downloads/Gulag1.pdf

2012-1-30: #48 The Philosophy of Life / This is John Galt Speaking

This episode is sort of a collage concerning current issues and technology, starting with a brief statement by the late American Indian leader Russell Means where he says that the US Constitution is based on Indian law. The theme of this episode would be information censorship in this day and age. Richard Grove calls it “exiting the gulag” and as usual, his remarks are clear, sharp and square on the mark. Ayn Rand's John Galt speech (from Atlas Shrugged) is featured though we are acknowledging that her particular brand of Aristotle's philosophy, Objectivism, is an “ism” that we do not uncritically accept. Rand's reliance on the concept of authority is her fatal flaw which warps her entire outlook and philosophy and makes it irrational, however that flaw does not seem to colour John Galt's speech, so we can all learn something from even those we dislike or even detest. We also look favourably on Larken Rose's remarks concerning government and would like rational and sensible feedback on his points as regards any implementation of (the or an) VEN.

Homework:

I'm placing this link here, John Galt's speech in print, just in case any out there wish to follow along as it is being read during this episode.
http://amberandchaos.com/?page_id=106

2012-2-12: #49 The Fallacy of Authority / The Most Dangerous Superstition

An excellent episode which does not rely on the usual bromides concerning authoritarianism or authoritarian personality as postulated by the usual elitist representatives of collectivism; the Frankfurt School, etc. Rather, the message is quite different and even more important; authority is a monstrous illusion, repugnant to natural law, against reason which relies on clear cause and effect.

Homework:

Larken Rose- The Most Dangerous Superstition

2012-2-26: #50 How to End Slavery in the 21st Century (and Beyond)

A wide ranging discussion of aspects of the course. Almost halfway through is a discussion of belief in authority and the cult of “avoiding negativity”, another widespread concocted philosophical fallacy that allows people to act and behave irresponsibly by ignoring problems and waiting for some authority to deal with it instead of themselves. Autonomy is rationality, giving up one's volition to some make believe authority is irrational.

Mentioned in this discussion, the argumentum ad verecundiam: (argument from authority) is usually defined as the fallacy of appealing to an authority operating outside its professed expertise. Everyone has opinions and advice; the fallacy supposedly only occurs when the reason for accepting an authority's conclusion is based on that opinion or advice lying outside the authority's claimed area of expertise. Why quibble? ALL arguments from authority are potentially false and under the discovery of the principles being developed here, including respect for the truth at all times and places; so thereby to improve the accuracy and reliability of our thoughts and actions, ALL ad verecundiam arguments are ALWAYS open to dismissal.

Many incredible instances in history, where ad verecundiam arguments played a part, are traversed leading right into the present. Included is a natural law statement directed at all American military personnel, especially those currently stationed overseas or operating as combatants in any number of endless wars for the profit of some (international bankers) while other father's sons and daughters die, the refrain of history. All war of any kind is of this character; it requires money (usually loaned at usury) and blood. Meanwhile individuals make choices. Individuals form groups and they act in concert, but the solidarity of the group relies on its individual's decisions.

Another fallacy that is torn down is a form of group think that might be called group ad hominem, the sweeping generalization. Arguments that profess to blame groups for wrongs, etc. are all thrown down as no matter how many groups one may simultaneously belong to, one is always oneself, an individual who makes decisions. In this regard, filtering data as part of the grammar process in the trivium, allows one to pick up diamonds from dung heaps, so to speak.

This episode concludes with James Corbett's program on the Magna Carta (1215 at Runnymede, England); basic grammar.

Homework:

Stanley Milgram-
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments
Television and Anti-social Behavior: Field Experiments
Psychology in Today’s World

INTERMISSION

#13.4 Peace Revolution Podcasts 31 thru 40

Episodes 31 through 40 – Critiques of modern education and more applications of the course.

2011-6-5: #31 Connect the Dots, See the Big Picture / The 5th Anniversary of Project Constellation: A Root-Cause Analysis of our Culture of Fear

 

This 3 and a half hour episode contains the entire first release of Grove's Project Constellation. Herein, Grove identifies his unique perspectives on 9/11 and other related matters.

