“We govern what the public think about.” – Edward Bernays

 

 

Cover of Bernays’ 1928 book, Propaganda. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Wedding rings (Photo credit: SParadisPhoto)

 

I have not watched TV news in a long time. (Everybody say it with me: “Ahhhhh!”) However, I worked in mass media briefly and studied it extensively. Here are some comments from an insider (spurred by a criticism of the sensationalism of the coverage of the Boston race bombing).

 

 

 

Media programming is to direct the attention of the audience (same as in public schools, etc). Programming directs perception and language (how we categorize perceptions and organize behavioral responses), “instilling values” and training people in specific models of behavior.

 

 

 

For instance, focusing on the possibility of drunk driving is not focusing on the possibility of safe driving. Focusing on violence hundreds or thousands of miles away is not focusing on pre-natal nutrition or the latest study on how to reduce blood sugar spikes simply by not eating so much simple sugars and complex sugars (starches).

 

 

 

News was never “just news” for the PR industry and the commercial advertising industry. The pentagon actually produces “news segments” (as do the agents of Monsanto and Raytheon and Tavistock, etc) which are distributed for use as is, or with scripts provided for local media professionals to read. This goes back to before TV- back to WW1.

 

Wedding Rings (Photo credit: Werner Vermaak)

 

 

 

Why is an FCC license so expensive? Because governing the masses is so important and media programming focuses the attention of *enough* of the population that something like gay marriage can quickly become a dominant political controversy with enough media repetition. (Maybe the wedding ring industry has some lobbyists pushing that topic in the media, though I do not know or care).

 

 

 

Terms like “sequestering” are all over my Facebook stream- but how many times did you see that word in 2011? Once? Twice? Now you can see it every day. However, federal budget deficit issues are not new!

 

 

 

Here is the most memorable sentence that I learned in college, in a mass media course: “the media does not govern what the public thinks- but only what the public thinks about.” However, the media (including Hollywood and it’s choices about which movies to produce with big promotional budgets) does of course guide what the public thinks… about what the public is guided to think about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, I do not think that the founder of the Public Relations industry, Edward Bernays, actually is the source of the quote in the title of this article, but you will forget this retraction faster than you will forget the following detail about Edward Bernays, mostly because it will trigger deep emotions in you. Here is why you should listen to whatever I say that Bernays said:

 

 

 

Where does his alleged authority come from? Because he concocted the myths used to sell the American public on World War 1 (among other things). Then, he was hired by the diamond industry to help them balloon demand for diamonds by consumers. So what? Well check out a quick reference to the results he produced….

 

Photo of my bridal set (engagement and wedding rings) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

What did he do? He produced movies in which the script centered around a wedding proposal with a diamond ring. Then, over the course of just a few years, diamond wedding rings rocketed in popularity (and price).

 

 

 

You may even remember some of the famous movie titles like “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” and “diamonds are forever.” (You may have forgot the movies themselves though.) You also may not remember that in the early 19th century, diamond rings were not “standard” for wedding rings. Give Edward Bernays enough time and enough of a budget, and he could have trained the masses to demand platinum wedding rings or ivory wedding rings.

 

 

 

Once consumer demand was manipulated up by Bernays and his movie industry, then the diamond cartels simply tightened the supply made available to the public, causing prices (and profits) to rocket. That’s who Edward Bernays was. That is also why when I pretend that he is the source of the quote “we govern what the public think about,” then you should believe what I am pretending that he said. (I actually just do not remember the source of the quotation above.)

 

 

 

Wedding ring, Byzantium, 7th c. AD, nielloed gold. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Anyway, as an example that is  more familiar to the average TV screen today, people are programmed to think about a long list of ailments and which miracle drug to get addicted to. Then, people are trained to think about the latest video game units and a new car and a vacation to Hawaii.

 

 

 

Imagine a game show. Where do all the prizes come from? Who goes to all the expense to produce a half-hour long commercial for all of those free prizes? Is it so hard to figure out?

 

 

 

Another famous statement of Bernays is something he wrote in a letter to his eldest son: “Ah, what you really need is a college degree- then you will attract love and happiness!” If these messages are repeated enough to enough people, then a culture of “common sense” forms around these deliberately-programmed presumptions and behaviors.

 

 

 

In fact, a college degree will be so valuable to you personally, that you should probably borrow at least $50,000 to get one (or two). It’s obviously the best financial decision for you, right?

 

MTSU Mass Media Students – Capitol Street Party 2011 – Nashville,TN (Photo credit: tncountryfan)

 

Bernays also said  that “Propaganda is morally wrong and that is why it only happens in other nations.” That’s classic propaganda! Models of what is right and wrong are just as arbitrary as models of what is criminal and legal (like in one state I might get a license that allows me to do something such as practice law, but then I cross a state line and suddenly that same behavior is criminal!)

 

 

 

Bernays also accused me of saying the following in 1919, but that was a complete fabrication: ”Our national myths and religious rituals are not myths or religious rituals. Our holy days for the founding of the nation and for our fallen soldiers and for our favorite Presidents are completely unrelated to secular holidays like the anniversary of the date of birth of some prophet, the anniversary of the death of some saint, or the beginning of a so-called new year according to a religious calendar. Those religious calendars and their religious holidays are religious. Ours are not. Ours is a *real* calendar.”

 

 

 

It’s all propaganda. Fortunately for us, though, propaganda is a lot like reverse psychology in that it simply does not exist (because it obviously shouldn’t, at least according to Edward Bernays).

 

 

 

Soldiers returned from war service marching from Adelaide railway station (Photo credit: State Library of South Australia)

 

 

 

 

 

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the fear of propaganda

Cover to the propaganda comic book “Is This Tomorrow”‘ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

C.M. replied to my prior post (regarding “be the change” and “we should be outraged!”).

 

Sounds fascinating how you came to that conclusion and I will assume you mean as your own point of view, a vision of what you believe to be, and by the use of heaven and such seems like all propaganda to me. I could sit there and dissect it and attempt figure out what you mean based on what you know or I can just tell you knowing starts with the trivium and quadrivium and detecting fallacies to achieve knowledge and understanding of what is.

 

F()ck the fear, my man- its a figment of your imagination and one’s own ignorance. I do not subscribe to it. Trivium and quadrivium. That’s it.

 

J.R. replied:

 

C.M., the word fear refers the source of someone saying “f()ck that!” We can use anatomical terms and biochemical terms like amygdala and cortisone and adrenalin, but the bottom line is that the word fear is a familiar word to you. You may even fear that word.

 

(Also, I consider all forms of anger to be more extreme versions of fear- like in objective, concrete terms of the concentrations of adrenalin and cortisone and the sequence of neurological processes. So, outrage is just one of the more extreme forms of frightened anger.)

 

Consider that everything that is presented to a mass audience is what I mean by propaganda, so that would include all religious scripture, all books, all mass media programming, all PR, all commercial advertising, and even an article I write on a blog or a painting or song that is created with some political theme designed to influence people to “be the change” or “practice non-violence” or “just say no to fear.” All of that is propaganda.

 

Incidentally, I am using the word in the classic Roman Catholic sense of the propagating of doctrine or dogma or values. The Vatican is not against propaganda and indoctrination. They openly admit that symbols in the form of words are essential to the perpetuation of their operations, which include the UN, the IMF, the US, the USSR, the UK, and all of the other branches of human culture which use the Roman calendar system (as in A.D. dating like “December 27, 2013“) and their 7-day week and their court systems which still use the ancient magic words of Latin like “pro bono” and “amicus curiae” and so on. (To be fair, I recognize that the Holy Roman Empire is itself just a branch of the Ancient Babylonian Talmudists that grew out of the Egyptian and Hebrew evolutions.)

 

Military flag of the Holy Roman Empire between 1200 and 1350. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

C.M. replied:

 

 

 

Correct. So have you ever heard any or all of these podcast www.peacerevolution.orgusing the trivium and quadrivium to disassemble the fear is the best method I have come across according to what I know now…now…now. One of my favorite videos on youtube is the one on who actually has the contract on greenwich meridian time. If you want real books help me find the unlisted secret archives of vatican. Fascinating reads I am told.

 

 

 

J.R. replied further:

 

No, I have not heard any of those. However, why would you want to disassemble fear? Are you not grateful for it? Do you fear it?

 

The idea of fearing fear is optional. You should fear it- sometimes. You should fear other things- sometimes- like when a vehicle crosses in to the wrong lane of traffic and is speeding toward you or when you hear a loud sound that wakes you up from sleep. As for deprogramming of propaganda, hysteria, paranoia, and so on, there are many forms of that, but no form is needed at all except the awareness which has always been eternally present.

 

 

 

Roman soldiers – note that each Centurion carries a “red shield” or, in German, “rothschild” (Photo credit: Dale Gillard)

 

Rotschild Canticles, f. 6v. 13th-14th centures (end of 13th). Northern France. Yale University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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English: coats of arms of the Holy Roman Empire (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

propaganda to “be the change” (and to be outraged)

This is from a conversation on facebook:

“Have you ever heard about the tragedy at Waco? The government burned these people alive.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KpQxS1KA5k

J.R. wrote: When people perceive a threat (react in terror), then outrage may arise. Most people do not personally perceive it to be a threat when the ATF or FBI targets a group of “extremists,” but some people certainly do and so many of them expressed their terrified outrage (if they were not “too paranoid” AKA more private or discrete in their fear) .

When the US military kills kids in school in Iraq or Japan, that is also not perceived as a threat by most people in the US. However, when an unexpected violation of expectations happens, like on 9/11 or with the Columbine school shootings, then many people “take it personally” and relate to the news item as a personal threat.

“the state is the only terrorist” (Photo credit: ruSSeLL hiGGs)

C.M. wrote: As in a false flag?

English: Schemata of Webster Tarpley’s model of state-sponsored false flag terror operations. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

J.R. replied:  Carlos, the false flag issue is not primary in my reference. Imagine the UK or Nazi Germany. If There is an event killing lots of civilians intentionally, the local people get scared, right? However, people in India may not even hear about the deaths, or may hear about it and then may be a little scared and passively mourn, or more scared and say “what can we do to promote safety and security (here)” or very scared – so much that they are outraged – and say “someone must pay for this. Let’s invade Pakistan to make them pay!” As for whether anyone in Pakistan had anything to do with the deaths, that is a totally distinct issue., right?

The people who write newspapers and history books will tell you what to believe and by the time that a small portion of the population knows what false flag means, they will have totally accepted so many decades of propaganda that they will think things like “false flag operations were invented in 1984″ or 1863 or 1776 or some such naivete. The reality may be that most people in most countries have no interest in challenging the local militias of police and armies.

For instance, the killings of US citizens by the Us government at Waco TX and Kent State in Ohio (etc etc) were not false flag operations. Some people got upset, but even if you were certain that the government of the USSR killed dozens of millions of its own citizens, what would do about it? If you lived there, you might secretly plan to defect, but you would not get far by trying to reform the system. You might as well go and try and intimidate the mafia in to getting out of the gambling industry! It would be suicide.

C.M. replied: Change the NOUS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous) and I guess call me Dead Man Walking because I truly believe we must reform our system and that we can. If not I would not be doing what I do and so openly even on the government watched and tracked social media device. The news controls the nous because people sit back and accept it. How did the news beat the cops to the Koresh compound? Waco was used as a distraction event. The nonviolent peaceful action of becoming aware and knowing is the action and while many have been completely in the dark as I was just years ago some of us are now inerconnected with more aware like minded people than ever before. There is a tipping point and im not going to sit around and watch it without being the change I want to see in the world.

American Soldiers .. US military: 2 US soldiers killed in southern Iraq (June 14, 2011) …item 5.. THE MOODY BLUES — A Question Of Balance — 1970 … (Photo credit: marsmet461)

J.R. then replied: Yes, if you reject or condemn anything external to you, like because of propaganda which trained you to do so, then there will be that internal conflict in you which is a compulsion or addiction to a particular ideal of change which was also planted in you by propaganda. You will seek to reform the world or yourself in accord with that propaganda ideal until you relax and sit around enough to get clear about the value of propaganda and stop rejecting what the propaganda has trained you to reject (condemn).

English: Badge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The bottom line is about fear and courage. If you feel compelled to save the world from fear because you are ashamed that you ever felt fear, then there will be a persisting anxiety or fear. “What if I die without saving the world from fear and sin first?” Trying to earn your way in to heaven (by becoming the “ideal” change promoted by propaganda) is a reliable way to avoid the issue that this may be as good as it gets and, if there is a heaven, this is it and all that propaganda about you rejecting certain parts of reality has been blinding you to simply accepting what is(to having peace of mind).

Governments train us to rebel against them. That gives them a spin to justify things like the Waco and Kent State killings.

You can experience shame at the thought of just sitting around and being happy already. There is that background of anxiety or distress or dis-ease… Until you recognize it as simply a product of propaganda and totally optional. At that point, ironically, you would have a huge increase in your ability to intuitively lead because you would no longer be putting all that energy in to chasing propaganda ideals.

