Gutenberg 2.0, Part 2
Writing the Obituary for Elitism
When Gutenberg invented movable type, this revolutionary and cheap new way of printing changed the world. It put information in the hands of ordinary people, and that changed the world. Giving the Bible to people outside the established church eventually led to the Reformation, but Martin Luther—one of the prominent voices of the Protestant movement—had to go into hiding. Other Reformers were not quite so fortunate and met with grisly deaths. There was also the nasty matter of the Inquisition. But eventually the church divided into denominations and even the Catholic Church who opposed Protestantism instituted much-needed changes. Ordinary people started to demand rights, and the American Revolution and later French Revolution followed. The so-called “Great Age of Monarchies” came to an end. But in between came The Thirty Years War.
What Gutenberg did was peel back the veil on information that previously was kept secret from the people. Suddenly ordinary people could talk about politics, religion, the economy, and even criticize kings and popes. This led to massive upheaval and then a better world. It got some people killed. It made nations free.
In the West, we had a more managed Gutenberg revolution, because some of our alleged “intelligence” agencies commandeered the news. So people had the right to the news and we could talk about the news, but the news was filtered, curated, and spun to suit the government. Operation Mockingbird (not to be confused with another government operation called Project Mockingbird) allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to recruit and then command journalists, editors, and media company executives. The agency would find suitable (or in some cases unqualified) candidates and plant them in newsrooms, with the mission of making sure the news aligned with government operations. You were getting propaganda in a deceptive package.
Some people think Operation Mockingbird is a myth or an overblown conspiracy theory. Have you ever wondered why we don’t get the complete news, even to this day? We don’t know about the Democrat National Convention (DNC) pipe bomber, we don’t know who left cocaine in the White House, or Jeffrey Epstein’s client lists. We don’t know who shot John F. Kennedy, how Mary Jo Kopechne drowned when Ted Kennedy could get out of the car, who funded the biolabs in Ukraine, how Obama’s personal chef Tafari Campbell drowned in a pond, or who destroyed the Nordstream 2 pipeline. And who hacked the DNC emails and who actually killed Seth Rich? The reason we don’t know these things is that the government decides—through its armies of obedient journalists led by intelligence agencies run by elitists—what you may and may not know.
For instance, did you know that back in the day, anyone who wanted a defense contract from Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) had to appear at the first meeting with a suitcase of cash. The price tag for a sit-down was $50,000 and that’s back in 1960s money. And that barrel of cash did not guarantee you a contract, it just made sure LBJ took the meeting. That was never reported, because it would make the White House look like a den of thieves and expose LBJ as a corrupt politician. Was the White House a den of thieves? Sure, but the people didn’t have to know the actual truth. It was better they believe that the White House was a decent and honorable place.
The press—way back when—knew that Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated, but hid it and let his un-elected wife run the country into the ground. (Not that he was much better.) The press knew Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in a wheelchair but was always careful to photograph him and portray him as able-bodied. And all the girls in and out of the Kennedy and Clinton White House—you think the press didn’t know? Half of Washington knew. The Secret Service knew. But the press decided it was better if we mere taxpayers were kept in the dark. Did you know Richard Nixon beat his wife? He allegedly put her in the hospital once. As much as Nixon was an unpopular president, he was still an insider and elitists protected him.
The revolution of Gutenberg 2.0 occurred with the internet. Operation Mockingbird is becoming Operation Canary in the Coal Mine. Legacy mainstream media—the place where the CIA put operatives like Anderson Cooper and his ilk—are dying. The Washington Post lost $77M this year alone and is now trimming its staff. Reports of shuttered media outlets occur almost daily, and they’re all the legacy media or “new” media that still obeys their elitist masters. The Washington Post even commented that it was thinking of just using artificial intelligence (AI) for the news. I doubt anyone who reads The Washington Post could tell the difference between programmed pro-elitist AI content and reporting by a WaPo staffer. But it shows that mainstream media is dying.
It's dying because we are the news now. Anybody can post practically anything on social media—and everybody does. Some of these posts get thousands or millions of views. The articulate, the day-drunks, the thoughtful, and the woefully uninformed all meet and convene daily on electronic platforms to share their ideas and insult each other. Ordinary people—including those with no ties to the CIA—started to broadcast news, first on YouTube, then on Rumble and Locals. Joe Rogan has a larger audience (and I’d argue a smarter audience) than CNN. All CNN can do is try to smear him. Dan Bongino averages 1.3M viewers for a bare-bones podcast on mid-mornings weekdays. Greg Gutfeld has the top-rated late-night show and he isn’t even a comedian.
