08/28/2025 (Updated 08/29/2025)
It can be argued that imperial cults -- a king is God model of lording over others (I am a king therefore you will worship me) – is when one super toxic individual/creature or a small group of individuals/creatures lord(s) over all others within the perceived ‘territories’ of the super toxic individual/creature(s). Sounds like Trump and the treasonous child sex trafficking ring of his.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_cult
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
It isn’t hard to imagine that if we share 96% DNA with chimpanzees and also with bonobos -- and where they have a toxic male scaring others into submission for greater access to resource bribes and increased access to touching – that an imperial cult leader isn’t much different than a savage in the jungle scaring the others around them -- and where chimp and bonobo “toxic” male behaviors and motivations pretty much match a description of Jeffrey Epstein’s and Putin’s Donald Trump, who shares AT LEAST 96% DNA with chimps and bonobos is certain.
And as our Hypothalamus News section link above specifies, it is Trump's (and all of Jeffrey Epstein's billionaires') hyperactive ventromedial nucleus (crave center of the brain) of his hypothalamus (a golf ball-size brain part in the center of his soccer ball head responsible for,
1. his gender (based on how the ration of male and female hormones in hypothalamus BEFORE birth);
2. his gender identity/cravings (based on how the ration of male and female hormones in hypothalamus AFTER birth);
3. his sexual preference/cravings (based on how the ration of male and female hormones in hypothalamus AFTER birth);
4. his gambling cravings (risk taking produces a drug in his brain that he may be addicted to),
5. drug addiction (speculative based on people who have known him and accused him of drug addiction);
6. sex addiction (he has been repeatedly accused of rape, including the gang rape of children with Jeffrey Epstein by Katie Johnson in a 2016 lawsuit the plaintiff seemed to have been threatened not to go forward with and/or coupled to an alternative universe of facts presumably by the crime syndicate to obfuscate what people can learn is true; his own attorney Michael Cohen has confirmed the Steele Dossier findings that Donnie Urine Mints likes golden showers or urine showers (Trump likes to watch females urinate and/or on themselves and/or on him and/or objects/things around the room, and yes, there is a pee pee video that can be found online, and that sure does look like Trump and/or coupled with massive propaganda from Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate of media and communications billionaires that Trump hasn't done these things despite the evidence and testimony he has)
7. addiction to all of Malsow's Hierarchy of needs: (A) addicted to survive a long list of disqualifying crimes linked to an ongoing murder and RICO obstruction conspiracy, which overtly furthered nearly every day; (B) addicted to safety from these disqualifying crimes and any evidence of the same (too late) by threatening to shut down media that presents evidence of Trump's and the GOP's and SCOTUS' (because all 6 of Jeffrey Epstein's and the Mercer's Federalist Society's GOP SCOTUS were appointed after the treason and/or elections fraud conspiracy overt furtherance by those appointing them (which is why they illegitimately provided retroactive immunity to those presidents, in order to self-appoint themselves despite immediately self-executing disqualifying laws disqualifying all of those 6 GOP judges, acting as the defense attorneys for the treasonous child sex trafficking ring of Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, the GOP, Russia, and so many more per our Epstein links above); (C) addiction to being accepted by society despite their war against society, including COVID, murdering over a million Americans (per Paul Alexander under Trump they -- intended to infect and thus kill as many people as possible -- with COVID); (D) addicted to preserving and exponentially growing their status or wealth, and where 8 billionaires, most linked to Jeffrey Epstein own half of the wealth on Earth; and/or addicted to self-actualization (those above the law can do whatever they want to anyone engineering them into god-like positions of power, whatever they want whenever they want, or else, is how the pyramids were built in loin cloths).
