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What You're Supposed To Think Vs What You Think
I could trace my 30 years of investigative reporting as one long project emanating from what people are supposed to think.
What they’re supposed to think about nuclear weapons, pesticides, medical drugs, vaccines, presidential elections, major media, the CIA, US foreign policy, mega-corporations, brain research, collectivism, surveillance, psychiatry, immigration…
In each case, there are a set of messages broadcast to the population. These messages are projected to replace what people would think on their own, if left to their own devices.
And in many cases, these messages have the same underlying theme: feel unlimited sympathy.
Feel unlimited sympathy or else.
In the area of immigration, for example, people are supposed to welcome endless numbers of refugees to their shores and cities and towns.
If they don’t put out the welcome sign, they’re evil, they’re cold, they’re “capitalists,” they’re unloving, they’re cruel, inhumane.
They’re immune to proper feelings of guilt and shame.
There is also an interesting guilty “we” attached to the issue. “We” invaded other countries, “we” bombed populations, imposed devastating economic sanctions, launched corporate takeovers—and therefore “we” should now open our doors to these refugees.
The government didn’t do these things. The State didn’t do these things. “We” did.
“We” is a very, very popular collectivist concept. It assigns massive guilt, while somehow exonerating the political leaders of the collective.
“We” is a great cheese glob that envelops all of us. “We” is a metaphysical construct that replaces “I.” There is no “I.”
Therefore, what some “deluded individual” might think and decide and determine on his own—which could very well run counter to the “we”—is irrelevant.
When it’s time to undertake wars on a grand scale, there is a George Bush who announces what the “we” wants. And when it’s time for the guilt and the sympathy and the bleeding heart, there is an Obama who announces what the “we” wants.
In general, the “we” is there to convince the individual that he is useless and powerless against the advancing cheese glob. He need not bother thinking what he really thinks, because it would make zero difference. Much better to become part of the “huddled mass,” waiting for instructions on how best to serve humanity.
Logic, rational consideration, the ability to analyze a line of thought and find flaws and gaps and deceptions? An outmoded concept that doesn’t apply to the “we.”
You see, the “we” is something quite different. It proceeds by a) committed aggression or b) endless sympathy, depending on what is called for by our leaders.
It moves like inexorable lava slowly leaking away from a volcano. The glob.
It needs no individual intelligence. Making distinctions is unnecessary.
And, one thinks, perhaps the solution to this wretched state of affairs is finding a different “we” to belong to. That will solve the whole problem.
But the underlying solution, as formidable as it may seem, is: dismantle the whole “we.” Expose it for what it is. And reinstate the individual and what he does think, as opposed to what he should think.
The cheese glob, the lava glob, the advancing fungus is the false construct. It was put there and massaged and stimulated to engage the individual and make him think he was excessively “privileged.” He was an outsider who couldn’t see the need and the joy of “belonging.”
He was behaving like a criminal, even a terrorist. He was detracting from the power and the warmth and the humanity of the collective hearth.
What most people take to be Reality is actually invented for the “we.”
And to take all this a step further, Reality is meant to distract the individual from discovering the depth of his own power, which is to say, creative power.
Every organized religion, every State, every so-called spiritual system and philosophy is built to derail the individual in this way.
After all, Reality points to itself. Reality says, “Look at this. Look at me. Understand me. This is what you need to focus on. This is all there is.”
And so it seems the main attribute of the individual is “perceiving what is.” Perceiving Reality.
However, detaching one’s self from that prescription reveals another opportunity, vast in its possibilities:
The ability to analyze the “we” and its many messages and discover what they are and how they are designed—and the capacity to imagine and invent new independent realities without end.
The scope and range of what the individual can do, in this regard, is limited only by: what he can imagine.
The psyop of all psyops seeks to bury this fact.
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We all live in a yellow submarine.
Ha! I was about to type the same thing....
"We" are completely fucked...
this article failed to mention almost every single name brand product on the market that we are groupthinked into believing is superior and somehow better in some way over anything else....and heaven forbid if the Kardashians actually recommend that we buy something.
most advertized brands are shit - especially Rolex. I got one years ago (submariner). First time I went surfing I was hit by an average sized wave and the watch fell off - I almost lost it. Then I realised it's always a few minutes late or fast. Once in Greece it fell of a nightstand (about a foot tall) and it shattered into pieces - costed 800 Euros to replace that crappy glass. The list of misrepresentations in marketing goes on. I woudl not recommand them to my worst enemies. Also I once met a girl working for Rolex HQ in Switzerland she tried to determine if my Rolex was real or fake. After about 5 min of looking and listening she coudl not tell. So here you are you pay 8k$ for a watch that does nto really work, you can't swim with, brakes easily and costs a fortune to fix - in ther words a piece of shit.
I've had the same experience with Bang and Ollufson
You went surfing with a Rolex? Hahaha... wow. I agree with your post though.
I think walking into a black neighborhood with a Rolex would have been crazier.
The scope and range of what the individual can do, in this regard, is limited only by: what he can imagine.
Plus what he can train for.
Makes a difference doesn't it? Imagine If you change that to "I am completely fucked." Then I would ask, well why don't you do something about it?
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
- William Casey, ex-ISIS director.
It worked.
Don't throw in the towel yet Skateboarder. We still have the final round. Homeschooling is expanding. ZH hasn't been shutdown. John Rappaport writes on. I can watch Max Keiser expose ponzi bankers on RT. And if you want to see how scared TPTB are, then look at the security that was rolled out for the Pope and all of the (dick) heads of State that rolled in to the UN session last month. They are freakin paranoid!!! They can't roll out their fascist shit fast enough. Wait till they ram home TPP and TPIP. I think their corporate tribunals will have to be held at the North Pole because they won't be safe in any civilized country.
