Dr. Robert Hickson and Dr. Maike Hickson 25 August 2012

Money and Language Manipulation: New Methods of Modern Oligarchs

Epigraph: A Christian Paradox to Limit the Temptation to Pharisaical Presumption

“The order of good moral and civil administration prescribes that publicans and prostitutes shall take rank after persons of honorable life. The order of the Kingdom of Heaven permits publicans and prostitutes to take rank, in the inscrutable judgment of God, before persons of honorable life.” (Jacques Maritain, Freedom in the Modern World, London: Sheed & Ward, 1935), p. 78 – my emphasis added.)

The inhuman state we humans are living in at this point of history is getting clearer every

day. It gets more and more obvious that the ruling elites are detached from the people they are ruling

and that even these elites are ruled by other, mostly financial, elites. The citizens often feel powerless in

the face of social, moral, financial and even natural disorder.

Part of the analysis today will have to look at the effects of the destruction of the family.

Much courage, independent thought and cohesiveness have been taken from the citizens (often with

their own collaboration) by the isolation of man from his other family members, especially by divorce

(the lack of care for the vulnerable, the little ones and the old, often is the result of a lack of a

housewife who is at home and thereby able to provide the care). There is just barely any more an

existing harbor for us, where we have a refuge and a stronghold, a support and the love that would

sustain us more fully in any political struggle. Yes, we are weakened by broken bonds, strife over

children's custody, division of property, rebukes and remorse. We have sunk down into the moral and

social anarchy which has grave effects for the Bonum Commune. Such a hedonistic (“I only do what

gives me pleasure”) and atomized society is too much self-absorbed to be able to look at the large

picture in society and to act upon its analyses.

The moral foundation of society has been wrecked, by an endless attack on the Christian

faith and culture which was the foundation for a flourishing civilization. Analysts have shown the

destructive effects of the theories of several cultural and political institutions and foundations (like the

Tavistock Institute and the Frankfurt School) upon society and family. The Christian Creed and Morals

gave the people the help and the disciplined structure to live better in this world, even though this

world will always also be a valley of tears. We cannot escape the suffering. And love hurts.

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Europe has seen many wars and revolutions in the last two and a half centuries. They have

largely contributed to the self-destruction of a society where a child cannot (and may not) any more

play unharmed in the public playgrounds and where elderly are not any more respected, protected and

actively helped by the young. What kind of people are we that we do not protect any more the

vulnerable ones, one of the major aims of Christianity? The Lord was not jesting in the Gospel of

Matthew 25:31-46. “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.”

How have we come to this state of gradual rejection or quiet apostasy?

Much research has been done on the history of revolution and war as a means to fragment,

destabilize, disrupt and atomize, formerly coherent and rooted societies, especially Christian. (These

techniques are now, as it seems, applied more and more to the still somewhat consistent and resistant

Muslim countries). War and revolution destroy the existing political stabilities and governments and

uproot and destroy families by death and upheaval. Who was behind the destruction of the once

coherent Christian countries in Europe?

It is known now that all the major leaders of the Enlightenment movement which replaced a

Faith in God by a Faith in “Reason” of sorts were Freemasons. Freemasons aimed at the destruction of

the Monarchy (as a stabilizing factor and somewhat a bulwark against money-manipulation, especially

if the King was truly Christian) and of the Catholic Church as the moral guide. Both were attacked and

undermined by the French Revolution, and in the sequence, by the growing nationalist movements in

the 19th century which aimed at the replacement of the previous order and morals by an

overstrengthening of the nationalistic feelings of the people and by centralizing the political power.

Monarchies were much more subsidarian than ever were modern states.

At a closer look, it becomes clear that the oligarchies who run today the money and

language manipulation (as a tool for governance) were already then involved in the financing of the

revolutions since 1789, most prominently in the Russian Revolution, but also even of the disruptive and

inhuman national-socialist revolution in Germany. Names like the Warburgs, the Mellons, the

Rothschilds and the Rockefellers are to be mentioned here, among others.

