/lit/ - Literature

>>13822647
>the conspiracy
>the organisation first revealed by Weishaupt’s documents
>1787 document by the Bavarian Illuminist order of Weishaupt
*puts on tin foil*

>destroying all legitimate government, religion and nationhood and setting up a universal despotism to rule the enslaved masses by terror and violence
Yet the biggest proponents of Zionism hate the UN and are evangelical Christians.

>>13807656
>What do I read to understand modern politics and economics?
Well I think on the right wing you have the ideas of social choice theory, public choice theory, positive political theory, etc which is essiently a bizzaro right-wing Marxism designed to destroy the foundations of Marxism. Kenneth Arrow starts from slightly different axioms from marginalist economics to get at a universal notion of efficiency instead of working with incommensurable utility
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/

"Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism" is a good book on the origins of all this:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FFB59C4B0683AF187A4FA41C58B3676D

And this interview is worth watching [it's a fucking Alex Jones interview but it's worth it]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrkLwLTrIg


From the left I suppose modern monetary theory provides a coherent politico-economic outlook on things

"Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World"
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=8FE4354F04938A6011BCA41CD6CB037B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGuNpqYBkZk

>>13228500
There was a whole genre of "decline of the empire" type books post 9/11 e.g. Michael Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon".

Also don't forget all the raving about FEMA death camps, HAARP and chemtrails organized directly from the executive branch to enslave us. Thankfully the president now is saving us from all this with 8D chess.

>>12552236
The United States was the first modern post-colonial society. Most people just don't see why this could or should be the logic end result of revolution, a revolt against what was literally the most liberal society in the world at the time who would have probably granted independence if it was just asked for.

>>11377167
If you want to be a massive jackass just read Schopenhauer's The Art of Being Right

I have no idea who "Mark Dice" is, just let me google...

>Mark Shouldice (born December 21, 1977), known professionally as Mark Dice,[1] is an American YouTube personality[3] and author[4] known for his conspiracy theories about secret societies such as The Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Grove events, Satanists and the Illuminati control of the world.[5][6][4][7]

Ok if you actually aren't a moron and willing to take your tinfoil hat off go and read Edward S. Herman instead

>serious academic
>type name into youtube
>first thing to pop up is an interview with Molyneux or Alex Jones

Why would someone degrade themselves like this?

>>8826451
all of those "smart people" just constitute a small elite that attend gay orgies at bohemian grove
doesn't seem that smart to me

Formal logic can only handle the laws for rational thought. Dialectics is the logic of change. History shows that forms come into existence, develop and interact with other forms and then pass away to be succeeded by new forms. The non-dialectical model tolerates rigid classifications and erects walls between disciplines because it can only consider subjects abstractly and unhistorically.

>>7873256
>If you read his books, listen to him speak, you'll find that he's a vastly intelligent person who built his empire up from scratch and the only reason why people are scared of him is because he's going to remove power from a lot of people who do not want that to happen.

It's super funny that conspiracytards (like alex jones) are falling for a guy like Donald Trump, a junk real estate financier parasite with deep connections into the elite. Trump's a product of J. Edgar Hoover’s New York circles which included mobbed-up businessmen like Lewis Rosenstiel, along with Cardinal Spellman and various Wall Street establishment and media figures, all presided over by Hoover’s main New York man, the satanic Roy M. Cohn. Cohn who was Trump’s lawyer and best friend throughout most of Trump’s formative years -- his mentor, according to Trump himself.

Trumps probably been building up deep ties into the military industrial complex over the past couple of months for contracts he will hand out to his cronies when he becomes president.