These imperial cult ‘leaders’ -- a form of cult of personality -- like Trump, self-proclaim themselves emperor, king, monarch, pharaoh, God, divine, leader, and/or other elaborate titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
There are some pretty elaborate imperial cult titles in the English royals’ Freemason subversion organization -- and like Hollywood, Freemason degree titles are heavy with master-slave hierarchy titles and organizational structure similar to and honoring imperial cult monarchs as Gods -- for example Star Wars, Marvel. and DC superheroes are royals with superpowers like Gods -- in furtherance of the imperial cults of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Habsburg crime family’s resurrected Holy Roman Empire – which force others to believe in the king is God model. It doesn’t take a super genius to figure out that the English royals are behind the Freemasons, even if you don’t study the history of Freemasonry like Dr. Richard Spence of University of Idaho has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Rite
In law, a person or king who is above the law, this is known as the 'rule of man', whereas when the king is not above the law (and thus is not God-like), in law this is known as the 'rule of law', because the king is also subject to the law. A king is God is a law a king like Augustus and the Senate make, when no law law applies to them, because they make all laws, like Trump and the GOP. Using chimp behavior, Trump and the GOP may bully others into a dictatorship, because of the astounding number of cowards failing to stand up to this garbage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
Albert Einstein said, "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-world-will-not-be-destroyed-by-evil/
People above the law become the Gods of others, like in Palestine, allowing some people to live and others to die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
All things being relative, they aren’t significantly held accountable and/or allowed to continue to carry on without prison sentences, like Prince Andrew, Leon Black, Putin, Donald Trump, Epstein, and/or others. For people who are addicted to power, this is often because they were taught the same directly (born rich, entitled to want more power) and/or indirectly (abused, always seeking more power after the abuse, like a blackhole that can't be filled or satisfied, the hyperactive ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus or crave center of the brain, craving something right now, or else, is a fight or flight and crave system that is hundreds of millions of years old, older than bones in animal bodies).
The following kind of Disney imperial cult propaganda (royals are likable gods and god-like and we should be grateful they are our heroes) makes us like royals and makes us believe they are not just better than us, and leaders, but that they are in control of powers we can’t ever access is the subliminal messaging is a reasonable inference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padm%C3%A9_Amidala
Superpower is mostly for royals, and they are the heroes because of these powers, and we should all be grateful and adore them and their pro-royal messaging is the messaging.
Walt Disney was a Freemason or royalist, which is why there are so many princess propaganda movies, making us love royals, and in fact, Disney refused to yield to the US government in a legal battle, because they implied they were governed by the laws of England under Charles, which was super interesting news, and once again begets the question, if a superpower is the central military and economic country of an era, who controls the United States if they share their top military intel with the European royals (the largest named family in the Epstein book of clients) and if Jeffrey Epstein's English royals' Bank of England and LIBOR set the interest rate for the United States for much if not all of the last century?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/disney-ron-desantis-royal-lives-clause.html
Outside of the herood, a type of hero worship cult from which the word ‘hero’ comes from -- Western and Eastern cultures first learned Egyptian (African) imperial cult worship by the first Greek Pharaoh Alexander the Great -- who then passed that imperical ‘leadership’ culture onto Rome, where Alexander the Greek resurrected the imperial cult -- which then morphed into the Roman Imperial Cult -- which was then resurrected by the Habsburg crime family in their both sides-ism and founding of the Protestant destruction of the values of Jesus, replacing them with anti-Christian values -- the Habsburg crime family eventually devolving into the treasonous child sex trafficking ring of Jeffrey Epstein -- with Trump now as the figurehead or the greatest anti-Christian and/or self-proclaimed ‘leader’ or Great Deceiver -- but those lies are bursting at the seams daily, radicalizing this crime syndicate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilegium_Maius
Full spectrum dominance by these individuals who need excessive worship and control (born out of hereditary insecurity and hereditary hyperactive hypothalami based on having the most to lose) is also ancient and seeks to dominate the ‘three realms’, the physical world, the mental world, and the spiritual world, imagined by the time of the Greeks.
In philosophy, everyone’s worldview is based on how they have been taught to rank these three realms and/or how they have experienced them.
The stereotype is that science ranks physical world first, from which comes mental world, from which comes the spiritual world.
The next stereotype is that cult and religious ‘followers’ rank spirituality as coming first, then the mental or soul realms is born out of the spiritual realm, and the physical world is born out of the mental realm or last to the spiritual and mental worlds.
Descartes argued that the mental world is the only world we can rely on as true, because dreams seem real, but aren’t, and so what if the dream is real, and when I wake up I am dreaming argued Descartes, and he though God was a “malevolent genius” (and so here Trump resembles Descartes’ God).
Imperial cult leaders use military forces to control the physical world, and they use any form of education and art to control the propaganda and learning in the mental world (controlling what people believe is true, not true, good, and evil, and where as oppressors, and like Caesar Augustus, they force those they oppress to worship them as God(s) for generation after generation, until the same takes root as a sub-culture and grows into the over 45,000 religions or cults born out of the cults and/or religions of Abraham, Moses, Caesar Augustus, Jesus, the Habsburg crime family, the Trump crime family, and/or others, is another reasonable inference).
