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Brady Nash's avatar

My buddy and I are aligned with the Empire/Language/Shakespeare premise, the quote about language being an army with a dialect, except we push the conversation back to Philip Sidney, older than bacon, more artistically minded, but just as aligned. Both would have been at Oxford and grown up in Cecil household. Walsingham is also part of the intelligentsia scene, whose daughter married Sidney. Look up Sidney's "Aeropagus" secret group, connected with other literatti on the continent. Plus there's no "British empire" without Humphrey Llywd and John Dee, the former who dedicated a history of Wales to Sidney and the latter being his personal tutor and family friend.

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"The strategic use of MYTH transforms the psyche of an entire nation. Bacon wrote a book on the myths called Wisdom Of The Ancients. He knew more about human psychology than Freud and Jung combined, and 300 years earlier. Sigmund Fraud’s main inspiration was William Shakespeare. Just sayin’."

This line made me immediately think of the salvation by syringe psyop/sacrifice we've been living through.

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