Posted on 10/20/2006 1:56:46 PM PDT by inpajamas
Introduction
[From the beginning I realized it too voluminous a work to record all the evidence contained in H.G. Wells’ book, The Open Conspiracy, which supported a thesis that today we are in latter stages of it. There is here, however, sufficient citation of evidence to that end.
The objective of writing an expose’ on the Open Conspiracy is not as much a fascination with the past as it is a revelation of the now, and the immediate and not too distant future.]
Never before in the history of the world has mankind possessed such great troves of knowledge, and although this vast and ever increasing catalog of knowledge has brought with it immense benefits and manifold hopes; it has also brought with it many and great perils. The advent of this astounding collection and consolidation of knowledge, and the possible repercussions of it, was perceived more than a century ago by Jules Verne and other visionaries whose conceptions were expressed through science-fiction novels.
Other pioneers of science-fiction followed, among whom was H.G. Wells. Almost all of Wells’ highly acclaimed novels for which he became renown were written before the First World War. This catastrophic event had a profound affect upon Wells and he would spend virtually the rest of his life in an effort to change the mentality of world thought, in hopes of advancing civilization to a higher level, and avoiding global annihilation in the future.
Even before this time Wells had already grasped the concept of nuclear energy and the power of an atomic bomb and wrote in detail about it in his book The World Set Free . In this book, published in 1914, Wells depicts a scenario in which world capitals, cities, and governments are devastated by nuclear war until the majority of those remaining rose up together and formed a global socialist community. In this newly formed World Republic, the nation-state ceases to exist as a sovereign entity, and as a result war becomes superannuated. From that point on, all of the world’s forces, powers, and resources are consolidated to work for the benefit and advancement of a utopian cosmopolitan society, albeit, under authoritarian rule.
To Wells, this was not science fiction. Realizing the speed at which civilization was developing, and perceiving the world incapable of keeping up with, or controlling technological advancements, it was his belief that the only hope for mankind lie within the creation of the New World Order. To this end he wrote a book entitled The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints For A World Revolution. This book contains a strategy for convergence of all sympathetic parties alike, into the formation of a social revolution against current moral values, traditions, systems, and establishments, with the goal of supplanting them. It is in effect, the blueprints for a culture war.
The Open Conspiracy Today The purpose for knowing about the Open Conspiracy is to understand our current society, its cultures and subcultures, their origins and how they have evolved - But most importantly, to know where we stand now, and understand the repercussions and the ultimate consequence which will ensue as a result. One must realize when reading the Open Conspiracy that although this progressive liberal movement materialized, it did not do so in the name of the Open Conspiracy and many adherents of it today are unwitting participants who would be unfamiliar with the term. Wells himself stated as much in these words:
“Hundreds of thousands of people everywhere are now thinking upon the lines foreshadowed by my Open Conspiracy, not because they had ever heard of the book or phrase, but because that was the way thought was going.”Decades ago, Wells forecasted a movement of progressive worldviews into an organized effort by multitudes of divers entities, to revolt against and supercede traditional values, culture, and educational and political institutions.
Much of what follows will be in Wells’ own words; some placed in juxtaposition to ideas, entities, events, the words of others who are shaping and influencing our world today, and my own comments. [These will appear in brackets]
What is the Open Conspiracy? The Open Conspiracy in the words of H.G. Wells:
“In this book we are not starting something; we are describing and participating in something which has started. It arises naturally and necessarily from the present increase of knowledge” [Wells is referencing a movement towards progressive worldviews which are beginning to form and take hold, especially in intellectual circles. This book is his blueprint in which he attempts to organize these social forces by outlining what this movement must consist of, it objectives and means of achievement]
“Fundamentally the Open Conspiracy must be an intellectual rebirth.” [the old must be torn down in order to build the new enlightened society - “rebirth” involves a war against traditions, moral values, established religions, and governmental institutions]
“The Open Conspiracy is not to be thought of as a single organization; it is a conception of life out of which efforts, organizations, and new orientations will arise.” [it is not a conspiracy per se in the traditional sense, rather, it is a radical cultural mass movement of progressive thought within the fabric of society]
“…the Open Conspiracy must be heterogeneous in origin. Its initial groupings and associations will be of no uniform pattern.” [A conglomeration of organizations, societies, orientations, special interest, and other divers groups, sharing at least sympathies for a common core of political agendas]
“The League of Nations movement [U.N. predecessor], the Birth Control movement, and most radical and socialist societies, are fields into which Open Conspirators may go to find adherents more than half prepared for their wider outlook. The Open Conspiracy is a fuller and ampler movement into which these incomplete activities must necessarily merge…” […merge forces, yet, remain separate entities; under one name they are one target and are weakened, but their political power is as a collective body]
