Mortimer Adler

They wind you up because they know what makes you tick. Tavistock Clinic studied shellshock (post-traumatic stress) in WWI but switched to developing psychological warfare in 1922.  Rather than helping traumatized soldiers, it calculated their breaking points. Tavistock shock doctrine now permeates global life. Their social engineers are a Who’s Who:  Freud, Jung, Adler, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Edward Bernays, Eric Trist, A.K. Rice, Eric Miller, Aldous Huxley, and more.

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Luce’s desire to wash the brain of the American businessman resulted in the Institute’s “Executive Seminar,” which targeted “established or potential heads of corporations.” Hence, The Fat Man’s Seminar became the Executive Seminar, the brainwashing dialectical “rock” upon which Aspen was “built” (220) and has remained the “cornerstone of the Aspen Institute from 1951 to the present” (102).

THE EXECUTIVE SEMINAR—A LESSON IN BRAINWASHING

[i.e. the Dialectical Process in Action/Praxis]

Philosophy of praxis is both a euphemism for Marxism and an autonomous term used by (Antonio) Gramsci to define what he saw to be a central characteristic of the philosophy of Marxism, the inseparable link it establishes between theory and practice, thought and action. (Gramsci xiii)

The “creator and mainspring” of the Executive Seminars was Mortimer Adler (Hyman Aspen 134). In the “cadre of seminar leaders Adler recruited were some of the most experienced and gifted teachers [change agents/facilitators] in the nation” (130). The Executive Seminars consisted of a “sequence of sessions spread over twelve days” where groups, who had been assigned to read before-hand carefully chosen “selections” from carefully chosen books, would meet for “discussions” and “argument.” These selections contained a “sweep of tough thinking about social, economic, and political problems,” and were “from the Bible, from Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, and Thucydides,” as well as “selections from the Federalist papers, from Karl Marx, from Sigmund Freud.” All “dealt with ideas such as equality, liberty, justice, and property—ideas of central importance to an understanding of ‘democracy’ and ‘capitalism’ as well as of their opposites, ‘totalitarianism’ and ‘communism.’” The selections were designed to “widen the arc of perceptions about the

same four fundamental ideas” and…

to avoid the bogus clarity where only one side of a case is seen, the readings for a given day would include conflicting views about major issues. Seminar participants would then be asked to formulate the terms of the conflict, to state where they stood with respect to the rival sides, and to defend their positions under challenge.

Although the premise of the readings and discussions assumed that the truth was in principle discoverable—else, why bother to seek it by means of an argument?—the seminars would teach no dogmas but would encourage the participants to examine all dogmas, starting with their own. Further, the Executive Seminar would not provide businessmen with pat answers to the practical problems they faced… (106-107)

Obviously, it was “not the aim of the Aspen Executive Seminars to make a better treasurer out of a treasurer, or a better credit manager out of a credit manager, or to show how an advertising vice-president can be more effective in promoting a product” (107). As Luce had suggested and what the process was designed and proven to do was to wash or rid the brain of the individual of his/her traditional beliefs, convictions, and values. Not unlike the industrialist who collaborated with Hitler, many of the businessmen recruited for Aspen came initially because “they hoped to sell something” to Paepcke and his Container Corporation but instead, were “subjected to a treatment” that would eventually change their very worldview. From all accounts, very few failed to succumb to the “unsettling impact” (218) of these seminars. One discerning and therefore irate participant, a banker, drew a “fellow participant” aside: “This whole program is nothing more than a New Deal or Communist plot to undermine the free enterprise system. Look at the stuff we’ve been asked to read, and just listen to the outrageous things being said in the discussions!” raged the banker. Unfortunately, the banker had unknowingly expressed his views to the enemy, a fellow who had been involved in the “Great Books movement” (108-109).

Businessmen  as   well   as   “moderators”  and   “special   guests”   from   non-business backgrounds who were “exposed to the early Executive Seminars, developed a lasting attachment to the Institute” (111). As a result of this “leader education,” a “spirit of fraternity sprang up” among those who attended (150). Between 1951 and 1964, more than “400 corporations” had participated and “more than 2,000 alumni of the Executive Seminars held  places   of  leadership  in  business,  labor,  government,  the  professions,  the universities, and the arts and sciences.” In the years ahead, the Institute continually held “refresher” seminars for the alumni at Aspen, Washington, New York and various other major cities around the country (176).

These alumni would play a major role in the Institute’s plans to deceive the masses.

Paepcke also created a summer

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Mortimer Adler

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