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An Inconvenient Truth - The Truth Shall Not Set Us Free
An Inconvenient Truth - The Truth Shall Not Set Us Free
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Cognitive Dissonance
There is a widely held belief among those who wish for ‘the truth’ to be exposed that once this is accomplished the insanity will begin to unravel and a new day will dawn. Unfortunately this belief is erroneous, delusional even, and by itself also a part of the insanity. The uncomfortable and extremely inconvenient truth is that ‘truth’, regardless of where it originates or whether it’s really truth or not, will never set us free because the official lies are not the ultimate source of our bondage. Instead the lies are just a small part of the overall control system, a system that relies upon our willing (some would say informed) consent not only to exist but to endure.
Hidden somewhere deep down inside any discussion of true and false statements by politicians, the Bureau of Lies and Statistics (BLS), psyops and disinformation programs, WikiLeaks or any other governmental, corporate or individual propaganda is a simple and fundamental truth that’s widely known but carefully ignored. We are being lied to by hundreds of entities about dozens of different subjects, all for the purpose of maintaining or increasing control and power over the masses. The truth of these fundamental lies is all around us and yet we are still not free.
The only way a relatively small nucleus of people can control a much larger population is through psychological manipulation regardless of whether it’s by way of brutality or baubles. Spending our days minimizing, dismissing or bargaining with these controlling lies is simply the process we use to avoid dealing with our own internal self deception. This is also a well understood and universal truth that is self evident, obvious even, to those who wish to honestly look. Yet it is denied as well.
We hide this fact from ourselves by differentiating between big and small lies, from their evil propaganda and our harmless little tales. And we always tell ourselves the ultimate controlling lie, that we don’t really ‘lie’ so much as we tell small fibs and half truths in order to feel better or to get through the day. We want to believe that we are different from ‘them’, that we know we aren’t really lying because we know ourselves and thus can’t lie. We all deceive ourselves into believing that to ourselves we are true.
The ugly truth is that we expend a tremendous amount of energy each day maintaining our extensive network of internal denial and self deception. The result is a mishmash of fact, fiction and fantasy we call our world view and the act of denial itself becomes such an integrated component of us that for the most part it’s seamless and nearly invisible. The control system enables our denial by feeding us a constant stream of ‘news’ and information that serves to reinforce this internal narrative while massaging our confirmation and normalcy biases.
Why do we need ‘proof’ of something that’s self evident, of something we know to be true? Exactly what sort of proof would satisfy us that we’re being systematically and consistently lied to? More to the point, what would we do once the perfect proof is offered that we would refrain from doing without it? So many of us fall into the trap of demanding specific and infallible proof before we’ll ever consider changing our beliefs, an almost impossible condition to meet and precisely why we require it. Others demand that the liars admit they are lying. What then? Do we forgive them for their past transgressions so we won’t need to confront them (or ourselves) the next time it happens?
What proof of truth (or falsity) do we need to receive in order to be absolutely certain? And will we ever receive enough proof to overcome our aversion to taking a stand and declaring that enough is enough? All of these questions are reasonable queries to ask, but we avoid them like the black plague because following them to their logical conclusion would sweep away all our self deceptions and delusions. Asking these questions, then candidly answering them, would force us to be honest with ourselves, an outcome we collectively and studiously avoid.
Clarity of Vision Contrary to popular belief clarity of vision, which is what truth and proof is supposed to provide for us, is the last thing we want because clarity removes any remaining plausible deniability we might cling to in order to justify hiding within the faceless herd. Clarity compels action in the same manner that a clear and present danger compels action. If we don’t act once we finally have clarity, especially after demanding it for years, then we must confront our own lack of moral courage. In effect we either deal with this cognitive dissonance or we kick the can down the road and bury our denial in another layer of justification and rationalization. For example, let’s say you’re startled awake at 3 AM by the apparent sound of someone breaking into your home. Are you going to roll over and fall back to sleep until you receive absolute “proof” of a break in or are you going to react to the information at hand no matter how limited it might be? While the answer might be obvious, the question is so simple it’s often dismissed as silly. I’m not talking about confronting the potential intruder, but simply acknowledging his or her presence instead of demanding more proof before rousting yourself from bed. Of course you’d acknowledge the potential break-in. Then you’d begin to react accordingly. What it really comes down to is not whether we receive enough proof to act, but rather how close we perceive (or deny) the danger to be in order to overcome our reluctance to deal with whatever it is we are avoiding. The noise downstairs demands our immediate attention because it’s coming from within our home at a time of night when we’re most vulnerable. It’s hard to ignore this frightening situation. However as long as we can successfully deny proximity we can avoid the singularity of confrontation regardless of the actual circumstances. And a skilful manipulator will encourage our denial using a variety of tools and methods. Consider that the Nazis took deliberate steps to enable the concentration camp inmates to remain in denial about their inevitable destruction. Most knew what was really going on, but the façade was convincing enough to enable just enough denial of proximity to keep the majority calm and under control. This was mutually beneficial for both parties involved, allowing the Nazi’s to use very few guards relative to the large number of inmates. Our master(s) benefit from our denial as well, thus they expend large amounts of energy to enable our denial rather than just forcing the issue. It appears to me that those who are unaware of, or outright reject, their inner spiritual connection are more likely to engage in fantastical thinking and denial framing all in an effort to deny proximity. Let me make it clear here that I’m not talking about a God or religious entity, but more like a centering or recognition of our presence and purpose within the cosmos. This ‘knowing’ helps us to maintain a realistic perspective and inner calm when others become deer in the headlights. Our masters are experts at frightening us with continuous fear based mental images of dangerous boogiemen while promising us that the danger will never be proximate to us as long as we do as we’re told. And we play along because doing so enables our own internal dishonesty. In the case of the downstairs burglar it rapidly progesses well beyond clear and present danger and has morphed into red alert proximity since we’re trapped upstairs and can’t leave without descending the stairs and moving even closer to the very danger we’re trying to avoid. But the insanity coming out of Washington, Europe, Libya, Japan or wherever today’s madness is emanating from is somewhere way over there, meaning not proximate to us and thus easier to push aside and deny.
