Who are this “class” of people who enslave the
naive masses?snip from http://www.rmhiherbal.org/review/2003-4.html "By the early 1900's, American industrialists recognized that compulsory public education was the most useful means to socially engineer the American population to suit the purposes of industrial capitalism. Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford were key architects of the system of modern forced schooling that we have today. Gatto writes, "Forced schooling arose from the logic that fossil fuel in conjunction with high-speed machinery imposed upon flesh and blood." Railroad development, availability of coal and oil, telegraph communication, and machinery for mass-production threatened to make the dreams and aspirations of individuals and small communities irrelevant. Forced schooling was seen as necessary to indoctrinate future corporate workers in conforming to industrialists' visions of a scientifically controlled and optimized society." To wit…………….. “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.” – Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, New York City School Teachers Association in 1909” By 1917, the major administrative jobs in American schooling were under the control of a group referred to in the press of that day as "the Education Trust." The first meeting of this trust included representatives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the National Education Association. The chief end, wrote Benjamin Kidd, the British evolutionist, in 1918, was to "impose on the young the ideal of subordination." from : http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LeadershipEducation/Thomas%2BJefferson%2BEducation/ June 29, 2005 - Founding of American Public Schools snip> Take a look at what one of our industrial giants said about the founding of American public schools at the beginning of the twentieth century. “’Survival of the fittest is nature’s way of producing beauty,’” said Rockefeller Sr. As a principal stockholder in U.S. Steel, he approved of school experiments in Gary, Indiana, to dumb down curriculum, (and) seek more effective means of mind control.” Rockefeller Foundation John Gatto was New York State & City Teacher of the Year and wrote an expose on the pubic education in America. Forced schooling was the medicine to bring the whole continental population into conformity with these plans so it might be regarded as a “human resource”. Managed as a “workforce.” No more Ben Franklins or Tom Edisons could be allowed; they set a bad example. John Gatto, Underground History of American Education p. 38<end Analogy A Perennialist sage met a ruler. The ruler said: "If you wish, you may ask a favor of me." The sage replied: "I cannot seek favors from a slave of my slaves." "How is that?" asked the ruler. The sage replied: "I have two slaves who are your masters: greed and self-love." Fear and Loathing of Leo Strauss from: http://www.hermes-press.com/philosophy_tyranny.htm One other misfit merits a brief mention, because he is the "philosophical godfather" of some of the vilest thugs in power within the neo-con ideological faction. Leo Strauss (1899-1973) began his career in Nazi Germany. He was powerfully influenced by three philosophers admired by the Nazis: Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt. The Nazis worshipped Nietzsche as their hero. As a young man, Strauss fell under Heidegger's influence. Heidegger was an avowed Nazi and continued to teach in Germany under the Hitler regime. Carl Schmitt, the Nazi philosopher of law, arranged a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for Strauss to study Thomas Hobbes in France in 1932 and in England in 1934. Strauss entered the United States in 1937, ending up at the University of Chicago in 1949. the Rockefeller-funded Leo Strauss Using such frauds as Leo Strauss, the Rockefeller-dominated demonic cabal deliberately set out to destroy the genuine teaching and learning of the Platonic philosophy, just as they purposely attempted to destroy American education in general. Paleoconservatives, Neocons, and Repuglicans A number of the cabal junta--or fellow-travelers--are devotees of the Straussian, anti-Platonic ideology, including Paul Wolfowitz, Supreme Court Justic Clarence Thomas, Judge Robert Bork, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, William Bennett, William F Buckley (National Review), Alan Keyes, Francis Fukuyama, ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft, Ken Masugi, Michael Ledeen, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Cambone, Abram Shulsky and Richard Perle of the Pentagon, Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council, George Will, Newt Gingrich, Robert Kagan, and even Clinton advisor William Galston and fellow Democrat, Elaine Kamark. Leo Strauss is the “Fascist Godfather of the neoconservatives.” His neocon disciples believe that an elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the credulous American population. The primary goal of Strauss and his disciples is to turn back the clock of history to before the Enlightenment, when ancient tyrannies ruled without restraint. A Leo Strauss could only become a professor of philosophy in a demented age in which people in general and scholars in particular cannot see through his nonsense. Strauss, for example, claimed to have "discovered" a Plato without a doctrine of ideas or immortality of the soul, a Plato without metaphysics. I do not recommend that you read Strauss's works; they are nothing more than illiterate, obfuscating efforts to deliberately destroy philosophical discourse, sponsored by modern fascist rulers. Strauss believed that liberalism, as practiced in the advanced nations of the West in the twentieth century, contains within it an intrinsic tendency towards relativism, which leads to nihilism (shades of Nietzsche). This is the same brand of nonsense peddled by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger we reviewed above. We get a clear impression of Strauss's intellect when we learn that he believed that the Nazi Martin Heidegger possessed the greatest mind of the 20th century. Strauss recommended the study of Plato only for the purpose of recovering the nature of political life which he believed had been perverted by Plato. Strauss's goal was to explicate the essence of modernity, which originated in the transformation of political philosophy effected by Machiavelli. Strauss believed that Machiavelli was a genius who redirected political philosophy from an essentially contemplative or theoretical consideration of political elements to an active transformation of reality. Machiavelli replaced human will for nature as the source of cultural standards, Strauss claimed. Strauss said (to paraphrase) that modernity is founded on the internalizing of the sources of morality within human subjectivity, and, as the necessary correlative of this, results in the oblivion of nature and total historicization of all moral and political standards. In terms that make sense, Strauss believed that people in power determine what's right or wrong and impose their will on weaker people. That last concept should sound familiar, because it was a theme examined in several of Plato's dialogues: the belief that justice is the will of those in power. From this we can understand that all of the "modern" political-social-religious-philosophical issues that so fiercely exercise us today were discussed in Plato's writings and most of the ideals and values at the base of Western civilization originated from Plato's solutions to those issues. War Is Peace ??????????? 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