The recent Moscow anti-globalist
conference was a pleasant get-together of
like-minded people from East and West. One of
interesting events was the presented below talk
by our friend Polish philosopher Marek G. who
reminds us of vast difference between Kant's
imperative and Jewish attitude, between mobility
of Greeks and present immobility of obese
Mammonites and other funny and apt observations.
I certainly disagree with his negative attitude
to the Church, but surely every one can dismiss
or correct these unnecessary attacks.
Shamir
Dr. Glogoczowski's
commentaries are always interesting, and I
always feel I gain some new insight from each
one. However, his eclectic style has a way of
mixing apples and oranges, which can result at
times in a giant fly in his ointment. The
current essay ("Why Aristotle hated bankers") is
a case in point. The overall thesis is well
presented, historically grounded and well
argued. But at the very end of this piece, a
gratuitous slam, out of nowhere and with no
argument at all, is made: "Which imperative of
course puts into question the ethics of
Christian 'God'. This 'Lord of hosts' in order
to assure the success of his global dominion,
has not hesitated to arrange a Calvary for his
own, supposedly beloved, Son."
The imperative alluded to
here is Kant's categorical imperative. But the
claim that "The Lord of Hosts" (The Old
Testament god) "arranged" Calvary for Jesus is
self-debunking. Anyone who has ever read the
Gospel account understands that what Jesus' Abba
arranged was only the Kingdom of God, which
Jesus and his disciples preached. It was the
Jews (meaning especially the Jewish religious
and civil authorities), whose interests were
threatened by Jesus' message, who REJECTED this
inauguration of the Kingdom of God and who
subsequently "arranged" Calvary for Jesus, by
their characteristic manipulation of the powers
that be. Nothing is clearer than this in the
Gospels. In the Gospel of John, Jesus directly
accuses the Jewish leaders of trying to kill
him. Other Gospels spell out the conspiracy of
the Jewish leaders.
I'm on Marek's mailing list,
so I received an earlier version of this same
statement of his some time ago. I emailed him my
objection, but never received a reply. So I hope
that in publishing it here on Shamireaders I can
elicit his response to this vital point. His
claim is fundamentally a-historical, and utterly
spoils an otherwise very valuable essay. It is
almost as if he has a compulsion to include at
least one jab against (his mistaken
understanding of) Christianity every time he
writes, reminding one of the compulsion of
modern (Jewish-dominated) Hollywood movie makers
who feel that a modern film is incomplete if
there is not one lurid sex scene included,
however gratuitous.
Ken Freeland
Why Aristotle hated
bankers?
by Dr Marek Głogoczowski,
www.zaprasza.net/mglogo
The symbolic destruction of
Berliner Wall on November 9th (9-11
according to notation of date we use in Central
Europe), twenty years ago, was a monumental
victory of forces hidden behind glassy walls of
the Global Banking System. It was the victory of
super-rich bourgeoisie, thriving in Ivory Towers
of their luxurious apartments, places where
bourgeois ‘stay apart’ from others. This was not
the victory for common people historically known
as gens (hence “gentiles”), dwelling on both
sides of this famous “borderline” between West
and East. As factories, as well as agricultural
communities, in “won to freedom” post-Soviet
space began to crumble after this historic event
of 9-11-89, edifices of banks soon appeared as
principal landmarks of our urban centers,
frequently accompanied by buildings of brand new
– or reconstructed after the “night of
communism” – churches.
The very idea that profane,
by a definition, banks are somehow linked with
churches, which are supposed to assure the
spiritual life of citizenry, seems to be an
absurdity. Nevertheless once we read carefully
so-called “canonic” books of Christianity, this
idea makes sense. Although the Moses’ Pentateuch
generally condemns usury, and demands the
suppression of accumulated debts each seven
years, its last book called Deuteronomy – hence
the book of “deutero-Moses” – makes a small,
only few words long, exception to this general
rule: “TO A FOREIGNER YOU MAY LENT UPON
INTERESTS … that the Lord your God may bless you
in all you undertake in the land which you are
entering to take possession of it” (Deut,
23:21).
For nearly two thousands of
years, which followed the completion of the Old
Testament in 5th century BC, due to
the general illiteracy of ‘gentiles’, the
“Deutero-Mosaic” recipe for world conquest was
hidden from the sight of ordinary citizens.
