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“Is Freedom Necessary?”

June 22nd, 2009 by Syd Walker

Mike Wallace and the Subversion of Democracy

Part 1 of 3: Querying Scenarios for Cryptocracy

The veteran American TV personality and interviewer Mike Wallace is 91 and counting!

Mike Wallace in the 1950s; the questioner

Mr Wallace’s career spans more than half a century.

By the 1950s, Wallace was already a prominent personality on American network television.

This video – first in a three part series on this blog featuring Mike Wallace and his guests – is a 1958 interview with Aldous Huxley. There’s a YouTube version – parts one, two and three. I recommend the entire interview.

Check out the final (third) segment of the interview with Huxley below. Remember, this is only the first segment of a three-part video series on this blog. While I find Huxley’s responses full of insight, this series, as a whole, is concerned more with Mike Wallace than any of his distinguished interviewees…

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Alan Gresley writes:
June 23rd, 200912:04 amat

Hello Syd,

So why are you interested in Aldous Huxley and his views of a ‘Brave New World’ which is at our heels now. If it is true that Aldous Huxley dined with Aleister Crowley, aren’t you a little bit concerned?

Though I do have to research this independently, Wikipedia does mention Aleister Crowley’s views on science, magic and sexuality. Look at what is written.

“Crowley’s magical and initiatory system has amongst its innermost reaches a set of teachings on sex magick. He frequently expressed views about sex that were radical for his time, and published numerous poems and tracts combining pagan religious themes with sexual imagery both heterosexual and homosexual, as well as pederastic.”

To my knowledge pederastic, or sexual relations with young boys is still radical. From the elites viewpoint, maybe this is considered the norm.

From what I can understand, Aldous Huxley is part of an elite who were preparing us for a ‘Brave New World’. Syd, please look at this picture of Aleister Crowley and tell me what you see? I see the ‘eye of providence’ or ‘all seeing eye’ inside a triangle. Do you think that Aldous Huxley was naive to all this?

Alan Gresley

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- Syd Walker writes:
  June 23rd, 20092:02 amat
  
  Hi Alan
  
  Aleister Crowley and Aldous Huxley had dinner once in 1930, according to the ever-enlightening Wikipedia. Do yoiu have evidence they collaborated closely over time? I can’t find any.
  
  I waded through some of Crowley’s writings long ago. Didn’t think too much about him until recently, when I came across the new book that seems to make a pursuaive case he was a British spook. Sounds quite likely to me: see Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
  
  Aldous Huxley, I think , was a very different character. It’s true Huxley came from a well-known family – call him a member of the ‘elite’ if you wish. But his politics, as far as I can tell, were strongly pacifist, at least in his later years. His humanitarianism, I think, comes through clearly in the video clip.
  
  As I mention above, the main point of my post was – as part of a series of three videos – to focus on Jim Wallace. Wallace’s question to Huxley – “Is freedom necessary?” – and Huxley’s reply, which I think is superb, is the starting point for this train of thought…
  
  Syd Walker
  
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  - Alan Gresley writes:
    June 24th, 20091:13 amat
    
    Hello Syd,
    
    No to your question. I have no evidence that Aleister Crowley and Aldous Huxley collaborated apart from this one occasion. I just saying that Aldous Huxley would have known about Aleister Crowley, and having diner with him does not fit in with a person that was supposedly protecting democracy and freedom. Think about it Syd, how is it possible that someone could get an interview on TV or be part of an elite if they were against it. Especially someone who is considered a visionary and statesman?
    
    Aldous Huxley had a huge influence on the 1960s by his use of L.S.D and being a pacifist and intellectual. This bring to mind another intellectual of the 1960s named Timothy Leary. It just so happens that Timothy Leary was talking about the virtues of Aleister Crowley from at least 1972.
    
    Going into a book shop and looking at a book on Satanism or Magic and you get raving applause for one Aleister Crowley. The last issue of New Dawn (Golden Dawn ?) also give applause to Aleister Crowley from an esoteric perspective.
    
    I even know of a two persons who lived in a commune in the 1970s. They didn’t like that group of hippies who stole things. These hippies also had that weird habit of dancing naked and having orgies around a fire surrounded by a pentagram within a circle.
    
    Aldous Huxley did have collaborations with some outstanding people, Swami Prabhavananda for example. Early in my life, I labeled myself a Bohemian (shock horror), a hippie, a pacifist, a gnostic, and a person aware of a hidden knowledge. I believed that I was born in the wrong era, longing for the 60s and the age of Aquarius. I have even considered my self New Age. Somehow I was ignorant of a New World or New World Order even though I am a long time reader of Nexus and New Dawn. I would see on the cover about some secret cartel or government but I just didn’t read such things.
    
