DIMMING THE BULBS PART DUH!

In the preface to A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley wrote:

“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.”

 

To a throng of newspaper readers and television viewers, most of whom waved “bye-bye” to the practice of critical thinking long ago, anyone making such a statement in contemporary times, as it pertains to the reality they perceive around them, would be brushed off as a victim of paranoid delusion…and possibly be taken into custody by government officials courtesy of the NDAA. But, who is truly delusional?

In Public Opinion (1922), Walter Lippmann–an American intellectual, writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner–compared the masses to a “great beast” and a “bewildered herd” that needed to be guided by a governing class. He went on to describe a ruling elite whose interests reached “beyond the locality” and, therefore, this “governing class” of “elites” had to be a equipped with a machinery of knowledge which could circumvent the primary defect of democracy, i.e. the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen.”

“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . . Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to deal with the world beyond our reach.”

–Walter Lipmann, Public Opinion

In short, the “manufacture of consent” means the manipulation of public opinion to accept the elite’s agenda through mass media and propaganda, because the general public is not qualified to reason and to decide on important issues. It is therefore important for the elite to decide ”for its own good” and then sell those decisions to the masses.

Bear in mind that Lippmann was one of the founding fathers of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), unquestionably the most influential foreign policy think tanks in the world. If anything, this should give you an idea of the elite’s state of mind concerning the usage of media; after all, there it is in one of the CFR founder’s own words.

“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a ‘ruling elite’ that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a ‘school for statesmen’ and comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes. The creation of the United Nations was a Council project, as well as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.”

–Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

So, how was an idea realized?

Why do shows on FOX News or MSNBC or CNN or Headline News run faster than Edwin Moses to stories about a Republican’s idiotic statement about rape or a Democrat’s wiener or a fast food chain owner’s ideological stance on gay marriage…or Birth Certificate Issues…or Dogs strapped on Car issues? Why don’t they tackle such topics as the Council on Foreign Relations or the Trilateral Commission or the Bildebergers? Why? You’d think there would be an audience appeal, wouldn’t you?

Is it because the so-called founders of such media gods as The New York Times and NBC were chosen, financed and directed by Morgan, Schiff, and their allies?

Gasp!!!

Congressional Record 54, dated February 9, 1917, a notation by Congressman Callaway:

“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests … got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers … to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States…These 12 men … found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. … Emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers … [and] an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding … things of national and international nature considered vital to the interest of the purchasers. … This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served.”

Furthermore, “The CFR needs to reach the mass audience of Americans who do not belong to, or attend the meetings of, or read material distributed by, the propaganda organizations,” declared Smoot.

He continued, “[The] Council on Foreign Relations leaders are aware of this need, and they have met it.”

And, well, there was a former member of the CFR named Admiral Chester Ward who, in describing the CFR’s influence regarding the mass media, said, “They control or own major newspapers, magazines, radio and television networks,” and “the most powerful companies in the book publishing business.”

The Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times have their own wire services, which most mainstream news outlets use. Did you know that members of the CFR control these wire services?

Author Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr. observed that “The CFR could not accomplish their goals without complicity of the mainstream news media which they absolutely control with an iron fist.” He explained that, “Occasionally they will hold a public meeting, and invite the open press (including C-SPAN), in order to give the impression that they are a harmless group engaged only in social activities.”

Another author from The Rockefeller File, Gary Allen, refers to the mainstream media as “CFR’s ventriloquists,” and writes, “At the center of Insider power, influence, and planning in the United States is the pervasive Council on Foreign Relations.” He adds, “The CFR was created by the Rockefellers and their allies to be the focus of their drive for a ‘New World Order.’”

How about a quote from a Rockefeller?

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

-David Rockefeller, Bilderberg Meeting, Baden-Baden Germany, 1991

Other outlets allegedly under the control of the CFR include:

The National Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, Time, Fortune, Look, Newsweek, New York Post, Denver Post, Louisville Courier Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, and the Knight Papers. Publishing houses under CFR control include, McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Harper Bros., Random House, Little Brown & Co., Macmillan Co., Viking Press, Saturday Review, Business Week, and Book of the Month Club.

