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Chapter 14 The Oligarchs
My experiments in confusion - Part-2: The invisible House of
Rothschild
See Part-1: How many Jews does it take to confuse me?
See Part-3: My experiments in confusion - Part-3: The Omnipotent Rothschilds
Continuing from Part-1...
Let me highlight the socio-political conundrum
identified in part-1, quoting myself (since no one
else ever quotes a confused person): “Perhaps
I am going about this free-thinking business all
wrong? Perhaps there is some happy halfway
compromise to fully independent thinking which
will also help me gain friends and influence
people?”
The House of Rothschild – Image courtesy
Niall Ferguson and Viking
The following example almost always loses me
friends, tempting me to stop experimenting with
independent thought altogether. I believe it is a
miracle that I still dabble in it every now and then. I observed the following conundrum in 'Of
Ostriches and Rebels on The Hard Road to World Order':
--- begin excerpt from 'Of Ostriches and Rebels on The Hard Road to World Order'
Herman Van Rompuy's message of hope at the completion stages [of world order] decades
later was merely the cross-generational echo of Richard N. Gardner's “prospects for peace,
welfare and human dignity” that had been long sewn “bottom up, rather than from the top
down” such that to the uninformed public, it would always “look like a great ‘booming, buzzing
confusion’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national
The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity 283 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim