public displays of filial piety, and strove to manifest "good intentions." These were the veneer for
monstrous crimes that were at first carried out covertly: "...at first his acts of wantonness, lust,extravagance, avarice, and cruelty were gradual and secret...." But once Nero had firmly established (^)
his own regime, the monster became more and more overt: "little by little, however, as his vices
grew stronger, he dropped jesting and secrecy and with no attempt at disguise openly broke out into
worse crime." [fn 1] Something similar can be observed in the case of Caligula, who had a wimp
problem of sorts during the time that he lived on the island of Caemperor Tiberius, in somewhat the same way that Bush had lived in the shadpw of Reagan, as leastpri in the shadow of the aging (^)
as far as the public was concerned. In the case of Caligula, "although at Capri every kind of wile
was resorted to by those who tried to lure him or force him to utter complaints, he never gave them
any satisfaction...." Caligula was "...so obsequious towards his grandfather [Tiberius] and his
household, that it was well said of him that no one had ever been a better slave or a worse master."[fn 2] Later, when Caligula came into his own, he exacted a terrible price from the world for his
earlier humiliations.
The process of mental and moral degeneration, the loss of previous self-control observable in Bush
during this period is not merely an individual matter. The geek act in the White House was typicalof the collective mental and political behavior of the faction to which Bush belongs by birth and
pedigree, the Anglo-American financiers. During 1989 and 1990, outbursts of megalomania,
racism, and manic flight forward were common enough, not just in Washington, but in Wall Street,
Whitehall, and the City of London as well. These moods provided the psychic raw material for the
strategic construct which Bush would proclaim during the late summer of 1990 aOrder." s "The New World
By the autumn of 1989, it was evident that the Soviet Empire, the cold-war antagonist and then the
uneasy partner of the Anglo-Americans over more than four decades, was falling apart. During the
middle 1980's, the Anglo-Americans and their counterparts in the Kremlin had arrived at theconclusion that, since they could no longer dominate the planet through their rivarly (the cold war), (^)
they must now attempt to dominate it through their collusion. The new detente of Reagan's second
term, in which Bush had played a decisive role, was a worldwide condominium of the Soviets and
Anglo-Saxons, the two increasingly feeble and gutted empires who now leaned on each other like
two drunksfigure of Gorbachov. , each one propping the other up. That had been the condominium, incarnated in the
Both empires were collapsing at an exceedingly rapid pace, but during the second half of the 1980's
the rate of Soviet decay outstripped that of the Anglo-Americans. That took some doing, since
between 1985 ashaken by the panic of 1987, and 1990, the global edifice of Anglo-American speculation and usury had beennd by the deflationary contraction of 1989, both symptoms of a lethal (^)
disorder. But the Anglo-Americans, unlike the Soviets, were insulated within their North Atlantic
metropolis by the possession of a global, as distinct from a merely continental, base of economic
rapine, so the economic and political manifestations of the Soviet collapse were more spectacular.
The day of reckoning for the Anglo-Americans was not far off, but in the meantime the
breathtaking collapse of the Soviets opened up megalomaniac vistas to the custodians of the
Imperial idea in London drawing rooms and English country houses. The practitioners of the Great
Game of geopolitics were now enticed by the perspective of the Single Empire, a worldwide
Imperium that would be a purely Anglo-Saxon show, with the Russians and Chinese forced toknuckle under. Like the contemporaries of the Duke of Wellington in 1815, the imbecilic Anglo-
American think-tankers and financiers contemplated the chimera of a new century of world
domination, not unlike the British world supremacy that had extended from the Congress of Vienna
until the First World War. The old Skull and Bones slogan of Henry Luce's "American Century" of
1945, which had been robbed of its splendid lustre by the Russians and the Cold War, could now