Class Matters: Postscript
Don't be fooled by social engineers promising you the moon
In the context of class wars (as discussed in my previous post, Class Matters Dialogue), social engineering has been a prominent mandate for Western intelligence agencies since the Second World War. A document titled “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” was discovered July 7, 1986, apparently left in an IBM copier that had been purchased at a surplus sale. The document, dated May 1979, purports to be “the doctrine adopted by the Policy Committee of the Bilderberg Group during its first known meeting in 1954.” Unfortunately, no author is attributed, causing its authenticity to be questioned. However, a scanned copy of the original typewritten document is available on the Internet Archive. [1]
It reads very much like a manifesto of today’s oligarchs and intelligence agencies cast in the mold of Allen Dulles’ CIA, or a policy paper from the World Economic Forum, minus the media savvy (and not intended for public consumption). Whether or not it’s genuine, it accurately summarizes the mentality of globalist elites:
“It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control…” —“Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” [2]
In a chilling echo of Edward Bernays’ principles in Propaganda, the document declares: “It was soon recognized by those in positions of power that the same methods might be useful for totally controlling a society.” The document calls for “better tools,” and with the postwar boom in the science of psychology, the best tool for the job proved to be psychological operations (a.k.a. “PsyOps”). This social engineering was to be accomplished in part through the manipulation of the postwar economy to produce a race of passive consumers. With the invention of mass communication devices such as television, this consumptive ethos could be ingrained and continually reinforced, just as Aldous Huxley said in a 1958 TV interview with a young Mike Wallace. This results in a kind of economic “slavery,” a social component explicitly mentioned in “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars.” Another passage in this document explains how this economic and social hierarchy is baked into the system through its public education:
“The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class.” —“Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” (emphasis mine)
This is something the late John Taylor Gatto—author of the iconic book Dumbing Us Down—realized from his decades as a teacher, writer and researcher. I strongly recommend watching his interview, “Underground History Lesson.” [3] (You’ll have to watch it in instalments—it’s 5 hours long!) Again, whether the “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” document is genuine or not is less important than the fact that it accurately sums up the mentality of our global “elites” as typified by the World Economic Forum, Bilderberg Group, and a new breed of technocratic billionaires. If it didn’t come directly from the Bilderbergers, it accurately sums up their philosophy.
This philosophy is being reinforced by our Big Tech bros in “new” concepts such as the “Dark Enlightenment” (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) and “Accelerationism,” [4] which use thousands of words to encode the same old, same old philosophy of oligarchy that stretches all the way back to Plato’s concept of the Republic 2,400 years ago. Plato believed that class differences were inherent in nature, so instead of fighting it, why not empower it in society? In his Republic, the aristocratic class was born to rule, with skilled craftspeople and artists on the next rung down the ladder, farmers next, unskilled labourers and slaves at the bottom. In Plato’s Republic, there is no social mobility—except downward, for those of the upper class who fail. Just as Plato did, today’s elites see democracy as a failed experiment, a hopelessly flawed philosophy that can never work in practice.
A modern version of Plato’s Republic was created in the 1930s with the birth of Technocracy—a political philosophy that eliminated messy democratic processes for a class system that places scientists and technocrats in the ruling hierarchy. It enshrined the concept of “expert culture,” since after all, they know better than the mere plebeians of the working classes, right? It reinforces the elitist belief in their superiority—a position the “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” concept explains how to perpetuate through social engineering. “(Peter) Thiel’s “unthinking dēmos,” who aren’t worth bribing because their share of sovereignty is derisory, simply become the ‘not very bright’ customers of gov-corp,” writes Iain Davis. This is the very “gov-corp” that Elon Musk seems to be creating before our eyes, with all government services subject to efficiency reviews and balance sheet justifications for their continued existence. Any system of social services in this calculus is deemed inefficient and unprofitable. President Trump has clearly given Musk and his fellow technocrats a blank cheque to restructure government in this way. This “gov-corp” slots neatly into Technocracy, advocating, according to Iain Davis, “global solutions for global problems,” i.e. a globalist, technocratic state:
“Gov-corp would concentrate upon running an efficient, attractive, vital, clean, and secure country, of a kind that is able to draw customers. The customer, then, is an NPC (non-playing character) whose only purpose is to act as a cash cow—although money won’t exist—for the neoreactionary shareholders (stakeholders) of global gov-corp.” —Iain Davis
“Nothing less than the total transformation of international economic, financial, political and social structures can save us, we are told. … an all-powerful state where we are controlled minions,” Davis continues, that “wave away class antagonisms ... Nonetheless, the socialist utopia of enforced idleness (no work) and Universal Basic Income (UBI), as we abandon all notion of a ruling class and instead submit to parochial lives under state ‘care,’ is practically indistinguishable from our envisaged enslavement as customers of gov-corp…” [5]
Davis quotes Paul Mason—an architect of the New Left—as saying, “information technology makes Utopian Socialism possible.” [6] We will “own nothing and be happy,” to cite the World Economic Forum mantra that drew so much public ire. Davis’s article is a challenging read but raises some alarming red flags about the rationalizations being bandied about by our “elites” in the name of “solving” our social problems. Their “Dark Enlightenment,” enabled by the kinds of structural collapses represented by “market failures” such as the ones engineered in 1929 and 2008, utilizes an “accelerationist” philosophy of “creative destruction.” Don’t worry, they assure us as they tear down democracy, we’re doing this for your own good! Look—our new plan eliminates class altogether! What they don’t seem to understand—likely due to either their own ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation of Western political history—is that it’s yet another rebranding of oligarchy and fascism.