Despite Chomsky being a gatekeeper for 911 mythology (for which he is erasable), Manufacturing Consent explains points beyond what is self-evident from the term:
http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/j190/Chomsky.summary.html
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Is that voice in my head..."we"?
I call my thang a we we, it's short for..well never mind, I leave it at that.
boo boo has a wee wee. I'm starting to wonder how old you are.
Amen brother. We need to expose all bullshit and insist upon clear logic for all discourse and decisions.
"Logic, rational consideration, the ability to analyze a line of thought and find flaws and gaps and deceptions?" This applies to all Sovereign Americans and those who would deal with us.
May I present to you, the amazing essay On Bullshit, by Harry Frankfurt.
Nice essay. I especially liked the part about craftsmen of old who did not cut corners and the corrorlary that the shoody works found at Walmart are "bullshit". We must recreate and reward the craftsmen of old.
Absolutely! Everything made now has planned obsolescence.
I would request the author expose his own bullshit. He starts off with his party line hard on against refugees. If you disagree with him, hey, you're just part of the "we." How convenient and sophistical. This assclown just wants us to follow his line.
The author will not likely protest when you generously invite an immigrant family into your home.
Jon Rapppoport truth be told. Atomicwasted self explanatory
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Looks like I've succeeded... ;)
Is the false construct a cheese glob or a lava glob, because in my mind that is a huge difference.......?
Ball cheese or Flat cheese?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=28&v=UcV_Z7ONbTg
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Cormac McCarthy blood meridian
We has left the building. It just . Gov to me
Mr. Rapaport's triste on "we" reads very similarly to Ayn Rand's "Anthem" ISBN# 978-0-451-19113-7 (I keep a copy next to my desk).
Except that Anthem makes sense. This is shitty polemic that is internally inconsistent and illogical.
Not "triste," but rather "treatise."
Duly noted.
I fondly call the we sheeple.
"The Public Be Suckered"
http://showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html
The problem is that most people do not (nor do they want) think past a superficial level. Unfortunately, in these times, the only way to experience reality is through higher-level thought.
One of the best articles on this site in awhile. Dismantling "we" is the first step to freeing us from out bondage.
He doesn't want to dismantle "we." He wants "us" to follow him.
But the underlying solution, as formidable as it may seem, is: dismantle the whole “we.” Expose it for what it is. And reinstate the individual and what he does think, as opposed to what he should think.
Not seeing it.
atomicwasted can't bear the thought of individual freedom and will do anything to combat it even going so far as to condemn the individual for being a collectivist. At the very least it reinforces his own biases and frees him from any compunction toward independent thought.
The sole weapon of the SJW crowd.
Every now and then I run into some person and wonder if they have ever even had an original thought.
Hanging out with real old school techs does have some advantages.
We are not them anymore. We are a petulant uncontrollable mass of annonymous shitheads who would die for the country but never hold any allegiance to a political party. The only loyalty we have is to the country.
Define "we"
Bro
And yet the author of this screed tries to tell the readers right out of the gate how "they" are supposed to feel about refugees.
And, shit-for-brains tries to pin the responsibility for State action on the subjects of the State, as if we have any real control or any substantial influence on it.
Fuck this guy.
Where do you get that idea?
It's not an idea, it's psychosis.
Jon Rappaport is one of my few daily reads...every day. Great work Jon!
So you're saying that the politicos and crony capitalists and vested interests and moonbats and wingnuts are out to fool the public? And that it's better to be an independent thinker?
Yeah okay, great. But "we" already knew that.
US should make themselves ready for an imminent huge natrural disaster.
There is no need to run outside
For better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide
At the centre of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
-Lao Tzu
So glad to see Jon Rappoort here in ZH.
Have been reading his newsletter for a few years.
He was on John B. Wells's show (caravan to midnight) last Friday. They did a great segment, then flipped roles and Rappaport interviewed Wells.
There is no need to run outside
For better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide
At the centre of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
-Lao Tzu
Drop some acid on the We and It disappears in a wall of laughter.
Here I sit, broken hearted...
Warren Buffett has said his class has gone to war and they are winning.
They are working collectively, when the masses act as individuals they are easy meat.
In the 19th Century factories of the UK, conditions were appalling.
Collective action made the changes.
Warren Buffett knows the individual is weak.
This is why he is working as part of a group, whilst his group is putting out propaganda about the benefits of being a free individual.
"I am a free individual and this is what I think ..... <whatever>"
"Yeah alright, now fuck off"
A lot of people like the "we" cause it gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of safety and security. It is all psychology really. Being an "I" is much more difficult because although people like freedom they don't like the responsibility that comes with it. The "we" is alright when it comes naturally when people are connected and bound by a common destiney but the "we" is invented by the "them".
We the People of the United States...
See what they did?
That's why it failed.
Yes those buildings fell into the ground just like a controlled demolition, even the one that wasn't even hit by a plane. Yep, drink down that koolaid sheeple!
- Ludwig von Mises
A couple of acronyms I remember when dealing with life / news / difficult people is FOG - Fear, Obligaton and Guilt. The refugee example is a good one.
The other one is JADE - the response from the idiots usually is Justify, Accuse, Deny, Evade. A certain state in the Middle East perhaps?
Both cover the slippery ways pyscopaths try to spread their sick world onto us.