The Vampyres Of New York
October 26, 2015
The Vampyres Of New York
A NOVEL
by
R.E. Prindle
A Prospectus
I’ve been searching around for a more discursive format for a while now; I think I’ve finally found one. I have been a great admirer of the German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann for several decades now. He has been described as a prolific author of twenty volumes in German although most of that remains untranslated. Mostly there are collection of twenty or so from his tales.
Hoffmann was at one time very famous. The opera Tales Of Hoffman by Offenbach is based on his stories perpetuating his name better than he could himself. Then I got wind of a two volume work (a thousand pages) called The Serapion Brethren. On the off chance that it was available I searched specifically for the title on Amazon as it didn’t come up under the author’s name. And, lo! it turned up from some hidden corner of that giant book store. Why it isn’t up front with the various collections is beyond me. Having obtained my copy I am now half way through it. A fabulous book.
I don’t think Hoffman fans are legion but I know there are a lot of us; if any of them haven’t learned of the existence of The Serapion Brethren the way is now clear, two volumes, less than fifty dollars on Amazon. Not my point but I pass the info on.
The format Hoffman uses is perfect for what I want to do. The idea of The Brethren is that a group of writers (artists) get together to discuss their stories written according to a serapiontic point of view. Thus Hoffmann presents a couple dozen of his amazing stories within a framework of these meetings and discussions.
Hoffmann was an amazing psychologist far far ahead of his times. In a generation since the advent of Anton Mesmer’s discovery of the unconscious, while Mesmer was still living, Hoffman takes psychology to a level such as Sigmund Freud nearly a hundred years on was able to borrow from it wholesale. As Freud refers to Hoffmann by name it is certain that he read him while Freud a Jew brought up within German culture had access to all twenty volumes of his work. Hoffmann was current of psychological matters while making his own contributions. He refers to the Frenchman Phillipe Pinel of Paris’ Salpetriere Insane Asylum. Pinel was the first to remove the fetters with which inmates were chained thus beginning a more human and understanding treatment of inmate. Hoffmann himself visited insane asylums for study and reflection.
It was Pinel who first came up with the idea that the insane were afflicted with a Fixed Idea, the Idee Fixe of Pierre Janet who worked at the Salpetriere with the great Jean Martin Charcot in the last third of the nineteenth century. Freud also picked up on the notion incorporating it into his corpus as ‘fixation’ or reminiscences.
Hoffmann’s stories are examinations of various fixed ideas or phantoms. And what stories. Mademoiselle Scuderi is one of the greatest stories ever written. When I say stories, these are mainly novellas not short stories. They are mostly 50 to 100 pages thus giving the imagination greater latitude with superior character development.
Hoffman himself was a very accomplished individual. His first longing was to be a great composer hence music motifs abound. Teaming up with La Motte Fouque, another great German Romantic write he wrote the music to Fouque’s great novella Undine while Fouque wrote the libretto. Writing mainly after 1809 to about 1822 Hoffman was close in time to the great composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Handel and others being very familiar with their work while being able to discuss it knowingly as a composer himself and in his early career a director of opera houses. His knowledge of European music and art from its origins is encyclopedic. He provides names you have never heard of that will send you scurrying to the internet to possibly find more info, view the pictures on images.
This is rich stuff for any artist/litterateur or musician. Don’t delay, enrich your life today.
Thus in my using Hoffmann’s format I hope it will be possible to examine and interrelate disparate historical elements into a unified whole relating to today’s events. While Hoffmann’s work is mainly fiction I intend to write accurate history that reads like fiction. Hoffman himself fictionalizes certain stories in a historical manner.
For instance his terrific story The Singers’ Contest deals with a historical or semi-historical event in thirteenth century Germany between various historical Master Singers including Wolfram von Eschenbach who wrote the great German version of the story of Percival.
As a Romantic in reaction to the Enlightenment Hoffmann blends the fantastic or spiritual with scientific reality. Indeed that is the point of his writing, identifying the religious side of the mind from the real or scientific. It is that aspect of his writing that attracts me.
He opens his treatise with the story of a contemporary mad monk Serapion who thought that he was Saint Anthony living in the Theban desert while actually being in Germany. Serapion insisted that he was in the Theban desert. Hoffmann was very sympathetic insisting that following his inner wishful thinking or delusion ‘Saint Serapion’ actually was who he believed and was actually living in the Theban desert.
Of course as Serapion was merely successful in denying reality, a quite common occurrence as Hoffmann will show, in his insane condition he was neither the saint nor in the Theban desert; however he was successfully living the saint’s life as a hermit in a wilderness. This conflict fascinates Hoffmann and it fascinates me. I find that in our own society people, society’s leaders, are living fixed ideas that have little or no relation to reality while trying to impose these fixed ideas on the entire population of the world. In other words as in Edgar Allan Poe’s great story, itself based on Hoffmann, the inmates are in control of the asylum. Thus Poe’s story The System Of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.
As I envision my work it will deal with the problems caused by inner wishful thinking as contrasted with reality. While the New York City of the Dylan period will be the central focus I see the work as wider ranging but closely related to the theme of Bob Dylan and the Vampyres Of New York.
As I envision it the work will be quite long and will be posted in chapters and sections as it is written. I have already dealt with most of the issues as posted on I, Dynamo and Contemporary Notes so that my progress should be steady and relatively quick. I expect to post one to two chapters or sections per month. Feel free to make comments or suggestions.
Jay Michaelson Talks The Talk To Ben Carson
October 11, 2015
Jay Michaelson Talks The Talk
To Ben Carson
by
R.E. Prindle
The redoubtable Jay Michaelson, spokesperson for the Jews, is at it again. This time his out of control rage is directed at a poor Negro, Ben Carson. Knowing that Negroes have suffered almost as much as Jews I was truly surprised at Jay’s hitherto concealed bigotry.
Ben, who as we know is running for president made some innocuous remark to set Jay off. Naturally Jay began spewing the usual ad hominem vitriol over the whole Republican Party that indirectly includes a little old domestic terrorist like me. Jay, I take personal offence at your comments.
Check this:
Carson’s exact argument has been made by morons as disparate as Matt Drudge, Ted Nugent, Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano, racist ex-ballplayer John Rocker (now a favorite on the Tea Party circuit), current NRA president David Keene and former NRA president Wayne LaPierre.
Morons all says Jay, offending at least that bunch. Maybe, but Nugent is a great guitar player and that should count for something. Charlton Heston deserved at least an honorable mention even if he is dead. Oh, that’s right he was Jewish. Excuse me.
All Republicans aren’t bad according to Jay because:
There is a very decent Republican Party out there, that is…strong on Israel…’
Now we know what makes a good Republican, they’re Neo-cons.
Jay who looks to have been born around 1980 or so still considers himself a victim of the holocaust, you knew this was heading there, didn’t you? Jay rants on:
Second, Carson’s (the poor Black fellow) statement is so offensive as to beggar the imagination. [That is if you’re of Jay’s persuasion, my own imagination wasn’t beggared.] Most of my grandparents, and many of my grandparents generation, died when the Nazis and their Ukranian [Now you know why the US is assaulting the Ukraine.] collaborators rounded up entire villages and massacred them in the forest. So, Dr. Carson [Son of Dr. Mengele] what killed them was gun control?
No, what killed them was anti-Semitism, bigotry, hatred and extreme nationalism [All strong Jewish characteristics.] all of which, incidentally are far more prevalent on the right than on the left. In the ADL’s words, “Gun control did not cause the holocaust; Nazis and anti-Semitism did.”
Now, hold on there a minute Jay. Let’s examine that past passage a bit. you seem to imply that the Jews were totally innocent in this matter, innocent collateral damage. Yet it is absolutely clear that the Jews were first to declare war on Germany and not the other way around. In early 1933 before anything had been done to the Jews, they publicly declared war on Germany. True, check it out. As Roosevelt’s henchmen they instituted a worldwide boycott and blockade on shipments of food and medicines to Germany that got tighter and tighter as the thirties wore on. Germany depended on imported food Jay so what your Jews were doing was committing genocide on the German people. Be fair Jay, if you can, if you don’t eat you die. Yes, the Jews were using food as a weapon of mass destruction.
So, ask yourself a question Jay, would you leave an enemy sworn to your destruction behind your lines? Of course not. What would your own Jews do in a similar situation Jay? I’m asking you to remember the Amalekites now Jay. You know what you would do. And that’s what the Nazi’s did.
I think you’re right though Jay. Gun control had nothing to do with it.
Part 5b: The European Holocaust
June 16, 2015
The European Holocaust
Part 5b
by
R.E. Prindle
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
It was not until the 1936 election that Roosevelt moved the inauguration from March to January; thus the usual lapse of five months from election to inauguration was reduced to two. It is also frequently said that Roosevelt and his cohorts had devised no plan of action before his inauguration. That can’t be true. As the Roosevelt administration was a continuation of the Wilson Administration it must have known exactly what was intended if the details were somewhat nebulous. Besides Roosevelt had little intellect; as Huey Long said of him: Roosevelt ain’t smart. As FDR’s ambassador to the Soviet Union, William Bullitt said of him he hoped Stalin could be persuaded to follow his scheme of things. FDR was a man of hope not thought.
The plan of action had been devised as early as 1914 from the Communist angle and from the Jewish angle perhaps millennia. The famed American historian Charles Beard tells of an incident that outlines the conspiracy dated from 1914 and then ridicules the investigator and deriding his account in the usual fashion in his account of Roosevelt’s administration from 1933 to 1939, America In Mid-Passage. The account is told from the typical Liberal point of view but, then, Beard was there so it is a firsthand account of how things appeared to him. The story will be an adequate lead in to this period.
During the twenties the Republicans had pursued the notion of limiting naval armaments. A number of treaties had been agreed upon between the naval powers to limit the size of fleets. President Hoover carried this further.
Quotes from Beard’s America In Mid-Passage are in quotation marks, pp. 384-380:
‘…in 1929 President Hoover…sought to extend to naval auxiliaries the principle of limitation that had been applied to capital ships at the Washington conference. Immediately large ship building interests were involved, and, if it had not been for a strange incident they might have successfully managed their lobbying behind the scenes.’
The shipbuilders had employed William Shearer to attend the Geneva conferences, to influence it in their wishes. They failed, however in their payments to Shearer, who then sued for what he thought he had coming. This brought his situation to the Congressmen who investigated the shipbuilders.
‘See a pamphlet bearing the title, The Cloak Of Benedict Arnold, Mr. Shearer had named names and classified advocates of peace and naval limitations. He did not exactly call them “traitors” but the implication needed no comment. Under Mr. Shearer’s philosophy “our country was betrayed by Charles Evans Hughes”; and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Secretary Frank Kellogg were almost as wicked. Not all opponents, Mr. Shearer generously conceded were communists or traitors; some had been merely deluded or misinformed- victims of foreign propaganda.’
Thus from the other side of the debate which was shared by the way by that big Navy man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He reversed the policy upon election. But, Shearer in his investigations discovered a conspiracy that Charles Beard seems to find preposterous but he reports it thusly:
‘According to the version of Mr. Shearer…at the very heart of the opposition to naval and merchant marine expansion was a deliberate conspiracy fomented by sinister foreign powers.
“From October 1914,” he declared, “the weight of internationalism and communism was developed, the members of which, pacifist, defeatist, radicals of many hues and foreign agents, communists, IWW, and socialists, included in the merger, and a dozen or more organizations with impressive names designed to fool patriotic Americans and lend aid to the enemy. Associated with these agents and these organizations of these anti-American bodies were statesmen, Senators, bankers, lawyers, actors, directors, and writers, men and women of American birth who were used to fight the existing government of the United States….All names, records, checks from prominent people in this country, instructions from Moscow, speeches, theses, questionnaires, indeed the workings of the underground organizations, working through secret bodies in labor circles, in society, in professional groups, in the Army, the Navy, in Congress, in the schools and colleges of the country, in the banks business concerns, among the farmers, in the motion picture industry, in fact, in nearly every walk of life- this information and authentic documentary proof of a colossal conspiracy against the United States were seized by federal officers and are in the possession of the authorities.’
Shades of Joe McCarthy! Could it be true nearly forty years before Big Joe revealed that colossal conspiracy? Beard seems to find Shearer’s researches incredible, indeed, risible but could dozens of independent researchers coming to the same conclusions all be nuts, ‘conspiracy theorists’? These researchers were at least as intelligent and objective as Beard and his fellows. While it is possible, indeed probable, that one can’t see what is in front of one’s face, I know the shock of finding everything I had been taught to believe was less than the truth was a difficult adjustment to make for myself. Apparently Beard was not prepared to make the leap.
However Beard is writing in 1939 after six years of the Roosevelt administration. The proof of Shearer’s accusations was made evident in 1933 when hundreds of these American conspirators followed FDR into Washington assuming important positions in his administration. Shearer’s accusations were corroborated by numerous other researchers and even novelists of the period. The proof that had been seized and was in the possession of the authorities was seized by none other than the much maligned Attorney General of Woodrow Wilson, A. Mitchell Palmer. In the meantime J. Edgar Hoover investigating just these people had already amassed a huge number of files.
H.G. Wells had even written a book in which he describes the situation as The Open Conspiracy. Open means everyone can see it unaided. The only thing anyone failed to see was that nationalism was actually dead the war had shifted to one of ideology. It was Communism vs. ‘Capitalism.’ All these people and organizations Mr. Shearer names opposing the US, that is Capitalism, were Communists, socialists, fellow travelers and what have you. As Fellow Travelers, Parlor Pinks, Liberals et al., they had infiltrated every facet of America, indeed, Western life, where they remained disguised, dissembling because as yet the ‘Capitalists’ were the stronger party. The American side of the revolution had been crushed in 1919, no reason to expose themselves to that humiliation again. Had they exposed themselves they would have been immediately discredited, possibly losing their jobs, much as exposed ‘racists’ do today, now that the Reds are in power. Of course, they lurked in the shadows defending borderline Reds with American virtues such as freedom of speech that they are doing their best to cancel today.
When Roosevelt entered DC with his big bass drum the legions he had been cultivating rushed into the New Altruria with him. Louis Brandeis and his man Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch, Sidney Hillman and a host of others experienced and very competent and they all wanted to exterminate the Germans. Having gained experience in WWI they were prepared to more effectively use their experience in WWII and everybody knew war was coming and they may have known when if not the exact date.
Once in power Roosevelt behaved as a conqueror eager to punish the vanquished much as the North had triumphed over the South after the Civil War and as the Soviets and Americans would do in the wake of the German conquest. Indeed, Roosevelt probably treated his potential sixteen or twenty years in power as a period of the Reconstruction of the United States along socialist lines. Call the thing Collectivism. Individualism was a thing of the past, now came a period the Collectivists called Co-operation.
During the entire period from 1914 to 1945 a state of war existed between the two states of mind. The first few months of the Roosevelt administration were tumultuous beyond belief. Roosevelt asked or demanded that Congress give him full dictatorial powers to deal with the ‘emergency.’ Thus there was little or no difference between himself, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini.
Indeed his 1936 inauguration was a full military review that had little or no difference between the great military parades and reviews of the other totalitarian powers. It isn’t that it wasn’t seen for what it was but that Roosevelt as with Obama treated his opponents as ‘domestic terrorists.’ They were allowed no voice. Thus he began an assault on his predecessors who he designated as ‘economic royalists’, that is, kings. Of course the American Revolution was fought to remove kingship from Earth. The English Revolution was fought against the absolutist Stuarts, Charles I, the subsequent Glorious Revolution removed the absolutist Stuart James II replacing him with a constitutional monarch. The French Revolution gave the coup de grace to the absolutist Louis XVI so what Roosevelt was doing was identifying himself as a revolutionist against royal authority.
He, then, in the character of a Robespierre arraigned the ‘economic royalists; in a show trial, preceding Stalin, or a kangaroo court in which it was demanded that the victims confess their guilt and take their ‘well merited’ punishment. Not unlike the Nazi war ‘criminals.’ Of course this was not the Soviet Union or Germany where a Hitler or Stalin while not having absolute power nevertheless could manipulate their constitutions and laws to do as they pleased. They could use the governmental apparatus to kill whom they chose, imprisonment with no habeas corpus, or condemn their victims to certain death in prison camps.
Roosevelt did try to convict and imprison the Republican Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon who was in office during what Beard calls the Golden Glow period. He viciously interrogated numerous ‘royalists’ before Congressional committees and even had the younger J.P. Morgan photographed with a dwarf sitting on his knee as some kind of weird humiliation.
Later in his administration attempts were made to financially destroy his adversaries such as Henry Ford and WR Hearst while a continuous vile character assassination was waged against ex-president Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt was not a nice man.
There is always the question of how much his polio attack and subsequent recovery may have unbalanced his mind. Certainly the contrast between his eminent position and incapacitated physique must have offended his amour propre. According to ancient usage Roosevelt should never have been in authority. From time immemorial no man with a physical defect of any kind could be king. Even so much as a facial scar disqualified a man as ruler. As a paraplegic without the use of his legs Roosevelt was definitely disqualified as he knew since he went to great lengths to conceal his defect. There were apparently many voters who never knew of his paralyzed legs.
His defect did offend many who insisted on pointing out his infirmity because they didn’t want to be ruled by an imperfect ruler. This attitude may seem rude but old traditions die hard.
FDR’s administration was a reincarnation of the Wilson administration with a great many of the Wilson men returning to power after the hateful twelve year hiatus of Beard’s Golden Glow. The New Era, Coolidge Prosperity, Normalcy or anyone of the names this rich era of history was known by. The governance by the ‘economic royalists.’
Bernard Baruch returned. Brandeis with his acolyte Felix Frankfurter and his cadre of ‘Happy Hot Dogs’ returned. Numerous Settlement House people including Harry Hopkins and Frances Perkins, the hatchet man Harold Ickes, whatever he was.
The people who helped Roosevelt to office were either driven away by these hardline Wilsonians or disappointed by Roosevelt they left embittered and reviling the man.
Perhaps one of the most telling incidents that revealed Roosevelt for who he thought he was is told by Charles Beard in his America In Mid-Passage. His 1936 inauguration perhaps gave away his own imperial pretensions. Beard pp. 339-34
Far more sublime were two features of the occasion which he arranged to express his own sense of proprieties. Putting aside protests from citizens and associates pacifically inclined, he decided that a military parade not a civilian pageant, should celebrate his return to power. And he also decided that he and his immediate entourage (read: thuggish henchmen) at the White House must review the marching men, with banners and martial music, from a replica of the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans who had worn boots and spurs in war and politi
Perhaps this was an indirect reference to his incapacity while Hitler must have been justified in interpreting it as an indication of his warmongering of which he quite justly accused Roosevelt. As the religious and war leader of the Internationalist brigade FDR was a crusader against the The Children Of Darkness, the ‘aggressor nations’. Of course as a justified sinner along with his Jewish cohorts FDR was merely executing the will of God on Earth as it was in heaven. God himself had kicked Lucifer out through the Pearly Gates. The incredible genocide FDR unleashed on Germany required no qualms of conscience. After all knowing the will of Our Father it was impossible for him to ever do wrong. No matter how heinous his crimes they were the will of God in his mind.
Congress, well aware of his martial ambitions, had tried to rein him in by passing the strict neutrality act of 1935. Only two years after his inauguration they realized the direction in which he was heading. FDR would shred any such legislation in the next few years as he activated a propaganda machine meant to inspire We the People with martial ardor and the proper crusading spirit to lay down our son’s lives.
A lot of lessons had been learned in the decade or so from the end of the last war. The prospects of gaining absolute control through another war were enticing. For instance the German properties that were confiscated during the late war were given back; in this new war well prepared with superb planning billions would be confiscated by the Alien Properties Agency and given away to his fellow Chicago Jews by the Alien Properties Custodian David Bazelon. The theft from both Germany and the US conquerors was complete and nearly total.
Also under cover of the most destructive war in history Roosevelt would complete the League of Nations idea with his own concept of the United Nations. This time there would be no debating, no argument. The job was done by war’s end and presented as a fait accompli to the Congress and American people. As much a fantasy as the League of Nations, actually more so, the United Nations has done nothing to end wars and establish peace. It has merely destroyed the basis or Western Civilization.
Under the aegis of the UN the world has been at uninterrupted war for seventy years. Nice job Frank.
By their own admission the administration was unable to relieve the Depression.
One of the architects of those failed policies, Roosevelt’s Treasury Secretary and close friend, the Jew Henry Morgenthau Jr., bemoaned the administrations futile attempts to fix the economy on May 9, 1939, when he offered this shockingly frank confession to a group of democrats from the House Ways and Means Committ
‘We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it has not worked….We have never made good on our promises….I say after eight years of the this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started….And an enormous debt to boot.’
(Quoted from the Morgenthau diary of 5/8/38 by Fulton W. Folsom Jr through James Duffy: Lindbergh And Roosevelt, MJF Books, 2010, p. 12
So, as the war began in Europe Roosevelt had done nothing to successfully relieve the economic situation, in point of fact he had worsened it by incurring tens of billions of debt distributing it to CCC camps, Federal Arts projects and whatever to no effect. What he had done, his real intent, was to strip Americans of their self-respect as they lived on a dole of one sort or another.
In 1932-33 Stalin had created an artificial famine in the Soviet Union that starved millions and millions of Ukrainians to death. This was obviously Jewish vengeance for the Chielmiecke Massacres of the seventeenth century that were merely a part of the Ukrainian revolt against Poland and the crimes committed against them by their Jewish auxiliaries.
Now, Roosevelt claimed that under his administration one third of the US population was ill fed with many people apparently starving to death at the same time as the Ukrainian farmers. The Depression was engineered by the same people who created the Ukrainian famine. Is one to imagine this was a coincidence given the farm program Baruch and Sapiro were promoting that Henry Ford opposed? I don’t think so.
The only thing Roosevelt achieved was a collectivist crusade against the individualism of the American Plan. As he said, individualism is dead, this is the age of collectivism. He might have succeeded completely except for the enormous resistance he initiated and perhaps a certain character failing.
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Momentous changes in communications had occurred in the twenties. Commercial radio had come into existence that by the thirties had become a part of American life. Other than the auto, the radio was the most desired American possession. Few homes were without one. The second was the addition of sound to movies. The silent era was over. While it isn’t overly well known television transmission was also developed in the thirties but the commercial application was delayed until after WWII.
Thus these tremendous propaganda disseminators came into the service of the demagogues. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the Demagogue in Chief. He either knew how to use these new technological wonders or someone showed him how to do it. Actually as an interesting fact, Herbert Hoover had used the radio first during his administration. The Republicans were responsible for creating the environment for radio.
Concurrent with the rise of radio and the talkies was the rise of the master propagandists who Beard points out were referred to as ‘Public Relations’ experts. A chief among these was the very Jewish Eddie Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud. You may be sure that at least behind the scenes he was influential on the direction of Roosevelt’s Public Relations.
