I don’t totally agree with Beck—but I understand what he is talking about. He is talking about changing the hearts and minds of the people, first.....it is like William Wilberforce did to eliminate slavery in England, which took 20 years of hard work and educating the masses, and he is trying to affect “culture”—the ideology of the masses. How the masses perceive Reality.
It involves invading the media-—and taking over movie production, TV programming and the schools, returning to Classical Education and returning local control of schools to parents. It is about retaking Popular Culture.
The masses have been brainwashed and dumbed-down, since forever—in a very powerful “Edward Bernays” fashion.
That is why Beck is trying to set up a studio and create movies, that which affects the “emotions” and “thinking” of children and adults. You have to win the majority and people have been so corrupted by the lies and misinformation (White Noise) and lack of Classical ideology-—that they are ignorant and only react to ‘emotion’ which is extremely dangerous.
This is a powder-keg. The Framers of the Constitution were the most well-read, educated people (and brilliant), and what they did was NOT based on emotion, but on Reason, and debate of a decade, at least. They tried to reason with an insane King, even.
But, at its heart, was a collection of men who were the most brilliant and well-read in all of history. They were products of the Enlightenment (Reason—not emotions). Most Americans were very independent-minded, and had Common Sense (Virtue), since they would die, if they had none.
They hated “dependency”.....which is the opposite of the masses today, who are lazy and lack Virtue, and are ignorant, and have absolutely no commonsense.
That said, the key in “change” is “education”. Beck is right on that. You have to “win” the hearts of the masses, which is very tricky in today’s environment of Psychology/drugs. Armed resistance can be used against us, because of the Leftist total control of MSM, most Information. It is pretty absolute right now—more so than Goebbels’ Germany, because people in Germany KNEW they were lied to....most people in America “think” they hear the “truth” and are too lazy and distracted by entertainment to seek it.
Look how they destroyed Bundy in a matter of a day....and made him into something evil and radical in the minds of MOST people. Yes, the informed understand the issues, but the majority are useful idiots....have been trained in public schools to be such idiots.
Beck is about changing the minds of the masses; To create Virtue (because as Socrates stated there can be no Free Republic without Virtue.)
Beck is afraid that an armed rebellion will end up like a Waco and at this point, he is probably correct....it will NOT lead to a Revolution like at our Founding. The masses are too dumb and too immoral (lazy) and are controlled by the mass media which is controlled by our government.
We need to educate and take back the institutions and it will take time and hard work and real sacrifice. It took 100 years for the Left to entrench themselves...we can not undo this damage in a minute, because of the mindset in all the useful idiots and their control of information.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Agreed that it will probably take generations to un wind what has been done but the tide has to turn now and the gummint needs to know that if it resists the tide it will spark violence. “Our Masters” need to have no doubt about this. They can play all the Alinskyite race cards and whatever else but they need to be aware we are here and there will be thousands (or more) who “have not bent a knee to Baal”.