Review Topic: Institutional Plagiarist for the 1945 'Reset'

Cyril E M Joad: Guide to Philosophy published by Victor Gollancz. 1936 and later reprints.

Repeated Plagiarism to Impose the Official Consensus after Reset is Imposed—1945 in this case

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Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (1891-1953; he seems to have died young) was in the BBC Brains Trust radio programme from 1941 to 1947. (In the USA a similar thing was called The Brain Trust). I haven't explored to try to establish if he had Jewish ancestry, though it seems possible that he was yet another Jew infiltrator given mysterious career help. He achieved some fame as a comic satirist, as outlined in his Under the Fifth Rib autobiography, copying (for example) George Bernard Shaw's long, interlocking sentences which allowed him to smuggle in assertions which otherwise would not have been accepted. He wrote on the English countryside and litter, the poor intellectual achievements of women, and pacifism. But like many pacifists (including Russell) he allowed himself to be converted to war against Germany, which I think must have been a propagandist coup and helps explain why he was allowed to broadcast. As far as I can tell, he never, or only rarely, mentioned Jews, this requirement being more or less a sine qua non, then as now.

Bertrand Russell, also on the Brains Trust panel, found Joad an irritant. One of his stories is that, asked to 'puff' Joad on philosophy, Russell said "Modesty forbids." He said he could find no evidence that Joad had ever read Marx of Hegel. I'm afraid Russell, like Wells, being a rather serious creative writer, would not face the idea that lesser people would copy and plagiarise. This book, published by Victor Gollancz the pro-war Jewish propagandist, is an interesting example of a book aimed mainly at post-war audiences, to be trained in the official lines of dutiful exam-fodder and, later, teachers, without reading the original works.

It's curious to note how philosophy—in theory a multifarious and elegant exploration of new ideas about the world, become a narrow series of money exchanges in standard topics. Joad was a supplier. He was made Head of Department of Philosophy ('and Psychology') at Birkbeck College in London in 1930, probably part of the penetration of Jews into the odd world of Jew-run English academia.

Worth noting that The Brains Trust seems to have been popular; one hears accounts of people rushing home to listen, and smiling as Joad said "It depends what you mean by..." for the dozenth time. People like Wells and McCabe would of course not have been on the 'panels'.

Joad's output was quite considerable and quite repetitive, lowbrow, and plagiarised. One of his titles was reprinted by Russell's publisher, Unwin; in the 'Unwin Books' series which seems to have been started around 1960, as paperbacks.

Joad was also published by John Westhouse in London, in a distinctive style, a foil signature of Joad impressed on the hardback cover. A 1945 title, Opinions, lists his 'Other books' as The Bookmark, The Future of Morals, and The Meaning of Life. Opinions lists Religion; Death and the Supernatural; People, Races, and Ourselves; The Birth-rate; Education; Broadcasting; Culture; Politics, War, Wickedness, and Science; and The Post-war World.
      All his writings leave a feeling that you had read it before. For example, part of 'Education' has a passage on leases for houses specifying they should be painted, inside and out, every so many years, but most teachers have not been renovated for forty years. I recall a piece on Nietzsche, saying that the Germans couldn't locate a presentation set of his books for some event. This was in a piece saying he couldn't believe philosophers had much impact on events. Perhaps he was thinking of himself.

I remember being told he lived in East Heath Road, Hampstead. And that he had a lisp; his new book was on ethics, or perhaps Essex...

© Rae West 26 July 2021