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The Zombiefication Of America
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
Do you know people that seem like they have had their souls sucked out of them? On dictionary.com, a “zombie” is defined as “the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose”. And that sounds very much like what has happened to tens of millions of Americans. When you look into their eyes, it doesn’t look like anything is even there. That is because who they once were is now dominated and controlled by the overwhelmingly powerful “matrix” that is being constructed all around us.
As I wrote about the other day, virtually all news, information and entertainment that Americans consume is controlled by just six monolithic corporations. And today, Americans are more “plugged in” than ever before. The average person watches 153 hours of television a month in addition to spending countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the Internet. In the end, all of that “programming” turns many of us into virtual zombies, and that is the way that the elite like it.
Just think about it. What was the biggest news story in the entire country over the holiday weekend?
It was the fact that some hackers had taken down the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox networks and millions of kids could not log in and play the video games that they had just received for Christmas.
Sadly, most parents don’t even bother to pay attention to what those video games are actually teaching their children.
One of the most popular video games this holiday season is Grand Theft Auto V. In this game, our kids do things that none of us would ever want them to do in real life…
The game contains scenes where players can have virtual sex with prostitutes then beat them up and steal their money, and a scene of torture where the player is expected to remove a gang rival’s teeth one by one using the joy pad, which vibrates as the victim begs for mercy.
It also includes scenes where the player smokes marijuana, and takes the dangerous hallucinogenic drug peyote. There is also a brief instance of necrophilia. Yet GTA V is one of the top-selling computer games in the world.
If you put garbage in, you are eventually going to get garbage out.
And we can see the consequences of this all over the country.
Meanwhile, Americans are becoming increasingly disinterested in things that really matter such as faith, family and the U.S. Constitution.
Instead, many of our spoiled young people are self-obsessed narcissists that loudly complain on social media when they don’t get the electronic gadgets that they were expecting for Christmas.
It isn’t the end of the world if “Santa” doesn’t bring you the latest iPhone.
But Americans today, especially our young people, have such a warped view of reality. It begins at a very early age, and one of the biggest culprits is our public school system.
For instance, the Blaze recently reported that children down in Texas are being taught that the pilgrims were “essentially America’s first terrorists” and that they should listen to their teachers more than they listen to their parents…
Cassidy Vines was so horrified by what a teacher in Texas allegedly told her that she is planning on home-schooling her daughter after Christmas break.
Vines told Glenn Beck on Monday that she recently began noticing a change in her daughter’s behavior. Her daughter — who is in kindergarten — started to “snap” at her when she corrected her homework, saying “I’m her mommy, not her teacher.”
Vines said a few days after her daughter first snapped at her, she started pronouncing a word incorrectly. Vines corrected her daughter “in the most gentle way possible,” but she said her daughter broke down crying, saying “that’s how she was taught, and I can’t tell her something different because I’m a mommy, not a teacher.”
Vines said she was horrified and asked, “Is somebody telling you this at school?”
“She said, ‘Yes, I’m only allowed to learn from my teacher,’” Vines remarked.
In this day and age, our public schools have essentially become government indoctrination centers that train our children to let “the matrix” do their thinking for them. They are taught that they are just highly evolved animals that are here only as the result of a giant cosmic accident, and that morality and values are all relative.
As a result, many of our young people just do whatever is right in their own eyes, and at this point many of them have consciences that have been seared beyond recognition.
For example, how far gone do you have to be in order to sing a “Christmas carol” that includes the line “Deck the halls with rows of dead cops”?…
The brave Portland #Ferguson demonstrators were back at it again Saturday evening, as they blocked the busy intersection of SE 39th and Belmont as a way of stickin’ it to the man.
They blocked buses and cars, and got into arguments and physical altercations with several people, including: elderly drivers, disabled bus passengers, a black woman who was trying to pick up her son, and anyone else who dared voice their dissent.
After about 20 minutes of tying up the intersection, the protest moved to nearby Peacock Lane, which is well known for its rows of large Christmas displays. The demonstrators sang parody Christmas carols, which included a brief rendition of “Deck the halls with rows of dead cops.”
Our society is breaking down in thousands of different ways, and we can see the evidence of this all around us.
But instead of coming together as a nation, anger, hate and division just continue to grow. And all of this anger, hate and division is being fueled by the talking heads on television.
