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George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War
Submitted by Zero Hedge reader "Ferrari",
Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war. It’s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our produce-consume existence. Our screens with all the answers flash between splattered blood on the pavement and the victims’ smiling faces as they were in life. From the Middle East we hear little and see less of the shattered lives on the receiving end of our vengeance. Like giving a fifth of bourbon to a drunk prostrate on the pavement, our leaders advocate more slaughter as the solution to the world’s problems. Mass civilian casualties is the global order of the day, the constant in our lives.
Orwell’s essay on Perpetual War in “1984” is currently enjoying a revival in certain circles. Through the novel’s mysterious bogey man, Emmanuel Goldstein, Orwell avers that technological innovations have brought industry to such a level of efficiency that material abundance and leisure should be attainable to all. Widespread material comfort and spare time would allow the populace to develop intellectually and spiritually, and thus to achieve a kind of universal enlightenment. Orwell argues that with such leisure-based understanding, humanity would question the necessity for hierarchy and begin to threaten the arrangement that so benefits those at society’s pinnacle.
During the first half of the Twentieth Century those atop “1984”’s pyramid perceived this eventuality and identified a leisured, enlightened public as a threat to social stability and their dominant position. The ruling caste devised Perpetual War as a way of keeping industrial production humming. Orwell plainly states, “The primary aim of modern warfare… is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.” Rather than distribute the fruits of modern industry to the masses, produced goods are blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean, thus artificially maintaining scarcity. According to Orwell, both the terror and material scarcity attendant to such engineered, continuous conflict deprives humanity of the security and leisure necessary for the political awareness necessary to question society’s hierarchical arrangement. Perpetual War keeps the population struggling to eke out its meager existence and thus remain both ignorant and docile.
The hypothesis of Perpetual War has been blowing around the sentient class for decades. Author Chalmers Johnson, said it was the failed promise of the promised peace dividend at the end of the Cold War that lead him to question motives behind the American Empire. Going back further, Col. Fletcher Prouty argued that the Vietnam War was engineered as early as 1945 to be a profit-making, interminable war. Vietnam, Korea, The Cold War, The War on Drugs, and now The Global War on Terror were all virtually unending with exorbitant price tags, driving nations–particularly our own–deeply into debt. Our leaders constantly cry public poverty when it comes to rebuilding our infrastructure or keeping the lights on in our cities, yet there’s always funds for new carpet bombing, furtive drone campaigns, or boots on the ground abroad.
Orwell’s hypothesis of Perpetual War as a bulwark to maintain the status quo works quite well, up to a point. What he did not seem to recognize was the far more effective silencing mechanism, not of material scarcity, but of consumer abundance. Long before Orwell envisioned his “1984” nightmare, a small group of virtually anonymous men devised and implemented consumerism in a mere decade, the 1920’s.
With industrial Europe transformed into a battlefield during World War I, America became the manufacturing base for the Western Powers. After the war, U.S. industrialists and Wall Street bankers feared the loss of demand for elevated wartime capacity would plunge the national economy into ruin. At that time the American public purchased items based on need. Paul Mazur of Lehman Brothers decided to change that, and with Edward Bernays’ adroit effort in public relations, they conceived and gave birth to the American Consumer by creating, molding, and then catering to the individual’s desires.
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays was fascinated with his uncle’s work on the human subconscious and its applicability to commerce. For example, when tobacco industry executives came to him with the problem that half the population wouldn’t buy cigarettes, Bernays devised a scheme making it acceptable for women to smoke. Basing his research on psychoanalysis, he identified cigarettes as a phallic symbol. Bernays arranged for a group of young socialites to interrupt the New York Easter Day Parade by lighting up, declaring them “Torches of Freedom” for the whirring cameras and reporters. By portraying smoking as an act of women’s liberation, Bernays turned the tide, and Big Tobacco soon captured the other half of American market. Bernays and his cohorts continually repeated such manipulative feats for the next fifty years, and in the process supplanted the American citizen with the American consumer.
The ramifications of the shift away from a needs-based culture cannot be overestimated. Acting on rational thought, the citizen who bought only what he needed merely did his job to sustain life and got on with his day. But desires emanate from emotion rather than reason, so the consumer driven by impulse becomes a puppet in the hands of those controlling the media. Fearing the herd, the powers that be have instilled in us a false belief in our own significance and made us slaves to our ethereal, artificial and irrational whims.
The individual consumed and lead by base impulses ceases to think rationally, much less critically. Most importantly he sees himself, if he ever looks at himself beyond the bathroom mirror, as the embodiment of “product choice,” rather than the citizen of a republic obligated to being informed and participating in the public debate. The consciousness of the modern consumer is a passive, empty vessel, defined by corporate brands rather than a more autonomous self.
An entire culture of such unquestioning individuals consumed by their own fickle desire forms a docile, in-cohesive herd of chattel, incapable of debate, unifying, or demanding a redress of grievances. “We are silenced by our greed,” as Christopher Hedges so succinctly defines it.
