"From the moment the first leader of the first clan in human
history took charge, he busied himself with this question: 'What can I
say and do that will make my people react the way I want them to.' He
was the first Pavlov. He was the first psychologist, the first
propagandist, the first mind-control boss. His was the first little
empire. Since then, only the means and methods have changed." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
I include my original article below. I want to provide a new introduction, based on the notion of "expanding thought-forms."
A thought-form is a picture in the mind that tends to guide behavior. Its presence is usually unknown to the user.
If the behavior results in objective successes in the world, the
thought-form expands, takes on more force, and even can pretend to a
sense of inevitability.
Sometimes, for example, in war, an Alexander, operating from his
thought-form of conquest, and piling up victories, begins to see himself
destined to be the "ruler of the whole world."
The dominant thought-form in Earth civilization today is: universal rule
through gigantic, highly organized structures; e.g., mega-corporations
that owe no allegiance to any nation.
Imagine a few thousand such corporations with interlocking boards and
directorates; colluding with super-regional governments and their
honeycombed bureaucracies; combined with regional armies, intelligence
agencies and technological elites; hooked to a global surveillance
operation; in control of media; cooperating with the largest organized
religions on Earth.
Imagine all this as essentially one organization---and you see the thought-form in its wide-screen version.
Top-down as top-down has never been before.
Functions and compartments defined and specialized at every level, and coordinated in order to carry out policy decisions.
As to why such a thought-form should come to dominate human affairs, the simplest explanation is: because it works.
But beneath that answer, for those who can see, there is much, much more.
Individuals come to think that "effective" and "instrumental" and "efficient" are more important than anything else.
Keep building, keep expanding, keep consolidating gains---and above all else, keep organizing.
Such notions and thought-forms replace life itself.
At that point, the civilization is doomed. It may take a thousand years
to fall, or it may happen all at once. But it's finished.
The individual creative-force has gone into hibernation. It's over.
The Machine has come to the fore. All questions are now about how the
individual sees himself fitting into the structure and function of The
Machine.
Which cog does he want to be part of? At which level?
Which piece of the latest technology does he want to adhere to, like a barnacle?
---end of introduction---
I've spent the past 30 years analyzing, taking apart, and exposing highly centralized structures:
Government, supra-government, corporate, energy, intelligence,
education, medical, mind-control, media, organized-religion structures;
those are some of the targets.
They all operate on the basis of stimulus-response.
The elite future is stimulus-response. It's based on the premise that
humans are inherently (biologically) programmed to be dangerous and the
programming must change. In other words, a better Pavlovian dog must be
created.
Stimulus-response has been the guiding principle of elite rule since the
dawn of history. The priest-class searches for the most effective
inputs it can find, which in turn will produce the desired responses
from the population.
Mainstream media, which are actually disseminated propaganda, aim to
produce three overall responses to stimuli: a) "conflicts and major
problems are never resolved"; b) "I should be afraid"; and c) "this is
all too confusing," which results in viewers and readers sinking into
passivity.
For the most part, political leaders have paid no attention to the idea
of freedom, regardless of which documents they've signed and given
lip-service to. Why? Because freedom implies something beyond
stimulus-response. Freedom implies action by choice. And politicians
know their power depends on managing conditioned response in
populations.
In that light, the 20th century was the century of PR, advertising,
propaganda, and it was also the launching pad for a number of drugs
targeting the brain and its responses.
But now, further technological paths are being followed. The alteration
of the human genetic structure. The probing of brains with electronic
interventions, so that, for example, it will be possible to insert
images directly into the visual cortex, bypassing what humans would
ordinarily perceive.
This is called the transhumanist agenda, and it is. But it is also
stimulus-response at a more sophisticated level. And it is another way
of attempting to eliminate freedom,
while never admitting that freedom exists in the first place.
What are the requirements of a future society in which conditioned
responses are locked down and pervasive, on chemical, biological, and
electronic levels? Well, there is one basic requirement:
The population must believe they are happy.
That's the end game. That's the triumph of Brave New World over 1984.
"Happiness" is an elusive word. It can refer to a number of feelings and thoughts.
If you recall, from your childhood, a peak experience, a few moments of
sheer ecstasy, you are certainly remembering happiness. But you are
also remembering freedom.
That's not what the elite controllers are aiming to produce as a mass
societal effect. No; for them to succeed, they must create, in people,
an article of faith:
People must believe that happiness is shallow, tepid, "average." If they accept that premise, the game is over.
Because, through genetic manipulation, through chemicals, through
electronics, that happiness-target stands a chance of being reached.
Then you would have a population ruled by stimulus-response, by
conditioned reflex---a population that nevertheless interprets that
state of affairs as acceptable, because it carries "happiness" with it.
This is how you drastically reduce the possibility of unending
rebellion, revolution, and war between the people and the leaders.
This is the goal of elite empire.
Counter to that, as I mentioned above, is freedom.
In its fullness, freedom implies a personal and individual knowing that one is free. No doubts, no conditions.
Travel anywhere is the world, visit every college and university from
Tierra del Fuego to the North Pole, and count how many courses are
called Freedom. Count how many courses are taught with the explicit
intent of exploring, deeply, what individual freedom means and is.
If, reading this far, you are beginning to suspect that the discredited
and ugly word "philosophy" is creeping in, you're right. Yes, that old
saw, that ridiculous subject.
Back in the Stone Age, when I went to college, I majored in it. I have a
good memory, and I can tell you that nowhere in the department's
curriculum was there a serious and extensive treatment of individual
freedom.
Philosophy is supposed to take up and illuminate fundamental questions
of existence and fundamental conflicts embedded in opposing views.
Such as the conflict I'm discussing here: stimulus-response vs. freedom.
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