It has become exceedingly apparent that most Americans no longer think for themselves. Rather, most conversations in America today consist of an exchange of sound bites, phrases, ideas and talking points that the “matrix” has fed us. Most of us are just zombies that spend our days searching for the things that we are desperately craving. For fictional zombies, that usually consists of brains. For American zombies, that usually consists of something that will feed our addictions.
So is there any hope for our society, or are we destined to become even more zombiefied?
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Our society is breaking down in thousands of different ways, and we can see the evidence of this all around us.
Wouldn't have anything to do with watching how the "Too Big To Jail" are treated. They see people like the "honorable" Jon Corzine steal all his clients money and walk away?
(Almost threw up in my mouth when I typed honorable)
"Wouldn't have anything to do with watching how the "Too Big To Jail" are treated. They see people like the "honorable" Jon Corzine steal all his clients money and walk away?"
"You're innocent until proven unable to buy your way out of it."
The banksters need to repay us.
oh michael. for heaven's sake, there is nothing wrong with the kids.
its their fucking parents, struggling to get by only to learn playing by the rules is for fools.
what are the offspring supposed to do?
if you remember what games were like before the video variety, surely you recall cowboys n' indians (that wonderful little celebration of genocide) and of course all of the fun that went along with pretenting to be soldiers in war.
the kids are alright. they may take longer in this era to "mature" but they will also live much, much longer than their grandparents, soooo maybe this is just natural.
and anyway, should they alll grow up to be total zombies anyway, all the better when you may need to get one over on one of them down the road.
Pilgrims heap big ethnic cleansers. Me no understand terrists crap.
When I want a hefty dose of zombie I tune in to the bad girls club
try pretty little liars..
Cheeses Fucking Rice!
*I only know about this show because of my daugher..
You know you like that stuff. :-)
I'm getting real tired of this nostalgia shit. "most Americans no longer think for themselves"
The problem with that is: they never did think for themselves.
I call BS on this, another batch of tripe from M Snyder.
AS a parent of three kids, two in high school (remind me how many kids Snyder has in the school system -- zero, right, but he sees fit to pontificate), today's kids are LESS exposed to network TV than those before. Many parents like myself have NO Comcast subscription. We rarely watch even movies on Netflix, and I can count on one freaking hand how many times my teenagers met friends at the local cineplex (they're dying).
Today's kids have read 100x the number of books that my generation read. They are insightful and question big government. They know more about the constitution than any generation thanks to internet activists. The are entertained not by mega corps but by the free exchange the internet allows.
The real problem, the cog that prevents us from collectively moving forward are people MY AGE (I was born in 1968). The couch potatoes who watch endless sports, sitcoms and eat shit food, and scream USA USA USA as they sway to an eloquent voice telling them "freedom isn't free" -- those are the people of my generation and older. As they die off or get a grip on reality, there is a great deal of optimism for the future, for I have seen it with my eyes in my own kids and their classmates. They are nothing like what Snyder suggests. Perhaps lazy in terms of manual labor, but that's a different story. Today's kids will not be taken for a ride in the same way our current crop of adults has been. Not a chance.
I should have my daughter a ZH account and post her insights, you'd not feel the same as Snyder the BS Artist who has no kids and is clearly out of touch.
Magnum, TY for your post. My daughter is only one so I don't have the experience with my own but 2 summers ago I worked in a lumber yard with 2 lads who had just finished high school and I noticed that they were both open and talked about things I had only ever mentioned or seen at places like ZH. One guy had very clear and well thought out reasons why he thought the education system had really let him and his generation down. It is small rural town/village, they weren't educated but they were bright and alert and gave me some hope in the younger generation.
Great! As you get to know your daugther and her friends you'll be optimistic about the future for sure -- just a few examples of what I've seen:
At 14 my son started a side deal buying & fixing broken cell phones using tools he has access to thanks online ordering. Lately he bought a car and does basic maintenance thanks to youtube videos demonstrating auto mechanics. He got an engine hoist and will start fixing small cars that need new motors, this summer. His job at a supermarket 20 hrs/week, they work his ass off and he just bucks up and does it. There are no "disadvantaged" eg EBT types doing jobs either... so you think my son's generation will bend over and fund endless EBT? shame on us for creating the welfare state, it won't continue. Shameeka your offspring will be actually working 20 years from now I guarantee it.