So, far be it for me to lodge an observation between tender cheeks intimating that the mainstream media serves several functions courtesy of the CFR or, more precisely, its members.  First, it distributes information that the controlling cabal wants you to believe is real news. Secondly, they assist in the cover-up of information that has leaked out through other sources; in other words, Damage Control.

Another function of the media is to serve as a weapon to assassinate the characters of those who expose the practices of the Establishment or to act as a firewall to prevent information detrimental to the elite’s control from reaching the public. Finally, the media continue to reinforce mainstream accounts of current and historical events. What I see in the news is rarely what I read in books.

But who reads books anyway?

Right?

The mainstream news essentially serves as a primary tool for social conditioning or mind-control.

CFR ball-swinger, Zbigniew Brzezynski wrote a book called The Technetronic Era which outlined the whole process, did he not?

Where from does this come?

And how is it done?

According to Allen, “psychology and propaganda” used in the mainstream news, were “developed in the West in such places as the Rockefeller financed Tavistock Institute in England.” He says, “The hidden persuaders from Madison Avenue, the Rand Corp. think tank or Hudson Institute, can and do manipulate public opinion.” “The Establishment elitists,” he explains “refer to it as ‘the engineering of consent.’ That means we are made to think the manacles they are slipping on our wrists are love bracelets.”

I will be writing about the Tavistock Institute in future articles…as well as the Rand Corporation.

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

-Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

Gary Allen, as regards the perceived differences between the two party system:

“…as you move up the party ladders these differences become less and less distinguishable until finally the ladders disappear behind the Establishment’s managed news curtain and come together at the apex under the control of the C.F.R.

Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, emphasized understanding the psyche by exploring dreams, art, mythology, religion, symbols and philosophy. He is at the origin of many psychological concepts used today such as the Archetype, the Complex, the Persona, the Introvert/Extrovert and Synchronicity. Carl Gustav, his grandfather, was an avid Freemason (he was Grand Master) and Jung himself discovered that some of his ancestors were Rosicrucians. This might explain his great interest in Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology and symbolism. One of his most important (and misunderstood) concept was the Collective Unconscious.

“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”

–Carl Jung, The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

“Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public’s perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.”—Wikipedia

Anyone who’s had the experience of working in advertising knows that the drive to sell products and ideas to the masses has led to an unprecedented amount of research on human behavior and on the human psyche. Cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, semiotics, linguistics and other related fields were and still are extensively researched through well-funded studies.

“No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community.”

- Marshal McLuhan, The Extensions of Man

So, studies are made…and then more studies…and then more studies ad nauseam until the researchers are satisfied enough to apply the results of those studies to advertisements, movies, music videos or any other media form in order to be as influential as possible. The art of marketing is highly calculated and scientific because it must reach both the individual and the collective consciousness or…maybe even, perchance, the collective unconsciousness. In high-budget cultural products, a video is never “just a video.” Images, symbols and meanings are strategically placed in order to generate a desired effect.

“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques.”

– Propagandes, Jacques Ellul

Today’s propaganda almost never uses rational or logical arguments. The sophistry is staggering in how specious the reasoning can be. Nevertheless, it is effective. It directly taps into a human’s most primal needs and instincts in order to generate an emotional and irrational response. If we always thought rationally, we probably wouldn’t buy 50% of what we own. Babies and children are constantly found in advertisements targeting women for a specific reason: studies have shown that images of children trigger in women an instinctual need to nurture, to care and to protect, ultimately leading to a sympathetic bias towards the advertisement.

As well…

…Sex is ubiquitous in mass media because it draws and keeps the viewer’s attention, directly connecting with our animal need to breed, reproduce, or simply sample a hot piece of ass…and, when triggered, this instinct can instantly overshadow any other rational thoughts in our brain. With this, I am admittedly vulnerable.

