“The fevered
imagination of the British ruling classes...” What a bloody rude and
impertinent thing to say by the BBC.
I read that phrase in an article, not a recent article -, in
a BBC archive about the beginnings of the New Age Movement.
The article itself is absolutely ridden through with the
names of relatives and in-laws of my own father – and thus, I suppose of myself
too!
I think I ought to know a little about these people!
Looks a bit like Bruce Dern! |
Put it this way,’ Sir George *’ was not quite the person the
media likes to cast him as having been. They have their own reasons for
intimating that he was a rich, romantic eccentric, and nothing more. He
certainly was not a technical scientist as far as I know but then again, I do
know that he knew Rosalind Franklin the discoverer of DNA and I also know his
private talking was different to when he spoke to students and the general
layman public.
Now some things about Sir George still affect real, living
people today who are in difficult spots – and I’m not going to create more
trouble for them by saying anything too obviously and too publically.
Sir George was an establishment Britisher – but you see, of the day though; not of today. Today’s English establishment are
an entirely different class and breed (lol – said that deliberately of course!).
Sir George is widely regarded as the founder of the New Age
Movement. And that means that he would not have found favour with say, J. Edgar
Hoover. Some current era Republicans would probably like to say the New Age
Movement is a Communist thing.
And it may be that.
Sir George’s father bequeathed his estate – Attingham Park –
to the British National Trust, and today it is also the home of an ‘educational’
Summer School that exists to network with American academics and students. If
you were of a sinister mentality, you could rush to the thought that Attingham
Park is a kind of an Anglo-American spy network – certainly a way of recruiting
new network members. Which it is of course... But where it once was one of the
mainstream British establishment’s own networks, it is if anything now a
competing network with the extra-national mercantile elite that has found its
way into Whitehall, definitely since the time of Thatcher.
Now I found I had to delete a small segment that ought to
logically follow next in this flow of things, but it’s not quite the right time
to say it all just yet.
What I am endeavouring to demonstrate to you however, is
sufficient background history so that you can observe things did not happen in
a vacuum nor did they all fall down in the last shower of rain.
It is not general public knowledge (although it does exist
tucked away in an obscure part of the Western Australian State Auditor General’s
Report) that the (don’t know what else you could call it) MI6 field operational
team was set up and trained with massive Australian government funding on one
side of Rottnest Island in order to then to go off and intercept undersea cabling
in order to bust in on various Asian government officials private telephone
conversations – in the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ scheme supposedly on behalf of its
final beneficiary, the US Government. I know I‘ve mentioned here the name of
the actual cover company in New Zealand that was used – and that’s never been
published anywhere (although I did extract the section after a short while).
Anyway a lot of people don’t understand about ‘tradition.’
Jean-Claude Biver, the CEO of Hublot watches, talks extensively about tradition
and how he prefers to match the old with innovation and with a vision of ‘tomorrow.’
Sir George also had a vision of tomorrow. He said not to be afraid of the coming world.
Sazerac Cocktail |
Myself, I am very Old Fashioned. Some people think the Vieux
Carre, or at least the Sazerac Cocktail were in fact the very first cocktails
ever made. That is not quite correct but certainly, there is a line of history
from their origination in France into New Orleans where the Sazerac first made
its appearance in the New World. Thus, if the ‘real’ truth be known, in every
New World, the ‘innovation’ there, is something that came from a forgotten,
older world.
It’s all the same stuff, which goes round and around and around.
People forget.
It pays not to forget though. Where the actual sources are...