Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Those that did were also behind the Decadent Movement. They were a group of lazy artists that wished to destroy fine art, which led to the vulgar art and architecture that we've seen from then until today.
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  2. Their “golden age,” which is their utopia or Eden, would be taking man back to living as hunter-gatherers. It's narcissism gone rampant, and it's over pathological envy. If they can't have what others have, to be “equal,” then it's their desire to take everything away to make them equal.
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  3. You need to go back farther, before WWII, when Germany laid the rail line through what became Turkey, and into Iraq, to obtain oil. The US and Britain were converting their navies from coal to oil, and Germany wanted to do the same. There was a huge grab for that oil, led by the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., (later Anglo-Iranian, and BP), and they did not want Germany competing for it. The rail line through Turkey (Ottoman Empire) was laid to move the oil from the Middle-East to Germany, and Germany could use the line to bypass the Suez Canal. This is never discussed in history, leading to two world wars, but the history of oil and gas has much to do with it. These power plays were called the "Great Game," which were between Britain, Russia, and Germany.
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  4. Here's what the Institute of Economic Affairs has to say on the topic, and the book: "Is fascism making a comeback? "Quite a lot of influential people seem to think so. Over the past two years or so, there has been a flurry of books – some of them from high-profile, best-selling authors – warning us of a fascist renaissance, with titles such as How To Stop Fascism (Paul Mason), Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback (Laurie Penny), How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Jason Stanley), or Late Capitalist Fascism (Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen). "Since this renewed interest in fascism has been preceded by a revival of socialism as a popular mainstream ideology, it is perhaps unsurprising that most of the new self-declared “anti-fascists” see fascism through a Marxist lens. The orthodox Marxist perspective is that fascism is not a system or an ideology in its own right, but simply the most brutal form of capitalism. In this interpretation, liberal democracy is the form that capitalism takes when the ruling class feels secure in its position, and can afford a few superficial niceties, such as democratic elections and civil liberties. Fascism, on the other hand, is the form that capitalism takes when the ruling class feels under threat, and lashes out – it is capitalism with the gloves off. "This backdrop makes the (re-)publication of Rainer Zitelmann’s book Hitler’s National Socialism unintentionally timely and topical, because it offers, among other things, a much-needed corrective to the narrative peddled by the socialist mainstream." Yes, the socialists aren't going to like it.
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  5. If you were blindfolded and taken to a place that you've never been, and while walking about, you run head-on into a wall, does that wall exist? After all, that wall could not have been in your mind already.
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  6. They've always been seeking to take society back to what they claim was a "utopia" or "Eden." If one looks at the socialists' wanted outcome, it is a society with no government in the end. We would be living communally, much like the primitive Sambia culture in Papua New Guinea, or the Guaraní in the Amazon, which is what several protestant religions, such as the Quakers, Shakers, Hutterites, Brownists, Amish, and Mennonites, which pushed communalism, have tried to live by over the years. Plus, the Catholics were famous for their communal living in the monasteries.
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  7. Look into Alice and Foster Bailey, their ties to Eleanor Roosevelt, and this same cult. It still exists, and is popular in NYC.
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  8. The demiurge came into existence around 360 BC, but the ideology is much older, and that earlier religion was where the gnostics took their knowledge from. It can be traced back to ancient Iran (Persia) and the Shaitan, which became a "devil." It's from ancient cosmological dualism in Zoroastrianism or "Mazdayasna." There, they had a split personality of God as being only good and evil - the yin and yang. Dialecticalism is that way, there's a good and bad side, with nothing other; there's no grey area in between, thus, the oppressed and the opressor. The idea of Shaitan, it was said, was changed when the Persians invaded the Levant, where they began calling the inhabitants the Shaitan for their enemy. The idea of Satan sprang from this as being a separate entity. They still teach about the demiurge in theological classes at university. I watched a session from Yale about it, and had to laugh at the absurdity of it.
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  9. Anyone that has read this history, if they are honest with themselves, knows that Marx was a worthless no-account that lived off Engels and what little the New-York Tribune paid him as their “British correspondent.” His own wife didn't want him to have his inheritance, because she knew that he would blow it, which he did.
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  10. The definition of insane is: in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill. The definition of a psychopath, though, is: a person affected by chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. There's a huge difference, as the psychopath can appear normal, can interact socially, but lacks feelings of empathy, etc., which brings me to Adolph. I do believe that he was either sociopathic or psychopathic, which made him cruel without having any hint of remorse, but he was not insane. Many criminals, now in prison, are from these two latter psychological categories.