During these not-so-remote times the practice of
usury, as the means of subsistence and of
personal enrichment, was limited practically to
the sect of Jews “dwelling apart” in ghetto-like
suburbs of medieval towns. The invention of the
printing press roughly 500 years ago, combined
with the growth of cities and the translation of
Bible into national languages, made odious
mosaic “recipes for success” attractive to
ambitious and greedy bourgeois. Protestant
leaders accepted the “limited usury” as a decent
activity of rich Christian citizenry. Thanks to
this “hebraization” – this word is
etymologically derived from “habiri”,
which in antiquity meant ‘bandits’ – banks, in
particular the Bank of England founded in 1694,
become centers of World Pecuniary Conquest. At
present banks participate practically in all our
bread earning – and money spending – activities.
Paraphrasing the well known invocation from
Gospel of John, we may say, without exaggeration
that with the advent of “bankers’ democracies” “the
Word (of deutero-Moses) become flesh and it is
dwelling among us”. And the march of banks’
sponsored “knights of Mammon”, frequently under
the protection of the Holy Cross of Crusaders,
has not yet ended. The recent “color
revolutions”, with their banners resembling
colors of advanced stages of malignant cancers,
inform us that the “God’s word” (Logos) of
Deuteronomy is revealing its ever more
aggressive, mind killing forms.
What is the general
direction, into which are pushing us
contemporary mega-centers of finances, located
principally in City of London and at Wall Street
in New York? Here I would like to anamnese,
to recall the old prejudice of “pagan”
philosopher Aristotle against men practicing
usury. In his “Politics” he wrote “Men called
bankers we shall hate, for they enrich
themselves while doing nothing”. The
earth-bound Aristotle, contrary to idealist
Plato, was despised by early Fathers of the
Church, but his notion of corruption linked with
activity of a banker was well understood by
writer (or writers) of Moslem Qu’ran. This
Medieval book demands the total banishment of
usury. Thanks to these “damned Moslems”,
Aristotle’s ‘biological’ understanding of man’s
doings survived through European Dark Ages, and
was re-discovered in 13th century by
Western Church – only to be abandoned as “alien,
pagan influence”, by Judaising Protestants three
centuries later.
Why Aristotle hated bankers?
For a Hellene the virtue had to be continually
practiced, be it only during everyday physical
exercises. To remain immobile, as used to do it
men of commerce sitting on their proverbial
benches, was/is necessarily corrupting their
spirit (literally ‘the breath’, ‘pneuma’ in
Greek), thus making these “poor in spirit”
investors crippled, both physically and
intellectually. The manner of life of upper
classes always radiate downwards, and if atop of
a society we get the Shylock (from Shakespeare’s
“Merchant of Venice”) type crooks, the whole
social body will soon become both physically and
mentally corrupt. In contemporary USA already
three out of four young men are judged, by
medical staff of US Army, as unfit to perform
rude tasks linked with life of an ordinary
soldier. Which fact should be a warning what
will happen with our youth, in case it will
imitate too zealously their equals in “beacon of
nations”.
Every sedentary (in)activity,
especially these which are performed in isolated
from the outside world cabinets and cabins (be
it cabins of motorcars), diminishes human
sensory stimulations and thus automatically
narrows man’s endogenous, built on sensory
inputs, comprehension of the world. Moreover,
the necessarily limited to self-enrichment
egoism of business minded people inhibits a
sincere exchange of views with others. These men
of commerce usually considered their clientele
as a “game” to prey upon. Due to this
“zoological” realm, World Centers of Finances
“naturally” are becoming Centers of
Disinformation about the world.
This last statement is a
triviality very well known to our ancestors.
