The Noble Lie

Alan Watt is an internet radio personality whose talks I have learned quite a bit from. I discovered him not long after I really started tuning into Alex Jones and “conspiracy culture” and had begun to really grapple with the questions that were coming up for me. It’s comfortable (I use the term loosely) to think that something went wrong in the Bush era, or when Kennedy was whacked, or a hundred years ago.

The truth is far less comfortable. As long as humanity has been settling in numbers, we have dealt with this problem of an elite who fancy themselves climbing the mountain to godhood on the backs of the humanity below. Alan Watt ties together history (and hidden history), linguistics, science, art, philosophy (including Plato!), mythology, symbolism, and a splash of the occult, casting a bit of light on the hidden religion of the elite and their symbolic language.

Whenever sharing a talk about “The Masons” and so on, I have to share my personal view that rank and file Freemasons are no more and no less good or evil than the members of any other religion. Christians and Masons especially love to get at each other’s throats; all I see in both cases are hierarchical power structures and obedience to them. The symbology mentioned here supercedes Freemasonry and all of the other esoteric groups of our time.

Alan started with blurbs and videos, but now has his own show on RBN.

Sometimes you’ll catch me using the habits I criticize. I tend to use the term progressive over the term Liber AL, excuse me, liberal. I know both are meaningless terms by themselves. A progressive is somebody who makes progress towards something. To progress towards something presupposes an end goal, so what is the end goal that progressives are progressing toward? Though I love his talks and he speaks a lot of truth (which is why I post them), sometimes it seems the end goal of Parenti and others of their ilk is international communism — not something I would necessary call “progress.”

Who defines this progress thing anyway? Is this God again? Silly me, here I thought that progressives were secular atheists and agnostics. Is this “progress” Manifest Destiny, as our square founders liked to call it? Is it Historical Necessity, which seems to be the communist term for same? Is it the Grand Architect… or the Carpenter’s Son?

Anyway, the main point I’m trying to make right now is that some of these labels are just labels, and don’t read too much into me using them. Certainly don’t read a full endorsement into it.

In 1714, Britons were read the RIOT ACT.

In 2001, Americans were read the patRIOT ACT.

We have to be “read our rights” because they are the ones that decide what those rights will be. Not us. Certainly not anything we would call God. What they call God is an old man in an Armani suit.

We love our legal system but we don’t think about the gaping holes. Much of our legal system is defined by the actions a “reasonable person” would take, something which has a fluid definition and can be argued to be just about anything. How do we know what a “reasonable person” would do? What is a “reasonable person?” Does such a creature exist? If anything, “reasonable” is defined by what everybody else is doing, a collective reality, which really means it comes from television and popular culture. They tell us what a reasonable person would do and we do it. See Cultivation Theory.

When we hear the word “Patriot,” we think of somebody who loves and stands up for our country. Congressmen were shoehorned into voting the Patriot Act in without even being able to read it, on the pretext that any senator who defied by voting nay would not be a true patriot and thus ridiculed and harangued out of office. Well, the “Patriot” in Patriot Act has nothing to do with loving one’s country. It’s the “Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” Act. Joke’s on you. They have their own definition of terrorism to go with it, too.

“Democracy” is another of those great fluid-definition words that started to mean “rule by oligarchy of land-owning wealthy white men” and today means “rule by international banking elite which allows the whole public to have a say in which one of the bankers’ representatives will be in front of the television for the next few years.”

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave those kids alone
All in all, we’re just another brick in the wall
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall

Pink Floyd, “Brick in the Wall Pt. 2″

The people who create cultures, who raise up and knock down empires, refer to themselves as builders. Their metaphors permeate society, and are used everywhere in the models and institutions that they build.

They talk about building societies the way that architects talk about building structures. We are given rules by a ruler, who measures us and hangs us in the balance (Libra/Liberty/Justice holding her scales, or Osiris holding his) and deals with us accordingly. We revere our founding fathers and the system of checks/cheques and balances (referring to the checkerboard floors and scales of the Knights Templars) that they created. Every community has a small club of upstanding, philanthropic gentlemen who are the pillars of the community. Today, major social movements are bankrolled by the super wealthy tax-free foundations of Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie. Business also has rules and guidelines, and they usually come from your board of directors. Some decision making is done by standing committees or ad-hoc panels. Line staff know well to obey and toe the line, just ask Human Resources (yes, WE are the renewable resource). In school, we compete for good grades so that we may move up to the next grade and hopefully get our degree. You can go all the way up the degrees with enough time, discipline and money. The level of our degree, of course, determines our level of standing in society.

They are also the good shepherds. We all start as kids, but a good shepherd can cull the goats from the sheep. They keep us, the flock, occupied in our fields of busy-ness (business), and divided in our cultures like bacteria on a petri dish. Still, being a flock is better than being a crop, like in Kinder-garten (child garden).

However you figure it, we are but the raw material, the rough ashlar, and we are meant to be shaped on the potter’s wheel, given form by the sculptor, or forged in the crucible. Off to school, to become squares in our little square graduation caps, and then off to work we go!

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
-George Orwell

“Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don’t allow our enemies to have guns. Why should we allow them to have ideas?”
- Joseph Stalin, or “Uncle Joe” as Roosevelt called him

I am learning that one of the keys to understanding the psychology behind any discipline is to learn their lingo. In this age of specialization, each field has its own language for talking about issues in their field. That is what was drilled into their heads in school and trade publications. This is true of salesmen, lawyers, law enforcement, doctors, mental health practitioners, and politicians. They use a lot of the common words that we all use, but they don’t necessarily mean the same thing. Sometimes they thrive on the confusion of overloading terms such as they do. Learn their language. Not only will you get a window into their group mind, but you will understand what they are saying when they have a conversation in front of you, maybe about you.Language is filled with patterns, symbols and coding. These codes play on your subconscious mind even if you don’t consciously recognize them. They create pathways of recognition and association in the brain, which can then be hijacked for other purposes by those who know. This is a topic I am very interested in and will spend a lot of time pointing it out.

We are shaped by our language. The words and expressions we have to choose from, the words we are given, frame the realm of communication and conceivable thought for many people. This is why the first thing conquerers and slavers do is forbid and outlaw the language, traditions, and music of the defeated. These are also how a people’s history is passed down, so it severs that connection to their ancestors and forces them to get their official written history (and concepts, and therefore world-view) from their conquerors.

JRR Tolkien, who said he was writing the mythology for today’s age in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, was an Oxford linguist. Great orators and authors know how to use language to program people in a method not so different from how computer geeks program computers (using programming languages). Psychiatrists use some of the same techniques to ‘rehabilitate’ people. This art of programming is as old as the human mind.