How Plato Took Down the Twin Towers, Part Two of Two

Shuttering the Doors of Perception & Entrancing Eternal War

More on the 9/11 deception and the Project for a New American Century. Overturning the current morass of deception begins with the abject treason of 9/11 exposed.

Western civilization, as all civilizations, began with a sacred note, a particular song which carried it into being, during the sixth century BC. It is more than essential to understand that the cosmos for these mystic ancients is not out there. Inherent in every true mystery tradition is the experience of unity—the oneness of being of Parmenides, the I am That of the Upanishads—in which your body is fully the body of experience, and incorporates not only the experience of a self, a mind, but also your senses, the sense objects and the elements.^⁠1 All of this is each of us.

A few generations after that, the logos, the numinous anatomy of that song, becomes codified by logic into rationalism. Rationalism in general is the idea that you can experience the real through thought. This comes through Plato, and even more so, Aristotle. The lived totality shifts into thoughts about the lived totality. Plato’s Good, the Absolute, moves out of our sensorium and resides in our mind as an abstraction. Once outside of our experience, the goddesses and gods wither and enervate. From here it is an easy progression to a nature we can dominate and use for human gain, and to annihilate other humans, because all we lay waste to, at least in our thinking, is no longer us. In fact, we have been eviscerating our collective souls for millennia.

We are still chanted into existence, but the original song has been transmuted to a dirge. And make no mistake, there are beings on this planet who know this and use this to encase our clear perception in a dust cloud of dissonance. The 20^th century proliferation of media has been the tool of tools for this. Propaganda and controlled perception have been droned into our crania since birth, so that we do not smell the rotting soup we simmer in. So much so that many still take the slime for an angelic bubble bath, or rattle in a jingoistic echo chamber, awaiting John Wayne-esque salvation from “white hats” in the NSA, cosmic fifth-dimensional waves, benevolent aliens, super soldiers or— hardest to believe—politicians. As Mighty Mouse sings, “Here I come to save the day!”

We have to first reclaim our own perception, our own sovereign sensorium, and that begins with seeing how it was co-opted and for what purpose. It takes courage and discernment born of stillness and silence. It takes undaunted ruthlessness to admit you were wrong, duped or a fool, and keep moving because none of this is easy in the face of the torrent cajoling you to give in. The best place to begin to comprehend this theft of our perception is a return to our discussion of the events of 9/11/2001.

It is not a conspiracy to believe that lies generated by the “Cheney Gang” cadre have been the foundation of an impossibly false explanation of the September 11^th events, it is an act of perception. It is an act of direct perception to see that there is no plane wreckage inside or outside of the Pentagon. No wings. No titanium engines. No tail. No fuselage. No bodies. It is an act of perception to see no plane in the two available videos of the Pentagon explosion. It is an act of guided abstraction to think you have seen a plane because it has been repeated enough that one is there. It is an act of near certain deduction that the Pentagon has a complete array of video cameras surrounding it, and had there been a plane hitting it on film, it would have been played ad nauseam by every news outlet. It is an act of perception to view footage of Shanksville, PA, where news agencies reported that Flight 93 crash-landed, and see that there is again, no plane there. No debris field. No tail. No wings. As Casey Stengel used to say, “You can look it up.” It is an act of direct perception to watch WTC Building 7 drop into its footprint at freefall speed later that afternoon, with very little fire observed. Any act of perception would see a controlled demolition. It is an act of perception to see that there is nearly no rubble at the base of the fallen WTC towers (rubble that would be there if the bizarre pancake theory held true and somehow 110 story towers fell symmetrically), especially tons of cement that would be there if it hadn’t been somehow exploded and pulverized into the dust that eventually killed hundreds, if not thousands of rescuers and citizens of New York City. It is an act of perception to hear the explosives go off in the towers, as reported by many firefighters and heard on video, and an act of perception to see explosives detonate as the towers fell. It is an act of perception to see the towers fall straight down, and an act of slightly-informed perception to know that that does not happen—thrice!—without some sort of controlled explosion. It is an act of dark magic brainwashing to twist people’s perception into a thought aligned with the Bush administration’s untenable conspiracy. And an even darker act to make people think that these are their own thoughts, like they looked at what happened and came up with it themselves, so emotionally attached they are.

The crater in Shanksville, PA on September 11^th 2001, that supposedly Flight 93 nose-dived into: Where is the debris field? And what’s with the yellow and white jumpsuits?

Close up of the Shanksville “crater”.

According to the government conspiracy theory, a huge 757 completely disintegrated here, without singeing the grass.

