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Edit your browser’s font preferences if necessary. version: PDF compilation of 2001-Oct-25 Introduction ‘‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.’’ -The constitution of the United States, amendment 13, ratified 1865-Dec-6 ‘‘the state of subjection to another that constitutes or resembles slavery or serfdom [...] it implies in general lack of liberty to do as one pleases, specifically lack of freedom to determine one’s course of action and conditions of living’’ -definition of ‘‘servitude’’, from Webster’s dictionary ‘‘1: the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and forfeiture 2: any of various political or social systems similar to medieval feudalism’’ -definition of ‘‘feudalism’’, from Webster’s dictionary ‘‘The combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.’’ ‘‘I want to own nothing and control everything.’’ ‘‘Competition is a sin.’’ -John Davison Rockefeller I, born 1839-July-18, died 1937-May-23 Preamble ‘‘We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.’’ -George Orwell This document articulates the nature of the modern western establishment, its methods and goals, and their final consequences. The modern western establishment is a vast and cryptic cult that aggressively infiltrates and consolidates positions of social influence and control throughout western civilization, with ambitions that encompass the entire world. It is a functionalistic hierarchy. The greater one’s proximity to and involvement with the establishment, and the higher that proximal portion of the establishment is ‘‘Those who formally rule in the hierarchy, the more thorough and insistent is the enforcement of take their signals and establishment codes of conduct (many of which are fluid and unwritten). commands not from the electorate as a body, but The term ‘‘hierarchy’’ etymologically means ‘‘sacred rule’’, but has come to from a small group of men denote any pyramid-like acyclic network arrangement. The root is instructive, (plus a few women). This group will be called the however: theistic religions are power structures in which adherents pledge Establishment. It exists obedience to an illusory god or gods, but (inevitably) obey the commandments even though that existence of men who duck accountability by dint of their god ruse. For comparison, the is stoutly denied. It is one ruse by which the modern establishment ducks accountability is the of the secrets of the committee, and the members of these committees believe they wield god-like American social order. [...] A second secret is the fact powers to command humanity and define right and wrong. A key that the existence of the commonality is a pathological inability to recognize that the laws of nature are Establishment -- the ruling constant. class -- is not supposed to be discussed.’’ -Arthur S. Miller, George The establishment has no master plan. Components of the establishment Washington University periodically attempt to promulgate such plans, but this is inherently law professor (deceased) ineffective. The preeminent establishment commandment is that one not acknowledge or articulate the broad nature of the establishment, or its methods and goals. Members of the establishment act in a manner informed by covert knowledge of methods and goals, but this knowledge is evident only to those who already possess it. The establishment introduces many of its inductees to the policy of tight lips through shared rituals of a humiliating and often pathologically sexual character (in college fraternities, and historically, in brotherhoods such as the Freemasons) that few participants would deign to discuss, even with those who have already undergone them, except by brief cryptic reference. The establishment facilitates the ascent of those in whom they recognize covert knowledge and a congenial modus operandi, endowing a rising balance of social capital for such people unless they betray the establishment. This rewards and fosters loyalty. The higher one’s position in the hierarchy, the broader is the range of methods and goals one is permitted and expected to recognize consciously (though without explicitly communicating them). However, no one in the establishment is permitted to ‘‘There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile recognize all of them, or the broadest ones and their final network which operates, to some extent, in consequences. It would in any case be paradoxical (in fact, the way the radical Right believes the plain evidence of grave psychopathology) to recognize the Communists act. In fact, this network, which broadest goals of the establishment, yet remain aligned with it, we may identify as the Round Table groups, since this recognition is intrinsically accompanied by a has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and recognition of one’s own individual prowess, and of the frequently does so. hopelessness and Thanatos of the establishment. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was A member of the establishment who defies its commandments permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to in an obvious and visible fashion, or defies any key examine its papers and secret record. -Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University commandment, or who consistently defies commandments, is history professor (deceased), in Tragedy and ejected whenever it is feasible to do so without causing net Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, injury to the interests of the establishment (most vitally, to its 1966, p.950 covertness). Ejection is by social ostracism, denial of insider [...] In addition to these pragmatic goals, privileges and immunities, sometimes by various forms of the powers of financial capitalism had deliberate and punitive economic, legal, and political another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to harassment, oppression, and deprivation, and on rare create a world system of financial control in occasions, by assassination. private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be The ejection of people who recognize the broadest goals of the controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central establishment, and of people who overtly communicate its banks of the world acting in concert, by secret methods and goals - in short, of sentient individuals - tends to agreements arrived at in frequent private expel ideas that lead to such awareness and communication. In meetings and conferences. The apex of the time, the establishment becomes a collection of people and system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private ideas that scrupulously precludes the possibility of conscious bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ awareness of establishment methods, goals, and consequences. central banks which were themselves private The cult becomes ever more cryptic, ever more effective at corporations. The growth of financial defying investigation and exposure, ever more thorough in capitalism made possible a centralization of evading accountability. In short, the secrecy of broad world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the establishment programs is secured by depriving the whole of indirect injury of all other economic groups.’’ the establishment of conscious awareness thereof. This is key -Tragedy and Hope, p.324 to the success the establishment enjoys, however modest and temporary it is. It has an ironic corollary, however. In time, ‘‘... I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know members of the establishment lose the ability to discern what why or by whom...’’ is and is not permissible and advisable to openly articulate. -Carroll Quigley, in a letter to a friend They make statements that reveal grave establishment secrets. These statements can be collected