You Are Living
In A Dream World
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"The conscious and
intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and
opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic
society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of
society constitute an invisible government which is the true
ruling power of our country." |
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It is normal for you to reject this message but any rejection is at your peril. Psychologists call such a rejection "cognitive dissonance. " It would be much wiser to ask questions. |
"You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the
wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to
eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less
dissent.
“Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny
eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is
not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not
be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions...”
— Gore Vidal
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
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“We paid $3 billion for these television
stations. We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you
it is.”
— David Boylan
WTVT station manager
April 16, 1997
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The two-party system has been utterly
homogenized by corrupt money.
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders
of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to
eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent.
“Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny
eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is
not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not
be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions...”
— Gore Vidal
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
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“The minority, the ruling class at present,
has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb.
This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and
make its tool of them.”
— Albert Einstein
letter to Sigmund Freud
July 30, 1932
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“A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of
democratic government.”
— Kenneth Boulding
University of Michigan
quoted in The Hidden Persuaders
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“The enormous gap between what US leaders
do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one
of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political
mythology.”
— Michael Parenti
Political scientist and author of
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
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“The U.S. Government spends more than
$400,000,000 per year to employ more than 8000 workers to create
propaganda favourable to the United States. The result: 90 films per
year, twelve magazines in 22 languages, and 800 hours of Voice of
America programming in 37 languages with an estimated audience of 75
million listeners — all describing the ‘virtues’ of the American way.”
— Pratkanis and Aronson
Age of Propaganda: the everyday use and abuse of persuasion
1992
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“The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a
central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the
President’s foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or
supports foreign governments while reporting ‘intelligence’ justifying
those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical
areas as Soviet nuclear weapons capability, to support presidential
policy.
“Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and
the American people are the primary target of its lies.”
— Ralph McGehee
former CIA intelligence analyst
Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA
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“The [Central Intelligence] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media
operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing
houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has
partially controlled many more.”
— Michael Parenti
Political scientist and author of
Democracy for the Few and
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
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“The great masses of the people... more
easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one.”
— Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
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“History is a lie agreed upon.”
— Napoleon
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“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies,
putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will
be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently
study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he
will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God
for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque
self-deception.”
— Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger
1916
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“The process [of mass-media deception] has
to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient
precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it
a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt... To tell deliberate lies while
genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become
inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back
from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of
objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which
one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.”
— George Orwell
in the book 1984
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“One of the intentions of
corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of
disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn
you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that
there is no possibility for social change.”
— David Barsamian
journalist and publisher
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“The greatest triumphs of propaganda have
been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is
silence about truth.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“A popular government without popular
information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce
or a tragedy or perhaps both.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be
their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
— James Madison
co-author of the United States Constitution
now defunct
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“Our government has kept us in a perpetual
state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor —
with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some
terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to
gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...”
— General Douglas MacArthur
1957
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to
keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“Voice or no voice, the people can always
be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
— Herman Goering
Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander
at the Nuremberg Trials
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“...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine.
Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless
one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine
itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Propaganda Minister
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“How fortunate for governments that the
people they administer don’t think.”
— Adolf Hitler
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“Only two things are infinite: the universe
and human stupidity... and I’m not sure about the former.”
— Albert Einstein
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“The Central Intelligence
Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
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"Those unaware are unaware of being unaware"
- Merrill Jenkins, Monetary Realist
[The corporate
mass-media] serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the
basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the
overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for
others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc.
“The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It’s unnecessary
for
them to trouble themselves with what’s happening in the world. In
fact, it’s
undesirable — if they see too much of reality they may set themselves
to
change it.”
— Noam Chomsky
M.I.T. professor of linguistics
prolific author & U.S. foreign policy critic
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
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“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world
and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great
propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.”
— Michael Parenti |
"You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland
and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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The Party claimed, of course, to have
liberated the proles from bondage. . . . In reality very
little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to
know much. So long as they continued to work and breed,
their other activities were without importance. Left to
themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of
Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that
appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral
pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they
went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief
blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they married
at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for
the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of
home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films,
football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the
horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not
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The Century of the Self A BBC masterpiece that shows the reality of the American identity!