A lively, engaged electorate might steady power’s hand, but the U.S. electorate, as well as the rest of Western society, have been distracted and in the end lobotomized by an ever-increasing workload, fueled by the febrile chase of gewgaws and numbing mass entertainment. As Orwell observed in “1984,” modern technological marvels should liberate humanity to reach a higher form of living, but instead have been bent by men in the shadows to enslave us. One of those men, Edward Bernays, brazenly opened his book, “Propaganda,” with the declaration:
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
Bernays and his cohorts manipulated the American electorate and shaped public opinion. Men like spymaster Allan Dulles, and the apostles of University of Chicago academic, Leo Strauss, ran foreign policy from behind the curtain and engineered decades of unending wars. All the while Americans have stood by idly cowed and duped into approving the global carnage, as those on top amassed more power.
The owners of humanity’s wealth have always held undue sway over government. At times during the Twentieth Century it seemed as if Western society might reach a more sustainable balance between top and bottom, but towards the new millennium the scales tipped radically toward the top. Transfer of production to the virtual slave nations of Asia, as well as public and private skyrocketing debt worked to shift earlier material gains away from the masses to society’s owners. Consumerism is the opiate to calm us while the doctors in the shadows kill us with endless global war and its concomitant debt.
Those on high profit immensely from the mayhem which embroils the globe. How we wound up killing in these far places and what exactly the policy is are questions we rarely ask. The carnage in the Middle East–much of it engineered by the Western powers–has been a bonanza for the for-profit Military Industrial Complex and the bankers enriched by the ballooning debt it generates. Every cruise missile or drone strike forges a new link in the public’s chains of debt-servitude. We should be asking, “Is there another way?” and collectively making life difficult for public officials who cannot answer.
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It is time someone in MSM bragged about how amazing powerful it has been, with recent examples, otherwise nobody will notce, because they are about to be eclipsed.
The entire world's Status Quos are burning the last of their legitimacy in Keynesian hyperflation and not dealing with 9/11 as they fumble the consequences.
9/11 was a False Flag operation by Israeli-Neocons in control fo the US Government. They cannot every allow normal government processes, and so every single bit of social discord is hyped to the moon as they gradually destroy our communities and civilization.
There is no possible remedy except taking on 9/11 and dealing with it, dispensing Justice. It will require arresting hundreds of high-level people in governments and other institutions around the world. Many of them will be executed.
I think their control of MSM has an excellent chance of producing the social discord that foments the revolution, which will protect them for a few more years.
What do you think? They are soo good at producing hate, and I can't see where to hide.
Well, how fitting, again, if y'all missed it the firstand second times.
Read the extract from the book that justifies the party's need to be at perpetual war...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/by-george-oh-well-war-psy-no...
And then, to really add the dessert of truth . listen to this man, voice of truth, harsh truth... James Trafficant...perhaps the last great american hero... Trump is a pale, false shadow of THIS man...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQOwlpQHx9w
And in case you think any of this is new or was not foretold in other books, by other people, so brilliantly, perhaps you need a dose of King Goshawk.... ;-)
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/brilliant-futile-frustrating...
Orwell was a brilliant, far-sighted man and he well understood the dark side of man's nature. The only thing he neglected to specify in "1984" was the name of the tribe responsible for all the world's "perpetual" angst (and you can bet your bottom phony federal reserve dollar he KNEW).
brilliant? maybe
insider? yes
Along with Jim Rickards.
Ori, this is excellent, but here is Trafficant's last public speech. It is long, but most here will be more interested starting around the :39 minute mark. Notice who Trump never criticizes. If he would sound a little more like Trafficant, I could put a bit more confidence that he is not a Clinton spoiler like Perot. This is what the real deal sounds like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7n-KFmU7o
Half way through that one too Zhandax....the man has a pair of big steel ones....too bad the nation did not rise up in support of him. Imagine Trafficant as President....
Trump? I consider it a massive indictment of the Zh readership seeing the arrow count in articles about him. That he has so many supporters is shocking beyond belief to me, but clearly, such is how it is...
I think people support him for the entertainment value, and not because anyone actually believes he's our savior.
If you listen to Trafficant, you know why Trump is silent.
However, Trump can attack and dismatle a lot of other things.
The "Z" issue will have to be taken on when we are stroinger and more people are informed.
Instead of going after the "Z" people, you go after what they own and what they control.
As with Trump,it was his hair....
If he had included that in his book, it would never have been printed.
The jews are the oppressed heroes of Orwell's book. He names the jews but loves them.
You think the name Emmanuel Goldstein was just a coincidence?
Oh regional Indian
We were just in your country ORI (also Nepal) for three weeks. Drop me a line at my "DCRB" gmail address if interested in hearing about it.
I also have some 30 pictures at Facebook as well.
An amazing place, India....
Sweet DCRB, glad you liked it :-)
I'll write in..........did you come south or just in North India?
great Trafficant interview
ORI
That Trafficant link was well worth watching, all I knew about him prior to now was a speech to Congress in which he says that America was put into receivership in the 30's and has been controlled ever since, and I had spent some time trying to verify this claim (and next up in the youtube playlist was a Project Camelot interview where he describes his rescue of the guy being accused of being Ivan the Terrible) I haven't watched his "last speech" but I see that he died last year and if you read this;
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/09/ex-congressman_jim_traf...
he was a crook.