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  11. The term you're looking for is Gnosticism, and it sprang up about one hundred years before Luther with the Radical Hussites, (Jan Huss), which happened to be of the Catholic's last six crusades. That was in Bohemia, and that is why leftists are referred to as Bohemians by some people. If you follow the "pilgrim's path" in Freemasonry, you'll almost end up an atheist, if not an agnostic, because they hint at Gnosticism all the way through in order to have you research it, or "seek the light." The Freemasons were taken over, after their founding, by those in the Royal Society, who were scientists. I, myself, followed the path and was enlightened. The problem is, many never seek the light, where you learn of all the truth at the end of the pilgrim's trail. Some turn Freemasonry into a religion, which it's not, and become involved in Gnosticism, thinking that is what the 33 degrees lead you to. The degrees are lessons in comparative religion, and by studying them, you see the folly of it all, and you find the truth about the roots of all religions.
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  12. Keep in mind that in the US, the GOP was anti-war, and that was during Hoover through FDR. Also, FDR was involved with a private intel group, which they called "The Room" that they used to spy upon other nations. The group was made up of his Wall Street fellows, especially, the Astors. When Britain knew that they would be dragged into WWII, they set up a propaganda campaign in the US, run out of Rockefeller Center, which was designed to coax the public into a pro-war stance and go against the GOP's anti-war stance. That stance didn't change until Pearl Harbor. It was also said that FDR wanted to become involved in the war, as well, and worked with the propaganda campaign. Lastly, while Germany was building up for war, so was the Soviet Union, since they didn't trust the Germans. US companies profited from the buildup on both sides.
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  13. Those that have never dived into the history of what led to both world wars, and have been indoctrinated by their parents or their education, will never believe the truth when it is staring them in the face. After all, how can they believe that three versions of socialism were within Germany at one time?
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  14. Tik, I'll explain Freemasonry below, since I am one. Freemasonry, in 1717, switched from being a labor union and college/guild to a fraternity set up to fund a pension for the Masons that lost work, in London, after the rebuilding from the fire in 1666 wound down. They allowed people to join from the Royal Society, who were early academics, and from there, they began studying the world's religions (comparative religion). They looked at Hermeticism, because of alchemy, especially the early chemists, to see if the great panacea could actually be made, and to see if gold could be made from lead, etc. What they found hidden was where the alchemists looked at procreation, and based early chemistry on that (the mixing of two things to make one). Early physicians from the RS, who were members, were also involved. Freemasonry, as a guild and college, was started in Rome by Constantine, and they built the castles, etc., in Britain, starting in the ninth century. It was one of several guilds. The fraternity is not religious, even though it was tied to Christianity as a guild, and what it does is lead its members, if they wish, on the Pilgrim's Path to enlightenment, which is following the history of religion and the occult back to its beginnings as you described. In reality, you learn that all religion is invented by man, and it's based upon creation and procreation (sex, birth, and marriage). Most who travel the complete path become agnostic, and some, atheistic, just as academics do in university. There are a few that do not make it to the end of the path, much like Kant, and believe in the occult, thus, the offshoots, which led to believing in things such as the NSDAP did.
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  15. You'll find that most of their ideas developed within the church, especially Protestantism. That was where the idea of communal living and not owning anything came from, which they copied from the Catholic monasteries. That led to the Quakers, Brownists, Hutterites, and several other sects. Robert Owen obtained his ideas from it. It also gave the Jews the idea, living in the Pale of Settlement, which led to the kibbutzim. That is the real roots of socialism and communism, and it continued as Christian Socialism and the Social Gospel.
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  16. Ideobabble would be the words used by the propagandist.
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  17. Freemasony, in 1717, switched from being a labor union to a fraternity set up to fund a pension for the Masons that lost work, in London, after the rebuilding from the fire in 1666. They allowed people to join from the Royal Society, who were early academics, and from there, they began studying the world's religions (comparative religion). The fraternity is not religious, and what it does is lead the members, if they wish, on the Pilgrim's Path to enlightenment, which is following the history of religion back to its beginnings. In reality, you learn that all religion is invented by man, and it's based upon creation and procreation (sex, birth, and marriage). Most who travel the complete path become agnostic, and some, atheistic, just as academics do in university. There are a few that do not make it to that end of the path, and believe in the occult, thus, the offshoots, which led to believing in things like the NSDAP did.
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