No human with even moderately functioning sense perception could possibly see a plane crash here.

To so many people this is an old and obvious observation, but it has to be rendered again and again, because our current world construction is predicated on this false narrative, repeated and codified in the face of all visual evidence. Until this presupposition, this false attack narrative, is dis-enchanted, then we will continue living this contrived world of eternal warfare. Nothing will change before this does.

We cannot even begin to explore the why of that day until we admit to the what. A spell was cast, pure and simple. A spell cast and reinforced by the government and media repeating and repeating a narrative contrary to visual facts. A spell that would not have taken hold on a culture connected to its senses. We are a culture stuck in our heads, swirling with thoughts that look to import more thoughts, bulimic in our continuous ingestion and regurgitation. This spell, of course, was carried on an emotional shock wave that had us looking outside our selves and our perception for a ready explanation. A spell that could not have been possible had Plato’s arguments against sense perception as a valid way of knowledge not led to the rationalism that currently pervades our being to the exclusion of other ways of knowing.

One more connection to Plato to delineate here, involving the German- born, University of Chicago political philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973). Remembering where this article began, what is important here is not so much what Strauss wrote, which is complex and supportive of various viewpoints, but what certain influential students and adherents of his took from them to support public policy. Especially regarding Plato’s Republic. Most notable direct students of his are Paul Wolfowitz, deputy director of defense during the George Bush administration and afterwards president of the World Bank,^⁠2 a full-time war hawk; and his college roommate Abram Shulsky, who as an employee of the militaristic Rand Corporation and Hudson Institute, was tapped to head the newly minted Office of Special Plans in 2002, whose focus was to funnel and circumvent all intelligence that did not align with the administration’s plans to invade Iraq, and to invent evidence when it was inconveniently not there.^⁠3

Others indirectly informed by Straussian theory could be lumped for convenience and brevity into the signatories of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), formed in 1997. Amongst its policy agendas was the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, regime change for any country against America’s interests, immense military build-up, and the ability of America to engage in multi-pronged warfare. Since Americans, weary from the effects of the engagement in Vietnam, didn’t have a taste for extended warfare, they stated what was needed was a “new Pearl Harbor” to re-enrage American bloodlust. “New Pearl Harbor” was echoed by every media outlet that September day, until the ready-and-waiting Patriot Act became law six weeks later. Coincidence or conspiracy fact?

To a person, the PNAC group embodied several aspects of Plato derived from the Republic and other writings. There is the elitism of the ruling philosophers, which they embody as if a birthright. Only they are smart enough to know what is really happening in the world, and what needs to be done. In fact, the guardians of Plato’s utopia were only to be fed bread to keep them intellectually hamstrung, not the meat fueling the ruling class. Plato also proposed the gennaion pseudos, the “noble lie”. It literally means “false origin” and it refers to a fictional foundational myth that is useful for keeping a society cohesive. There is nothing noble about it, but this is what translators are paid to do. The Bush administrative cabal extended this myth-making to everything they did with catastrophic consequences for the world, unfolding more so each day. Especially the Orwellian lie of perpetual warfare against recycled enemies. I clearly remember Rumsfeld, at his first press conference as secretary of defense, flatly stating to the reporters, “One thing for sure, you know I will never lie to you.” My immediate thought, not even knowing his history at that time, was, There’s the first lie!