Learned Helplessness
Until that is the danger is proximate and can no longer be denied. Of course once the obvious can no longer be pushed aside the next step is to trot out another inconvenient truth redefined in the form of an excuse, that the problem is so big that we can’t do anything about it. Intellectually we declare we’re quadriplegics trapped in our own wheelchairs and unable to do anything about the situation. This self victimization is called learned helplessness and it’s an example of how we actively participate in our own impotence and subjugation. And its use is not restricted to the uneducated and poor. In fact it’s a highly refined intellectual tool of the educated and professional classes who twist our self victimization into superiority or entitlement impulses.
What we really want, what we so desperately seek, is for someone else to shoulder the personal and emotional risk that comes with taking responsibility. We definitely want the good outcome, just not the sweat, tears and pain that might also come with it. Our insistence that we know exactly what happened, the so-called truth, followed by our never ending demand for even more proof, is simply our psychological defense to any assault upon our carefully constructed world view that we are just helpless victims and powerless to do anything except to be the perfect injured party and take care of ourselves. This is also the perfect excuse to abandon any sense of obligation to neighbor or community.
The beauty of being the unfortunate victim, of being a planned and intentional failure even if that plan is on a subconscious level, is that this condition is easily accomplished and usually requires little to no active participation on our part. Thus our needed plausible deniability comes from doing nothing, which then reinforces our apathy and justifies our inaction. It just doesn’t get any better than this. All that’s left to do is to construct an intellectual shield stout enough to justify our inaction, child’s play after decades of personal experience shifting blame to the spouse, sibling, boogie man, politician, dog or boss. Our ego immediately takes over and skillfully massages our lying eyes and guilt feelings.
Lost to Ourselves
It’s important for the reader to understand that I’m not necessarily speaking of professional, career or even political failure when I address the concept of being a planned failure. Ultimately these are all artificial constructs, fantasy representations of our denied inner being, the outward manifestation of an ‘us’ we wish to project to those around us for a variety of reasons and purposes. Instead what I’m referring to is our inner being, our spiritual entity, our essence, that part of us that might be called the soul which only we answer to.
This unique sanctuary, our own safe haven or refuge we can flee to when we wish to engage in contemplation and reflection, can be the source of our inner strength and moral courage in the face of hostility or our pitiful failure to be a moral person and spiritual entity. Because we cannot hide from ourselves while visiting our inner being, for the patently self deceptive this is a place to avoid at all costs.
The external ‘us’ often has little connection to our true inner self unless it is deliberately pursued and sought after. Our inner being doesn’t come looking for you or me, but rather the other way around. I have found that the more superficial our outer skin is, the further away we are from connecting to our inner truth and meaning, often described as our centering, knowing or intuition.
The weaker the connection to our inner self the more desperate we become to believe the self validating lie that if only we knew what really happened with unerring proof it would expose our external tormentor (and keep our internal one hidden as well) thus forcing other people to finally act. Is it really surprising that someone who lacks moral courage and strength would try to find others to do his or her bidding?
We convince ourselves that with absolute proof of the official lies in hand the illusion would be unequivocally exposed, thus compelling ‘we the people’ (meaning ‘other’ people) to reject them and it. This is the lie we tell ourselves to remain hidden from ourselves and safely within the consensus herd which acts as an extremely poor substitute for our missing inner communication.
We wish to believe that simply knowing the truth will somehow displace the lie, similar to Archimedes splashing water over the sides of the tub as he settles in for his weekly soak. Somehow this absolves us from the obligation to act because "the truth" is now known and the liars will wither away in the bright disinfecting sunlight of truth, justice and the American way. The ugly truth is that a ‘truth’ (as well as a ‘lie’) has power only when it’s embraced, not simply because it exists. Since we don’t wish to embrace the inner truth, we must support the external lies in order to use them to feed our plausible deniability. While we might not fully understand this form of self deception our masters are well aware of it and skillfully use it against us.