“The Open Conspiracy itself can never be imprisoned and fixed in the form of an organization….” [it is a mass movement integrated within society, a culture war]
“There should be many types of groups. Collective action had better for a time - perhaps for a long time - be undertaken not through the merging of groups but through the formation of ad hoc associations for definitely specialized ends, all making for the new world civilization…………we must insist that the idea of the Open Conspiracy ever becoming a single organization must be dismissed from the mind. It is a movement, yes, a system of purposes, but its end is a free and living, if unified, world.” [multitudes of various types of NGOs and PVOs, think tanks, societies, national and international social and welfare agencies, et al]
“It is that there already exist in the world [in 1928] a considerable number of movements in industry, in political life, in social matters, in education, which point in the same direction as the Open Conspiracy and are inspired by the same spirit.” [formulation of modern liberalism/the progressive movement]
“The Open Conspiracy, the world movement for the supersession or enlargement or fusion of existing political, economic, and social institutions must necessarily, as it grows, draw closer and closer to questions of practical control. It is likely in its growth to incorporate many active public servants and many industrial and financial leaders and directors. It may assimilate great masses of intelligent workers.” [Politicians in concert with corporations and financial institutions consolidating and merging power]
“While the Open Conspiracy is no more than a discussion [in 1928] it may spread unopposed because it is disregarded. As a mainly passive resistance to militarism it may still be tolerable. But as its knowledge and experience accumulate and its organization become more effective and aggressive, as it begins to lay hands upon education, upon social habits, upon business developments, as it proceeds to take over the organization of the community, it will marshal not only its own forces but its enemies.” [a forecast of polarization in society and a culture war]
“…..the movement we contemplate must from the outset be diversified in its traditions and elements and various in its methods. It must fight upon several fronts and with many sorts of equipment. It will have a common spirit, but it is quite conceivable that between many of its contributory factors there may be very wide gaps in understanding and sympathy. It is no sort of simple organization.” [“celebrate diversity,” the many fragmented and odd groups of diverse types, which, for various reasons, collectively create the support base of the radical left]
“……it must be necessarily not a class development, but a convergence of many different sorts of people upon a common idea.” [ditto, all sympathizers welcome]
“Free Trade nationalism in power is better than high tariff nationalism, and pacifist party liberalism better than aggressive party patriotism.”
“The Open Conspiracy is the natural inheritor of socialist and communist enthusiasms; it may be in control of Moscow before it is in control of New York.” [Russia may adjust from one authoritarian to another easier than U.S. citizens would adopt authoritarian rule, on the other hand, an Open Conspiracy would enjoy more movement, find more toleration, and be able to push the boundaries of subversion and sedition further in New York or Washington, than in Moscow]
“The Open Conspiracy rests upon a disrespect for nationality, and there is no reason why it should tolerate noxious or obstructive governments because they hold their own in this or that patch of human territory.” [recognition of the U.N., International World Court, and international treaties above national sovereignty]
“All the weight of the Open Conspiracy will be on the side of the world order and against that sort of local independence which holds back its subject people from the citizenship of he world.” [declarations of condemnation, in the latter stages, loss of sovereignty under threat of international sanctions or military action]
“ To avoid the positive evils of war and to attain the new levels of prosperity and power that now come into view, an effective world control, not merely of armed force, but of the production and main movements of staple commodities and the drift and expansion of population is required. It is absurd to dream of peace and world-wide progress without that much control.” [global fascism]
“The Open Conspiracy is a creative, organizing movement and not an anarchistic one. It does not want to destroy existing controls and forms of human association, but either to supersede or amalgamate them into a common world directorate. If constitutions, parliaments, and kings can be dealt with as provisional institutions, trustees for the coming of age of the world commonweal, and in so far as they are conducted in that spirit, the Open Conspiracy makes no attack upon them.” [surrender of national sovereignty to the world commonweal; nations exist conditionally as global states in a World Federation]
Commentary: Wells’ Open Conspiracy is envisioned as a social mass movement of many individuals, groups, organizations, and various other entities, which unite and consolidate power, engaging in a cultural revolution to gradually supplant traditions, values, and foundational beliefs. The objective is to establish a popular worldview with enough influence to gradually gain control of political and governmental institutions. Is this not the modus operandi of the innumerable NGOs and PVOs such as George Soros‘ Open Society, moveon.org, and countless others, including the major media outlets and the entertainment industry?
