-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Hall, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Lloyd Miller' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 5:03 PM Subject: RE: [prj] Welcome (http://members.home.com/irishkev/oldcofc/issue1.htm) [Hall, David] Good day, Mr. Miller: This is a fine introduction. I am excited to read more of your thoughts in the near future. A question and a few comments if you don't mind! ...May I ask your opinion on what purpose you suppose there may be in our dwelling on the self evident (and therefore non-conspiratorial) Movement of political history? I've been doing precisely that for the last several years and the progress I've made in changing the world -- let alone the minds of a few people -- adds up to nil. Perhaps your own efforts have been more successful? In an interesting letter to Dr. Jung from Miguel Serrano: "A faith, a strong belief, sustained and repeated, can give birth to its own life or form in reality. The Marxist ideas and laws of economic evolution are not really true - but if they are believed and repeated again and again throughout a culture without the opposition of a stronger and fundamentally different faith or compelling belief system, then they will come to be real simply because of the Will of a group of members who support them. It is possible that there is no Law of any kind in the world, and that all that exists is faith in the idea. That is what makes laws possible. In principle, Toynbee is correct when he states that history could be changed if man finds an appropriate reply (technique) to the challenge (manipulation) of the current time (reality), and when he affirms that it is necessary to use propaganda as a means of modifying the mind." I think you've had recent discussion on this issue in another post? Anyhow, the above underscores in my own mind how practical mere belief is in giving a sort of physical birth to an academic or psychopathic phantasm -- when a substantial number of individuals, united through sheer Will, slavishly sacrifice to its delivery. Of course, the phantasm once borne into the world through men's minds remains physically formless as logically it must; and thus we define its religious quality and the reason for its so dangerous - because entirely unimpeachable and physically unapproachable -- nature. Then there is that little totalitarian socio-religious inspiration (or biological instinct) in all of us that moves us (as a united herd, as a mob) to demand compliance by others not sheepish and like-minded, lest we feel helpless against or, paradoxically, envious of, these subjectively anarchistic "threats." Contemporary political scientist and historian Quigley's effluence troubles me for several reasons. First - his stature and theories, like those of Freud in psychology and Bohr in physics and Hegel in philosophy, are deified in many schools of thought. And second, while I find the sheer depth of his knowledge impressive, I have discovered many academic fictions and obviously misleading statements in his books. The obfuscation's are angering because they were made, not out of intellectual naivete, but merely for the sake of political correctness and social economy. It would have been better to exclude commentary on sensitive subject matter where the balls to stay intellectually honest were missing. Aside from his propensity to atomize every detail as though it leapt forth reactively from "The Spring of Accidents" or spontaneously evolved of a necessity by the caring political elite to "finally help the beggarly serfs, too, toward a better way of life", Quigley leads his audience and that is an unfortunate path to take, historically, for such a potent scholar. However his fictions I can agree to disregard: the man who lives the whole of life inside an institution - even one of higher learning -- is ill-equipped to connect the obvious facts and details of the outside world with a fundamental glue, the causes rooted in the human experience of living "out there"; even the wisdom of the life-long, unschooled farmer reveals to him the fallacy of the social conjurer in imagining a benefit in the security, stability, and guarantees that only a Machine can enforce; his empirical experience demonstrates that government and the will of the swarm - the abstract society animal -- squash individual achievement and, as a consequence, bind up the human soul; the result being a society where the worthless wretches - the rabble class -- either wallow away life as sewer rats and gutter trash or, in the case of aristocracy, discover the joyless satisfaction of new or forbidden sexual and criminal perversions. However to Academia, the Machine of government acts much like a drug "fix" - providing a place of security and guarantees for the potential theorists who spout the right kind of propaganda; the great minds who specialize and extrapolate on the fictions of old minds, left to the outside world, might discover the faultiness of their collective fantasies - and how far outside reason those fantasies fall; the other academics - the lifeless professors seeking an escape from personal responsibility - left to the outside world, would starve. And besides which - I think it makes sense that the academic should produce a "more perfect" model for the world of man that looks very much like the institution in which he spends all his time - only with a perpetual quality even beyond the fraudulent nature of his institution. Unfortunately, world events are not a mirror image (the upside-down reversal) of the horror, psychology, and mindless religious sacrifice of the totalitarian regimes realized by Associates "Stalin, Hitler and Mao"; they are rather a continuation of the Movement, in the proper direction, of that ancient recipe (or plan or dream), at a still higher order of magnitude, in lock-step march, and troubling to think with an arsenal of more sophisticated technologies than the mere "winged words" and heart-wrenching religious tomes used by older ruling classes. The face of the phantasm today provides sufficient cause for the individual to justify raising that White Flag of surrender and agreeing to voluntary shackles with the rest of his mindless species. ...unless there is still hope. Do you suppose there is? David Hall -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 5:39 AM To: New Paradigms Discussion Group Subject: [prj] Welcome (http://members.home.com/irishkev/oldcofc/issue1.htm) The genesis of this web page goes back about eight years. That's when I began to horde information that hardly ever reached the light of day. Since then, I've continued to clip newspaper articles, listen to obscure radio shows in the middle of the night, and ask all the "wrong" questions of my professors. I've also read a few books, and let's not forget the thousands of hours spent in front of various computer screens doing God only know what... I guess what I'm saying is that I have strong opinions, backed up by strong evidence, and it's taken me quite a while to find the proper outlet for all of this material. I would like to establish a bond of trust in our relationship as seekers on the path. In order to do this, I decided to devote the first issue of this newsletter to making you all aware of my worldview, and my biases. Everyone has biases. And the people who lie to you the most, first tell you they're an objective source of information. So, no, I'm not going to say that I'm objective source of information at all. I see things through a conceptual lens, just like everyone else. But knowing, up front, what that lens transmits and excludes can help the observer judge the quality of the information being communicated. I'm making a point of doing this because NONE of the corporate information manufacturers, who are responsible for creating the vast preponderance of what we see and hear, make an overt statement on what clouds their conceptual lenses. "Agenda?" they retort smugly when challenged, "What agenda?" Few people seem to realize that all media has an agenda, including this web page. 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