C. S. Lewis's Inner Ring, and Gary North

     The C. S. Lewis Society has a website which includes the full text of his lecture on "The Inner Ring." It was apparently given at a British college about 1944.  I first read it in the very early 1970s in The Weight Of Glory And Other Addresses.

     This analysis, this insight, has informed and guided my thinking about the topology of the Underworld ever since.  It suggests how Underworld syndicates can come into existence by the imagination and will of a single person, and develop according to that will combined with the larger patterns of shared consciousness.  We could almost call the formation of such rings a "spontaneous" phenomenon.

     What would be further interesting is to know, or study to know, how such rings collide, combine, coalesce, and transmute themselves into other forms.

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     Gary North applies Lewis's "Inner Ring" topology to the New World Order, and to all New World Orders from Babylon to the British Empire to the Old Soviet Union.  In an essay published at LRC entitiled, "The Crucial Pillar Of The New World Order," he makes several interesting points:

     1.  David Rothkopf has written books on the powerful rich:  Superclass is one.  In linked videos, he briefly references something of their nature, and the cyclic rise and fall of elites throughout history.  His thesis is that, according to North, "About 6,000 people, 94% male, average age 61, meet from time to time to set the agenda for the rest of us. Here is the central fact: about 30% of them attended one or more of about 20 elite universities."

     2.  "The heart of today's superclass is the combination of three factors: money, political power, and an old boy network. These three characteristics are the foundations of every New World Order is history. . . . If today's New World Order is to be displaced, this must include a re-structuring of the educational system. Why? Because this is the heart of the elite's old boy network."


     3.  "All old boy networks are inherently anti-market networks. In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith made this observation:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. (Book I, Chapter X, Part II)

These words have come down through history as a condemnation of every would-be New World Order. What Rothkopf describes as a superclass, Smith described as a conspiracy. Rothkopf refuses to use this word. That's because the superclass is a conspiracy: the largest, richest, and most powerful conspiracy ever seen.


It rests ultimately on a single pillar: a system of screening based on formal education.


That pillar has begun to crack."

     4.  "The mortal enemies of the superclass are those people who have a seven-word offer: "I can sell it to you cheaper." Jews and Armenians have been saying this for a thousand years. Scots and Dutchmen have been saying it for 300 years. Now Asians are saying it.

This is the soft underbelly of the superclass. This is why, in the immortal words of Mr. T, it's going down."





Reference

C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite circa 1960