Joining in this effort to re-engineer society are mastodonic charitable foundations such as the Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie and other billionaire philanthropist organizations. These work in conjunction with, the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, and other global think tanks and organizations. If that is not enough, they also have political power and influence through the U. N. and a multitude of national politicos whom they support and control. These are all funded by huge international, ever merging, corporations whose loyalties lie with a global agenda.
The Modus Operandi
“…[The] first phase of the Open Conspiracy [begins] as the propaganda of a group of interlocking ideas, a propaganda associated with pacifist action………the second phase, we conceive of the Open Conspiracy as consisting of a great multitude and variety of overlapping groups, but now all organized for collective political, social, and educational as well as propagandist action.” [we are, obviously, well into the second stage]
“But unlike conspiracies in general this widening protest and conspiracy against established things would, by its very nature, go on in the daylight, and it would be willing to accept participation and help from every quarter. It would, in fact, become an “Open Conspiracy,” a necessary, naturally evolved conspiracy, to adjust our dislocated world.” [not only is it open, it is broadcast 24/7 via media]
“The Open Conspiracy against the traditional and now cramping and dangerous institutions of the world must be an Open Conspiracy……It is lost if it goes underground. Every step to world unity must be taken in the daylight with the understanding sympathy of as many people as possible……”
“This evokes the anticipation of another series of groups, a group in every possible political division, whose task it will be to organize the whole strength of the Open Conspiracy in that division as an effective voting or agitating force. In many divisions this might soon become a sufficiently considerable block to affect the attitudes and pledges of the national politicians.” [infect all parties of the body politic]
“This candid attempt to take possession of the whole world, this Open Conspiracy of ours, must be made in the name of and for the sake of science and creative activity……creative activity implies a competent regulation of the economic life in the collective interest.” [science being, evolution, global warming, population control, environmentalism, etc; creativity being international welfare, socialism/fascism]
The political work of the Open Conspiracy must be conducted upon two levels and by entirely different methods. Its main political idea, its political strategy, is to weaken, efface, incorporate, or supercede existing governments. But there is also a tactical diversion of administrative powers and resources to economic and educational arrangements of a modern type. [ objectives: 1. to supercede 2. use bureaucratic agencies to divert revenues to welfare, social services, and government programs]
“The Open Conspiracy will also be dissolving and repudiating many existing restrictions upon conduct and many social prejudices.“ [gay agenda and sexual revolution, drug legalization, and a general normalization of immorality]
“Whenever possible, the Open Conspiracy will advance by illumination and persuasion. But it has to advance, and even from the outset, where it is not allowed to illuminate and persuade, it must fight.” [radical activism]
“Non-resistance, the restriction of activities to moral suasion is no part of the program of the Open Conspiracy. In the face of unscrupulous opposition creative ideas must become aggressive, must define their enemies and attack them. By its own organizations or through the police and military strength of governments amenable to its ideas, the movement is bound to find itself fighting”
“……a common disposition towards the ideas of the Open Conspiracy, could cease to arm against each other and still exert enough strength to impose disarmament and a respect for human freedom in every corner of the planet. It is fantastic pedantry to wait for all the world to accede before all the world is pacified and policed.” [disarm and impose disarmament to create a benevolent but totalitarian global police state?]
Patriotism and the anti-war Movement
From the outset, the Open Conspiracy will set its face against militarism. There is a plain present need for the organization now, before war comes again, of an open and explicit refusal to serve in any war - or at most to serve in war, directly or indirectly, only after the issue has been fully and fairly submitted to arbitration…..And a refusal to participate with one's country in warfare is a preposterously incomplete gesture unless it is rounded off by the deliberate advocacy of a world pax, a world economic control, and a restrained population, such as the idea of the Open Conspiracy embodies.”
“The fundamental organization of contemporary states is plainly still military, and that is exactly what a world organization cannot be. Flags, uniforms, national anthems, patriotism sedulously cultivated in church and school, the brag, blare, and bluster of our competing sovereignties, belong to the phase of development the Open Conspiracy will supersede.” [common modern liberal dogma]
“…..professional soldiers, for example, have a certain traditional honorableness which disguises the essentially parasitic relationship of their services to the developing modern community. Armies and armaments are cancers produced by the malignant development of the patriotic virus under modern conditions of exaggeration and mass suggestion…..the Open Conspiracy should develop within itself the competence to resist military coercion and combat and destroy armies that stand in the way of its emergence.”
