The Spirit of '76 Is Alive and Well

The character Howard Beale in the movie "Network" (1976) was upset then; imagine how he feels about living in the year 2008.

"America the Mind-Controlled" - with video!

The title of this post was the original song title for "America the Beautiful" until 1953 when it was changed by Congressional decree. *No, not really!

But what's in the video that follows - only Part 1 of 4 - is so true and shocking that the least I could do was start with a (very) little wry humor, and as well give you an easy out to dismiss the information and keep your mind illusion intact lest your psyche melt down on the sidewalk as the Smiths close in to cart you away screaming to some sort of asylum/FEMA prison/extraterrestrial incarceration facility.

What's no joke, is that it is true, you most likely are brainwashed. Our entire "American Society" has been subjected to it (and then some), and doesn't even realize it! It's a kind of "collective psychosis" - which took hold as we went from "citizen to consumer" into the stock market era. And if you don't play the game, if you don't live the lie, or God forbid you get angered at the hypocrisy and exploitation - then, you're the one labeled with the problem. Otherwise, the majority couldn't deal with the truth about themselves that consumerism masterfully masquerades as a reality unto itself. Therefore, if you're the only one looking at the truth about society's mind glue, you're considered the one who is "irrational" or at best marginalized or ignored. This is the proverbial "LaLa Land" within which the majority operates, while fear of well-being creates make-busy as an art form for ignoring the evildoings of "the man behind the curtain" in Oz-speak. Therefore allowing the machine to run...

The truth: get used to it, because there's soon gonna' be so much more of it coming around that it will be avoidable no longer, so you either face it, or disgrace it, don't even try erase it. And now's your time to choose. The "Face It or Disgrace It Truth Tour" starts June 14th. Tickets are still available as the mp3/CD is scheduled for May 1 release.

Capitalists, employing techniques derived from the Nazi movement in Germany in the 1930's, took control of the U.S. national psyche through advertising, media and movies following the principles of Sigmund Freud, which were adopted and applied by his nephew, Edward Bernays, who's "credited" with being "The Father of Public Relations" - a field that was previously named "propaganda" by the Nazis and also the Department of Propaganda by a wartime US government which employed Bernays through the 30's and sent him to Paris as their official propagandist for WWII. After the war, US corporations employed him to control the masses to sell products through appealing to irrational human urges through advertising and "PR". Basically following the blueprint of Freudian psychologists, society became completely controlled through its Capitalist lifestyle of consumerism and materialism - the monetization of your time on Earth.

Ironically, this Freudian mind view deemed the individual practically "stupid" or at least incompetent and therefore worthy of being taken advantage of and necessary to control, while a man who held a competing view at the time which viewed people as bright and talented and able to self-determine was literally thrown out of the world psychological community, his research books, papers and equipment burned or confiscated, and its author forced into an insane asylum by Sigmund's daughter, Anna Freud...

His name was Wilhelm Reich. Today there is the Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley, Maine, where he conducted his eccentric research on the human energy system and its potential, among other things. He believed the opposite of the Freudian view, that true democracy was achievable, that people were basically good, and born that way to an overwhelming majority, or better, and that Freud's view actually created a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy by making people into the demons and then pointing the finger at them. What's wrong with this picture?

Now that we appear to have so many facts potentially pointing to 911 as an inside job that not even the Pope being used to invoke some sort of holier-than-thou image onto the grounds of this grand facade can hide, any reasonable, unwashed mind must at least be open to ponder other histories, even that perhaps the Holocaust has been victimized also as form of propagandist, or public relations if you prefer, "mind bait" to fuel the Freudian psycho-babble and give people a "valid" excuse to be afraid and agree with its hypothesis. This is not to say, and I would think it unreasonable to suggest that the Holocaust didn't happen, but what I think some people mean by that is something different, not so literal like an IBM tattoo. It's sort of the Jewish version of the Catholic crucifix, which represents a form of capital punishment and is held over parishioners' heads like a subconscious threat and used to make people obey. The underlying message is "fear and control" - which you can see eloquently presented in this BBC video right here:

Tech stocks still rule, Super Bowl still sucks

Like the poster says (at top, right): DEFying convention; DEFining a new generation.

