Been wondering about that too. AFAIK the ruling families = wealth and knowledge inheritance but somewhat bound to specific cultures and regions whereas Vatican (and other international orgs) are the building blocks of the new tower of Babel. Maybe they’re like KGB and Politbureau? Of course, there’s also a possibility of someone above them all of whom we know nothing about because they live on some unknown territory in the “Antarctica”. In that case, people like Gates or even the royalty will be the “fall guys” for the ensuing chaos once the “Savior” (aka Antichrist) shows up to save us from them.

In the movie Harrison Bergeron, the main character is too smart for the “average” society the government had created so he’s offered to join a shadow organization running everything behind the scenes, including selection of the official politicians. They dress in dark clothes, live in austere environment, have to disappear from their families and are not allowed to have kids. Sounds familiar?

They control everything so the only one who can stop them at this point is the Lord Himself. For my part, I can only pray to Him and try to live a healthy life which is getting harder and harder.

Like everything else they’ve done, it won’t be stopped until we stop it, ourselves.

A while back, I read Leo Tolstoy’s very critical essay on Shakespeare in which he called him immoral and inartistic and couldn’t understand why the Western world is so enamored with him. It’s well known Shakespeare didn’t even create his own stories, he borrowed from the existing ones and didn’t even change names much. Well, Tolstoy being a pedant went and read the original story of King Lear and claimed it made much more sense in terms of plot and character development. The Western criticism of Tolstoy’s essay (see Orwell) seems to attack his character (as being too much of a Christian moralist and anarchist) rather than address his points (which probably means they’re valid). Basically, at this point “Shakespeare is the greatest Western playwright” is as much of a dogma as “the Earth revolves around the Sun”. The only two English speaking writers that I know of to have challenged it are George Bernard Shaw and J.R.R.Tolkien.

Now, I have my suspicions about Count Lev Nikolayevich himself, on account of his misspent youth and how all Russian aristocrats were Free Masons and he actually wrote about the Masonic initiation in War and Peace (maybe that’s why the book is still a required reading in Russian schools). However, it does seem he became more Christian and “anarchist” towards the end of his life, and even was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church.