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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Brooks Adams

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48:45

…had doubled again and the center of power was very definitely the Boston, New York Banking firms and universities. In 1892 Brooks Adams wrote the law of civilization and decay, the first book which pointed out this westward trajectory of capital. He didn't…

28:40

…of the Atlantic. The British Empire was still the strongest thing in the world but some people were already predicting its fall. Brooks Adams, in 1892, predicted the fall of the British Empire and the rise of the American Empire would occur in the next…

13:51

…the tendency was for the knowledge doubled for the center of knowledge and power to continue to move westward. In 1892 Brooks Adams, One of the first futurists one of the first philosophers to attempt to think about the future scientifically noted this…

14:52

…Empire had pretty much collapsed by 1950 and the American Empire was already in rambunctious existence all over the planet, just as Brooks Adams predicted. Now the pattern is to make it a little clearer: 1500, two jesus. 250, four jesus, 158 jesus, 50, 16…

14:48

…1900, the tendency was, as knowledge doubled, for the center of knowledge and power to continue to move westward. In 1892, Brooks Adams, One of the first futurists, one of the first philosophers to attempt to think about the future scientifically noted this…

56:18

…had doubled again and the center of power was very definitely the Boston, New York Banking firms and universities. In 1892 Brooks Adams wrote the law of civilization and decay, the first book which pointed out this westward trajectory of capital. He didn't…

1:29:52

…who invented this theory. There are dozens of these cycle theories of great, great grandson of John Adams our second president Brooks Adams was a historian who taught at. He wrote a book called the law of civilization and decay in which he argued…

1:31:08

…was only known to the priests and the royal family and nobody else was allowed to decipher it. The second stage according to Brooks Adams is the exploitation of force, which is like the heroic age in Vico, That's when a bunch of pirates and bandits get…

1:32:29

…kings so the bankers take over the issue of currency until people find out they can't trust the bankers, at which point Brooks Adams breaks off his theory of the cycles without explaining what happens next. We seem to be in the fourth stage of brooks

1:32:40

…his theory of the cycles without explaining what happens next. We seem to be in the fourth stage of brooks Adams. Brooks Adams did have some very good ideas in that book. He observed that capital has been moving steadily westward throughout recorded…

13:52

…1900, the tendency was as knowledge doubled, for the center of knowledge and power to continue to move westward. In 1892 Brooks Adams, One of the first futurists, one of the first philosophers to attempt to think about the future scientifically noted this…

14:54

…Empire had pretty much collapsed by 1950 and the American Empire was already in rambunctious existence all over the planet, just as Brooks Adams predicted. Now the pattern is to make it a little clearer: 1500 2 jesus 250, 4 jesus, 158 jesus, 50, 16…