My daughter: plant sciences major, has about 25 different plants in her bedroom and knows all about organic food, the crap in mass-produced cosmetics, etc etc etc. This is someone who will contribute to society. Her closest friend is in the university program to become a teacher. Another friend studies music and drama and can sing like a professional at 18 years old, she writes plays and comes across as a very wise & sensible adult. Another friend is a drummer and I wish I could repeat the name of his band but won't, but the name of his band makes fun of corporate banking. Another friend is going into the Navy -- a great kid (let's be hopeful in our Navy ok?). Hey these are great kids and they are all well-read and they've got their shit together. People of my generation, in debt schmucks, just a different story all together.
I don't think Michael is totally wrong in his analysis. I see a lot of kids - my friends all have kids ranging in age from toddlers to college graduates - and while I see some that are pretty sharp, I'd have to say they are the minority. I think a lot of it has to do with the kid's inherent personality - most people are "joiners" and far fewer aren't afraid to go their own way. I just hope it's enough to change the future direction.
It's encouraging that you see kids waking up to the bullshit sandwich they've been handed. I agree that much of the problem is their parents, though - the willful ignorance is sickening. I guess at some point it will bite them in the ass. I like to paraphrase Ayn Rand: You can ignore the tiger in the room - but ignoring the tiger in the room doesn't exclude you from the consequences of ignoring the tiger in the room....
Yea I'm appreciating your posts Magnum, thanks. It makes me feel better about my situation to hear about others' (in this case yours).
Snyder is a master list maker and a master-baiter.
Hear hear!
I think you are right. Many in the new generation 'get it', especially those in college as they see very well the inequalities and world problems. It WILL be this generation that slowly takes over and changes things for the better - *IF* those of us in our age group can hold the line. It is up to US to do that or go down trying...we owe them that much. If we fail, they may not get that chance.
WE MUST NOT FAIL.
Take a moment to read Google+ comments. How did this society digress into a negative IQ armpit? Example
4 months ago
She is funny
Repy 4 months ago
Omg I like her she is funny
Yannis Pappas talks Maurica, Mr. Panos and his journey back to comedy (Laughspin Interview)
http://yannispappas.net/
Again I'm so glad that others see this, been watching it for years. Wall Street Journal today, article on relationships and you can't make this up, the advice for couples trying to improve their relationships should remember to sleep in the same bed!! Geez..no common sense right as the younger generation can't pull their noses out of a tablet or a phone to remember this:) I should not pick on just the younger folks as there's some older zombies out there too.
It's back to the brain washing of people who can't tell the difference between the virtual world values and the real world. For the record I'm a former developer and I know the mechanics behind the crap and how the mathematicians and coders do their things and how the press is rigged. Zero Hedge I'm sure in time will be covering "media rigging" soon. I do have to say since I started reading here a couple years ago, the influence is phenomenal... one of the few places where there's some damn common sense.
I think I just hacked off a few lawyers today on Twitter as I said "crazy lawyers think their verbiage has any impact on how developers, quants, etc. code around the words"...well duh...it's everywhere and we can could jump write in to discussing hight frequency trading from that topic:) Mary Jo, doesn't have a clue and is the wrong person in the wrong job. That's what's wrong with most all of the Obama appointments, freaking lawyers thinking their verbiage is a control all for those who do math models and write code. Like Paul Wilmott says, don't change the portfolio, change the math.
We obviously know Wall Street has no problem with math and code and it's consumer ignorance that makes their money for them. They love it to see consumers distracted on some wild goose chase all the time. From earlier this year, Larry Ellison warns, be careful with pieces of intelligent software that's smarter than you...well and the results seem to be zombies..more zombies..zombie government..etc:)
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.fr/2014/02/larry-ellison-ceo-oracle-hcm.html
But last week, Oracle bought DataLogic, the data broker who does a ton of mining for Facebook...so what was Larry warning us about..hmmmmm
How many of you see kids playing UNorganized games outside, street hockey, stick ball, hoops, football, tossing a baseball, throwing rocks in a lake, laying on their backs watching clouds go by, build snow forts and have snow ball fights? I probably slept in my bed 10 nights out of an entire summer vacation. I would leave the house in the morning, check in at lunch, be home by 5pm (or miss dinner and get an ass whooping) it was legal back then. Fuck, drive down a street now and you can't see a kid unless they are at a school bus stop staring at their Ishit.
We always had the night to ourselves.
It's kind of weird to not see anyone outside during the day.
