A Weird And Bizarre World We Live In!

To understand the USA,

it’s necessary to grasp one thing concerning the Institution.

Most citizens don’t realize it exists. Yet the institution makes its influence felt from the President’s cabinet to the calling of a young schoolteacher who desires a foundation grant. It affects the nation’s policies in almost every area of government.

— The News & Courier, Charleston, S.C.

That 1961 news story outlined the institution like this:

The institution may be a general term for those individuals in finance, business, and the professions… who hold the principal measure of power and influence in this country irrespective of what party occupies the White House.

You’ve seen though, how this cluster affects the country and you personally: your liberties, finances, and your way of life.

You’re unhappy with it, maybe even fed up. But you cannot quite place your finger on what “it” is. “The system”? “Debt”? “Banksters”? “Corporatism”? “Corruption”? It’s very tough to identify and to describe. It’s like being asked to define the “Kingdom of God,” or to define “justice.” Both these things are very difficult, if not impossible, to do.

Indeed, there are multiple world religions —

and sub-sets of those religions — trying to identify and describe and define God. We still, and always will fight wars over it. Same for defining “justice,” which has led to one of the most respected professions in this world: lawyers and judges.

Yes, it’s hard to pinpoint the so-called Institution. But it’s not arduous to visualize its real-world consequences and implications.

The News & Courier put it like this:

The Institution is a block of power and opinion…

An Institution man can be as liberal as Walter Reuther and as conservative as Dwight D. Eisenhower was. This is the vary of thought and action at intervals in which the institution operates. The institution is FOR aid, for integration, and for that bundle of sentimental internationalist policies common to the Harry Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. It is a loose operating alliance of the near-socialist faculty members and also the internationalist Eastern banker. The institution controls the good foundations that support analysis and graduate study. Thus, it is able to determine the direction of thinking in many of the nation’s universities.

Thus, it controls the ways in which future leaders of business, finance, and politics are being tutored. It holds influence over the philosophies, thought processes, and rationales they’re going to use to assess this planet… make decisions about it, justify those decisions, and convince others they’re absolutely right.

It would take many pages to list the top positions held by Institution alum, from the heads of government agencies to the corner offices of banks, media, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, agriculture, or any other industry you can name. And sometimes they do a switch.

It’s important to identify what the Institution

is and what its goals are. As you’ll see, they hold the highest roles in business and government, and so they determine rules, laws, and processes that affect and limit you in everyday life. They grasp them within and out, and they operate on both sides — sometimes the regulator, sometimes the regulated. And it’s tough to mess up because there’s no script; they make it up and change it as they go (bail out banks, make corporations people, ban short selling, etc.).

They’re also in controlling positions

in media on both sides of the political spectrum, which polish it all over and serve it to us in digestible little bites so it’s easier to swallow. That’s how a payroll tax increase on every American gets branded as a “Fiscal Cliff deal.” Some deal… (Next, they’re going to make sequestration sound like it’s bad for you so they can give more money to their friends.)