In an empire built on lies telling the truth becomes treason.
He was a hero and watching him speak after all of those yearsin prison . . . . wow. He was told "never take any medication they offer you, not even an aspirin". He was told he had a heart condition but he refused the medication some years later further tests showed no problem. He also talked about a book he had written but had difficulty in finding a publisher.
The truth about 9/11 is bigger than the event...
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It blows the lid right open about the truth of our existence and questions everything we've ever been told.
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Its those fuckin fallen angels.
New porn studio?
Regarding the article (which needs work), who of any repute is calling for war over the latest Islamo-Statist attack?
I see increasing numbers of conservatives and moderates calling to let the ME destroy themselves, for us to get the hell out and stay the hell out of their barbaric, tribal in-fighting.
I see the same increasing numbers saying to shut our borders and keep those parasitic murderers out of our country...if we are to save Western Civilization, the destruction of which is the goal.
No doubt Bernays and Orwell are good to study.
But we can't use every event to condemn every war and to do so by saying that every event is a false flag calling for more war.
Neither can possibly happen, but the attempt will generate chaos. The Israeli-Neocons cannot allow peace, they will hang.
And if you doubt that, propose another serious investigation of 9/11, by an independent commission with open processes, visible to us here on the web. Closely viisble, every interrogation video.
They will have a revolution first. They might last a while in a revoltuion, but they will all hang if 9/11 is honestly investigated. Nobody argues about 9/11 the false flag any more, they all lose.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/the-next-nuremberg-trials/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/the-next-nuremberg-trials/
A result of a day of commenting. Thank you all for the thoughts.
I appreciate your sentiment and it is reasonable to assume that the ziocons ALSO know their crimes are the embodiment of full-spectrum treacherous evil. Therefore they will never let civilized people have the satisfaction of judging and delivering sentence. Whereas there were limits to Third Reich power, evident in Goering's suicide in a cell in the rubble of Nuremberg, ZATO has no practical limits for destructiveness given a multitude of politically accessible nuclear stockpiles.
We reluctantly see these pure bred psychopaths playing on the Devil's/Grand Chessboard to attain complete dominance, but failing in their mission, they will Samson option our world and call it Yahweh's will before the warrants are even issued. Such is the way of any death cult.
http://www.gnosticmedia.com
Through the novel’s mysterious bogey man, Emmanuel Goldstein...
Orwell truly was a seer.
> "Orwell was truly a seer"
> Orwell was truly a prophet"
Been a long time since I read it... how's the book end???
A Statist's dream
He loved .gov
he died rather early in life, no ?
psychedelics are the anti-dote to being a CONSUMER and being a HUMAN again.
this article is about the psychological manipulation of the few to get the many to do their bidding.
I tend to repeat these ideas, as we learn from repetition. The work MAPS.org is doing to get these medicines available is very important. check out walacea.com too
As Huxley found new ways of thinking after trying Mescaline and then LSD and Magic Mushrooms he began to understand that it doesn't have to be the "boot on the neck of the people" of Orwell. Huxley unfortunately got throat cancer, from smoking tobacco - he died on the same day JFK died. His last couple years were painful and he instructed his wife to give him LSD, Mfg. by Sandoz, in liquid suspension 100mcg.
His wife wrote about this in the book "This Timeless Moment". Huxley did indeed find Buddhism as his psychedelic journeys led him to it. Why? Buddhism investigates "what is what". Revealing the Matrix.
The big story last week about techies "micro-dosing LSD" to help creativity was a positive spin, as there are those who know it's time to bring these medecines back to humanity after the strange days of post JFK killing & VietNam. micro-dosing at this range is 10 to maybe 25 or 30 micrograms. The Brightness and Mental Acuity for many can be astounding.
Again, because of the DEA's prohibition Big Pharma has been forbidden to research these avenues - they want crapola that people have to take every day and are marginally better than placebo and at worse cause all kinds of negative effects both physically and mentally. We can't change the past but we can NOW change the LAW, just like states have done with cannabis. Overnight what was a CRIME was no longer.
You want to keep seeing these TarD events, Batman Aurora - Boston - Charleston - Umpqua - San Bernardino - Paris , etc then just keep on with these TaRD prohibition laws which prevent the healing medicines from being available.
Music - Medicines - Miracles.
random stat:
As reported recently that we here in the US spend about 2.5 $ billion a year on fruits & veggies but spend over $10 billion on soda carbonated beverages.
Let's not perpetuate Big Vegetable fairytales.
Vegetables suffer from a paucity of calories. Their high cost and poor energy content make them a dire expense.
Better eat beans, oats, milk, steak... real food.
Imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.
Orwell was a Fabian until he resigned in disgust.
FORWARD SOVIET!
So agents of The Great Red Dragon figured out how to turn independent men and women into dependent sheep. Wow.
Thank you Tylers/Ferrari. Such important information.
The implementation of Bernay's ideas are very subtle.
Who is Ferrari?
