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Fixed that link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_Me! so if you found a silly song instead of a magazine featuring antisemitic cartoons, rape, and pimping, you were misguided and should try again. Substack autoformat error, but really, user error.

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(Banned)Apr 30, 2023Liked by Aaron Lee

In your opinion how much the division of labor and the subsequent emergence of ever evolving narrow field specialization has to do with our propensity for outsourcing research/opinions to the “authority”?

As far as the antisemitic conspiracy theory, I can see how to those who look at the Ukrainian conflict from the nationalistic point of view, this looks suspiciously similar to other Anglo-Saxon expeditionary wars financed by international banking network which has always been synonymous with Jews.

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It's a good question. I don't think I can answer it systematically, so I'm going to try the first part with aphorisms.

If we delegate our thinking to someone else, then we have delegated autonomy.

If we delegate our decisions to someone else, then we have delegated freedom.

One is free will, one is physical free agency.

Representative Government is utilitarian: greatest good for the most people.

Division of labor means self-selecting out as a 'representative' in favor of a specialist.

If the most compassionate are best suited to care, the most intelligent to problem-solving, the hardest-working to difficult tasks, then it will be psychopaths who consider themselves most suited to power.

Power requires division of labor to wield.

Psychopaths will never apply division of labor to power.

Psychopaths consider all activities funnels to power itself.

The whole problem with this international banking slander is that it ignores that most wealth is held by banks, governments, and ex-nobility. Even this Rothschild slander ignores the much larger sums raised by the British crown or French tax farmers. The sick amount of funds raised by French tax farmers annihilated what was formerly the wealthiest peasant group in pre-modern Europe. No Jews involved in that. It was impossible and illegal for Jews to hold any titles or positions in France prior to the code of Napoleon. To ignore the size of the bond market when discussing Rothschild activities (the modern origin of the Jew moneylender) is to not even know the scope of finance. It would be like a peasant staring at a castle in Europe and thinking 'that guy must be the richest guy in the world,' and not even being able to conceive of the Forbidden City or Taj Mahal. The idea that Jews financed the wars in Europe is completely contradicted by the historical bond market which we have records and can evaluate. Jews were again, a convenient scapegoat by the powerful nobility that wanted to keep their divine right of Kings even as they murdered their own people over family feuds with their cousins.

Is Nomura Jewish? Owned by Jews? Mitsubishi Bank? Industrial And Commercial Bank of China? The City of London? The Federal Reserve? Barclays? HSBC? Was the Dutch East India Company owned by Jews? Are British Gilts issued by Jews? Saudi Royal Fund? These financial institutions so totally dwarf any financial presence the Jews have, I cannot fathom how an honest interlocutor would credit Jewish finance over these institutions. George Soros is an internationally reviled man, but serves as a proxy for Jewish conspiracy. Maybe he's just an asshole, like the Bin Laden family—which wielded far more secret (but now surfaced) influence over the world.

As I mentioned in the essay, these arguments about 'international Jewish finance' can be dismissed with a few citations, but that doesn't stifle the conspiracy. The Bank of Japan's influence is so much greater than any influence Jews could have, but I don't hear people saying that the Japanese secretly rule the world.

Antisemitism is not an Eastern Europe problem, it's not a European problem, not a Western Civilization problem, not a European Civilization problem... it's a global problem. By conflating Jews with global finance, all the real corrupt parties are able to continue malfeasance without scrutiny.

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