Theme: “It Is Violently Opposed”

Acceptance of the Copernican Cosmology Was a Religious Act

If there was an infinity of worlds, as Bruno maintained, for whom in particular had Christ died on this earth? If the universe was eternal, what would become of God the Creator? Acceptance of the Copernican cosmology was a religious...

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World  by Frank E. Manuel

The Invisible Ones Behind the Visible Sovereign Powers

The real power structures [are] always the invisible ones behind the visible sovereign powers." The power elite is not a group from one nation or even of one alliance of nations. It operates throughout the world and no doubt has...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

This Power Elite Is Not Easy to Define

This power elite is not easy to define; but the fact that it exists makes itself known from time to time. Concerning the power elite, R. Buckminster Fuller wrote of the "vastly ambitious individuals who [have] become so effectively powerful...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

That Pain Won’t Stop Until the Twin Towers Come Crumbling Down

I can still feel the pain right now and Hulk Hogan that pain won’t stop until the twin towers come crumbling down

Some Catastrophic and Catalyzing Event

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

US Superior Military Strength and Intelligence Hegemony

US superior military strength and intelligence hegemony can only be transformed into power and real global strength if there are conflicts – wars and terrorist attacks – that threaten the multipolar world order of the civilian economic-political system.

Such Catalytic Events Afforded Precious Opportunities

Both foundation network-building and the rise of America to globalism were also symbiotically connected to catalytic global events: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, for example; the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 and the...

A Perfect Secular Order Will Emerge

Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men  by James H. Billington

Touted as Absolute Truths

One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted...

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World  by Frank E. Manuel