But, I digress…

So, what is it about this collective unconscious and how is it manipulated?

The collective unconscious transpires through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilizations. Archetypal symbols seem to be embedded in our collective subconscious, and, when exposed to them, we demonstrate natural attraction and fascination. Occult symbols can therefore exert a great impact on people, even if many individuals were never personally introduced to the symbol’s esoteric meaning. Mass media thinkers, such as Edward D. Bernays, found in this concept a great way to manipulate the public’s personal and collective unconscious.

Documentation on occult symbolism is rather hard to find and this should not come as a surprise to anyone who readily knows that the term “occult,” at its most literal, means “hidden” or “reserved to those in the know.” That is to say, it is only communicated to those who are deemed worthy of the knowledge or a trusted member of the inner-sphere’s illuminated circle jerk. It is not taught in schools nor is it discussed in the media; therefore, it is considered marginal or even ridiculous by the general population.

However, to those who are deemed worthy of the knowledge—or a trusted member of the inner-sphere’s illuminated circle jerk—it is considered timeless and sacred. There is a long tradition of hermetic and occult knowledge being taught through secret societies originating from ancient Egyptians, to Eastern Mystics, to the Knights Templar to modern day Freemasons or elitist fraternities like The Skull and Bones Society. Even if the nature and the depth of this knowledge was most probably modified and altered throughout the centuries, mystery schools kept their main features; furthermore, those characteristics, which were a significant part of ancient civilizations, have totally been evacuated from modern society to be replaced by pragmatic materialism. For this reason, there lies a chasm of understanding between the pragmatic average person and the ritualistic establishment.

“If this inner doctrine were always concealed from the masses, for whom a simpler code had been devised, is it not highly probable that the exponents of every aspect of modern civilization – philosophic, ethical, religious, and scientific-are ignorant of the true meaning of the very theories and tenets on which their beliefs are founded? Do the arts and sciences that the race has inherited from older nations conceal beneath their fair exterior a mystery so great that only the most illumined intellect can grasp its import? Such is undoubtedly the case.”

- Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

Whereas once the “simpler code” devised for the masses used to be organized religions, it has now becoming the Temple of the Mass Media and it preaches on a daily basis extreme materialism, spiritual vacuosity and a self-centered, individualistic existence. This is exactly the opposite of the attributes required to become a truly free individual. Is a dumbed-down population easier to deceive and to manipulate?

“These blind slaves are told they are ‘free’ and ‘highly educated’ even as they march behind signs that would cause any medieval peasant to run screaming away from them in panic-stricken terror. The symbols that modern man embraces with the naive trust of an infant would be tantamount to billboards reading, ‘This way to your death and enslavement,’ to the understanding of the traditional peasant of antiquity.”

- Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

Anyway, back to Edward Bernays…

Considered to be the “father of public relations,” Bernays used concepts discovered by his uncle Sigmund Freud to manipulate the public using their subconscious. He shared Walter Lippmann’s view of the general population by considering it irrational and subject to the “herd instinct”. In his opinion, the masses need to be manipulated by an invisible government to insure the survival of democracy.

“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 are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.”

–Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Bernays basically instigated “consumerism” by creating a culture wherein Americans bought for pleasure instead of survival. And, his trailblazing marketing campaigns profoundly changed the functioning of American society. Life Magazine considers him to be one of the Top 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.

In 1939-1940, the University of Chicago was the host of a series of secret seminars on communications. These think tanks were funded by the Rockefeller foundation and involved the most prominent researchers in the fields of communications and sociological studies. One of these scholars was Harold Lasswell, a leading American political scientist and communications theorist, specializing in the analysis of propaganda. He was also of the opinion that a democracy, a government ruled by the people, could not sustain itself without a specialized elite shaping and molding public opinion through propaganda.

Good thing that the United States of America is a Republic, right? Well, at least we were originally built to be such.

