NO. 1, SEPTEMBER 2008

“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”

 

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

 

This could be the beginning of something good

During the countless hours I have spent over the past decade trawling the web for current news, interesting information and pieces of the ever-elusive puzzle that constitutes reality as we see it, I have amassed quite a large and eclectic collection of articles, images, e-books and bookmarks. It has become a regular habit of mine to forward links and references to people I think might be interested in a particular subject, but I have come to realize that many other people could have something to gain from my hobby of data harvesting. 

I know that few of you have the time available to do this much non-study or work related reading, thus making it exceedingly difficult for one person to see more than small parts of the whole picture at any time. 

Thus, the Bread & Circuses newsletter will be a collection of articles, quotes, films, web links and literary references for you to follow. Given the time, I will add essays, analysis and aphorisms, categorize, comment and briefly attempt to connect some of the strands and highlight important clues. If you find it useful, please circulate it in your network. The newsletter will be issued with no particular regularity and free of cost.

        

Watching TV and reading the mainstream news will not suffice

As they say, the revolution will not be televised. If you want to know a truth, you will have to want it, and in order to find it you need information - the right kind. Fragmented information leaves you with half-truths; false information yields untruth & deception. If information gives you power, false information leads to ignorance, disconnectedness, subservience and mental slavery. 

On approaching complex or unpleasant information

If you choose to sign up to this newsletter, you will be presented with mind-boggling information, weird ideas, shocking allegations and sickening revelations of the most cherished, ingrained and powerful structures of the world’s societies. You will at times be directed to material and information so incredible, horrifying and bewildering that your sound sleep and mental comfort will be at risk, your mind retreating in disbelief. But don’t blame me. This is the price you pay for expanding your worldview. The reward is that knowledge – especially the kind that is difficult to handle – is empowering.

What you don’t know can and will hurt you.

Knowledge may be painful and disturbing, but by itself it cannot harm you. I know, for I have read through most of the material you will find in my archive if & when I make it available via FTP or the like. In doing so, I have attempted to approach all information with flexibility of mind, and as few operational beliefs as possible. I always use my bullshit detector and try to keep in mind that realities are not always the same as truths, and that the mechanisms that govern the relationship between the two concepts can be identified and understood (within certain limits).

By including material in the newsletters, I do not claim the veracity of everything written by other authors, nor do I claim any expertise on the topics presented or necessarily agree with everything or anything being said. Most of what you want to know about almost anything is publicly available in some form or other, but sometimes it takes a lot piecing together from many different sources. I have discovered that the most valuable information is often found among the people you most disagree with, and that the worst method of understanding a subject or fighting an enemy is wild speculation or mental rigidity.

The subjects covered in Bread & Circuses encompass – but are in no way limited to:

History & Power Relations:

Social control (education, entertainment, laws, politics, enforcement, propaganda, intelligence, economics, mass psychology); hidden power (secret governance, black budgets, organized crime, three-letter agencies); exopolitics; war & conflict (weapons technology, strategy, terrorism, budgets); secret societies & conspiracies.

Science & Technology:

Mathematics (fractals, limit states, bifurcations, infinities, chaos); physics ((anti)gravity, the quantum world, time (travel), complexity, singularities); biology ((neuro)chemistry, drugs, energies & vibrations, mind-spirit-body relations, altered states, genetics, mind-body-machine relations, ESP); surveillance.

Ideas, Culture, Memes & Clues:

Philosophy (ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, morals & ethics); religion; alchemy; psychology; linguistics; memetic trends; predictions and forecasting; zeitgeists.