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BANKING POWERS
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The prophetic words of our greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, have been fulfilled:
“The money powers prey on the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
As a most undesirable consequence of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow.
The money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.”
– Abraham Lincoln, United States President, 1860 – 1865
WEAK IS WRONG
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TOTALITARIAN CREDO: “History is written by the victors”
Plato’s The Republic (380 BCE) claims that “justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger”. This is the maxim of The Physical Universe. The entire history of humans on Earth is a demonstration of this fundamental principle. Altruism, egalitarianism, love, beneficence, and kindness have forever been overwhelmed and trampled in the dust of the brutal force of armies. “Right” and “Wrong” are the same is “Strong” and “Weak” in the physical universe. If you are seeking a “loving” moral code, you must find it within yourself. It does not exist in the physical universe.
— Lawrence R. Spencer
THE NEXT WORLD
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PLATO — 348/347 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.[3] In the words of A. N. Whitehead:
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them.“
Plato’s sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato’s writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato’s texts.[5] Plato’s dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, and mathematics. Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. — Wikipedia.org
THE PEOPLE
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Plato made the following statement 2,395 years ago. It seems that “the people” never change:
“The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. …this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader”.
“Plato Greek: (423 – 348 BCE) was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece. He is considered an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
Plato’s dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His lasting themes include Platonic love, the theory of forms, the five regimes, and innate knowledge, among others. His theory of forms launched a unique perspective on abstract objects, and led to a school of thought called Platonism.”
READ PLATO’S MOST INFLUENTIAL THOUGHT IN “THE REPUBLIC”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm