Part 8: The Rape of the Mind
"The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions."
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This excerpt is called “The Indoctrination Barrage” — and righfullly so.
In the case of the COVID charade — how many instances have we seen reactions of either “apathy or a “more intense desire to study?” Far more often — merely pointing out contrary studies resulted in apathetic reactions that seemed almost like a built-in defense mechanism to anything opposed to The $cience.
Consider that “apathy and indifference” take many shapes in the modern problem-reaction-solution schemes. Whether it’s “indifference” towards a study showing the innumerable harms caused by Mysterious Genetic Serum Injections — masking — the social isolation and childhood developmental harms caused by remote learning — it almost doesn’t matter.
There is a universal “I don’t care” attitude, right up until there isn’t. (You’ll read more on this later — particularly regarding reactions to ‘Dr.’ Leana Wen.)
Additionally, there has been a penchant to study more deeply the ‘wrong’ thing. For example, trying to (while coming up shorthanded) ‘prove’ that masking is effective — or ‘searching’ for source clinical trial or other data (much of which Pfizer attempted to shield from the public eye) that bolstered the erroneous conclusion and preconceived notion that the Mystery Injections were ‘safe and effective’ in the first place.
This process is largely driven by the mass-adoption of totalitarian thought — one that represents “a well planned verbal attack on our minds and consciences” as Dr. Meerloo puts it.
The Indoctrination Barrage
The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one. The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and consciences.
We cannot be enough aware of the continual coercion of our senses and minds, the continual suggestive attacks which may pass through the intellectual barriers of insight. Repetition and Pavlovian conditioning exhaust the individual and may seduce him ultimately to accept a truth he himself initially defied and scorned.
The totalitarians are very ingenious in arousing latent guilt in us by repeating over and over again how criminally the Western world has acted toward innocent and peaceful people. The totalitarians may attack our identification with our leaders by ridiculing them, making use of every man's latent critical attitude toward all leaders. Sometimes they use the strategy of boredom to lull the people to sleep. They would like the entire Western world to fall into a hypnotic sleep under the illusion of peaceful coexistence. In a more refined strategy, they would like to have us cut all our ties of loyalty with the past, away from relatives and parents. The more you have forsaken them and their so-called outmoded concepts, the better you will cooperate with those who want to take mental possession of you. Every political strategy that aims toward arousing fear and suspicion tends to isolate the insecure individual until he surrenders to those forces that seem to him stronger than his former friends.
“Every political strategy that aims toward arousing fear and suspicion tends to isolate the insecure individual until he surrenders to those forces that seem to him stronger than his former friends.”
How many instances of a political strategy aiming to “arouse fear” occur during a single 24-hour news cycle? The “insecure individual” is targeted, isolated, and then forced into compliance by way of that fear. Those who absentmindedly leave their televisions on at home simply constitute a ‘target-rich environment’ for the warped students of Edward Bernays — who now by-and-large dominate the advertising dollars spent across the most popular platforms consumers gather ‘information’ from — or rather find themselves spoon-fed.
You can see this type of fear-driven totalitarian-thought behavior on display on Twitter profiles of public figures, for example ‘Dr.’ (term used loosely) Leana Wen. As ‘Dr.’ Wen converted her stance from that of ‘fully remote learning’ for children to one that acknowledged the actual harms caused by the social isolation of young children — her comments were flooded (presumably by real people) that accused her of wanting to kill the children (and them).
First, everyone had to be successfully trained and conditioned to ‘fear’ COVID infection. Once critical mass was achieved — the level of subconscious fear reached so pervasive as to seem all encompassing — it became impossible to contain even for those who wished to reign it in for political purposes.
Now that these types of controlling & totalitarian ‘I know better than you’ attitudes are out of the box — not even ‘Dr.’ Leana Wen can put them back in:
Lastly, here is Dr. Meerloo’s suggestion on how to reason about this more generally. Given that the book was written in 1956 — and the steady march of words has not ceased since then — it’s important to heed his warning.
And last but not least, let us not forget that in the battle of arguments those with the best and most forceful strategy tend to win. The totalitarians organize intensive dialectical training for their subjects lest their doubts get the better of them. They try to do the same thing to the rest of the world in a less obtrusive way.
We have to learn to encounter the totalitarians' exhausting barrage of words with better training and better understanding. If we try to escape from these problems of mental defense or deny their complications, the cold war will gradually be lost to the slow encroachment of words - and more words.
The distrust of all institutions must be fairly total by now. Was this the goal? I doubt it, plus it's a healthy reaction to the planned bowdlerisation of $cience. We distrust the totalitarians' plans & fetid narratives more than the counter-narratives. As such this distrust feels like a necessary thing, a fear that is, as they say, the beginning of wisdom.
So talk of the next planned pandemic brings on anger & disgust more than fear & exhaustion. It's good to 'step back' every day, cut off the totalitarians' fear porn, break the spell. I'm getting steadily angrier day by day.
They’ve “programmed” us to be our own worst enemies. Yet, using their own technology we’ve been able to gain some progress in awakening the masses and that truly is what they fear. Second to trusting God, we must question absolutely everything we are told by our “masters” no matter which form they take.