The Bohemian Grove is a private meeting north of San Francisco along the Russian River that occurs for several weeks each July.
“The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That’s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I’ve never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It’d be good for you. You’d get some fresh air.”
–Former President Bill Clinton to a heckler in 1997.
Watch for a new story –Â about where we are and where we are going – framed by discussions and consensus at the Grove to emerge in the media in August and when Congress returns after Labor Day.
pictures of the bohemian grove go to http://photobucket.com/sanderbulten2
When philosophy paints its gray on gray, then has a form of life grown old, and with gray on gray it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known; the Owl of Minerva first takes flight with twilight closing in.”
-G. W. F. Hegel, “Preface,” Philosophy of Right
The Owl of Minerva is also the official journal of the Hegel Society of America. The Journal publishes articles, discussions, notes, reviews, and translations which pertain to Hegel, as well as those which bear upon his contemporaries, his successors, his influence today, or developments in Hegel scholarship, and those which direct a Hegelian perspective toward the resolution of philosophical issues or enter into debate with this approach. Philosophers and representatives of other disciplines, such as history, economics, sociology, law, German literature, etc., are also welcome to contribute papers which relate the particular concerns of those disciplines to Hegelian thought.
“…the State ‘has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State… for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges.'” Author/historian William Shirer, quoting Georg Hegel in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959, page 144)
The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box.
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm
Scott:
My experience of working with people who attended the Grove is that it is a place where many decision makers get together and have a chance to speak, build consensus and make decisions.
Yes, they can get together whenever they want. However, as a practice they tend to get together at the Grove. So, as I said, watch for a new story to emerge in August and September that reflects communications that occur at the Grove.
As for having fun, I hope they do as I hope we all do. Best to have decision makers who are happy, rested and in touch with redwood forests.
Catherine
I’ve worked at the Grove several times and had a neighbor who was a member.
He used to take his very wide-eyed liberal son there to entertain people at night with a “light-show” he developed using lights on ropes that he twirled around. He wouldn’t perform for the tree-killer Horowitz (or whatever that guy’s name was…)
Truthfully, the reputation of the grove is way overblown. Sure, there are times when men of means go there and make deals. But those deals can be made almost anywhere. The place is really just a boy’s camp for men who want to get drunk and piss on trees without everybody hassling them.
Their “rituals” are no more harmful or evil than the burning of the effigy at Burning Man.
I mean, who doesn’t like to get dressed up, get drunk, and burn shit on a hot summer night? Remember beach parties and bonfires?
This topic reminds me of the The Franklin Cover Up case with John DeCamp. If you haven’t yet seen the censored documentary, then I suggest you watch it, for it is quite powerful and disturbing, so please brace yourselves.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=866739408240639313&ei=R6hbSpC1IYXU2wLLga3ZAw&q=franklin+coverup
Jessie,
1. With respect to Agenda 21, may I suggest this group:
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/
2. As far as the dialectic goes, it actually started prior to Plato, even though he wrote about it extensively. I’ve tried to address the matter in many of my comments to various recent posts, so that discussion may be of interest. Finally, I recommend the following pieces by Charlotte Iserbyt, a former Dept of Education official under Reagan:
COLD WAR MYTH: AN EXERCISE IN THE USE OF THE DIALECTIC
http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt2.htm
THE DEVIL’S SEVEN-PRONG FORK
http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt35.htm
Jessie:
Delighted to have you post whatever you think is useful.
Best,
Catherine
Hi Catherine… just curious if you are interested in posting anything about the Hegelian Dialectic, Hegel and Marxism, and possibly the UN’s Agenda 21? I can’t recall seeing anything posted here, despite the importance of these topics. Thank you.