This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis The Century Of The Self - Part 3 The Century Of The Self - Part 4 |
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Within every society, be it animal or human there lies within a few a spirit of awareness, a higher intuitive sense that something is not right, that danger approaches. A research study found out that in herds of wild animals, only a 1-2 members of each herd, seemed to be equipped to recognize threats to the group at large. It's like these particular animals possess an extra 'sense' about predators. It is these animals while grazing among the herd that will suddenly rear their heads up, locate the threat, and give out the initial warning. Meanwhile, there are a few more herd members somehow equipped to pay attention to this, and they pass on the info to the rest of the herd. It follows that certain humans are similarly equipped. There are those who sound out the initial alert, and others heed this call and alert others as best we can, warning the rest of our 'herd'. Unfortunately, humans have been conditioned to not respond to these sorts of threats.
While it's difficult to understand why they remain
so skeptical, we can only surmise that the media have done an excellent
job of brain
Social science engineers realized that just as an electrical circuit will overload activating a trip switch, so also will the human mind which will seek to "trip out" in order to "cope," with the unrelenting pressures. This is the root cause of escapism through the use of drugs, porn, tonal art (music), movies, and the recent meteoric rise of depression drugs such as 'Zoloft' and 'Paxil.' These scientists have even developed fragmentation-inducing language. A language that has been incorporated into the 12-atonal system of music of heavy repetitive sounds which date back to the cult of Dionysus and the priesthood of Baal.
These methods are used to annihilate reality, to continually shock the human brain and saturate it with such a violent speed of infotainment that you cannot absorb it. The consequences of which lead to a point where you don't want to make choices anymore, you become apathetic to your surroundings, whether they be environmental, political, social or religious. You have checked out, and are now easy to control and manipulate through manufactured consent through television and other media. We live in a virtual electronic media tsunami from the moment we wake till we go to sleep at night.
YOU may be one of those people. You find yourself working all day to just want to come home and be comfortable. You make a nice living, live in a nice home where you come home nightly and turn on your TV and stay comfortably sedated. I say sedated because it has been proven that within 30 seconds anyone watching TV goes into an alpha state or comma like state. Your brain is being bombarded with images and sound digitally enhanced with technology you are not even aware to keep you from hearing the distress signal of others. Your tuned out and turned off and have successfully been socially engineered.
Researchers have discovered that approximately 13% of the population understand the process of 'reasoning' an problem solving through observation. The other 87% simply want to give their "opinion" on the matter, however ill-informed they may be. This was first observed during WWI when it was realized that by keeping the masses distracted while disseminating their own propaganda, the vast majority believed what they were hearing was fact. In 1917 just prior to the United States entering the war, 94% of the British working class had no idea what they were fighting for. Not ironically, when President Bush went to war with Iraq, violating the constitution, 87% of Americans were for the war.
This power of manipulation is called the 'power of public Opinion.' An excerpt form Walter Lippman, a father of propaganda, in his book "Public Opinion", states,
"Public opinion deals with indirect, unseen and puzzling facts, and there is nothing obvious about them. The situations to which public opinion refers are known only as opinions, pictures inside heads of human beings, pictures of themselves, of others, of their needs, purposes and relationships, are their public opinions. These pictures which are acted up upon by groups are PUBLIC OPINION with capital letters. The picture inside the head often misleads men in their dealings with the world outside their heads."
Lippman work closely in this research with Edward Bernays who wrote two influential books in the field called, "Crystallizing Public Opinion" and "Propaganda". In the latter we read this telling passage,
"we are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. What ever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by a relatively small number of persons, a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million, who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, and who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world."
Top Secret
Silent Weapons for a Quiet War
An Introductory Programming Manual
Operations Research
Technical Manual
This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the "Quiet War," being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons."
This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry.
May 1979 #74-1120
SECURITY
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i .e., slavery and genocide.
This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power, and without the full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodology for economic conquest -- it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the public.