    My world was to be turn upside down and inside out when I stumble onto 9/11 truth. I was to realize that there are two meaning for esoteric or hidden knowledge. One is such knowledge that is hidden from the masses by an elite that have a psychopathic lust for power and control and is a select group that one is initiated into. The other is a journey of self talk and governance (eightfold pathway) to remove the inner contradiction and thus clearing the mind of indoctrinated thought processes thus revealing inner wisdom or knowledge that was always there and then radiating loving compassion to whatever.
    
    I will even admit that I have been influenced or enlighten indirectly by Aleister Crowley. My words usage is full of utter contradictions don’t you think?. Now back to Aldous Huxley. These words by him in a letter to George Orwell do disturb me.
    
    “Within the next generation I believe that the world’s leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”
    
    And I just used to think that people were hypnotized by there own words and thoughts along with a strange form of amnesia preventing them from seeing there true potential. I would question harshly Aldous Huxley opinion of what a true leader is. Lastly I will say that my mentor would talk about the Human Potential Movement. Strange indeed that Aldous Huxley was fundamental in forming it.
    
    Alan Gresley
    
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    - Syd Walker writes:
      June 25th, 200910:57 amat
      
      Alan, you quote Huxley’s words as those he’s a proponent of mass control. Not at all. He was simply saying, in his letter to Orwell, that he thought ‘soft repression’ more likely than the overt, brutal police state that was the essence of Orwell’s dystopia.
      
      Aldous Huxley’s nightmare scenario – which he mentions in the interview above – is that tyranny will come in a form in which a sedated majority simply accept it, even grow to like it – and most likely aren’t even aware of it…
      
      Not a bad description, in my view, of what’s been happenming in the USA (and in other ‘western’ societies) over recent decades.
      
      Syd Walker
      
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      - Alan Gresley writes:
        June 25th, 20092:08 pmat
        
        Hello Syd,
        
        No, his words are not showing that is he is a proponent of mass control but rather dire words of warning. I question why he does not stands up and says that this direction is very wrong. He could have said world criminal leaders but he just say world leaders, like they are benevolent because they don’t want to be brutal.
        
        I see that what is happening in western society is a synthesis of both a ‘Brave New World’ and ’1984′. The world where there is a potential for no more conflict but the class and control systems are still firmly in place. One person who comes to mind who seems to be in opposition to this is Noam Chomsky who has strong views on Anarchism or Libertarian socialism. A world where there is a society without political, economic, or social hierarchies.
        
        We are told or led to believe that there is a struggle between left (communism) and right (fascist) which are seen as totalitarian but I would suggest that there is a three way struggle pitting, communism, fascist and democracy against each other. Today our so called democracies are becoming totalitarian in nature. All three are said to a better replacement for monarchy but we still have world leaders that demand obedience from the serfs or slaves.
        
        You still have hope that Obama can bring true change but you have indicated your displeasure that Obama has surrounded himself with Zionist. Where did this ideal of hope and change come from anyway? Was it from Obama directly or was it trumpeted to us by the propagandized media? Don’t discount that Obama may have one controller at least in Zbigniew Brzezinski. He does have an interesting history.
        
        I do suggest that you look upon things from both directions or perspectives. One that supports the evidence or non-evidence. I set this out in genealogy research (replace the word genealogy with conspiracy). One must not stand stuck in the quick stand while the tide is fasting approaching or receding.
        
        We hear world leaders talking about a second ‘new deal’ but is history just repeating itself with a New Deal and Corporatism? The propagandized media suggest that Obama will rescue the world in the fashion that Roosevelt did. Does the propagandized media also talk about the executive order by Roosevelt to confiscate Gold and as a replacement, pieces of paper that always looses it perceived value by continuous inflation.
        
        You have mentioned about the benefit of a global currency but Syd, this does mean that the current reserve currency of the world, the US dollar will become worthless.
        
        We have the collapse of the global economy based in US dollars. We have the masses cry out save us, save us and we hear of the answer to all out troubles, a world currency. Does this now sound like problem, reaction and solution? You create the mess, you wait for the reaction and then you offer your solution.
        
        Yes I am indicating the the GFC was purposely created by the criminal banker elite just like the great depression was. Now getting back to Aldous Huxley, have you seen the premise or vision in his novel Island?
        
        Alan Gresley
        
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