Roosevelt needed them because reaction to his efforts to reconstruct the US along socialist lines was fierce and enormous. In upsetting the psychological balance of the country he released numerous advocates of phantasmic schemes and political notions as controversial as his own.
Roosevelt must have wowed them with his ’33 inaugural speech because certain powerful men in command of their own powerful propaganda tools were initially proponents of his presidency falling away rather rapidly. Among these were Charles Coughlin the radio priest, W.R. Hearst the press magnate, and Huey Long of Louisiana and his Share The Wealth program. All three backed Roosevelt’s election then disappointed by his programs bailed.
Roosevelt was never tolerant or forgiving so that as the virtual if not real dictator of the US, little different from Hitler and Stalin it was dangerous to oppose him. Long met his death, Coughlin was silenced and Hearst was financially ruined through taxation. Roosevelt was relentless in his hatreds. While there was no reason for him to hate Ford, yet because of the Jewish hatred of Ford, FDR was directed to force Ford to the wall through legislation both before and during the war. For all practical purposes Ford Motors was bankrupt by war’s end.
Of course, this aspect of Roosevelt’s methods and personality were concealed by the avuncular persona he perfected and projected over the radio in his ‘Fireside Chats.’ The Fireside chat was a brilliant public relations innovation. Of course FDR did not write the chats, those were prepared for him by others while he merely mouthed the words.
Nor is it likely that he had much of a hand in their preparation. While the general direction of his administration’s policies were set it would hardly have been possible for him even to take the time to make the broadcasts. This stuff was carefully planned. A president is a busy man with a world of cares so that focusing on ‘chats’, bringing your mind to bear on the propaganda is nearly impossible.
He was in the hands of his writers. These writers were by and large Jewish therefore pushing a Jewish agenda. The number one item on the Jewish agenda was winning their war with Germany and that could only be done with goi manpower. Roosevelt had charged the war on Germany as the chief of the aggressor nations on his election. He began preparing the US for war in 1933 on his election. Without a doubt he was the aggressor constantly urging the country to accept his view of Germany. This was very evident, so evident that Congress pushed through a strict neutrality act as early as 1935. So evident that Hitler repeatedly referred to FDR as a warmonger unwilling to listen to peaceful overtures.
Peace to FDR meant acquiescence to his terms or war. My way or the highway. This was true both in the East as in the West. It was so evident that the country repeatedly repudiated his efforts to lead the US into war. The war fever of Washington was evident not just to a few but the many. This was well before the war began. Harold Ickes in his memoir says that war was decided on in 1933. Thus the administration must have known the goal to which they were straining. This includes General George Marshall.
Charles Beard writes of it as fact in his America In Mid-Passage. Roosevelt even propagandized the war albeit in covert ways, or at least ways that he could distance himself from. Technology had increased the ways this could be discretely done. Print technology, books, magazines and newspapers were effective; radio, talkies and a new medium that came of age in 1938 with the introduction of Superman; comic books came of age with that super hero. The psyche and mores of the US were thereby changed. The comic books were almost entirely the production of the Jewish mind, not the American mind but, the Jewish mind. Following on the heels of Superman came Batman and after the Caped Crusader (note the word) came the ultimate Jewish super hero, Captain America. The first cover of Captain America published before the war showed Capt. America knocking Hitler for a loop.
After the war began a whole flotilla of comics with war heroes and themes were introduced. The comic books were extremely effective propaganda tools then and they remain so now, still completely in Jewish hands.
While Roosevelt himself undoubtedly had nothing to do with comic book publishers, writers and artists it is equally certain that Jewish members of his administration did, so that print, radio, movies and comic books were undoubtedly coordinated. Serials of many of the wartime super heroes can be rented over cable for viewing.
Roosevelt’s opponents immediately after his election were depicted as Fascists and tools of the Nazis. This alone shows the overwhelming Jewish influence. Roosevelt himself was obsessed with the notion of depicting his chief enemies Lindbergh and Ford as undoubted Nazis while a tremendous smear campaign, character assassination, was carried on against them.
It would have to be impossible that any government would not use the movies for propaganda purposes. Indeed, the movies became an extension of government policies. For the Roosevelt government and its defenders to deny that the movies were not used for propaganda purposes is an absurdity not worth considering. Beard’s Mid-Passage published in 1939 before the war even began notes the manner in which Roosevelt subordinated the film industry to promote pro-war films in the effort to get America to endorse a war against Germany.
Roosevelt would have been only one party interested in using Hollywood for propaganda purposes. You may be sure that Stalin through his agents were also using Hollywood to follow the Moscow line
Of course, at the time, and even now, any propaganda influence is denied. Yet, per Charles Beard there were studies being conducted pre-war that showed the influence and its degree. The influence was clear to Beard and I’m sure Hitler and Stalin had no difficulty seeing it.
The obfuscation of the Left denying propaganda in film can be lightly brushed aside. It isn’t even worth discussing.
While Roosevelt was a dictator on a par with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin the historical mores of the country limited his ability to exercise his mere will as did the mores of the other combatants control theirs. Hitler and Mussolini simply removed the Jewish influence or ignored it while in the US and USSR Jewish influences were paramount.
The reaction to Roosevelt once his direction became clear was enormous. The ‘economic royalists’ did not stand idly by but organized groups such as the Liberty League offered vocal but meager resistance. Of course the Liberty League was led by a Jew. A few such as Henry Ford who also had WWI experience simply refused to go along. Rather than use overt force the administration employed slander and sabotage.
Another big weapon was expropriatory taxation. Incensed that there were a few hundred or two hundred million dollar fortunes in the US the Liberal response was to steal it- that is tax it out of existence. As this would have or did have no effect on the fortunes of the Common Man, there were no distributions, the only reason for stealing the money must have been envy.
Actually the history of the US has been one of unbearable stresses that were all psychologically difficult or impossible to bear. To begin with the period from the Revolution to the Civil War was primarily an agricultural and trading society with few large fortunes, so there was a rough economic equality although, let us never forget, there is always someone at the bottom. Equality doesn’t mean that there is no social scale.
Thus to all appearances under the cover of the Civil War in one jump the country went from Longfellow’s village smithy under his spreading chestnut tree to the sprawling steel mill of Homestead. The economy went from no petroleum to the gigantic Standard Oil in just a few years after the Civil War. At the war’s end it took months maybe a year or more to go round the horn to California or the long arduous trek across country through hostile Indian Territory. Four years after the Civil War in 1869 the golden Spike was driven and you could travel to San Francisco with all your possessions in baggage, yourself and family seated comfortably with no cares.
Following Standard Oil’s example Trusts of all kinds of products sprang up like mushrooms. It was the economic wild west with no holds barred. Magnificent fortunes could be had for the taking, mines, land, whole forests and mountains. Not a lot of skill, really, was necessary, just a whole lot of bravado. For a certain type of person for a brief period it was his day. By 1900 that day had passed and that type of man was passé but he had left his mark on the imagination of another type of man whose day was in the offing.
The times were changing as the latter type of man began to come into his day with the election of the socialist Woodrow Wilson. The type of men they were was made clear during the war tyranny of 1917-18.
A socialism that would have made the Stalin gulp was clamped on the unsuspecting people of the United States. You wonder why Henry Ford and the Dodges resisted strongly Bernard Baruch’s dictatorship at the War Industries Board? This was very serious stuff.
If the Armistice had been declared, according to Baruch himself they would have regimented the American people as none other had been regimented before. This was evil as only Americans could do it. You may imagine the rage with which the Wilsonians greeted the election results of 1920 as the Republicans tried to restore the pre-Wilson America. This was the Normalcy period from 1920 to 1932 that Charles Beard refers to as the Golden Glow.
FDR was in the Wilson government from start to finish so that he and a whole cadre of Wilsonians stewed and plotted until they were able to continue their nefarious course after 1932. Their memories then were centered on the disappeared world of the Gilded Age and its Golden Glow. They really were men and women of the nineteenth century still under the thrall of the Village Smithy and his chestnut tree not really dealing with the present as the path to the future. Their minds were filled with vengeance.
Now, in that leap from an agricultural past to the industrial present from the small artisan to the giant corporation people’s minds were seized with terror by bigness. There was nothing to fear but small minds. Looking back they fondly remembered a time that scarcely resembled their memory but was small and compact and seemingly unthreatening although they should have read Poe’s Diddling As A Fine Art more carefully.
Had they been able to see ahead they would have realized that the small semi-isolated communities were a thing of the past while in the coming gigantic global economy a giant size would be necessary to succeed as the global economy grew and other peoples began to participate in what was really a Euroamerican monopoly. Standard Oil would have to be big to compete with the monstrously sized Chinese demand. Today President Obama is busy cutting it down to an uncompetitive size.
Rockefeller was a great mind that perhaps gazed into the future. The times called for a great people to seize the future but the transition from the Village Smithy to Homestead had been too quick; the times were big but the people were small. In their fear and trepidation they smashed the bigness and thus while not apparent at the time, condemned America to second or third rate status. The men of Roosevelt’s administration were of that small minded kind. They didn’t understand, hence unknowingly worked to enthrone the Chinese. They were natural born slaves if there ever were any.
The second problem and perhaps the most infuriating for Roosevelt and his ilk was the great wealth accumulated by the magnates of the Gilded Age, for big money goes with big business. Currency and specie had always been a problem in the early stages of settlement. There just wasn’t enough money to go around so the people of Roosevelt’s school conceived of the money supply as essentially a round pie of which the Golden Agers were hogging all but a few small thin slices. Hence you have the repeated notion that, say, twenty percent of the rich owned eighty percent of the pie leaving only twenty percent of pie for the remaining eighty percent of people. Theirs was a small static world.
Conceiving the notion that this eighty percent of the pie was stolen thus forcing the eighty percent who thought poor to live in what was really astounding luxury it seemed right for the eighty percent to steal the money back- in theory.
America had never developed a realistic understanding of monetary matters so there was no understanding of the creation of wealth, still isn’t. In point of fact if the Age had depended on existing currency there would never have been a Union Pacific, Carnegie Steel or Standard Oil. There was not enough money so that the builders had to find ways and in creating value the money supply expanded, or was allowed to expand to include the newly created wealth. Things were getting bigger.
Prior to 1865 there were very few millionaires, the number increased dramatically after 1865 and by the time of the New Deal there were thousands of millionaires. Even during the depression the US was richer than it had ever been. A mere thirty or forty years after the New Deal millionaires would be a dime a dozen. In our time nearly anyone who owns a house is a millionaire.
It was also true that fortunes didn’t last. What one generation accumulated subsequent generations dissipated. It was sure as clockwork. There was no entail or primogeniture so that as subsequent generations multiplied the number of inheritors grew with it.
A leading expositor of the narrow minded economic view was the very small minded Jewish writer Gustavus Myers whose most influential book was The History Of The Great American Fortunes. As may be expected Myers roundly condemned the Gilded Age and The Golden Glow, the latter also known as Normalcy, the New Era, the Coolidge Prosperity and the Republican Interregnum.
Myers wrote several other books condemning American mores and finances. For those interested I have discussed his writing in my post Chumps Playing Stud. Myers went as far as calling for legislation to prevent future accumulations of great fortunes. As he said his school had their man in place with FDR.
