BREAD AND CIRCUSES

The Spiritual and Social Decay Of Great Britain

JOHN G. SUTTON

There was a time, not too long ago and certainly within my lifetime, when this country that we call Great Britain actually felt like a safe place to bring up children. I was born in 1949, into an era where the general population had respect for a police force that was viewed as being fair and just, where ministers of religion were considered to be keepers of our spiritual conscience, judges and lawyers trusted pillars of the community and entertainment on what TV there was consisted of Billy Cotton’s Band Show and Sunday Night At The London Palladium. However it would be naïve to refer to that period as the good old days because they were quite difficult times with food rationing and real poverty for many. There was virtually no central heating, homes for many had outside toilets and most had no bathroom, the tin bath in front of the fire being the way people washed. But despite the hardship people seemed decent and honest, committing a crime was considered sinful and imprisonment carried a real stigma. Sex was hidden away, though it certainly took place or you wouldn’t be reading this and I wouldn’t be writing it. That was then, this is now:

Only this week, as I write, a retired judge; His Honour David Selwood, has been convicted in a criminal court of creating and possessing pornographic images of naked little boys. Recently the Church of England appointed the sexually liberated Rev. Dr. Jeffrey John as the Dean of St. Albans, despite opposition from many, including Dr. Philip Giddings of the Anglican Mainstream who says ‘there's no room for interpretation: "The Bible is absolutely clear. All the verses about active homosexuality are negative." Though the Reverend Martin Reynolds from the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement argues ‘that in today's society, we cannot interpret the Bible so literally’. Which begs the question who is now responsible for the moral guidance of our children. One of the top rated programmes on TV ‘Big Brother’ is currently featuring images of young adults, both male and female, cavorting naked for all to observe.

A SCENE FROM THE 'BIG BROTHER' TV SHOW

‘The Osbournes’ is yet another currently popular television show that features a seemingly brain-damaged Heavy-Metal rock singer called Ozzy whose language is so laced with profanities that it is virtually meaningless, like the programme. ‘The Royale Family’ is inappropriately termed a TV comedy show that invites us to laugh at a dysfunctional group of unattractive slobs whose head figure is an ugly, unwashed, buffoon who keeps shouting ‘My Arse!’ as he hurls invective at all and sundry, like Alf Garnet without the social skills. As an affront to Spiritualism, SKY TV has numerous programmes that feature perfectly good spirit-mediums, degrading themselves and our beliefs. I saw one psychic, no names no pack drill, who started howling like a wolf at the moon as he very obviously faked ‘possession’ by an ‘evil-spirit’ whilst a dizzy-blonde presenter pretended to tremble in terror. I nearly fell off my chair laughing! There are other mediums on SKY TV that give messages from spirits but their programmes carry the label ‘For Entertainment Only’. You may well ask; what is this country coming to when a religious practice, ‘communication’ can be listed as entertainment. Can you imagine the Roman Catholic Mass being listed as ‘for entertainment only’?

As further evidence of the decline in moral standards consider this; Britain's teenage pregnancy rate is the highest in Europe. In 2002 there were 39,286 teen pregnancies recorded. One only has to look at the housing estates to see what happens to these children, they are not just statistics. They are single parents struggling to cope on benefits. Often they deliberately become pregnant again to make themselves eligible for more benefits. What steps are the government taking to deal with this problem? According to The Observer of 9^th May 2004 schoolchildren are, believe this or not, being taught how to experiment with oral sex instead of practising sexual intercourse. This must be the ‘suck it and see’ approach to sex education.

The Roman satirist Juvenal, wrote that the people that once governed the country now longed for just two things — bread and circuses. Juvenal lived in a time when the virtues of the Roman republic were just a memory and the moral rot, which eventually destroyed Rome, was already advanced. Juvenal could see that the Romans were addicted to pleasure and they had lost the capability of self government. Juvenal’s term "panem et circenses" — bread and circuses — is eternally linked with hedonism i.e. self-gratification. We seem to be following the same discreditable pathway to perdition.

