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The Mapmakers
of Society
The beginnings of a Scientific
Dictatorship
Old-Thinker News | August 4,
2010
By Daniel
Taylor
In order to
understand our history, the development of our society and political
structure, the influence of the large foundations in America is an
essential area of research. Their investment into the social
sciences and medical establishment shaped their direction for the
20th Century and beyond. Social control and eugenics became a
primary directive. These ideas, primarily due to the work of the
Rockefeller and Carnegie philanthropies, spread throughout the
intelligentsia and elite circles throughout the western world.
Dr. Lily E. Kay's 1993 book
"The
Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and
the Rise of the New Biology" documents much of the early history
behind the rise of eugenics and life sciences. Kay
demonstrates that the drive for social control and eugenics was largely
responsible for the emergence and growth of the science of molecular
biology. Dr. Kay is a recipient of the Smithsonian Fellowship at the
National Museum of American History, and an assistant professor of
history of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr.
Kay's 2001 obituary from MIT describes her as
"...one of the outstanding
historians of biology of her generation."
As Dr. Kay documents, large
foundations effectively drew the maps for society to follow. The
intelligentsia, trained and schooled under the strong influence of
the foundations, closely followed the vision of the elite. This
vision extended into the realms of education, politics, religion,
and the financial world. As Dr. Lily Kay has painstakingly
documented, this influential group set out in the United States to
engage in a massive research campaign to discover the inner workings
of man and in turn to devise methods of social-biological control.
The United States, in turn, became the 20th Century progenitor of eugenics.
Dr. Kay paints a clear picture of the
massive influence that the wealthy elite in the United States
wields, even to the "...development of culture and the production of
knowledge in the United States..." Kay writes,
"Thus by the end of the Progressive
Era, even before the large-scale commitment to the "advancement of
knowledge" spurred by World War I, the human sciences received
considerable support from the large foundations. Their numerous
projects and the unprecedented scope of their financial and
institutional resources shaped the development of culture and the
production of knowledge in the United States. Through education,
public opinion, stimulation of specific research agenda, and the
promotion of selective categories of knowledge and research, the
Foundation played a key role in the creation of a hegemonic bloc;
the resources and prestige flowing into those fields relevant to
problems of social control were instrumental in the formation of
consensus between social and political elites, on the one hand,
and academic interests on the other."
Large foundations - primarily
Rockefeller and Carnegie - were investigated in 1915 by the United
States Congress, which reported nearly identical findings to the
later 1953 Reece Committee, dedicated to the
same cause. The 1915 U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations
reported that:
"The domination by the men in whose
hands the final control of a large part of American industry rests
is not limited to their employees, but is being rapidly extended
to control the education and social survival of the nation. This
control is being extended largely through the creation of enormous
privately managed funds for indefinite purposes, hereafter
designated "foundations", by the endowment of colleges and
universities, by the creation of funds for the pensioning of
teachers, by contributions to private charities, as well as
through controlling or influencing the public
press...
As Dr. Kay documents, many of the
original members of the large foundations and their offshoots were
driven by the philosophy that they were the chosen elite. In their
minds, moral authority was on their side. They sought to guide the
direction of the nation and mold mankind's development. Frederick T.
Gates, a Baptist minister who worked closely with the Rockefeller
family and its many initiatives, is quoted as saying,
"...when you die and come to
approach the judgment of Almighty God what do you think He will
demand of you...? Do you think he will inquire into your trivial
sins, your paltry values? NO! He will ask you just One Question:
'What did you do as a trustee of the Rockefeller
Foundation?'"
Chester Bernard, who served as
president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1948-1952, was
unquestionably a member of the establishment. He saw what the
Rockefeller Foundation and much of the scientific community was
attempting to do and spoke out against it, but couched his criticism
with the assumption of pure motives. Bernard writes in the
Rockefeller Foundation's 1948 Annual Report,
"Inherent in our systematic efforts
to promote the welfare of mankind there may be an assumption
that... by reason and science we may govern the future of
unborn generations in ways that we know are right... Do we
mean that because we have learned to navigate the tides we shall
also control them? ... We have already begun the attempts to
regulate local weather. Where do we think we shall stop -- with
the control of the speed of rotation of the earth, of its
revolution around the sun? ... Pride goeth before a
fall."
Dr. Kay comments on Bernard's
criticism, stating that, "Given this wisdom, it is paradoxical that
Barnard did not hear the dissonance between his poignant words and
the Rockefeller Foundation's agenda in biology, where the primary
justification for studying the fundamental mechanisms of soma and
psyche was the promise of intervening in the course of human
behavior on a global scale."
This original directive has remained
unchanged. However, Dr. Kay concludes by stating that "The eugenic
goals, which had informed the design of the molecular biology
program and had been attenuated by the lessons of the Holocaust,
revived by the late 1950's... a new eugenics... came to rest in
safety on the high ground of medical discourse and latter-day
rhetoric of population control."
Today we see this agenda moving full
speed ahead. Foundations are acting more and more like governments.
In an interview with the Seattle Times,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was asked, "Some say the emergence
of super rich philanthropies like the Gates Foundation has
undermined the effectiveness of the U.N. and its member
organizations, like the WHO." Moon responded,
"On the contrary that is what we
really want -- contributions from the business community as well
as philanthropies. We need to have political support, but it
doesn't give us all that we need. NGOs and philanthropies and many
foundations such as Bill Gates Foundation -- they're taking a very
important role."
In 1996 the Rockefeller Foundation
supplied grant money for early research on edible vaccines. The
$58,000 grant, given to the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant
Research at Cornell University, was aimed at developing and
transferring edible vaccine technology to developing
countries.
Edible vaccines, according to the
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, will be a more
socioculturally acceptable alternative to needles. In other words,
people will be less resistant to eating a mundane banana than taking
a shot in the arm. The Journal states that new edible vaccine technology may serve a dual purpose
of birth control.
As calls are made for lithium to be added to water supplies world-wide and
genetically modified organisms spread throughout the ecosystem, the
elite agenda of "...intervening in the course of human behavior
on a global scale..." is fast becoming reality.
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"If the fully planned and
conditioned world comes into existence... the restive species
[humanity]... will be vexed no longer by its chatter for truth and
mercy and beauty and happiness... if the eugenics are efficient
enough there will be no second revolt, but all snug beneath the
Conditioners, and the Conditioners beneath her, till the moon falls
or the sun grows cold." -- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man,
1944
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