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Was Theodor Adorno “The Fifth Beatle”?
Coleman claimed that Hitler exiled Adorno from Germany for his subversive musical experiments. During his exile, Adorno allegedly worked for the British Royal Family at Gordonstoun School, where he invented the genre of “Beatlemusic Rock.” According to Coleman, the Committee of 300 decided in the 1960s to unleash Adorno’s Beatlemusic Rock on the world. Coleman asserted that Adorno’s songs for the Beatles were such a success that the Committee also asked him to write lyrics and music for other rock groups. He speculated that the Rolling Stones also recorded and performed Adorno’s music. Ultimately, the Committee of 300 recruited the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and other unspecified rock groups to perform Adorno’s “fiendish Satanic music” and promote marijuana use.

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LaRouche and Coleman’s wild claims about Adorno and the Beatles have since found a home in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Carvalho’s video lectures are popular with Brazilians who fear that they are in danger of losing their country to an ungodly rabble of leftist radicals, queer folks, and globalist elites. The costly online courses on Seminário de Filosofia promise to supply viewers with the knowledge to resist and reverse the supposed degeneracy of modern Brazil. Like other illiberal ideologues around the globe, Carvalho claims to expose the lies of the left-wing “university establishment,” and denounces any displeasing historical event or figure as part of an insidious conspiracy. Moreover, students of his online counter-academy interpret any attempt to debunk Carvalho’s pronouncements as further proof of the so-called university establishment’s biased nature.

In this way, the “Adorno-As-Fifth-Beatle” theory sucks its devotees into a vortex of alternative history, in which secretive and omnipotent conspirators brainwash the masses with “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”

As for the brainwashed masses: on Twitter, some Brazilians now speculate that Adorno must have written the long-lost Beatles masterpiece “Kant Buy Me Love.”

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