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Date: January 24, 2025 01:23AM

In the decades before, during and after the French Revolution, there were meetings at a salon in Paris, owned by a German, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach. They agreed to describe people as just atoms and space, organised in random ways, with no inherent meaning, just like animals, rocks and plants. Naturally this means they need someone else to guide and direct them. Naturally, those at this gathering. Philosophy is, after all, the art of persuasion:

(you've heard of animals, they're still trying to make that work. Every evolutionary model used since has been discarded, and the two types of government based on it, Communism and the Nazis, failed. Once they can make animals work, then the schools of philosophy will introduce you to plants, then rocks. Their technique has been quite simple: persuade the universities that they're about money, so, if science is settled, there are no more publicly funded research grants. If facts keep 'evolving', there's endless taxpayer money. So others do the work for them)

They agreed to use literary hooks on unsuspecting minds. So I wouldn't trust anything by him or his friends who agreed to this: Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Recommended reading: A Wicked Company, by Philipp Blom, Cambridge Press.

The Frenchmen present, with changing members, spent about fifty years denouncing British sailings to the then little explored Pacific Ocean, but not French sailings there. The British ignored them and Napoleon was defeated during that time.

Recommended reading: The Fatal Impact, by Alan Moorehead.

So they tried again, by having an article published in the Globe, of 13 February 1832, introducing two new words: socialisme, and its opposite, personalitie. Mathematically the two canceled each other out - if you were British - that's how remotely detached their thinking was from practical reality. It got away from them, but it always was deception.

Recommended reading: The Globe, 13 February 1832.

The solution to this is to close the schools of philosophy and divide the monies amongst the other faculties.