Magic, The Land Of Faerie, And The Liberal Mind

Magic, The Land of Faerie

And The Liberal Mind

The March-April Issue Of Foreign Affairs:

A Discussion

by

R.E. Prindle

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The March-April issue of Foreign Affairs arrived and once again it is dedicated to the denunciation of President Trump.   As is well known Foreign Affairs is the propaganda arm of the Council On Foreign Relations.  The CFR is not merely an informational service, it is also a potent influence within the government of the United States.  Many members have even served as President of the United States.  In fact, the last four presidents covering twenty-four consecutive years, that is Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and had Hillary Clinton been placed a full twenty-eight, possible thirty-two years.  Time enough to indoctrinate two and half generations.

Thus it was a bitter disappointment for them when Donald Trump made a run around end to win the White House.  His mere candidacy had unleashed an unceasing barrage of hatred and since he has been under siege defending himself against innumerable CFR sappers.  The March-April issue continues the assault.  The five themed articles under the heading Letting Go are:  Trump’s Lucky Year, Why the Chaos Can’t Last, The World After Trump, How The System Can Endure,  The Rise Of Illiberal Hegemony:  Trump’s Surprising Grand Strategy, The Post-American World Economy:  Globalization In The Trump Era and Giving Up The High Ground: America’s Retreat On Human Rights.

As is evident the Liberal ‘system’ that the CFR presidents were putting in place and which would have been completed by the election of Hillary Clinton has been disrupted by the election of Donald Trump who is, in fact, dismantling the whole Liberal CFR system.  Hence, an article on how the system can endure, one imagines, behind the scene:  the so-called Dark Government.

This raises the question of what beyond specific goals as outlined in Foreign Affairs is the Liberal mind set.  In the larger scope of human history to what psychological reality, Weltanschauung motivates the Liberal mind.

Many theories have been advanced about the motivating forces that direct human activity.  The Hegelian/Marxist view is of course based on economics.  But underlying theories such as Marxism is the fundamental dichotomy of the spiritual vs. the material.  The fantasy of life vs. the reality.  The Liberal utopian based ‘spirituality’ vs. the Conservative naturalistic based view of reality.  The soft-headed vs. the hard-headed.

In many ways the Liberal mind is magical in nature.  The Liberal desires and magically creates a reality that assumes that the desire is fact.

Thus Adam S. Posen who wrote the article The Post-American World Economy:  Globalization in the Trump Era projects on the one hand the desire of the Liberal post-WWII system while on the other unconsciously contrasts the reality.  The very title The Post-American World Economy contradicts the assumption that the Post-WWII US world order is still in operation. So, possibly, Trump is merely destroying the Liberal mental fantasy.  Negating the magic.  Post-American posits an end to the US domination and, indeed, under Obama the CFR destroyed the dominant role of the US with the result that a number of more or less equals are now jockeying for position.

Mr. Posen begins his article with the illusory view of this so-called seventy year post-war Liberal world order.

 

In the aftermath of World War II the United States set about building a global, rules base economic order.  At the heart of the order it put the Liberal values of free trade backed up by U.S. power and bolstered by its growing legitimacy among other countries, prevented most economic disputes from escalating into mutually destructive trade wars, let alone military conflict.  That allowed even the smallest and poorest countries to develop their social and economic potential without having to worry about predation by strange neighbors.  By taking much of the fear out of the global economy, the U.S. led order allowed market decisions to be driven by business not bullying.

Adam S. Posen, The Post-American World

Economy:  Globalization in the Trump

Era, pp 28-38

 

Having been present at the creation and having lived through the whole period in varying degrees of cognizance,  I can tell you that the above view of the seventy years is contradicted fully by my own experience and understanding.

The problems of our times have become more difficult.  The fantasy of the American Century has passed.  It is no longer about ‘things’ but one of attitudes of which most that are held are not realistic.  There is at the base of the matter still the conflict between the ‘spiritual’ and the materialist views; that is, the longing for the magical supernatural Land of Faerie vs. Science , or the reality of matter, or put another way religion vs. science.  Let us review the evolution of human consciousness.

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One must assume that early man was as unconscious as are wild animals today.  In other words, early man had no rational explanation for external reality.  And this extends back into hundreds of thousands, millions, of years of pre-Homo Sapiens existence.  Presumably the more recent nomenclature homo sapiens, wise or knowledgeable man, indicates the beginning of consciousness of the world outside the mind.  As it took until the twentieth century before psychologists began to significantly understand the working of the human mind it can be easily seen that the learning process  was long and slow.  Man was barely conscious of either his own mind or the world outside his mind, working with very little true knowledge he came up with some pretty bizarre explanations of how things functioned.