Homework:

Burton Hirsch- The Old Boys; The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
James H. Billington- Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

2011-6-12: #32 How College Subverts Students / Dumbing us Down for Profit and Power

 

This episode begins and ends with statements by educator, John Taylor Gatto. Then a lengthy lecture / interview of Norman Dodd by G. Edward Griffin from the 1980's. Dodd's experience goes back to just before the crash of 1929 and its aftermath. College Conspiracy then supports the thesis presented here. There is more. The whole episode is something like 2 hours and 43 minutes long. By the time you are half way through, you should begin to recognize some very dangerous signs that higher education, as with everything else, has been ruined by the influences of the banking community and government policies such that it matters now whether you decide to “get educated” to chance joining the shrinking corporatocracy and ending up as debt slaves for the rest of your life, or face reality and prepare for a post corporate world by gaining basic craft skills instead. We hope that among those who decide not to go to college, there will be those who will take up reading and research so that they can get an education they can use throughout their lives. We note that by just under 2 hours through this episode, an idea is mentioned that I saw more than 15 years ago; that there would be a confluence of education, entertainment and computing via the internet. It's how education will be done in the future. Gatto's assessment of Darwin and his influence in all of this is close to my own; that evolution is more theory than fact and rests on many pseudo-religious ideas that are made to deliberately benefit some at the expense of others.

2011-6-18: #33 Educational Initiations of Self / Integrity Starts with You

 

This episode builds on the last one and aims at increasing personal awareness of a need to acquire a useful education. It contains Manly P. Hall's commentary on native American Indian ceremonies of initiation into manhood and other related comments dealing with a critique of modern education and then finally to the idea of shared responsibilities. All of which he describes needs to be considered in as many aspects as humanly possible.

2011-6-26: #34 How the World Really Works / Cause and Effect vs. Our Beliefs

 

First, Richard Grove tells us about how he was able to get Gatto to interview (episodes 41 thru 45 covered in our #13.5). Grove then makes some important definitions for future use including the notion that under certain circumstances, people will become “fascist” in their attitudes toward others featured as “inferiors” or guided by certain kinds of “authoritarian” leadership styles. Microcosmic and macrocosmic illustrations then follow; Larken Rose (http://www.larkenrose.com) and then Carroll Quigley himself from an interview in 1974.

Homework:

W. Cleon Skousen- The Naked Capitalist
Gary Allen- Richard Nixon, the man behind the mask

2011-7-17: #35 The House of Rothschild / The World’s Banker

This episode starts with Alex Jones interviewing Jordan Maxwell. I note that Maxwell, like everyone else, mispronounces the word “teutonic”, a minor point, but much of what they discuss may be half truths or blind alleys as regards research of real history. The 1934 motion picture, The House of Rothschild is featured as an example of propaganda. Bill Still is one of the narrators of segments which follow.

Homework:

Niall Ferguson-
Volume 1: The House of Rothschild / Money’s Prophets (1798-1848)
Volume 2: The House of Rothschild / The World’s Banker (1849-1999)
Douglas Reed- The Controversy of Zion

Eustace Mullins- Secrets of the Federal Reserve

Moses Hess- Rome and Jerusalem: The Last Nationalist Question (1862)
(Video) Prof. Chengiah Ragaven interviewed by Richard Grove (on YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu3HZKc_G1w

2011-7-24: #36 The Global Ruling Class / Meet the F*ckers

 

Rothkopf presents a realistic view of the current world system. In this series, we have heard portions of this address before. Here we get the whole thing.