The solution of today's problems requires an approach which is ruthlessly candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral, or cultural values.DIVERSION, THE PRIMARY STRATEGY
Experience has proven that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of basic systems principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.
This is achieved by:
(1) Disengaging their minds, sabotaging their mental activities, by providing a low quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design, and economics, and by discouraging technical creativity.
(2) Engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:
(a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of a constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers.
(b) giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" and depriving them of what they really need.
(3) Rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.
These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology.
The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions.
DIVERSION SUMMARY
MEDIA: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
SCHOOLS: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.
ENTERTAINMENT: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth grade level.
WORK: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.________________
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The doors of perception are held open or closed by those who hold the keys, what we call the press. 'For a long time, propagandists have recognized that lying must be avoided,' wrote Jacques Ellul in his classic 1965 work, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. For the masses to believe it, 'propaganda must be based on some truth that can be said in a few words and is able to linger in the collective consciousness.'"
Another declaration of this truth comes from John Swinton, New York Times editor who in a speech before the New York Press Club in 1953 said,
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
“There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
“If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
“The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread.
“You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press.
“We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.
“We are intellectual prostitutes.”
— David Hume in Of the First Principles of Government written in 1758 and quoted in Gore Vidal’s
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire says it all.
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“When I was Times bureau chief in Washington, I was a member of the League of
Gentlemen [i.e., the establishment elite]; otherwise I never would have been
bureau chief. Time after time, good reporters...complained about not being able
to get stories in the paper. And time after time I said to them, ‘You’re just
not going to get that in the New York Times... it’s too reliant on your
judgement rather than on official judgement, it’s too complex, it contradicts
the official record more flagrantly than the conventions of daily journalism allow.’”
— Tom Wicker
New York Times columnist
Guardian (London), February 13, 1985
quoted in Democracy for the Few, by Michael Parenti
and “‘League of Gentlemen’ Rates Media,” by Kevin Kelly
“Following the same course that virtually every other major industry has in
the last two decades, a relentless series of mergers and corporate takeovers has
consolidated control of the media into the hands of a few corporate behemoths.
“The result has been that an increasingly authoritarian agenda has been sold to the
American people by a massive, multi-tentacled media machine that has become,
for all intents and purposes, a propaganda organ of the state.”
— David McGowan
from the introduction to Derailing Democracy"The individual is handicapped by coming
face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous -
he simply cannot believe it exists"
- J. Edgar Hoover
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“Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
“When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular.”
As Morpheous tells Neo in the Movie the "Matrix",
YOU'RE LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD.
You are comfortable. "Don't bother me!" you say, as you have no idea that multinational tyrannies have co-opted both parties for greed, power and control. Your whole notion of social, economic, and political reality IS A LIE!.
But your comfortable. "Don't bother me!"
Your idea of reading is the local newspaper or maybe "People" Magazine. You have no idea of the mass manipulation for the control of your mind. My friend, YOU are in the MATRIX!
“Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary,
because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the
citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government
entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image
of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice.
“Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an
excuse not to think at all.”
— Michael Rivero
WhatReallyHappened.com
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Propaganda Minister
In his book Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper
powerfully explains that whether information is true or false or
whether you believe it or not makes absolutely no difference. If the
people with the power believe it, then you WILL BE AFFECTED by what
they decide to do. To deny this reality is a foolhardy abdication of
responsibility -- which YOU may appear to get away with, but from
which your children will not be spared.
as related by William Cooper, sometime after World War II the "elite"
became convinced (and they may be correct) that, the
overpopulation/pollution problems had upgraded from a mere nuisance to
a imminent calamity. As a result, there has been over the last three
or four decades a direct conspiracy to depopulate the so-called Third
World and to de-industrialize the Western World
The tools in
the arsenal of the "elite" have evolved right along with technology,
but their methods have not basically changed over the centuries.
Everything they do is based upon ruthless self-interest, unabashed
deception, and utter disdain for the lives and well-being of the rest
of the human family. To accurately comprehend the thought processes of
the "elite", it is necessary to grasp their view of "the rest of
humanity" as literally so much cattle. The masses are seen as
incapable of utilizing the truth even if they were given it, and fit
only to be manipulated to suit the fancy and pleasure of the "elite".