Many leading figures of all the revolutions and of new philosophies in the modern era have

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been very interested in the occult world, and often in the higher Gnostic Freemasonry, specifically. Karl

Marx wrote poems in honor of Satan; Freud secretly believed in the occult; Hegel himself was deeply

rooted in the Kabbalah; many of the leaders of the Enlightenment were Rosicrucians. Charles Darwin,

whose theory of the survival of the fittest is in accord with dialectical thinking (i.e., there is always a

purported thesis and an antithesis, out of whose environmental conflict results a “better” or “more fit”

synthesis), stems from a family deeply rooted in Freemasonry. Friedrich Nietzsche was initiated into

the Eleusinian Cults and his book “Beyond Good and Evil” represents the essence of Gnostic thinking,

i.e., that in the dialectical way we humans have to move beyond the old Christian antagonism of good

and evil and have to embrace both in a higher synthesis. Historical research only later will show how

many of those intellectuals who convinced the masses that there is no God and that atheism is a form of

liberty, were themselves truly believing in the existence of the world beyond, with the difference that

they followed the evil one, often using a euphemism, such as Lucifer. It would explain the evil effects

of their philosophies and theories. What if one day it would come to light that the so-called enlightened

people of today had fallen into the trap of mere propaganda, deception and self-deception? One only

needs to look at the fruits of those “freeing” theories. The financial oligarchies, intertwined with the

intellectual elites, have both promoted and empowered the state we are in today. They have apparently

needed uprooted people for their plans of manipulative governance and profit-making.

The history of the last two centuries and more cannot be written without the immense role of

these financial oligarchies. Their aim: the destruction of the Christian Culture and civilization with its

human face and compassion for the poor and the vulnerable and the strengthening of ideologies and

movements which lead to a fragmentation and destabilization of the societies, which are constituted by

humans who are mostly living in families. That is where these oligarchies needed specious (but false)

theories and propaganda to instill ideas into the minds of men that would lead them away from a

healthy and more fully virtuous way of life: Feminism, Communism, Socialism, Darwinism,

Capitalism, Gender-Mainstreaming, to name but a few, are all leading people to help to form a less

humane society. They all lead to the disruption of family life, the nucleus of human freedom and love.

It is very worthwhile in this context to go back a hundred years and to look at the work and

writings of a few courageous men with a big heart, men of mercy and magnanimity, who in England

fought the beginning of this modern (early 20th century) work of destruction, with love, keen intellect

and the Catholic Faith as their differentiated tools: Hilaire Belloc, G.K Chesterton and Father Vincent

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McNabb. All three men discerningly saw the sprouting of these above-mentioned theories, many of

which first sprang up in England at the time, and they perseveringly and joyfully resisted them. They

had a longer historical view and the right criteria and standards to see the inherent actual consequences,

as well as the fuller final logical implications, of such false theories.

Chesterton in his book What's Wrong with the World (1910), for example, presented in a

lovely and warm way the beauty of the home, especially made by a wife and mother who loves her

whole family and makes a home with love and care. Elsewhere, he also showed the cruelty of divorce

and its evil effects, especially upon the children.

Hilaire Belloc resisted the growing power of the state (something that seldom existed ever

before in a Monarchical state) in his book The Servile State (1912). He also strongly resisted the spirit

of mammon which was spreading in his time and defended the local and rooted life on the countryside.

In his book, The Church and the Land (1926),1 Father McNabb resisted the moving of the

people into to the cities and argued that they should return more rootedly to the land, where a family

can live independently and make a living by skilled crafts and by farming on its own land, and with

responsibility and accountability.

They all three saw the importance of private property and personal responsibility and saw

the frigidly indifferent and manipulative ill-rule of these financial oligarchies.

They fought with magnanimity and they always gave persevering encouragement.

They all three are connected with the mediating concept of Distributism, which is a real

answer to the old dialectic between Capitalism and Socialism, inasmuch as it proposes to assure that

the great majority of citizens owns their own land and are thereby made capable to live a dignified and

ideologically independent life.