Accordingly, full-spectrum dominance requires imperial cult leaders to takeover militaries and forces to be able to control what people learn, in order to force others into worshiping them like God -- best achieved in hierarchies -- and where make no mistake -- all companies in capitalism are like jungle savage hierarchies, who answer to hierarchies, who answer to hierarchies, and where there is a hierarchy in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and so there is never truly democratic, liberal, flat or decentralized decision-making (required to stabilize the chaos engineered by the “criminal ruling elite”, a term used by former military prosecutor Glenn Kirschner).
Returning to full-spectrum dominance of the three realms, Trump and the GOP have committed treason to steal control over the military, they are now seizing control of education and media control along with Jeffrey Epstein’s crime syndicate of billionaires, and Trump and his orbit have postured Trump is God, and so resurrecting an imperial cult hear also, with ZERO doubt.
And so under Trump, the GOP, and this crime syndicate, the criminal ruling class have agreed to divert taxpayer funds to themselves with immunity for their crimes to profit off the management of the chaos they engineered to do the same. That’s their brand, or like Hans Adam of the EU royals has been quoted saying, and paraphrasing Dr. S. Greer, their strategy is to “scare the public into a sacrifice of blood and treasure”. How COVID of them.
[Aside and not surprisingly, the both sides-ism of capitalism and socialism are best understood from the perspective that the first corporate firms with fictitious business names concealing the names of those doing business are born out of the fake English royals’ England, and where socialism was also born out of the Habsburg crime syndicate prove historical documents, and where both forms of government end up being a hierarchy that butchers their own people to protect the criminal ruling class (as described in George Orwell’s Animal Farm) -- for example with the Habsburg’s Edward VIII urging the Habsburg’s Hitler to “bomb Britain into submission”, followed by the Habsburg’s Hitler doing the same, only for the Habsburg’s English royals to emerge as the heroes of WWII, wow. Studying socialism reveals a backchannel between the architects of socialism and the EU royals. That is full-spectrum control of the physical and mental world, when those who started the world wars, emerge as the profited ‘heroes’ of the slaughter of those they sought to bomb into submission. Wow, that is some serious revision of history got by the long-game of propaganda.]
Returning, in the Roman Imperial Cult, after Caesar died, August and the Senate conspired to make Caesar “God” by law, and this made (nephew) Augustus Caesar the (adopted) son of God (Caesar), and temples (like the Judaic temple) in the Roman Empire were forced to put statues of God (Caesar) and the son of God (Augustus) in their temples. In an attempt to obfuscate his illegitimacy and that of his hiers, Henry VIII made himself the leaders of the Habsburgs’ anti-Christian Protestant cult.
How imperial cult of him, for the fake king to make himself the real leader of a fake cult that embraced the total opposite values than those of altruistic Jesus, instead embracing jungle savage behavior or the behavior of the beast(s) and for 666 years, revelation!
That’s why the world sucks, because anti-Christians pretending to be Christians like wolves in sheep’s clothing are deceiving real Christians into destroying their own value system and teachings, led by the Great Deceiver, Donald Trump. We have to give him that, he really is a great deceiver, but he was a game show host, and so his deceptions and games are all a show (the alternative history of their disqualifying crimes show).
At some point in history, Caesar’s name and Augustus’ name were scrubbed from the temples, leaving statues of God and the son of God in the Judaic temple, and then someone hung the name of Jesus on the statue of Augustus, as the son of God in the Judaic temple, obfuscating Augustus as the original son of God in the Judaic temple. Trump and his orbit have since attempted to scrub and/or minimize the role of Jesus, relative to Trump. And so maybe in 2000 years, the sign on Augustus in the Judaic temple will read Trump’s name, and history will be revised so that Trump is who died on the cross in Rome, et cetera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult
We know that it is Augustus in the Judaic temple that we have been worshiping for over 2000 years because of a poem-ode written by Horace about 30 years before Jesus was born, which specified Caesar and August were there in the beginning, and they were the creators, and Augustus was sent by God (Caesar) to wash away the sins of man, on behalf of God (Caesar).
https://kairoscenter.org/good-tidings-caesar-jesus/
Those doing good deeds at the time could elevate their divinity, which often meant compliance with Roman law, later specified in Romans in the Bible. But could exceptionally good or altruistic deeds (compliance to Roman emperors and their cult) elevate one to be as divine as the son of God (Augustus)? And so you could become divine and live forever if you obeyed the Roman emperors was the messaging, borrowed from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, part of the Egyptian Imperial Cult.
