CIA Manufactured Modern US Literature
May 26, 2017
Left. Ernest Hemingway was a CIA agent. The CIA admits this on their own website . See Mathis' full expose . Miles Mathis says that modern culture is essentially
mental programming by the CIA, an arm of the Illuminati
banking cartel. The systemic destruction of traditional art
is intended to promote "alienation," the satanic view
that human life is inherently meaningless, incoherent, trivial and ugly.
Satanism is the inversion of all spiritual ideals-
Mathis: "By a constant stream of top-down propaganda, writers were convinced that being solipsistic, quotidian, and creatively modest were artistic virtues. As with painting, science, politics, and every other category, the inversion of the thing was sold as the thing itself."
Makow comment- Mathis is a brilliant and prolific writer. Although his claims that many sensational murders were faked seem outlandish, his assertions about modern culture are credible. As a Ph.D. in literature, I always felt modern culture was fraudulent. This confirms it. I feel betrayed by the education system and society. An highly organized satanic cult has recast Western society in its image. Contrary views are not funded or publicized. Another example of de facto Communism, and how we have been unwittingly inducted into a
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from March 28, 2015
by Miles Mathis
From Theosophy to the Beat Generation
(excerpt by henrymakow.com)
A reader alerted me to an article just published at the Chronicle of Higher Education by an English professor at Providence College, Eric Bennett. This article is about the Iowa Writer's Workshop, at which he was a student from 1998 to 2000.
He admits that the writing programs at the University of Iowa have long been underwritten by the CIA, via the Farfield Foundation, the ACCF, [The Artists and Community Collaboration Fund] and the Rockefellers. The sentence in the article that is most useful here is this one: Creative-writing pedagogues in the aftermath of World War II, without exception, read Partisan Review, The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, and The Sewanee Review .
They breathed the intellectual air of New Critics, on the one hand, and New York intellectuals on the other. These camps, formerly enemy camps--Southern reactionaries and Northern socialists at each other's throats in the 1930s--had by the 50s merged into a liberal consensus that published highly intellectual, but at the time only newly "academic," essays in those four journals, all of which, like Iowa, were subsidized by the Rockefeller Foundation.
As we have seen and will see, they were also subsidized by many other CIA front organizations. The government used the purse-strings to exert control over these programs, keeping them in little pens that Bennett says serve "to venerate and fortify the particular, the individual, the situated, the embedded, the irreducible."
Or, in other words, to keep them small and disempowered. By a constant stream of top-down propaganda, writers were convinced that being solipsistic, quotidian, and creatively modest were artistic virtues. As with painting, science, politics, and every other category, the inversion of the thing was sold as the thing itself.
A 2012 Salon article by Joel Whitney tells us the Partisan Review and the Paris Review [were linked to the CIA] as well.
Peter Matthiessen, the magazine's founder, has now admitted that in interviews, such as this one ... that he was recruited by the CIA right out of Yale in 1953, and that the Paris Review was his "cover." That information has been added to the Paris Review page at Wikipedia, but it is a bald admission with no commentary as to how it must affect everything to do with the magazine.
Both Matthiessen and George Plimpton, left, have tried to maintain that Matthiessen was the only one who knew, but--given what we now know from the CIA itself (see Tom Braden)--that isn't believable in the least. When various writers were pleading ignorance back in the 1960's and 70's, Braden flipped the leak, outing them . He said that all these writers and artists knew exactly what was going on, and [Francis Storer] Saunders' book [The Cultural Cold War] confirms that over and over. So does the article at Salon , which outs both Plimpton and Nelson Aldrich as members of the [CIA-front] ACCF.
INDOCTRINATION
Salon also tells us the CIA backing was a problem: "By funding a magazine with a New York office that was distributed in the U.S., it was engaged in propagandizing to the American public, which was illegal ."
Unfortunately, Joel Whitney at Salon unmasks himself at the end--if not long before--by saying this: None of which is fair to attach to the Paris Review , if not for Matthiessen's claims that the Review 's ties ended before the ugly stuff, or for Plimpton's failure to disclose the ties that remained.
So in his summation, Whitney is telling you to your face that the greatest crime here is failure to disclose and other white lies? You have to be kidding me! What about the fact that all this was illegal? What about the fact that nothing was what we were told it was?
William Styron said in the first issue, "I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good."
