Ep. 15- I Am Not What I Am: Iago as a British Power Move

A Conspiracy How-To

I Am Not What I Am

In The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, Iago’s machinations are an illustration of British diplomacy- stealth, deception, chaos and conspiracy- to create a power vacuum and then move in. It’s a textbook for tyrants. A manual of manipulation. Instruction for initiates,

The play is not about race or racism- that’s an effective cover story, a shield, a veil. The play is a how-to: how to build a conspiracy, how to foment discord, how and when to lie, how to seize power. Desdemona is targeted and is the true tragic victim. Iago weaponizes Desdemona’s natural human empathy to trigger the chain reaction. Weaponize empathy, create discord, weaken the enemy, seize power. Iago comes within a hair’s breadth of succeeding. He risked it all for the top position.

The same tactic was used throughout most of the world during the pandemic to increase uptake of the gene therapy and keep everyone home. The rich got much much richer during the pandemic. You remember: ‘Get the jab for others.’ ‘Protect Grandma.’ Weaponized empathy was used effectively in the run-up to WW1 by GK Chesterton, the loud Christian mouthpiece who strongly advocate for fighting in WW1: "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." Same shit different day. Christianity weaponized. WW1 was created by the ‘diplomacy’ of Mackinder and Rhodes and Milner with some help from King George. and ‘Lord’ Rothschild.

Today it’s sympathy for the migrants that is weaponized. Manipulating the better angels of our nature is the game. Iago puts on a master class. “So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all.” Why not just make the migrant’s home better? Because ‘we’ made the migrant’s home worse intentionally (think Libya and Syria as two examples) to spur the migration that divides the people. A divided populace is easier to rule. Power is always the goal. Chaos ultimately leads to more Power. It’s an evil game we need to get hip to.

If the play is about hatred then this play is about the hatred of women and the exploitation of their essential goodness. Iago desires Othello, and according to some critics, it’s the most overtly homosexual play in all of Shakespeare. Just sayin’.

The podcast episode opens with a look at the Shakespeare authorship hoax then dives into the ‘Shakespeare’ poem Venus and Adonis, the first published work with the name Shakespeare on it. Adonis refuses to sleep with Venus, the most beautiful woman in th universe. What’s up with that? The poem inverts the ancient myth that has Adonis and Venus passionately in love.

As for Iago- noted Shakespeare scholar and critic A. C. Bradley states:"evil has nowhere else been portrayed with such mastery as in the evil character of Iago". Bradley also states that Iago "stands supreme among Shakespeare's evil characters because the greatest intensity and subtlety of imagination have gone into his making."

The mystery of Iago's actual motive continues to intrigue readers and fuel scholarly debate. well, mystery no more.

Time Stamps

(0-54:00) First a review of the Authorship Hoax…after 400 years the world has discovered that William of Stratford did not write the plays. What does the hoax mean? More on Francis Bacon.

(54:00) Homosexuality and Shakespeare, with a look at “Venus and Adonis” the first poem ever printed under the Shakespeare name. Venus and Adonis is an Ancient Greek myth - how did ShakesBacon change the story? Why? Just for laughs?

(1:19:30) New evidence of rampant pedophilia in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater scene. With young boys playing all the female roles, are we surprised? Why did the Puritans close the theaters after the English Civil War? Because of the open secret about pedophilia.

(1:26:00) New York Review Of Books: Fintan O’Toole on Shakespeare

(1:38:13) Edmund Spenser: Surprise Surprise Surprise

(1:42:02) OTHELLO: An analysis of “The Tragedy Of Othello”. It’s not about Othello and it’s not about Race. It’s about the power of a super liar, most evil character in all of literature - Iago. Gnostic hatred of women again?