He invested all animate and inanimate objects with life and sensation.  Thus he created the supernatural and the natural.  The world was filled with invisible beings both good and bad.  Gods and Devils, Faeries, Elves, Gnomes, Elementals.  The air was packed with demons and angels and what have you.  This was true down to and including the beginning of history and well beyond, even into the nineteenth century.  Gods came and went, old gods died, gods who failed in their duties were discarded or transformed.  Each people had their own gods.  In the clash of peoples and therefore gods, peoples went under and with them their gods.

In this mental context I would like to examine the period in European history from 1100 to 1300, a very critical and rich period in Europe and the Middle East that would eventually affect the world when the European diaspora took place from c. 1400 to the beginning of the twentieth century.

By1300 the Catholic, that is the Universal, Church was the dominant supernaturally based force in Europe and the ME- Middle East.  In order to confirm its position it had to eliminate all other supernatural belief systems.  This was no easy task as other supernatural beliefs systems had the same credibility as the Christian and the Catholic Church was never completely successful.  This was a wonderful period and I hope I can successfully display it with some justice. 

There were many competing supernatural belief systems competing at this time, many remnants of old decayed and dying gods as well as their successors trying to establish themselves against the dominant Catholic Church.

The old Greco-Roman systems still survived in out the way places and pockets and even in the popular mind.  The old Egyptian systems had been mutating since the Assyrian invasions of the seventh century BC.  No longer with a national State to support the religion it had infiltrated Christianity to a degree and went on mutating over the centuries but was still a potent force as an element of the Catholic faith.

Of course the backbone of Catholicism came from the Jewish religious system through Christianity.  The Catholic Church took over Jewish religious sites wholesale.  Thus the erstwhile Jewish capital of Jerusalem became the holiest site of Christianity in Europe.  With the founding of the Mohammedan religion of Arabia the so-called Holy City fell into non-Jewish-Christian hands.

As Europe reorganized  and became somewhat unified under the Carolingian kings of France, the idea of the Holy City in Moslem hands became intolerable in Church eyes and so just prior to 1100 the Church instigated the idea of liberating Jerusalem giving the period under consideration the name of the Crusades.

This was done for supernatural reasons.  On the European side one was under God and on the Moslem side one was under their deity who went by the name of Allah.  Thus one had the War of the Gods.

The ME had always been a hotbed of competing supernatural religious ideas.  Innumerable Gods and Goddesses.  Some intriguing mental projections in the bargain.  Generally speaking few if any had completely disappeared.  If the actual religion has been suppressed the guiding ideas lived on.

The human mind has continued to evolve, that is consciousness, so that the internal unconscious mind has been enlightened toward a correct appreciation of the external world.  That is, as Freud expressed it, the personality or mind is integrated when consciousness has illuminated the unconscious.  The period under consideration was an important period in the evolution of consciousness.  It should be remembered that any of these imaginary beings had equal validity in the consciousness of people of the times.  God or Faerie, same thing.

The Aryan Land of Faerie has as much a claim to reality as did the God of the Jews, Isis of the Egyptians, Cybele, the God of the Christians, however as Jews and Christians were dominant the other imaginary deities were not disproved but ridiculed and suppressed.  Thus, in this tremendous period of the Christian crusades to recapture the religious capital of Jerusalem there were many unintended consequences.  The Crusades opened the gates to admit ideas from the other suppressed belief systems.  Thus, the Cathar religion of Manichean sympathies had migrated West from Iran through the Balkans to gain a firm foothold in Southern France, also known as the Occitan. 

This was a large trans-Alpine area including the Aquitaine.  This area fostered the romances of King Arthur and the Round Table which was a Faerie kingdom.  A land of magic and enchantment both anathema to Judeo-Christianity.  The wonderful romances, far outshining the dull Jewish bible, were developed during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Thus the Catholic Church was confronted by a number of competing belief systems.  The Cathar problem was solved in the midst of the Middle Eastern crusades by a crusade against the Cathars.  A genocidal war against the unfortunate Cathars was conducted by the French at the instigation of the Church.  This involved an actual man hunt to destroy the Cathars root and branch.  Apparently the Church remembered the Amalekites.

That solution was really easy for the Church but the Arthurian romances that involved England, France, Germany and associated peoples could not be dealt with so easily.  Indeed, when the main assault came against the Church it would come from the three countries mentioned. They required boring from within, co-opting the ideology.  Catholic writers thus chose to change the direction of the romances from a warrior cult to one of a quest for spiritual perfection.  This was achieved through the introduction of the character of Galahad, the son of the nearly perfect but flawed knight, Lancelot of the Lake.

