Conspiracy: Psyops & Demons

News and Notes from Michael Hoffman for the Week of August 1

C O N T E N T S

I. Conspiracy: Psyops & Demons

II. “Barbenheimer”

III. Paid subscriptions

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I. Conspiracy: Psyops & Demons

I will be part of a panel discussion on X (formerly known as Twitter), chaired by publisher Mark Granza.

The topic will be: "Conspiracy: Psyops & Demons.” 

Listen on Thursday, August 3 at 4 pm Eastern time. Here's the link:

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxyvjXwYZKM?s=20

The panel will include authors who have contributed articles and essays published in the "Conspiracy" issue (no. 3) of the avant-garde magazine, IM.

I will speak about The Distraction Factor and The Exhaustion Factor in terms of psychic paralysis and the culmination of the alchemical processing of humanity, as well as proposing antidotes and suggestions for the defense and enhancement of mental and spiritual health.

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II. “Barbenheimer”

I have updated my July 21 Substack column, “Robert Oppenheimer and Zhou Enlai in the Summer of our Discontent” with new sections on Oppenheimer’s character and more on environmental fallout from the atomic blast he engineered. You can read the updated column in its entirety at this link.

Part of the newly added material is included here:

Oppenheimer’s Code of Conduct

As for Oppenheimer’s character, he was a hard-bitten genocidal agent of the U.S. government who subscribed to the mass-murder-as-duty code of the ancient Hindu text, Bhagavad Gita. (In its defense, Mohandas Gandhi stated that the Gita was an allegory which was not to be taken literally. Fair enough. Oppenheimer however, interpreted it verbatim et literatim, in the context of the dementia and extremism of his scientism (as opposed to science).

In the Bhagavad Gita the warrior Arjuna is having second doubts about committing mass murder. The god Krishna overcomes his reluctance:

“Krishna’s arguments include three basic ones that Oppenheimer would take to heart: (1) Arjuna is a soldier, so it is his duty to fight; (2) Krishna, not Arjuna, will determine who lives and who dies, and Arjuna should neither mourn nor rejoice over what fate has in store but should be sublimely unattached to such results; (3) ultimately, the most important thing is devotion to Krishna…To Oppenheimer the message would have seemed equally clear. If it was proper for Arjuna to kill his own friends and relatives in a squabble over the inheritance of a kingdom, then how could it be wrong for Oppenheimer to build a weapon to kill Germans and Japanese whose governments were trying to conquer the world?” (James A. Hijiya, The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 144, number 2, June 2000, pp. 131 and 133).

Condemned are “those who place their own reasoning above the authority of tradition. ( Cf. Klaus Klostermaier, A Survey of Hinduism [1989], pp. 50, 53).

From the Bhagavad Gita came Oppenheimer’s unforgettable evocation of the demon of atomic fire at the Trinity Site:

“If the radiance of a thousand suns

were to burst into the sky,

that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One—

I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.”

Though he is often portrayed as a chastened Frankenstein (as Roger Shattuck memorably described him in the book Forbidden Knowledge [1996]), Oppenheimer was a chameleon who adapted his coloration according to the specific needs of the propaganda self-image he was crafting at the time.

In November, 1945 he truthfully testified in the pages of the Saturday Review of Literature that when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan was already “essentially defeated” and nuclear weapons were instruments “of aggression…and of terror.” Oppenheimer was even going around saying he had blood on his hands (“Harry S. Truman to Dean Acheson, May 7, 1946,” President’s Secretary’s File, Truman Library).

Perhaps he was, after all, a kind of existentialist saint, haunted by self-doubt?

If you believe that, then you have succumbed to Oppenheimer’s intellectual dishonesty and Nolan’s camouflage.

“You wouldn’t believe that such a man would advocate the use of the bomb on Hiroshima—on civilians—and yet he did.” (Jonathan Schell, “The Gift of Time,” The Nation, February, 1998, p. 28.)

Not only was he instrumental in constructing the means for the mass murder in the cities of Japan, , for the remainder of his life—Oppenheimer insisted that he had acted correctly and morally. (Cf. New York Times Magazine, August 1, 1965, p. 8).

Hijiya relates that when “Edward Teller was asked to circulate a petition by his fellow Manhattan Project scientist Leo Szilard, cautioning President Truman against dropping the atomic bomb on a Japanese city, Oppenheimer advised Teller not to do so. ‘Our fate,’ Teller later recollected Oppenheimer explaining, ‘was in the hands of the best, the most conscientious men of our nation. And they had information which we did not possess.’ (Edward Teller with Allen Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima [Doubleday, 1962], pp. 13–14.) Oppenheimer forbade the circulation of the petition at Los Alamos. (Alice Kimball Smith, A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists’ Movement in America: 1945–47 [University of Chicago Press, 1965], p. 155.)

Leo Szilard and sixty eight other scientists addressed a letter to Truman beseeching him not to drop the atom bomb on civilians. Oppenheimer did all he could to obstruct their plea. He would countenance no target other than Japanese cities. (Alice Kimball Smith, A Peril and a Hope : The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945-47 [MIT Press, 1971], pp. 53–55).

“Barbenheimer”

Christopher Nolan’s glorification of this war criminal is partnered with a movie about a blond doll: “To Americans eager for signs of life in an ailing cinema culture, the simultaneous box office success of the “Barbie” movie and the biopic “Oppenheimer” has been cause for celebration, with filmgoers embracing the jarring juxtaposition of the two very different blockbusters… ‘Barbenheimer’ double features and online mash-ups of Barbie’s pink fantasia with images of Oppenheimer-era nuclear explosions…” (New York Times, August 1).

When dehumanized people such as low status, World War II era Japanese women and children are incinerated to ashes, out the window go the solemn American pieties attendant upon the genocide of victims of higher status.

With “Barbenheimer” the basic norms of human rights are flouted by a depraved and indifferent Hollywood commercialism. It’s a disgusting display of perverse obliviousness that makes one ashamed to be living in the same country as Nolan and his media flacks.

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Michael Hoffman is the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare (2001), The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome (2017) , Twilight Language (2021), six other books published in the United States, as well as overseas in Japanese and French translation, and 122 issues of Revisionist History® newsletter, 1997-2022. Since January, twenty-eight of his essays have been published on Substack. He is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press. His podcast, Michael Hoffman’s Revisionist History,® is heard around the world.