HistoryLess than 200 posts (that have survived ZH's error prone archive process)
remember too, Bernays was hired to transform the mouse/rat poison fluoride into a positive, good for humans additive - hey, let's put it in their water supply, tell them it's good for their teeth" ! What a LaFF the BigWigs have had on us, !
the frauds hoaxes and deceptions are crumbling around us every day as this Internet Miracle allows us to learn a more truthier version of what has and is going on ...
"Thank you Tylers/Ferrari. Such important information.
The implementation of Bernay's ideas are very subtle."
A shame this article doesn't contain more info, for instance:
"Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann all subscribed to a school of thought that was first put forth in 1895 by a French social psychologist named Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon wrote several books, the famous of which was entitled "Psychologie des Foules”. It was translated into English as "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".
"The Crowd" was a revolutionary piece of work. In it Le Bon not only presented an in depth description of group psychology and how it differed from individual psychology but he also outlined a very simple set of principles that enable leaders to spark ideological contagion and thereby rise to power.
Hitler, Goebbels, and Mussolini all studied Le Bon's writings and applied his techniques to the letter. The results they attained were precisely those that Le Bon claimed that they would have. Funny how they leave that little detail out of most history books don't you think?"
Rule from the Shadows - The Psychology of Power - Part 1If you had of walked into Goebbels library, you'd have found Bernay's "Crystallizing Public Opinion".
Nineteen Eighty Four was a prophecy.
And we're living in Oceania.
1984 was a roadmap
Greetings from Airstrip 1.
The perversion of language is a part of 1984 often overlooked. When the word freedom has been redefined to the proletariat and they accept slavery instead. When the word peace means perpetual wars with ever changing enemies. When ignorance is brought on by satiating proles with pop culture media and the latest iShit devices from Apple, the ignorance gives them a false mental strength.
When the word "liberal" no longer means liberty, but instead means statist/totalitarian. When the word "conservative" means rub in your face religious indoctrination.
1984 wasn't just a prophecy, it is our present.
Bingo Brother, language is THE key, a deep rabbit hole indeed...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/the-deep-perversion-of-langu...
Words matter. You'll note that Obama refers to them as ISIL. Why does he insist on calling them that instead of ISIS or really going after them like Hollande? Calling them ISIL seems like he is recognizing their eventual goal where ISIL seeks to capture even more territory than ISIS.
It's hardly a new phenomenon, or even restricted to those in power, but it does have consequences for human knowledge and understanding, particularly over time. The various meanings of politeia have been both confused and obfuscated for over 2000 years, and Voltaire's critique of fiat money has been perverted into a critique of paper money by wanna-be Austrian economists.
What do you make of it when liberty doesn't mean "property" anymore, like it used to mean in practice?
great read. keep em comin!
thankyou ferrari
The manufacture of desire or the amplification of it is an interesting subject. Even with the sex advertizing you have to wonder how much of it is about selling and how much of it is about changing the person and society to be more controlled by the lizard brain.
Everybody likes looking at beautiful people but our society has become a cheap absense of culture because of it. How many people become controlled by their desires as a result and where would our culture be if we obsessed less on our vices that our shoved in our face perpetually? How much of our other capacities may be dumbed down due to the over stimulation of our base lizard brain?
Oh screw it, might as well go drink some booze, rub one out, plan a gambling adventure and shopping spree.
Post of the week.
tldr, batin'
Adam Curtis made a very thorough documentary about Bernays and all he hath wrought. Highly recommended:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Very pertinent & recommended, as well, Dr Sagan's take on the lizard brain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragons_of_Eden
The "Century of the Self" BBC series is excellent. The 5 part series has been on youtube before many times - It keeps on getting knocked off and disappearing. I bought a bootlegged copy off of ebay.
Read Libido Dominandi by E. Michael Jones. He spends 600+ pages examining this very question covering a period from the 1760's through to the 2000's, His argument is essentially that unchecked appetites leads to indulgence in vice, this leads to guild, and guilt ultimately leads to control of the individual. The modern system of control is to enslave via vice. This rabbit hole is very deep...
E Michael is very very good...A zionist's nightmare.
He gets a few things wrong (who does not) and some of his interviews on you tube were really englightening...
THe man knows his history and his Christian bias is a given, considering what he does and where he teaches..
Highly recommended...
While I enjoyed the article and your comment I feel there is a little too much of the "blame game" going on here. Yes there are the 'manipulators' but they only exist because the masses are so stupid. Too many comments act like there is a magical bogey man doing this to us. Well the masses need to resist this simplistic manipulation. When one realises how unlikely that is you are only left with a feeling of intense misanthropy. These 'manipulated people' are used as a baseball bat against the tiny amount of informed people. Most of the blame should be put on the moronic masses.
You critique the 'blame game' and then blame the problem on the 'moronic masses'.
Useful.