The mainstream media and elitists are trying to fight Gutenberg 2.0 using the tools of Gutenberg 1.0. They think if they all just keep intoning the same exact news phrases (“convicted felon,” “an existential threat,” “nobody is above the law”) they’ll woo back their audience and convince us all to be zombies.
It’s not going to happen.
Gutenberg 2.0 cannot be undone. We’re seeing the turbulence that follows the next peeling away of the veil. The Biden regime is definitely still living under the myth of Gutenberg 1.0. They want to spoon feed us lies and call it the news. They want to misinform us and have us praise them and give them our hard-earned money. Here are some of the biggest Biden lies.
The border is closed
Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation
Ukraine is winning the war but needs another $100B
Joe is in prime physical and mental shape
Joe is not a racist, why, he used to be in the civil rights movement
Joe is a very pious Catholic and adheres to his faith
Joe is just being friendly with little girls when he grabs them
Joe is the most honest man who ever lived, he’s decency personified
The problem is we can see things for ourselves. Thanks to Bill Meleugin, we have live at-the-border accounts. Thanks to Andy Ng we know about Antifa and how federal agents can stir up protests. Thanks to Judicial Watch we know about COVID lies. Thanks to James O’Keefe we know about the Pfizer vax scams. Thanks to lots of smaller conservative sites, we know the January 6 was not what it is being reported to be. Thanks to True the Vote, we know the election should be questioned. Thanks to Roseanne, we know that the toxic fallout of a woke attack on an artist. Former MK Ultra “slaves” of the CIA are going public with their stories. Podcasts like America’s Untold Stories are sharing these semi-hidden truths and making us see that our news has always been a whole lot of lies. America’s Untold Stories is a bare-bones operation; no fancy studio, no big names, no dazzling special effects. They barely have any merch. It’s just a bunch of facts and some offhand joking around in what looks like a glorified Zoom call. It has tens of thousands of regular viewers.
Ordinary people can expose Biden lies and there is nothing Biden can do about it except to just repeat those lies, louder and more frequently.
And it is not working. A couple of guys with a hundred dollars of Amazon off-the-shelf equipment can launch a podcast and expose elitist lies. In the words of that old guy on The Simpsons, what a time to be alive!
Gutenberg 2.0 has resulted in two profound effects. First, it has made the elitists go insane. They do not control the news, nor will they ever control the news again. Second, it made them fight really hard because being elitists, they believe adamantly that the news doesn’t have to be true, it only has to belong to them. The news is what they say is the news.
Now we come to the Trump trial or, as I call it, the end of the Democrat Party. If this were a long German Wagnerian opera, we could call it Demokratendämmerung. It used to be that any elitist with sufficient power could send anyone to prison for any reason at any time. It happened to Martin Luther King, Jr., when he got inconvenient to the Democrats. It’s happened to thousands, many millions over the course of history, people whose names we never knew. The elitists used to be able to do this more or less in secret. The trials may or may not have been open to the public, but the news reports were curated and slanted. The journalists told us what the elitists wanted us to hear. Martin Luther King was a terrorist. People who questioned the Iraq invasion were not patriotic. People who don’t want to send Zelenskyy billions of dollars every day are in a cult led by Vladimir Putin.
The CIA came up with the pejorative term “conspiracy theorist” to label anyone who might disagree—even with good cause—with the official narrative. The idea is that people who doubted the CIA news were clearly paranoid lunatics.
Here’s a joke. What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and verified truth? About six months.
The Trump trial was supposed to be one of those dark, mysterious trials that was held in the dark but reported by paid stooges in a falsified way. Judge Juan Merchan closed the court room and probably figured only CIA-based news would reach the public. He forgot that there were guys sitting in that courtroom tweeting things blow-by-blow. He forgot that ordinary people have vlogs, blogs, podcasts, Substacks, and other ways of reaching an audience. Despite the attempt to portray the Trump trial as something reasonable, we found out it was a scam wrapped in a sham enveloped in a travesty, covered with lies and wrapped in bacon.
Even people like me, nobodies from nowhere, can write and share opinions on the trial. And I have not now or ever worked for a government agency. And in many circles, people like me command far more respect than people like Juan Merchan.
