The American Proposition

David Wemhoff dismisses a book [Taylor Marshall’s Infiltration] partly on the grounds that it was an amazon.com best seller for a couple weeks. But the views he expresses are the same as that put into, for example, the mouths of woke grad students in 90s films (like Miramax, then owned by the Weinsteins and distributed by Miramax) such as Good Will Hunting or in widely distributed music like Rage Against the Machine or any number of widely distributed movies, tv shows, songs, and so forth. So that’s the beam in the eye of his pov. So lets look at America vs Freemasonry. Or America and Freemasonic views. David Wemhoff is all about the cash nexus (like any good ’90s woke grad student) – what’s on US money? Novo Ordo Seculorum and other masonic symbols.

More recently, what are the Bush Family? Random American New Englanders, Texans, and Floridians? What was Bill Clinton? A random American kid from Hot Springs? Or a Rhodes Scholar? What was Barry Obama? A random American-Hawaiian? Or a kid from a State Department family (with very interesting ideological ties) who was promoted up the ranks at each stage by a specific network of like-minded folks? A bit further back, who were George Ball and John Foster Dulles? Random Yankees? Or did they have certain specific attitudes – regardless of whether they were actual Masons at all (here I am interested in the cladistic relationship of ideas, not formal organizational memberships. Read the first bit of George Burnham’s The Machiavellians ). But, with respect to formal organizations, and speaking of i.e. John Foster Dulles, read the Henry-Luce era Time Magazine article “American Malvern” – are the positions being promoted by the National Federation of Churches (as it was evidently then known) much different from the sorts of things we see now? Or from the sorts of things Pius X condemned (and freemasonic in root)? Even earlier were John Dewey or the Fosdick Brothers (Raymond and Harry Emerson – with their ties to the industry magnate Rockefellers) just random corporate-minded Americans? Or did they hold and spread certain views (of a secularized postmillenial vision we might find having both earlier and present-day roots)? “America Did It” is way too general and non-specific. And all your magnates of Woke Capital gladly promote exactly the same attitude about business and America in what they promote as expressed by David Wemhoff. Because, for them, America-as-such has long since outlived its usefulness – it was only a tool to spread a certain point of view. Which we might call Freemasonic (not usually what I call it, but these views differ not at all from what Pius X condemned) and aren’t just the generic ideas of the modal American – they’re a facet. A facet present since the origins of the country, no doubt, but also with earlier roots and certainly ones spread by masonry (among, arguably, other entities). But to call it “It’s America” is to be the bull that pursues the cape instead of the matador. You’re doing exactly what they want you to do while they pierce you.