In his Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Lasswell explained that when elites lack the requisite force to compel obedience, social managers must turn to “a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda.” He added the conventional justification: we must recognize the “ignorance and stupidity [of] … the masses and not succumb to democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests.”

Lasswell shackled himself to the field of content analysis in order to understand the effectiveness of different types of propaganda. In his essay Contents of Communication, he surmised that, in order to understand the meaning of a message (i.e. a movie, a speech, a book, etc.), one should take into account the frequency with which certain symbols appear in the message, the direction in which the symbols try to persuade the audience’s opinion, and the intensity of the symbols used.

This led to the Lasswell model of::

Who (says) What (to) Whom (in) What Channel (with) What Effect

What this means is that, in order to properly analyze a media product, one must look at who produced the product (the people who ordered its creation), who was it aimed at (the target audience) and what were the desired effects of this product (to inform, to convince, to sell, etc.) on the audience.

Using a Rihanna video as an example, the analysis would be as follows: WHO PRODUCED: Vivendi Universal; WHAT: pop artist Rihanna; TO WHOM: consumers between the ages of 9 and 25; WHAT CHANNEL: music video; and WHAT EFFECT: selling the artist, her song, her image and her message.

Do you think this same sort of model can be harnessed and turned on its ear in a political forum to use the media to appeal to certain demographics such as class, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or party affiliation? Hmmm, I wonder.

And, what other techniques could likely be employed to manipulate the bewildered herd?

Is it possible for messages to reach the subconscious mind without the viewer even knowing it? Well, that is the goal of subliminal perception—the phrase “subliminal advertising” was coined in 1957 by the US market researcher James Vicary, who believed he could cajole movie-goers into drinking “Coca-Cola” or “eating popcorn” by flashing messages onscreen for a time so short that the audience was unaware what had been done.

“Subliminal perception is a deliberate process created by communications technicians, by which you receive and respond to information and instructions without being consciously aware of the instructions”

– Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

Although many claim that subliminal advertising is ineffective or even an urban myth, the documented usage of this technique in mass media proves that its creators believe wholeheartedly in its powers. Studies have also shown its effectiveness, especially when the message is negative…

…because there are so many of us prone to the Eeyore syndrome.

“A team from University College London, funded by the Wellcome Trust, found that it (subliminal perception) was particularly good at instilling negative thoughts. There has been much speculation about whether people can process emotional information unconsciously, for example pictures, faces and words,” said Professor Nilli Lavie, who led the research. “We have shown that people can perceive the emotional value of subliminal messages and have demonstrated conclusively that people are much more attuned to negative words.”

Let’s take a look at a George Bush advertisement against Al Gore in 2000.

after the name of Gore is mentioned, the ending of the word “bureaucrats” – “rats” – flashes on the screen for a split second.

Maybe you didn’t see it, but it was there.

In fact, the discovery of this trickery caused quite a stir and, even if there are no laws against subliminal messaging in the U.S., the advertisement was taken off the air.

And, just for the record, Bush and Gore are both “Rats” in my estimation…

But, oh, there is more.

What is meant by “Densensitization?”

Well, in the past, when changes were imposed on populations, they would take to the streets, protest and even riot. The main reason for this clash was due to the fact that the change was clearly announced by the rulers and understood by the population. It was sudden and its effects could clearly be analyzed and evaluated.

The “changers” and prospective “changers” learned quickly about the residual effect of wearing “change” on their sleeve.

Today, when the elite needs a part of its agenda to be accepted by the public, it is done through desensitization. The agenda, which might go against the public best interests, is slowly, gradually and repetitively introduced to the world through movies (by involving it within the plot), music videos (who make it cool and sexy) or the news (who present it as a solution to today’s problems). After several years of exposing the masses to a particular agenda, the elite openly presents the concept the world and, due to mental programming, it is greeted with general indifference and is passively accepted. This technique originates from psychotherapy.