But you KNOW they are watching.
“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
? Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The anger is brewing, but the rest of the quote holds true. My entire life I've been programed to believe that life's highest volition is to seek intoxication and sex with a stranger. Given that traditonal families were already rare for my generation (millenials), ecclessiastic institutions long void of substance or entirely corrupted with political bigotries, there has been little provided to compete with MTV. It's not that my generation regards MTV per say, so much as all forms of media and culture became MTV.
Despite this, I am hopeful. I have moved to three disparate parts of the USA within three years, and my anecdotal observations are fairly consistent. My generation is disillusioned with the institutions that pervade society and the lies the fed us. We are looking for answers, and the economic depression has brought many of us closer together. Old truths that this author bemoans as lost are being rediscovered. A poor hand has been dealth to us and we are aware of it, but it shall make many of us stronger in the end.
My grandchildren are milenials, and yes, I find them (and others) much more engaged than their parents. (such as my children's generation) As Bill Bonner so aptly put it -- that generation 'Despized the past and neglected the future'. Their children are paying the price for their extreme short-sightedness.
Hopefully, inspite of all the distracting gadjets the current generation will look backwards and forwards as they deal with the present . . . .
Actually given the infinite amount a immediately available information the Internet provides it is amazing that so many 'older' people remain as uninformed as they really are . . . As I see it, the millenials may be in the process of becoming the best informed generation to date . . . .
Of course, given the sorry state our once great country is currently in, this new, vibrant, youner gemeration has only to recognize and shun those powerful people who currently control its, and their destiny. . . .
Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4SKL7f9n58
Seems Floyd was ahead of its time.
Animals was their best....more apropos.
Quite the read, Monsiuer. It was well worth my time and was revealing. I cannot disagree with the premise. It is a well honed and oiled machine.
For the record, it was Hegel who first said "God is dead." When Nietzsche used that phrase, he added it was the society - in his words you and I - killed God. Back in 1920s Adorno believed Hollywood and advertising agencies, what he called "Culture Industry", would make humans cloned culturally. By 1960s Debord pushed the idea even further by calling what was going on in West is in fact disappearance of the real. By 1980s Baudrillard famously claimed humans have completely disappeared because they have effectively become a part of machinery. For a long time, the theologians had been battling nonbelievers; but by 90s most of them started battling nonhumans. Karl Marx points out the essence of capitalism is death, death of the society that is built upon relentless extraction of human labor time out of human leisure time.
Yup and Karl wrote those profound words while starving his children, sucking off Engels' stipends.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-10/marx-s-kids-starved-as-karl-...
he only exception I can take to “Love and Capital,” Mary Gabriel’s absorbing, affectionate and altogether exemplary biography of Karl and Jenny Marx and their children, is the title. Love the Marxes had, in abundance. Capital, no.
The book to which Marx gave that name changed the world without bringing the family a penny in royalties for 16 years, and by then he was dead. Poverty made their lives a tragedy with the creditor-dodging contours of a farce.
Marx set out to harness the massive rage that was percolating among the almost unbelievably downtrodden working class of the 19th century. He was an organizer, a journalist and a theoretician -- all jobs that paid miserably -- and he put his family through horrors for his ideals.
When Gabriel describes, with painful vividness, the death of the Marxes’ eight-year-old son, in 1855, from intestinal tuberculosis “exacerbated by ... unhealthy living conditions,” she adds bluntly that his parents’ bleak soul-searching “could have led them to only one conclusion -- the revolutionary path they had chosen had killed him.”
Seven years later, Marx cursed his poverty in a typical lament to Friedrich Engels: “Every day my wife says she wishes she and the children were safely in their graves, and I really cannot blame her, for the humiliations, torments and alarums that one has to go through in such a situation are indeed indescribable.”
Financial Angel
Engels was the family’s financial angel. In 1850, at the age of 30, he made the altruistic choice to go to work at the family textile mill, Ermen & Engels, in Manchester, setting aside his own aspirations as a writer to fund Marx and his growing family.
He was sure that all Marx needed was time (in other words, money) to “produce a groundbreaking book on political economy that would go far toward educating the proletariat and preparing them for revolt.”
He didn’t know it would take Marx 17 years, but no one can say he wasn’t right.