I dismantled Freud's & Bernay's influence on the World March 10th 2008 when I dismantled the Military Industrial Complex, CFR, Wall Street, the City, Vatican Bank, and de Rothschild Bank, BIS, World Bank, and the cocksucking IMF. There is really only one person in the World that controls the financial World, but I have to take down the entire World to convince everyone of that fact, unfortunately. Clearly, the academic Economists of the World are ignorant amoeba not worthy of their titles, offices, degrees, and money. They are collectively my footstool, and I will treat them as such given their collective arrogance to date. Moreover, the CFR, and Paul Wolfowitz, precipitated the demise of the USA, and that Hegemony, by their sheer stupidity, and lack of real education.
no shit, Z/H.
Gold-Backed Ruble, Yuan to Trigger Global De-Dollarization? - Engdahl
bang on, Bill.
Some birdie told Orwell what to write.
Orwell was THE consummate insider....him, Huxley, Bertrand Russell....the lot of them....Oxford and Cambridge are the "Clubs", from which all this emerges....
Very true, Britain was the center of globalists for a long time, the british elites were masterminds in manipulating their own people and folks in the US.
I say was, now the globalists have moved to China. You might have spotted the big party about a month ago in England with China's president..
Ferrari has hit the ball clear out the park. We live in Thailand and sadly have not a single friend or relative left stateside who has not been corrupted by the Deep State's various toxic candy. Their brains have all gone to mush alongside their morals. Every single one is obese, having gobbled down way too many highly refined carbohydrates. As a result, they all take gobs of dehabilitating and very expensive drugs to combat the 'Civilization Diseases' that track almost perfectly with BigFood's and BigPharma's fascist marriage to BigGov - i.e., the flooding of highly refined sugars and carbs everywhere all the time.
We have even defined a new term to capture the overall rot that is going on: Collective Corruption. And, we suppose not unexpectedly, with each progressively destructive level of Collective Corruption comes ever more moral depravity. As just one of many examples, every single one of our highly-educated, upper-income stateside friends vehemently argue that the kinds of torture practiced at Uncle's various detention centers spread around the world is absolutely essential for protecting the American citizen from the bad guys.
The country is lost. Far too many of the 318 million Americans are fat, brain-dead, brain-washed twits, with not a single idea how they've blown their winning the birthright lottery, or how they are systemically destroying society. They all deserve precisely what they get in this representive democracy turned dictatorship, which is some monster like Trump or Killary.
I lived in Thailand for years and you're making me miss it just the way you write...a certain indefinably freedom that doesn't exist in the USA.
I was there during the most recent coup and military takeover in 2014. Read what the clueless US had to say (on the rare times they did) about the protestors being "against the democratically elected government." Like the US cares: if it's against one interest, it's against democracy. Against another, it's illegitimate.
Ultimately it's all about rigging the votes and corruption. And the US is the most corrupt by far, I think because there was some idea that the USA was better than that, which made it become far worse. Places like Thailand? Nope...corruption has to be dealth with head on...
I went to Thailand last year and it blew my mind. Very nice, sweet, humble people, great food and wonderful culture and scenery. It was fantastic on every level. And did I mention the beautiful women?
I would live there in a heatbeat...
Democracy is dissolved by the corrosive acid of collective theft and redistribution as the replacement for justice and law.
"Ferrari has hit the ball clear out the park"
So did you mate. Great post.
Every single one is obese, having gobbled down way too many highly refined carbohydrates. As a result, they all take gobs of dehabilitating and very expensive drugs to combat the 'Civilization Diseases'
Yep. Cut out sugar, white flour, white rice and stand on the scales a few days later. It shocked me when I saw it. 10kg melted off with no effort.
Now I have so much energy I am programming an app in Java for people to do the same as I think there is a need for medical sciance to see data and figures to prove this phenomenon.
And now Its spilled over into the PRISON Industrial Complex. And its incestuous twin, the war on drugs.
"Remember kid, we're all in this together." - Harry Tuttle
It goes much deeper than that:
Read this:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/matrix-of-control-a-s...
Obama controls nISIS;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUABL-Ialck
911 mossad;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0AM8OkqJc
The Silver Bears have been in hibernation for an awful long time....
We have always been at war with Southwestasia.
Or was it Southeastasia?
Anyway, I have a fuck ton of pretty ribbons and medals they gave me.
For my "Service" hahahahahahaha
Jump! You Fuckers!
Napoleon already said it: "It is amazing to see what men are willing to do for a piece of medal hanging on a piece of ribbon". Or something like that. Pardon my French.
History provides "clues" and "nothing" more.
Societies, and clubs/cults perpetuate failed ideas...
Be SMART, and use that beautiful gift of "awareness", that no other primate possesss.
Not bad Ferrari, not bad.
Scarcity is the basis of all life on earth. It is what makes creatures strive. But freedom from want is not the ability to buy things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like but to set yourself free from desires. There is nothing wrong with indulging yourself every once in a while but it becomes a problem when it becomes habitual. It is like a drug.
Well written, Ferrari!
Hollande is croissante?
That girl is awefully pretty?
Bravo, Ferrari!
Nicely done. I suppose it shouldn't surprise that so many come to the same conclusions independently about the insane and aborrent nature of wars then coming to understand the why's and how's when it is constantly perpetuated.
What surprises me is how so few express themselves against it every day it happens.
"What surprises me is how so few express themselves against it every day it happens."
