On Brainwashing and Mass Delusion
June 24, 2015
HERE’S an interesting article by Stella Morbito at The Federalist. Titled How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion, it’s about the psychological warfare techniques used (often unconsciously) by the mass media and savvy political groups:
Political propaganda aims to mobilize the masses to move an agenda forward. That’s most effectively done when the masses are unaware of the process. It’s what “community organizers” work towards, whether they know it or not. Once the masses are mobilized to push for a cause, the propagandists’ goals can be put into law.
In fact, many newly propagandized ideas seem to have taken America by storm just in the past decade or so. Same-sex marriage is only one of those ideas. Transgenderism is now eclipsing that notion, and its propaganda techniques—wrapped in the language of civil rights—are getting Americans on board with the idea of erasing all sex distinctions in law, including their own. It’s as though Americans are buying into a fast-talking sales pitch without being allowed to read the print, whether it’s large print or small.
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Mass delusion is an important tool of oppressors because they can’t survive where free exercise of expression and association is practiced. Unfortunately, delusion can be induced anywhere.
“It is simply a question of organizing and manipulating collective feelings in the proper way. If one can isolate the mass, allow no free thinking, no free exchange, no outside correction and can hypnotize the group daily with noises, with press and radio and television, with fear and pseudo-enthusiasms, any delusion can be instilled.”
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Of course, it’s really hard for control freaks to do their work on us if we are speaking freely with one another in friendship, and especially if we all understand what they are up to and can call them on it in one voice. So their first order of business is to separate us. A sense of enforced isolation is a cruel and effective tool for instilling loneliness and then delusion in people.
According to [Dutch psychologist Joost A.M.] Meerloo, manipulators accomplish this through the knowledge that “far below the surface, human life is built up of inner contradictions.” Our hopes and fears and longing to avoid social rejection are exploited through the dictates of political correctness, which is the tool that separates people today, especially in that one place where ideas and ideals are supposed to be tested most vigorously in adulthood: the university.
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Peter G. writes:
“Propaganda for moral insanity:” Those are the words of Eric Voegelin over sixty years ago on the gnostic dream world he predicted would expand. I believe at that time he saw it being relatively constrained to elite environs but the information age has facilitated a premature irruption of advanced gnosticism into the Masses. His description of its features and disposition are startling accurate from 1952. Prohibitions on questions, taboos of inquiries of cause and effect in historical action, repressing the truth of the soul (common sense) – an illusion of left and right that disguises elites as a single faction functioning on a continuum that only varies in amplitude.
Teleological, axiological and activist gnostics will not contradict one another as it would blow up the entire construct. The small iota of principle and connection to reality within the latter two groups perceived as the right is usually expressed by grumblings and awkwardness as the activist type unleash their puritanical fury on an impotent populace.
Consider the spectacle of the planetary cyber-mob, rampaging around the globe by digital lynching, tar and feathering all who would incite a deranged passion for ideological dominance. It’s a new form of power, unseen in human history. Political power used to require men to emanate out through a soul is now a soulless system of machines, an artificially enhanced libido dominandi amplified and mechanized to crush all flesh in its way.
Whoever stands at the source of that pathway of is also likely not human either.
Laura writes:
Yes, we are dealing with institutionalized Satanism.