Homework:

David Rothkopf-
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World they are Creating
Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power

2011-8-14: #37 Justified Sinners / The History of Eugenics in America

 

The episode begins with Bilderberg to demonstrate how it is possible for people with certain interests to meet secretly and keep their moves from the rest of us; literal conspiracy. Eugenics is the subject; bionomics, playing God, denying God, other myths are laid bare. James Corbett's words against utopias could be my own and should be seriously considered by all. Much of what follows concerning eugenics and contemporary issues and politicians (especially Webster Tarpley's presentation) needs to be considered as grammar to be treated through logic to produce a concise and effective rhetoric and I might add all this is of crucial importance to any real solutions bearing on formation of (the or an) VEN.

011-9-4: #38 The High Cabal / Lessons in Foreign and Domestic Policy

British East India Company Flag

This episode features a wide ranging interview of Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, specifically highlighting the oil wars, the role of transportation to hold up oil prices, etc. He tells us that we know next to nothing about the histories of other people outside our own ethnic / racial groups. Prouty's discussion of groups and how they operate and have operated down through human history is probably one of the most significant points in the whole series as it relates directly to an alternative economic system as proposed in the formation of (the an) VEN. Col. Prouty uses an example from military training involving the building of a bridge. The discussion then ranges into the JFK assassination with Prouty developing obvious proofs of a wide ranging conspiracy and the reasons why Kennedy was killed. Prouty describes “gold key clubs” (other people have called them “gold badges”) which draw upon resources / people regardless of apparent government agencies in order to carry out special missions. The rest of the episode is about the CIA's atrocities around the world as they are supported by those who intend on profiting from terror and the imposition of dictatorial power abroad to secure for those in the developed world both resources and markets.

Homework:

L. Fletcher Prouty- The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United
States and the World
L. Fletcher Prouty- JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
Peter Drucker- The End of Economic Man, the origins of totalitarianism
Foster Rhea Dulles- The Road to Teheran
Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn- The Great Conspiracy
The works of Joseph Needham- Science and Civilization in China (many volumes)

2011-9-11: #39 9-11 Backdraft / Examining the Evidence Ten Years Later

 

9/11 is the subject. These professionals are telling you that your government is not what you thought. The implications are profound. Murders were committed, killed on purpose, in cold blood. There is no statute of limitation on murder. Someone was responsible. Who? Meanwhile, people are in denial. It's a problem.

2011-9-25: #40 Consumer Kindergarten / How Corporations Prey on Children

This episode spotlights public education (schooling), it's origins, history, intentions, philosophical roots, etc. The key concept of “buying the public” is explained. The role of children as economic resources is then discussed; purchasing power and influence, the role of media blitz. You'll find out how getting ads in front of kids is big business. Meanwhile what exactly are children learning? Then about 2/3rds of the way through the episode the issue of the advertiser's “rights” vs. those of the children is looked upon from the metaphor of a corporation acting like a psychopath. These are issues which would directly affect the rules under which any IE would have to operate; there are obvious business ethics issues involved.

INTERMISSION

#13.3 Peace Revolution Podcasts 21 thru 30

Episodes 21 through 30 – History, realpolitik, money and more of the course.

2011-3-16: #21 The Occult History of World War / A Veil Lifted

This episode is almost 4 hours long, but it is very important. History is basic grammar; a thorough presentation of the history of World War I, a crucial subject in modern history, is basic material to the course. The speech / lecture forming much of the second half of this episode dates from 1961. This speech is loaded: Benjamin Freedman, a Jew who converted to Catholicism, develops themes that precede the best disclosure of the same information by Arthur Koestler some 15 years later. He also indicates that he probably agrees with Arab Semitic anthropology, a controversial subject. Nevertheless, basic grammar, grist for the mill; you just might learn something.

Homework:

Arthur Koestler- The Thirteenth Tribe. The Khazar Empire and its Heritage.

2011-4-4: #22 The Best Enemies Money Can Buy / The Arch which connects 2 Pillars

This episode is approx. 2 and a half hours long. It continues with basic grammar; Antony Sutton's work is as important as Carroll Quigley's. Then “team B” the neocons and various other cabals are referenced. Edward Bernays and others are reviewed. It concludes with a humorous interview of Donald Rumsfeld.

