Re: psychoceramics: Inevitability of gradualness

[acb @ cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

[Mitchell Porter]
> 
> "Inevitability of gradualness" is a phrase used by Francis E. Dec
> (in his "RANT #2", in _Kooks_, p181).
> 
> This evening I was at a friend's house, and picked out a book called
> _The Mother Company Conspiracy_, by one Greg Rudd, who is "private
> secretary to a federal politician" according to the author's bio,
> and lives in Brisbane, my own place of residence. I was just
> skimming the book, trying to get a sense of what it's about - it
> seems that the Mother Company is a conspiracy of white supremacists
> who secretly run the western world - when I came across this:
> 
>     "_The inevitability of gradualness_ is the motto of the Mother
>   Company." Prescott cocked one silvering well manicured eyebrow.
>   "The Mother Company was the forerunner to the Fabian Society,
>   which was founded in 1884. The Society was named for the Roman
>   General Fabius Maximus who overcame his enemies by a slow power
>   of attrition..." (p238)
> 
> So - what's going on here?  Is the Mother Company an agent of the
> Frankenstein Computer God? Did Rudd read Dec and feel inspiration?
> Is "inevitability of gradualness" a well-known figure of speech
> which might conceivably be known both to the private secretary of
> an Australian politician and to your only hope for a future, Esq.
> (but not to me)?

Ahh, of course.  I recall seeing tracts from some right-wing group
about the Fabian Society.  The allegations made were:

  -- The Fabian Society is named thus because its charter is to achieve
     socialism and world dictatorship not by sudden revolution, but by
     stealth and subterfuge ("Sovietisation by Stealth")

  -- Leading Australian Labor Party politicians (Hawke, etc.) (this was 
     a while ago) are members of the Fabian Society.

  -- Ergo, the ALP government is carrying out a hidden agenda of 
     sovietisation by stealth.

Of course, Labor is out of office now, so the worldwide communist gangster
police state has to be delayed a bit; however, it's not sure which 
conspiracies the Liberals are controlled by.  Malcolm Fraser (the Liberal
Prime Minister up until ~1983) was a (33rd-degree?) Freemason, but that's
all I know.

As for Dec, a lot of his rants appear to be severely distorted versions
of right-wing paranoia (fear of communism, race mixing, world government,
etc.)

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