The elitists are fighting back, but they only have Gutenberg 1.0 weapons. They’re trying to launch a concerted effort to use the term “convicted felon” to smear Trump, as if being convicted by a depraved banana-republic judge in a corrupted Biden-regime court is anything but a badge of honor. There are armies of actual people on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter who are paid to write goofy pro-Democrat messages. Harry Sisson is one, so are the Krassensteins. There are lots of them, and beyond them are the armies of bots who repeat literally mindlessly how great the Biden economy is, what a decent man Joe is, and how cognitively fit he is.
Nobody is buying this. And it is getting sad. In fact, on my kinder days, I am a little embarrassed for them. The Democrats are still playing the Gutenberg 1.0 game and launched bureaus of misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and all kinds of other things to help protect ordinary people from hearing things they did not want us to hear. They decided what was true, and if it wasn’t true, they wanted to “protect” us from it. If there really was an interest in protecting Americans from hearing lies, we’d have to close down every legacy media outlet in the country and then shut down the government altogether.
Nobody is buying these tired of Gutenberg 1.0 fairy tales.
The Trump trial is one of last howls of a dying Democrat party. In an era when Democrats like to call themselves “progressives,” they’re once again the most regressive party in the world. They phony up being liberal and open minded by partnering with a multitude of aberrant groups, ranging from Hamas sympathizers to children’s gender surgery clinics to late-term abortion advocates and Satan clubs in schools. But their core policies are the same as Hitler’s. Yes, I said Hitler. Control the narrative by blatant propaganda, bully your enemies in court and with prison (or concentration camps), and destroy those who do not support your vision of the future.
In Gutenberg 1.0, it took the establishment (mainly monarchies and the Roman Catholic Church) centuries to get over the printing press revolution. Things go faster now, but it may still take a while. If you want to hurry on the destruction of the elitists who want to control you, here is what you have to do:
Do not consume mainstream media except as offering “bad examples.” They hate you, and you should hate them back.
Get your news, weather, sports, information, and everything—as much as possible—from independent sources.
Support independent content providers, particularly the small ones. One Joe Rogan can’t overturn the elitist cabal. A million independent podcasters can.
Speak up when it seems profitable but realize you cannot argue with a Democrat. They are emotional. Their policies and positions switch on a dime to support the current emotion. Zelenskyy can be a hero one day and a villain the next, depends on how they feel.
Realize America has a population of profoundly stupid people. That’s OK; some wise up. But it’s not your job to educate them.
Never “buy” what they’re selling. Push back.
Vote and get other people to vote. Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.
Save the receipts. We have the receipts, thanks to Gutenberg 2.0.
I saw an old COVID-era CNN clip with Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon the other day. Cuomo was on a 2024 news show, saying that he was never against ivermectin, and then they found the old video clip where he denounced this valuable medicine as “horse de-wormer.” In the days of Gutenberg 1.0, the mainstream media would have supported Cuomo. No one would have had the old COVID-era clip handy, much less been willing to show it. His errant remark from way back when would have disappeared into the ether. But thanks to the internet and video and podcasters who save receipts, we can prove these people are lying.
By the way, when you push back, do not push back in an effort to educate the person lying to you. Chances are they’re a lost cause. The reason we push back is for everybody around them who might be listening. Cuomo is shameless; I’m not sure he even knows he was lying, he’s that lost in his delusions or government programming. But a lot of people who watched that podcast learned that Cuomo was lying.
Gutenberg 2.0—a government-run media designed to serve only elitists is obsolete and cannot stand. And without government-run media, elitists cannot stay in power.
It’s only a matter of time. You see that app on your phone, elitists? That’s TikTok saying, “Tick tock.”
Part II ...
But Teddy made the mistake of forgetting stealth … and as a result, he scared the public and lost the election to Wilson, who campaigned as a moderate. But in reality, Wilson was another closet Fabian. He was the back up plan and proof that Wilson was a Fabian comes in many forms. First and foremost is the fact that Wilson surrounded himself Fabians. Some came out of the ISS. His closest adviser, Edward M. House, however, did not, but while House was not an admitted Fabian, he spent much of his childhood and adult life in Britain, likely surrounded by them. And in 1912, he wrote a book titled “Philip Dru: Administrator”, whose contents certainly make him a Fabian.