Homework:

The works of Antony Sutton-

Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917-1930 (1968)

Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1930-1945 (1971)

Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1945-1965 (1973)

National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (1973)

What Is Libertarianism? (1973)

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974, 1999)

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (1976, 1999)

Wall Street and FDR (1976, 1999)

The War on Gold: How to Profit from the Gold Crisis (1977)

Energy: The Created Crisis (1979)

The Diamond Connection: A manual for investors (1979)

Trilaterals Over Washington - Volume I (1979; with Patrick M. Wood)

Trilaterals Over Washington - Volume II (1980; with Patrick M. Wood)

Gold vs Paper: A cartoon history of inflation (1981)

Investing in Platinum Metals (1982)

Technological Treason: A catalog of U.S. firms with Soviet contracts, 1917-1982 (1982)

America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones (1983, 1986, 2002)

How the Order Creates War and Revolution (1985)

How the Order Controls Education (1985)

The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986)

The Two Faces of George Bush (1988)

The Federal Reserve Conspiracy (1995)

Trilaterals Over America (1995)

Cold Fusion: Secret Energy Revolution (1997)

Gold For Survival (1999)

You may find that some of these titles are rare books as they have been suppressed, nevertheless Sutton from his vantage point and access to original sources is indispensable, so much so that we actively encourage any means of disseminating his works to the general public, something he certainly would have wanted.

Edward Bernays- Propaganda

 

2011-4-4: #23 How to Free Your Mind / The Occulted Keys of Wisdom

Richard Grove, lecture of the course describing “learning by identity.”

2011-4-22: #24 Logic Works because it's Rational / How to Teach Each Other

A group discussion on the course, including a very important discussion of the “Zeitgeist movement” which is uncovered and recognized as just another repackaging of the same old status quo; a message to the masses to accept the present leadership, goals, world government, etc. At this point we formally distance ourselves from these movements as they run completely counter to the ideas of E. C. Riegel and the peace revolution. Also somewhat of interest is that many apocalyptic dates promulgated in the popular press, such as 21 December 2012 as a Mayan prophecy for the end of the age, etc. turn out to have been deliberate frauds.

Homework:

Shlomo Sand- Invention of the Jewish People

2011-4-30: #25 A History of Media in America / Education for your Edification

This episode is slightly over 2 and a half hours largely consisting of the reading of several chapters from a book; Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, written back in 1985, but still pertinent (consider that it was written before the arrival of the internet). In it one would be placed on notice that abstinence from print media (typology) and reliance on visual media (motion pictures and television) reduces one to understand only the ideas these frames of reference communicate through visual stimuli and whether recognized at the outset or not, places a limitation on what can be comprehended or used to build really comprehensive solutions to mankind's modern and pressing problems. Rational typographic comprehension as it was known widely in past epochs, is these days fairly limited to those practising among the professions, especially law, which explains in large part why most decision makers at this point in history are lawyers, whether they read thoroughly whatever it is they are called upon to act upon, or not.

Therefore I admonish all who read this to continue reading, to those who do not habitually read, it's time to understand the singular difference between masters and slaves. The former can read and write. It is no accident that the Latin root for the words “book” and “liberty” are the same. If you have ever wondered what difference exists between a “learned” person and one who is a “primitive” in any sense whether ancient or modern, one need not stray farther from the simplest distinction; the former is formidably armed through reading and writing, while the latter is veritably at his mercy. Since not all time has run out, if you have never though of yourself as a reader of books, for whatever reasons, perhaps it's time to change your habits, making more time for reading. Better yet, get yourself a small book with blank pages and in it record all the books you read from cover to cover (those you stop reading are never counted). Only record their titles, authors and the date you completed reading them.

The outstanding contribution Postman makes is largely in the realm of the obvious; people develop other means of communications which actually changes how people learn and think. Marshall McLuhan, who Postman acknowledges, was not the first or only one to see the obvious in an age when recognizing the profundity of the obvious was often a source of ridicule by much of the academic community, who probably wished McLuhan had not pointed out the obvious or given them such wide public awareness, which even today few people really understood.

