I tried to read Quigley’s tome some years ago but opted for the 101 version and can attest to its brilliance. Plummer’s abridging is impressive and all the more substantial with his own observations sprinkled throughout. That world affairs are set up at the behest of, and benefit to, a wealthy, powerful and malevolent minority who are generationally and historically groomed to support and sustain an elite pathocratic system, is beyond doubt. Quigley even condoned The Network’s activities, suggesting it has to be this way. He was less dissident whistleblower, more biographer or chronicler.
It’s a big club, and we’re not in it, as George Carlin famously said (no doubt while in the club). Thomas Sheridan, an Irish writer with an interest in psychopathy, describes it as the Psychopathic Power Grid. Mathematician James Lindsay did an interesting talk on the cultist and esoteric origins and leanings of these secret power structures - https://youtu.be/Lk_w2-8snWk?si=Y5eg2E4O6R58pKFh
I am reading Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon and much to my disdain, even the big counter-cultural movements were in on it.
It seems we are confronted with an edifice made up of the descendants, disciples and detritus of narcissistic psychopaths with superiority delusions and God complexes, groomed to be Malthusian elites and assorted megalomaniacs, with some in-breeding, esoteric exotica and ritual abuse thrown in for good measure. Over a long game with single-minded focus, they’ve been able to plan for and eventually co-opt everything - the long march through the institutions without the communist overtones - simply because we are not like them. All we have in our defence is numbers, and enough of us have to see the threat this edifice is and always has been if we are to break the endless cycle of death and devastation, starting with Tragedy & Hope. Yes, it really is about waking up the normies.
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over its ashes.”
I tried to read Quigley’s tome some years ago but opted for the 101 version and can attest to its brilliance. Plummer’s abridging is impressive and all the more substantial with his own observations sprinkled throughout. That world affairs are set up at the behest of, and benefit to, a wealthy, powerful and malevolent minority who are generationally and historically groomed to support and sustain an elite pathocratic system, is beyond doubt. Quigley even condoned The Network’s activities, suggesting it has to be this way. He was less dissident whistleblower, more biographer or chronicler.
It’s a big club, and we’re not in it, as George Carlin famously said (no doubt while in the club). Thomas Sheridan, an Irish writer with an interest in psychopathy, describes it as the Psychopathic Power Grid. Mathematician James Lindsay did an interesting talk on the cultist and esoteric origins and leanings of these secret power structures - https://youtu.be/Lk_w2-8snWk?si=Y5eg2E4O6R58pKFh
I am reading Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon and much to my disdain, even the big counter-cultural movements were in on it.
It seems we are confronted with an edifice made up of the descendants, disciples and detritus of narcissistic psychopaths with superiority delusions and God complexes, groomed to be Malthusian elites and assorted megalomaniacs, with some in-breeding, esoteric exotica and ritual abuse thrown in for good measure. Over a long game with single-minded focus, they’ve been able to plan for and eventually co-opt everything - the long march through the institutions without the communist overtones - simply because we are not like them. All we have in our defence is numbers, and enough of us have to see the threat this edifice is and always has been if we are to break the endless cycle of death and devastation, starting with Tragedy & Hope. Yes, it really is about waking up the normies.
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over its ashes.”
Fantastic comment Brian, thank you.
Excellent summary and comment.