Who was Georg Simmel?
Though the following quotes from him, on the Venetian method of counterintelligence, will turn the stomach of American patriots, just remember that the Venetian methodology is for lazy chumps. The Venetians spent their time creating all kinds of 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. No one knew whether his nearest acquaintance was not in the service of the civic inquisition, and consequently revolutionary plans, which presupposed the reciprocal confidence of a great collection of persons, were cut off from the root; so that in the later history of Venice public revolts practically did not occur.”23 Though Karl Rove is not a member of INSNA, you will hear shades of his method in the following quote by Simmel, again about the Venetian me
