115. The
Open Conspiracy: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor
Gatto from archive.org
The
Open Conspiracy
When
I speak of Fabianism, or of any particular Fabians, actual or virtual like
Kurt Lewin, once head of Britain's
Psychological Warfare Bureau, or R.D. Laing, once staff psychologist at the Tavistock Institute, I
have no interest in mounting a polemic against
this particular conceit of the comfortable intelligentsia. Fabian
strategy and tactics have been openly announced
and discussed with clarity for nearly a century, whether identified as Fabian or
not. Nothing illegal about it. I do think it a tragedy, however, that government school children are left in the dark about the existence of influential groups with complex social agendas aimed at their lives.
not. Nothing illegal about it. I do think it a tragedy, however, that government school children are left in the dark about the existence of influential groups with complex social agendas aimed at their lives.
I've neglected to tell you so far about
the role stress plays in Fabian evolutionary theory. Just as Hegel taught that history moves
faster toward its conclusion by way of warfare, so evolutionary socialists were taught by Hegel
to see struggle as the precipitant of
evolutionary improvement for the species, a necessary purifier
eliminating the weak from the breeding
sweepstakes. Society evolves slowly toward "social efficiency" all by
itself; society under stress, however,
evolves much faster! Thus the deliberate creation of crisis is an important tool of evolutionary
socialists. Does that help you understand the
government school drama a little better, or the well-publicized doomsday
scenarios of environmentalists?
The
London School of Economics is a Fabian creation. Mick Jagger spent time there;
so did John F. Kennedy. Once elitist,
the Economist, now a worldwide pop-intellectual
publication, is Fabian, as is The New Statesman and Ruskin Labor College
of Oxford. The legendary Royal Institute
of International Affairs and the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, premier mind- bending
institutions of the world, are Fabian. Theodor
Adorno, an important if barely visible avatar of the therapeutic state,
and a one-time eminence at Tavistock,
traveled the Fabian road as well.
You needn't carry a card or even have
heard the name Fabian to follow the wolf-in-
sheep's-clothing flag. Fabianism is mainly a value-system with progressive
objectives. Its social club aspect isn't
for coalminers, farmers, or steam-fitters. We've all been exposed to many details of the Fabian program without
realizing it. In the United States, some
organizations heavily influenced by Fabianism are the Ford Foundation,
the Russell Sage Foundation, the
Stanford Research Institute, the Carnegie Endowments, the Aspen Institute, the Wharton School, and RAND. And
this short list is illustrative, not complete.
Tavistock underwrites or has intimate relations with thirty research
institutions in the United States, all
which at one time or another have taken a player's hand in the shaping of American schooling.
Once again, you need to remember we aren't
conspiracy hunting but tracking an idea,
like microchipping an eel to see what holes it swims into in case we
want to catch it later on. H.G. Wells,
best known of all early Fabians, once wrote of the Fabian project:
The political world of the Open Conspiracy
must weaken, efface, incorporate and
supersede existing governments.... The character of the Open Conspiracy
will then be plainly displayed. It will
be a world religion. This large, loose assimilatory mass of groups and societies will definitely and
obviously attempt to swallow up the entire
population of the world and become a new human community.... The
immediate task before all people, a
planned World State, is appearing at a thousand points of light [but]... generations of propaganda and
education may have to precede it. (emphasis added)
Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote his famous signature
book "Between Two Ages: America's
Role in the Technetronic Era" in 1970, a piece reeking with
Fabianisms: dislike of direct popular
power, relentless advocacy of the right and duty of evolutionarily
advanced nations to administer less
developed parts of the world, revulsion at populist demands for "selfish self-government"
(homeschooling would be a prime example), and stress on collectivism. Brzezinski said in the
book:
It
will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen
and to maintain up-to-date files
containing even the most personal details about health and personal behavior of every citizen, in
addition to the more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by
the authorities. Power will gravitate into the
hands of those who control information.
In his essay, Brzezinski called common
people, "an increasingly purposeless mass." And, of course, if the army of children collected
in mass schooling is really "purposeless," what argument says it should exist at
all?
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The government-created crisis, masquerading as an unexpected external
provocation, is elementary Hegelian strategy. If you want to take Texas and California from Mexico, first shoot
a few Americans while the press disinforms the nation that Mexican depredations
against our nationals have to be
stopped; if you want Cuba as a satrapy, blow up an American battleship and pin
it on the Cubans. By this strategy, a nation
which has decided to suspend its democratic traditions with a period of
martial law (under which permanent social reordering would occur) might arrange a series of
"terrorist" attacks upon itself which would justify the transformation
as a defense of general public safety.
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the "world peace" phenomenon so necessary to establish a unitary
world order lies a real danger, according to evolutionists, of species deterioration caused by inadvertent
preservation of inferior genes which would otherwise be killed or starved.
Hence the urgency of insulating superior
breeding stock from pollution through various strategies of social segregation.
Among these, forced classification through schooling has been by far the most important. An Everlasting Faith
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