Many truths lay abandoned on the side of the road for years, decades even, because their abandonment serves the needs of nearly everyone, not just the official liars, to ignore their own culpability. Once a truth is exposed the liars have no control over the truth except in their (our) ability to convince us to ignore or distort it. The spin doctor’s only purpose is to enable our own self deception. They don’t ‘hide’ the truth as much as they help convince us that it’s in our own best interest to ignore or distort it. You really don’t want to look in there, do you? The con man never forces the mark, but rather skillfully leverages the situation.
Seductive Submission
This entire process reminds me of the quintessential seduction scene in a Harlequin romance novel. The women is ‘taken’, seduced in the arms of someone who may or may not have her best interest at heart. Very little is said about her willingness to believe the lies and promises, of her own desire to suspend disbelief and accept the attractive lies, other than to present the supposedly mitigating factor that she’s emotionally overwhelmed and thus ‘not herself’. After all if you’re not yourself you certainly can’t be held responsible for anything your ‘self’ might do, right? Naturally no one wants to ask where we might find the ‘self’ if it’s not ‘here’.
She’s being told what she wants to hear and its music to her ears. The incredible natural high we receive when our egoic lies are confirmed by outside sources, conceits we actively solicit precisely because they induce that endorphin buzz, puts to shame any man made pharmacological magic created to date.
Of course this behavior isn’t restricted to the fairer sex. Males are just as accomplished at self medicating as the female side of the species. I guess surrendering to passionate desire (and greed) is justification for any transgression as long as the emotion is pure, intoxicating and oh so good. We wouldn’t let our children get away with a bullshit excuse like this yet it seems fine and dandy for the adults in the room.
This is a classic example of self victimization, but it’s diplomatically presented as a near innocent who is being intentionally harmed by a scheming evil doer who’s only after her lying labia lips. Notice that it’s rarely pointed out how the liar would never be in her arms in the first place without her willing consent and active participation. We hear about his ‘power’ over her, but very little about her willingness to submit and let someone else be responsible for her (in) actions.
Layers of self deception this deep can only occur when we are patently dishonest with ourselves, yet this type of behavior is glorified in far more ways than just romance novels. Nationalism is a perfect example of the process we use to allow ourselves to be controlled by others, to surrender to the herd mentality and any responsibility for our actions. We’re all familiar with the seductive urge and the invisible pull to engage in herd behavior where the anonymity of the crowd washes away any personal responsibility for ones actions.
There’s nothing more we need to know, no other proof needed, other than the certain knowledge that we are lied to on a daily basis. This is obvious and widely known, but rarely openly acknowledged. Our need to know the truth and our demand for unequivocal proof that it is the truth, proof that we often insist must come from a person of ‘authority’ (usually one of the authorities who told us the lie in the first place) is a reflection of our inner reluctance to remove the liars from our lives, starting within ourselves.
Doing so would require us to move out of our comfort zone and face who and what we really are, co-conspirators and dance partners rather than helpless soap bubbles blowing in the wind. Our masters know this and to further enable our self deception they constantly shrink our comfort zones, giving us all the more reason to remain safely huddled within our contracting world.
We say we want freedom yet true freedom is just as frightening to us as truth itself. For the most part we are kept animals and as distasteful as this may be to our sensitive egos we like it this way. Many years ago I overheard one woman tell another that “Children like it when we set boundaries and rules for them.” I agree. Very young children want, in fact need, to know they are safe in a world that is capricious and unfathomable.
So it makes sense that externally imposed rules and boundaries would give children an artificially implanted sense of order and predictability, at least until their own conditioning is complete and they can maintain their own illusion of personal safety through denial. The same applies to us as adults. We all want our freedom just as long as it comes with a reasonably clear set of rules that thankfully keeps us from straying to far into personal accountability and responsibility.
Love Your Captivity
While few among us would actually admit this we are trained to love our hamster wheels and for the most part we do. Or more accurately, we fear having no hamster wheel because then we would need to be self sufficient and personally responsible for all our actions in a world that has no overall order imposed upon us. That’s the key difference here because presently the prevailing attitude amongst us hamsters is quite simple. Just show me the maze, hand me the rule book and I’ll figure it out as I go along. Or at least I’ll survive long enough to feed and breed. This is of course a crass oversimplification of our social order, but you get the idea.
Because we allow ourselves to be seduced by the rules of a world that’s created for us we are easily manipulated by the controllers and the control system. It does this by making the rules……wait for it……wait for it……capricious and unfathomable if we don’t submit to the whip. By surrendering our inalienable right (and I submit our inner moral and spiritual duty) to be free and independent souls in return for a set of externally created and manipulated rules and conditions we condemn ourselves to a life of predictable infantile responses that are easily controlled.
The cognitive barriers that define our comfort zone and the lines we claim we don’t wish to be violated are all an illusion presented to us. And after sufficient assimilation they are perpetuated by us. They are thus easily modified by us each time the line is crossed by the liar, affording all of the liars plenty of wiggle room. “OK, I’ll give you one more chance. But don’t cross this line or next time you’re really gonna get it.” The inconvenient truth is that the battle isn’t with the external liars; it is with us and within us. And our external liars, our masters, unquestionably know this which is precisely why the insanity is escalating as they pile lies on top of more lies.