PAINTING OF A ROMAN ORGY

The novelist Aldous Huxley foresaw a "brave new world" where religious and moral restraints no longer exist and the people are controlled with recreational drugs, carnal pleasures, and mindless entertainment. Huxley’s novel ‘Brave New World’ is less well known than George Orwell’s ‘1984’. But it may be that it is Huxley and not Orwell that is finally proved right. Unless of course the likes of George W. Bush and his illusory ‘War On Terror’ expand into Syria, North Korea, Iran and eventually we will all be at war with each other, which would fulfil Orwell’s gloomy prediction that ‘war is peace’.

Huxley, in ‘Brave New World’ was trying to say that it is easier to enslave a people by seduction than by coercion. It was Stalin that said he would conquer Western civilization by using pornography to undermine it. Stalin is long gone but it does rather seem that his ideas live on via the media. As for controlling the people through recreational drugs one need look no further than the street corners and car parks of our cities, towns and villages to see teenage dealers offering crack-cocaine, smack, blow and various other addictive drugs for sale. You may ask where these drugs come from and the answer is to be found in Afghanistan which supplies most of the heroin required via poppy crops. When Afghanistan was ruled by the Taliban 75% of the poppy crop was destroyed as they banned its cultivation as contrary to their Islamic religious beliefs. When the USA military overthrew the Afghanistan government and accused the Taliban of terrorism they appointed a former consultant of a major USA company 'Unocal Corporation' as the President of Afghanistan, surprisingly enough he was far less strict re the poppy crop cultivation and it soon returned to its previous level supplying the UK and USA with plenty of heroin. And if the people don’t want smack, crack or blow then they can go to their doctor and get some prozac, valium or other psychotropic drug then wash it down with the sea of alcohol that is freely available, even on garage forecourts!

The spiritual, moral and social decay of Great Britain is well under way, as planned, or so it seems. I believe that we as Spiritualists should speak out against the degradation of our world for as a man said ‘On Earth as it is in heaven’ and the way things are going I sincerely hope not!

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If you would like to consider this subject further here is a feature about the way our culture is degrading society.

THE FRAUDULENT BASIS OF MODERN CULTURE

Henry Makow Ph.D

There should be a POISON symbol over the doors of our universities, cinemas and art galleries. There should be a similar warning on our TV, music and videos.

In the 1920's, leaders of the Communist International decided that Western society was too strong to conquer. It was necessary to weaken it by subverting its cultural institutions--family, education, religion, art, mass media and government.

They have largely succeeded. While maintaining these institutions in their familiar format, they have subtly changed the content. It's like lacing a bottle of aspirin with arsenic. The purpose is to gradually poison, paralyse and eventually destroy us.

We are noticing that our political and cultural leaders are mostly cowards, dupes, traitors, crooks, opportunists and impostors rewarded by how much harm they can do.

Our failure to combat Communism is due to a misunderstanding of its real nature. We imagine it is a discredited movement, once based in the USSR and China devoted to social justice, equality and public ownership. Millions of idealists, including myself, were duped.

In fact, Communism is an international phenomenon that invaded Russia and China. It is the creation of a satanic cult (the Illuminati) formed in 1776 by international bankers. It is designed to put all the world's wealth in their hands, and eventually to reduce and enslave the human race. The 5-pointed Red Star of Communism is also the symbol of Satan-worship. A demonic virus, Communism has morphed into countless forms (such as fe-manism) and is hoodwinking more people than ever.

Western Civilization is built on Christianity, the premise that God is real, in fact the ultimate and only permanent Reality, a spiritual one. Through man's Divine soul, the ordinary individual can discern the Divine Will without mediation from a worldly authority. This is why the bankers hate Christianity.

God is the Truth, Love, Beauty and Goodness to which we aspire. This moral order precludes a small clique monopolizing the world's wealth. So the bankers set out to destroy our belief in a Divine Order by promoting Darwinism, Existentialism etc. They promote war, depression and terror so we will demand their "antidote": the New World Order.

