by Hugh Manatee Wins » Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:56 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I couldn't live in your Orwellian world, Hugh -- the world in which all entertainment must be subservient to your narrow ideology.<br><br>Nope. That's a world devoid of humor, pleasure, and fun. Ever heard of that saying of Emma Goldman's, Hugh?<br><br>"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>Don't try to portray me as the perpetrator of the very thing I'm exposing. THAT's Orwell-ification, Prof Pan.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>What's with "all entertainment"? All of it has values, of course.<br><br>But corporate-national media (fascist) is all mind viruses or rewards to keep you taking those meds for Big Brother. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Independent</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> 'entertainment' is whatever the maker wants it to be. But how many don't see the need to counter the poisonous media? How many are 'doing their own thing'? Lots. And distribution and marketing is choked by the powers-that-be. Quite an obstacle course for humane truths to get through to spread information and good will in the spirit of social evolution.<br><br>The meme that social activists "are no fun" and "don't want anyone else to have a good time" is a trivializing one- <br>the stereotype of the angry intellectual railing against "things they can't change and don't even understand."<br><br>I do understand it and we can change things by educating each other.<br><br>I have fun exposing bullshit. :D <br>And I take great joy in seeing faces light up with empowerment when I teach the history of scientific fascism and connect the dots for the big Aha! People like to be let in on the joke or scam.<br><br>Because empowering people to pull others out of a house on fire is more satisfying than inducing 'awe and wonder' at the spectacle of fire.;) <br><br>So I fully understand the value of morale. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>But hope is not a plan.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>I'm pointing to the absurd imbalance of fact to fiction and how it derails and dissipates any attempts at organized resistance to scientific fascism.<br><br>And no, I didn't make entertainment "subservient to (my) narrow ideology." That was done before WWII but institutionalized in the name of the National Security State as you find if you study the history of the CIA's public relations work for USA, Inc. and the Pentagon's Revolution in Military Affairs which fuels social engineering campaigns.<br><br>See 'Psychological Strategy Board' and the history of propaganda as described by Edward Bernays leading to Total War mechanisms of indoctrination with many names: <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>propaganda, public relations, strategic persuasion, perception management,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> all meaning the same thing: the controlling of people's values, attitudes, beliefs to control their behavior.<br><br>Have you read Jerry Mander's 1978 book <br>'Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television'?<br>Pick up a copy. <br><br>Mander's a former ad executive who exposes the mind control and psychic dictatorship of the idiot box and doesn't even touch on MK-ULTRA or Operation Mockingbird. 1978, mind you.<br><br>p. 97-<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Eight Ideal Conditions for the Flowering of Autocracy</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><br>...a system of preconditions from which we can expect monolithic systems of control to emerge. These may be institutional autocracies or dictatorships. For the moment, it will be simpler to use the dictatorship model.<br><br>Imagine that like some kind of science fiction dictator you intended to rule the world. You would probably have pinned over your desk a list something like this:<br><br>1) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Eliminate personal knowledge.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Make it hard for people to know about themselves, how they function, what a human being is, or how a human fits into wider, natural systems. This will make it impossible for the human to seperate natural from artificial, real from unreal. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>You</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> provide the answers.<br><br>2) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Eliminate points of comparison.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Comparisons can be found in earlier societies, older language forms and cultural artifacts, including print media. Eliminate or museumize indiginous cultures, wilderness and nonhuman life forms. Re-create internal human experience-instincts, thoughts, and spontaneous, varied feelings-so that it will not evoke the past.<br><br>3) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Seperate people from each other.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Reduce interpersonal communication through lifestyles that emphasize seperateness. When people gather together, be sure it is for a prearranged experience that occupies all their attention at once. Spectator sports are excellent, so are circuses, elections, and any spectacles in which focus is outward and interpersonal exchange is subordinated to mass experience.<br><br>4) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Unify experience, especially encouraging mental experience at the expence of sensory experience.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Seperate people's minds from their bodies, as in sense-deprivation experiments, thus clearing the mental channel for implantation. Idealize the mind. Sensory experience cannot be eliminated totally, so it should be driven into narrow areas. An emphasis on sex as opposed to sense may be useful because it is powerful enough to pass for the whole thing and it has a placebo effect.<br><br>5) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Occupy the mind.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br>Once people are isolated in their minds, fill their brains with prearranged experience and thought. Content is less important than the fact of the mind being filled. Free-roaming thought is to be discouraged at all costs, because it is difficult to control.<br><br>6) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Encourage drug use.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Recognize that total repression is impossible and so expressions of revolt must be contained on the personal level. Drugs will fill in the cracks of dissatisfaction, making people unresponsive to organized expressions of resistance.<br><br>7) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Centralize knowledge and information.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Having isolated people from each other and minds from bodies; eliminated points of comparison; discouraged sensory experience; and invented technologies to unify and control experience, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>speak.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> At this point whatever comes from outside will enter directly into all brains at the same time with great power and believability.<br><br>8) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Redefine happiness and the meaning of life in terms of new and increasingly unrooted philosophy.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Once you've established the prior seven conditions, this one is easy. Anything makes sense in a void. All channels are open, receptive, and unquestioning. Formal mind structuring is simple.<br>Most important, avoid naturalistic philosophies, the lead to uncontrollable awareness. The least resistable philosophies are the most arbitrary ones, those that make sense only in terms of themselves.<br>....<br><br>There is considerable evidence that the science fiction vision of arbitrary reality inevitiably leading to autocracy has already begun to materialize. We can see it in action in the quasi-religious philosophies that are now sweeping the country, gathering in millions of devotees.<br><br>The techniques used in gathering adherents to these burgeoning movements are startingly similar in conception to <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>1984, Solaris, Brave New World</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> and the eight-pointed list just offered. The results are also similar. Converts effectively submit to having their minds reconstructed along simpler, flat, narrow, but, most important, unrooted channels. This allows them to embrace arbitrary information as though it were grounded in concrete reality.<br><br>In a world where alienation and confusion are common conditions, these new philosophies offer a comforting mental order that accepts and absorbs all contradictions. The danger is that once people's minds are so simplified and receptive, they become vulnerable to any leader, guru or system of forces which understands the simplicity of the code and can speak the appropriate techno-speak.<br>....<br>Like a mass of Manchurian candidates, the people whose minds have been retrained into passive channels by these technologically-based processes are available at all times for imprinting. In this way they merge with and can accept advertising-mind, television mind and other simplistic intrusions without the slightest belch of rejection.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Wow. Again, this was in 1978. Someone recently wrote an article on how now we all live in Jonestown. Too true. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 7/23/06 3:06 pm<br></i>