We now know that was total, malicious misdirection, since the whole point of all these magazine was drum-beating.
What about the fact that, all told, at least 9/10ths of 20th century American literature and criticism should now be suspected of being manufactured?
If all these people were working for Intelligence, what is to prevent us from assuming everything they did was Intelligence work, including the novels, poems, and essays?
What is to prevent us from re-reading everything published in that time period, combing it for covert propaganda? You may not think that is necessary, but I for one do.
As you will see in upcoming papers, I have found evidence that is exactly what has happened. It is not just the Beats that are fake, it is almost everyone.
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Thanks to Bill for the tip!
Mathis Website
Related:
Mathew- "Catcher in the Rye" a CIA Psy Op
Makow- How University Betrays Students
--------- How the Illuminati Control Culture
First Comment by Dan:
The fact that 20th Century American "Literature" had a hidden agenda explains the cognitive dissonance most young readers felt while reading it. This website reviewed the mysterious J.D.Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' [1], one of the most disappointing reading experiences of all American high students that were forced to read it. That's one of the most obvious cases of a crappy novel with no redeeming qualities at all remaining the 'Best Sellers' list for decades, lauded by reviewers. Evidently the only students who couldn't put it down were the twin assassins of 1980, John Hinkley and Mark David Chapman.
I read Miles Mathis' The Stolen Century this morning. I give it A+. 'Modernism' was concocted by Marxists. Marx wrote that 'cultural hegemony'(dominance) is the key to taking over. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) developed strategies for unseating the 'traditional' intelligentsia and replacing them with "organic" (subversives). This is when the arts became strictly political vehicles of cultural subversion. Trotsky became the grand master of what Marxists later termed the "Long March" through the society's institutions, in order to flip cultural hegemony from the 'old world order' to the 'new'. It's called the Long March because it takes time - a long time. They've been at it for over century, and now they've moved on from Modernism into "Postmodernism".
I understood the fact that the publishing industry has this hidden agenda far too late in life. 30 years ago I read the New York Times Book Review every Sunday - religiously. With retrospect it's plain as day how the 'best sellers' all my quasi-intellectual friends regurgitating over quiche and Chardonnay corralled our world view, our opinions, and even our self-image.
We all read the same books, saw the same movies, listened to the same bands and singers, watched CBS news and listened to National Public Radio and thought we were oh so smart. The whole things was sold on "snob appeal". That's how these things were marketed.
It took the 911 stunt to finally crumble that world view they constructed in my "open mind" for forty years. I had to go through a year of dealing with "everything I knew was WRONG", but when you can throw off all that conditioning, you get to reconstruct a worldview based on observation of everything as a mature, objective person.
One learns to discern. Eventually. I quit going to Hollywood movies about ten years ago, threw the TV out of my house seven years ago, and now most of the books I read were published before Modernism took over.
[1] Illuminati Dust Off the J.D. Salinger Psy Op
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Comments for "CIA Manufactured Modern US Literature "
Greg F said (March 30, 2015):
Whenever a wealthy elite dominates society, which is practically always, of course the services of the intellectual and professional class will be purchased and controlled by the wealthy elite.
The form of government is irrelevant to this process – all that is needed is for the rich to dominate the society, and the intellectuals and professionals will be at their beck and call.
Naturally, nearly everyone wants to work for the people who possess the wealth. The only remedy for this is the flattening of the wealth pyramid.
The wealthy have used their control of the media, the entertainment industry, and the educational system to brainwash the poor into thinking that a flattening of the wealth pyramid would be unethical
Gene said (March 29, 2015):
Education is all about brainwashing and it has been going of for a long time. The first recorded mandatory education (literacy) was by the Pharisees between 300 BC and 200 BC. It worked so well to establish Pharisees control of the population that they used it again.
Back in 1823 (if my memory serves me properly), the Rothschilds assumed control of the Vatican treasury. He who control the money, controls the organization. Two years later, the Jesuits descended upon American to open schools in rural areas across the country while a Jewish woman, I forget her name, did the same thing in the cities. The stage was set for the brainwashing of youth for Jewish control. At the same time with the power of money, the Christian universities were being morphed into Jewish controlled institutions. By about 1900, education was becoming to be mandatory in the cities and desired by the rural population. By the end of WWII, education in America was mandatory and intense brainwashing commenced.
