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Nesta Webster | to attain the masters of the world

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“The art of Illuminism lay in enlisting dupes as well as adepts and by encouraging dreams of honest visionaries or the schemes of fanatics. By flattering the vanity of ambitious egotists, by working on the unbalanced brains or by playing such passions as greed and power to make men of totally divergent aims serve the secret purpose of the sect. People with money were welcomed but kept oblivious of actual secrets. The purpose is to win power and riches, to undermine secular or religious government and to attain the masters…

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Jacques Ellul | propaganda refines its techniques.

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“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques.” Jacques Ellul (war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe.) “Mit der Kenntnis des Menschen, seiner Neigungen, seiner Wünsche, seiner Bedürfnisse, seiner psychischen Mechanismen, seiner Automatismen sowie mit der Kenntnis der Sozialpsychologie und der analytischen Psychologie verfeinert die Propaganda ihre Techniken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Walter Lippmann | The process by which public opinions arise

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“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . ….

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Thomas Jefferson | ignorant and free

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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn von einer Nation erwartet wird, dass sie [gleichzeitig] ignorant und frei sei, wird etwas erwartet, das nie war und nie sein wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Mahatma Gandhi | The state represents violence

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“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” Mahatma Gandhi “Der Staat repräsentiert Gewalt in einer intensivierten und organisierten Form. Das Individuum hat eine Seele, aber der Staat, der eine Maschine ohne Seele ist, kann von Gewalt nicht befreit werden, da er ihm seine Existenz verdankt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Aldous Huxley | Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control

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“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World “Unpersönliche Kräfte, über die wir fast keine Kontrolle haben, scheinen uns alle in Richtung des Albtraums der Schönen Neuen Welt…

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Carl Gustav Jung | The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

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“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic…

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Edward Bernays | Our invisible governors

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“Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.” Edward Bernays “Unsere unsichtbaren Regierenden sind sich in vielen Fällen der Identität ihrer Kollegen im inneren Kabinett nicht bewusst.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Albert Pike | We always give the public their heroes

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“We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people once they hear this person say all the right things, we give releases to them because he or she speaks for ‘me’. We say go there go do that and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes.” Albert Pike, (the Pope of Freemasonry in the 1800’s) “Wir geben der Öffentlichkeit immer ihre Helden. Wir geben jeder Fraktion, jeder Seite ihre Helden und wenn die Leute dann hören, dass diese…

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Carl Sagan on the importance of science education

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“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it? … Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical…

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George Bernard Shaw | The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings

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“The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.” George Bernard Shaw | irischer Schriftsteller “Der politiker, der ehemals lernen mußte, wie man Königen schmeichelt, muß jetzt lernen, wie man die Phantasie der Wähler bezaubert, unterhält, bestrickt, beschwindelt, erschreckt oder sonst irgendwie verblüfft.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Voting is not an option

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“It’s about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign — it’s an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule by the rich and the powerful, without interference by the mob but within the framework of formal electoral procedures.” Noam Chomsky in 1993 regarding NED: Voting is not an option “Es ist in etwa, was man von einem zweiparteilichen demokratischen Wahlkampf erwartet – es ist ein Versuch, das aufzuzwingen, was formell Demokratie genannt wird, d.h. Herrschaft durch die Reichen und Mächtigen, ohne eigentliche Einflussnahme durch die breite…

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Adam Weishaupt | The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment (illuminati)

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“The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always concealed by another name, and another occupation. None is fitter than the lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it. Next to this, the form of a learned or literary society is best suited to our purpose, and had Freemasonry not existed, this cover would have been employed; and it may be much more…

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Senator William Jenner | path of total dictatorship

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“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government – a bureaucratic elite.” Senator William Jenner, 1954 “Heute kann der Weg zur totalen Diktatur in den Vereinigten Staaten mit streng legalen Mitteln beschritten werden, unbemerkt und ungehört vom Kongress, dem Präsidenten oder dem Volk. Äußerlich haben wir eine verfassungsmäßige…

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George Bernard Shaw | I’m known for my irony

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“I’m known for my irony. But the idea of erecting a Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor would not have occurred to even me.” George Bernard Shaw “Ich bin bekannt für meine Ironie. Aber auf den Gedanken, im Hafen von New York eine Freiheitsstatue zu errichten, wäre selbst ich nicht gekommen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Lao Tzu | Care about what other people think

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“Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner” Lao Tzu “Kümmere dich darum, was andere Leute denken und du wirst immer ihr Gefangener sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bertrand Russell | on the threshold of a Golden Age

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a Golden Age: but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and that dragon is religion.” Bertrand Russell “Es ist möglich, dass die Menschheit an der Schwelle eines goldenen Zeitalters steht, aber wenn es so ist, wird es notwendig sein, zuerst den Drachen zu töten, der die Tür bewacht, und dieser Drache ist Religion.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Salvador Dalí | One day it will have to be officially admitted

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“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.” Salvador Dalí „Eines Tages wird man offiziell zugeben müssen, dass das, was wir Wirklichkeit getauft haben, eine noch größere Illusion ist als die Welt des Traumes.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Voltaire | our hope our illusion

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“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion” Voltaire – französischer Philosoph – 1694 bis 1778 “Eines Tages wird alles gut werden, das ist unsere Hoffnung. Heute ist alles in Ordnung, das ist unsere Illusion” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Kurt Tucholsky | Give people more sleep

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“Give people more sleep – and they will be more awake when they are awake.” Kurt Tucholsky “Gebt den Leuten mehr Schlaf – und sie werden wacher sein, wenn sie wach sind.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Mahatma Gandhi | the truth is still the truth

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“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi “Viele Menschen, besonders die ignoranten Menschen, möchten Dich dafür bestrafen, dass Du die Wahrheit sprichst, dafür, dass Du das Richtige tust, dass Du Du bist. Entschuldige Dich niemals dafür,…

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | the illusion of democracy

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“But what could make democracy attractive to the powerful, whose very power it limits and threatens? The answer is quite simple: Nothing! For democracy means precisely to restrict the power needs of the powerful and the rich, in which they naturally have no interest. This now results in a tension between the needs of the rulers to stabilize their status and our need to feel socially autonomous and self-determined with regard to our social situation. In history, this fundamental tension has often been discharged in the form of revolutions. From…

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Gustave de Molinari | Anarchy is no guarantee

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“Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won’t kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.” Gustave de Molinari “Anarchie ist keine Garantie dafür, dass nicht einige Menschen andere töten, verletzen, entführen, betrügen oder bestehlen werden. Eine Regierung ist eine Garantie dafür, dass einige es tun.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bertrand Russell | Fear is the main source of superstition

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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell ( Unpopular Essays | Philosoph, Mathematiker, 1950 Nobelpreis für Literatur, sein Werk „Principia Mathematica“ gilt als eines der richtungsweisendsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts, England, 1872 – 1970). “Angst ist die Hauptquelle des Aberglaubens und eine der Hauptquellen der Grausamkeit. Die Überwindung der Angst ist der Beginn der Weisheit.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Bernard Shaw | In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat

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“In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.” George Bernard Shaw “Im Mittelalter glaubten die Leute die Erde sein flach, wofür…