Certainly this gallery of mendacious elitist PNAC prevaricators deserve further public pillory, since justice is not forthcoming. Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, with PNAC signatory Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the the Afghanistan, Iraqi and subsequent wars; Dick Cheney, vice president and defacto president, who made the suspicious and highly unusual decree of naming himself head of NORAD, the US air defense system, in May 2001; Elliott Abrams, another architect of the Iraq war as a special assistant, convicted for the Iran-Contra crimes in 1991, pardoned by George H.W. Bush, never met a ruthless right-wing Central American dictator he didn’t like and abet, staunch Zionist, and now special representative to Venezuela, making sure the result there aligns with US interests and oil consumption; Jeb Bush, who was supposed to be the president when the Supreme Court selected his brother George in 2000—but the religious right gained unexpected strength and political activism, so his brother was more useful—and who had an expensive and spectacularly failed presidential run in 2016; Eliot Cohen, Condoleezza Rice’s^⁠4 counselor when she was secretary of state, huge advocate of war in the middle east; Gary Bauer of Focus on the Family; Midge Decter, writer and editor of Harper’s, and on the board of the Heritage Foundation, an organization dedicated to war in the middle east; Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs under Bush; William Bennett, “drug czar” under George H.W. Bush, apparently saddened that habeas corpus rights are extended to drug dealers, a high stakes Las Vegas gambler who wrote The Book of Virtues; publishing scion Steve Forbes who briefly ran for president; Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Irve Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who took the fall for Cheney’s retributive outing of embedded CIA operative Valerie Plame (and her team attempting to expose Saudi Arabian ties to criminal activity) after her husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson, outed the lies of the administration’s linking uranium, Saddam Hussein, and Niger in his NY Times op-ed (he was convicted, sentence commuted by Bush, then fully pardoned by President Trump; Norman Podhoretz, “pundit”, married to Midge Decter, hawk advocating direct attack of Iranian nuclear facilities, winner of the “Guardian of Zion” award; vehement anti-Muslim Frank Gaffney Jr., who stated that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, and winner of an award from the Zionist Organization of America (Ted Cruz stated Gaffney would be a national security advisor for him if elected president); Ronald Reagan’s under secretary for defense, Swiss-born Fred Ilké, who convinced the president to supply the Afghan resistance with stinger missiles over the objections of the State Department, the CIA, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Aaron Friedburg, who served as Cheney’s deputy assistant for national security and director of policy planning during the invasion and occupation of Iraq; William Kristol, well-known media “pundit” and massive drummer for the invasion of Iraq, also Vice President Dan Quayle’s chief of staff; J. Danforth Quayle himself, now a chairman of private equity firm Cerebus, which owns or owned many of the largest worldwide munitions corporations, and apparently under federal investigation for a loans acquisitions deal in Northern Ireland; Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University among others, famous author, and a formulator of the Reagan Doctrine, which allowed for US military intervention under the guise of human rights advocacy anywhere in the world without any declaration from congress; Zalmay Khalilzad, US ambassador to Iraq from 2005 to 2007, ambassador to the UN until 2009, and now US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation; Peter Rodman, a Brookings Institute senior fellow, worked closely with Henry Kissinger when he was secretary of state under Nixon, and later with his memoirs; Stephen Peter Rosen, Harvard professor, military strategist and foreign policy advisor for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential run; Harry Rowan, of Rand corporation, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a key member of George Bush’s “WMD Commission”, whose main work consisted in circumventing the reality that there were none; Vin Weber, former Minnesota congressman, a long time pro-Russia lobbyist, and as of July 2018 referred to NY prosecutors for possible illegalities with his company by the Mueller investigation; author George Weigel, believer in “moral reasoning” in guidance to war, and the support of authoritarian regimes in the cause of eliminating “moral decay”; Randy Scheunemann, lobbyist, advisor to Rumsfeld, huge supporter of the invasion of Iraq and friend of oilman Ahmed Chalabi, who was installed by Paul Bremmer as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq; and finally, Lithuanian Donald Kagan, Yale classicist, and father of PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan, Greek-born neocon American hedgemonist, who served as policy advisor to Jack Kemp, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, and is a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and the militaristic Foreign Policy Initiative. Apologies for the Joycean length of that sentence, but maybe it proves helpful to have a delineation of the depth and breadth of this group, who if not provably directly responsible for the events of 9/11, certainly anticipated years before what to do in its aftermath with Iraq as the first domino in its crosshairs to topple, and their ardent love of eternal warfare. This group in essence became the George Bush administration, and even though cursory, shows its controlling interest in the executive policies, institutions and manipulation of intelligence that intentionally altered the global landscape for the worse: millions dead, millions more displaced refugees, countries and families fractured, all in the name of what? Exporting democracy?

To go back to the Greek, hubris is too easy a word for it. These people think they know better than us, they think they know more than us, they are entitled to more than us because they think they are qualitatively better, and that any lie for their aims is not only justified, but noble. One would hope that Leo Strauss would be horrified at what became of his readings of Plato through his acolytes, but it really doesn’t matter at this point.

We have endured a co-opting of our perception, our aesthetics and our spirituality in a specifically coordinated campaign for at least a century or two. The story of who and how that was, and is being perpetrated, leads to discussing certain institutions too detailed for this paper.^⁠5 We will look at one last example of usurped perception. Why is it that many of us look at a creepy abstract sculpture haunting just about every public building, or look at a swath of abstract color on a canvas getting an absurd price at an auction, or stand alienated outside a modern glass and steel monolithic piece of architecture, and perceptively feel no human connection, interface or value. There is no uplift, only an intended feeling of disassociation. Abstraction permeates and pervades all the arts, infecting our now-atrophied organ of visceral perception that once allowed us to resonate with a work wedded to an aesthetic of the sublime. And, of course, some dissonance has to be included in art, otherwise you have the treacly prettification and infantile cartoonism comprising most art now that is still representational. Even a perfect rose contains the decay inherent it its full- voiced flowering.