Gabriel breezily handles material of forbidding breadth, filling the reader in on the historical, political and industrial conditions in Europe that shaped Marx’s thought without ever losing her focus on his family. With its suicides, illicit affairs and even a deathbed revelation by Engels, her book reads like a Victorian novel.
After Marx
And -- very satisfyingly -- she continues for a hundred pages after her hero’s death, allowing the reader to watch the work of a rather obscure political economist explode into the world-historical force known as Marxism.
(In an irony Marx’s eldest daughter didn’t live long enough to perceive, she won over a pious older couple, scandalized by a profession of atheism from their son, with the observation “that she thought it absurd to make a cult of any ism.”)
Marx’s three surviving daughters all led tragic later lives, and all for the same reason: They had ruinous taste in men. In this, it could be argued, they followed their mother’s example. Jenny Marx, nee von Westphalen, was a beautiful Prussian aristocrat who could have had her pick of husbands; the one she settled on brought her a life of misery.
He even, according to Gabriel (though there has been controversy on the point), fathered a son with one of their dearest friends. That was the subject of Engels’s deathbed revelation.
Which is not to say that Karl and Jenny Marx didn’t have a good marriage -- according to Gabriel, they had a great marriage. It trembled under the worst strains of poverty and loss, but it survived. The capital was missing, but never the love.
Unlike historians, people who study philosophy tend to have zero interest in personal life stories of philosophers because they are only interested in the ideas of those great minds.
Back to where I left off, I want to quote Land because he sums up the whole situation succinctly.
"Like zero, money is a redundant operator; adding nothing in order to make things hum. When Marx associates capital with death he is only drawing the final consequence from this correspondence. Surplus value comes out of labour-power, but surplus production comes out of nothing. This is why capital production is the consummating phase of nihilism, the liquidation of theological irreligion, the twilight of the idols. Modernity is virtual thanocracy guided insidiously by zero; the epoch of the death of God. There is no God but (only) zero—indifferentiation without unity—and nihil is true religion."
— Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation
"It is simply not true that capitalism as a historical system has represented progress over the various previous historical systems that it destroyed or transformed. Even as I write this, I feel the tremour that accompanies the sense of blasphemy. I fear the wrath of the gods, for I have been moulded in the same ideological forge as all my compeers and have worshipped at the same shrines."
Immanuel Wallerstein
The Kondratieff winter beckons....
"Why people don't rise up massively today? Why there are no real revolutions? How we tolerate all things that have been imposed to us?"
Suggested answer:
http://uselessdissident.blogspot.com/2008/11/interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-part-three.html
“Actually there are no grassroot[s] revolutions, period. Any revolution is a byproduct of a highly-organized group of conscientious and professional organizers, but has nothing to do with grassroot[s].”
i.e., without the agenda and assets of the rich and powerful to conceive, fund, and direct them, there will be no revolutions. ...is now and always has been that way. What you are seeing now is the revolution, and it sure as hell ain't for our benefit.
Being a Zombie makes for an easy life, that's why there are so many. Fighting to not become a Zombie is much tougher; it means questioning things, critical thinking, independent and self-sustaining decisions, taking responsibility for your existence, etc...
+100
GROOT
When you are busy growing your beer belly it is hard to focus on other issues....are there other issues?...gimme sandwich...
"Americans are becoming increasingly disinterested in things that really matter such as FAITH, family and the U.S. Constitution." --Michael Snyder
You hear that, ZHers? F-A-I-T-H is what really matters, got it? Forget your fascinations with reason and critical thinking, and just adopt one of the Jesus religions already. If you fail to do this or mistakenly choose any other religion, then you're contributing to zombification. Make sense? Good. And once you've settled into your faith, you'll finally understand why "Anything For Israel" makes perfect sense for America, and that supporting genocide and imperialism won't keep you out of heaven because it's all part of your god's plan.
As for family and the US Constitution, those only serve to propagate faith. Be sure and brainwash your innocent children before they're old enough to embrace curiousity, inquiry, and logic. Oh, and ignore the First Amendment. The Jesus-worshiping founding fathers didn't really mean it.
Yeah, I know! The author rightly trashes some nasty poison, then turns around and offers some different nasty poison!
Starting shortly after I started to take full responsibility for my own consciousness at age 4, I would try to get adults to debate my assertion that "faith" is one of the worst forms of intellectual self-destruction possible. Of course, they yelled at me, but refused to debate. Was I so logical at age 4 that they realised they were dead meat? I don't know, but looking back, that's one reasonable interpretation.
