Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00032)

Dear RAM
I was born in Italy and came to Australia when I was 20
I was the 12 when This hapened. And Jiddu even at that time was very
disenchanted with theosophy. Mussolini was a great poet his path of
dictatorship was chosen by him . as he thought that the masses where
not yet ready for true democracy. I do not favor fascism but.......
looking around today I wander it it has ever been tried .
Jiddu tried hard but his message reached many empty empty sculls
everywhere

ramadoss@eden.com wrote:

> Some time ago, I read an interesting incident.
>
> It was during the time when Mussolini was in power and was very popular in
> the country.
>
> Jiddu Krishnamurti happened to schedule a series of talks in Rome. On the
> first day of his talk, he was very surprised. The lecture hall was full and
> the front rows were occupied by the top military brass in their shiny
> uniforms with their medals and other bureaucrats of Mussolini
> administration. The turn out of the military and government bureaucrats
> surprised even Krishnamurti.
>
> It appears there was some rumors that Mussolini was interested in
> Krishnamurti's philosophy and this triggered the immediate interest of the
> military brass and bureaucrats and it appears they turned out to hear him
> in the hope the turnout will reach the ears of Mussolini and be his good
> books.
>
> Lo and behold, the next day, at the talk all this crowd disappeared. There
> were few members of the public who were really interested in what
> Krishnamurti had to say. The disappearance of military brass and
> bureaucrats was due their having found out that after all Mussolini was not
> interested in Krishnamurti's philosophy.
>
> This incident simply shows very few are really interested in philosophy.
> The crowd -- in particular bureaucrats -- generally show interest for
> reasons other than real commitment to philosophy.
>
> As an analogy, if there were to be a *rumor* that the Theosophical Adepts
> are interested in Internet, may be all the bureacrats and others may
> suddenly show an interest in Internet because of it could please the
> Adepts!!!  Just a speculation.
>
> Any one listening????
>
> mkr
>
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