For the rest of what Postman tells us about television, you'll have to read the rest of his book.

Homework:

Neil Postman- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Marshall McLuhan- Understanding Media

2011-5-8: #26 Exposing the Folly of an American Theatre of the Absurd

 

This episode is about Osama bin Laden functioning as the centre piece of a huge, essentially theatrical operation of the powerful forces beyond the government. Dr. Steve Pieczenik, someone claiming to be an insider and someone loyal to George Bush Sr. is interviewed by Alex Jones (You also get to hear Jones interview James Corbett). You'll hear a lot of rhetoric with some basic grammar. A lot of what is “disclosed” is already familiar to many researchers. This was all fresh and new in 8 May 2011, but where has it gone since then? Late in his interview, Pieczenik prognosticates that Obama will manage to get re-elected, etc. Pieczenik closes with Ad hominem pronouncements against public officials. Such matters are just grist for the mill rather than supposed to be automatically accepted as viable or relevant, for as far as I know, anyone who would claim loyalty to Bush Sr. wouldn't possibly be a friend of truth or the American people.

2011-5-14: #27 DIAMONDS: The Jewel of Denial / Outgrowing Stockholm Syndrome

 
More history; basic grammar. This episode focuses on diamonds as at the heart of many overt and covert political and military operations, the founding of De Beers and the beginning of the Cecil Rhodes trusts, their influence, etc. from 1888 onward. Diamonds (as is the case with most of the silver and gold bullion commonly used in trade), have blood on them, either in the mining of them or in their uses to fund wars. The reference to the Stockholm syndrome is that those who unwittingly support the trade in diamonds are supporting their captors.

Stockholm syndrome is basically defined as when a hostage develops a bond with their captor, usually with some trauma, abuse or torture involved. It's a phenomenon that can occur on many levels, from the personal to the group or national. It has many applications as a metaphor in situations involving international relations as well as domestic disputes. It should be better understood.

2011-5-21: #28 How to Spot the Lie / Kung-Fu for your Mind

 

Another group discussion of the course focusing on recognizing logical fallacies and common forms of deception. Near the end, the group comes close to asserting that the root of corruption in the capitalist / socialist system is usury, which of course is exactly what the E. C. Riegel position would be. The hubris demonstrated by the few in regard to devising rules of conduct for the rest of humanity to live under, by FORCE, and with their consent (Stockholm syndrome), is also discussed.

2011-5-28: #29 Metaphors of Liberation / The Wisdom of Gullible's Travels

 

This episode largely concerns Manly Hall's lecture on Gulliver's Travels. The heart of it seems to be the concept of a person becoming a “unit of integrity” which becomes the font of value in human society. It will be understood, as I'm sure it was to Richard Grove and his friends, that Hall was among other things a writer interested in the esoteric, occult and Masonic, so Hall's lecture is presented as basic grammar on the subjects involved; one's implicit belief or acceptance of anything in this lecture is never required. This is merely more grist for the mill, but the subjects addressed are important.

Homework:

Jonathan Swift- Gulliver's Travels

2011-6-4: #30 The Fire of Corruption in Education / John Taylor Gatto and Henrik Palmgren

 

Henrik Palmgren (Red Ice Radio) interviews well known educator, John Taylor Gatto and this serves as an introduction to Gatto and his ideas. #13.5 includes Gatto's weekend seminar/interview with Richard Grove and his friends. While some out there would not have the patience to weather Gatto's aged and unglamourous style of address, there are kernels of data to be gleaned here, especially concerning education and the school systems operating right now around the world.

