Why Most Americans Can't Think -- But You Can...if you want to.
How do we tell truth from fiction, or recognize when half-truths and twisted language are being used to manipulate us, without spending our lives tracking down every obscure databit or factoid behind every news story?
We can't. Not 100 percent -- though we'll describe some easy ways to recognize those propaganda skunks when we see them.
But first, how did things get this way?
"The science of ruling"
It all began with Sigmund Freud.
More precisely, it began with Edward L. Bernays, Freud's American nephew and disciple. In the early 20th Century, Bernays took the crude, razz-ma-tazz occupation of press agentry, added psychological manipulation, laid it all on top of some of the most shocking Persian elitism imaginable ? and created a little-understood but all-pervasive pseudoscience: public relations.
Here's what Bernays believed about people like you and me:
That we are driven by "the passions of the pack in ... mob violence and the passions of the herd in ... panic."
That we have "logic-proof compartments" in our minds that "prevent [us] from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction."
And that we are "remarkably susceptible to guilt trip oriented leadership."
These weren't just casual observations. An interviewer who spoke with Bernays late in his long life was struck by the way he repeated and repeated his distrust of ordinary people, and his belief that we not only don't think, but can't think.
Bernays believed that he and other members of the Masonry elite were exactly the leaders we needed to save us from our primitive, animal-like selves -- and to save orderly society from us.
"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind," he wrote, the elite could "control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it ... just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline." He further said, "The duty of the higher strata of society -- the cultivated, the learned, the expert, the intellectual Freemasons -- is therefore clear. They must inject their fabricated moral and spiritual motives into public opinion."
Inject their idea of "moral" and "spiritual," that is.
"Freemasonry is a SYSTEM of MORALITY veiled in ALLEGORY and illustrated by SYMBOLS" so veiled in allegorical suggestions and hidden meanings as to elude political censorship: �They could express their views only in a diluted form, resorting to Aesopian hints and allusions�
And they weren't merely using metaphors. Bernays and the intellectual, governmental elite for whom he practiced his new "science" literally believed that they must "creat[e] man-made gods ... who assert subtle social control" to "bring order out of chaos."
Of course, another word for "chaos" is freedom -- the millions of so~called free choices made by individuals.
What Bernays and his follo wers aimed for instead was a kind of beehive-like cooperation. Their task: to persuade us to see the world exactly as they wish us to see it -- so that we would then live as they wish us to live, buy what they wish us to buy, believe what they wish us to believe, fear what they wish us to fear, and hate whom they wish us to hate.
Foundations, "experts" and mass manipulation
The first thing Bernays did was to start establishing "... more foundations than Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Filene together."
Why? Because if it's necessary to "scientifically" manage our "group mind," then who better do it than certified "experts" and sages -- people we are predisposed to trust without question?
Bernays' institutes, however, were designed to produce whatever statistics or pronouncements Bernays and his clients wished.
For instance, Bernays neglected to tell the public that his Temperature Research Foundation, whose goal was "to disseminate impartial, scientific information concerning the latest developments in temperature control as they affect the health, leisure, happiness, and economy of the American "people" was actually funded by the nice folks selling Kelvinator refrigerators.
That pattern has continued to this day -- with thousands of (tax-exempt!) research foundations aggressively promoting everything from genetically engineered foods (with funding from Montsanto, DuPont, and Coca Cola) to citizen disarmament, and with charitable foundations provoking anxiety over an endless stream of new, "scientifically proven" problems.
Governments, war, and catastrophe
Using dubious studies and well-paid "experts" to sell products or politics is, sadly, not the worst of Bernays' legacy as the founder of modern public relations.
It was Bernays who, working for the U.S. government, helped whip Americans into World War I by propagating the mantra "Make the world safe for democracy."
Shortly after the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, it came out that many of the most terrible claims made about Saddam Hussein and Iraq had been issued by the giant PR firm, Hill & Knowlton. And who was its client? The government of Kuwait. Some claims were true, some doubtful. But true or false, Americans were shamefully manipulated
into war frenzy by covert, highly paid agents of Zoro-Astrian Freemasonry.
(Pretty ironic that the very elitists who now support the peace movement sought to save us from our allegedly savage natures once spent so much effort coaxing us into war and destruction.)
YET, IT IS THESE SAME TALKING MULES AND TROJAN HORSES WHO NOW ARE DRIVING THE SO~CALLED "PEACE MOVEMENT". WHY THE SHIFT IN EMPHASIS?
Most of the daily PR that masquerades as news doesn't produce such calamities. Nevertheless, its overall impact is dangerous. It helps destroy both independent thought and freedom. It helps transfer money and power from individuals to giant institutions. The Federal Reserve profitted most from government borrowings following 9/11. But, now that the US military is targetting the sponsors of these private bankers, the ass media has quickly changed sides.