At the same time a French series of works called the Chansons de Geste- Songs of Adventure- were written to discredit the Land of Faerie.  A key text along this line was an amazing story titled Huon of Bordeaux.  Bordeaux was a key Cathar city, sort of the Faerie capital, bordering the the key Cathar stronghold of Mont Segur.  Galahad ascended to heaven from that stronghold along with the Holy Grail to lay the Arthurian threat to rest.

Huon of Bordeaux introduces the king of the Faerie Land, Oberon.  Oberon and God are in a contest to see which would most successfully aid Huon in his quest to exonerate himself from a punishment imposed by the ninth century king of France, Charlemagne.  Bear in mind this was a contest between two imaginarily real gods, God and Oberon, king of the Faeries.

Huon, had violated chivalric protocol by successfully defending himself against Charlemagne’s evil son, killing him in the process.  Charlemagne then banishes Huon, allowing him back only if he succeeds in a number of seemingly impossible feats in the Holy Land against a Moslem king.  Huon doesn’t have a prayer, however passing through a forbidden forest in the Holy Land he is confronted by Oberon, king of the Faeries.  This is equivalent to running into the Catholic God.  Oberon, after extracting a number of vows, gives Huon a horn which if blown in dire straits Oberon will appear with a hundred thousand troops to rescue him.  Huon is cautioned to never use it unless his situation is beyond redemption otherwise.

Huon is the light-headed sort so he blows the horn to test it.  Oberon appears with his 100K troops but is miffed because Huon didn’t follow instructions.  In any event Huon through Oberon’s aid performs the impossible tasks Charlemagne set him and returns to Bordeaux before returning to Paris and  the king’s court as instructed.  Another boo-boo in a long string of boo-boos.  Huon could have been the prototype of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan.

While absent from his home his brother Gerard had usurped his role and now refuses to give it up.  Further adventures intervene but Charlemagne in the end comes to Bordeaux to receive evidences of Huon’s successes.  Huon is unable to produce them as his brother has stolen them from him.  At this time Oberon appears and magically exonerates Huon.  As God had done nothing to help Huon one would think Oberon to be judged the greater than God but Huon irrationally chooses the ineffective God over Oberon even after Huon abdicates his kingship, and renounces Faerieland appointing Huon his successor.  Right.  Even though now King of Faerie Land Huon chooses to live happily ever after in his domain of Bordeaux while God is declared he victor in the contest with Oberon.

Meanwhile the Church was capturing the Arthurian Faerie Land so that as the fourteenth century began the Cathars, Faeries and the real life Knights Templar who had been associated with the Cathars had been disposed of.  The Jews were suppressed and the Church and God were seemingly in control.  However in the fifteenth century Constantinople, today’s Istanbul, was to fall to the Moslems releasing even more heretical ideas against the Catholic ideology that would result in the Enlightenment during which the European mind matured to the point where the scientific assumed prominence and scientific investigation began to reveal the true state of Nature.  This development destroyed the basis of supernatural thinking placing all forms of the fantastic into defensive positions or beyond into fiction.

The Jews abandoned the idea of God, the Catholics refused to accept reality and Europeans who cherished the Faerie forced to blend the Faerie with science.  That is to say, turn Faerie lands into fiction.  Thus the Romantic Age took form in the wreck of the French Revolution.  The First Romantic period was a wonderful time of discovery producing astonishingly beautiful literary products.

Science continued to remove the Veil of Isis revealing nature to the human mind.  The next big test was Darwin’s formulation of Evolution.  The concept had been discussed for a hundred years previously but Darwin wrote the words that condensed evolutionary theory into fact.  Romantics who had been holding on were now forced to adapt further.  This adaptation produced the Second or Neo-Romantic who struggled in the face of scientific realities.

An interesting development occurred.  Mankind refused to give up the supernatural.  It would appear that the terrors of the real world required an imaginary refuge in which things could be controlled.  Thus a transition from an imagined heaven or Faerie land began a conversion to an other world (parallel  universe) that while equally unrealizable was equally comforting.  The Pre-Raphaelites reached back into the past to idealize the world before the artist Raphael.  From that beginning it blossomed into late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels.  Among many others were the reactionary works of William Morris and the futuristic novels of the near great George Du Maurier.  Du Maurier brought forward the Faerie projected into the future in a sort of science fiction.

In the US, L. Frank Baum created a modern fairy tale in his Land of Oz stories.  This also meshed with the English Ruritanian novels of Anthony Hope and the US interpreter George Barr McCutcheon.

All these threads including Rider Haggard’s romantic African fantasies were brought together in the novels of the American Edgar Rice Burroughs.  While not thought of as a Neo-Romantic, Burroughs was probably the greatest of the lot.

As a result of a brain injury as a young man Burroughs was capable of disappearing into his brain world to create amazing fictional realities.