This timeline of Horace means that the parents of Jesus were raised in this imperial cult environment, forced by the imperial cult to worship their leader and former leader as God and the son of God, within the Judaic temple, which we argue became the foundation of the Christian church.
Jesus has largely been depicted as an altruist or a good deeds man, and so at some point the history of his good deeds elevated him from the darkness of history (no one actually knows when God or the son of God in the form of Jesus was born nor does anyone know when he actually died) into an imperial cult worship figure is what the historical evidence supports.
For now we will ignore that Jesus is always with us AND that we need him to come back to save us from all of this. It is hard to come back if you are already here, and if you are already here, then you don’t need to come back.
Another sign that Jesus is actually or originally Augustus Caesar is common sense, because as we have noted, no one actually knows the birth nor death dates of Jesus -- also known as God and also known as the son of God -- and yet the birth date and death date of Augustus Caesar (the OG or original son of God before Jesus) are known.
If you are a God in need of worship, aren’t you going to make sure people are born knowing your rules, birthday, and date of death (except Gods don’t die, nor do they allow the specs of dust they need worship from, to nail them to death by nailing them to lumber, which would disrespect the God that needs to be worshiped)?
Except even Gods die, because how many of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and other infinite Gods of the past still exist and are worshiped today? What happened to the power of those Gods? What will happen to the power of our God(s) over time?
If you were God, wouldn’t you make your favorite worship creation in such a manner that everyone would worship the same God, and if they didn’t, why wouldn’t you correct the same, if you love us, and you have infinite power, and you see all things? Some things just don’t add up.
If you see all things, and you have infinite power, then why did you create non-stop evil and why won’t you do away with the same? Seems like you can’t see all things, because if you did, and you have infinite power, and you loved us, then you would have foreseen and/or you would fix all the evil you created. But if you are not all powerful, like Zeus of yesterday, then you can’t fix evil, and probably didn’t create evil, nor anything else. Like Zeus, you were a fraud created by weak men seeking to lord over others, in order for the weak men to feel better about them feeling like weak men.
Or if you are all powerful and all seeing, and if you see the evil forced upon us by these gangsters daily, then you don’t love us, because if you did, you would make all evil go away for everyone, but you don’t, or can’t. If you loved us you would have created a world without hurt. No one would be hungry, no one would need to sleep, no one would pay taxes, no one would have to work in order to save almost nothing at the end of the day, and no one would die, or be harmed, ever.
Because evil exists, it seems impossible that you are all seeing, or you would not have created evil and you would see evil every day.
Because evil exists, it seems impossible that you are all powerful, because you can’t stop evil.
Because evil exists, it seems impossible that you are all loving, because if you were all loving, you would have never created evil in the first place, and you would remedy the same immediately, but instead most of us face evil on a daily basis, because of your love? Good one.
It seems more like you are evil, not all powerful, and not all seeing, because of the amount of evil that has existed since the cults of Abraham. It seems that you are or were human and that you wanted to be remembered, like some guy named Zeus.
And so the historical evidence supports we have been worshiping Augustus (son of God) and God (Caesar) for over 2,000 years, because of resurrected imperial cults by fake kings and emperors seeking full spectrum dominance, due to their insecurities.
The fake English royals’ Freemason subversion organization – per and since Dr. Richard Spence’s research – are like many Hollywood movies, imperial cult propagandists, trying to keep the resurrected Habsberg crime syndicate’s imperial cult in power, which has since devolved into the crime syndicate of Epstein and Trump.