INTERMISSION

#13.2 Peace Revolution Podcasts 11 thru 20

Episodes 11 through 20 – Applications of the course; reportage on current Issues with historical background:

2010-12-2: #11 Human Resources / Social Engineering in the 20th Century, a film by Scott Noble

2010-12-2: #12 Origins of Money / A Virtual Round-Table Discussion

Homework:

Stephen Zarlenga- The Lost Science of Money

Edward Mandell House- Philip Dru Administrator

http://www.fullbooks.com/Philip-Dru-Administrator.html

Zbigniew Brzezinski- The Grand Chessboard

 

2010-12-2: #13 Psywar / The Real Battlefield is the Mind / a Film by Scott Noble

2010-12-4: #14 The Premiere of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Mitch Schultz

2010-12-4: #15 Compassionate Communication / How to Mitigate Conflict in our Thoughts

2010-12-30: #16 The 7 Arts of Freedom / Living in the Light of Value

2011-2-13: #17 Non-Violent Solutions for Everyday Situations / An introduction to Non-Violent Communication

Homework:

Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.- Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life

2011-2-23: #18 A History of the World in Our Time / Origins of Tragedy and Hope

This is largely a lecture on the substance of Quigley's work by Dr. Stanley Monteith.

Homework:

Carroll Quigley- 
Tragedy and Hope, A history of the world in our time
The Anglo-American Establishment
Evolution of Civilizations

2011-3-3: #19 Autodidactic Self-Liberation / Outgrowing our Misperceptions 

First part: Gnostic Media Podcast 105 with Mark Passio, an angry/disgusted Catholic becomes a Satanist then discovers his brand of Satanism (dark occultism) is the real religion of the elites (out of which he notices that certain people with certain traits are selected and promoted), whereupon his conscience kicks in and informs him he's on the wrong path, so he quits. Passio lists 14 mind control methodologies, money and the monetary system among them. Last part: General discussion concerning current issues and ultimate aims.

Homework:

Mind control methodologies
http://whatonearthishappening.com

Referenced New World Next Week item from 4 March, 2011:
http://peterbdunn.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/experiments-exposed-cloning-closed-conspiracy-shows-new-world-next-week

Robert Anton Wilson- The Cosmic Trigger

2011-3-5: #20 An Illegal Cure for Cancer / Who Benefits from its Prohibition?
 

Homework:

Endocannabinoid system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system

Cannabinoid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoids#Endocannabinoids

INTERMISSION

#13.1 Peace Revolution Podcasts 1 thru 10 and Introduction

Introduction: The Peace Revolution Offers A Real Education

The Peace Revolution podcasts (audio transcriptions) provide the basis for a real education that will be demonstrated as inevitably and inextricably related to any realistic future development of any VEN. These podcasts are largely the products of Richard Andrew Grove, who has created a wide range of audacious audiovisual educational presentations, many series on controversial subjects of our times, etc. But particularly germane to our purposes is his main series of Peace Revolution podcasts starting right from their very beginning.

This page provides a kind of syllabus which can be pursued by any student, just as presented, and of course we encourage everyone to do so, especially the young who have most of their lives ahead of them, though attend to it at your own pace. Each podcast is listed in episodic order preceded by the dates they were released. After each ten podcasts, I have inserted an INTERMISSION as a time to break away from these podcasts, perhaps to do something else, perhaps to discuss them with your friends and family (if interested) and otherwise reflect on how the material in these podcasts affects your perception of the world around you. There will be particular podcasts on this list that will be indicated in red as particularly relevant to the particular subjects of this blog.

As a presenter, Richard Grove is clearly someone, who by vantage of his background and experience (Grove was a Wall Street whistleblower and nearly became a victim on 9/11), demonstrates his competence to embark on what amounts to a welcome transformable approach to basic thinking. These podcasts (and many others that are appearing on the internet) present us with a new medium of information transfer, a portable audio presentation of information which we predict will be found to contain the seeds for any definitive positive improvement in human society and for real human progress. (Yes, we are intentionally backhanding the so called “progressives” for being nothing more than the dupes of the elites. The so called “populists” only receive less of our majestic ire out of our recognition of their obvious ignorance of both history and money.)