Money, which since its very invention three
thousand years ago become the Inanimate Animator
of behavior of greed infested people, corrupts
the vision of worshipping this “deity” people so
much that they perceive “black as white,
ugliness as beauty, the old age as youth, and a
coward as a knight” – to recall the poem of
Shakespeare from “Timon of Athens”. This
remarkable poem was quoted by Karl Marx in his
short essay “Das Geld” (Money) published
already in 1844. Marx wrote there “Universality
of properties of money is the essence of
its omnipotence. Money plays the role of a pimp
between the necessity and its object, between
the life and means of man’s existence.” This
corrupting power of money was – and still is –
felt particularly strong in “Land of the Free”,
it means USA, and already in 1880ies the
pre-eminent New York journalist,
John Swinton declared, during the party
organized by owners and chefs of principal New
York journals, the following:
„There is no such thing,
at this date of the world's history, in America,
as an independent press. (…) There is not one of
you who dares to write your honest opinions, and
if you did, you know beforehand that it would
never appear in print. (…) If I allowed my
honest opinions to appear in one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation
would be gone. The business of the journalists
is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to
pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of
mammon, and to sell his country and his race for
his daily bread (…) We are the tools and vassals
of rich men behind the scenes. We are the
jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we
dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our
lives are all the property of other men. We are
intellectual prostitutes.”
[1]
As recalled it in 2007 Polish
politologist Zbigniew Jankowski in a longer
internet text titled “AMERICANISM – THE IDEOLOGY
OF INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTION”
[2], American
“barons” of finances (D. Rockefeller, J. P.
Morgan, P. Warburg, B. Baruch et al.) in 1915
joined their resources in order to buy, in
secrecy, all important journals published in
United States. Since this moment, which two
years earlier was preceded by a creation, by the
same “Trust” of moguls of finances, of private
System of Federal (Financial) Reserves, the road
towards “globalization” was set up.
Where is leading us this
“All-American” – for behavioral tendencies of
elites are eagerly imitated by masses –
Globalization Project? Zbigniew Jankowski, the
author of association of “Americanism” with
“intellectual prostitution”, observes: “The
goal of mass-media is to promote the conviction
that the modern industrial culture is not the
product of whatever ideology, and that views of
these fellows, which are its supporters are
objective, natural and healthy. … This picture
is created for us by priests of public relations
of the contemporary industrial culture. Its most
spectacular product – apart of heaps of rubbish
and degraded biological environment – is the
passive, submissive and devoid of understanding
of the world homo corporatus, a
biological creature serving to the consumption
of products of industry, and to mindless
absorption of its waste. All this in an
atmosphere of inoculated in him hope to achieve
happiness, with which mythical illusions modern
mass media are sprouting, like never
exhausted geysers.”
The controlled by the Trust
of Bankers, “spirit of media”, aiming at the
general disinformation, is felt also in
supposedly independent from pecuniary
preoccupations fields of scientific
investigations. Already three decades ago an
English sociologist – and alpinist – Michael
Thompson acidly remarked, in his “anti-system”
book “Rubbish Theory”, which he somehow managed
to publish in 1979 by Oxford University Press,
that in Life Sciences we witness “a
systematic channeling of enquiry in order to
impel knowledge ever further from the truth.”
Thompson referred in this remark to widely
publicized at that time “discovery” of Nobel
Prize Winner Jacques Monod that “Chance is at
the origin of every novelty in biosphere”. The
devoid of any reasonable proof, belief of
numerous internationally known scientists, into
validity of this “scientific assertion”, has
become so powerful, that the close collaborator
of J. Monod, later on the laureate of literary
Prix Goncourt and holder of the Legion
d’honneur distinction, neurologist J.-P.
Changeux has made of these genetic chance events
“the cornerstone” of his theory of learning.
Inspired by Darwinian concept of “origin of
species by species elimination by action of
Natural Selection” Changeux assured his readers,
in a rapidly translated into English book “L’homme
neuronal” published in 1983, that “Apprendre
c’est éliminer” – to learn is to eliminate –
eliminate not only supplementary interneuronal
connections, but also whole neurons, with which
brains of young mammals are densely saturated
during early stages of their post natal growth.
The logical conclusion, which
one can derive from this “(neo)Darwinian Theory
of Learning”, suggests that “the most educated
scientists shall have only one neuron in their
heads”. It is not an absurdity. Such frivolous
association becomes indirectly confirmed by an
opinion of another illustrious scholar, American
linguist Noam Chomsky, who in 1970ies was
“tutored” in the domain of genetics both by J.