I mean, it was so obvious to me... at age 4. All it took to comprehend the most fundamental issues was... the information that pretty much any 4 year old has. Like the fact that hundreds if not thousands of religions existed, and had existed for thousands of years. Which even the lame brain of a 4 year old could see the obvious conclusion - at least 999 out of 1000 had to be false, meaning for sure most human beings believe in pure nonsense. How difficult to believe that perhaps that 1 more was wrong too? Easy to believe!
But that's not all. Different adults gave me different answers to the same questions... radically different answers. I remember one of them clearly. I point at the stars at night and ask what are the stars. One adult says "flaming balls of gas far away". Another adult says "holes in the sky and heaven shining through". Followed by two or three other lame claims from other adults. What is the obvious lesson? I most definitely cannot trust adults, I cannot believe what adults tell me, because again, for sure most of what they say is wrong. No need to know what the right answer was, just the fact I got several utterly contradictory answers proved that most of what adults say is flat out wrong. And so, all by myself, I adopted the xfiles motto before xfiles ever existed... trust no one.
Then there was my first day in first grade (never went to kindergarden). What is the first thing that happens? They tell us all to stand up, place our hands over our hearts, face the flag, and recite the so-called national anthem. I never heard the term "bookends" before (probably not even the primary meaning... those wood things that keep a row of books upright). But while the "teacher" pointed from word to word and said the words, I noticed something very amazing! This "anthem" started with "I pledge allegiance..." and ended with "liberty and justice for all".
I thought, you really must be kidding! So "pledge allegiance" (agree to obey) is supposed to be consistent with "liberty and justice"? Hahaha. Yeah, right! I thought this was some kind of hoax... that the teacher would explain later. Or she would ask who noticed what a huge pile of steaming doodoo that was... at which point I'd raise my hand and explain.
Nope. To my surprise, that didn't happen. It was not very long after that I realized what absolute, complete, utter morons human beings are... adults most certainly included! In fact, the adults were bigger morons that kids, because at least most small kids didn't think they knew complete obvious nonsense was true nearly as often.
But of course, maybe that's where "faith" comes in handy, eh? No need to make heads or tails or sense out of anything when you have "faith", right? Wow! Who dropped me off on this freaking planet, and will you please come back and get me outta here? !!!!! Yes, that's what I thought, and still think today (partly in jest) --- except now I realize getting off this planet is up to my own efforts.
I remember hearing about the "founding fathers" and "declaration of independence" and "constitution" at an early age too. I remember thinking, "Yeah, I declare my independence from the whole lot of humans". Sounds like a damn good idea to me. But then, I also thought about how completely strange it was for a couple dozen dudes to sit at a table, smear ink on a piece of paper (sorry, "parchment"), and actually have the balls to think "now this action of us two dozen people somehow magically obligates tens of millions of people for thousands of miles, and will continue to do so for eternity". I wondered, how could human beings be so astronomically arrogant to image their ink smeared on their paper had any such power? So even though some of the ideas sounded good at first blush (individualism, natural rights, etc), the whole thing had a huge stink upon it. I thought, well okay, so I'll smear some ink on paper that makes me "emperor of the universe", and that has just as much validity and power as anyone else. Which it did... as in zero.
This article, and almost all articles everywhere, even on ZH, prove beyond any doubt whatsoever that almost every human being on the planet truly is a clueless zombie. The utter nonsense they believe is so extreme and so unbelievably insane, that... I'd like to say "can't be happening". However, I know better. It has happened, and continues to happen daily.
These early experiences that I describe got me thinking long and hard about fundamentals. As I know now, that's where the juice is, that's where people need to focus and think and think and think and think and think for decades. Otherwise they simply absorb an infinitely twisted and insane pile of intellectual garbage that positively destroys their ability to understand even the simplest aspects of life. In fact, it makes humans dumber than rocks. People always laugh, and say "that's not possible". But it is absolutely true! No rock believes absolute, complete, utterly obvious nonsense is true. No rock believes the most insane, laughable fiction to be something real. No rock is capable of that level of stupidity. True, rocks don't retain much positive knowledge, I'll give you that. But in the end, I still say, humans are dumber than rocks. Okay, that's a bit of a joke to make the point. But it does ring true, and the evidence for this conclusion is endless.
Annie - you are too hard on yourself. You need to go on a date.