Myers was not complaining about great fortunes in general. The key phrase in his history of American fortunes is American Fortunes, that is, Anglo-Saxon fortunes. If one reads his book one will find almost no reference to Jews or Jewish fortunes. It is as if there were no Jews in the US, and Myers obviously was a Jew. The Jewish scalawags, the Seligman’s who reaped an immense fortune in government securities during the Civil War are no where mentioned nor the fact that they snared great fortunes by taking General Motors from Billy Durant. The even greater Guggenheim fortune acquired from appropriating the metal resources of the country also receive no mention. Kuhn-Loeb was apparently unknown to Myers.
Thus the Roosevelt administration used the taxing authority of the government to expropriate the Anglo-Saxon fortunes, destroying the heritage of the Gilded Age the members of which they considered actual enemies of the people.
Thus the small minded people destroyed the ability of the US to compete on the world stage. Today the US has slipped behind China as the most successful country while India is panting close behind.
And then, a strange thing happened. Of course after the Nazis assuming control in Germany in 1933 the Gilded Age people were grouped together as Fascists since in self-defense they opposed the so-called New Deal, called the Raw Deal by some.
However if the Gilded Agers weren’t responsible for the magnificent entity that the US had become, who was? Why, who else but the Jews?
As the thirties came to an end and opposition to the US entry in the European war jelled it became necessary for Roosevelt to destroy the opposition much as Stalin had destroyed his because the US was going to war no matter who dissented. The Great Crusade against the ‘aggressor nations’ was on. In such a situation it was necessary to designate the chief spokesman of the enemy and discredit him. Hoover was out of reach, Hearst had already been destroyed, Ford was quiescent but stepping into the breach was an old bete noir of Roosevelt’s, Charles A. Lindbergh.
This is a strange story.
FDR seems to have had a strong aversion to Lindbergh dating back possibly to 1927 but that is speculative. Of more recent occurrence was the issue of the air mail service cancellation of 1933. At that time the Roosevelt was convinced that the civilian air mail contracts had been fraudulently obtained. It is also true that Hoover developed the air mail program as Secretary of Commerce under Coolidge so there may have been envy over that in Roosevelt’s tiny mind. At any rate he cancelled the ‘sacred’ contracts and ordered Army pilots to fly the mail. A pilot is a pilot is a pilot, right?
Flying at that time was much more hazardous so that the Army pilots who had no experience in flying at night or in inclement weather were not successful. The Army was botching the job while a significant number of pilots died in crashes. As you read American history life was really cheap back then, thousands and thousands of people were killed every year. Nobody seemed to care.
Lindbergh took it upon himself to write an open letter to FDR imploring him to reinstate civilian delivery. Roosevelt was forced to back down while being reported to have said: We’ll get that fair haired boy. That threat implies resentment of Lindbergh going way back to his trans-Atlantic solo flight of ’27.
So, when Lindbergh came out condemning any attempt to get the US into another European war thus frustrating FDR’s attempt to do just that FDR decided to destroy him. What else would he do in the environment he was creating but call him a Nazi. Thus the major defamation campaign was on.
Strangely this played into Jewish hands. At the risk of repetition let me point out again that the Jews operated as an independent semi-autonomous people. They used the US government in an attempt to realize their independent agenda that was completely different than that of Americans.
Events in Germany had alarmed the Jews although there could have been no premonition of the course events would take while as Americans they should have had little interest in Europeans. However perhaps as Ford insisted Jews were natural born internationalists. Rather than attribute the German events to their own actions it was thought that non-Jews left to their own devices were irrational and always a potential threat.
Building on psychological discoveries of the nineteenth century then, current understanding of psychological processes were much advanced. The brutal manipulation of the American psyche by George Creel’s Committee of Public Information of WWI had shown how far and how easily the mass psyche could be pushed.
Subsequent developments in propaganda by the Public Relations experts had shown how far clever manipulation of symbols could go. Thus, as Eddie Bernays the leading Jewish Public Relations propagandist explained it a superior elite had to take it upon themselves to guide public sentiment in the direction to take to make sure there were no ‘irrational’ outbreaks such as those in Germany. There was always an acute danger it could happen here unless the elite, that is the Jews, managed the national psyche.
Bernays was a nephew of Sigmund Freud who had spent time with that master propagandist and was in as close contact with him as circumstances allowed. Thus Bernays and his fellow Jews began to develop propaganda techniques accordingly.
Seizing upon Roosevelt’s hatred of Lindbergh they began to arouse fears of a Nazi takeover of the US. Now, the thirties according to the Jewish yearbook had the least ‘anti-Semitic’ activity of any decade in US history. This seems odd as the Jews place such emphasis on Henry Ford’s writing all through the twenties. Apparantly his studies had no effect. Nevertheless the Jews attempted to impress on the US that it could, indeed, it was happening here.
The activities of certain cranks who posed no threat were give exaggerated publicity. One such was William Dudley Pelley and his Silver Shirts an outfit that was so small and disorganized that he and it posed no threat. Another absurdity given undue attention was a man called, if you can believe this, James True and his ‘kike killer.’ He turned out to be a ‘lone wolf’ sitting around his office giving out interviews while flashing his ‘kike killer’ that turned out to be an ordinary black jack. Probably a Jewish stooge and if so a good joke.
No one was going to get far with a couple of acts like that as a real star was needed. Lindbergh was it. Talk about star quality. He was a household name and while an American champion, with the right defamatory propaganda, he could be made the butt of a defamatory campaign. He was quickly built up to an insane Isolationist who was not only sympathetic to the Nazis but a Nazi stooge. The connections were developed into the idea that he was a Nazi satrap who was going to run for President and once in was going to turn the country over to Hitler. The idea itself was crazy but how’s that for a fearsome prospect. Like Roosevelt said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. I suppose that meant we were supposed to go looking for it.
I don’t know how seriously this absurd scenario was taken but a movie called Keeper Of The Flame based on the notion was made, so, Roosevelt was seriously using films to press his agenda. The notion was so important to Jews that in The Plot Against America Philip Roth published a semi-autobiographical novel of his youth in the Jewish colony of Newark based on this premise.
Very strange. The idea needs a little further examination.
Roosevelt and Hitler assumed their reins of power almost simultaneously. As I have pointed out German hatred was long standing while the Nazi’s and Jews qua Communists had been engaged in street warfare for over a decade. Hitler thus squashed the Judeo Communists beginning in 1933 while the Jews declared a worldwide war on Germany at the same time.
The Nazis or Fascists were quickly equated to the Republicans and Roosevelt’s opposition thus FDR’s opposition all became Fascists in Jewish and FDR minds- i.e. The Children of Darkness, Satan’s henchmen, whatever. Thus the idea formed in Jewish minds that they were the true Americans responsible for creating the beautiful American Dream.
FDR’s opponents were Fascists operating behind enemy lines. There had to be an arch demon leading them so Lindbergh was selected. All hatred could be focused on him and if he were defeated the cause was won.
This is all perversely explained by Philip Roth in his novel The Plot Against America.
In reality it was the Jews plotting against America but as the nineteenth century novelist Paul Feval explains in his Black Coats series a professional criminal in planning a crime first selects a scapegoat to bear the guilt. Once the crime is committed the evidence points to the victim. Once he is arrested and convicted the case is closed. There is no need to look further. As the criminals express it, the law has been paid and victim pays it.
Thus Lindbergh was the scapegoat who was to pay the law for the Jewish plot against America depicted by Roth. Seventy-five years later it was still thought necessary to deflect suspicion from themselves. Or was the story resurrected to direct attention from current Jewish operations?
Back in 1940 as US involvement in the European war seemed more likely the drum beat began for the extermination of the Germans. The war would be a genocidal war and the horrific European Holocaust began to be tapped out.
Part Six: The Holocaust begins follows.
The European Holocaust Part Two
April 1, 2015
The European Holocaust
Part Two
by
R.E. Prindle
Those who cannot draw conclusions
From three thousand years of learning
Stay naïve in dark confusion
Day to day living undiscerning.
–Goethe
The Europeans
While the origin of the Jews is clear, the origins of the Europeans is shrouded in mystery. In fact, one has to go back to the origins of the species. According to the ‘consensus’ opinion Homo Sapiens originated in Africa about 150K years ago. At that point we are told they evolved from whatever species preceded them. How and what happened next is anyone’s guess.
At sometime in the last 150K years the last Ice Age began that endured until the recent Age of Leo about ten thousand years ago. Shortly after the Deluge of Leo fairly advanced communities began appearing around the Mediterranean shores. This was after the Deluge.
Prior to the Deluge three significant memory traces of previous civilizations survive. They are Atlantis, Lemuria and Shambala. While no remains have been identified of the three it would still seem clear that something must have existed in the 140K years before the last Leo. Thus I have to believe that all three memory traces had to have existed although the actual forms may be beyond recall, nor are any space visitors involved.
During the Ice Age the ice masses trapped enough water to lower ocean levels including the Mediterranean by three to six hundred feet. This would have exposed the continental shelf in the Atlantic while exposing vast stretches of land on the Pacific shore.
Thus as Atlantis is said to have existed beyond the Pillars of Hercules, rather than being a vast island that sank it seems more reasonable to suppose that it existed on the exposed continental shelf. It is conjectured that as the ice melted it remained dammed behind an ice barrier that breaking through released all at once a veritable ocean of water that raised sea levels very rapidly inundating the coastal regions and the Mediterranean. Thus the notion that the wells under the earth gushed up becomes more intelligible. Atlantis and Lemuria would have disappeared beneath the waves.
Shambala is said to have been an island in a large sea behind the Himalayas. This would have been the home of the Aryans. As is well known due to continental drift Africa has moved North and East from the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland while Australia split off moving to the far side of the Indian Ocean. Madagascar probably was formerly attached to Antarctica on the East and certainly Africa on the West. India separated moving North and East.
Over a period of millions of years it collided with what was then South Central Asia. The South of Asia and the North of the new sub-continent were then crumpled up into a long transverse group of mountain ranges stretching from the Alps of Europe into China. The Himalayas formed by the collision of India with Asia formed the highest mountains in the world.
Behind the ranges the Black, Caspian and Aral seas have survived into our times. The three seas form an arc so that it is not difficult to envision a fourth sea further East perhaps where the Talamakan desert is today. At some time after the Deluge then if the memory traces are correct a place called Shambala or its equivalent did exist. Whether the lake or sea in which the island of Shambala is supposed to have been was lush or dry the area was very likely lush enough to support a permanent city. As the Himalayan Mountains rose to block precipitation northerly rivers still flowed North down the slopes from the glaciers. Even today rivers flow from the Himalayas into the Taklamakan Desert where they are absorbed so life could have been supported well into the period of current desiccation.
When it became too dry the city would have broken up forcing the Aryans out. As the Aryans moved from the area into China, India and parts West with a high level of civilization, a fully formed body of mythology they had to have before invading other areas. They must formerly have had the leisure to form a history that is expressed in their mythology. The various forms of that mythology from India to Europe are derived from that same source. Indeed the languages from India to Europe come from a common source. Nothing could be plainer.
The European then can confidently be traced back to a common source in Central Asia, possibly to the memory trace of Shambala. The various European peoples arrived at different times in what was a very long diaspora, the Celts and the various German tribes. In the course of time the Aryans were followed by the Mongols who possibly drove the Aryan before them. First the Huns were driven West and then back out of Europe; then the hordes of Genghis Khan entered European history who also were forced to retreat, leaving Europe to the Europeans and…the Jews.
The two great mythological cycles that express the European mind are the Homeric and the Arthurian while the Old Testament of the Jewish bible gives expression to the Jewish mind. They are very different in outlook.