After writing the book, he insinuated himself into Wilson’s inner circle, writing in his diary, “I began with him before he became President and I have never relaxed my efforts.” He quickly became Wilson's closest friend. Wilson said “I never met a man whose thoughts ran so identically with mine." In a letter to his brother-in-law, House wrote, "It is just such a chance as I have always wanted, for never before have I found both the man and the opportunity."
The opportunity House spoke of was to enact the vision for America that he described in his book … a *fictional* plan for the conquest of America by gaining control of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and then using them to create a socialist world government. The plan included a graduated federal income tax, a central bank, a social security program, an inheritance tax, and it suggested taking functions away from the states … all things the Fabians wanted.
The book even suggested a conspiracy "insinuated into the primaries, in order that no candidate might be nominated whose views were not in accord with theirs." Plus, the book’s central character, Dru, said “Our Constitution and our laws served us well for the first hundred years of our existence, but under the conditions of today they are not only obsolete, but even grotesque.” All this sounds like the views and strategy of the UNIPARTY today, doesn’t it?
Guided or even managed by House, Wilson quickly proceeded to enact several of the changes that Fabians desired. It happened so quickly that American historian, Arthur Howden Smith, wrote "In nine months the Wilson administration completely reorganized the financial structure in accordance with the conceptions outlined in 'Philip Dru.’" First was a progressive income tax.
Congress had passed an income tax in 1894 targeting only the top 2 percent of wealth holders and the Supreme Court (SC) had declared it unconstitutional. Democrat SC Justice Stephen Field, however, predicted that a small progressive tax “will be but the stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.”
When Wilson signed the first progressive income tax into law and the courts ruled it constitutional, Fabians must have been ecstatic. War between rich and poor was what they needed, and over the years they got it, more and more, as government at all levels began to take more and more and more. Till we ended up in the situation we are today.
In 1913, Wilson/House also created the Federal Reserve System, handing the government unprecedented control over the monetary system. This was a top Fabian wish list item. Of course they made sure to fill the top position with a Fabian, George Foster Peabody, who wrote "I have always been most sympathetic to individual Socialist aspirations. I have particularly observed the Fabian System of England with hopeful anticipations.”
When WWI started, Wilson proclaimed the US would remain neutral. But when the Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, House advised Wilson that Americans could “no longer remain neutral spectators”. Wilson’s Secretary Of State, William Bryan, refused to abandon neutrality so when Wilson sent an official message of protest to Germany, Bryan resigned, to be replaced by Robert Lansing. The joke in Washington was “how do you spell Lansing? H. O. U. S. E.”
In early 1916, House told the French foreign minister that US entering the war on the side of the allies was inevitable … they just needed an incident that would cause Americans to support doing that. Yet, in the 1916 election, guided by House, Wilson ran for reelection on the slogan “He kept us out of war”. Remember, a kept tactic of Fabians is deception.
Shortly after the new term began, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war. House confided in his diary that he had “stirred [Wilson’s] ambition to become the great liberal leader of the world.” What better way than to enter and win a war. With the US involved, the allies were likely to win, so Wilson and House began planning the postwar world. House’s big dream was a World Communist Government, so it’s no surprise that he was a key figure in the opportunity the war created to create a League of Nations.
Wilson asked House to assemble a group of experts to develop what would become the basis for Wilson’s Fourteen Points. House was probably the major contributor. When Wilson presented his fourteen points at Versailles, they called for a "league of nations to ensure peace and justice”. The Germans agreed to an Armistice and Wilson returned to the US, leaving House to work out the details. The Germans signed the treaty but the Senate then rejected it (Senator Henry Cabot Lodge didn’t like the fact the League could force the US to enter a war without Congressional approval). The Senator warned, speaking of the US, “if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence.” With thoughts of Ukraine, how prophetic!
Because of the failure, House and Wilson had a falling out, never to met again after Wilson left Paris. House remained for further negotiations. When the US didn’t join the League, a British group called the Round Table, funded by the Rhodes Trust, both of them Fabian connected, sought to encourage its own web of interdependency with the US. In other words, British Fabians again had a back up plan. US diplomats (including House) and British diplomats met in Paris. The most important attendee was said to be Lionel Curtis (https://www.chathamhouse.org/2019/05/hotel-majestic-and-origins-chatham-house). It was Curtis who devised the framework of the Fabian associated Rhodes Round Table. He was educated at Fabian associated New College, Oxford. He was probably a closet Fabian Socialist as well. More evidence of that is that he joined the League of Free Nations Association that was founded by Fabian Socialist HG Wells. In 1918, that association joined with another group, the League of Nations Society, also dominated by Fabians (such a Leonard Woolf).