As this spinning top begins to wobble out of control and despite our protestations and demands for the truth, we really don’t want the lies to stop because if they do the day of our own internal reckoning will also be at hand. The definition of collective insanity is our willingness to be destroyed as a group so long as we are not judged as individuals. Or worse that we are not forced to judge ourselves. But even this we’ll deny knowing in order to maintain our plausible deniability. Thus we begin to understand the reason for the continued lying by all the parties involved, victims as well as the victimizers, and why I constantly describe the insanity at its most basic level as self induced.
We talk about financial moral hazard on Wall Street and within the Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks as central to their escalating greed and corruption. And yet we all participate in a similar social moral hazard that fully enables our abusers. We’re trapped inside this insanity because to acknowledge it means dealing with a life time of denial. It’s so much easier to accept one more beating by our master rather than to come to terms with a lifetime of self abuse.
Presumed Informed Consent
Tragically, because we willingly participate in our own subjugation, regardless of whether it’s occurring on a conscious or subconscious level, the abusers see this as informed consent and the green light to continue the abuse. This is why they often tell us exactly how they’re going to abuse us long before doing so. In our role as victim we declare the abusers to be sociopaths and ourselves as virginal bleeders in order to shift blame and responsibility away from ourselves. It’s all part of the dance of denial and the abuser will accept the role of the heavy in exchange for his or her own rewards.
We may say we want the abuse to stop, but our verbal and non verbal communication says otherwise. How is this any different from the Harlequin woman saying “No, please stop” in the arms of her seducer while returning each kiss with passionate urgency? This is the unspoken communication between the abused and the abuser that is witness to and evidence of the real insanity of the dysfunctional relationship, regardless of whether it’s between husband and wife, nation and citizens or Ponzi and the world.
By the way I am in no way, shape or form justifying or condoning the abuser, rapist or thief simply because I’m explaining the process involved along with our own participation. My position is simple. If we can’t even honestly discuss our own weaknesses and foibles, we are well beyond self redemption. I often say that we are only as sick as our deepest darkest secrets and examining how much of our world is considered verboten and not to be discussed demonstrates this concept superbly.
We’ve all been in relationships where the dysfunctional discourse goes something like this. I won’t ask difficult questions of you if you won’t ask them of me. And I’m not talking about being sensitive to someone’s unsightly mole or dandruff, but rather avoiding a healthy discussion about our spouse’s basic character flaws in order to be spared our own undressing.
This is the fundamental basis for all dysfunctional relationships, including the present one between an intentionally self absorbed and distracted population and our enabling and manipulative masters. As long as we are given the choice between believing the lies and rejecting them, the vast majority will accept the lie rather than risk the perceived emotional and psychological harm of challenging our victimhood which supports our fantasy view of how the world works.
Because we don’t wish to undergo a rigorous self appraisal or emotional unveiling, we completely blow out of proportion the intellectual and emotional harm we will suffer if we do so. This serves the dual purpose of creating plausible deniability while feeding our inner victim. In this way we fulfill both roles of the dysfunctional relationship, that of the abuser and the abused. I call this process a familiar circle jerk with me, myself and I. Add anyone else and the room would become too crowded.
The master’s lies are a direct and personal challenge delivered to us on a daily basis and our controllers know that as long as their lies are not seriously confronted they are safe………and so are we. So they work very hard at keeping the lies from being contested, expertly using a variety of tools including ridicule to turn public opinion against truth. In reality it’s really not that hard to seduce us with lies when so very few of us really wish to hear the truth to begin with.
This explains perfectly the assault upon Assange and Wikileaks from all sides. He’s promoting himself as a truth speaker and thus challenging the lies not so much by what he’s exposing, but by the very fact that he exists. He is a danger to everyone, not just the official liars. If he is accepted as a truth speaker, we the people must then do something about the truths he speaks of. We definitely don’t wish to be forced to confront those who lie to us because then we would be required to openly admit we participated in the lying. This is why we want them to lie, to allow us to remain out of harm’s way. “Daddy, tell me another lie so that I can believe it’s the truth.”
True or False, it Doesn't Matter
Assaulting the truth messenger also removes the need to know if he’s a disinformation agent or a real truth speaker. What’s missed entirely in this discussion is that it doesn't matter if he is or is not a psyops operative. It's the message of ‘truth’ he's delivering that’s the source of our power, not the actual revelations. The powers that be don’t fear the truth; they fear people embracing the truth. Ultimately this is the secret to our inner peace and freedom. Understand that it is not the truth that will set us free because we can free ourselves at any time. The inconvenient truth is that perpetually seeking the truth while doing nothing about the ‘truths’ already established is the crutch we use to avoid facing the original lies that begin within.
When we have abandoned the willingness to honestly look within for truth, when we are complete strangers to ourselves and no longer posses the capacity to 'know' something without the need for external affirmation we then desperately turn to poor substitutes from corrupted external sources. This is why there’s an increasingly desperate need by the population at large to seek 'proof', 'truth' and 'facts’ which must always be secured from those who are widely considered to be 'authorities'. The only authoritative source worth consulting when seeking truth lay deep within us, unless of course we are also hopelessly corrupted.
