The Elite Cocktail Culture

You think you know everything people do in the world? You think the internet avails you of all this knowledge? ...I smile.

What you know is just the commonplace...

“Diamonds are a girl's best friend.” No they're not. Of course everyone knows the marketing plan De Beers ran from way back, even before Marilyn Monroe's wonderful screen rendition of the song. But what you don't know is that in antiquity, diamond's were legendarily for men.

In the book “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,” this ancient belief is related there, namely, that a diamond, if given to a man, will make him indomitable and guaranteed to succeed in all his endeavours.

And so, if diamonds are really for men – and better so if given to them(!) - what then do or should women wear in rings, that are the best thing for them?

So little does the common person know that I hesitate to break the silence of the elite...

Well, let me just say that, in the 1920's – in the Prohibition Era – it was certainly true that cocktail rings worn by women, were a sign of revolution; and this is not a rare item of knowledge about social customs or codes. Some people argue that the oft-attested 'fan code' of the Victorian Era was not nearly as common or well-organised or understood as is pushed by Romance Novels. However, the opera glove code, or 'wordless language' of signs using gloves, became quite well-known from at least the 1920's through well into the 40's and early 50's – and it was indeed very much from the romantic 'fan code' that its own linguistics sprang.

What I am prepared to tell you right here and now, is that among the most sophisticated in modern Europe – that is to say among the crème de la crème of modern haute salon society – the secret code of cocktail rings allows for assignations to be made between adults, and that not a lot has changed since the time of the Serene Republic and when 'the game of eggs' was played in those days between masked, fascinating strangers and their secret dalliances and potential future lovers.

However it is most important to again distinguish the romance from the actuality: nobody really learns precise 'codes' as some kind of litany requiring that precision and an extensive secretive code vocabulary – developed ideas are often just games going on in the head of the individual on one side. But there is an unbroken set of simple social traditions preserved among sophisticates, usually of 'a certain age' - as they say - which goes back through the social disturbances of economic crises, and the big wars, including the Napoleonic too, really. And it consists of a few simple ideas like this: adults have to have developed adult tastes before they can fully participate in adult games. There are many people who indeed believe they are 'grown up' and have passed the nominally juvenile years; but they are not 'grown up.'

For a man to have developed adult tastes, he must know how to take fresh oysters with his martinis. How to acquire their flavour, to take with salt or not with salt, or add spice or hot pepper sauce. Such things are acquired tastes. Whether among adult men or women, they are acquired tastes and habits. To wear one's cocktail ring on the index finger is good, or on the middle finger – these denote consecutively: positive power and balance. But to wear one's cocktail ring on the little finger implies one must expect to have to, at some point, drink one's martinis standing up.

All The Best To My Faithful Readers,

(Not) Ian Fleming

Monarch Programming - Not!

Alas, but I think we are now in the Age of Lycenko Science... There are too many pressures on too many ordinary ordinary people and the result is that academia is spewing forth people with a moral compass firmly fixed to the Dollar Sign. Using the loaded gun of borrowed knowledge from other eras, they seem to find it easy to apply 'statistical irrelevancy' to cover over unknowns, and with a truly breathtaking arrogance, charge ahead with applications of many dangerous things. The other side of the same coin displays the various popular myths and legends of modern times – and then which are easily packaged away into the 'conspiracy theorist's' bin-for-instant-dismissals.

I like to entertain myself hearing about silly notions that fixated people have about weird conspiracies that are supposed to run our lives – or enslave us, or some of us, at least!

Here's one that I particularly enjoy: Monarch Sex Programming!

This is about the idea that some department in, or scientific group funded by the CIA developed a way to so totally control the minds of selected subjects, that they could have them either 1. assassinate people on command and have no recollection of what they did or why; or 2. be the sex-slaves of people in important positions in order to exert some power or influence over them or get secret information and so on.

And next, the legend/myth goes that somehow, cloning of people had occurred and clones with genetic memory of their programming(!) were in existence being used as per the two items abovementioned.

The code word 'Monarch' was supposed to have come about due to the way Monarch butterflies are supposed to have a genetic memory that allows three consecutive generations of them to traverse a huge migratory route of almost 3,000 miles, each individual travelling through entirely different segments of the journey, but with the third butterfly in the set of three finalling reaching a particular spot in a small forest that its ancestors had, over many iterations of this migratory saga always gone to, to lay eggs.

You will still find to this day, mainstream scientific literature referring to this example of 'genetic memory programming.' Most of that literature which focusses on what mechanisms the butterfly itself uses – as opposed to writers who are focussing more on general gene science, gene coding and gene mechanisms – is now starting to talk of magnetic sensors in the insect. And you will find that even the most authoritative and leading credible stuff is quite confident that it is now these wondrous magnetic sensors that somehow point out the route to the butterfly. And so, we have wandered from an amazing mist in the gene equation, to another amazing fog in the 'sensors' of the butterfly.

Anyhew... The metaphor of the Monarch Butterfly was actually applied, by a brilliant mathematician and strategic thinker and amateur psychologist who knew its Greek scientific name 'Danaeus Plexippus.' And he used what some say is the literal translation of the Greek, 'sleepy transformation,' to describe the process of creating these mind control 'slaves.' There is some factual evidence that the CIA did have a research project of the type that the conspiracy theorists say is still in existence.

Anyone, who really cares about scientific method and rigor and solid empirical results, realizes that there is so much that we don't yet know that the best scientific statement on what the Monarch butterfly is doing and how, is that 'we don't yet know.'

I am deeply inside extremely large and financially well-found - and global – corporate enterprises. And I can tell you that there is some stuff that we know that is not in the published academic arena. Some scientists make discoveries that are earth-shattering and have immediate economic value to corporations, and usually, these people 'disappear' into some fabrica or r & d foundation with a huge amount of money budgeted for them to spend on technical and commercial developments.

You think you use 'lemon' or 'lime' scented liquid detergent? The discovery of the molecules that enable a synthetic lemon or lime scent to not degrade rapidly the way even natural lemon or lime does was worth billions and billions. Virtually every dishwashing product in the entire world uses the discovery of just two people – and that discovery earns billions. You will find very little literature on who these people are or where they are right now. ...Or what they are doing.

Some people in large corporate enterprises know how the Monarch butterfly makes its journey, that is, manages its navigation, over several generations.

'Monarch' is also a word that means single leader. In some conspiracy literature, they also talk of a Luciferian or Satanic Illuminati Cult in reference to the Monarch programming thing. I love all this, don't you? So we have a secret group, that, since at least the 50's, has cloned or virtually cloned, individuals who are brainwashed and programmed as sex slaves for despotic leading figures around the world.

Well either where there is smoke there is fire, or – where there is smoke, just bring along some mirrors and you can have a lot of fun.

Or... ...both are true to varying extents.

I just don't understand why Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World hasn't hacked any of these people's phones and run stories of their amazing sex lives on the front pages! My god, how incompetent. I mean, doesn't he have his own telephone number?! ...What a sight, Rupert Murdoch having sex.

Actually my point is this – you will never see who the people are behind the commercialisation of Viagra. And I mean, that is to say - the executives in the companies that took it on from the scientists. They are wa-a-a-y more powerful than Rupert Murdoch.

I like Lafite, don't you? It's a friendly, feminine wine. If a programmed sex-slave were a wine, Lafite would be it.

I could have stuck a pic of Murdoch and Wendy Deng here but I like this one of Eric de Rothschild better. And besides I like him better as well. Not that I have ever met him.

Best,

Calvin J. Bear