The American exaggeration of patriotism began as a resistance to exploitation from overseas……Flag worship was imposed primarily as a repudiation of Europe. Europe no longer looms over America with overpowering intimations, American industries no longer have any practical justification for protection….”
“……There is little or no effort to restrain the aggressive nationalist when he waves his flag against the welfare of our race, or to protect the children of the world from the infection of his enthusiasms. And this last is as true now of the American system as it is of any European State.” [Wells viewed America as both an obstacle and fertile ground for the progressive movement. In his later book The New World Order he writes, “I do not know how sane men in America are going to set about relaxing the stranglehold of the Constitution, get control of their own country……,” [it appears the path has been found through the judicial system]
“In nearly every country of the world there is, in deference to the pretended necessities of a possible war, a vast degrading and dangerous cultivation of loyalty and mechanical subservience to flags, uniforms, presidents, and king………… The Open Conspiracy is necessarily opposed to all such implacable loyalties, and still more so to the aggressive assertion and propaganda of such loyalties”[Wells wrote this in 1939, the "pretended necessities" for self defense would come in quite handy from 1940-1945] “The world commonweal will need its own scientific methods of protection so long as there are people running about the planet with flags and uniforms and weapons, offering violence to their fellow men and interfering with the free movements of commodities in the name of national sovereignty.” [disarmament, except for the commonweal’s “scientific methods of protection“]
“The anticipatory repudiation of military service, so far as this last may be imposed by existing governments in their factitious international rivalries, need not necessarily involve a denial of the need of military action on behalf of the world commonweal for the suppression of nationalist brigandage” [Wells opposes defensive measures of sovereign states, however, envisions an international peace keeping force to quell rebellion - common modern thought]
Population and Birth Control, and Global Social Welfare
“Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially, and economically unified. Within that frame fall all the other ideas of our progressive ambition.” [the Open Conspiracy is a political, social, economic progressive movement - agenda: BIG government on a global scale]
“….we are writing for the modern-minded, and for them it is impossible to think of the world as secure and satisfactory until there exists a single world commonweal, preventing war and controlling those moral, biological, and economic forces and wastages that would otherwise lead to wars.” ["We must mobilize civil society in favor of international law and international institutions." - George Soros, PBS Sept. 2000, Open Society/Open Conspiracy]
“The security of creative progress and creative activity implies a competent regulation of the economic life in the collective interest. There must be food, shelter and leisure for all. The fundamental needs of the animal life must be assured before human life can have free play.” [a social welfare world-state, with global taxation]
“Nature ensures a pressure of population through passions and instincts that, given sufficient knowledge, intelligence, and freedom on the part of women, can be satisfactorily gratified and tranquillized, if need be, without the production of numerous children. Very slight adjustments in social and economic arrangements will, in a world of clear available knowledge and straightforward practice in these matters, supply sufficient inducement or discouragement to affect the general birth rate or the birth rate of specific types as the directive sense of the community may consider desirable” [planned parenthood, abortion centers, eugenics, and social engineering]
“Intelligent control of population is a possibility which puts man outside competitive processes that have hitherto ruled the modification of species, and he can be released from these processes in no other way. There is a clear hope that, later, directed breeding will come within his scope……..the world community of our desires, the organized world community conducting and ensuring its own progress, requires a deliberate collective control of population as a primary condition.” [The UN, multitudes of NGOs, political and international organizations vigorously support this agenda, Wells would be proud]
“The reasonable desire of all of us is that we should have the collective affairs of the world managed by suitably equipped groups of the most interested, intelligent, and devoted people.” [an authoritarian world state ruled by an oligarchy of elitist - and who decides who the most intelligent are, people such as George Soros, whose Open society meets the criteria of a member organization in Wells‘ Open conspiracy?]
A New Godless Religion
[When reading the chapters in The Open Conspiracy which relate to religion, it is easier to grasp Wells conceptions if you know that he was a student of evolutionary biology under the man known as "Darwin's Bulldog" T. H. Huxley.
