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:

America's Image: Backstabbers with a Smile

Not one bit proud to be what it has become to mean to be American. Whether it's in your own neighborhood or at the corporate level, people seem more concerned with disrupting your happiness than with dealing with their own lives. And they'll sell you out in a heartbeat if they can find something on you that in their warped minds makes them somehow "ahead" or whatever you call it that results in being competitive in snow shoveling, dog walking, management position or profit sharing percentage. And no, if you ever stepped out from your protectionist border bubble you 'd see it's not this way everywhere else - even if it is that way somewhere else. In this small world of Remote-Control Mind Patrol where people automatically, almost frantically rush to do whatever the other guy is doing, which, however annoying, is better than nothing I guess, for filling in the emptiness of spirit, connection, compassion, even original thought.

Whether someone sees what you are doing "on paper," "on film," "on tape," - or NOT - you're choosing to do it, you're doing it, and nothing in this universe goes unpaid for. This is a universal law which doesn't necessarily show its face at the level of "court of law". Intent is the key factor, and whether or not your actions can be traced like a prostitute reservation on a politician's Paypal account, your intent determines your remiss. Intentionally causing distress in someone's life no matter if it crosses some line of legality, is rotten - in the workplace, on the highways, or in your own neighborhood. And it's at a shameful all-time high in this nation and almost brought to the level of praise-able!

That's warped, that's how far gone this society is and why it's even quicker to point to someone else as being the dysfunction, because an honest dysfunction blows their cover of lies and hidden truths about themselves. This has become a society of collective denial psychosis, and if you don't join the lie, you're the one who is ganged up on as having the problem, when if you aren't outraged by the state of our world at present then you're on too many prescription mind glue pills. If your answer is not change a thing and go on spreading your false goodness while over-breeding in an already cramped world and local community, then it looks like you're getting just what you deserve... Truth and true compassion will prevail.

Trail: Dangerous Redefinition of Reality

You Call This Trail? No wonder nature has gone down the tubes...

photo © Lewiston Sun Journal / Daryn Slover

Look no further than how warped today's society has redefined everyday words and you will understand easily how we have created this mess we are now calling our home planet.

The photo caption reads:

"Rail enthusiasts walk along the 3/4 mile Ricker Farm Trail during a dedication ceremony in Lisbon on Wednesday. Work on the trail began one year ago and the trail head is located at the Lisbon Community School. The Ricker Farm Trail begins where the Papermill Trail ends, for a combined length of one and a half miles. Ricker Farm has been in the Ricker Family since 1860. Members of the family attended the ceremony with 96-year-old Alice Ricker cutting the ribbon. Plans are already in the works to continue the trail on both ends, said Justin Liudvinaitis, chair of Lisbon Trails."

As someone who has worked closely on"trail" issues for mountain biking access, I have seen first hand how this definition of trail has been redefined for the benefit of real estate developers and opportunists of all walks to suck up federal money for preserving nature and churn it into business for sand & gravel companies and their associated mafias of legal thievery. It has become a big joke, and the grant takers are truly rotten wolves with big capitalist sheep smiles on their faces as they rip down your favorite nature spot and pave a "trail" through it, all to get access to and permission to develop these areas in the first place. Add a trail, and all of a sudden you are eligible for federal funding for your go-nowhere cul-de-sac disconnected development of future disconnected Americans who haven't a clue growing up in some fantasy land isolated in a section of woods.

I wonder if they will someday name a development (oops, almost used the Olde American English 'neighborhood') after Ms. Ricker? Alice Ricker Way. I wonder if she really thought it would turn out that way? Developers really have a peculiar sense of humor... especially around the dinner table when they're serving glazed old lady.

Nobody seems to notice, or to care about, or to be able to stop, this outright fraud of man and nature enabled by a semantic metamorphosis, and popularized by hippie-do-gooders operating from the back pocket of Joe Steamshovel.

Can't you see what they are doing to our world, to our lives, re-defining the meaning of what was once a secluded dirt shortcut through a wooded area? Have you not seen the condos stacked three-deep in the woods behind everybody's back yards? No, those weren't always there.

This is worse than a dude in a suit who at least makes no pretenses about wanting to eat you for dinner. Are we headed for a pre-corrupted, out-of-the-box future government of Ecocrats, Republi-Greens and Hipsterpendents? Or are we already there?

Reality is virtual is reality.