Always re-examine your major conclusions as your knowledge grows.
This is what I've noticed about people who can suspend their critical faculties with the mental state called 'faith':
When logic and reason tells them all is lost, they somehow manage to carry-on. And you know what? A lot of them make it.
From a critical perspective ask yourself this: In the Darwinian sense, why does the concept of "faith" as a valuable life-tool persist?
Whatever answer you find, it is your own, and doubtless good food for thought.
Actually, I think we're making a lot of progress.
I see more people rejecting authority everyday.
While we're still a minority, it's much more common than it was.
For instance - if I said I hate America - in my past that would have made me feel like :( a bad person.
Now that I reject the government as my superior and see all governments as evil - that's an honorable thing to say.
I FUCKING HATE EVIL, THEREFORE, I FUCKING HATE ALL GOVERNMENTS. Yes, I hate America! OMG!
If you can get your fire-breathing neoconservative family members to utter those words you've succeded in life.
I'm sure if you tried that on FB, your "friends" will have scathing comments including labeling you a "terrirst" or liberal.
The Federal Reserve and it's member banks use mark to fantasy accounting any wonder why the rest is a fantasy?
brains bitchez .. yum
"The game contains scenes where players can have virtual sex with prostitutes then beat them up and steal their money, and a scene of torture where the player is expected to remove a gang rival’s teeth one by one using the joy pad, which vibrates as the victim begs for mercy. It also includes scenes where the player smokes marijuana, and takes the dangerous hallucinogenic drug peyote. There is also a brief instance of necrophilia. Yet GTA V is one of the top-selling computer games in the world."...
Proudly endorsed by the people that brought you torture, rape, theft and murder to go with that surveillance state at the DoD, CIA/DOS, FBI and NSA that no other country on the planet would do other than it's boss in Tel Aviv!
Let's just hope there are still enough on the fence that can stop obeying unlawful orders in those federal agencies before it's too late!
"that no other country on the planet would do "
One doesn't have to excuse the evil, all-consuming blobs from Washington & TelAviv to know that the phrase above is laughably rash or naive. For the time being, Moscow and Bejing try to deflect excessive damage from the epically overreaching and self destructing western power. When the western power has made itself sufficiently irrelevant on the global stage, you may get to see how much better it is, or is not, under the alternatives.
Pathetic!
I saw a candy wrapper with flaps large enough for the fattest fingers to grab onto and sufficient indentations along the way... yet it literally still had to inform the consumer, "to open, tear here."
I never exhaled?
"In a brilliant article published in Seed magazine, Geoffrey Miller proposes a solution to the Fermi Paradox. “I think the aliens don’t blow themselves up,” he suggests. “[T]hey just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they’re too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism. They don’t need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they do it to themselves, just as we are doing today. Once they turn inwards to chase their shiny pennies of pleasure, they lose the cosmic plot. They become like a self-stimulating rat, pressing a bar to deliver electricity to its brain’s ventral tegmental area, which stimulates its nucleus accumbens to release dopamine, which feels…ever so good.”
Brains have evolved to seek the cues of adaptation – short-cut signals that have proven to be reliable over the course of deep time. In the age of advanced technology, however, reality-faking has supplanted reality, since supplying the brain directly with pleasurable signals is a lot more ‘efficient’ than supplying the circumstances that neural pleasure circuitry responds to.
“I suspect that a certain period of fitness-faking narcissism is inevitable after any intelligent life evolves. This is the Great Temptation for any technological species—to shape their subjective reality to provide the cues of survival and reproductive success without the substance. Most bright alien species probably go extinct gradually, allocating more time and resources to their pleasures, and less to their children. They eventually die out when the game behind all games — the Game of Life — says ‘Game Over; you are out of lives and you forgot to reproduce.’”
— Nick Land, Magical Signs
..."virtually all news, information and entertainment that Americans consume is controlled by just six monolithic corporations." -- i.e. Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Are all owned and operated by, wait for it..... Jews. Anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-Constitution, Jews.
Run by anti-Christian Jesuits.
I will enjoy the show when the collapse comes. They think Madoff ran the biggest ponzi scheme, they ain't see nothing yet.
I'm not necessarily a "3 percenter" but if even 0.3% of armed Americans really put up a firestorm of lead-n-brass, the zombies, the Feds, and any "Hessians" will have their asses handed to them.