Now at the Paris meeting, it was decided to create a British/American organization called "The Institute of International Affairs", which would have offices in London and New York. But they encountered difficulty getting it started so, instead, they joined a set of meetings which had been ongoing since June 1918 in New York City, under the name … now get this … the “Council on Foreign Relations" (CFR). See Fabian Socialists pop up at every turn?
I'm going my post into several parts.
Part I ...
Another good and well written article. I didn’t know that about LBJ! Now while I hope you are right, I’m not as certain that we can win this just because we have phones and the internet and a citizen army of *journalists*. Because access to them can be controlled, as China has amply demonstrated. Plus, there there is still one extremely significant fact that most Americans, even with phones and the internet, still know little or nothing about. You mentioned Woodrow Wilson, FDR, the Kennedys, LBJ, and the Clintons. What do they all have in common besides being democRATS? The answer is ties to Fabian Socialism.
While none of them were/are openly Fabian Socialists, each has been heavily influenced by them. Each has many close associates who are admitted Fabians or close to them. Yet, if you ask the vast majority of Americans to tell you what Fabian Socialism is, how it began, what it’s goals are, and the impact it’s had on America over the years, they will have a blank expression. Most may not even have heard have it (it’s not taught in our schools) and whatever those that have heard of it think they know is probably wrong because it came from the controlled media. For the most part, Americans have been kept in the dark about it.
Consider the Encylopedia Britannica. Its article on Fabian Socialism is less than 400 words long, compared to the 10,000 words devoted to Marxism, even though Fabian Socialism has arguably had a much greater influence on the US and West than Marxism. Britannica doesn't mention the Fabian Society’s communist roots (it was started by Marxists who disagreed only in how to spread Marxism). It doesn't mention its infiltration of American politics, starting in the late 1890s when Society Co-Founder Sidney Webb toured the US spreading the *gospel* according to Fabians. His visit and the work of other Fabians soon led to the founding of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which started chapters at many US universities. In 1914, the Harvard Chapter was officially renamed the Fabian Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and many important Americas were ISS members.
The Fabian goal, in the words of Edward Pease another Co-Founder, was the “reorganization of Society by the emancipation of Land and Industrial Capital from individuals and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit.” Meaning that they planned to confiscate and steal the people’s assets and redistribute them just like Marxist communists said they’d do. Only they would do it gradually and stealthily. Fabians envisioned a top down, mostly peaceful, revolution, in contrast to Marx’s bottom up violent revolution. They planned to infiltrate the top ranks of the organizations that control societies (government, media, business, etc) and then steer them, stealthily, towards their communist controlled utopia. Such an approach wouldn’t take many followers and wouldn’t have to motivate the masses … just keep them unaware and gradually make them comfortable with living under a socialist/communist dictatorship.
Just to illustrate how quickly Fabian Socialist thinking infiltrated American politics, consider Teddy Roosevelt (not mentioned in your article). Most conservatives still idolize Teddy. They don’t realize that he was a closet Fabian. They’re stuck on the fact he was a Republican for a while. But he may have been the first RINO. He was visited by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in the 1890s, before joining the Republican Party. And once he became President, he quickly tried to move the GOP toward progressivism … which is what many Fabians were stealthily calling their own movement at the time.
One wonders if Teddy joining the Republican Party wasn’t a Fabian plot, because by 1907, Teddy was already proposing such radical reforms that they were being blocked by Republicans. He called for all sort of things that the Fabian Society had wanted … a strong central government to regulate industry, national health and social insurance, an inheritance tax, and a Federal income tax. That caused him to split with them and in 1912 launch his Progressive Party, with himself as their presidential candidate.
By then, Teddy wasn’t even trying to hide his Fabian thinking. In fact, in his 1913 autobiography there's an appendix titled "Social and Industrial Justice" in which he compliments a hardcore Socialist, Vladimir Simkhovitch, who distinguished between revolutionary Marxism and another socialism … one that would get to that beautiful world that socialists envision, not by revolution, but by gradual change … in other words, by exactly the means Fabian Socialists advocated. Teddy’s Progressive Party platform was so far to the left that the New York Times called Teddy a "Super Socialist” (i.e., communist)!