Once we are completely lost within our own insane world of distortions, lies and self deception we become obsessed with finding ‘truth’ everywhere else in order to validate and sanctify ourselves so that we may continue to perpetuate our own lying. This infantile need for affirmation after we have lied to ourselves and to others is similar to the child who has just lied, then seeks confirmation from the authority figure that the child is still loved. Often the adult knows s/he was just lied to, but chooses to say nothing to prevent opening their own can of worms. This in effect makes the lie socially acceptable and further cements the bond between the two dysfunctional parties. It’s also how we teach our children the art of self deception.
The pathological liars and self deceivers we have become serves to compel us to continuously seek external affirmation that we are not a ‘bad’ liar, meaning socially unacceptable, precisely because we can’t provide that ‘proof’ internally. We can’t hide from our own lies since the one thing we always know is the source of them. As was so wonderfully illustrated in the movie ‘Inception’ we know where the root of the lie originates, thus we must dig ever deeper into our own insanity in order to bury our self deception. This in turn just compounds our raging dysfunction. Because everyone engages in this behavior, yet no one talks about it, everyone’s insanity is considered to be a normal part of human nature.
This is the pathology of our insanity and precisely why it must be vigorously dug out and then thoroughly rejected. A quick splash of paint or a rough wall papering will not suffice. If this is not done, ultimately we revert to worshiping Golden Truth Idols and false True Gods as saviors of our lost and abandoned souls. If we are honest in our desire to seek truth and we begin a fearless search within, we eventually come to realize that the external seeking of ‘truth’ is immaterial and all just part of the control system we gratefully embrace in order to hide from ourselves.
04-10-2011
Cognitive Dissonance
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+1 Enough already, time to put the hurt on these clowns.
Did you actually read my essay? Or did you just skim?
Where do I say every kind of control is a lie? That government is in all cases pure piles of lies? I was talking about a small group of people controlling a much larger group of people. I said that the only way to do so was through psychological techniques and methods which by inference have the effect of magnifying the technique applied.
You should read some modern military strategy text books. They always start, end and fill the middle with psychological warfare. It is a force multiplier. The same thought process dominates any political or social control discussion. How do we get the masses to do what we want them to do? I suggest you sit in on some strategy session of your favorite political party. You would be surprised what they talk about. Rarely is it about fixing things and often it is about controlling things or people.
Here once again your whole sentence. If you deselect brutality, the remaining non-physically-threatening manipulation must be lies.
And this either erroneous or deliberately misleading statement held me off from reading on. I appreciate your work and usually agree with your posts, but if one of the first sentences of a long essay, which should lay the foundation for later conclusions, is glaringly illogical I stop unless my mind needs something complex to decompose. No offense.
A bunch of years ago, I did a 3-day trial as a criminal defense attorney on a rape charge. It was my first felony case.
I knew after the first day that I had tagged the prosecution's witnesses enough to create reasonable doubt.
Day 3 rolls around. Closing, instructions, to the jury. Judge calls me into his chambers and absolutely crucifies me for what I did and did not do. I left feeling like a piece of shit.
Jury comes back not guilty.
Since then I have felt that the key is to have confidence in your own thinking. People lie to you? Yup. People trying to steal from you? Yup. People have their agenda for you? Yup.
Have confidence in your own thinking. Stop caring what people think for/about you.
so what was the REAL truthful bottom line : did he rape her or was it willful consent?
Like presumably for Julian Assange (admittedly a shit for not charging in with his hat on!)
That is all the audience REALLY wants to know in your sizzling story!
did your client rape
the victim? what do you think?
so that is the truth.
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ps. and that you cannot easily dismiss.
His truth was creating doubt in the mind of the jury. Judge thought he hadn't. He thought he had. His truth won. Only truth that mattered.
Justice, right??
It takes courage to break from the herd and become your own sentient being. Ultimately this is found within only by searching for it. Sadly the control system tells us otherwise. In fact my TV told me it could be found in a tube of mint fresh Crest toothpaste. I'll pick some up tomorrow and find out for myself.
Very good point grunk.
We can resolutely create a firm, true reality, only to have an enemy (of whatever sort) attempt to tear it down. The sincere often ponder the attack to their detriment.
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CogDis, thank you as usual for your wonderful work. I was looking down your list of posts (!!!) and loved being able to re-read your Flash Crash piece. I love your mind.
You are too kind. Thank you.
I've been slowly working the Flash Crash piece into a novel, but I haven't picked it up in months. Maybe it's time to do so again.
Most excellent CG. Your posts are always a good read, at least for me.
Earlier in your discussion, you reminded me of something that happened when I was in grammar school (late '50's as I recall). A girl from our school was at home alone one night (she was upstairs at the time) and heard someone enter downstairs. For whatever reason, she grabbed a bat and went down to investigate. She saw a man going through the drawers (bedroom, I believe) and knew it was not one of her family. She approached from behind and slammed the intruder as hard as she could on the back of his neck. Dead virtually instantly. Problem solved and she did not get in trouble for it. This was justice served. Had she "pretended" that the noise from the intruder was nothing, the outcome may have been quite different...especially for her safety.
In essence, she knew there was a problem, didn't lie to herself about it and acted in own best interests at that moment without hesitation. Action, put simply, gets things done. Doing nothing means nothing gets done.