His scientific background and romantic projections are nearly perfect blends.  In his Tarzan series he employs Africa as a geographic reality but then transforms it into a romantic fairyland that could never exist.  In his own way Burroughs character Tarzan is a reinvention of Oberon.  This confused a lot of readers who insisted that the real Africa differed from Burroughs’ imaginary Africa.  No contest.

For instance, Burroughs wanted to have tigers in Africa so he wrote them in to his Faerie Land.  The magazine version of Tarzan of the Apes had tigers and made the story truly fabulous.  However readers, being literal when their imaginations failed to embrace the flights of Burroughs’ fancy forced the writer to change the tigers to lions thereby wrecking the Faerie land Africa, this alternate reality that Burroughs wished to create.  Burroughs himself was heavily influenced by the fairy tales of L. Frank Baum, with whom he became great friends, so that if  you’ve read Baum and keep Oz in mind while reading Burroughs the stories take on an added dimension.

Burroughs didn’t stop with Tarzan and Africa but out of the same mind during the same period created another fairly land on Mars and another at the Earth’s core honoring the fabulous hollow Earth notion.  Thus three complete Faerie lands.

Of course, there was already a fairly large body of Mars and space travel stories in existence but they took a fairly clumsy approach and turned it into a whole something else, sensational, perhaps, for the moment but without enduring appeal.

At the same time, early teens of the twentieth century, a man named Hugo Gernbach was taking science fiction to a whole new level beyond Burroughs that would result in the fantastic blossoming of sci-fi in the nineteen-fifties.

This was truly a romantic recreation of Faerie Land.  Worlds beyond comprehension; the transformation of the Little Folk into space aliens of every description with their human counterparts.  The true nature of sci-fi has been little appreciated.

The neo-Romantics of the second period also created the horror and fantasy genres that would dominate literature along with sci-fi.  The two greatest and most enduring creations were the Frankenstein of Mary Bysshe Shelley of the first Romantic period and the greatest of the monsters, Bram Stoker’s vampire Dracula.  Vampire stories had been around since Shelley’s friend Dr. Polidori wrote his short vampire piece.  Varney the Vampire had made his appearance in mid-century England, attributed to Rymer but Stoker’s sensational novel formed the template for all future vampire stories including those of Anne Rice who was or is totally obsessed by the genre.  Thus the supernatural transformed into quasi-scientific reality has survived to the present.

The Liberal mind evolved out of the Judeo-Catholic religious sphere, more specifically influenced by the Jewish aspects of the Old Testament, most especially by the notion of a people elected by god to rule mankind in his name.  The notion is essentially amoral.

As the Jews are supposed to be creating God’s will on Earth, bringing his rule to all people they believe that means by any means necessary. That notion includes the elimination of whole peoples who may stand in the way of that realization.  Thus the great Liberal novelist Victor Hugo would explain in his novel 1793 the advent of the new perfect Liberal world can never be achieved so long as ‘obstructionists’ live so that Liberals are justified in killing tens or hundreds of million or even a billion in what would be a vain attempt to eliminate differences of opinion.

Thus, today, we have the Liberals hoping, praying for the deaths of ‘old’ people who they fancy stand in the way of the realization of their utopia, while they imagine all people under say fifty are guided one mindedly by their utopian ideal.

On the other hand, Jews, Negroes and others believe that the whole White population of a billion people must be eliminated before their dreams can be realized.  It was believed by them that their dream was approaching realization in this 2016 election.

This hope was upset by the maverick Donald Trump.  Trump’s election set the Liberals off on a disappointed frenzy.  Hence, Foreign Affairs issue Volume 97 no. 2 is devoted to expressing their disappointment by denouncing now President Trump.

Thus of the five articles under the collective Letting Go, three are definitely written by Jews, Eliot A. Cohen,  Barry R. Posen and Adam S. Posen.  The female contributor Sarah Margon is also Jewish.  The only possible non-Jewish contributor is Jacob Sullivan, possibly of Irish derivation.  As these articles are all assigned, that is written on hire, Sullivan may be assumed to be compliant.

It is evident therefore that the Jews are behind the extreme anti-Trump movement.  While Trump seems to be obligated and subservient to the Jews for financial reasons their extreme opposition can only be based on the fact that Trump has taken a course independent of Jewish hopes and dreams.

The Jews, then, forming the core beliefs and fantasies of the Liberals give full and open access to the Liberal mind.  The Liberals consider themselves to be justified sinners, the elect chosen by god to bring his heaven, his perfection to Earth as in heaven.  There is no dissuading them, no ameliorating their extreme beliefs.  They can only be quarantined or suppressed much as they hope to murder all opposition.

There is no room for discussion or compromises.  Either they win or non-believers win.  There is no other option.