Perception Management

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Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:57:45 -0800 (PST)

" Perception Management "

 

 

 

 

The presidential election was a great success for our government,

because most of the fools still think the outcome had something to do

with voting. They've already returned to their television sets for

further training, so the fact that they have no money or freedom and

their children are being sent to die will soon make perfect sense to

them.

 

It's all very easy once you're in control of the news. Goebbels knew

that if you could control the information that's available to a

population, you could control the mind of a nation, and this lesson

from Nazi Germany has been perfected in America today. On January

14,1983, President Reagan signed " National Security Decision

Directive No. 77, " and this formally began the process of our

government taking control of the news media, with the help of the

friendly folks at the C.I.A. Their program of " perception management "

was designed to shape the opinions of Americans on all issues, and I

personally believe they did an excellent job.

 

They've convinced us to give up our freedom, our wealth, and even our

children. They've convinced us there is safety and security in being

unarmed and defenseless, and they've even convinced us that tax cuts

for the rich benefit the poor. When the ruling elite finds someone

who can make these absurd statements without laughing, he becomes our

president.

 

They've convinced us to work harder for longer hours and less money,

and soon after they hi-jacked the women's liberation movement, the

women were working too. The benefits of doubling the work force are

obvious, but what's a little harder to understand is why a group of

people who never had to work in the past believe that they've

been " liberated " since they do. Some women will tell you they choose

to work, but they can't tell you why the women of the previous

generation chose not to. Some women admit that they have to work,

without ever questioning why the women of the previous generation

didn't.

 

If they tried to force any of these changes upon our society they

would be met with rebellion, so instead, they used the power of

television to iduce us to demand these changes. With the average

American spending four hours per day staring into the television,

there exists a tool for social change and mind control that our

government would be silly to ignore.

 

Just as the television can bring clothing, music, games, and people

in and out of fashion, the same can be done with a particular way of

thinking.

 

Americans stare into the television endlessly, without ever knowing

the effect it has on their opinions, their personality, or their

lifestyle. They've stopped interacting with their community, their

neighbors, and even their own families, in favor of spending most of

their time in imaginary interaction with fictitious characters on

T.V. These television characters now give us the lessons in morals,

ethics, and values which in the past we had always received from

other members of our community. Americans rarely engage in moral or

political debate anymore, because the last word is always left to a

television " expert. " The people on television have become our

community, and in doing so, they have replaced a vital part of human

society that's as old as humanity itself. Instead of hearing

everyone's opinion a matter, and debating within our community until

a sensible agreement is reached, we now watch the managed debates of

the television, and the managed dissenting opinions, and we

choose between them. Real dissent is pretended not to exist. It's

ignored like an obnoxious child.

 

With the signing of National Security Decision Directive No. 77, our

news sources and television programming fell under the control of the

world's most skilled and experienced disinformation, mind control,

and propaganda experts, but of course, you'll insist that twenty

years of this has had no effect on your opinions. Humans like to

believe in their autonomy and free will, but what they refuse to

believe is the fact that they're more intelligent than animals only

makes them easier to train, and capable of performing much more

complex tricks for their reward.

 

It's hard to notice even drastic change when it occurs gradually over

twenty years, but If you're more than forty years old today, you were

an adult when these changes were made to our news and entertainment

media, and you're old enough to remember they were followed by a

change in our society and culture. You're also old enough to remember

a very different America, and a time when we had much more freedom,

and wealth. The police didn't harass citizens, working people had the

opportunity to send their children to college, and everyone had

access to medical care. A minimum wage earner could pay his rent, and

still go out on the weekend.

 

I'm not an old man, and I'm not talking about ancient history. I'm

talking about a drastic change in our society and culture over an

unnaturally short period of time, which has resulted in Americans

working much harder to achieve a much lower standard of living,

growing to accept constantly increasing government intrusion into

their lives, and ever advancing infringements of their constitutional

and societal freedom. This cultural change would not have been

possible without the television, and it's certainly no coincidence

that this change began when the C.I.A. took over the programming.

It's not possible to claim that television hasn't affected your life,

because even if you refuse to watch the thing, you're still trapped in

a society that reveres it like a God, believes whatever it tells them,

and is reluctant to believe anything else.

 

When the government wanted to flood our cities with police and

surveillance cameras, they convinced you that criminals held us in

siege. Our president announced a " war on crime, " made you pay for it,

and you gladly gave up a little freedom in exchange for their

protection.

 

We witnessed the militarization of our police forces, and gave up

some more freedom, when they announced the " war on drugs, " and the

fact that this was their response to the C.I.A.'s drug smuggling

operations, at least proves they have a sense of humor.

 

To disarm the population, they orchestrated a few rampage killings,

convinced us our children were shooting each other to pieces, and

after that it was a simple matter of rolling out the gun-control band

wagon, which played an endless tune of media messages that associated

gun ownership with stupidity.

 

For the final steps down the road to fascism, they blew up a few

skyscrapers and declared a " war on terror. " This war made

unprecedented progress at fighting off what's left of our freedom,

and seeks to root out terrorist regimes wherever there's an oil

field.