Perhaps because the Homeric cycle is difficult to understand its immense worth is unappreciated even by the most cultured minds. The Homeric cycle is one of the great achievements of the human mind. While it is closely related to the Indian Aryan mythological cycle perhaps a variation in culture and other Indian additions make it more obscure to the Western Aryan mind.
In any event the simplistic Semitic vision of the Jews displaced the Homeric cycle in credibility; as impossible as that may seem, it became the foundation myth, at least, of Southern Europe while Northern Europe borrowing from the Caucasian remnant and Homer formed the vast, the immense, Arthurian cycle.
Thus the Jewish bible centered Christian religion and the medieval Aryan Arthurian cycle came into conflict. This conflict was resolved by introducing certain biblical concepts into the Arthurian cycle subverting it to Christian ends.
The lineage of King David through Jesus of Nazareth in this story was transferred to Europe, not Europe as a whole but through what became England to the exclusion of Europe as a whole. The kings and queens of England are, or were, believed to have inherited the sacred kingship of the line of David making England the new Israel. Hence, one has the sect of the British Israelites. Quite legitimate mythologically too.
To make the transfer, a myth was invented in which Joseph of Arimathea was said to have been given a chalice containing the holy blood of Jesus by Jesus himself. Joseph of Arimathea then transported the chalice to England in a magical way making the English kings and queens of one blood with the House of David. Thus England is the New Israel in that scheme of things.
On the other hand the ‘true’ story of the Grail was granted to Germany through someone called Kyot who appeared to the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach giving some authority to Germany. Whether than has anything to do with the enmity the Jews cherish against Germans is open to conjecture.
The development of the Arthurian cycle took up most of the Middle Ages. The last redaction was made by Mallory in the fifteenth century. By then Europe was within striking distance of the Englightenment displacing mythology.
Leaping forward to that period it was then that the Aryan mind began to unfold in all its glory. By then the European mind was ready to pass from the mythologic and mythopoesy of the biblical and Homeric mentalities to a rational understanding of external reality. Thus the vanguard of the Enlightenment prepared the way for the Scientific outlook or Weltanschauung while Judaism and Catholicism remained sunk in subjective mythology.
The sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the development of the European mind into a splendor the like of which the world had never witnessed. Truly, a New Man came into existence. Godlike, as it were.
While a disruptive cleavage was necessary and inevitable political developments that erupted into the French Revolution of 1789 made the changeover the most destructive event the world had seen to that time. A new murderous frame of mind came into existence. The revolutionary bigots were cruel and merciless. The bodies hit the ground and heads rolled in the sand. This would set the tone for all future so-called revolutions.
The French Revolution evolved the reorganization of society that took place under the aegis of Napoleon. When the Napoleonic world collapsed in 1815 it was a new world, bourgeois, and what has been called the Romantic Period.
The Romantic Period was a mythological reaction to the Enlightenment. The Nixies and Pixies did not go quietly. Frankenstein and Dracula rose in their stead. The Nixies and Pixies throwing fairy dust put up a beautiful and entrancing if futile battle. Science drove ahead. Out of the demise of Medieval times arose one of the greatest achievements of the European mind, the University system. The University was something that wasn’t even dormant in the world’s other societies, not African, nor Asian East and West.
The University allowed the brightest and best minds society had to provide a place to develop and innovate and discover. For the first time intelligence was freed from superstition.
All the disciplines moved rapidly forward, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Botany, Anthropology, Geology, all of them. These developments and sciences had to be organized into a system and that was done by a man called August Comte who established Positivism in competition with Romanticism.
Comte’s organization of the sciences was masterful; giddy with his sense of achievement Comte lost his cool nearly vaporizing in delusions of grandeur. His great successor was the Englishman Herbert Spencer who carried things forward in a great leap. By the time Darwin announced his vision of Evolution in 1859 the groundwork or future developments in learning was laid
The problem with Science and the Common Man is that most scientific concepts are uncommon, they can’t be seen or handled in the sense of, say, blacksmithing. Of course machines and devices can be devised, microscopes and electron microscopes, so that things that Nature probably doesn’t even know are there can be seen but even the machines are beyond the comprehension of the Common Man.
So the world as it existed in religions like Judaism and Christianity was slipping away. The Common Man’s world was being turned upside down. Frustrated and uncomprehending he was supremely ready for manipulation.
After Darwin and Positivism came the New Romantics of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a beautiful period of the human mind. Unable to resist the findings of science the New Romantics blended science and fantasy in a very attractive fashion. While it hasn’t really been given the attention it deserves the science of Psychology had been quietly developing and if not noticed at least not with alertness.
About the time of Darwin’s Origin Of Species the awareness of the conscious and unconscious minds was becoming more prominent. First looming into human awareness through the researches of Dr. Anton Mesmer in the latter eighteenth century there was furious activity. Central to psychology is the concept that Mesmer first exposed- hypnotism. Hypnotism is the key to the unconscious. Called variously hypnotism, Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism throughout the Nineteenth Century hypnotism is the basis of the unconscious.
While from Mesmer to Jean Martin Charcot hypnotism had been derided as charlatanism suitable only for stage shows, Charcot working from the French hospital, the Salpetriere, legitimized hypnotism as a medical procedure. He and the great Pierre Janet developed the basic concepts of what would be called psycho-analysis when organized by Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung.
Psychology, hypnotism and the unconscious mixed perfectly with Neo-Romanticism. Wonderful novels appeared. The now neglected stories of the Frenchman, Camille Flammarion, R.L. Stevenson’s great Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the wonderful three novels of George Du Maurier of which his middle novel, Trilby, is a dream one wishes one could have dreamed, Marie Corelli wrote some wonderful stories, Sherlock Holmes probably fits in there as well as the Oz stories of L. Frank Baum. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan novels. William Morris, Rider Haggard, an astonishing list of writers and their stories. An amazing period. H.G. Wells.
While Freud made the concept of the unconscious rigid, in the last half of the nineteenth century the unconscious was more fluid and flexible. While Freud made it the repository of evil impulses, the early researchers made it a source of creativity. It is actually an individuals’ choice. One’s future hinges on that choice.
While these marvelous intellectual developments were in process the practical world was also changing rapidly. Science turns into technology and technology turns into money. Money turns into banking and the medieval world is left behind.
While money was significant in the medieval world, wealth in that world was land based. One might say European wealth contrasted to Jewish wealth. In the New Order money wealth would be dominant over land wealth, hence the rapid Jewish rise in the nineteenth century after Emancipation.
One might say that the need for money became necessary during the reign of Louis XIV in France. Metals were no longer an adequate way to conduct business. The man for the times was named John Law. He introduced the concept of paper money. Law was a Scottish adventurer who had thought deeply on money matters. He came to the conclusion that the proper basis of money was what an economic unit, say France, could produce. In fact his plan was activated in France. While his scheme was sound if the money supply was kept in line with national production unfortunately Law issued more paper money than the market would bear and his plan went awry. However paper money was here to stay as other thinkers began to work at the kinks in the money supply.
Thus the basis of the modern economic structure was laid. Money and what it bought became the basis of our economic system. With the money economy inevitably went compound interest or in another word, usury. The conversion to money from land as a basis of wealth underwrote the destruction of the old European aristocracy that knew little of the functions of money or usury and the rise of the moneyed Jew.
The technological development of modern society was funded by money, not land. The advent of steam, specifically the railroad called for vast sums to build the infrastructure. In Europe only the Jews had the necessary cash although the need for money called for pooling of money which led to selling fractions of the roads to the general public as shares. The shares led to the creation of an entirely new monetary device called the stock market- Wall Street in the US. As a new device the stock market was a mystery to its users, not unlike computers today. Coupled with the avarice of its users the market was and perhaps has been since a cause of great anguish.
In the course of things Europeans began sending its culture to various places in the world trying to make a better life for themselves perhaps not unlike these outlier communities who are now sending colonists to Europe seeking a better life than they can provide for themselves there. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
The principal outlying European communities were in North America- Canada and the United States. In inhabiting this very sparsely settled continent the Europeans merely shoved aside the indigenous stoneage peoples to occupy the land themselves. This activity was still in process in 1800 when the unfolding of the European mind began in earnest.
Steam was actually first applied to locomotion in this raw land when a way was devised to apply steam power to a ship.
As revolutionary as this was it was as nothing compared to the steam railway. The utility of the railroad was recognized by the Americans immediately. Railroads sprang up in the original colonies and with them came the stock market. After Lewis and Clark showed the way to the Pacific and the actual extent of the continent was known the westward move was on. How extraordinary that the railroad would arrive just when it was needed.
The discovery of gold in California thirty-four years later called for a trans-continental railroad. Nineteen years later, interrupted by a devastating Civil War of five years, there was one. The trans-continental railroad was a vast undertaking calling for more money than any individuals, combines of individuals or even joint stock companies could manage. Hence the assistance of the people through the US government was called for. The country demanded the railroad. The government supplied money while donating millions of acres of land to the builders from the public domain. Of course there was graft; when isn’t there graft? But the job got done in more than a timely manner.
While the Jews were firmly entrenched in Europe, they were very few in the US until after 1870. As the Protestant United States had fluid mores, no landed aristocracy, while already as a trading people being somewhat familiar with money and interest the Jews having lost their advantage had a negligible part in the economy until after the Civil War then developing rapidly with the influx of the East European Jews from 1870 to 1900 and beyond.
Thus by 1900 the German Jews were already established and while being in competition with the European Americans on equal terms began to assume a controlling and dominant role in the US and Canada. The Jews led at least a semi-autonomous existence on both sides of the Atlantic, what Henry Ford would later accurately call the international Jewish conspiracy.
This whole race issue goes much deeper than that. What was implied by Evolution was later confirmed by Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton. Galton was a sociologist. There has been no escaping the obvious conclusion which those condemned by biology to a lesser degree of mental ability find their inferiority intolerable. Quite naturally the next step for the lesser endowed is to destroy those more favored by biology.
Darwin announced Evolution at a time of the highest level of White Supremacy among the world’s cultures. In 1860 Whites were as gods to Africans, Middle Easterners, the Chinese and East Asia in general. Had the superiority been a matter of surprise and temporary military efficiency as when the Mongol Huns overran Europe or when Genghis Khan’s hordes swept across Central Asia into Europe a military domination of that kind may be endured but it will pass.
However if one race or species is genetically advanced indicating permanence how can one measure the loser’s grief? In point of fact one side must exterminate the other and it will happen as it is happening today.
Secondly Francis Galton began devising a means where the unseen could be measured; in other words he began to devise tests that could measure intelligence. It would thus be learned that only fifteen percent of the White population had what might be termed superior intelligence; that is they could deal with abstract matters. This was of cardinal importance in an increasing scientific and intellectual milieu in which fully eighty-five percent of the most capable race or species were mentally less able. As for the other races they were completely out of the running. These crude nineteenth century findings would later be confirmed by genetics in the next and twenty-first centuries.
Thus the horrors of the twentieth century German hatred began to form in the nineteenth century. Discrimination against the superior took form. In the course of history by the mid-nineteenth century the leading nations were France, England and Czarist Russia. Italy and Germany still had no nation State but were a congeries of small principalities. As pictured literarily as comic Ruritarians they were jokes to the French and English while allowing those countries to dominate a ‘balance of powers.’
Then both Italy and Germany unified into national States thus upsetting the balance of power. The Germanies having united under Prussia’s Bismarck in 1871 avenged their humiliation by the Frenchman Napoleon by overrunning France thus announcing that a new sun had risen.