911: President George W. Bush Tours Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Headquarters, 09/25/2001. (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)

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The propaganda myth of equality

Just as an infant has less power than mom does, and just as mom may have less power/influence than grandpa, wolves are able to kill and eat sheep. So what?

My new facebook friend “R.L” recently posted the above image. You, dear reader, may know that the above image is similar to images posted a few years ago featuring President George W. Bush.

Here are my comments to R.L., plus part of his reply:

What do you think is meant by “frauds?” Does that mean that influencing public perception is important to institutions? Does that mean that propaganda is important to them? Yes, some people exert more political power (directing perception of the masses) than others. So what?

R.L: exactly as it says.… Yes propaganda keeps you in line………. Bread and circuses!

 

-my reply back to him:

 

R.L., propaganda keeps some in line and also incites some to rebel in certain specific ways, like the tea party started by the ultra-rich Koch brothers (or the occupy movement, which might as well have also been started by them). Further, tanks and tear gas and bullets and bombs and handcuffs and chains are used to keep some in line.

If you think that there should be no lines, so what? There are lines.

There is propaganda. There is organized coercion. “There should be no lines” is to me a clear statement of propaganda programming. I have said such things, but what if they are ridiculous, naive, arrogant, and delusional?

 

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/media/AnalogiesUSPresHitlerMegan.htm

 

 

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price trends show that consumers value gasoline over silver, stocks, and currency

As a quick introductory note, many Americans that I interact with seem not to be aware of the wide variation in fuel prices across the world. In parts of Europe, gasoline prices are above $10 per gallon, which approaches the all-time highs reached in 2008. In other parts of the world, supplies of gasoline are so high relative to the local demand that a gallon of gasoline is priced below $1.00 per gallon. Even within the U.S., the price of gasoline ranges by more than $1.00 from the most expensive states like Hawaii ($4.50) and California ($4.35) to the least expensive states like Oklahoma ($3.39) and South Carolina ($3.37).

(See http://gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx )

Since 2004, I have forecast that fuel prices would continue their rise that started in 1999 and would eventually cause significant changes to the spending choices and economic trends of the entire world, including the US and Europe. As the price of a gallon of gasoline exceeded $10 per gallon in 2008 in parts of Europe, major behavior changes by consumers and businesses resulted in a decline in the prices of many things, including gasoline,  real estate, and stocks, with fuel prices being the last to fall (as in the purchase most favored or with the most enduring demand). That sequence is precisely the forecast that I had specified in my 2004 reference to “The DominOIL Effect.” See www.TheDominOILeffect.com

Fuel prices displayed on a seven segment display board commonly found at petrol stations. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now let’s back up and take an even wider view of things. We know why people value gasoline. However, why do people value things like paper currencies and chunks of a particular mineral called silver?

Does anyone disagree that governments coerce people to use a particular form of currency (at least in doing any business with that government such as the payment of taxes), just like they have been coercing people to use whatever relatively rare items for thousands of years, such as gold? Does anyone disagree that ruling interests also implement massive public relations campaigns (propaganda, indoctrination, correctional facilities, educational facilities) so as to influence behavior, to obscure simple and obvious patterns, and to confuse their “prey/hosts?”

Took the picture from the building of the BCB. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Just as the huge surge in demand for diamonds across the last century was specifically cultivated by propaganda, so has the demand been cultivated for gold for thousands of years, including for gold coins bearing the face of the warlord or dictator. Likewise, the demand for currencies is entirely cultivated. No one has any inherent interest in little bills of colorful paper- it’s only and entirely because of the cultivated demand. Consider that the amount of demand that has been cultivated for these little bills of colorful paper is truly remarkable as in awe-inspiring.

How has all of this demand been cultivated? Governments make threats that they will take actions like arrest, seizure, invasion, and foreclosure in the event of the failure to pay certain amounts of something- whatever form of payment that they declare as acceptable to them. Further, the ruling interests implement massive campaigns of propaganda through the “private media channels” as well as the “public indoctrination channels,” such as public high schools and public colleges.

In other news, stock markets in Greece and Italy are on the verge of free fall, while silver also returns downward toward the $26 level. I assert that fuel prices (such as gasoline) have finally risen enough to slow other economic activity, and fuel prices are now falling as well, such as for gasoline (shown in the charts) and crude oil.

Note that these recent price trends may be interpreted as yet another confirmation of the ideas presented in 2004 here: www.theDominOILeffect.com

(Of course, the principles of forecasting were studied before they were given labels, such as “ordinal utility” or “Austrian Economics.”)

See also 

http://OneEyedKingsWealthClub.com

Note: wouldn’t it be devious if private parties have created institutions to sacrifice in the pursuit of their private interests? For instance, couldn’t some groups get together and create central banksto manipulate markets? If the central banks have the capacity to manipulate markets, then the rulers could guide the central banks as a way of deceiving the public or manipulating public perception.

central bank of lebanon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The central banks can run up prices of real estate by buying lots of it, but the insiders will stay away from real estate and wait for the cultivated bubble to burst. Cartels can run up prices of diamonds or gold or oil, and as long as the timing of the manipulations is clear to the insiders, they can position themselves to benefit from the public’s reaction to the manipulations of the central banks.

Did central banks jump in to gold at the END of the 1970s boom, or at the earliest stage of the boom? Insiders knew to SELL their private holdings during what they knew would be the final spike. Who were among the final buyers left holding huge losses? Wasn’t it the central banks… which are controlled by private commercial interests?

When insiders know that they are ready to use the central banks to manipulate prices, the insiders buy when no one is paying any attention to a market, then they can guide their media outlets to feature news on the rising prices. Next, they can guide their central banks to conspicuously make various incremental buys, preferably with advance announcements to stir up a growing hysteria among the public. In the final waves (as central banks are so concentrated in the new target investment that the insiders know the manipulation is nearly complete), then the private investments of the insiders will of course be sold before the holdings of the sacrificial instruments of the central banking institutions. What else do you think that private central banks are for except for the advancement of the interest of private commercial interests?

