Get your own Free Home Pageby Capt. Nemo, 2/2/2002
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The rest of the Illuminati and I were distressed to see how badly
the "W" adminstration was bungling things.
There have been setbacks in foreign policy, domestic policy, the economy,
and the environment.
Allready, however, corrections can be seen developing in some areas.
First, I will mention some items that were not reported by the
so-calleed "news" media, then we will consider Professor Quigley
and the Illuminati.
a:) Steven Hawking supported Al Gore in the last presidential election,
but that was not deemed interesting enough to the masses to mention by
the press. I had to email his office to get a British newspaper
article about it, posted by a fellow in Tennessee. [1]
b:) Most people still have not heard about Ashcroft pouring Crisco(C)
over his hear when he bacame a senator. Now he has also installed
curtains in front of Greek Statues in the Justice Department. [2]
c:) Very few people have read Gore's book on mind-body dualism
and the historical implications of climate change. [3]
d:) Professor Quigley's influence on policy has been allmost
entirely ignored. [4]
Also, we in the Illuminati have recently developed a plan to
sue the Supreme Court for breech of promise for not counting
the votes in Florida last year. A documentary by Bill Moyers
a few weeks ago mentioned a loophole in the NAFTA agreement that
allows a company in a neighboring country to sue a government agency
if they feel that a law has deprived them of any income. That
is the only legal means available that the Supreme Court would
have to answer to. ("You'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Company",
Keenan Wynn in "Dr. Strangelove")
Now on to Professor Quigley:
[4]
Journal of World-Systems Research_, 1995, Volume 1, Number 1
David Wilkinson
University of California, Los Angeles
From Mesopotamia through Carroll Quigley to Bill Clinton:
World Historical Systems, the Civilizationist, and the President
The noted comparative civilizationist and world-historical
systems analyst Carroll Quigley, whose theorizing rested on the
whole historical span from Mesopotamia to the 1960's, was a teacher
well-remembered by his student Bill Clinton. Quigley, by an
intensive process of reduction, or rather idealization, of masses
of historical data, derived a procedure for the diagnosis and
therapy of ailing civilizations/world systems, especially the one
which he inhabited. The coherent, persistent and personal motifs
of the policy discourse and variant initiatives of his student, the
President, bear more than a passing resemblance to the hopeful,
idealistic, voluntaristic, intellectual, scientistic, economistic,
demi-materialistic propensities of the civilizationist and teacher.
Clinton was a
senior at Georgetown University from fall 1967 through spring
1968, in the School of Foreign Service. His housemate Jim Moore
recollected that, of the Georgetown professors, two had most
impact "shaping the worldview" of those who shared the house.
One of the two was Carroll Quigley. (Maraniss, 1992)
Quigley had just completed a massive history of the Western
"civilization" (i.e. tradition) in its world context (i.e. the
world system), with most focus on the crisis epoch, as he saw it,
since 1914. (Quigley, 1966.) Clinton was a student in Quigley's
world civilization class. What did Clinton think of Quigley?
"Half the people at Georgetown thought he was a bit crazy and the
other half thought he was a genius. They were both right."
(Maraniss, 1992)
Clinton was favorably impressed by Quigley's inclination
toward hopefulness, which pointed toward social engineering, even
toward what one might call moral engineering -- the rational and
deliberate choice of moral norms with a view to producing social
consequences. "The hope of the twentieth century rests on its
recognition that war and depression are man-made and needless.
[Page 3] They can be avoided in the future by turning from" the
current cultural tradition of laissez faire, materialism,
selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices "and going
back to other characteristics of our Western society always
regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation,
rationality and foresight." (Quigley, 1966: 1310-1311; cited by
Maraniss, 1992, and in a context which suggests that Clinton had
cited it to him.)
Journal of World-Systems Research:
http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr/archive/vol1/v1_n1.htm
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[1]
"I am afraid that the transcript of Professor Hawking's speech to the
Democratic Convention is not available from this office. A Times
article on 10/08/2000 contained all of the speech. You will find it
at:
www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/08/10/timfgnusa02005.html
I hope this helps."
Yours,
Neel Shearer
Graduate Assistant to Professor Hawking
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
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[2]
Ashcroft’s words of religion don’t come out the same in
political arena
By Terry Mattingly
Special to the Reporter-News
Hours before taking his Senate oath, John Ashcroft knelt before his
elderly father.
The Rev. J. Robert Ashcroft sat on a deep couch, while others stood
to lay hands on his son’s head in an ancient dedication rite. The
frail Pentecostal patriarch - whose journey included studies at
New York University and the presidency of a liberal arts college
in the Ozarks - began swinging his arms, trying to get up. Ashcroft
later wrote that he urged his father to stay seated.
"John," he replied, "I’m not struggling to stand, I’m struggling to
kneel."
Evoking another biblical symbol, the father anointed his son’s
forehead with oil. In place of the traditional olive oil, someone
provided vegetable oil.
http://www.reporternews.com/2001/religion/tmatt0121.html
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[3]
"Earlier in this century, the Heisenburg principle established that
the very act of observing natural phenomena can change what is being
observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to
special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications
were and are stagerring." Al Gore
http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Acropolis/2606/gore.htm
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