In his brilliant essay, "The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness" Michael Minnichino describes how most of the fashionable intellectual and artistic movements in the 20th century, still in vogue today, were actually inspired by thinkers who were Commintern (Communist International) agents financed by the central bankers. Some of them actually worked for Soviet Intelligence right into the 1960's.

He writes: "The task [of the Frankfurt School] was first to undermine the Judeo-Christian legacy through an "abolition of culture" ...and second, to determine new cultural forms which would increase the alienation of the population, thus creating a "new barbarism." ...The purpose of modern art, literature and music must be to destroy the uplifting potential of art, literature and music..."

Funds came from "various German and American universities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Jewish Committee, several American intelligence services..."

This subversive movement "represents almost the entire theoretical basis of all the politically correct aesthetic trends which now plague our universities." They are associated with Post Modernism, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Deconstructionism, Semiotics, etc.

Their net effect is to divorce us from truth, social cohesion and our cultural heritage. They assert that reality is unknowable and that writers and artists are in fact depicting themselves. For example, postmodernist Hayden White writes, "historical narratives are verbal fictions, the contents of which are more invented than found...truth and reality are primarily authoritarian weapons of our times." In other words, we cannot know what happened in the past (which is exactly what they want.)

Postmodernism is part of the authoritarian agenda. Similarly the Frankfurt School championed the notion that "authoritarianism" is caused by religion, male leadership, marriage and family, when these things actually uphold society.

Universities are enemy territory and professors usually are obstacles to genuine learning.

THE MASS MEDIA

The same applies to the mass media, which the central bankers own and control. We imagine that books, movies and music are commercially or artistically motivated. This is not true. Elite brainwashers discovered they can sell almost anything as long as it is hyped and adheres to a familiar format. Thus the hidden agenda of entertainment is social engineering, satanism, sex and violence.

Musician Wes Penre says stars are selected not for talent but because they advance the elite agenda. He writes:

Their task is to demoralize our youth, to create a society where no one is able to think for themselves (contrary to what the pop culture is trying to teach us about the "rebellious" rock music). The Art Industry creates "Icons" with degrading and Satanic messages, who are supposed to take the place of God. The musicians are also often acting degraded and high or low on drugs, so their fans start acting the same. The purpose is to create apathy and decay. Quite a few artists also put subliminal backward messages in their music, like Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, The Eagles, and more....
Many musicians die young due to "drug overdoses" because they tried to buck the agenda.

This also explains the obsession with romance in popular music. Love and sex are intended to distract us from everything else.

Increasingly, there is a lesbian message in popular music. For example, the Dixie Chicks scorn men and celebrate female independence. In one song, women self righteously murder a man who gave his wife a black eye. Young women sing these songs and identify.

A friend noticed his Dixie Chick-singing girlfriend has been psychologically neutered. She thinks becoming a wife and mother will cramp her style. He is dumping her.

I went to the movies last night. Three-out-of-four previews mentioned homosexuality. "North Country" with Charlese Theron is pure anti-male propaganda. Single mother gets a job in a mine but is not accepted as an equal by her male co-workers. After one rapes her, she has to take the company to court to get justice. How many times have we seen this kind of thing?

I once met a woman who works as a railroad diesel mechanic. She said her male co-workers treat her like gold. It wouldn't do to tell her story, would it?

Ever wonder why there hasn't been a movie about real American heroes like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh (Post The Spirit of St. Louis) Louis McFadden and Whittaker Chambers? They opposed the banker agenda.

CONCLUSION

Just as we need healthy food and exercise, our mind and soul needs truth and beauty. We need to see life portrayed honestly, with the real forces identified. Instead, we are deliberately deceived and degraded by a small financial elite with a diabolical plan. White stallions (our souls) are fed a diet of sawdust.

Whether it's school or mass media, we are bombarded with propaganda designed to produce alienation and dysfunction. We must protect ourselves from this poison before it is too late.

The good news is that modern culture, based on the premise there is no inherent purpose or positive design in human life, has been exposed as a long-term Illuminati psy-op designed to demoralize us. It will fail.

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