"As I wrote about the other day, virtually all news, information and entertainment that Americans consume is controlled by just six monolithic corporations. And today, Americans are more “plugged in” than ever before."
Okay.
Then who are you writing to?
The demonstrators sang parody Christmas carols, which included a brief rendition of “Deck the halls with rows of dead cops.”
That doesn't sound mute or will-less. The American zombies are Red State cranks willingly lining themselves up as fodder to defend the terroristic cops which are the domestic equivalent of Obama's murder drones. The zombies are the ones who think all is well, or that all would be well if people would just be more obedient to their elite masters. Ferguson protestors are in the same lot with homeschoolers, both threatened by the boot of Big Brother.
There are only two sides to choose from, endorse and obey the state or question and defy the state. You can't pick and choose what parts of the totalitarian regime you get to keep.
In this day and age, our public schools have essentially become government indoctrination centers
No, they have always been government indoctrination centers. Always.
You lost me at "faith"...
For the millionth time, there is no correlation between religion and morality.
An absence of religious belief does not imply a lack of morality. That is a failure of logic. I believe it the denial of the antecedent, if I remember correctly.
If A, then B does not mean if not A, then not B. Think about it for a minute.
I would even challenge the morality of someone who needs the promise of heaven and the threat of hell to do the right thing. That's a very self-centered way of thinking and acting, is it not? What is so wrong with doing good simply for the sake of doing good by your fellow man..??
You lost me at "faith"...
For the millionth time, there is no correlation between religion and morality.
An absence of religious belief does not imply a lack of morality. That is a failure of logic. I believe it the denial of the antecedent, if I remember correctly.
If A, then B does not mean if not A, then not B. Think about it for a minute.
I would even challenge the morality of someone who needs the promise of heaven and the threat of hell to do the right thing. That's a very self-centered way of thinking and acting, is it not? What is so wrong with doing good simply for the sake of doing good by your fellow man..??
Otherwise, mediocre/okay article...and I agree with much....
I think you are confusing the teaching of morality with people acting morally. Just because you say there is no correlation, that does not make it a true statement (even if you say it for the million and first time). Morality by definition is making a distinction between right and wrong, something systematic religions try to impart to their followers. Again where I think you're confused is most religions don't force the actual decision on their followers. They teach right and wrong, but the followers are still free to make a choice and live with the consequences.
So while i disagree there is no correlation between religion and morality since they are both about making a choice between right and wrong, I agree there is probably little correlation between what religion's teach and people's final decision to act morally.
Put another way, morality only exists if there is a right or wrong, good or bad decision. Remove right or wrong and there is no immoral behavior. If nothing is right, wrong, good or bad then you have no need for a belief system (sometimes referred to as religion). Everything is now acceptable.
Mike is sensationalizing these examples. A 6 years old said what!?, take her word for it and call the news so other people can pass it on as "proof".
Prussian styled education is producing the results it intends, read Iserbyt.
The saddest part is everyone recognizes the symptoms but nobody pushes for a cure. I guess that's because they have already lost sight of what has to be cured. Life looks good.
My pity is with those just a generation or two younger than me. By the time those in elementary school come to power, I will be long gone, probably euthanized out of exisitance for the good of someone else. By the time the next two generations realize the chaos that total self indulgence brings about, it will be too late. They will blame it on my generation because they will have been taught their generation deserves better without paying the price.
Goyim being Goyim..nothing to see here folks
I don't Shabat but I do control alot of shit!!
Suckers!!!
I've been collecting and reading the books of Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968) because of his unparralleled insight into the practical mechanics of how Orwell's Ministry of Truth operates. To wit. There is no centralized authority which decides specifically what facts, words, people, etc. need to be erased from "common knowledge."
Rather, Barnes' erasure via the Historical Blackout was the result of intellectual herding and groupthink that operated in a peer-to-peer fashion by independent actors encouraged by the almost irresistable lure of fortune and fame, sticking to the safety of copycatism in their circle jerk of political correctness.
Can someone here please give me some names of living writers who are trying to carry the mantle of Huxley, Orwell, Mencken, Barnes, etc.? Hunter S. Thompson and Gore Vidal are no longer with us. Is there anyone writing in English who does anything at all like the names mentioned above?
The only living writers that come to mind are Paul Craig Roberts and David Stockman but their scopes are so limited in comparison and they're well over 60. And fuggedabout Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.
Where are the Young Turks of critical social thought?