When you own the Big Mouth, of course you're going to hype yourself when you're rotten and losing it. That's a big pile of crap about such great ratings for the Super Bowl in my opinion.

Not that there isn't a massive 'network effect' that takes place in society, don't get me wrong there about the power of the medium: quite possibly, CBS's new Terminator-based television series has already prompted its share of school gun violence by the looks of the timing of events. Well, at the least it sure didn't help any! But, if you want to claim such success hosting a football game, why don't you pursue the same notoriety on the next absurdly-insane school shooting gallery scene? The resemblances are uncanny, don't you think?

Or, gee, can we please have another cop violence show to watch as there's not nearly enough crime going on outside the entertainment industry that I really crave more! Prime-Time Crime and Prison Overload: any correlation? Just wondering.

How can a visually astute bunch of professionals not know the effects of feeding images (called "impression management" in photographic and psychological arts) of gun-barrel views to anyone's mind, let alone just a bunch of stressed-out people looking to kick back and relax? When guns are going off for real in this world with such frequency, you can' t just sit back and take no responsibility for joining the promo and treating them like waving around a toothbrush. Even if you're not responsible for all the blame.

And related in parallel, stock prices we are seeing are about as realistic as the talent of a record-company pop star. It's all fantasy. It's all mind-play. It's all deception by those who had been controlling our lives for all too long and are in the midst of, uncontrollably, losing this control. Maybe if you're living in a bygone era, why would you value the future anyway? You'd more likely devalue it and hype your dwindling resources.

What will happen when people begin to actually realize consciously that they don't need even half of what they think they do, when they realize they're in a self-created, situational sandbox with imaginary walls? Drop the fear, the walls disappear...

You'll be getting the gentle tap on the shoulder soon, all those who sold us out, as what has crept up behind you (without your wanting to acknowledge it, lest you be able to go on raking us over the coals) is about to level the field for the good of humanity and beyond. This is last call, it's starting to look like, and last chance to turn around and do something good, or else nice knowing you... (well, honestly, it really wasn't that nice). With or without you, a better world awaits us around the corner.

Super Bowl "Super Wait" is what killed old media

Super Bowl Blur: Two weeks wait, three hours of hype, half asleep by kickoff.

Why will NASDAQ rule in the coming years? Tech knows that time waits for no one, and it waits even less as every year passes.

Meanwhile, Old Man Media still runs a governor on the Super Bowl show and milks it dry come game time. Old money jumped head first onto the web finally - but somehow forgot to take off its lead shoes. How are you going to fly in the web culture by expecting your Edzel to keep up with a Porsche? And how does one adopt a new tack on the web yet allow the mother ship to stay its course? It doesn't make sense, abandoning a steerable ship that is headed toward an iceberg but not there yet. But thanks!

Nobody likes waiting two weeks to play the Super Bowl. Not the fans, not the players, not the coaches, not the ticket sellers probably. Who does? Are you out spending money all week on chips and six packs and new cars and televisions because you're warming up for some distant game day in FEBRUARY? Are you looking for media updates daily? Are you wondering what players are doing to keep from going out of their minds waiting 14 days to finish the championship?

Who in this day and age really cares about the game half as much two weeks after the conference championships? Does the NFL even believe they have any fans under 30? Or have they already cashed out and conceded that the league disbands in a decade as more and more of its audience loses its sight and hearing?

Two weeks for the Super Bowl? I can't wait for this blog post to upload and you want me to keep my interest for 14 days about the most lopsided, advertising-orchestrated event in all of sports? I started drinking already around two, and by kickoff I'll be starving and busy stuffing my face to pay much attention to the t.v. Then, probably about halftime, I'll be ready to take a nap. Forget Tivo, I'll check out the highlights on YouTube sometime next week if I think of it after yet another week passes...