Wells perceptions of religion are based on the evolution, and the modern religion to which Wells refers is a Godless one. Wells recognizes mankind’s spiritual impulses and the power of them, nevertheless, he believes God and traditional religions to be primitive inventions through which this aspect of man expresses itself. He does not, however, wish to abolish religion but to convert its inspirational forces into constructive uses. Wells envisions a new atheistic religion of enlightenment, which through a natural process, will gradually supercede present forms. As man evolves to the next level of awareness, he will shed the mythical and superstitious beliefs which are merely crude symbols of an undeveloped spirituality, and they will fade out of existence.]
“There was no Creation in the past, we begin to realize, but eternally there is creation; there was no Fall to account for the conflict of good and evil, but a stormy ascent. Life as we know it is a mere beginning.“ [physical, social, intellectual, and religious evolution]
“We have still barely emerged from among the animals in their struggle for existence. We live only in the early dawn of human self-consciousness and in the first awakening of the spirit of mastery.” [a spiritual evolutionary enlightenment of the new age]
“It seems unavoidable that if religion is to develop unifying and directive power in the present confusion of human affairs it must adapt itself to this forward-looking, individuality-analyzing turn of mind; it must divest itself of its sacred histories, its gross preoccupations, its posthumous prolongation of personal ends. The desire for service, for subordination, for permanent effect, for an escape from the distressful pettiness and mortality of the individual life, is the undying element in every religious system.” [Wells believes religious impulses are intrinsic, potentially constructive, but, these impulses are in their primitive stages and are held in bondage to traditional beliefs which pervert them - man is God, but has yet to fully evolve]
“Religion is the antagonist of self” [man needs an inner antagonist to refrain from self service, religion provides this; Wells grasped that and imagined to adapt this aspect of devotion and self control to an atheistic worship of a greater cause]
“The time has come to strip religion right down to that, to strip it for greater tasks than it has ever faced before. The histories and symbols that served our fathers encumber and divide us. Sacraments and rituals harbor disputes and waste our scanty emotions…The first sentence in the modern creed must be, not “I believe,” but “I give myself.” [a self sacrificing religious devotion to secular humanism]
“As our eyes are opened to these things, we see ourselves as beings greater or less than the definitive self. Man's soul is no longer his own. It is, he discovers, part of a greater being which lived before he was born and will survive him. The idea of a survival of the definite individual with all the accidents and idiosyncrasies of his temporal nature upon him dissolves to nothing in this new view of immortality” [all of mankind together as one collective immortal body, each person is but a cell which dies, but new cells are born to take their place and the body continues on - a modern new age god]
Conclusion
The so called progressive movement today is the movement Wells anticipated, considered, wrote extensively about, and worked towards. He also believed it would come with or without his work, for as he stated, it was the nature of the way things were progressing.
It is impossible to know the impact of Wells’ personal efforts on today‘s society, however, much of what is and what takes place was calculated by Wells, but not by Wells alone - Many others who followed Wells have shared the same ideas; not because they knew Wells, or of him, or read his work, but because they shared the same spirit which lead them to the same natural conclusions.
Fellow Englishman John Lennon who otherwise would have little in common with Wells, represents the diversity of character within the movement; yet, even with substantial differences, he and others were revolutionary in it and propelled it forward. This is precisely what Wells predicted. Lennon put the essence of the movement in the lyrics of his song Imagine:
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...There is no single cabal in a cigar-smoke filled room in Rome, Amsterdam, or Paris secretly scheming to take over the world . There are multitudes of cabals, some competing, some working together in association, in networks, or independently, many of whom have no idea they are a cabal. To them, they are doing their jobs or promoting agendas and ideas they believe in. Many have no desire for power other than to see the world, such as they imagine, would provide them with more comforts and pleasures. On the other hand, there are those who are fully aware of what they are doing, and every move is calculated with specific designs. It is not a monolithic movement but the one thing they all share in common is that they all are delusional and are deceived.…..Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one"
What H.G. Wells and all others of this persuasion fail to realize is that the divisions between men are not lines drawn on the globe by some surveyor, they are divisions inside of man, some of which are irreconcilable between them. The only possible way to maintain any freedom or peace at all in the world is to draw lines of division, create boundaries and protect the freedoms and liberties that lie within them. You cannot spread freedom by capitulation to tyranny or surrendering sovereignty to international law or opinion. A united world will still be forever divided, standing upon feet of clay mingle with iron, which shall only crumble under the weight of it, bringing all to ruin.
R.A. Sprinkle
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Good article. Thanks for posting.
I made a few mistakes in format posting it, but hopefully it's not to hard to read.
RAS
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