I would disagree with Davis that the globalist state they envision abandons “all notion of a ruling class.” To the contrary, it would cement into place Plato’s elitist class hierarchy. If anything this “new” plan eliminates the lower classes, not the ruling oligarchy. After all, who needs lower classes? All you really need is an all-wise elite who control everything. Globalist shills like Yuval Noah Harari see the masses as passive blobs reduced to the status of 24/7 video game and porn consumers. So who will collect the garbage, unblock the sewers after a flood, repair downed power lines in a storm? Robots? Drones? What our so-called elites seem blissfully unaware of is the fact that no technology ever functions at 100% reliability. Who will service the damaged or defective robots and drones? More robots? What happens if a solar electromagnetic pulse fries all digital circuits globally? Suddenly the plebeian worker doesn’t look quite so dispensable.
Just so I don’t leave readers with a ‘black pill’ to choke down, let me remind you that we’ve seen significant pushback from the masses during the past five years: the Canadian Truckers’ Convoy, the farmers’ revolts in Europe, the trouncing of leftist political parties in both Europe and America, record low uptake of Covid-19 “boosters,” and the proliferation of alternative media like dandelions in a spring lawn. This is likely why the elites are shifting their agenda into high gear, increasingly shedding the velvet gloves for the iron fist. But with the revelations of fraud and lies regarding the “pandemic,” historic low confidence in mass media, and widespread awareness of corruption in media, science and government, the masses are waking up. Just don’t buy into it—central bank digital currencies, digital ID, transhumanism—none of it. As The Doors sang way back in 1968: “They got the guns / but we got the numbers / Gonna win, yeah, we’re takin’ over!” (“Five to One”) The Who composed the appropriate sequel to that song when they wrote: “We don’t get fooled again!”
Or as Captain Picard was fond of saying: “Make it so!”
[1] “Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars Original Document Copy,” Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/SilentWeaponsForQuietWarsOriginalDocumentCopy/page/n1/mode/2up
[2] “Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars Original Document Copy,” Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/SilentWeaponsForQuietWarsOriginalDocumentCopy/page/n1/mode/2up
[3] John Taylor Gatto, “Underground History Lesson,” Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/UltimateHistoryLesson
[4] Iain Davis, “The Dark Enlightenment,” The Disillusioned Blogger, October 6, 2024: https://iaindavis.com/the-dark-enlightenment/
[5] Iain Davis, “The Dark Enlightenment,” The Disillusioned Blogger, October 6, 2024: https://iaindavis.com/the-dark-enlightenment/
[6] Iain Davis, “The Dark Enlightenment,” The Disillusioned Blogger, October 6, 2024: https://iaindavis.com/the-dark-enlightenment/
Thanks for sharing this old “leaked” document and putting it into current context. I don’t often read people affirming Plato as a protofascist, but it’s undeniable. In some ways we have seen this socially stratified (fascist as opposed to socialist) “utopia”take shape. It persists in China to a great degree, but the upside is that the “proles” will always revolt against oppression. As I witnessed in my Soviet block travels in the 80’s. Everyone was miserable and just waiting for the word. Nature, of which we are part, does not permit long periods of stasis- but how long?
One could also observe in an alternate historical interpretation, that the post war era saw the invisible creep of the techno fascist utopia right under our noses and in our living rooms. The difference now, as you say, is that people are waking up -one substack, one podcast at a time. Cheers!