Anyone who thinks our current President has brought any kind of change is a dupe, in the nicest sentiments I can possibly state. And if you think the changes he hypnotized the majority with prior to his election were significant…again, you stand as a dupe.

“The techniques of psychotherapy, widely practiced and accepted as a means of curing psychological disorders, are also methods of controlling people. They can be used systematically to influence attitudes and behavior. Systematic desensitization is a method used to dissolve anxiety so the the patient (public) is no longer troubled by a specific fear, a fear of violence for example. [...] People adapt to frightening situations if they are exposed to them enough”.

– Steven Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

Predictive programming is often found in the science fiction genre. It presents a specific image of the future – the one that is desired by the elite – and ultimately becomes in the minds of men an inevitability. A decade ago, the public was being desensitized to war against the Arab world. Today, the population is gradually being exposed to the existence of mind control, of transhumanism and of an Illuminati elite. Emerging from the shadows, those concepts are now everywhere in popular culture. This is what Alice Bailey describes as the “externalization of the hierarchy”: the hidden rulers slowly revealing themselves.

Who was the main contributor to both, Obama and Romney campaigns?

While the term “Illuminati” is overly used in adjectival form to describe a small elite group covertly ruling the masses, it lends itself to literal “takes,” confusion and, most perilously so, caricature or scoff-worthy conspiratorial bogeyman theories that are easily dismissed by the unawakened. Yet, “Illuminati” aptly describes the elite’s affinities with secret societies and occult knowledge. Personally, as regards this particular subject, I scoff at the term “conspiracy theory” to describe what is happening in the mass media. If all the facts concerning the elitist nature of the industry are readily available to the public, can it still be considered a “conspiracy theory”?

There used to be a variety of viewpoints, ideas and opinions in popular culture. The consolidation of media corporations has, however, produced a standardization of the cultural industry. Ever wondered why all recent music sounds the same and all recent movies look the same?

From the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, in a span of 20-years, the number of corporations owning the majority of U.S. media outlets went from 50 to 5.

AOL TIME WARNER currently controls the whereabouts of 70 magazines such as Time, Life, People, MAD Magazine and DC Comics. They own Warner Bros, New Line, and Fine Line Features in Cinema. Atlantic, Elektra and Warner Bros are but three of their 40+ music labels. The music acts under their umbrella include Kid Rock, Green Day, Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers. And, of course, let’s not forget the many television networks such as WB Networks, HBO, Cinemax, TNT, Cartoon Network and CNN.

 

VIACOM owns CBS, MTV, MTV2, UPN, VH1, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TNN, CMT, BET, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films and around 2,000 screens in theaters across the country.

THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY’s ownership of a hockey team called The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim does not begin to describe the vastness of the kingdom. Hollywood is still its symbolic heart, with eight movie production studios and distributors: Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax, Buena Vista Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista International, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures.

It controls eight book house imprints under Walt Disney Company Book Publishing and ABC Publishing Group; seventeen magazines; the ABC Television Network, with ten owned and operated stations of its own including in the five top markets; thirty radio stations, including all the major markets; eleven cable channels, including Disney, ESPN (jointly), A&E, and the History Channel; thirteen international broadcast channels stretching from Australia to Brazil; seven production and sports units around the world; and seventeen Internet sites, including the ABC group, ESPN.sportszone, NFL.com, NBAZ.com, and NASCAR.com. Its five music groups include the Buena Vista, Lyric Street, and Walt Disney labels, and live theater productions growing out of the movies The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and King David.

VIVENDI UNIVERSAL owns about 30% of US music sales with labels that include Interscope, Geffen, A&M, Island, Def Jam, MCA, Mercury, Motown and Universal; film companies such as Universal Studios, Studio Canal and Polygram Films; Numerous internet and cell phone companies; musical acts such as Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Lil Wayne, Rihanna and Mariah Carey.

SONY owns Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics, 15% of US Music sales under the labels of Columbia, Epic, Sony, Arista, Jive, RCA Records, and featuring musical acts like Beyonce, Shakira, Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera.