This education is directed at serious students, people who are adults first and foremost, or at least those who are emotionally mature, as we admonish beforehand that many of these podcasts do contain profanities, obscenities etc. I mention these as they may offend some; foul language or crude colourful metaphors are prevalent among some of us as a badge of toughness, for whatever reasons, none of which particularly bothers me, especially considering the contexts in which these words are used to bracket ideas with genuine emphasis. There are times when people need to be allowed to express themselves freely and forcefully. Any real education implies a growing up process, and as it has seemed to me for a long time, more need to grow up to reality and stop being sissies. All that said, although I am largely in agreement with the views and topics covered in this series, their perspectives and opinions do not necessarily represent my own.

So then, how best to use and absorb this material? Might I suggest that as some of these podcasts contain basic and useful information, the basis of the course, that one would best be served by listening to them a number of times, until the concepts, the tools and the information are easily grasped.  I have decided to divide up this material in 10 episode chunks (5 episode chunks after 13.5) for easier digestion.  As episodes are added, their links will be added, but in any case they will form extended instalments of #13 of this series of posts. Constructive comments, though of course they will be moderated, are certainly welcome. Notes as they appear on these pages are mine.

 

David Burton

The First Ten Episodes – Presenting the course:

Points of contact for the origination of this material are:
http://www.tragedyandhope.com
and:
http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com

2009-12-17: #1 The Great Conversation

Homework:

Gnostic media podcast #49
Gene Odening interview, Part 1 – “The TRIVIUM Method” – #049 (+ video)

Gnostic media podcast #50

Gene Odening interview, Part 2 – “The QUADRIVIUM” – #050 (+ video)

Gnostic media podcast #51
Gene Odening interview, Part 3 – “The Qabalah and the Mystery Schools” – #051 (+ video)

2010-1-20: #2 The Million Dollar Education

2010-2-15: #3 20/20 Hindsight CENSORSHIP on the Frontline / A Wall Street Whistleblower Proves Money Never Sleeps )

2010-2-14: #4 Exploring Media / Educating Ourselves to Live vs. Amusing Ourselves to Death

2010-5-18: #5 OVERSTOCKED / How Naked Short-Selling and Counterfeiting Stocks Create Cascading Economic Failures / an Interview with Dr. Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock dot com
 

Homework:

Market Manipulation and Capture

http://www.deepcapture.com

2010-8-13: #6 The Intellectual Elite vs. You / The Resurrection of Critical Thinking
 

2010-10-3: #7 How to defeat the New World Order / A Root-Cause Analysis Leading to Freedom

Homework:

Logical Fallacies, etc.:
http://www.triviumeducation.com

#145 You Are Being Gamed

Eugenics:

TheOiling of America

2010-10-10: #8 PARRHESIA / A Curriculum for Intellectual Self-Defense

2010-11-8: #9 What You've Been Missing / Exposing the Noble Lie

2010-12-2: #10 Cognitive Liberty / A Virtual Round-Table Discussion

Homework:

Education criticism.

Charlotte Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America PDF

INTERMISSION

#13.5 The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto

Links to the following five podcasts are presented here as a prerequisite to discussions concurrent with the ideas of E. C. Riegel who was himself an autodidact (self taught). John Taylor Gatto (1935- ) is introduced here in a five hour interview, with expanded discussions every 15 minutes so that most details are covered, as an experienced teacher with worldwide experiences which should be part of a foundation for some of the other papers that are currently in process.  These are part of the Peace Revolution podcasts and in their order they represent #41 thru #45.

UPDATE: 20 November, 2012  Many have noticed that John Taylor Gatto sounds impaired.  He is 77 and has been affected by stroke.  His health was deteriorating until some of the friends he made through contact with Richard Grove have come to his rescue.  He is now attempting to regain his health and is now getting nutrition and physiotherapy.  His mind remains clear and active.  He wants to continue.  Those interested in helping John can contact Richard Grove at Tragedy and Hope.com  http://www.tragedyandhope.com   

Ultimate History Lesson 1
Ultimate History Lesson 2

Ultimate History Lesson 3
Ultimate History Lesson 4
Ultimate History Lesson 5

The Odysseus Group with John Taylor Gatto