Some of us do(did). The results are vapid agreements from the sheep while the speaker is derided("tin-foil hat!")and marginalized. Nowadays I keep to myself, there is no cure for lazy or selfish. To change my world, I need only to change myself.
The US has been at war with Islam off and on since the first Barbary War. The war will end when they have had enough.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams reporting to John Jay, re upcoming Barbary Wars lead by Jefferson. Americas first "War on Terror"
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once. [2] [3] - Thomas Jefferson
same thing happens here-except you are taught not to see it from birth-instead 'blame it on the other' we are simply a bit more sophisticated.
"We dont torture-were a civilized nation..." -the Au Pairs
It is the challenge of dealing with people who feel they are inherently entitled, chosen, enlightened or "special". For most Americans, they were from immigrant stock who came here expecting nothing but a fair shot, entitled to nothing more than an opportunity to try. Now most, even new immigrants, are but crying babes demanding satisfaction, driven by continual indoctrination from all sides. No place on earth is safe from this as it is a deliberately spread virus that will eventually infect every inhabitant of earth.
"Propaganda" by Bernay is a must read book for everybody, another masterpiece is "The Crowd" by Gustave Le Bone, written in 1896, explaines a lot about "maidan&stuff"
Human life/lives are cheap to psychopaths. Especially the ones that haven't evolved from toddler mentality...
In which way the consumer is taking advantage of a product if not in phyisical need of it.
To demonstrate his rank and with it the content of the communication that must pass along.
Look, I can much more afford than you, is the framed winning output then, regardless what the product may be as long as it does platform that outcome.
Take all the products away and the same game is possible alone with sand. Each generation is going through to prove that.
The original script of the performance is a competition. The competition provides the ranks. The higher the rank the better the feeling in this resolving arangement.
Delivering the most of the sugar in life.
I've become somebody.
Suspicious at the resolving maneuver is always making the reason to substantiate the claim.
I am someone because I have something.
This is of barbarian origin and so is the competition.
How did you get it. I will have it too, this is the one conclusion that is driving the speed of said competition.
The other, give it to me.
Not to resolve the products on the shells in the shopping malls as an disguised army store offer to outfit people for the battle on the civil parket is a mistake that is to sorry.
The illusion of civility and peace is hanging on.
The competition about give it to me is composing the troubles called reality. And it comes forward that the epoche of consumerism just was a stage in it.
A battle that has left millions, billions of deatbeaten people. If not on the battlefield then on the moral compound.
Face the enemy.
Very nice post. So the question becomes, how to use the same tools that got us into this position, to get us out.
Putin seems to be coming up to speed rather quickly. Using public opinion to expose the shenanigans of the USSA and the sting pullers behind the curtain.
Surely if cigarettes can be branded as "freedom torches" than wars, outsourcing and trade deals can be branded as nothing short of "US Imperialism" or "Crony Capitalism". The trick obviously is to get the dumb fuck population to buy in to it. Create a need and then sell it to them. It's like the concept of packaging consumerism, but in reverse.
We need an enlightened leader to reverse the tide. Trump, Clinton and the rest of the muppets in the 2016 campaign circus are nothing but "same as it ever was". Bernie seems to be closest to the epicentre but his ideas as still rough and need to be sanded off with more meaningful thought and public discourse. But he is on the right path.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
And electing a billionaire like Trump is good how?
If consumerism was based upon working harder and smarter to get ahead,to get what pellet of reward that was mysteriously placed in your head, it would simply be a question of values...but it is not. The addiction of consumerism was quickly overrun by our inability to produce to pay for it and was quickly supplanted by our even larger and more overpowering need for something for nothing. This is not only driving our consumption of credit but also the hugely destructive financial gambling industry known as "investing". Our consumption of that which cannot be paid for, our desire to enrich ourselves while "earning" nothing is THE ultimate demoralization that leads to our final destruction.
Ethical Man vs Consumerist Man.
I've said it all along. What neo-fascism; whatever its totalitarian origins; does to Humanity is to dumb down its critical sense.
It is this critical sense which in essence is the legacy of Athens and what has been the time line of our civilization.
Losing the critical sense is losing Humanity, logic, and the ability to act. We thus lose civilization.
Panem and Circenses...we know how that ended.
Bread and Circuses with Donald the Clown, who hides behind his mask that other dark side of whom/what he represents.
War forever. Empires live for that ephemeral power and die as a result of that.
In the end the economies of war spiral and the resultant blowback kills the empire. Always has.
There simply isn't enough awareness or discussion of Bernays, given his huge influence on today's consumer culture. Great article, Zero Hedge reader 'Ferrari', hoping we see more from you.
The peace and prosperity of freedom/capitalism .... have lulled this dolt .... into thinking it's an entitlement .... and now he attacks the system .... which gave humanity a brief respite .... from endless tribalism and war .... which is the dialectic (socialists think they own that word) evolution of the species ?
Did you see Anderson Cooper .... cavorting with monkeys .... I wonder if he sucked off a couple .... off camera ?
