THE LAST CIRCLE
by Carol Marshall

Hi there!  Don't look around-- it's you I'm talking to!  Yeah you, in front of the screen there!  That's right, you're on the Internet.

The Internet put a bullet into the twitching, disease-ridden near-cadaver of the record industry by making information easier to disseminate.  Music is just information, after all.  So why hasn't it destroyed the book business yet?  Doesn't it seem that books are even more easily transmissible in digital format?

Part of the reason is that a book is a totem, a power-object.  They are pretty objects, delicate yet durable, and their presence in a room or in someone's hand conveys meaning, helps to define that person to herself and others.  A pdf just can't do that.

Another part of the reason is much deeper and more complex and far more contentious.  The book business is to a large extent a subsidized industry that is so heavily involved in mind control, political corruption and payoff laundering that profitability is not as fundamental to its existence as one might expect.

People read a lot on the Internet, but they don't read books there so much.  Looking at a screen is not something people generally want to do for the length of time it takes to read War and Peace.

However, I have recently found two extremely important books that will forever change your understanding of the world that are free and available on the Internet.

THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION by John Taylor Gatto advances and then historically substantiates the author's hypothesis that the American school system's "failure" is in fact its purpose.  American public schools are actually intended to make people stupid, to keep them from thinking critically, to retard maturity and enforce a sort of feeble-minded, dependent complacency.

Sounds crazy?  Well, he has proof to back it up-- when the system was being put into place at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, quite a few of the people involved were proud enough of their work and their theories to go on record about what they intended to do and how they intended to do it.  It's just not the kind of thing they teach you in school.

Here's the link: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm

Once you've read that, check out THE LAST CIRCLE by Carol Marshall, an insane investigative adventure that starts with meth-cooking deputies in the national parks out west, careens past the Danny Consalero "suicide" and right into the Inslaw and Iran-contra scandals.  It's well written and exciting, and definitely the kind of book "they" don't want you to read.  (That's probably why it was never published.)

Here's the link: http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/last_circle/0.htm

Now I've just given you, for free, two books which completely undermine all the myths we are told about our society.  We are a herd of bovine chumps who are being manipulated and mind-controlled by a small cabal of wealthy, drug-dealing, utterly amoral thugs.  Read these and weep.