1 This book is a collection of essays addressing the problems of the Industrial Revolution with Christian philosophy and social thought. Among the topics included are industrialism and the rise of unemployment; the evil of the wage system; the importance of land ownership and the restoration of craft production; the necessary connection between real work and spiritual salvation. It is intended for anyone studying social and economic thought as well as Catholic and Christian studies.

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These three authors are worthy to be studied in the context of our time and the troubles we

are facing. They, too, resisted, already then, aggressive military intrusions and intervention, as in the

case of the British Empire's two, and slyly expanding, Boer Wars (1880-1881; 1899-1902), especially

the second one. They also criticized biological and social Darwinism, Euthanasia and any other form of

inhumanity. But, they also acted in their own personal lives according to their beliefs. There is a very

touching story about Father McNabb himself in old age, who, secretly dressed up in old woman's

clothes, sneaked regularly into a little apartment of a very elderly and sick woman and cleaned her

apartment. This only came gradually to light when he died in 1943 and the woman was suddenly left

without any help in her state of vulnerability and illness.

Criminal Capitalism for the Elites, Collective Socialism for the Masses?

Since the time of these authors we have now discussed, much has been further developed.

The old dichotomy between Capitalism and Socialism has been brought into a new synthesis, into

globalist Capitalism with a Socialist side: the merging of the two opposites, still following the old

Hegelian dialectic. With each step, more and more cultural, religious and human substance gets

destroyed and subtly undermined. Here is how these two former opposites work now together,

enhanced by the new methods and technologies of the 21th century, with its multi-media and

consumerist apparatus and with it further-developed psycho-drugs and psycho-techniques.

Capitalism is used as a tool to further uproot local businesses and farms, to further destroy

family life through inhuman work schedules and fear of loss of jobs, a new form of slavery.

Socialism is used in the welfare-warfare state to make people mentally vaguer, sluggish and

inordinately dependent. It also is used as a tool to turn the limited state into an intrusive therapeutic

state which has a say in every matter, even in the most intimate questions of the education of children,

and of how women should keep house, and so on.

While the early revolutions in modern times manifested much violence, the new methods of

domination and of manipulative control today have been sophisticated and are in general less violent.

While Communism had still its Gulag System, and Nazism its concentration camps, the modern man

today is in the trap of consumerism, body idolatry, sexual degeneration and technological bondage and

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especially “electronic slavery.” Many people are so softened and occupied that they have neither the

capability nor the will any more to think, so as to draw essential conclusions and to act upon them.

One of the conclusions of this little essay is that one has to live out oneself, and more fully,

the precepts and counsels and generous invitations of Christianity in order to be able to be convincing

and appealing to other people. Real charity in its generous selflessness still touches the human heart.

When truth is spoken, it still appeals to the human mind.

One of the great advantages in our time of the United States, with all its all-too-well-known

problems, is the greater spiritual and spatial freedom that still exist. One good example is the

Homeschool Movement. The numbers of families who withdraw their children from the state schools

and their propaganda and moral sewage are growing very considerably. They just school them at home

with the help of the many homeschool organizations which provide them with learning material and

indispensable guidance, or they organize themselves into subsidiary co-operatives. These families

make use of their still-legal liberties in this country to nourish the minds of their little ones with truth

and a fitting sense of proportion and purpose, not with intellectual and moral corruption.

--CODA--

A timely and timeless warning from the wisdom of Hilaire Belloc, from his chapter

concerning the truly tragic life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and rival of Elisabeth Tudor, the Queen

of England who, at the persistent prompting of her main counsellor William Cecil, then finally herself

reluctantly consented to Mary Stuart's unjust execution, after having kept her imprisoned in England

and sequestered for many years. From his heart, Hilaire Belloc says: “Isolation is the chief evil of

human life and isolation was imposed upon this woman [Mary Stuart] always and everywhere. When

she made one desperate effort to be rid of it [i.e., of that protracted, terrible isolation] that effort was

itself fatal to her.” (Hilaire Belloc, Elizabethan Commentary (London: Cassell and Company LTD,

1942), page 158—my emphasis added.)

--FINIS--

© 2012 Robert D. Hickson

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