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.
