Jubilee Prosperity

INSNA:

INSNA was founded in 1976, the year of Paul Lazarsfeld’s death, assembling various social engineers from institutions like the Tavistock Institute, the Cybernetics grouping, and the Rhodes Livingston Institute.

Harrison White took Lazarsfeld’s place at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, formerly the Radio Project at Princeton, which today is known as the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP.)[22]

Barry Wellman, a student of Harrison White, was the nominal founder of INSNA. Wellman dedicated an account of the founding of INSNA to J. Clyde Mitchell, who under Gluckman, was a research officer at the Rhodes Livingston Institute.

Mitchell welcomed Wellman to British network analysis in 1974, and continued as enthusiastic member of INSNA and frequent contributor to Connections, until his death in 1995.

Wellman later developed the concept of networking the global village, which future Secretary of State Hillary Clinton adopted for her book, consistent with Gluckman’s equilibrium model.

John A. Barnes was also a one-time director of the Rhodes Livingston Institute. Along with Mitchell, he won INSNA’s highest honor, the Simmel Award.

Who was Georg Simmel?

Though the following quotes from him on the Venetian Machiavelli method of counterintelligence may turn the stomach of American citizen patriots, the Venetian methodology is for lazy chumps.

Like DC dinner parties, the Venetians spent their time creating intrigues because they were so utterly bored with their own existence. Shakespeare’s character Iago is a prime example.

The Venetian government, Simmel wrote, used this means most effectively by offering extraordinary inducements to the people to denounce any sort of suspicious character: Machiavellianism. French aristocracy and British Colonialism adopted this too during revolutionary times, as documented in Traitors, Turncoats and Heroes by John Bakeless.

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