The founding Freemason document (the Haliwell Manuscript or Regius poem --a real Freemason oath to false English kings – was produced from the home of a fake English ‘royal’, commissioned by the fake English royals, allegedly hundreds of years earlier, paying an educated man of the robe or church to produce the oath/poem, which all Freemasons are supposed to take and/or support).
https://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/regius.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscripts
Dr. Richard B. Spence of the University of Idaho, an expert in Russian (and thus European royal and thus Freemason) history streams over 20 lectures on his research into the shared royal and Freemason history, and it is so interesting, found on the Great Courses streaming providers.
https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/richard-b-spence
What we learned from and since Dr. Spence is that Prussians (a country where soldiers from the Crusade, who looted through to Israel, fled back to roughly Germany and founded their own monarchy, also linked to other imperial cult ‘orders’) and English royals’ Freemasons conspired with traitors to illegitimately steal power from the real royals of England (for example but not limited to families with greater claims to the English thrones as found in the semi-recent film about an Australian family with a greater claim than the current royal family, who were allegedly invited to the coronation of Charles).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abney-Hastings%2C_14th_Earl_of_Loudoun
The thrones of England were unlawfully usurped by way of treason and murder of Richard II and III by Henry IV -- whose “bloodline” has seen been proved to not be legitimate royal blood – leaving the more legitimate bloodlines of Henry I, Henry II, and Edward III through the Fitzalan and Henry Beaufort line to Abigail Adams, the First Lady in the first White House (burned down by very angry Canadians).
The current and retroactive English royal claims are in part based on the sister of Henry Beaufort (who outlived all of the male brothers and step-brothers from Edward III and all of the male children of his siblings, rightfully making him with the strongest English royal claim -- but for the treason and usurping of those rights by Henry Bolingbroke).
And so Henry Beaufort has a much greater retroactive claim to the throne of England than his sisters, based on Carolingian, Salic, and Cannon laws of succession, Magna Carta, Act of Parliament and by Papal Bull, 1397, Common Law, and/or other laws.
Beaufort and Henry I’s and II’s Fitzalan family preserved the greatest royal claims, and thus Henry VII’s retroactive claim to Henry Beaufort’s sister and children (who Henry Beaufort outlived), is an inferior claim to Henry Beaufort’s and the Fitzalan’s superior royal claim to the Duchy of Lancaster, as the first on that throne, now known as the throne of England, and its derivatives.
Very interesting, the far superior claim of the Beaufort-Fitzalan line to Abigail Adams resulted in the husband of Adams (John Adams), establishing a country founded by the actual royals of England, and not by the family of George V, the usurpers of the thrones of England, which most people don’t know, because they never researched the same, elucidated by the family of the Beauforts-Fitzalans. Said differently, the true royals overthrew the fake royals, and gifted the same to their people.
Edward IV’s bloodlines have also since been proven to be illegitimate, then there is the archer Blaybourne and impossibility of his heir due to the time it would take to travel back from abroad and the time he took away from his pregnant wife as documented by historians.
Then the fake English royals and treasonous crime syndicate married another fake royal family, the Austrian Habsburgs -- who many to most ‘royals’ in Europe use as a basis for their royal claims -- but we have researched the family lines back to the Habsburgs and learned the Habsburgs used to hand out royal titles to people without royal blood and so the Habsburgs aren’t “blood” royals, proven by the forged land deeds known as Privilegium maius (forged land deeds these frauds specified were from Imperial Cult lord, Julius Caesar), forge documents used by the first Habsburg to trick Austria and Austrians and then all of Europe into believing they were “royals”.
By the time the forgery was found out hundreds of years later, this treasonous crime syndicate had overthrown the real royals of Europe and replaced the power seats with themselves, their Freemason proxies, and/or royals who were Freemasons, like traitor Edward VIII and the Wilmhelms.
But it doesn't matter that they aren't legally royals, because their crime syndicate changed the laws to say that they are -- and where Jeffrey Epstein's GOP SCOTUS did the same thing for the illegitimate crimes of the Presidents that unlawfully and illegitimately appointed the GOP SCOTUS -- known as the circular argument flaw in logic, reasoning, and critical thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
Per Dr. Richard Spence, then the first Freemason lodge (of the Tudor-Habsberg-Epstein-Trump crime syndicate) was erected in London and the “oath” taken (research Haliwell manuscript translation online, which is an oath to false English royals who commissioned the oath, and the oath also is an oath to networking those with power and influence, and to profiteering), per the link above.