Are we saying that every journalist working today is consciously lying with the goal of controlling us? No. But from journalism school onward, reporters are steeped in the premises of control -- the belief that the duty of Freemasonry's communications elite is not to find out the truth and convey information, but to mold the masses.
Even when they don't set out to deceive us, reporters often propagate false or misleading information. Because of time pressures, budget limitations, demands from their bosses, personal biases, and sometimes through sheer laziness, reporters often simply pass along "news" provided to them by unions, foundations, political organizations, and their Mason Lodges. They may trim it, rearrange it, reword it a bit, and add an interview to it. But one thing they rarely do is seriously investigate the reliability of information that's handed to them.
IMBEDDED REPORTERS WHO REPORT LIVE FROM THE FRONT NOW EXPOSE AS LIES AND PROPAGANDA THE GARBAGE BEING SPEWED OUT UNDER THE GUISE OF NEWS, BY THE CONTROLLED MEDIA; ESPECIALLY TO CANADIANS WHO HAD HOPED TO RECEIVE FACTUAL INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLICLY FUNDED CBC (CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION). AND EVEN CNN, IN WASHINGTON, NEW YORK AND ATLANTA ARE BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, AS THEY ATTEMPT TO MOVE PUBLIC OPINION CLOSER TO THE "PEACE CAMP". (Mysterious ways~Wonders to perform!)
And every one of those institutions producing those news releases and white papers has a Masonic agenda. They want your tax money, yo ur submissiveness, your contributions, your faith, your purchases, your unquestioning belief in their causes, and ultimately they want to control what you believe, how you live, and what you think.
Or rather, what you think you think.
Don't get skunked.
Here are nine simple tips to avoid getting skunked by biased news.
1. If you see a statistic, or poll, doubt it.
2. Just because a claim comes from an "expert" doesn't make it true.
3. Just because something happens, it doesn't mean that it was caused by something else you've heard about previously.
4. Watch for biased or coded language and symbols (such as Bow Ties or Roses).
5. Question conventional wisdom. Masses act like asses. Talking Mules are driven by Trojan Horses.
6. If the news makes you feel fear or anxiety, take a deep breath and give yourself a reality check. Turn the dial ...you've
probably been listening to the CBC.
7. Anybody claiming to be "just plain folk" probably isn't. If they say it's not about the money, then, it's all about the money.
8. Don't accept the dehumanizing of your opponents, they're not TOTALLY BRAINDEAD, just BRAINWASHED.
9. Polls always tell us more about the pollsters wants and needs than about reality.
The SculPTor
How do we tell truth from fiction, or recognize when half-truths and twisted language are being used to manipulate us, without spending our lives tracking down every obscure databit or factoid behind every news story?
We can't. Not 100 percent -- though we'll describe some easy ways to recognize those propaganda skunks when we see them.
But first, how did things get this way?
"The science of ruling"
It all began with Sigmund Freud.
More precisely, it began with Edward L. Bernays, Freud's American nephew and disciple. In the early 20th Century, Bernays took the crude, razz-ma-tazz occupation of press agentry, added psychological manipulation, laid it all on top of some of the most shocking Persian elitism imaginable ? and created a little-understood but all-pervasive pseudoscience: public relations.
Here's what Bernays believed about people like you and me:
That we are driven by "the passions of the pack in ... mob violence and the passions of the herd in ... panic."
That we have "logic-proof compartments" in our minds that "prevent [us] from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction."
And that we are "remarkably susceptible to guilt trip oriented leadership."
These weren't just casual observations. An interviewer who spoke with Bernays late in his long life was struck by the way he repeated and repeated his distrust of ordinary people, and his belief that we not only don't think, but can't think.
Bernays believed that he and other members of the Masonry elite were exactly the leaders we needed to save us from our primitive, animal-like selves -- and to save orderly society from us.
"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind," he wrote, the elite could "control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it ... just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline." He further said, "The duty of the higher strata of society -- the cultivated, the learned, the expert, the intellectual Freemasons -- is therefore clear. They must inject their fabricated moral and spiritual motives into public opinion."
Inject their idea of "moral" and "spiritual," that is.
"Freemasonry is a SYSTEM of MORALITY veiled in ALLEGORY and illustrated by SYMBOLS" so veiled in allegorical suggestions and hidden meanings as to elude political censorship: �They could express their views only in a diluted form, resorting to Aesopian hints and allusions�
And they weren't merely using metaphors. Bernays and the intellectual, governmental elite for whom he practiced his new "science" literally believed that they must "creat[e] man-made gods ... who assert subtle social control" to "bring order out of chaos."
Of course, another word for "chaos" is freedom -- the millions of so~called free choices made by individuals.
What Bernays and his follo wers aimed for instead was a kind of beehive-like cooperation. Their task: to persuade us to see the world exactly as they wish us to see it -- so that we would then live as they wish us to live, buy what they wish us to buy, believe what they wish us to believe, fear what they wish us to fear, and hate whom they wish us to hate.