The sophisticated seem to like the term "social engineering". The
social engineering of the "elite" includes such devices as wars,
famines, the intentional spread of disease, virtually total control
and manipulation of ALL governments of the earth, the control of
information (education, publishing, entertainment, and news i.e., a
monopoly on brainwashing), and the complete infiltration and
compromising of the most socially and economically powerful
institutions, such as law, commerce and banking, medicine, and
religion. A careful study of public records reveals the not too
surprising fact that ownerships and board of directorships of the vast
majority of Corporate America are shared by a frightening and very
incestuous network of families, cronies, "brothers" of secret
societies, and people who are known to virtually own and control other
members of "the group". Remember, if you can control something, what
does it matter if someone else's name is on the ownership papers?
If you doubt what you are reading because you never heard about it in
school or on television, or because there isn't a book about it on the
"best-seller list", you need to carefully re-read the previous two
paragraphs. Then you need to search and study, as I have, to try to
prove this wrong -- only to find that it is, in fact, a reality. I am
fully aware how paranoid this sounds. Nonetheless, I firmly believe
that almost all public "reality" (that which comes from beyond your
immediate world of family, friends, and neightbors) is permeated with
dishonesty and driven by an agenda belonging to the "elite" and the
"would-be elite".
It cannot be overemphasized that virtually all sources of public
information (from school textbooks to the evening news) are owned or
controlled by the "elite". If you think you know what is going on
because you read "Newsweek", watch "60 Minutes", or "Larry King",
think again. So you have an advanced degree in economics, law, or
political science? Sorry. You're all the worse off. Who do you think
largely controlled the writing and, more importantly, the selection of
your textbooks? Your brainwashing has simply been more lengthy and
more sophisticated. In addition, you now have a massive ego problem
which combines the arrogance of the "educated" with the
insufferability of appearing to be just as duped as the "common man".
The "informing" and "educating" of the masses has purposely created
within us an attention span which exceeds the thirty second "sound bite"
only with the greatest of difficulty. While it may be merely a reality
of the Age of Specialization, think about the significance of the
following: SOMEONE ELSE prepares, packages, and delivers to us the
house we live in, the car we drive, the clothes we wear, the food we
eat, the music we listen to, the entertainment we watch, and the
information to which we react or not. With the exception of our "job",
virtually our entire reality is prepared, packaged and delivered to us
FOR OUR CONSUMPTION. We do not truly create or even participate in the
bulk of what we consider our reality. Further, we have virtually no
way to even verify reality except through the avenues provided us by
the very people who created, packaged and delivered it to us in the
first place.
"News" is all an elaborately orchestrated play
The American economic engine of the past two hundred years, combined with the Rip Van Winkle act of the American soul and the brilliantly evil conspiracy of the "elite", has turned us into a nation of mercenary whores whose labors have supported unspeakable evil and whose price has been and continues to be pleasure and material prosperity. God help us! We are ripe for destruction!
h) Has it ever occurred to you to question why the three major news networks all report virtually the same stories AND point of view night after night after night? Is your intellect flattered by the "expanded" reports of those VERY SAME STORIES on public television? Did you wonder why ONLY CNN was allowed to "report" on the Persian Gulf war? Have you never wondered why you are treated to such a steady diet of news about murder, rape, plane crashes, and other negativity which YOU can do nothing about? The news, friends, is worse than a lie. It is a calculated mixture of facts, lies, and distortions, creating a hypnotic fantasy which controls the masses as surely as if they had electrodes planted in their brains. The media lulls us to sleep or jolts us into carefully aimed paths of action, ACCORDING TO THE AGENDA OF THE "ELITE". I'm sorry. You may scoff at the idea. You may dismiss the idea. Nonetheless, unless you are soul-dead, I would bet that, deep in your heart, you are terrified that it may be true. You will never know for sure, however, unless you sincerely investigate the path illuminated for you.