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When people try to tone down the circulation of conspiracy theories in a social circle, they often have a palette of cliches at the ready. You've heard them all before. They usually involve pathologizing an imagined fool and/or explanations that assume out-of-hand their own premises; the falseness of conspiracy theories is taken as an a priori rather than a posteriori truth ( true regardless of the facts). None of this is anything. You’ve done the research and you know that the above are pleas of opinion against record. Accounts downplaying the notion of decades-or-centuries-old Deep Steering Committees that exist above and prior to states and corporations are not just wrong, but wrong in a way, either maliciously or not, that threatens their followers' abilities to protect themselves from the encroaching threats of 21st century political realities. The way we do politics is based on the way that we understand that historical change is effected. Depending on whether we think th
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[old thread] The Myth of German Warguilt

The Myth of German Warguilt  A good enough number of Salotreans still believe that Germany or Kaiser Wilhelm is responsible for starting the First World War and that, by extension, to him could be attributed the whole malaise of modernity – since WWI is generally acknowledged to be “the beginning of the end”. To go on thinking this way is to go on wandering in the labyrinth built for you by those that built the 20th century. Unless you've totally re-interpreted the events of the 20th century, you haven't zoomed out far enough. Many probably already know this so for them it will sound like a broken record, monomaniacal obsession with revisionism, etc. But many don't know and should, so here we are.  German historian Ernst Nolte's thesis was that the 20th century is incomprehensible by itself; the centuries 20 and 19 must be assessed as a single unit: Fascism as a reaction to the tales of the horror of Bolshevism relayed by White Russians, which were a consequence of the
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C.H. Douglas and the Forbidden Politics of the Anglosphere

  reading time: ~90 min C.H. Douglas is a name that, for many of those who know of him, summons up a handful of connotations that are just as quickly dismissed: 'underconsumptionism', 'overproductionism', 'universal basic income', and so on and so forth. The name of Douglas has been shoved into a slot that is not really appropriate for the content of his works; either that or into a slot of total obscurity. This is understandable for a couple of reasons. The first is that the substance of his thought is grossly juxtaposed by the depth and quantity of his writings. His insights into economic theory are important, and yet he wrote about a half-dozen books, in each of which economic theory, strictly speaking configured only about a third of the pages; the rest of the pages are filled with comments on sociology and politics – the British Empire's accursed export trade is a common theme. For someone whose combined experience and intellectual a
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