What is a human to do with abstract modern art and sculpture? Reading a hundred books will still leave your soul in agony in its presence. Bottom, Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue and Grey (1917, sold for $20 million dollars at auction); top, Passage by Albert Paley, in front of the Federal Building in the author’s hometown of Asheville, NC. Paid for with US tax dollars.

Our perception itself has been co-opted and dictated to us. Plato famously exiled the poets—who in that day spoke from divine inspiration—from his idealized Republic, under the auspices of state control. And since then philosophers have made excuses, as if something was wrong with the poets, not Plato. Our appetites and tastes are carefully guided down narrow corporate-state corridors by packaged, genetically-altered and glyphosphate-sprayed food, violent video games, insipid movies and inane television, fluoridated pineal-crystalizing water, third grade and third rate song lyrics, fuzzy nano-skies that once shone blue, and a background ambient fear and anger fueling adrenal overload. No wonder we crave abstraction. The current end game for AI-post human enthusiasts is a “neural lace” brain implant to connect us to the “cloud”. Cloudy indeed. The actual result of that will be our full perception dictated to us by artificial entities who don’t give a farthing about our welfare.

While all of this would appear to be common sense, there is a good reason it doesn’t. Empedocles, one of the mystic-shaman-magicians who brought western civilization into being a century or so before Plato, understood the senses and elements to be divinities. To live from that vision, one applied a practice of holding all the senses in common, in other words to connect through a certain attention with that part of you from which all the senses emerge. Aristotle intellectualized and trivialized common sense into the meaningless phrase used today.^⁠6 Unmoored from our grounding source, our original note, our senses have been overridden by contrived think tank thought, and led down dark, deviant arteries into an inner and outer landscape beyond recognition.

Traditional cultures consider senses as deities in themselves. In fact, our senses are how the divine, the absolute, experiences her cosmos. We are “the eyes of the world”, as the song goes. She sees, feels, tastes, hears, smells through our sensorium. What a gift to the divine to cleanse our senses of artificial mental pollution and experience creation in its luminosity. If we abide in that silent, thought-less place that fosters our humanity, our senses connect with all of creation, in wholeness and oneness. The blinders will fall away of themselves, and those hungry ghosts that have been feeding on our manipulated lower emotions for millennia will starve, dissipate, and scurry back to where they came from. And humans will be beautifully sovereign again. It’s a better dream than the nightmare currently foisted upon us.

Here is a prescient quote from Robert Graves^⁠7 to close with:

The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality, and become the instruments of other people’s wills.

¹ The most Occam’s razor-like formulation of this comes through 20th century Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, who wrote: “I am I plus my circumstance. I cannot save myself if I cannot save my circumstance.”

² Wolfowitz was slated to be named CIA director under George W. Bush; but his wife Clare Selgin Wolfowitz wrote a letter to the president-elect claiming that he is a security risk because of an extramarital affair with a Libyan national World Banker. Might have had something to do with their 33 year old marriage ending that year.

³ See especially the elevated and admitted lies of Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan al- Janabi, better known as “Curveball”, who, even being the only human to report knowledge of Iraqi WMD’s, was good enough for Cheney and Rumsfeld to employ as their casus belli.

⁴ Ms. Rice is certainly an honorary PNAC member, provost of Stanford University, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, national security advisor, primary propagandist for the war in Iraq, and likely the only cabinet member to have an oil tanker named after her (subsequently renamed by Chevron; what does one do to have a tanker named after you?). Three days after 9/11, she was seen by New Yorkers shopping in Bloomingdales for more of her signature dominatrix boots. The NY women in the store went right up to her and said, “Shouldn’t you, like, be doing something?” Gotta love ‘em.

⁵ The Frankfurt School, the Tavistock Institute, the Pilgrim Society, and the various admitted programs of the CIA—projects Monarch, MK Ultra, and Mockingbird, operations Gladio, CHAOS, and Midnight Climax are all well-documented and essential for an operative understanding of the fake world designed for us.

⁶ See Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition by Peter Kingsley for a full accounting of how Plato and Aristotle misrepresented for their own purposes the mystic philosophy of their predecessors.

⁷ Graves is best known for his books The White Goddess, and I Claudius. This quote is from a talk he gave in 1965 that is more pertinent than ever.