SoCurious
Jedi Master
I have long wondered how a single family, through all its generations over more than 200 years, could maintain an implacable and single minded devotion to the creation and maintenance of a de facto empire.
There is so much written about this family that it becomes difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff, yet it would seem that credence must be given to a significant percentage of the speculation.
Is it possible that this family has a gene pool that passes psychopathy down the line unfailingly, or is it possible that children can be so indoctrinated that they would act in the same manner without actually being psychopathic.
"An anonymous contemporary described Nathan Rothschild as he leaned against the 'Rothschild Piller' at the London Stock Exchange, hung his heavy hands into his pockets, and began to release silent, motionless, implacable cunning:
"Eyes are usually called the windows of the soul. But in Rothschild's case you would conclude that the windows are false ones, or that there was no soul to look out of them. There comes not one pencil of light from the interior, neither is there one gleam of that which comes from without reflected in any direction. The whole puts you in mind of an empty skin, and you wonder why it stands upright without at least something in it. By and by another figure comes up to it. It then steps two paces aside, and the most inquisitive glance that you ever saw, and a glance more inquisitive than you would ever have thought of, is drawn out of the fixed and leaden eye, as if one were drawing a sword from a scabbard. The visiting figure, which has the appearance of coming by accident and not by design, stops just a second or two, in the course of which looks are exchanged which, though you cannot translate, you feel must be of most important meaning. After these the eyes are sheathed up again, and the figure resumes its stony posture.
During the morning numbers of visitors come, all of whom meet with a similar reception and vanish in a similar manner. Last of all the figure itself vanishes, leaving you utterly at a loss." (Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds, p. 65) "
This family have funded just about every war (creating most of them) in the west for 200 years making profits that can't even be guessed at. Their controlling companies are private so no publication of their holdings need be published. Wealth is stored in trusts so again information not freely given out is hidden. No one other than they know the extent of their wealth.
People talk about a secret government yet names are never mentioned. I would suggest that a family such as this would be ideal candidates to form part of such a SG.
The main question however, is how likely is it that generation following generation would be psychopathic? Is it possible that psychopathy can be induced?
There is so much written about this family that it becomes difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff, yet it would seem that credence must be given to a significant percentage of the speculation.
Is it possible that this family has a gene pool that passes psychopathy down the line unfailingly, or is it possible that children can be so indoctrinated that they would act in the same manner without actually being psychopathic.
"An anonymous contemporary described Nathan Rothschild as he leaned against the 'Rothschild Piller' at the London Stock Exchange, hung his heavy hands into his pockets, and began to release silent, motionless, implacable cunning:
"Eyes are usually called the windows of the soul. But in Rothschild's case you would conclude that the windows are false ones, or that there was no soul to look out of them. There comes not one pencil of light from the interior, neither is there one gleam of that which comes from without reflected in any direction. The whole puts you in mind of an empty skin, and you wonder why it stands upright without at least something in it. By and by another figure comes up to it. It then steps two paces aside, and the most inquisitive glance that you ever saw, and a glance more inquisitive than you would ever have thought of, is drawn out of the fixed and leaden eye, as if one were drawing a sword from a scabbard. The visiting figure, which has the appearance of coming by accident and not by design, stops just a second or two, in the course of which looks are exchanged which, though you cannot translate, you feel must be of most important meaning. After these the eyes are sheathed up again, and the figure resumes its stony posture.
During the morning numbers of visitors come, all of whom meet with a similar reception and vanish in a similar manner. Last of all the figure itself vanishes, leaving you utterly at a loss." (Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds, p. 65) "
This family have funded just about every war (creating most of them) in the west for 200 years making profits that can't even be guessed at. Their controlling companies are private so no publication of their holdings need be published. Wealth is stored in trusts so again information not freely given out is hidden. No one other than they know the extent of their wealth.
People talk about a secret government yet names are never mentioned. I would suggest that a family such as this would be ideal candidates to form part of such a SG.
The main question however, is how likely is it that generation following generation would be psychopathic? Is it possible that psychopathy can be induced?