While the Germans had always evidenced an intellectual superiority in their cutting edge universities, now united they began to challenge England and France for industrial and commercial pre-eminence while at the same time the US was also trying to achieve economic dominance. Thus England and France began to cultivate a German hatred. This hatred was not directed at individuals but the German people as a whole. As symbols of the German people Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm and Hitler might have had the force of hatred directed at their persons but only as an obvious object of German hatred.
After the First European Holocaust of 1914-18 the weak and divided Weimar Republic which may be seen as an extension of the comic principalities was tolerated but only because it had been completely emasculated thus no longer able to compete with the French, English and Americans. Most of the criticism of Bismarck, the Kaiser and Hitler can be dismissed as anti-German envy.
In the East in order to develop their country the Romanov Emperors had invited several tens of thousands of German to settle in Russia in the Ukraine and the Volga Delta. Thus there was a large Volga settlement as well as eventually a few millions in the Ukraine. These immigrants were given favorable concessions to lure them to Czarist Russia.
The Germans employing superior intelligence and industry rapidly prospered more than the Russian and Jewish farmers. Now, a slight aside, until mid-nineteenth century Jews named themselves Isaac ben Abraham and such but those who used no last names, Germans included, were required to assume a last name. Russian Jews thus could choose either a German or a Russian last name. As Germany was viewed as superior vast numbers of Russian Jews chose German last names rather than Russian offending the emperor. One of these families were the Bronsteins, farmers in the Ukraine. One Bronstein later took a Russian name calling himself Leon Trotsky. Now, the Bronstein family lived across a ravine from a colony of German farmers. In his autobiography Trotsky compares the sod huts and run down farming equipment of his family with the German farmers across the way. He admiringly notes that their wood frame houses were well maintained and painted. Even the farm equipment was well maintained and freshly painted as well. The Germans working virtually the same land prospered more than his family and the other Russian or Jewish farmers in the area.
Given such a superiority it would have been only a matter of time until the Germans became the most wealthy of the Russian peoples while one presumes they would become prominent as Russian politicians. Essentially occupying the position the Jews envisioned for themselves. This apprehension enraged the Czars. Thus by the 1880s the Czarist government began to harass, that is demean, their German population. The benefits that had lured them to Russia were withdrawn. While the German youth had been exempt from military service they were now drafted at the age of twenty-one. Once in the military they were discriminated against, severely punished for minor infractions or perhaps no infraction at all. This in turn caused large numbers of twenty year olds to return to Germany while those Germans remaining were persecuted under the Czars while under the Communists they were subjected to genocide before the German invasion. Stalin deported them en masse to the gulags and essentially murdered the lot. Genocide. None of these crimes had anything to do with Hitler or the Nazis. It was just German hatred because the Russians could not compete with them. This also applies to the Jews who immersed themselves in German hatred because of their perceived inferiority.
Jewish German hatred was also in evidence from the nineteenth century on. Jewish envy of the fabulous unfolding of the scientific European mind unmatched by anything Jewish drove them into a frenzy, it totally contradicted their fantasy of their own superiority.
The envy has been made evident by today’s Paideia Foundation of Barbara Spectre in Sweden in which she hatefully condemns nineteenth century European brilliance that she describes as ‘European knowledge’ contrasting it with ‘Jewish knowledge’ that she is working to put on an equal basis with ‘European knowledge’ by legislation. She says this must be done so that Jews won’t be shamed by the contrast.
Unable to surpass European scientific knowledge the Jews tried to subject scientific knowledge by injecting Jewish religious interpretations.
The problem was reaching crisis level at century’s end. At the time of Darwin’s announcement of Evolution Patriarchalism was firmly established having triumphed over Matriarchalism during the Arien Age. Matriarchalism had been forgotten, erased from the memory, until memory traces were detected after Darwin by the brilliant Swiss mythologist, J.J. Bachofen. Resistance to Bachofen’s rediscovery was very strong not receding until after 1950. Behind Matriarchalism Bachofen also detected an earlier stage of mental evolution he called Hetaerism or one of shared use of women. This would have been a form of communism or collectivism that may be natural to humans. Communism too was suppressed in the West in favor of Individualism and private property.
The communist mentality submerged reemerged out of the French and Industrial Revolutions taking the form of Socialism in reaction to the other natural order of things, that is, Individualism and private property that Socialists labeled Capitalism depicting it as evil. Just as Socialism failed in the Hetaeric period so it fails in the modern age. Nevertheless the Socialist party was captured by the Jews who then used it to defeat the European order of things. This was achieved in 1917 but the conflict was reaching a head at the turn of the century.
This spawned two unique events, to take the lesser first: Then as now the Jews infiltrated all European establishments. Having done so all European information, plans and so forth were made known to them while Jewish information and plans was more or less impenetrable to Europeans. Or perhaps they were just comfortable and invulnerable in their superior position.
Posing as European national patriots this information, spying, was shared by the International Jewish Organizations. Thus in 1895 the French military discovered that a Jewish army officer was spying. This was true, but the French accused him of spying for the Germans, this was not true. Like all other Jewish spies Dreyfus was passing the information to Jewish organizations who were thus informed as to the intents of in this case the French government but other national governments were infiltrated in the same manner. Thus the Jews were able to control or at least direct the course of events.
Thus in the twentieth century the Jews, Johnathan Pollard, was spying for the Jews in the US. The Jews, Israelis, then used this information for their own world wide purposes. When caught Pollard was sent to prison where he remains today despite all Jewish attempts to free him.
Dreyfus was convicted and sent to Devil’s Island. This set off a colossal effort to reverse the decision that split France into Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards while becoming an international cause celebre. Eventually toward century’s end the Jews triumphed freeing Dreyfus. The Dreyfus Affair went far toward giving the Jews parity or semi-autonomy in France, having shamed the French, and actually throughout the West.
The second major event was the success of the Austrian based Jew Theodore Herzl in setting up Zionism after 1895 which being embraced by the Jews of Russia furthered the revolutionary Jewish war against Russia. It is highly probable that a document that came into importance in 1917 was written at this time. This document was the infamous Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion. I think the word Zion in itself gives away its provenance. No members of the Russian secret service, the Okhrana, posited as a possible author would have been aware of the importance of Zionism at the time the Protocols were written. It had to be the Jews.
Herzl, the founder of Zionism was Viennese. Vienna, at the time was home to Sigmund Freud as well as being a center of furious Jewish activity coordinating the transfer of the Jews of the Pale to the US. 1895-96 was nearing the height of Jewish emigration from Russia to the US. Vienna not surprisingly also had a very active lodge of the Jewish International Order of B’nai B’rith, a sort of Jewish Freemasonry. Sigmund Freud had a deep abiding hatred of Europe and Europeans. He would have exterminated them all and after 1917 he got his chance. In 1895 Freud joined the B’nai B’rith lodge of which he remained a member all his life attending the weekly meetings. This would give B’nai B’rith almost equal importance to Freud as his weekly meetings of his Psycho-analytic Order.
Freud said he joined because he had found a lodge of men like minded to himself. Thus one must think, they wanted the destruction of Europeans too.
Also in 1895 Theodore Herzl the founder of Zionism wrote his book The Jewish State published to acclaim in 1896. The Jews had been agitating for the overthrow of the Russian State for decades, assassinating a Czar or two along the way. In 1903 Zionism already the Eastern Jewish religion, the First Russian Revolution was generated by the Jews.
The Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion first saw light at the end of the revolution in 1905. The document made no impression at that time having to wait for the Second Russian Revolution in 1917. At that time the Jews indignantly labeled the Protocols a forgery of the Car’s secret service, the Okhrana, written in Paris using the Dialogues as a template. A huge mystery has been created around the Protocols making it difficult to solve the problem of provenance for which no satisfactory solution has ever been made. I propose the solution here.
Knowing that they would be accused of fomenting the First Russian Revolution, which they did, the Jews anticipated the need for a red herring to confuse the issue. I don’t know whether Theodore Herzl was a member of B’nai B’rith but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was.
At any rate we have a group of likeminded men one of which was the master propagandist Sigmund Freud. Freud was well along in the development of his psychological ideas while he would become the master propagandist of all time. It might be said that he directed or coordinated the propaganda campaign from Vienna though personal encounters as well as his hugely influential writings.
The Protocols are written in a heavy handed Jewish manner that seems authentic enough. Since Freud either directed or had a hand in directing the revolution of ’17 and its brutal aftermath there is every reason to conjecture that he had a hand in concocting the Protocols. The Protocols once disseminated had a two fold purpose.
On the one hand they could be used to ensnare the European reader so that he could be denounced as an anti-Semite for believing such ‘an obvious forgery’ as was Henry Ford and on the other hand as a manual of instruction for Jewish revolutionaries hidden in plain sight.
It has been claimed that the Protocols are based on an earlier 1860s book The Dialogues Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli In Hell said to have been written by the Jew Maurice Joly in 1860s France but this is poppycock. There is little similarity between the two while it isn’t improbable that the book was written after the fact to mystify the Protocols. It was announced that the Protocols were based on the Dialogues however the Dialogues were non-existent, no extant copy could be found. Thus a dramatic search was conducted to find the Dialogues to prove the provenance of the Protocols. It was positively stated that this book that no one had ever seen would do this. After several fruitless searches through all the libraries of Europe a copy was said to have been found in the British Library. Obviously this was as stage managed as finding the record ‘An Old Shoe’ in the Library of Congress in the movie Wag The Dog.
If one were to transpose the story of the Protocols into Wag The Dog the story would be nearly identical. In Wag The Dog Washington politicians wanted a phony war to influence an election. They call the imaginative people in Hollywood and ask if they can dummy up a war until after the election. As the powers can control the media the unsuspecting public is fed canned news that no one can check out for accuracy stirring the public into a patriotic fervor. The producers dummy up a hero named Shoemacher. He is to be the returning hero. In order to drum up support the producers get their musical hacks to dummy up a song sounding like a twenties country song called ‘Good Old Shoe.’ This song is recorded then aged to sound appropriate to an old 78 RPM. The record is then placed in the Library of Congress where it is miraculously discovered becoming an immediate hit.
There in a nutshell you have the story of the Protocols Of Zion. I conjecture that the Protocols were dummied up in the Lodge of B’nai B’rith probably under the supervision of master propagandist Sigmund Freud. As they are called The Protocols of Zion it seems positive they were written no earlier than at least 1898 or shortly thereafter. A copy was then given to the Russian priest Sergei Nilus who appended them to the end of a book he wrote where they were ‘discovered’ in 1905. As the revolution failed they were apparently not needed so saved for the 1917 revolution at which time when the suckers took the bait they were denounced as raving anti-Semites hence sub-human or less. Animals, my god, pure Animals.
When the need for a predecessor document was needed the idea of the Dialogues was invented. After a long exciting search, I’m not going to go into the whole story here, through all the libraries of Europe the single copy that escaped destruction by Napoleon III was unearthed in the British Library. Sound anything like Wag The Dog?
The Jews ruthlessly pursued the Czar in the years leading up to the 1903-05 Russo-Japanese War which they fomented. On the one hand labor unrest was driven to a fever pitch as the Japanese were stirred up. To finance the war the Czars needed loans. The Jews withheld loans while admonishing the European bankers to withhold loans also.
Now, at the turn of the century the safe haven of the US became the base of operations for the international Jewish conspiracy as Henry Ford said. While the Japanese wanted to war on the Russians they lacked the means to pay for one. Here the US Jew Jacob Schiff of the Investment Banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb stepped up to the plate. Schiff was a trustee of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The Equitable had two hundred million in reserves that Schiff appropriated to lend to the Japanese clandestinely. They attacked and defeated the Russians but the revolution coordinated to the Japanese attack failed.