Heraclitus of Ephesus (??????????, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC) was a Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe,
Climate change ? LOL
I don't buy the blame game of why the sheeple are gullible idiots. The sheeple are gullible idiots because human beings on the whole are idiots. Just look at how many posters here who should be somewhat enlightened buy into the bullshit Muslim narrative and bullshit mass shooting narrative they get told even when there is clear evidence it is all bullshit.
History has shown humans are idiots and that was long before big bad consumerism took over. They'll believe whatver they are told because they are gullible idiots.
If you would like to point to ONE common destructive thread in humanity, it is the belief that anyone who does not agree with you is a stupid idiot and their analysis of the facts as they see them as deeply flawed. It is the excuse used by ALL murderers and tyrants to kill and oppress their "lessers".
History has shown that humans are idiotic murderers who have NO respect for anyone but themselves, and see anyone who would defend themselves from such forces as a misguided fool. After all, you just want to help, right?
Good article connecting Orwell and Bernays. Bernays is responsible for so much that it boggles the mind. There is a stunning BBC documentary (yeah I know- how did it make it past the censors?) about this called Century of the Self. It traces how the big banks set out to, in the words of one of the directors or Lehman, " we set out to change the American worker into the American CONSUMER" by hiring Bernays. The documentary connects Bernays' propaganda as the underlying template for so much of what we do today, even accounting for 'focus groups' for elections. Fascinating watch! The YouTube version shows over 3 hours but that is not correct. It's less. At least watch the first 19 minutes and you will get a very good summation. It's definitely worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
Thank God for our Christian immigrants .... especially Mexicans and Latinos .... and good people from Japan, Korea, China, Viet Nam .... and civilized people in general who have emigrated to the US .... if it weren't for them .... we'd be a Muslim Caliphate already ?
Sheep are sheep because they do not effectively resist being herded. Any aggressive virus can and eventually will overtake and destroy lesser, weaker constituents. Those groups or ideologies who are more willing to kill and oppress will dominate those who do not. It is really very simple. It is OUR choice. Will we be killed or dominated...or not? The choice is much more complicated by the fact that the "facts" are not always obvious, the threat not always apparent, and many times deliberately obscured. The surest way to dominate your enemy is to induce them to surrender or defeat themselves....as we are busily doing presently. The creation of chaos is for two effects. The first is to obscure exactly who is the threat and who is the friend to the benefit of the threat, the second being the desire of most people to seek the protection that only the powerful can provide leading to the willing acceptance of tyranny.
Many people took to the streets to protest about the illegal war in Iraq - the people were ignored. Just like the 60% who voted OXI.
The people have no control over the psychopaths in power. There is just an illusion of 'voting' to pacify the masses. In the UK those that get elected are not because the majority elected them, far from it, it is the way the system is rigged.
It will take a hundred "Arab Springs" to cull the savages out of Islam .... the Joos and the rest of us .... had to endure the same civilizing trial by ordeal .... the Muslims have a 1,000 years of evolution .... to fast forward through .... get on with it ?
What nonsense.
"“The primary aim of modern warfare… is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.” Rather than distribute the fruits of modern industry to the masses, produced goods are blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean, thus artificially maintaining scarcity. According to Orwell, both the terror and material scarcity attendant to such engineered, continuous conflict deprives humanity of the security and leisure necessary for the political awareness necessary to question society’s hierarchical arrangement. Perpetual War keeps the population struggling to eke out its meager existence and thus remain both ignorant and docile."
War has been with us for millenniums. The Roman empire, for example, was at war constantly, long before Orwell or Bernays existed. The Chinese empires were at war for millenniums. The Muslim empires were created by war. When Genghis Khan moved westward he used to kill every inhabitant of the cities he captured.
"Meager existence", has this dude shopped in New York City or London lately? Ever been to a Wegmans?
It is the high cost of entitlement that tells us of our need for moar, informs us of our impoverishment in not possessing EVERYTHING our indoctrinators tell us we so richly deserve.
The vast majority of humans on this planet have wealth beyond the imagination of two generations back, yet see it as nothing, as depravity because they "deserve" so much more. Our personal security is no less endowed, that we can kill anything or person who represents the slightest of threats without realizing that those "protectors" ARE our greatest threat.
Our consumerist mentality has lead us to confuse "value" and now the subtlety strikes us that MAYBE we have traded our desire for "stuff" has eroded our TRUE security, much as the well fed pig in the pen might suddenly realize the cost of HIS endowment.
YouTube becomes Israel’s new battleground against Palestinians
http://www.redressonline.com/2015/12/youtube-becomes-israels-new-battleg...
LETS PLAY A GAME.
HOW MANY MAJOR NEWS, ENTERTAINMENT, OR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES CAN YOU NAME THAT ARE *NOT* OWNED/MANAGED IN MAJOR OR MAJORITY PART BY JEWS. 2% of the population.
First the Palestinians....
Then the rest of the world.
The Paestinians cannot stone Israel to death .... as if she were an adulterous Muslim .... LOL ?
8 billion earthlings .... can't retreat to .... a barter economy .... consumerism keeps half the planet eating .... when a rich man builds a new house .... those below upgrade like musical chairs .... tax yachts .... and workers lose their jobs ?
