Jews Don't Run The World, Religionists Do
Paging the Artist Formerly Known as Kanye: time to expand your thinking.
Who really runs the world?
It is the eternal question that every serious conspiracy theorist seeks to yet fails to satisfactorily answer.
Psychopaths? Satanists? Archons? Ed Harris on the Moon? (Did you know that Dennis Hopper was originally supposed to play Christof in The Truman Show, but pulled out at the last minute?)
I assume, given my recent recent trolling of the Old Testament tribe as part of my spicy Shemitah Conspiracy series, many might be starting to peg me as one of those awful AFKAK (Artist Formerly Known As Kanye) undesirables who believes it is the “Jews” who run the world.
So, perhaps it is time for some clarification.
Firstly, my name is Isaac — you know, the guy their “God” thought it would be fun to offer up as a troll sacrifice (I see you Abraham: you were going to actually go through with it, weren’t you, you sadistic simping suckup), so maybe you should cut me some slack for having a few bones to pick before I work that generational trauma out of my system.
Secondly, I don’t actually think “Jews” run the world, if there is indeed (spoiler: there isn’t) a coherent group of people that can be uniformly classified as such. Many of the people who claim this label no doubt wish they did run the world — in fact they are quite open about it, which really doesn’t help their cause — but I’ve got bad news for them as well.
So: who really runs the world, if it isn’t the “Jews” — or, as Beyonce rather optimistically suggests, Girls (one day, maybe, Be’, but perhaps don’t get your hopes up)?
To attempt to answer this question, let me start with a personal story.
Both my sister and I were born and raised atheists, thanks mainly to my Dad’s strong contempt (there is no other way to put it, bless him) for religion.
The folly of attempting to apply your worldview onto someone else — even if it is your offspring — was revealed when we both inevitably ended up giving religion a crack anyway. Being the introverted social fringe dwellers that we are, we at least both chose one of the most obscure and least visible religions to test the waters.
I have a whole burrow on my experiences in the Bahá’í Faith, which were for the most part positive, spiritually uplifting and left me with (hopefully) life long friends. Nonetheless: it is, at heart, a capital R Religion — in the sense that it ultimately teaches that the path it offers is the Correct and Only Path. Which is awkward, because I now Innerstand (sorry) in a quite profound way that it is not the Path for me.
How do I know this so confidently? Well, I was incredibly sick with a condition called Meniere’s Disease across the entire three year period I was spiritually “committed” to the Faith (I also have a Meniere’s burrow, where I dissect my suffering in real time — oh boy, is there some cringe in those two caverns). Yet, in a brilliant plot twist, the condition — for which conventional medicine still has next to no explanation or remedy for — has essentially been dormant (*touchwood*) since I broke this commitment. How’s that for some brutal divine guidance?
It took me a while to put the pieces together, but there is no other way I can look at it now. My acute vertigo episodes spent curled up by the toilet were some cosmically based way of communicating to me what I now see to be obvious: there is no Right Way to spiritual enlightenment, no required rituals or learned phrases, no single nor defined way (back) to God (the real God; settle down Gnostics).
Humanity is far too varied, diverse, messy, flawed, bored for that ever to work in practice. The fundamental, fatal flaw of the Religionist mindset — and every other mindset founded in the premise that what works for someone must work for everyone — is the futile attempt to reduce the complexity and mystery of our species into a graspable conception of something we never were and never can be.
If you made it this far but no further, you have your main takeaway from this post.
This article is not an attack on my Bahá’í friends: or on Christians, or Muslims, or — most importantly — Jews.
When I say “Religion” (and, in turn, Religionist), I am referring not simply to the adherence to a collection of specific principles and practices in the attempt to lead a more spiritual life and bring about a better world — not that there is anything simple about either of those things. It is the belief that any particular set of principles and practices are the Right way, and that being on that Right path requires you to push that Right way onto other people.
Just to be clear, I do still believe in objective morality. Breaches of Natural Law are real and have consequences, while there exist fundamental virtues or qualities, originating from a Divine source, which we should strive to embody. However, even these standards have become muddied and confused in our increasingly inverted reality.