So Jewish vengeance was delayed for a decade or so. The First Russian Revolution would lead to the First European Holocaust of the Great War or what would later be called WWI.
The European Holocaust Part Three follows.
Edgar Rice Burroughs And The Ben-Day Dots
December 21, 2014
Edgar Rice Burroughs And The Ben-Day Dots
by
R.E. Prindle
Over the years I have come to wonder why Tarzan was such an immediate success. The premiss on the face of it is absurd. While fascinating it requires such a huge suspension of disbelief as to be staggering. Perhaps that is why such a significant percentage of his contemporary readers were revolted by ERB’s work. He had to put up with a tremendous amount of abuse although his acceptance was greater than his rejection. Something had to prepare the way for that acceptance nevertheless.
The discovery of the unconscious that became prominent in the second half of the nineteenth century certainly opened the way for the strange and bizarre. It is not a coincidence that spiritualism and the paranormal became prominent at that time. Along with those came the rise of science fiction and fantasy. Tarzan is fantasy fiction while the Mars series of Burroughs is fantasy sci-fi.
Monsters like Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde established themselves in the popular imagination. Anthony Hope’s Prisoner of Zenda and the Graustark knock off by George Barr McCutcheon entranced ERB to the point of distraction. Jules Verne, of course, and the Oz stories of L. Frank Baum. When it came to the Mars stories ERB was merely the best exemplar of what by 1911 was an established genre.
The public mind was being softened to accept not only the incredible but the impossible.
Printing improvements made both half tone and color illustration less costly and easier to produce. Is it any wonder that ERB’s period is one of astonishing illustrators. Remember that ERB tried to be a cartoonist himself before he took up writing. His goal was judging from his drawings to be a political cartoonist.
Thus one can only presume he followed book illustrators avidly. Arthur Rackham was knocking them dead while Denslow’s and John R. Neill’s Oz illustrations must have wowed the envious Burroughs. N.C. Wyeth must have blown his mind.
More importantly than the book illustrators though were the emergent four color Sunday Funnies of the newspapers in 1895. They were so exotic and strange even in my childhood but at the time they must have seemed incredible. Of course I had no idea what made them seem exotic. In fact, I had never heard of Ben-Day dots until the fabulous personality posters of the Sixties exploited them.
According to Wikipedia on the subject:
The Ben-Day printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day, Jr., is a technique dating from 1879. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely spaced to create pink. Pulp comic books of the 1950s and 1960s used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.
The Sunday Funnies thus must have had an astonishing effect on contemporary minds. As the comics Bill Hillman has reproduced on his site, ERBzine, indicate ERB was an avid follower of the genre. His earth borer used by David Innes in the Pellucidar series was most likely cadged from a comic strip.
Seeking relief from those long weary job hunting days of the first decade ERB sought relief by hanging around the Chicago Public Library. He was a card carrying member too. Who knows what volumes he borrowed or browsed through on the spot. The Library would have had its racks of the country’s newspapers on display including those of NYC. Thus ERB would have been familiar with the comic strips of Winsor McCay, The Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland. Himself an avid dreamer, very familiar with nightmares, ERB must have relished McCay’s work.
As it so happens McCay’s two most famous strips have a prominent place in the history of comics. In fact, just recently the Taschen Publishers issued a one volume complete collection in four color Ben-Day dots of the Little Nemo strip. At a size of 20 x 14 the strips are magnificently displayed. The accompanying 150 page text by Alexander Braun is a wonderful history of the period pointing out many developments that undoubtedly influenced ERB forming a background to his writing. Braun has a touch of genius too. Many strips of the The Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend are included in the ancillary volume, some full page.
The Rarebit Fiend strip began a little earlier than the Little Nemo strip of 1905. Thus both strips were running during 1905-09, the period of ERB’s deepest despondency. I will show how both strips are reflected in ERB’s writing.
To take the Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend first. Rarebit refers to the culinary dish Welsh Rarebit frequently referred to as Welsh Rabbit. The dish is simply melted cheese on bread although it can be a fondue. In the strip the dreamer overeats before bedtime producing a nightmare. The dreamers are all different while some of the nightmares are quite astonishing.
Burroughs’ emulation appears in Jungle Tales Of Tarzan in the story Tarzan’s first nightmare in which Tarzan overeats having the subsequent nightmare. My first reaction to the story was that Burroughs had been reading Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. While he may have been I think McCay’s strip was a stronger or more immediate influence.
The Little Nemo in Slumberland influence appears in ERB’s first serious effort, Minidoka, put in a drawer and not published until 1998 by Dark Horse Comics.
The consensus seems to be that Burroughs wrote this short work c. 1905. The reasoning seems to be that because Burroughs wrote the story on stationery from this period that that proves it was written at that date. However ERB was an inveterate collector, read packrat, until he says he overcame the disease in the early twenties. So he says. So ERB was reluctant to throw anything away. The stationery proves nothing.
I have maintained that ERB wrote Minidoka c. 1908-09 based on internal evidence. We can now add the evidence of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland strip. As the title implies this strip also revolves around dreams. It has a haunting surrealistic feel filled with strange characters and dream effects.
As I say, ERB haunted the Chicago library from 1905 to 1911 when he began writing The Princess of Mars. Thus he would have heard of the strip which was quite famous while following it at least periodically.
Minidoka reflects a Little Nemo quality. Little Nemo would then have been the catalyst that got Burroughs writing as he tried to emulate it in prose. As usual ERB combines a multitude of influences. He even states that the work is written in Ragtime Talk which meshes quite well with McCay.
Minidoka in itself can qualify as surrealistic before surrealism as does Mccay. That would not be extraordinary as the period from, say, 1880-1910 had a unified outlook not unlike the Sixties music scene when all bands played around a central motif.
As the work couldn’t have been written without McCay influence that places its probable composition date firmly in the 1908-10 range.
I heartily recommend the Taschen Little Nemo as an example of the current bookmaker’s art as well as for the astounding work of Winsor McCay. This rather astonishing video is available demonstrating McCay’s drawing expertise while showing him as the film creator of animation. He not only influenced Burroughs but Walt Disney said his own work would not have been possible without McCay.
A 1998 Japanese made movie called Little Nemo’s Adventures In Slumberland is available on Netflix. Ray Bradbury, no less, provided the story line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcSp2ej2S00 There are numerous other videos too.
Exhuming Bob 31e: A Review of Victor Maymudes’ Another Side Of Bob Dylan
November 26, 2014
Exhuming Bob 31e
A Review Of
Victor Maymudes’
Another Side Of Bob Dylan
by
R.E. Prindle
There’s nothing left for me,
I live in memory among my souvenirs.
Some letters tied with blue,
a photograph or two,
I see a rose from you
Among my souvenirs.
A few more tokens rest
Within my treasure chest,
And though they do their best
To give me consolation
I count them all apart and
As the teardrops start
I find a broken heart
Among my souvenirs.
As sung by Ferlin Husky
There is now an interregnum of a decade or two where Victor goes off to New Mexico to live his life without Bob nursing his bad memories among his souvenirs.
Dylan has left a memory over the years of cruel and vicious behavior to friend and foe alike. While his victims endured his insults and injuries during the high tide of his fame some are now coming out to denounce him. Joni Mitchell, a competitor for top folk honors, has denounced Bob as a plagiarist and all around fraud. Al Aronowitz registered his complaints long ago in now unavailable books and ignored articles. Jacob Maymudes has taken this time to release his father’s list of complaints.
Victor’s life was so entwined with Bob’s that he still wished to conceal the depth of his grievances not wishing as he said to write a tell all book. More’s the pity. He did relate his worst stories to Al telling him to use them. Not necessary, Al had enough complaints of his own to fill volumes. Even then Al’s respect for Dylan’s talent was such that he too restrained himself relating only his most hurtful remembrances among his souvenirs.
The amazing thing is that Dylan couldn’t even restrain himself with his Madonna, Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, and wife Sara. One is astounded that in her own home he allowed her to come downstairs one morning to find him dandling another woman on his knee in the kitchen. Sara promptly filed for divorce astounding Bob: ‘People in my family just don’t get divorced.’ he complained uncomprehendingly.
Either that is embarrassingly naïve or perhaps in his parents troubled relationship something similar had happened and he was only acting naturally. Some sort of repetition compulsion such as happens, as Bob’s heart was broken he left a trail of broken hearts behind him. Certainly the root of his behavior can be found in his hometown of Hibbing. Apparently Bob suffered unbearable humiliations at home thus venting his anger on those around him throughout the rest of his life. During the Sixties ‘what goes around comes around’ was a common expression. It was a long winded way of saying karma, so once he was in power he made everyone look out. ‘Trouble in front, trouble behind’ as Bob Hunter wrote. Man, woman and child beware, Bob’s chugging on down the line.
Al, who hung around with Bob the longest relates a situation or two with Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival in England shortly after Woodstock. Al was in Levon Helm’s dressing room when Dylan came in. Dylan glowered at Al snarling ‘What are you doing here? Get the fuck out of here.’
You can imagine the effect that had on Al who hadn’t yet figured out the imperial Dylan. Al stifled himself and left. Astonishingly he was able to endure such an insult as he continued his duties while remaining loyal to his idol.
Perhaps Dylan was just trying to get rid of Al who was in reality an eternal presence while I’m not sure he was invited or just stringing along. As a journalist his presence could be explained as pursuing a story. If Al didn’t take that hint Dylan gave a stronger one that Al managed to surf also.
This is a rather amazing story. Al tells it well too.
It isn’t clear whether this was a setup to humiliate Al or not but if not then it was a major testing of the audience to see what they would take. The show had been going on all day a roaring success. The time of Dylan’s appearance was scheduled for about ten o’clock at night. He was to be preceded by The Band. The Band’s technical expert decided that the sound was not quite to his liking although according to Al it had been excellent all day. The technician began checking the cables, crawling around in the equipment and what not taking a very long time. Al was in Dylan’s camper so Bob ordered him to go find the reason for the delay.
Al didn’t really have official status so he had to be especially courteous. He explained to the tech that Bob was getting irritated at the delay wanting to get the show moving. The tech fobbed him off.
Bob was even more irritated when Al reported back abusing him further. After a while, the delay was getting to be quite long, Bob sent Al forth again this time to see Robbie Robertson, prod him to get his guy moving. Robertson merely turned his back on Al walking away.
Al reported back to be abused further. More time passed, Bob sent Al back to the tech. The tech told Al that The Band wasn’t going on until he was satisfied with the sound. Al returned for a torrent of abuse from Dylan. Enduring the abuse must have been a deep humiliation. It was probably meant to send Al packing but Al hung in there. Eventually the show got on the road; Bob made his appearance.
Over the years many people have noticed Dylan’s seeming contempt for his audience so it may be that he was combining an opportunity to see how much Al could take while testing his audience.
Of especial significance here is Bob’s use of the phrase ‘Get the fuck out of here.’ He would also use this phrase in dismissing Victor’s daughter from his coffee house. Victor of course could not allow Bob to talk to his daughter using such language putting forth a mild protest although the incident precipitated his final break with Dylan.
It seems pretty clear that in his career Dylan was acting out his resentment of the way he had been treated back home in Hibbing. It is not improbable that someone had used the same phrase to him back in Hibbing so that Bob reacted in his life by setting up situations in which he could shift his burden onto someone else.