Consider the following 2011 public relations manipulation specifically designed to influence the perceptions and behaviors of the masses through channels of mass indoctrination (highly efficient propaganda):

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the 3 forms of influence: rewards, indoctrination, and punishments

 

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U.S. Air Force Airman Matthew Bernard (foreground) wears a water filled mask while performing flutter kicks after a non-stop physical training during an extended training day at the Pararescue Indoctrination Training Center. Location: LACKLAND AFB, TEXAS (TX) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

SASEBO, Japan (Dec. 9, 2009) Master-at-Arms 1st Class Christopher Williams conducts a uniform inspection on prospective 3rd Class petty officers during the 2009 Winter Petty Officer Indoctrination Academy at Fleet Activities Sasebo. The 10-day Petty Officer Indoctrination Academy, first implemented in Dec. 2008, is designed to produce better leaders and shipmates. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Casey H. Kyhl/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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SASEBO, Japan (June 5, 2009) Newly selected 3rd class petty officers sing “Anchors Aweigh” during their frocking ceremony at Fleet Activities Sasebo. The Sailors completed an intense two-week petty officer indoctrination class. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua J. Wahl/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

SAN DIEGO (Feb. 3, 2010) Vice Adm. D.C. Curtis, commander of Naval Surface Forces and Naval Surface Force Pacific Fleet, speaks to a group of newly commissioned officers at a surface warfare officer indoctrination class at Naval Base San Diego. The course provides ensigns with the basic knowledge of damage control, 3M, and other shipboard information to prepare them for the fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Elena Pence/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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the 3 forms of influence: rewards, indoctrination, and punishments

1 To everything — a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

2 A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

3 A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.

…

6 A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

7 A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

8 A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

<< Ecclesiastes 3 >> Young’s Literal Translation

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Of the 3 forms of influence, note that indoctrination may be the most interesting one, because it is through indoctrination that people can be instructed about how to relate to reward and punishment (and also how to relate to indoctrination, which some may even say “should not exist… because it is evil,” at least according to certain indoctrination presented by certain practitioners of indoctrination who apparently value discouraging competition to their “monopoly”).

Two priests demand a heretic to repent as he is tortured. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Always remember that, in general, influence should not exist. In particular, indoctrination should not exist, rewards should not exist, and punishment should not exist.  This is the basic, fundamental indoctrination of all propaganda.

Because indoctrination is “secret” or covert relative to overt forms of influence like reward and punishment, indoctrination is the key to efficient social organization, structural hierarchy, imperialist tyranny or whatever else you may have been trained to call it. If you believe that the Holy Inquisition ended hundreds of years ago (or only began within the last thousand years), that is exactly the perception that fits the interests of certain parties.

What do you say about the future? Is the New World Order coming soon? Is paradise always “not yet?” Both orientations fundamentally miss what is already happening, which is the directing of attention away from the present and the past to a fixation or pre-occuption of attention as directed by what could be called socialization, programming, mind control, or simply

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propaganda.

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the controversy of conspiracy

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the controversy of conspiracy

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The ideal condition of a herd is for the herd to maintain a state of moderate hysteria. Total panic is only favorable if there is a well-orchestrated strategy to contain and direct the momentum of the panic, which otherwise could lose coherence and dissolve in to a wild chaos.

There must be calming triggers installed, like sacred mantras of heroism and patriotism and morality and idealism. There must be agitation triggers installed as well, for a calm herd is vulnerable to a contagion of introspection and autonomy.

Every civil religion has sacred objects for ritual practices, such as colorful flags and constitutions made of shapes of ink on paper. These sacred objects can be used by those who are most skillful both to arouse and to calm the masses.
What is the best way to trigger a wave of social agitation? There must be an indoctrinated programming of expectations of what should be. Ideally, these expectations will be unresolvably conflicting with each other.

Herd of sheep (Photo credit: freefotouk)

Then, these expectations must be carefully violated- though only a few at a time. Different groups with different expectations must be agitated in to conflict with each other. Each group will have their pet issue that they are for or against. Each group will also have an opposing group. Constant vigilance is the theme of the religion of politics. Each group must be constantly anxious that a pause to the intensity of their activism could bring a terrifying and shameful defeat.

In order to sustain the tense paralysis of democracy, no political victory can ever be definitive. There is always another impending future to prevent, a threat to address, an eternal vulnerability to protect and defend.

If people were to stop defending their most cherished vulnerabilities, the whole network of paralyzing antagonism could relax. The eternal agitation, hysteria, anxiety, and mystery must be preserved at all costs, or the herd united in conflict could dissipate in to isolated pools of self-awareness, responsibility, and functionality.

Once the strategies for receiving a mild panic have been properly prepared, then people must be terrified with a

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confusing array of references to impending threats, doom and collapse. A threat like global warming or health epidemics are perfect villains. There must be constant fear. There must be endless hysteria. There must be arguing, with a steady trickle of earnest demands for sacred principles to be set aside because of the severity of the latest threat, whether present or potential.

Impending armageddon and cataclysm are the eternal allies of the priesthoods of social engineering. Without the threat of some danger or enemy, what justification is there for the coercive tyranny of governments?

Drive the people in to mortgages. Drive the various people in to believing in a particular material solution to their common psychological insecurity. Set them to struggling against each other in the pursuit of the particular material solution that they are programmed to seek. The various competing groups will protect the elite from all of the other competing groups.

Hatred of the elite must be universal. Power must be demonized as the great evil.

Conspiracy must be flaunted yet ridiculed. The spokespeople for the elite can at once attack all reference to conspiracy as “theory,” then present the least plausible of all theories of conspiracy as the official authorized version of history.

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The President must appear on Jesse Ventura‘s Conspiracy Theory to repeat that there has never been a false flag operation conducted by any government or political organization. The only conspiracies in the history of “our nation” (whichever nation) have been perpetrated by evil foreign terrorists, except in the case of conspiracies by civilians that governments agents have gone out of their way to target, such as Native Americans who are trespassing on their ancestral homelands without the permission of the expanding European settlers, or Japanese Americans who have the audacity to legally reside in the United States during wartime, slaves who dare to conspire in planning attempts to escape, and so on.

Conspiracy is a crimeand any activity authorized or performed by the government is excluded from that

First and Front Streets, San Francisco, California. Exclusion Order posted to direct Japanese Americans living in the first San Francisco section to evacuate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

government’s definition of crime. Crime, by the way, is the greatest villain of all.

Did you know that thousands of people in your country are illegally using marijuana right this moment? Isn’t that terrifying? Aren’t you glad I woke you up from sleeping to warn you? Your tax dollars are needed urgently to promote freedom by regulating freedom and combating freedom and liberating distant foreign lands from freedom.

Crime must be stopped. Crime must be controlled. Crime must be managed. Crime must be cultivated. Crime must be milked for maximizing controversy and hysteria and receptivity to persuasion.

If there is not enough crime to agitate the public, the government must make some enemies, even fictitious ones. The crime can be planned by the government along with a careful public relations scheme to report the crime, skew the story, present an instant cast of frightening suspects to a shocked, traumatized, and naively receptive public through an integrated propaganda campaign of mass media.