To be clear, again: this mindset is not just found in Religion. It is also practiced when someone tells you that only a Carnivore diet, or only a Vegan Diet, is the pathway to true health. It is subtly practiced when you judge someone for not appreciating a Country music twanger or Carly Rae Jepsen banger in the same way you do. It is most definitely practiced when deranged germ-conspiring lab-coat-wearers legitimately believe it is ok to Jibby Jab kids outside of hardware stores coz that’s how medicine works.
It even — ok, fine — obliges me to say that my favourite plant medicines are not for everyone and can indeed cause great harm in certain circumstances.
But the point of this article is that no-one does it like the Religionist. Really: they have a jealous supernatural deity on their side, whereas the Vegan primarily has smugness and gas from all those legumes.
And the point of my story, to circle back and close that loop, is that I’ve been there (Religionist specifically, but also the gassier archetype, until I learned to soak my legumes for at least 2 days before cooking my curries, which coincidentally is a life hack I received from Persian Bahá’ís).
I have experienced first hand the incredible ego tug that Religion offers: that assurance that I have got it Right, and that urge that I need to show others the way.
When my sister moved overseas — to make a break, make or break, so to speak — I thought it was my spiritual duty as a caring brother to guilt her that she would not be able to escape Religion that easy — DESPITE THE FACT that I knew full well it was her experiences with the Faith that were a significant contributor to her needing to leave.
So there is the proof (there are plenty more cringe stories) that I once held Religionist views. Many of my best friends still hold Religionist views, to various extents: if they read this, they may well feel offended and personally attacked.
And perhaps they should be, after this: because, while they are not bad people — far from it, they are almost universally virtuous people who are devoted servants to their community, even if they almost universally fell for the ‘Rona bollocks — they hold the same fundamental worldview as what I would suggest are the most dangerous people in the world.
And this is where things get spicy (finally, sorry: that took longer than expected). While my story might seem pretty innocuous, it demonstrates the potential of the Religionist mindset to turn good people into Natural Law deniers — who believe they have an obligation to press their beliefs onto others; who believe that my experience must be your experience.
One can only imagine how this worldview would manifest in a, erm, Not So Good person... is what I would say if it wasn’t our current reality.
If there is a grand conspiracy around “The Jews”, it is the concerted attempt to frame the debate in terms of race (and/or culture, but mainly race), when it should be about Religion.
Obviously race is relevant: basic observation of humanity reveals that different races maintain certain morally-neutral defining characteristics — dark skinned folk appear far less inclined to explore, invent and build continent-spanning and planet-endangering civilisations; while pale skinned folk appear far less content or able to live humbly and harmoniously in place with the land continuously over countless generations, rooted in victim consciousness as they may be.
Does the Race Conspiracy go deeper than that? Depends how deep one wants to dig, and how literally you want to take Genesis 6, Enoch et al.
Anyway, and regardless: if you think that someone’s race (or gender — I got you ladies, don’t worry, but not on this one) has more influence on their capacity for evil than their spiritual beliefs... well, i’m not sure what to tell you by this point.
Even if we were to engage in a slightly dangerous hypothetical that one particular bloodline is orientated to acting more like assholes, free will remains absolute — bloodlined individuals are free at anytime to choose to leave that asshole mindset behind, while non-bloodlined individuals are free at anytime to embrace their inner asshole.
How does this line of thinking apply to our Who Runs The World question?
Well, one could convincingly argue that the disproportional representation of quote-unquote Jews in areas of politics, money and media is a result of them being assigned at birth the desired characteristics to excel in those positions. Seems pretty logical to me?
Unfortunately, once coming to occupy these hugely influential and powerful positions, any deranged Religionists in their ranks would have disproportionate ability to subvert and invert society. Again, seems pretty logical.
The Talmud is, in parts, absolutely ghastly — but it is not alone in that regard. What we can perhaps say about the quote-unquotes is that they have have been around the longest, hence having the greatest opportunity to apply their unique Religionist paradigm into practical reality control.
Alright, enough dancing around what I really think:
Imagine thinking It’s All The Jews when the Catholic Church has essentially devolved into a money laundering, kiddie-fiddling racket, while the main chamber of the Vatican is a literal fucking serpent head without even trying to hide it.