Monod and J.-P. Changeux. Limited by the
‘mindset’ he has “acquired” from them, in 1988
Chomsky declared that…„We have essential,
overwhelming evidence that substantial aspects
of our mental and social life, among them also
the language, are determined as the part of our
biological endowment, and that they are not
acquired by process of learning, and in
particular not by a training”
[3]. Such
bizarre opinion informs us that during his
conscious life as an adolescent, the future
famous linguist either has not tried to learn
any other than English language, either that he
has amnesia concerning hours he spent while
exercising his proficiency of foreign languages
– which languages of “other nationals”
(‘gentiles’) usually are disobeying, supposedly
hereditarily coded, stiff rules of discovered by
Noam Chomsky, “universal (English) grammar”.
The demonstrated above,
mente captus-type lack of understanding how
novel mental associations, novel lingustical,
manual and even immunological skills are
constructed, is a real social catastrophe in all
countries in which aggressive commercial regimes
(“bankers’ democracies”) become established. And
this catastrophe of non adequatio rei et
intellectus – it means inadequacy of
objects and their mental representations – which
is the Aristotelian definition of falsity, we
can trace back to Mind killing “cultural
viruses” hidden in Dead Verses (logos) of Old
Testament. At the end of this short doklad
(contribution), prepared for the conference “Živi,
Zemlju! (Let’s the
Earth Live!)”
[4] I would
like to demonstrate how these “acquired”, by the
intermission of CIA-controlled science (CIA
is understood of course as Central
Imbecylizing Agency), fake,
(neo)Darwinism inspired concepts of “learning by
inactivity” are leading not only towards the
Earth competitive devastation. The Lamarckian
atrophy of untrained interneuronal connections
logically must lead to the loss of vision of all
more noble purposes of human existence.
In order to put more light
onto this ‘politically incorrect’ topic, I would
like to recall a very interesting contribution,
made by the director of European Institute of
International Affairs in Luxembourg, Dr Armand
Cleese, during the conference “Dialogue of
civilizations” held at Rhodes in 2003. While
speaking about “America’s search of a new world
order” Cleese stressed that “The quest of the Americans for
absolute, total security may lead, may even be
bound to lead to absolute, total insecurity”.
[5]
[6]you
shall eat the wealth of nations, and in their
riches you shall glory”,
which verses were probably written by so-called
“deutero-Isaiah” (61, 6), are overt
instructions how to behave in order to become a
successful priest of the “Lord of Hosts”. Hosts
of prostitutes of course, as Swinton and
Jankowski argue in the case of contemporary
Global American Empire.
[7]
passive, submissive and devoid of understanding
of the world
humanoids (expression of Alexander Zinoviev)the tools and vassals of
rich men behind the scenes.
contradicting the
universal ethical principle labeled “categorical
imperative” by Immanuel Kant, we will not be
able to revitalize the Earth. That’s for sure.
And if someone ignores what Kant’s moral
imperative demands, I repeat “you may do
whatever you are disposed to, on the condition
that you will accept that others will do the
same thing”.
Which imperative of course
puts into question the ethics of Christian
“God”. This “Lord of hosts” in order to assure
the success of his global dominion, has not
hesitated to arrange a Calvary for his own,
supposedly beloved, Son.
[1]
R. O. Boyer and H. M. Morais Labor's
Untold Story, United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)
[2]
http://www.ithink.pl/zbigniew-jankowski
[3]
N. Chomsky „Spojrzenie w przyszłość:
perspektywy badań nad ludzkim umysłem”
(Looking into future: perspectives of research
on human mind), 1988 [in] Noam
Chomsky, Jean Piaget et al. Noama
Chomsky’ego próba rewolucji naukowej (N.
Chomsky’s attempt of scientific revolution),
IFIS PAN, Warszawa 1996
[4]
http://www.anti-glob.ru/
[5]
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/bios/Clesse.htm
[6]
M. Głogoczowski „Globalization: The Project of
“Flat Earth” and Flat Brain Cortices – but No
Dialogue of Civilizations Ahead” (overtitle:
RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN SUPERPOWER),
World Affairs, vol. 7, no 4, New Delhi
2003;
www.adelaideinstitute.org/Dissenters/shamir1
[7]
Zbigniew Jaworowski „Radiation
hormesis - a remedy for fear”,
BELLE, April 2009