Today, a most simple action is for all to stop going to work. Yes, there will be discomfort...but so what. I ask this: If you have a cancer and ignore it, you'll find out the price, most likely, of ignoring same. Furthermore, spending time learning basic survival skills will give one confidence that they do NOT need a grocery store, fire, police or whatever "department" the gooferment allegedly supplies. This includes the current medical establishment, too. For us, all these "things" are useless.
That's a really interesting story. Proof in action.
There was a comment left about a week ago that slapped me across the side of my head. He said that incredibly it only took 2 full generations to condition out of us the instinct for self sufficiency and survival. My egoic reaction to the comment was to refute him/her, but after reflecting a bit I realized that he was saying essentially the same thing I've been saying for the last year and a half.
We as a society have been warily waiting the last 40 years for 1984 to appear. Because it has not, at least not in the exact form as depicted in the book, we all breathe a sigh a relief then climb into our recliner, fire up the video mind controller box and sit back for our evening session of mind control conditioning.
I recently re-read 1984 and I was surprised to find that I had not remembered the book correctly. I'm not exactly sure why, but I suspect it has something to do with my MSM conditioning over the last 40 years. I suggest everyone re-read the book, but make sure you keep an air sickness bag handy nearby just in case.
And don't forget the appendix:The Principles of Newspeak
[the link I had bookmarked is gone but I don't read too much into it :)]
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090410085921/http://www.eng.buffalo.e...
Atlas Shrugged opens next weekend.
Let's see how they managed to destroy that book.
I couldn't even get through the trailer.
"... I'm not exactly sure why..."
George Orwell's grim novel of totalitarianism, 1984, and his satirical political novel, Animal Farm, describe all too well the mechanisms of oppression and distortion of the truth by the state and the realities of political power.
Orwell was opposed to totalitarianism in all its forms, whether Stalinist, fascist or pseudo-democratic.
Ironically, Orwell had unknowingly fallen into the clutches of the very propagandists and distorters of truth he vilified and satirized. His British publisher, Fredric Warburg, was secretly working for the CIA. Warburg would later become notorious for publishing and distributing a CIA propaganda magazine, Encounter, for one of the CIA's countless front organizations, the ironically named Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Following Orwell's death in 1950, Warburg persuades his widow to unwittingly sell the movie rights to 1984 and Animal Farm to the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), a creation of Rockefeller cousin, Hitler Project kingpin and Nazi shyster cum CIA head, Allen Dulles.
According to its secret charter, OPC's activities on behalf of the "free" world include propaganda, economic warfare, sabotage, demolition and subversion.
Two of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Workshop staff obtain the screen rights to Orwell's novels. The head of the operation is none other than CIA operative Howard Hunt, who will later become infamous as a member of the Watergate gang of criminals. Hunt selects Louis De Rochemont to be the producer of the animated Animal Farm at Paramount.
De Rochemont has considerable experience with propaganda, having created The March of Time series for Henry Luce and, during the Second World War, working with the U.S. Navy's propaganda film unit.
To meet the CIA's objectives, the ending of Animal Farm is changed and the point of the story, that cruel capitalist farmers are no better masters than tyrannical Stalinist pigs, is destroyed.
The CIA's sanitized version of Animal Farm is distributed around the world by a CIA front, the U.S. "Information" Agency (USIA).
The CIA then produces 1984 in Britain in 1954. Inevitably, Orwell's message is distorted and perverted by the CIA to suit the goals of the U.S. ruling class.
The CIA's Orwellian sabotage of two of the most powerful political works in literature is a masterstroke of pre-emptive mind control. As the psychological warfare experts at the CIA are only too aware, a successful movie, like television, can be seen by tens or hundreds of millions of people and, consisting of graphic images, is much more powerful and widely assimilated than the written word.
By sabotaging the movie versions of 1984 and Animal Farm, the CIA effectively stopped the vast majority of Americans ever learning of the relevance of Orwell's writing to their own situation.
The role of the CIA in sabotaging Orwell's masterpieces is hidden for half a century.
To the present day, many American school teachers use the CIA's movie version of 1984 to "teach" the novel, spoonfeeding young Americans "prolefeed" created by the CIA rather than the true, chilling and all too relevant message of Orwell's book.
"The CIA then produces 1984 in Britain in 1954. Inevitably, Orwell's message is distorted and perverted by the CIA to suit the goals of the U.S. ruling class."
Didn't know that, thanks for the fyi. Does not surprise me it was reproduced to suit the needs of the U.S. ruling class aka the Buckingham Palace dwellers. It is such a fascinating story once you get into researching this subject. I'm waiting for Oliver Stone to release his documentary "The secret history of America" http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jul/18/oliver-stone-chavez-wall-street this man knows what's going on and I'm interested to see how much he reveals.
This is SOP for the "classics" in our education system. If you want to teach your children and grand children the "classics" I have found the series by Great Books Foundation to be wonderful.
If you want to understand the Americans read Orwell, if you want to understand the Russians read Chekhov.
I'm a Dosteyevsky man myself. "Crime and Punishment" is one of the greatest books i will ever read.
absolutely 100% agree. C&P will remain ingrained in my brain forever..