 

What's important to remember is that all of these wars were demanded,

and paid for, by the American people, who happen to be the loser of

every one of them. The American people demanded these wars, and these

changes to our society, in response to information given to them by

the television, and newspapers. All of these wars have resulted in

the end of privacy, more laws, tougher judges, more police with

increased powers, more surveillance cameras, more prisons, longer

sentences, the demise of our constitutional rights, and naturally,

all of this has been done in the name of freedom.

 

The United States federal government, working through the

entertainment and news industries, has taught us to think contrary to

common sense, work against our own self interest, and to believe that

our world is much more dangerous than it actually is. They invented

this danger so we would beg for their oppression in a package

labeled " protection, " and there's no longer any shame in not

protecting yourself, because for the last twenty years, the

television has also bombarded our culture with messages designed to

feminize men, and convince them their pride is " foolish. " I guess

we're lucky they did that, or all this oppression might have caused a

revolution by now. The real slap in the face is being called

an " economic girlie-man " by an Austrian Nazi for not willingly

jumping headlong into generations of poverty so his friends can bask

in obscene wealth. In their arrogance, they must be laughing at us.

 

And you certainly can't trust anyone under twenty, because if they

grew up staring into the television, as many Americans do, they were

raised by the C.I.A. They take pride in being first to inform the

authorities on any matter, but any previous generation would have

ostracized them for being " squealers " or " rats. " Children are

learning the rules of society from the television rather than their

parents, our culture is no longer passed from one generation to the

next, and clueless parents wonder why they can't control their kids.

Don't blame the children. It must be difficult to respect a parent

when there are so many better people on T.V. It was you who sat them

in front of the electronic babysitter for their daily brainwashing

session, and as a result, whatever knowledge they don't receive from

a government approved school curriculum, comes from a government

approved T.V. script. You're not allowed to discipline them, and you

can't compete with the television for their attention.

You have to take care of them, but they're not yours anymore. Now

they belong to the government, and Thomas the fascist tank engine,

who smiles when he's forced to work like a slave.

 

Americans once looked upon the poor and disadvantaged with pity, and

compassion, but through the miracle of " perception management, " we

now look at them with scorn, and disgust, and we blame them for

bringing all of life's bad luck upon themselves. We certainly don't

want any money going toward any social programs when it's so

desperately needed to finance tax cuts for the rich. It was also

during the Reagan administration that homelessness first became a

problem, but we no longer see homeless people on the street for the

same reason we never see the horrors of war, or the flag-draped

coffins. Our government has become efficient at sanitizing our world

of everything that might evoke our pity, so that we might labor on,

thinking all is fine in America. We only know what the government

wants us to know, and they've also taught us a new way to react to

the knowledge they can't hide from us.

 

America can never be free again, unless Americans can first free

their minds from the government's grip, and that grip is exerted

through the television. Just get off the couch and put a sledgehammer

right through the screen. Don't worry, it won't explode. That's

one of the many things that only happens on T.V. — Jolly Roger

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" Perception Management "

 

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It's all very easy once you're in control of the news. Goebbels knew

that if you could control the information that's available to a

population, you could control the mind of a nation, and this lesson

from Nazi Germany has been perfected in America today.

 

 

Hi Group,

 

This is my first post, so perhaps I should introduce myself.

 

I've been active in the alternative health field for twenty years and I

recently set up a to discuss oxidative stress and surrounding

issues. Anyone interested in this very important field is welcome to check

us out at oxidative_stress

 

However, although I'm interested in the biochemical side of it all, the

forces ranged against us are so oppressive that I think we have to spend

some time thinking about what has gone wrong in our societies (I'm in the

UK) and what we can do about it.

 

The allusion in the snip above could be developed a lot further. There's a

decent book's-worth here. Maybe someone has written it but if they have, I

haven't seen it.

 

Historically, political thought in the US was influenced I would say by

English writers and political history, with some influence from the French

Lumieres and the Roman republic.

 

In the 1930's, a lot of influential Jews emigrated to the US to escape

Nazi persecution and some went on to build the atomic bomb under Robert

Oppenheimer. After the war, the US secured as many of the German military

scientists as it could -- sometimes with the promise that they would avoid

being tried for war crimes -- and started the missile programmes under

Werner von Braun. The result was that US political thought has been

heavily influenced by the attitudes of pre-war Germany.

 

Nazi Germany was not a military dictatorship. It was a society that was

ostensibly democratic (Hiter was " elected " , just like George Bush) but was

in fact run by and for big business, and many US corporations had close

relationships with it. Its crusade was to pursue its historic " destiny " to

be the world's dominant power and in particular to subdue the Russians --

all for the benefit of big business and its owners and managers.

 

I think that one day, historians will write that the Third Reich never

really died; it just moved across the Atlantic and all of the goals

continued except that the campaign to strip the Jews of their possessions

and even their lives was eventually replaced by a similar one against the

Arabs.

 

Rob