Take note that there is a limited number of participants in the cultural industry of media, meaning a limited amount of viewpoints and ideas making their way to the general public. It also means that a single message can easily saturate all forms of media to generate consent (i.e. “there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq”).

As well, you can bet your bottom dollar that the top executives of the five media corporations mentioned above are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

So, how does merger and method relate?

Well, the media coalescence over the last couple of decades has generated a small oligarchy of media conglomerates. The music, movies, TV shows and newspapers we spend our time with are ruled over by a mere handful of corporations, and the owners of these conglomerates not only have close ties with the world’s elite; they are members of the circle jerk. By owning all of the possible outlets with potential to reach the masses, they’ve also the power to create in the minds of the “bewildered herd” a single and cohesive world view…engendering a “standardization of human thought.” And, while there may be serious things to consider such as the possibility of acquiescing American sovereignty to a New World Order, or the growth of a police State, or the possible construct of FEMA internment camps, or the wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, or numerous Constitutional violations on behalf of the representatives so-called elected, or the continuous waging of war tactics on Nations rich in oil, rich in gold, and not necessarily beholden to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), we worry ourselves over a potential leader’s tax returns or a current leader’s College transcripts…succumbing to diversionary tactics under the dual cloak of seeming different Party-wise while acting quite similar.

In 1928, Edward Bernays already saw the immense potential of motion pictures to standardize thought:

“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.”

– -Edward Bernays, Propaganda

These facts were flagged as dangers to human freedom in the 1930′s by thinkers of the school of Frankfurt such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse. They identified three main problems with the cultural industry. The industry can:reduce human beings to the state of mass by hindering the development of emancipated individuals, who are capable of making rational decisions;replace the legitimate drive for autonomy and self-awareness by the safe laziness of conformism and passivity; and…..validate the idea that men actually seek to escape the absurd and cruel world in which they live by losing themselves in a hypnotic state self-satisfaction.

The notion of escapism is even more relevant today with advent of online video games, 3D movies and home theaters. The masses, constantly seeking state-of-the-art entertainment, will resort to high-budget products that can only be produced by the biggest media corporations of the world. These products contain carefully calculated messages and symbols which are nothing more and nothing less than entertaining propaganda. The public have been trained to LOVE its propaganda to the extent that it spends its hard-earned money to be exposed to it. Propaganda (used in both political, cultural and commercial sense) is no longer the coercive or authoritative communication form found in dictatorships: it has become the synonym of entertainment and pleasure.

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

–- Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

A single piece of media often does not have a lasting effect on the human psyche. Mass media, however, by its omnipresent nature, creates a living environment we evolve in on a daily basis. It defines the norm and excludes the undesirable. The same way carriage horses wear blinders so they can only see what is right in front of them, the masses can only see where they are supposed to go.

“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.”

–- Jacques Ellul

The extensive amount of research on cognitive sciences and human nature that has been applied to it is the primary reason mass media successfully has successful influence.

In 1915, Mr. Basil M. Manly, director of research for a congressional investigation known as the Commission on Industrial Relations, observed that control of information was being extended by, the “endowment of colleges and universities, [and] through controlling or influencing the public press.” During the Reece Committee hearings, Professor Kenneth Colegrove at Northwestern University testified, “The officers of these foundations wield a staggering sum of influence and direction upon research, education and propaganda in the United States and even in foreign countries.”

Really? Our schools are under the influence? Someone write a ticket!

The Reece Committee concluded, “The impact of foundation money upon education has been very heavy, largely tending to promote uniformity in approach and method, tending to induce the educator to become an agent for social change and a propagandist for the development of our society in the direction of some form of collectivism. Foundations have supported text books … which are destructive of our basic governmental and social principles and highly critical of some of our cherished institutions.”

Foundation giving most obviously has an enormous impact on education, on social thinking, and ultimately on political action. This influence reaches the public through the schools and academies, through publicity, and through education and other associations dedicated to public and international affairs. Grants have become so important a source of support that college and university presidents cannot often afford to ignore the opinions and wishes of the executives who distribute foundation largess.