Dylan could be emotionally quite violent in venting his anger and making it public too. The really hate filled rant Ballad In Plain D directed at Carla Rotolo and her mother is really quite astonishing. He would vent his rage over incidents more than once on record over quite trivial things although they may have represented more serious disturbances in his psyche. Most notable of course is his hate filled rant against Edie Sedgwick in Like A Rolling Stone.
Bobby Newirth had taken Edie Sedgwick to meet Dylan in late ’64. Dylan was taken with her even though he was in the midst of several affairs including Suze Rotolo and his future wife Sara. Edie and he had a meeting the next month in January of ’65 where some sort of understanding was apparently reached. Bob then left on tour including England where he tried to establish a relationship with Marianne Faithfull, returning in May of that year.
In the interim Edie met Andy Warhol. Edie was living on an inheritance that she was quickly consuming thus she was seeking some way to earn money. Teaming up with Warhol seemed promising so her magic summer of ’65 was about to begin.
Dylan returned to find his own plans for Edie disrupted. They had it out at a party in June during which Edie explained her financial situation to Dylan.
In a towering rage at his seeming rejection Dylan sat down venting his emotions in what turned out to be Like A Rolling Stone. While none of us record buyers had a clue of what the song was really about, we devised all kinds of fantastic explanations that make us look ridiculous now. The hate anthem was merely about Dylan’s situation vis-à-vis Edie and Andy. Thus the lines:
You used to ride on the chrome horse
With your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it was at.
After he took from you
Everything he could steal.
In the context of Bob, Edie and Andy then Dylan is excoriating Edie who may or may not have gotten the reference. Bob’s technique was to make a sort of dream displacement from the fact to the image. Thus he makes Andy Edie’s diplomat while Andy did have a Siamese cat. The term chrome horse is merely a motorcylist’s term for his bike although it seems like a tough image to crack for those of us who took it symbolically.
Edie had opted for a relationship with Andy but that was not working out well as Andy, while using her in his movies, was not providing her with income. Hence he really wasn’t where it was at, money being the issue whether with Bob or Andy.
In his effort to woo Edie from Andy to get his revenge Dylan and Grossman would promise to put Edie in a movie with Dylan. Perhaps that was the crux of the meeting in June.
Edie who was of old stock New York society, the Sedgwicks were socially important, had introduced Andy into a society to which he could never have been admitted on his own. Thus while he benefited Edie’s reputation was destroyed by her association with him hence she was out on the street where she couldn’t function. Andy had taken everything from her that he could steal and then dropped her.
Of course, the same would have been true with Dylan who was not exactly a society icon and never would be. Having lured her away from Warhol Dylan then dumped her while writing another vicious song about her, One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later).
This viciousness was part and parcel of Dylan’s personality. Somewhat miraculously he writes that he has a clear conscience down among his souvenirs. I truly hope he has but I don’t see how.
Victor left Dylan’s employ mid-1966 going off to live his own life until he rejoined Dylan a few years down the road.
We will examine those years in Exhuming Bob 31f.
Exhuming Bob 31a
A Review
Another Side Of Bob Dylan
by
Victor Maymudes
Review by
R.E. Prindle
31a will concern itself with Chapter 1 only. Victor Maymudes while closely connected with Dylan has always been written of as a shadowy slightly malevolent character. My impression has been that he was an enforcer of some sort for Dylan.
In this his own memoir he is a friend, advisor and confidante. Maymudes, born in 1935, was six years older than Dylan who he met in 1961. Maymudes was already in a career in show business. In 1955 near the heart of the Beatnik era he had opened a folk club coffee house on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles called The Unicorn. He was subsequently advised by Jack Elliot who he was managing at that time to go to New York to take in a new performer who turned out to be Bob Dylan.
Elliot explained that Dylan was copying his act but doing it better. Ramblin’ Jack himself introduced Victor to Bob giving the latter a run down on Victor’s achievements. According to Victor he and the twenty year old Dylan hit it off immediately. They began to pal around.
Maymudes gives a slightly different view of this period than has yet been around. The first chapter covers the period from the Spring of ’61 to Dylan’s Carnegie Hall performance in the Fall of ’61.
According to Maymudes shortly after meeting Dylan they went on a long drive and walks around the perimeter of New York City.
To quote Victor:
Bob mentioned going to Juvenile Hall and how he quickly realized there was a social structure inside and either you are going to get along or you really shouldn’t be there.
Hopefully this should settle the issue of whether Dylan was incarcerated in Red Wing Reformatory of Minnesota. While the paper trail has always indicated he did yet his term has been denied by all. In what amounts to a self-admission this should settle the issue.
There is also a piece on the internet by someone who had been in Red Wing at an earlier time but said he knew someone who was in Red Wing at the same time as Bob. Dylan says according to Victor that in order to get along you had to go along. I take that as a reflection after the fact, while Bob probably held himself aloof from the other boys as his possible fellow prisoner as above said he did. No one has believed the article but there may be something to it.
At any rate it seems clear that Bob did serve a sentence which was very unpleasant for him as why wouldn’t it be. The stay had a devastating effect on his personality, as why not? Bob’s song The Walls Of Red Wing thus seems to be a personal reminiscence.
Some of Bob’s stories such as touring with a carnival while false as told seem to be based on actual facts while being definitely embroidered. In the same paragraph Victor says: He talked about going with the carnival when they came to town. I would take that to mean that perhaps he volunteered to help in setting up the carnival as an extra hand as was common. There were temporary jobs when the circus came to town. You could drive stakes for instance and maybe get a free ticket.
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It also seems clear that Bob’s family life was far from harmonious. The Zimmerman’s seemed to have covered up a lot. Maymudes, same paragraph, p.4:
He told me deeply personal stuff like his dad leaving town and how he would have to stay at his dad’s mother in Minneapolis, how she would tell him his mother was a whore, sleeping around with other men. It was the kind of thing that probably wasn’t true about his mother, but his grandmother was sticking up for his father and trying to use her power to distance Bob from his own mother. Terrible thing to do to a child.
Bob’s grandmother may have been telling tales about Bob’s mother but I think not. My impression at looking at her picture was that she was a goodtime girl. She certainly kept Abe broke buying her furs, jewels and Cadillacs.
In Dylan’s portrayal of his putative father and his mother in his movie Masked And Anonymous his alter ego Jack Fate’s father is portrayed on his death bed while his mother with a red dress on appears to be gallivanting about.
I find it hard to believe Dylan’s grandmother would say those things about his mother if she didn’t mean them. It is also the first time I’ve heard that Dylan’s mother and father separated from time to time. As such behavior is common knowledge in a small town like Hibbing Dylan’s life may have been made miserable partly from that cause. He certainly has no love lost for that period in his life.
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One major question everyone asks is why Robert Shelton wrote such a glowing review about a performance of Bob’s and why John Hammond gave a nondescript Bob a recording contract. Maymudes may shed some light on that. He says on p. 46:
Over the next week Bob and I ended up hanging out non-stop. We were together all the time. We would depart and arrange to meet the following day. Eventually we even exchanged numbers. We had extensive conversations about everything. During the day we would go see Fellini’s movies and stop by the happening clubs and cafes like the Bitter End. We would stay up till dawn each morning. I would introduce him to everyone I knew, like Richard Alderson, the guy you hear announcing bands at Woodstock. We went to Dave Von Ronk’s house and played our guitars. John Hammond Sr. had a house on lower MacDougal St. and we would go there too.
All this has to fit into a time frame of about six months but the interesting thing here is that Victor and Bob visited John Hammond Sr. apparently several times before Shelton’s New York Times article of 9/29/61 and Dylan signing a Columbia Records Contract with Hammond on 9/30/61. Did Hammond really have time to read the article and say to himself, I’ve got to find this boy and sign him by the next day? Astonishing on the face of it. It would seem to have been a plan.
No other writer, no biographer places Dylan at Hammond Sr.’s house before 9/30/61. But according to Maymudes, and why should he lie although he might misremember, Hammond and Dylan were familiar with each other as early as the summer of ’61. Hammond must have heard Dylan play and sing before Shelton’s article. Thus his behavior in the studio where he had Bob just play and sing into the microphone while he read the newspaper is more understandable.
While every other folk label in NYC had rejected Bob evidently Hammond saw and heard something they didn’t. It would seem highly improbable he could sign Bob’s nearly indiscernible talent on his own hook. It may be then that he conspired with Shelton who he surely would have known to write an extremely favorable review to be published in the premier newspaper in the country and then sign Dylan on the strength of that. As it was his prescience was not immediately justified as the record bombed.
At any rate the above scenario would make the article and signing plausible.
On the other hand Hammond may just have had the golden ears with which he is attributed. In that context my brother-in-law played me all four of Dylan’s first LPs in 1964 that I found excruciatingly painful to listen to. I thought Dylan was going nowhere but my brother-in-law said, you watch, this guy is going to be big. That goes to prove whatever Bob had could be heard but only apparently by the elect.
4.
The Winter and Spring of 1961-62 Victor was touring with his act Wavy Gravy who he managed. He then returned to New York where Dylan was now living with Suze Rotolo. They continued their friendship.
Dylan had returned to Minnesota that Winter and had just returned as Victor hit town. Bob was now looking for management. He discussed this with Victor, pp. 51-52
During our walks on this second trip to New York, Bob and I talked about the future. He asked me about Manny Greenhill and Albert Grossman; he was wondering who he should sign with. Manny Greenhill was managing Joan Baez and her commercial success was increasing every day. At the same time Dave Von Ronk’s wife was managing Bob, but he was ready for the next step. Flat out he asked me which one he should sign with. I asked him how traditional he wanted to be and how far he wanted to reach. Those questions appealed to him and he expressed he wanted to go the distance, more commercial than Greenhill was doing. His day-to-day routine didn’t point to someone who wanted to go mainstream; he was more folky and traditional at this point. But he knew what he wanted and where he wanted to go from the start. So I said Albert was the logical choice. He was much more aggressive and much more commercial. Bob signed with Grossman a few days later.
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Bob’s ability to bend and refashion words was like magic; he was the one that could break into the mainstream while still playing socially conscientious music. Bob believed in himself and so did I, and that’s why Albert entering the picture made sense. Albert had commercial connections and wouldn’t ask Bob to change his tune to fit in. With Albert’s help Bob could force his style in front of the broader public and ultimately make everyone else fit into what he was doing.
That’s a pretty good insider’s synopsis. Grossman who would soon launch Peter Paul and Mary on the back of Dylan’s songs certainly had recording connections although Warner Bros. at the time was fairly low down the list of successful, maybe unsuccessful, record companies. Anyway Bob was already signed to CBS, the actual premier recording company at the time.
Victor goes on to give an interesting thumbnail of Albert Grossman that is immediate and accurate.
Always handy with the advice Victor tells Albert how to go about handling Bob while at his own expense he was setting up Dylan’s first Carnegie Hall appearance, not the main stage but a side stage.
Victor says Albert took the concert away from him while it is usually attributed to Izzy Young. In the event nobody came and the show was a total financial loss. Victor had a falling out with Albert deciding for ‘spiritual’ reasons to depart for Yelapa Mexico. Apparently Victor had been inhaling too much from The Teaching Of Don Juan.
His last words to Bob at this time were that if he ever needed him to say to whoever he was standing next to, Get Victor, and he would come.
It was the Sixties you know.
That is the end of the revelations of Tape 1. A remarkable and interesting account. We do know that Victor and Bob were friends so barring any embroidery or misremembering the account should be accurate. If so, all biographies are now askew. The period has to be reexamined and reevaluated to include Victor’s account.