This is the pinnacle of centralized influence. In a totalitarian system, the masses must be trained to be universally opposed to totalitarianism in order for the totalitarianism to be hidden in plain sight.

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the latest new evil: opportunity, crisis, reality, and myth

Young gang recruits sign the sign (Guatemala, 2005). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

STREET GANG MEMBERS – NARA – 552752 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

STREET GANG MEMBERS – NARA – 552753 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

William James was an earlier adherent to meliorism as a halfway between metaphysical optimism and pessimism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

opportunity, crisis, reality, and myth

A chart demonstrating increases in the annual income of the top 1% of wealthy persons in the U.S. before economic crises. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Conflict and cooperation both exist, including when soldiers and militias and gang members cooperate with their colleagues in competition with their rivals. Crisis and opportunity both exist, too. When the tides recede and a tidal pool traps some fish, that is a crisis for the fish and an opportunity for some birds to easily consume the fish. It’s all relative.

In recent years, I have grown skeptical both of the ultra-pessimism and ultra-optimism (as in “positive thinking” and “the secret” and “the law of attraction”). The ultra-pessimism or ultra-cynicism is evident in the doomsday cults of conspiracy theorists and patriotic reactionaries.

All of those groups metaphorically are putting their heads in the sand. One group basically says that putting one’s head in heaven or paradise is to see more clearly and not be troubled by earthly perceptions. Another group basically says that life on earth is unavoidably hell and so it is best to hide: to put one’s head in the sand and all the rest of the body, too.

They both are accurate to a limited extent. I think it is entirely practical to withdraw from anything too disturbing (to “think positive”) and also to be skeptical about the presumptions of mainstream cultures. However, putting one’s head in the sand may be a wonderful occasional spa treatment, but it is important to remove one’s head from the sand eventually as well.

Conspiracy Theory (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My comment on conspiracy theories in general is that anyone who thinks that the attacks of September 11th, 2001 were not a conspiracy is an absolute idiot. Were the events of that morning all just a bunch of coincidences? If it was not a conspiracy, then what was it? A comedy routine?

If someone is interested in those events, and it is fine with me if someone is not, then the intelligent question would be what was the conspiracy, not whether there was one or not. Incidentally, I happen to think that the mainstream conspiracy theory presented by folks like George W. Bush and Colin Powell is a ridiculous myth, but I also respect the value and function of popular mythology, especially in politics.

Myths can be useful for directing public opinion to be receptive to things like expensive invasions and new radical draconian security schemes. Again, opportunity and crisis may be two labels that both fit the same situation. Creating myths and popularizing them through propaganda can create tremendous momentum in redistributing public wealth toward the most effective lobbying interests.

Further, myths about how lobbying interests are both evil and new can be indoctrinated on the masses so as to distract them from recognizing the origins of all court systems and all governing systems. Instead of competing or revolting, those masses will passionately but politely protest the latest “new evil” as directed by popular political mythologies. They will campaign for reform and promote a new political savior, repeating the theme of eternal “hope” common to all of populist, proletariat politics.

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, how about the so-called housing crisis in the West? It is a myth. There is an abundance of available housing. That is not a crisis. That is a supply far in excess of demand. Prices will continue to decline, like in Japan for the last 23 years. So what?

Of course, lots of borrowers and realtors and construction workers are experiencing the decline in the housing boom/bubble as a financial crisis for them personally. So what?

Borrowers who gambled on $300,000 mortgage loans may lose their entire net worth to bankruptcy. What’s new?

One person’s foreclosure has never equated to a social crisis. However, a million foreclosures in a short period of time is a crisis for a court system unprepared to handle that volume, but it is also an opportunity for intelligent investors to multiply their wealth very quickly, similar to what Rothschild did toward the end of the Battle of Waterloo.

A protester outside AIG’s headquarters at the American International Buildling in New York City is interviewed by a news crew. Photographer’s blog post about this photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Have you heard on mainstream news that there is a financial crisis and that expensive redistributions must be performed by the government to save the people from the evil demon of falling prices and economic collapse? You may have heard the same theme in Japan or Europe or the US.

Perhaps it is purely a lobbyist myth. It justifies a huge redistribution of wealth from the middle class toward the elite lobbyists, “bailing out” the lobbying interests with TRILLIONS of dollars of wealth transfer.

However, there is simply no financial crisis for someone who has no mortgage, earns $50,000 a year in a steady job in a stable industry, and has $500,000 of cash saved up for retirement and legally sheltered through a simple and conventional method of asset protection. On the other hand, there is a financial crisis for people who “bought in” to the American Dream of flipping houses (and now are upside down by $100,000 or more), who do not have a stable income, and who have been pouring money in to annuities or mutual funds or pensions with no literacy in regard to the reality of risk in stock market prices. Their $500,000 stock market portfolio can quickly fall to $250,000 or even $50,000, just like their $500,000 real estate portfolio can quickly fall to $250,000 or $50,000 of value.

President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell hold a press conference about organization, America’s Promise, in the Rose Garden July 9, 2001. source (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

However, the mass media may “rescue” them from clarity and prudent adaption by presenting them with a scapegoat or demon to hate. Blame the evil political party. Blame the evil foreign nation. Blame the evil politician. Blame the evil central bank. Blame someone. Blame anyone. Just do not adapt. Just do not correlate one’s own chosen behavior with the actual results of the chosen behavior.

“Think positive. Elect a political savior. Do not EVER adjust your actual behavior. That is just a ridiculous conspiracy theory designed to suck you in to prudence and the prosperity that naturally results from prudence.”

Bank run during the Showa Financial Crisis 日本語: 昭和金融恐慌時の取り付け騒ぎ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, with prudence in mind, I will address some economic issues. In 2004, I published an article called “the Real U.S. Deficit: OIL” in which I detailed the issue of rising fuels costs and the impact that rising fuel costs have on import-dependent economies like those of Japan, Europe, and the US. (See www.TheDominOILeffect.com )

It is certainly possible that fuel prices could drop. However, since 1999, global fuel prices on the whole have been rising, which is a reversal of trends going back over 100 years (when the inflation-adjusted prices of fuel were several times as high as they were by 1999). Consider that in 1880, the amount of fuel (power, energy) that now costs $10 might have taken the average person an entire day’s work to earn.

Modern civilization is still INCREDIBLY abundant relative to humans across the vast majority of history. There is a downside to the abundance though. We have been able to thrive despite rampant idiocy.