The US government has been controlled by the Jewish banksters since 1789 since the Constitution which was their idea (see the Protocols about constitutions). The banksters used the government, the Catholic Church, and the Freemasons, to accomplish their goal all under the guise of helping the children which is the dead giveaway that something was amiss. Most certainly, other “western” societies got the same treatment.
There is nothing mandatory that is ever in the best interest of humanity. If something is a good idea, it does not have to be mandatory.
I determined that education was just farce when I was 14-years old while I was sitting in a tree contemplating why I wasn’t doing well in school. I did not realize the real ramifications until 40-years later.
After years of research to determine what was really going on, the hardest thing I had to do was flush away everything that I thought was true. Everything was just an illusion keeping me from realizing the truth. Admitting the fact that my whole life to that point was based on lies led to the solution (the teachings of Jesus) that was in front of me the whole time going unnoticed.
Deception is the devil’s favorite tool. Admitting to being a victim of illusions and flushing them out of your mind is the most important thing anyone can do that really seeks true freedom and happiness.
So, do not feel betrayed. Feel joyous that an illusion has passed. The more room you make in your mind by flushing out illusions, the more room is made for the truth to be realized.
James Perloff said (March 29, 2015):
Once again, Henry, the Protocols are validated. “All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions – aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical . . . .Those fools who think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion.” (Protocols 12:11-12)
I doubt that any major “literary movement” of the past few decades—or major movement within ANY of the artistic genres, for that matter—was allowed to occur without Illuminati approval and purpose.
Dave Martin said (March 28, 2015):
How have the narrow and the gauche
Flaunting "econ," "psych," and "soash"
Eclipsed their intellectual betters,
Our once-exalted men of letters?
They've surely never shown that they
Have more perceptive things to say
About life's deeper mysteries
With formulae and indices
Than our tested bards and sages
Whom we've trusted through the ages,
But for no reason demonstrated,
Our literati abdicated.
Andrew said (March 28, 2015):
We would have to read discourses from before the time writing and paper were invented to escape the influence of intentionally indoctrinated mind control fallacy (misconceptions)…
The point Robert P makes in his comment quoting Luke 4: 5-7 is that programs of spiritual perception control (rejection of virtues, laws and gospels) are as old as the hills.
Today the forces of evil are much more potent.
There has never been a mind control instrument like TV; it has become ubiquitous and so addictive that the NWO can make most people (85%) believe anything.
As Plato taught LIFE IMMEDIATE ART, so if they control literature, they control intellectual life itself.
And life (culture) is still The Waste Land T. S. Eliot wrote about almost 100 years ago.
Catherine said (March 28, 2015):
I had noticed all these posts in the Irish media re mental health with the implication that everyone is mentally ill and should talk openly about it. Yes that mental health issues are normal and that every human e-motion is a mental disorder.
Then you write this amazing article to confirm mental hygiene.
You also reminded me of the use of ECT on abused children in Ireland to burn out all memories of sexual and physical abuse and so silence the child victims. No psychiatrist was needed either - just the word and a nod from a social worker.
In Ireland and other countries the judicial training is that all women are mentally ill - no need for a psyche assessment.
This has been going on for over 20 years here in Ireland, with no one daring to speak out.
We have a history of locking away anyone who goes against the norm.
Andy said (March 28, 2015):
The root cause of the degradation of our modern culture is because of the lack of spiritual grace in souls, as given through faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ and the sacraments of His Catholic Church.
Jeremiah 10:14
"Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them. They are vain things and a ridiculous work:"
John 6:54-55 (The Holy Eucharist)
"Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day."
Colossians 1:28-29
"Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.
Who would dispute that the best works of man were during the apotheosis of Catholicism in Europe, from Medieval times to the Renaissance? Thus said Our Lord;
John 15:4-5
"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing."
If we are not subject to Christ, then we are subject to satan and that includes ordinary folk, not just the wiful satan worshippers;
John 8:44
"You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do."
Job 41:24-25
There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one. He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.
Shawn said (May 26, 2017):
Great article on the CIA and modern literature. Of course only a handful of Publishers exist to filter and censor content. But who really reads anymore? Thus the Intel Literati Octopus has downsized and diversified. Schmancy Tom Clancys behind the Games, Social Media, and indeed-all pop culture... and sub-culture as well. Literati to Technorati in 20 years for the Gatekeepers.