Monsieur DavidPierre, your humility is admirable. The piece you posted above is widely promulgated across the web. We are honored that you have chosen to republish here at Zerohedge. It would be great if you could provide a link to your original work. I was only able to find these 662 results. http://bit.ly/fDSeSD
agreed, not giving credit where credit is due & appropriate is one of the hidden core themes of the above article imo.
ack.
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Blogs like ZH are a solution to the problem this author so clearly describes.
Nice essay, thanks.
Ye shall know the truth
& the truth shall
Make you
Free
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very uplifting, especially the part about how to stop it all and get better.
Oh, wait, there is no part like that.
It was well written, thoughtful and accurate, left me with the same kinds of feelings/thoughts that come with reading Chekhov.....
He was a wet hen when it came to depicting women in their state of butterflies fluttering in "utter futility"...like in 'the cherry orchard'. I prefer Dostoevsky, so much more tragic 'umphy'.
Excellent and very true.
Cog Dis, I downloaded the last 5 part series you put to pdf and was reading it over the weekend. Any chance you can set up a similiar link to all your articles in one spot?
Cheers,
Matt.
Matt,
Thank you for asking. Most of my ZH articles are not in .PDF format. The best I can do is list each article's Zero Hedge location.
Two Part “End of Empire” Series
End of Empire – Propaganda and the American Myth
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/end-empire-%E2%80%93-propaganda-and-american-myth
End of Empire – Waking Zombie Nations – Psychology, Consciousness and the Egoic Mind
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/end-empire-waking-zombie-nations-psychology-consciousness-and-egoic-mind
How to Start a Populist Movement in Under Three Minutes
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/how-start-populist-movement-under-three-minutes
Of Avalanches and Tipping Points
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/avalanches-and-tipping-points
Why We Think it’s OK to Cheat and Steal (Sometimes)
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/why-we-think-it%E2%80%99s-ok-cheat-and-steal-sometimes
The Call – A Fictional Look at the 25 Minute Stock Market Crash
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/call-%E2%80%93-fictional-look-25-minute-market-crash
And So My Fellow Americans, Ask Not What You Can Do For You’re…….
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/and-so-my-fellow-americans-ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-you-%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6
Is Capitalism a Rationalization for Rape, Robbery and Pillage?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/capitalism-rationalization-rape-robbery-and-pillage
Five Part “Welcome To The Insane Asylum” Series with Adobe .pdf link
Welcome to the Insane Asylum – Our Collective Psychosis - Chapter One
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%80%93-our-collective-psychosis-chapter-one
Welcome to the Insane Asylum – Our Collective Psychosis - Chapter Two
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%80%93-our-collective-psychosis-chapter-2
Welcome to the Insane Asylum – Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Lie – Chapter 3
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-or-how-we-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-big-lie-chapter-3
Welcome to the Insane Asylum – Making Reality Fresh Daily – Chapter 4
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%80%93-making-reality-fresh-daily-chapter-4
Welcome to the Insane Asylum – Seeking Moral Courage – Chapter 5
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%80%93-seeking-moral-courage-chapter-5
Welcome to the Insane Asylum – All Five Chapters Downloadable on Scribd.com
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33507389/Welcome-to-the-Insane-Asylum-Our-Collective-Psychosis
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/welcome-to-the-insane-asylum-our-collective-psychosis
Two Part “What If It Doesn’t End In A Bang But A Whimper” Series with Adobe .pdf link
What if “It” Doesn’t End in a Bang but with a Whimper – Mind Game - Chapter One
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/what-if-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%9D-doesn%E2%80%99t-end-bang-whimper-mind-games-chapter-one-two
What if “It” Doesn’t End in a Bang but with a Whimper – Mind Game - Chapter Two
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/what-if-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%9D-doesn%E2%80%99t-end-bang-whimper-mind-games-chapter-two-two
What if “It” Doesn’t End in a Bang – Both Chapters Downloadable on Scribd.com
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37045448/What-if-It-Doesn-t-End-With-a-Bang-but-With-a-Whimper
How Accurate Can Any BP Unified Command Information Be?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/how-accurate-can-any-bpunified-command-info-be
An American Coup D’état – First World Nation Style
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/american-coup-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9tat-%E2%80%93-first-world-nation-style
Crony America and The Bill of Rights
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/crony-america-and-bill-rights-artwork-williambanzai7
Johnny Silverseed
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/johnny-silverseed
Where have all the Zero Hedge Veterans gone?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/where-have-all-zero-hedge-veterans-gone-long-time-passing
The Flim-Flam Men
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/flim-flam-men
The Powerful Feast Upon a Global House Divided/
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/powerful-feast-upon-global-house-divided
End Game - Would US Police/Troops Fire Upon US Citizens?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/end-game-would-us-policetroops-fire-upon-us-citizens
An Inconvenient Truth - The Truth Shall Not Set Us Free
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/inconvenient-truth-truth-shall-not-set-us-free
Thanks CD, plenty more for me to read!!
CD, how about mp3ing those texts and setting up an iTunes channel?
No, really, how about mp3ing them and youtubing them?