People trust uncritically in mass media outlets, government bureaucrats, and naive church leaders. Are the blind leading the blind?

Consider that mainstream medical scientists present a growing list of conditions that they deem incurable, which basically means that they make no claims to understand a physiological process well enough to reliably reverse or prevent it. When they say something is incurable, we think that is an expression of the reality of the condition, not an expression of the reality of the competence of person talking. They are naive idiots negligently using language and so are most of the rest of us.

How do people produce new results? New methods (at least new to the one exploring it).

But new is not always better. So, how do people produce the best results available? The best methods available.

Conspiracy Theory Overlap Diagram (Photo credit: Vince_Lamb)

Now, what is so radical about anything in this blog? I’m not sure there is anything especially radical here. Then again, maybe it is a bit radical to actually openly admit that most people seem to me to be reactive, terrified, hysterical zombies programmed by myths that benefit certain lobbying interests.

“The enemy does not want you to know that investing everything in silver even if it is 1980 will magically solve all of your problems and will magically ruin their evil empire.” That’s idiotic. However, it works to influence the behavior of herds of people.

Real estate always rises, too. Investing in silver always solves everything. Be a patriotic hero. Invest in silver mines, which is the only kind of real estate that always rises always always always.

Therefore, because ridiculous propaganda is so effective, I hereby warn you that your arch-enemy does not want you to adjust your behavior, by which I mean Osama Attila Hitler AKA Dr. Evil, Lex Luther, The Joker, The Riddler, Penguin, Satan, the Devil, the Bilderberger Blackwater Vatican Jesuit Zionist Poseidon. No, he (or she or they) hope that you will keep complaining and blaming and condemning and hating, which empowers them with your attention to their anti-propaganda reverse psychology.

At the UN, Colin Powell holds a model vial of anthrax, while arguing that Iraq is likely to possess WMDs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, if someone consistently demonstrates intelligence and relevance far beyond the mainstream for 8 or 9 years, your arch-enemy does not want you to consult such an intelligent consultant (such as by posting a comment on this blog). Instead, your arch-enemy wants you to think positively about focusing on using the law of attraction to gently expose your arch-enemy by non-violently protesting against them publicly with heroic signs that say “Hey, you, scrawny frightened Holy Roman Inquisition thugs with combat helicopters and fatal chemical weapon mustard gas crowd-control grenades, we dare you to stand your ground as we slowly and arrogantly march over to your local army base or pentagon and climb the razor-edged barbed wire fences to occupy the pentagon military headquarters and federal correctional facilities and gas chambers.”

Also, your Arch Enemy is terrified that you might share or re-blog this post. That would be a horrible humiliation for them. Please be a good heroic saintly patriotic messiah impersonator by having mercy on them and only sharing it once or, at the absolute most, twice.

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before language separated church and state

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.” – John F. Kennedy (Photo credit: Chris D 2006)

I found a truly amazing website today. It is for those with open minds and emotional intelligence, as in spirits of grace and hearts of peace.

In other words, some of it would be extremely disturbing to various mainstream beliefs- like terrifying. So, for those with courage, here is some background.

Earlier today, I saw a page of the site and wrote this in response to it:

http://jrfibonacci.wordpress.com/the-linguistic-isolating-of-justice-from-money/

I published that long commentary as a page rather than a post because the content is more controversial than I wanted to put on the front of my blog this morning. As of this afternoon, however, I am still reading the website that provoked my response and I find that site’s content quite fascinating- maybe as exciting as when I first found the books of Douglas Harding and finally all modern religions (of the last few thousand years) were clear as branches of a single tree. Well, this goes even deeper- at least in terms of the intersection between history and mythology.

So, I find the scholarship behind that site excellent- mostly- though perhaps lacking in a certain distinction about the function of language in general and in particular of authority in language (as referenced in the link to my comment this morning). Here is the site: the site

Again, consider that his connections of facts are excellent, but his interpretations may be subjective. I have already sent him an email inviting a dialogue. (AND HE PROMPTLY REPLIED, SEE http://jrfibonacci.wordpress.com/the-linguistic-isolating-of-justice-from-money/#comment-4641 )

A statue of Justice on the tympanum of the Old Supreme Court Building, . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My basic concern, which leads to the title of this blog post, is with his interpretation that there was ever a conflict between temple priesthoods and bankers (courts, governments) at some time in the past. In other words, this is about the alleged separation of church and state.

I say that governments are religious and ritualistic and that there never was a separation between church and state, which is just a propaganda myth issued by the ruling “churches” of modern government. Here is some evidence:

US Supreme Court building, front elevation, steps and portico. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Note also that many court buildings of today have columns just like the temples of Greece and Rome and Egypt and Babylon. Court systems of today are the temples of ancient times. The US Senate is an exact duplicate of a European Cathedral. The Washington Monument is a phallic obelisk in Washington D.C. of religious architecture from Egypt.

Of course, that is also an interpretation. However, I expect that any archaeologist would agree that the first centers of civilization (human population) were temples and only later that courts (and cities and bazaars of merchants) evolved from those central temples.

The Senate’s side of the Capitol Building in DC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Further, most of mainstream science is challenged by the content of the site linked above. However, I consider the temples of old to be the direct ancestor of the ruling court systems of today. I am not aware of any actual evidence to the contrary.

Troy writes of the first lunar cults and their activities on the steps of their temples:

Français : Sacrifice humain chez les Aztèques English: Aztec human sacrifice (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“It’s almost impossible to contemplate what these Bluebloods were thinking of in their belief that disgusting and perverted rituals (like human sacrifice) could alter the physical courses of physical planetary bodies.  However, it seems this toxic nonsense was now a worldwide phenomena.”

That is a horrible interpretation. The author (Troy) presumes sincerity in the public statements of the high priests of ritual human sacrifice (whether Aztec, Holy Roman Inquisition, modern judicial execution, etc). The priests told the people that these sacrifices appeased the gods. That was just propaganda. That was just the published rationalization. That claim was just part of the terrorism and tyranny.

From the Bible, we know the story of Abraham and his son to be executed as a sacrifice to God. That however could be just a model for public propaganda, just a parable, just a rationalization published by the priests of the empires of human sacrifice.

Troy’s lack of reference to the basics of propaganda seems unusual. Clearly, he is a smart guy. He even makes some rather direct references like in his section “ritual as validation of the elite.” He just only went as deep as he went.

Sure, Moses may have interpreted various natural events as instructive in regard to what is practical and functional for humans. So what? He could have just said so directly, right? However, the story of Moses is a justification or rationalization for a moral system of rewards and punishments, as in a legal system or a justice system.