Then per Dr. Richard Spence, the French lodge was erected, which answered to the English lodge, which answered to the false English royals. Then the other lodges were erected in other European countries, and they answered to the French lodge, who answered to the English lodge, who answered to their fake English royals, and then these false English royals married these false Austrian royals and with their subversive Freemasons illegitimately usurped all of the thrones of Europe. Simon Bolivar and Napoleon were both Habsbergs and Freemasons and this crime syndicate overthrew Europe, South America, America, and much of the world over the last 666 years, eventually becoming the largest named family in the client list of Jeffrey Epstein, with the Trump family the second largest named family in the client books.
At the end of the Great Courses lectures, Dr. Spence makes the connection between the European ‘royals’, P6 Freemasons, Trump’s former ally Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi, and organized crime (Burlusconi and the five families are linked to the guy who raised Trump, Roy Cohn, an attorney linked to the five families and/or ‘associates’).
Our research of this ongoing organized crime syndicate proposes that it has been in power over the world for about 666 years this year (Privilegium maius), and then devolved into the Nazis, then devolved into Jeffrey Epstein’s treasonous child sex trafficking ring and ‘associates’, who maintain and share power over the world. That’s where all the evidence and rabbit holes go to.
In modern times, full spectrum dominance of the mental world by those with the most money allow them to have the greatest online media dominance as to who sees what, and for how long, and where now they have self-proclaimed themselves “truth” guardians, and censor what they don’t want others to believe is true, in the context that the greatest online media dominance is almost exclusively shared by the treasonous child sex trafficking ring of Jeffrey Epstein and Donnie Urine Mints, and their billionaire child molestors and gang rapists billionaires and ‘associates’ like Leon Black, Conrad Black, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, the Wildenstein family of Trump Tower (where implied pedophile Michael Jackson also lived), and lots and lots of ‘royals’, Schwarzeneggar’s family, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (overtly furthered the crimes of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate, by infiltrating and thus intimidating the family of the Editor of Uprights News, to help coverup the murder of children in illegal medical experiments at CHORI in 2002, which eventually results in Trump running for office, is a reasonable inference based on our insider knowledge published at Uprights News), and/or others.
The new rules of the game are the old rules of the game, per H.G. Wells, who over a hundred years ago complained that enlightenment had failed because people ignore facts over how they feel, but now we know how they feel is how their oppressors engineer them to feel, and where there oppressors conquer and divide by weaponizing natural differences in populations, also known as royal Russian Active measures, which Trump and the GOP overtly further and often.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
In his Outline of History (1920), H. G Wells wrote ‘Civilisation is in a race between education and catastrophe’.
“Catastrophe is winning. After one hundred and fifty years of free public education, the Enlightenment project seems to be spent.
Instead of reason and evidence, even ostensibly educated people celebrate, parade, and worship passion. Emotions are regarded as superior to reason. Thus I have oft heard that it is praise to say a scientist is passionate, whereas I would prefer a scientist to be cool and detached, letting the facts and evidence lead to the conclusions, not the emotions. Ditto for journalists, doctors, teachers, and ambulance drivers and more. But no, they are congratulated for passion not competence, discipline, restraint, diligence, tenacity, skepticism, preparation, endurance, and the like.
To say someone is competent, knowledgeable, effective, precise, industrious, or professional is faint praise compared to attributing passion.
Indeed the self-advertising of universities follows the crowd, touting passion not perfection, belief not doubt in proclaiming their virtues.
Emotional reactions are simple, binary, as when cheering on a sporting team. These days even the self-appointed newspapers of record, having forsaken the historic mission of public edification, put sports figures and celebrities on the front page in the vein attempt to hook buyers and readers by passions, not by information, insight, knowledge, or long and slowly accumulated intelligence that came from sitting still and reading or patiently listening. Favoured instead is the direct intuition of passion.
The White School House at Corning Iowa last time I saw it.
Admittedly education itself has changed in that century and a half. In the last two generations in a comfort born of the sacrifices of others, the denizens of higher education have largely devoted themselves to undermining the Enlightenment project, while enjoying its benefits, and they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and passed that on to their students who have gone on to become school teachers, parents, journalists, and community leaders. Witness the world they have made today in Whitehall and the White House where volume and repetition have replaced facts and evidence. Passionately saying it is so now makes it so.
Intellectuals were the first to find facts irrelevant and spread the word in seminars, lectures, and books. The word has spread and now grows of itself. Truth is no longer privileged. This I have been told for years in seminars, conferences, and theses.
All knowledge is tainted.
Everything is opinion.”