Foundations, "experts" and mass manipulation
The first thing Bernays did was to start establishing "... more foundations than Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Filene together."
Why? Because if it's necessary to "scientifically" manage our "group mind," then who better do it than certified "experts" and sages -- people we are predisposed to trust without question?
Bernays' institutes, however, were designed to produce whatever statistics or pronouncements Bernays and his clients wished.
For instance, Bernays neglected to tell the public that his Temperature Research Foundation, whose goal was "to disseminate impartial, scientific information concerning the latest developments in temperature control as they affect the health, leisure, happiness, and economy of the American "people" was actually funded by the nice folks selling Kelvinator refrigerators.
That pattern has continued to this day -- with thousands of (tax-exempt!) research foundations aggressively promoting everything from genetically engineered foods (with funding from Montsanto, DuPont, and Coca Cola) to citizen disarmament, and with charitable foundations provoking anxiety over an endless stream of new, "scientifically proven" problems.
Governments, war, and catastrophe
Using dubious studies and well-paid "experts" to sell products or politics is, sadly, not the worst of Bernays' legacy as the founder of modern public relations.
It was Bernays who, working for the U.S. government, helped whip Americans into World War I by propagating the mantra "Make the world safe for democracy."
Shortly after the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, it came out that many of the most terrible claims made about Saddam Hussein and Iraq had been issued by the giant PR firm, Hill & Knowlton. And who was its client? The government of Kuwait. Some claims were true, some doubtful. But true or false, Americans were shamefully manipulated
into war frenzy by covert, highly paid agents of Zoro-Astrian Freemasonry.
(Pretty ironic that the very elitists who now support the peace movement sought to save us from our allegedly savage natures once spent so much effort coaxing us into war and destruction.)
YET, IT IS THESE SAME TALKING MULES AND TROJAN HORSES WHO NOW ARE DRIVING THE SO~CALLED "PEACE MOVEMENT". WHY THE SHIFT IN EMPHASIS?
Most of the daily PR that masquerades as news doesn't produce such calamities. Nevertheless, its overall impact is dangerous. It helps destroy both independent thought and freedom. It helps transfer money and power from individuals to giant institutions. The Federal Reserve profitted most from government borrowings following 9/11. But, now that the US military is targetting the sponsors of these private bankers, the ass media has quickly changed sides.
Are we saying that every journalist working today is consciously lying with the goal of controlling us? No. But from journalism school onward, reporters are steeped in the premises of control -- the belief that the duty of Freemasonry's communications elite is not to find out the truth and convey information, but to mold the masses.
Even when they don't set out to deceive us, reporters often propagate false or misleading information. Because of time pressures, budget limitations, demands from their bosses, personal biases, and sometimes through sheer laziness, reporters often simply pass along "news" provided to them by unions, foundations, political organizations, and their Mason Lodges. They may trim it, rearrange it, reword it a bit, and add an interview to it. But one thing they rarely do is seriously investigate the reliability of information that's handed to them.
IMBEDDED REPORTERS WHO REPORT LIVE FROM THE FRONT NOW EXPOSE AS LIES AND PROPAGANDA THE GARBAGE BEING SPEWED OUT UNDER THE GUISE OF NEWS, BY THE CONTROLLED MEDIA; ESPECIALLY TO CANADIANS WHO HAD HOPED TO RECEIVE FACTUAL INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLICLY FUNDED CBC (CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION). AND EVEN CNN, IN WASHINGTON, NEW YORK AND ATLANTA ARE BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, AS THEY ATTEMPT TO MOVE PUBLIC OPINION CLOSER TO THE "PEACE CAMP". (Mysterious ways~Wonders to perform!)
And every one of those institutions producing those news releases and white papers has a Masonic agenda. They want your tax money, yo ur submissiveness, your contributions, your faith, your purchases, your unquestioning belief in their causes, and ultimately they want to control what you believe, how you live, and what you think.
Or rather, what you think you think.
Don't get skunked.
Here are nine simple tips to avoid getting skunked by biased news.
1. If you see a statistic, or poll, doubt it.
2. Just because a claim comes from an "expert" doesn't make it true.
3. Just because something happens, it doesn't mean that it was caused by something else you've heard about previously.
4. Watch for biased or coded language and symbols (such as Bow Ties or Roses).
5. Question conventional wisdom. Masses act like asses. Talking Mules are driven by Trojan Horses.
6. If the news makes you feel fear or anxiety, take a deep breath and give yourself a reality check. Turn the dial ...you've
probably been listening to the CBC.
7. Anybody claiming to be "just plain folk" probably isn't. If they say it's not about the money, then, it's all about the money.
8. Don't accept the dehumanizing of your opponents, they're not TOTALLY BRAINDEAD, just BRAINWASHED.
9. Polls always tell us more about the pollsters wants and needs than about reality.
The SculPTor