Imagine thinking It’s All The Jews while patriarchal Muslim theocracies — who get weirdly triggered by the female form and cope by attempting to forcibly cover it (while much of the Western Judeo-Christian patriarchy watches on in jealousy) — have just started executing protestors without even trying to hide it.
IMAGINE THINKING IT’S ALL THE JEWS WHEN THE RULERS OF THIS REALM ARE NOT FLESH AND BLOOD BUT SUPERNATURAL.
I think I’ve made my point, and offended every party equally; let’s hope the AFKAK tribe come around as well.
The starting point of my explorations Down the Wombat Hole was that conspiracy and religion are inextricably entangled; my proper red pill was when I understood that 9/11 was indeed an act of religious terrorism, but not at all in the way we were told.
It was then, and is now, one of my foundational beliefs that Religionists run the world, because it only seems logical that someone who firmly — unshakeably — believes that they are on The Right Path will inevitably take that path to positions of power.
This does not, despite how it may sound, have to be sinister — and this energy can certainly be channeled into good deeds; if you truly believe you have found the right way, and that it is your duty to share it, striving for positions of power becomes a logical and unavoidable part of your mission after all, regardless of your moral inclination.
Nonetheless, the deck is clearly stacked. How many people with crippling self-doubt and prone to regular existential crises end up at Bohemian Grove? Exactly: it requires a deeply held confidence in one’s own spiritual trajectory to rise to the top of fundamentally corrupted institutions, and this surety is what Religion provides better than anything else.
I haven’t seen many, if any, other writers openly discussing these sort of delicate and challenging issues. I understand why, but that needs to change, and quick. In fact, with our current social trajectory, the need to have these discussions is growing incredibly urgent.
The absolute criminal incompetence displayed by the largely secular, left-leaning elite class (over the last 3 years in particular, but it had been building for a while) has our perpetually fluctuating political pendulum veering to the — you guessed it — Right. Much of this Right is self-evidently of the Religious mindset: in fact, it is the fundamental Good vs Evil framework that Religion offers that perfectly prepared them (and to a large extent me, although I also understand basic biology and psychology) to call out the ‘Rona psy-op early.
What does this pendulum swing entail? Well, there are now a lot of people who were right (Right!) about the Scamdemic, who will consequently now assume that they are Right about everything they choose to have an opinion on. That’s how these things work, unfortunately, and why I am in a less celebratory mindset about the sudden selective onrush of Jibby Jab disclosure than most.
For those of us who have been calling out this Plandemic for what feels like an eternity, it is hard to see the reveal that is taking place as anything but positive and necessary. While I would agree absolutely that it is necessary, I will personally be reserving judgement on the “positive” part for now, until we get a sense of the trajectory this disclosure and justice process is following.
Call me party-pooping black-piller if you wish, but blatant well-poisoning (or is that snake venom?) by certain explicitly religious Truther figures doesn’t currently engender confidence.
Simply brilliant Isaac, I can't argue with a word of it.
Funny that this post didn’t appear in my app until today, days after you posted it. Yesterday, I had a meeting with this preacher from a local church where I did a play prior to covid. He and I struck an unlikely friendship, him trying to convince me that Jesus is the right path and me softly explaining that although I appreciate the teachings of Jesus, it isn’t the only path, just the path that some people resonate with. I brought up Terence McKenna and Alan Watts and said their truth resonates with me just as deep and maybe you get closer to understanding god being a psychonaut. We’ve had these kinds of conversations for the last four years and not until yesterday did he concede that his religion can be exclusive. The whole Isaac thing came up as he argued that it was a true test of faith and I argued why test someone that way? Wouldn’t you forsake your humanity if you agree to do something so violent in the name of ideology? I brought up the whole conversation between O’Brian and Winston in 1984 where Winston answers with a resounding ‘yes’ to the question of throwing acid in a child’s face if it served the Brotherhood in destroying the Party. Well, who wants to be in a Brotherhood that asks for that? Incidentally, Charles Eisenstein just published a six part essay on this subject and if you have the time I would love to hear your thoughts on it. It’s on Substack.
Anyway, I wish I had come across this essay before meeting with my preacher friend because you, ever so eloquently and with a pinch of humor, get to the heart of it. I really love reading what you have to say, Isaac. Grateful to make a connection with you this year and looking forward to more.