So said Senator Goldwater:

 ”The intellectual influence of the academic community … is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free foundations.”

 

A former FBI Agent, Dan Smoot, had this to say about the establishment’s “historical” lie:

“The Reece Committee investigation threw some revealing light on the historical blackout which the Council on Foreign Relations has ordered and conducted.”

Smoot went on to give an example which included a two-volume history of World War II, written in part by William L. Langer of the CFR and funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

“Foundations have supported a conscious distortion of history,” revealed the Reece Committee.

What does that mean? Is it me, or is the phrase “conscious distortion” a polite way of saying blatant lie.

Twentieth-century history, as recorded in Establishment textbooks and journals, is inaccurate. The prevailing Establishment version is seen to be, by me, not only inaccurate, but designed to hide a pervasive fabric of deceit and immoral conduct.

Should I be surprised?

Professor Andrew S Sutton explained that the CFR are effective, “Not so much because of outright censorship, although that is an important element, but more because of the gullibility of the American ‘educated public.’”

Somewhere along the line, there was a diabolical plan by elitists to rewrite history, and, if you look into the past of our educational system—a component of bulb dimming which I will cover extensively in future articles—you’ll notice that it didn’t start with “No Child Left Behind” or even John Dewey. It goes all the way back to the early 1800s, and the names of those who contributed to the “dimming” are among the elite of the elitists.

But…

The accrediting agencies themselves may also be controlled by the Tax-exempt Foundations, as suggested by the Reece Committee. It stated that the “so-called “accrediting’ organizations … are extra-governmental, yet … [influence] education to a considerable degree. For various reasons colleges, universities, and specialized schools and departments today require ‘accreditation,’ that is, approval of one or more of these organizations which presume to set standards. Some of these accrediting organizations are supported by foundations…”

Where will you find a college administration that will not defend the Ford Foundation against all critics–if the college has just received, or is in line to receive, a million-dollar gift from the Foundation?

How far must you search to find college professors or school teachers who will not defend the Foundation which gives 25 million dollars at one time, to raise the salaries of professors or school teachers?

Allen, observed that the Rockefellers “do not pour money into local school board races; they put their bucks into the schools that train the teachers and they finance the writing of textbooks.” He stated, “The family couldn’t care less who controls the local school board.” According to Allen, the publishing houses under CFR control also specialize in publishing school textbooks.

Speaking of the movement by the Council on Foreign Relations to use professors in their deliberate campaign to rewrite the past, author James Perloff noted, “The council’s [CFR's] steering committee moved to distinguish the roster by adding college professors. … They hailed from campuses beholden to J.P. Morgan. As Dr. Quigley observed: ‘The Wall Street contacts with these professors were created originally from Morgan’s influence in handling large academic endowments.’”

So, what we have here is an existing system of education functioning as a conditioning mechanism. It has little to do with education in the true sense, and a lot to do with control of the individual. This requires suppression of individualist tendencies and a careful spoon-feeding of approved knowledge.

First education or, TRAINING….then fortification of the training through media information or, mis-information.

THERE IS A CRYPTOCRACY, A HIDden government, a ruling class in charge of the “bewildered herd.” As their ideas continue to be applied to society, it is increasingly apparent that an ignorant population is not an obstacle that the rulers must deal with: It is something that is DESIRABLE and, indeed, necessary, to insure total leadership. An ignorant population does not know its rights, does not seek a greater understanding of issues and does not question authorities, NOR DOES IT READ ITS OWN COUNTRY”S CONSTITUTION. It simply follows trends. Popular culture caters to and nurtures ignorance by continually serving up brain-numbing entertainment and spotlighting degenerate celebrities to be idolized. Many people ask me: “Is there a way to stop this?” Yes, there is. STOP BUYING THEIR CRAP AND READ A BOOK.

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.