I recently saw someone reference the US Constitution(or maybe it was the Declaration of Independence) as sacred. It is. Sacred is a way of relating to something. Some people treat court systems and governing systems and “originating documents” (like Constitutions of ink and Commandments etched in stone) as sacred and holy. Consider the origins of the Book of Mormon. 

Washington Monument, Washington D.C., United States as viewed at twilight/dusk. Taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS lens. Español: El Monumento a Washington al atardecer Magyar: A Washington emlékmű Polski: Pomnik Waszyngtona o zmierzchu (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, why do Western churches often have brutal depictions of whipping and torture and crucifixions? Perhaps it is to shock, awe and terrorize people- and remind them of the power of the Empire. It could be the same reasons that gargoyles of flying monkeys are on cathedrals- to frighten conformity, just like with the wicked witch in the story of Oz and her squadrons of flying monkeys (agents of her court system of violence justice).

James Cook, English navigator, witnessing human sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) c. 1773.jpg James Cook, English navigator, witnessing human sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) c. 1773. Engraving from an 1815 edition of Cook’s ‘Voyages’ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Homo neanderthalensis. Skull discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints (France). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

a brief but serious and provocative look at mindful language

(about 4.5 pages on my word processor with font-size 12)

Language is perhaps the most amazing of human inventions, at least so far. I just finished reading a recently published book on the origins of language, co-authored by a linguist and a neuro-physiologist (someone who measures and studies things like the electrical patterns in a living human brain- whether one that is “healthy” or not). The ultra-short version of the content of the book is that significant quantities of evidence support the intriguing possibility that humans evolved language as an indirect by-product of developing the capacity to throw.

No other primate can throw with anything close to the accuracy of the dominant hunter among earthling creatures, the human. The particular complexity of throwing (for the primary purpose of hunting) is distinct from the also complex neuro-physiology involved in something like walking or seeing. While I don’t think it was never mentioned in that book (titled “Lingua Ex Machina”), I can imagine that the upright walking of humans may have set the evolutionary foundation for throwing, besides the obvious freeing up of the arms, though there are other species that would walk upright on two legs, such as penguins and kangaroos and tyrannosaurus rex, though apparently none of them developed language.

The particular way that throwing involves a set of joints all making incredibly precise motions, with the throwing movement being coordinated between the eyes (looking at a target that may be moving- such as a penguin or kangaroo) and refining the joint motions for the particularities of the projectile being launched and the wind and so on, is an extremely distinct neurological process from any other process of any earthling species. Other primates may grab branches to swing or toss, but their accuracy is quite imprecise.

Only humans throw. And we’re all “wired” to do it… and very well.

Plus, throwing is not just a trivial thing, like a thing for sports or games, at least not from an evolutionary perspective. The ecological dominance of humans on this planet is predicated on the immense superiority of human hunting over the hunting of any other species (at least on the land). Apparently, the immense superiority of human hunting for the last several million years on the whole rests on the single fulcrum of throwing.

What is established by recent neuro-physiology experiments (with the latest scanning equipment and so on) is that the actual process by which humans link together words and prepositions and clauses may actually use the exact same neural pathways and functions as the process of throwing a projectile- or close enough to have attracted the attention of neuro-physiologists. Apparently, the unconscious planning process of throwing is virtually identical neurologically with the unconscious planning process of how humans as young as 2 years old can suddenly shift from sprinkles of words to complex sentence structures running on and on with embedded verbs and pronouns. Of course, 2 year-olds are notorious for making mistakes in their use of “irregular” verb tenses, but the fact that most anyone can effortlessly understand what they are “saying almost correctly” is still distinctive, even though mastery of the various verb formations generally takes several more years.

So, first, language just magically appears, with single words and then sets of up to five related words- which is about how far other primates can go when taught sign language. Soon, human children begin producing complex sentences and eventually learn that they do not have mastery of all the verb forms. That is the stage of “conscious incompetence” in regard to conjugating verbs- which seems much easier for small human children to master than human adults who study a language foreign to them. (This may be related to the fact that adults typically try to learn foreign language by reading it, which is never how they learned to speak their native “tongues,” with tongues being a physiological reference to the primacy of speech in language.)

Indian family in Brazil posed in front of hut – 3 bare-breasted females, baby and man with bow and arrows. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Within a few more years beyond the age of 2, young humans typically develop conscious competence in various aspects of grammar and syntax- when they can produce proper constructions of spoken language, but only with attention and effort. They can distinguish proper and improper constructions, but sometimes only if reminded and prompted.

They are competent in properly constructing complex language, but only when conscious to properly forming their language. With a few more years of practice, that competency may be automatic and unconscious for most humans.

Other primates that have been taught sign language apparently do not have the capacity to communicate in complex sentence structures at all. The other primates that have so far been taught sign language seem not to comprehend complex sentences and do not ever generate them.

How humans can decode complex sentences and even produce them as early as the age of 2 is still somewhat mysterious no matter how well a biologist may explain how this capacity evolved. Consider the recurring amazement of some grandparents, even though they may have already witnessed more than a few young humans develop competency in language. Of course, no one is surprised that human children learn to speak in general- though not all do- but many children may surprise us with the particularities of their learning of language. “Oh, you won’t believe what she said today!” We may be simply amazed at language itself- and being around a young child just learning language tends to remind us of how amazing all language is.

Likewise, no one is surprised that human children learn to throw with accuracy, though some children’s skill may be distinctively impressive, “at least for someone of such a young age.” However, in the current state of human culture, throwing to hunt is not of particular functional relevance to most human families, while competency in language may be essential to adaption and survival- not only to particular families, but even to humanity itself.

So, what is language for?

Language, according to evolutionary neuro-physiologists, not only developed using the exact same neural pathways as those for hunting, but may have developed specifically to improve the process of hunting. While one human with throwing precision can out-perform most any other predator on land, some of those other predators hunt in packs- and some of those predators may even hunt humans.

Further, if most any human can develop the skill of throwing with precision, how is it that some human groups (such as the Europeans) have consistently dominated certain other groups (such as the Native Americans)? Consider that language could be a factor.

One may suggest that military technology- such as the use of domesticated horses, tanks, ballistic missiles, grenade launchers, or helicopters- is the foundation of the military dominance of “the industrialized west.” However, consider that the most basic foundation is language, and that it was through language that not only did groups of humans organize their throwing into the most effective hunting parties among all land species, but that the singular technology of language was foundational to the development of all other forms of organized military dominance, from the stage of invention to the accumulating and refining of of raw material resources like steel and oil, the mass production of new technology, the distribution of the technology, the training of soldiers, and the implementation of whatever complex technologies for conducting the organized violence of the already dominant (AKA “legitimate”) governments as well as any competing factions.

