The Revolt of the Spectacular Society

By Adam Weishaupt

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of not just communism but also of capitalism. The removal of its dialectical Cold War enemy allowed capitalism to release the brakes and bring about an enormous transfer of wealth from the ordinary people to the privileged elite. It is estimated that the richest 400 Americans are worth as much as the 150 million poorest Americans!

These figures spell doom for capitalism. The arrogance of the super rich now rivals that of the French aristocracy in 1789.

The elite create a “Society of the Spectacle”, full of images of perfection and of captivating, beguiling events staged on a monumental scale. The people, entranced, worship at the cathedrals of capitalism.

The Situationist International, the Dada movement, the Futurists and the Punk rockers were all revolutionary groups of the twentieth century who opposed the ruling order. Has their time come again?

The New World Order envisioned by the Pythagorean Illuminati is based on Meritocracy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781447890676

Adam Weishaupt

Adam Weishaupt invites you to enter the forbidden world of secret societies. Are secret societies hidden because they are plotting against the world, or hidden because the powers-that-be are plotting against them and hunting them – as heretics, apostates, infidels, blasphemers, freethinkers, radicals and revolutionaries? Are secret societies the underground heroes as opposed to the subterranean villains? Are they demonized by those who want to keep you enslaved with lies and a false consciousness? Secret societies are devoted to discovering the ultimate knowledge that will liberate all of us. Join the freedom fighters, those heroically venturing into the Unknown Land to find the Holy Grail. Come and find out about the extraordinary world of secrets that presents a totally different conception of reality from the ones your overt rulers – the billionaires and their puppets – feed you. Don't you want to find out what is really going on?

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The Revolt of the Spectacular Society

The Revolt of the Spectacular Society

by

Adam Weishaupt

Published by Hyperreality Books

Copyright © Adam Weishaupt 2011

The right of Adam Weishaupt to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

ISBN: 978-1-4478-9067-6

Quotations

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. -- Sigmund Freud

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos – especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. -- Jim Morrison

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. -- Howard Mumford Jones

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. -- Aristotle

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. --Eric Hoffer

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin’s remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. -- Ellen Willis

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. -- Simone Weil

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. -- Mikhail Bakunin

Table of Contents

The Revolt of the Spectacular Society

Quotations

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Historical Dialectic

The Catholic versus Protestant Dialectic

The Same Old Story

The Bankers

The Tobacco Industry – pure poison

The System

The Know Nothing Party

The Communards

The Punk Revolution

Dada

The Cabaret Voltaire

The Situationist International

The Society of the Spectacle

The Profit Principle

The Perfect Citizen – According to the Elite

What a Fucked-up World

IRL – In Real Life (Gamer jargon)

The Latest Bulletin from David Icke’s Fantasy World

The 400

The Meritocracy Party

The Decline of Social Mobility

The Incompetence of Privileged Institutions

The Cult of the Professional (Charlatan/Bullshitter)

Introduction

THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of Adam Weishaupt – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.

The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his Chosen People, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the God of All entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the Original Sin of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s son, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

Of course, the Chosen People of God have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

Remember that this same God ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical believers.

Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.

The Historical Dialectic

If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for something. -- African Proverb

BE UNDER NO ILLUSIONS. You are living in one of the most important epochs in human history, if not the most significant of all. This Age began in 1989, the year that will come to be seen as the beginning of the end for all the dominant structures of the Old World Order. Where we stand now is at the juncture of old and new humanity. The War of Enlightenment, which has been raging since the time of Copernicus, can finally be won. The ignorant, greedy, superstitious and selfish past – the age of mad religions, evil monarchs and super rich tyrants who have dominated and degraded humanity – can be put behind us once and for all.

What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism. This history can be related even now; for necessity itself is at work here. This future speaks even now in a hundred signs, this destiny announces itself everywhere; for this music of the future all ears are cocked even now. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect. -- Nietzsche (writing in the 1880s)

I WANT ALL OF YOU TO GET UP OUT OF YOUR CHAIRS RIGHT NOW. -- Howard Beale (Peter Finch) delivering his mad as hell speech in Network.

In 1789, the French Revolution decisively ushered in the Modern Age. The American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the establishment of the American Republic had signalled the beginning of the end for the era of powerful monarchs, but America was a distant colony of the British Empire and not yet a giant on the world stage. Its liberation did not provide a fundamental psychological rebooting of the human mind. Europe was where the world was controlled and only in Europe could the transformation to modernity truly begin. The decisive blow was struck in France, which thus takes the honour of being the first modern European nation and world power. When one of the most powerful monarchies on earth fell to a people’s Revolution, and the King and most of his ruling order were executed, the irreversible signal was broadcast to the world that it was no longer business as usual for the ruling elite. Now the people would have their say.

The age of monarchs did not however properly end until the bloodbath of the First World War. In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsar who was executed by Bolsheviks in the following year. 1918, the year in which the global cataclysm ended, also saw the end of the powerful German monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II. In the meantime, the British monarchy, terrified of its people, was compelled to change its name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the English Windsor – a fake name for a disgusting, fake family.

The one hundred and twenty-nine years from 1789 to 1918 is