We are ALL consumers. like every other organism on the planet. The problem is when those "needs" are enhanced to benefit an unsustainable profit model created by corporations that ultimately leads us to consume more than we can produce, to eat our seed corn and ultimately our own appendages from our insatiable hunger. It is debt that has fueled this paradigm, along with a moral construct of honor, an otherwise positive construct, that drives us to believe our debts are not just money but ourselves.
We have become addicted to consumerism at the cost to all other considerations, an addiction that drives us to rationalize all types of destructive behaviors. A very few of us are forced into this behavior. Yes, we are manipulated and lied to inducing us to our predisposed destructive nature. But it is WE who do it and it is up to each of us to resist it. Yes we need to eat, to consume, but it is up to us to recognize when our behaviors become destructive and it is only ourselves who can prevent it. Our government will offer up all sorts of "protections" to prevent us from self destruction, while also being the single largest contributor to it. They will attempt to limit the size of our soft drink while subsidizing sugar and corn syrup producers into the billions. Our freedom, our LIFE is dependent upon our individual actions, be they directly individually or by the government.
"Our leaders constantly cry public poverty when it comes to rebuilding our infrastructure or keeping the lights on in our cities, yet there’s always funds for new carpet bombing, furtive drone campaigns, or boots on the ground abroad."
One need not be a statist in order to agree with the above quote from the article.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/december/06/are-we-in-a-clash-of-civilizations/ Are We In A Clash Of Civilizations?
NO, we the peoples aren't!
The upper middle class families where I live seem to all work for the poison-pill pharma companies and the blood-and-guts "defense" companies.
Lots of folks have indirect blood on their hands.
Edward Bernays was Freud's nephew on BOTH sides.
As Bernays wrote from his office on Wall Street, the masses can be controlled without them knowing it and without them knowing WHO it is that controls them.
Poor goyim...
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/chap4.pdf
We have seen that a common component of Jewish intellectual activity since the Enlightenment has been to criticize gentile culture. Freud’s ideas have often been labeled as subversive. Indeed, “[Freud] was convinced that it was in the very nature of psychoanalytic doctrine to appear shocking and subversive. On board ship to America he did not feel that he was bringing that country a new panacea. With his typically dry wit he told his traveling companions, ‘We are bringing them the plague’ ” (Mannoni 1971, 168).
Mannoni, O. (1971). Freud, trans. R. Belice. New York: Pantheon Books.
Who runs Hollywood? C'mon
Joel Stein, Los Angeles Times December 19, 2008
Monetary history tells a very different story about war, unless there is something very significant you are going to steal (land, property and resources) by attacking someone else, it is usually an economic disaster.
World Wars I and II were great news for America, that built up gold supplies and earned loads by supplying Europe with goods and money (debt). (America was late into the Second World war.)
There was nothing to steal in these wars that made up for their cost, well maybe if Germany had won.
They are good for the bankers, supplying the debt to keep them going, and the weapons manufacturers, but that is about it.
Over spending on war has bought an end to many a civilisation and it is usually the currency debasement that takes place to fund it that does the damage.
The seven stages of empire:
1 Sound Money
2 Layers of Public Works
3 Massive Military
4 War
5 Currency Debasement
6 Loss of Faith
7 Currency Crisis
It repeats throughout history.
It lies behind the shift of power from Europe to the US.
Now the US is at that nation destroying war phase.
https://www.hiddensecretsofmoney.com/videos/episode-2
my daughter watched the speech w/me sunday night. afterward she sighed & said: "so this means there's going to be a war?" to which I replied: "honey, there's been a war going on since before you were born." apparently the govt school had taught them that the nobel peace prize winning chosed one had ended it - wow...
Ferrari should earn a regular spot as a contributor on ZH with this one. Well done.
E Michael Jones is the best in town at the moment and offers a solution with an example: Spain after the unification of Aragon and Castille.
Orwell's problem was that, unlike Chesterton and Muggeridge, he never converted to Catholicism. Catholicism is something the English do really well but continue to resist for the most part.
It would be interesting to know what are the contemporary versions of Aragon and Castille? The USA and Russia?
Since I am white( I know I apologize) I will confine my question to Europe. When in the last 1500 years has Europe gone more that 50 years without fighting each other? Humans fight, it's the one thing we are actually good at. We are so good at it ,we have to make rules and agreements on how we fight or we would have extincted ourselves years ago
1815 til WWI was pretty peaceful in Europe.
Greece and Belgium had revolutions in 1830s.
Prussian states (aka Germany) had revolutions around 1845-1850, and more in the 1860s/70s.
Italian city states (including curiously the Vatican) fought constantly.
The Austrian empire had countless rotating wars with Russia, Turkey, Greece, Prussia, etc -- those wars got closer and closer to Austria before eventually triggering WW1
The Crimean war in the 1850s -- Austrian empire versus England, France and others
France and Britain were busy fighting each other all over Africa -- technically peaceful "in Europe", but only because the fighting was elsewhere.
I am sure I missed lots of other wars in Europe, but the 1800s were filled with wars between European powers