So language is not just a means by which to improve hunting for a kin group- just as throwing improves hunting for an individual. Language is also a tool for various families and tribes and nations and factions to compete with each other. Language is now a primary mechanism of social organization.

A fMRI scan showing regions of activation in orange, including the primary visual cortex (V1, BA17). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In military terms, the use of language for social organization is called propaganda. Propaganda may sometimes be much more efficient for governing troops and conducting psychological warfare then other available methods, such as overt terrorism (“hot warfare”). Note that a popular definition of terrorism is “organized violence conducted specifically for the advancing of a political purpose,” which may seem functionally synonymous with “war.”

Currently, there is massive redistribution of the ownership of resources underway from those who are incompetent in certain uses of language toward those who are competent. Consider that the language of promises has enticed many investors, though they may have not considered the viability of the stated promises.

It may be a promise made by a politician: “Everyone will have more because we as your government will take from some of you and give to some of you, plus maybe keep just a little something for ourselves, but only a little- we promise!” Or, it may be the promise made by the salesperson for an insurance company: “It would be foolish for you to purchase anything other than this annuity contract. In this contract, we promise to pay you consistent returns no matter what happens to the value of the underlying investments.”

Did you notice anything unusual about that last sentence? If not, I invite you to read it again (and again).

Hey, didn’t you just say: “no matter what happens to the value of this investment, we guarantee the value of this investment?” Isn’t that at least just a little bit weird?

These promises may be instantly ridiculous when stated in clear language (such as in a political cartoon), but still many people invest in such promises and then express surprise and upset when they are unsatisfied by the results of their investments in promises which may have been unrealistic from the beginning. The particular types of promises which would most predictably de-stabilize governments and insurance companies and credit markets and so on may be the ones in which some people would be most eager to invest.

With each passing moment, some human groups may prosper more than others. The ones that are most competent in language may predictably develop further their social dominance. Their investments will differ from the investments of others, and thus their results will differ. Whenever a group of humans invest, some may prosper more than others.

In particular, government programs may be used to discourage certain behaviors as allegedly unsafe while encouraging others as allegedly safe. Is it possible that governments might ever publicize information that was inaccurate (whether the KGB or the FDA or the SEC)? Even sincere communicators may occasionally make mistakes, and certainly some bureaucrats are quite sincere. I used to be a bureaucrat myself, though I “did not quite fit in.”

In publicly-funded educational systems, participants may be trained in a certain ideology of how things should be. Training in how things should be is a way of distracting attention from how things are. Of course, people will eventually find out various details of how things are, but when they have been indoctrinated in advance with an ideology of how things should be, then people may reject certain details of how things actually are, then ridicule, condemn and finally try to “correct” those things. Of course, such so-called liberalism is encouraged and then made distinctive by also encouraging a slightly varied form of idealism called conservatism.

Human brain – midsagittal cut (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For instance, by propagating the myth that governments have ever been anything other than instruments of social control (i.e governing operations), then producing ideology of how certain methods of governing are fundamentally better than others, the masses are set up for outrage when they confront the reality that it is not only the foreign governments identified by their governments as “your enemy” that implement propaganda, exploit their own domestic populations, and so on. Outraged intellectuals then predictably push for however trivial reforms, believing that government has ever been anything other than corruption and thus could someday be cured of any “sudden new outbreak” of corruption.

Returning to the broader subject of language, language is the only realm in which the form of deception called lying can manifest. Politicians and governments seem to specialize in this type of language. I am not saying this of certain politicians, or only of politicians of a certain foreign government alleged to be “our enemy,” or of a certain historical period of time. Politicians- or the most successful ones at least- tend to be those most competent in a particular manifestation of language called lying. In fact, deception and even self-deception may not only be epidemic amongst politicians, but amongst all the populations of the industrialized west, though perhaps most notoriously so amongst lawyers and salespeople and so on (teenagers?).

The fundamental linguistic self-deception or delusion is this: “this should not be.” The rejecting of anything simply because it does fit a preconceived notion of how it should be is a rejecting that may be happening however consciously or unconsciously.

Further, the selecting of certain particular things, then interpreting of those things as valuable or relevant is always based on models of prior experiences. We, like all biological organisms, always have available for our attention huge ranges of perception, and we select certain perceptions, rejecting all others, then we organize or interpret those limited perceptions into our emerging behavior. That is called adaption- or life.

Many of us may be unconscious of our incompetence in regard to sustainable living- like a chimpanzee that does not comprehend complex sentence structure, so does not ever have issues with proper or improper sentence construction. We may worship certain indoctrinated ideologies as “what should be,” then react against reality, resisting it, wishing to fix it, shaming it, looking for who to blame for how inconveniently real reality is.

Soon, some of us, in the sustainability of our patterns of living, may shift from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. Conscious incompetence is also known as the stage of learning (or of “the seeker”).

The term “spiritually dead” or “asleep” has been used for those who may be unconscious of their true social functionality. Of course, those who are most fanatical about how they are “born again”and so on may be the least spiritually alive or awake. Religions, by the way, may have been formed in order to organize social groups for the particular benefit of certain portions of the organized social grouping.

Those who are consciously competent recognize that attention and discipline may be relevant in order to practically adapt. They may be beyond the stages of rejecting reality or fixing it (or of ignoring or denying it). However, their partnering with reality is still in the realm of developing increasing competence.

For them, noticing how language forms- like moment to moment- may be one of many subjects of particular interest to them. The term “mindfulness” has been used for that quality of attention and consciousness which is neither that of one asleep nor a novice nor one fully awakened.

The most ridiculous of all ideologies may be in the form characteristic of “religious psychology:” how I should be. However, for the novice, exposure to the fact of ideological delusions of “how I should be” may be an essential part of training and development. Mythology is another word for religious psychology, and every religion has mythology, just as every government has mythology. Governments, by the way, may be the dominant forms of religion on the planet today. (Or, saying the same thing with other words, perhaps religions used to be the dominant form of government on the planet.)

Either way, both government and religion are institutions organized specifically to influence human behavior. Perhaps by studying religious language and religion in general, that is a fitting context for developing our basic skills before we actually wake up to the point that we may be ready to “go out there and get in to the dirty trenches” of politics. Or, perhaps religion really is, as it advertises, the singular escape from the hell of delusion and contentiousness. Are you willing to explore that question further now?

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