Jubilee Prosperity

Henrika Kuklick criticized the British Social Science Research Council for being handmaidens of colonialism. She attacked RLI’s one-time director Bronislaw Malinowski for taking funds from the Rockefellers and using anthropology for ill purposes:

Malinowski assured the foundation that its funds would be put to constructive use, supporting the application of anthropology as ’social engineering’ into areas which western capitalism was pressing. [18]

The Post-War Shift:

After the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, the British used the techniques developed by social engineers in the military domain to engineer a paradigm shift in the Baby-Boomer generation.

The foundations of this new paradigm promoted varieties of existentialism and relativistic situational ethics. They succeeded in shifting the orientation of society from the productivity and progress of FDR’s era, to the notions of green ecology so popular today. Thus they helped the United States destroy its own industrial power by transferring it to emerging nations with cheaper labor and technology transfer.

According to one source, institutions like those of the Rockefellers were:

interested in finding out if there was a group committed to undertaking, under conditions of peace, the kind of social psychiatry that had developed in the army under conditions of war. So began a process that led the Rockefeller Foundation in 1946 to make a grant of funds without which the IPCO’s [Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization] post-war plan could not have been carried out.[19]

The post World War I Tavistock Clinic made the transition from being a Royal British governmental entity sponsored by the 11^th Duke of Bedford, Marquess of Tavistock, and Princess Bonaparte housing Sigmund Freud in her Maresfield Garden Mansion, to becoming an almost wholly privately funded enterprise. The newly-named Tavistock Institute of Human Relations formally merged with its American counterparts, through journals called Human Relations and Evaluation.

Tavistock influenced institutions reportedly include the University of Sussex, the Center of Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown, where State Department personal are trained, Esalen, the GREX Wright Institute, MIT, Stanford Research Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, the Mitre and Rand corporations, University of Michigan and US Air Force Intelligence. Tavistock is reportedly tasked by Club of Rome, Ditchley Foundation, Mont Pelerin Society and Trilateral Commission.

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