Some people are blind, they should not be discriminated from knowing your ideas.
It's a good idea.
I'm always a fan of your writting CD, I can see the changes taking place in your prose from the initial question to the discussion of the question in some really well structured prose.
We could make a project out of it. More hands makes lighter work for all. If anyone is interested google "making a podcast" lots of great open source tools for all platforms out there and tips and tricks for post production to give it that nice clean polished edge.
You know the idea never even occurred to me. Thank you for the suggestion.
Are you saying that someone should actually read the articles as individual recordings, then post each one along with background images for those who do have sight? Give me your thoughts.
Banzai7 is the creative genius. I just copy all his good ideas such as combining images and art with my text. :>)
As much as I loathe the marketing arm of any organization, it does serve a purpose. We are overwealmed by a fog of messages that obscure the paths, even for those who seek clarity. An individual's cognitive response to the same message may vary with the delivery mechanism- be it the written word, spoken word, still images, or moving images.
WB7 regularly demonstrates mad talent with his visual delivery.
"dyslectic,
...voice please!"
FYI; writing is sooo ancient.
Speech is Hot!
Exactly CD.
A clear, non-boring, convincing voice that gets the ideas through to the audience.
Time for you to carry out a casting in your locality.
When I publish the casting call can I tell them I'm filming a porno flick? That should bring in an interesting cast of characters and I might even get lucky......and find a good voice. :>)
Or maybe I should just hire Charlie Sheen. #Winning. :>)
Get the text-to-speech bears to read your text. They do so well explaining the workings of the Federal Reserve. They are already famous and everything.
I'd volunteer. Been told I have the voice for this sort of work and it would be a pleasure to bring these efforts to a wider audience. I've graduated from my Chaz Sheenish, Micky Rourke school of flail with high marks .. plus I might get lucky and meet Carré Otis at the casting call where she may be looking for a brotha that has managed to come through to the other side as well
CD, I concur, thank you for the wonderful read and the "excise of the gray cells"!
Splendid idea Ahmeexnal. What do you think CogDis?
In fact many of these peices people do deserve to be heard
Yes a great idea and I second this. Thanks Matto
Pretty well spot on. You will get little thanks ... of course. ;)
"... the control system we gratefully embrace in order to hide from ourselves..."
1945-ongoing:
On September 20th, President Harry Truman signs an order which will disband the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In a single stroke, the order gets rid of any remaining anti-Nazis in U.S. intelligence.
It simultaneously clears the way for Nazi shyster and Rockefeller cousin and proxy Allen Dulles to create an entirely new covert warfare agency.
The new agency incorporates the organization of Nazi war criminal, torturer and mass murderer Generalmajor Reinhard Gehlen to carry on the war for Soviet oil, minerals, labor and markets under the guise of the "Cold War".
Using over $200 million of taxpayers' money, Gehlen continues the Nazi war of sabotage, terrorism and subversion against the Soviet Union on behalf of the ameriKlan ruling class.
Gehlen had been one of Adolf Hitler's top "intelligence" chiefs. He oversaw a vast network which derived much of its information from one of the most terrible atrocities of the Second World War, the torture and murder of three to four million Soviet prisoners.
Understandably, Gehlen and his gang of thugs maneuvered to make sure they were incorporated into U.S. intelligence to carry on ze good fight for IG Farben, Standard Oil and the boys rather than be captured by advancing Soviet troops and be put on trial for mass murder and war crimes.
Instead of hanging in Nuremburg as he so richly deserved, Gehlen is, instead, treated like a king at Fort Hunt, Virginia.
Through Gehlen, the government of the United States also employs the non-German Nazis who had run the murderous Nazi puppet regimes in almost every country in Eastern Europe as well as a host of former Waffen SS thugs and Gestapo.
Early recruits are Emil Augsburg, intimately involved in planning the "Final Solution", and Dr. Franz Six, who had been part of the mobile killing squads, which killed Jews, intellectuals, socialists and Soviet partisans.
Gehlen's other recruits include Willi Krichbaum, senior Gestapo leader for southeastern Europe and the Gestapo chiefs of Paris and Kiel, Germany.
In 1947, the Dulles/Gehlen partnership is given formal existence as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which will continue under the leadership of Allen Dulles until 1961 when ...
President John F. Kennedy makes the fatal mistake of firing him and saying he will "smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind."
Not a smart move.
As hard as it may be to believe that the United States government would tell a fib, it lies relentlessly about its rescue of the Nazi mass murderers and the pivotal role of Gehlen in the genesis of the CIA.
Journalists who uncover the truth are, of course, labelled "conspiracy theorists" and their work is obligingly suppressed by the U.S. mass media.
Documents belatedly released under the Freedom of Information Act in 2000 fully confirm Gehlen's role in the genesis of the CIA but, clearly, even more unsavory truths remain hidden in the tens of millions of U.S. government documents which are unaccountably classified sixty years after the end of World War Two.
After getting the CIA up and running, the mass murderer Gehlen will be installed as intelligence chief of West Germany by his American masters in 1955.
"He's on our side and that's all that matters."
An awesome book about this subject is the recently released:
LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests by Joseph P. Farrell