SIGHTINGS
Unlimited Totalitarianism
By Diane Harvey <merak@sedona.net>
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The Golden Road To Unlimited Totalitarianism
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Welfare = bread....TV = circuses. The empire is falling.
Regards
J.R.
p.s. the unattributed quote ("its too late to work within the system...") is Claire Wolfe's.
Conclusion of Part I,
Golden Road.
NMC, thanks, and good response.
Mancini, Jed, for your interest...
Is God a Totalitarian?
A free will is a free will: this trust was absolute. One is free to choose to try to live outside goodness, outside love, and outside all spiritual reality. "Outside" exists, as the necessary corollary to free will. What use is free will with no way to misuse it and no place to experience the results? Thus, human free will necessarily generates an individual and collective dark side, an outside-of-divine-life zone: all the hells on earth. Of all these distorted forms we let innate divine energy take, totalitarianism is the worst.
Wow - she Gets It. There is no better statement to buttress the fact that "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Evil never takes a day off, and the most perfect of circumstances and societies contains the roots of its own destruction. It's a reflection of the notion of balance - the yin and the yang of Eastern philosophy.
Astute comment.
Who is sightings.com? Is he reliable?
Also, why all the foreign words?
. . the yin and the yang of Eastern philosophy.
Mugger?
Without the fundamental possibility of exercising free will, a human being cannot even exist, except as potential.
What a magnificent post, metalbird1! Simply breathtaking insights.... I have noticed exactly what the author is talking about WRT television viewing in terms of its effect on consiousness. Simply put, the way folks typically talk about television programming, they miss the real significance of that phrase. Thank you for this astounding essay. best wishes, bb.
Marker bump. Jeff Rense's radio program recently started running in my town. I give it rather mixed reviews. Too much time spent on "sightings." When he gets on subjects like this, he's excellent. The web site is better than the radio program.
What'd you say? The TV is on, and...
Thanks for the heads-up. Excellent essay.
mb1: Sure hope you post the follow-up pieces. And thanks for this one.
I read a great piece there this morning. The article is called Watching the Watchers, By Mark Pilkington
The full article is here.
This was my favorite part...
Someone asked me: "How can you read all this conspiracy stuff without going insane?" (It was meant as a compliment.) I replied, "How can you watch the evening news without going insane yourself?" That's what freaks me out. If my mind had to wallow in deceit and fraud all day, I would quickly go insane. When I view the world as it is presented to most, I become ill, I want to vomit, because I know it is a lie. I find peace in destruction, in obliterating illusions, in annihilating the hoax that is acceptable. What is acceptable is unacceptable, and I refuse to ever accept it.
GB: I've had both, and they compliment each other. At one point a few years ago, I had a sort of illumination that came from rumination on total paranoia. I just let my imagination run wild, and went though sort of like what Robert Anton Wilson calls "Chapel Perilous - price of admission: your mind." The act of giving in to the feelings of helplessness helped me to accept it & realise that the most I can do is write and talk to people about these things. So what if we're being watched or my e-mail is read, etc. Ultimately, there's nothing you can do about it.
RS: As Epicurus put it, it's pointless to worry about things beyond your control. If the price paid for asking dangerous questions is surveillance, well, then accept it and move on.
FT: So what worries you?
JV: I think that we've become a total media society. The near-totality of our psychic space is occupied by distraction: images of inane celebrities, mesmerising news of get-rich-quick IPOs, endless, emotionally heated debates over trivial non-issues (see: Monica Lewinsky) and, generally, a 24-hour barrage of mediocrity and banality. The things we're concerned with these days are so unbelievably stupid and such a total waste of time that I have actually begun to worry that people have become distracted to the point where something very, very bad could happen in my own lifetime. Something on the level of the Holocaust or worse. Here, in the United States. It could happen because absolutely no one will care or even notice until it's too late.
Calamities of nearly that level occur all the time in non-Western countries, and we neither care nor notice. Those places are simply off the air, as far as we're concerned. But here in America the Society of the Spectacle has become so all-consuming that our own homeland has become, in effect, a foreign country. We're that disconnected from reality. So, something on the level of an East Timor or a Tibet or worse could happen right here at home, and it would be just another ripple in the media ether, quickly fading into darkness. That sort of worries me.
RS: Huxley talks about this in Brave New World. While those with power certainly aren't above lying and suppressing information, the most effective way to suppress dissent is to drown it with a chorus of mindless diversions. Huxley came up with a rather lovely phrase to describe it: the appetite for distraction. The last great comedian of the 20th century, the late Bill Hicks, had a hilarious routine where he rants against the evils of Michael Bolton, Billy Ray Cyrus and Vanilla Ice. In response to arguments that their music is harmless, he shouted: "No! They're demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards!" Hicks was right. A society that can't resist The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync will be unable to resist fascism.
You ask, is he reliable?
Is who reliable? Do the thoughts ring true to you, does it provide any insight?
All what foreign words? What are you talking about?
I don't know if I would argue your point.
As for me, I take what serves me and take a pass on what doesn't.
Will try to keep an eye out for them if/when they appear...
Appreciate your comments and added insight.
She really cut to the chase, and I am sitting here with tears in my eyes. Ever since I started reading up on mind control, I have been rethinking the whole entertainment industry. While I now recognize the darkness there, I struggle to attach words to the conclusions I have made. Reading this was like exhaling. Thank you, Metalbird.
One who governs himself need not be governed by others.
I don't do TV but only rarely [movies, very choosy, though not for fear of being controlled; rather, resentful of the overture(s) at it], and when I do I am fascinated by it {TV} with its superficial attempts at control through manipulation.
Excellent post. The interesting irony is that the imposition of totalitarian control is espoused by the self proclaimed "progressives". History proves again and again that totalitarian societies are intellectually barren and technologically stagnant. The progressives see chaos and dischord as wasted effort and resources. Better to get everyone together and working toward a common goal. They hope to impose order in all things and eliminate chaos wherever possible. In doing so they will kill they very seeds of progress, and we will become a nation of intellectually inbred drones, bereft of passion, imagination, or curiosity.
Yes, progress, creativity, is thinking outside the box, outside the established scheme of things.
Outstanding find. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Regards,
L
the most effective way to suppress dissent is to drown it with a chorus of mindless diversions
I saw Nader on C-SPAN recently call it "the trivial pursuits of the American people."
Thanks for the post and flagging me. I think I can share an example of what the author fears. A Christian friend knew someone who owned a chain of movie theatres and went to see a movie. In the middle of the film he wanted some popcorn and a soda. He bought some and wondered why he suddenly wanted this junk food. He later asked the owner, who laughed and led him into the projection room. The owner pointed to one frame he had spliced into the film-a picture of popcorn and Coke.
My friend told him he shouldn't be doing that because it was wrong. The owner, who was quite wealthy, replied that he made all his money by making people crave his over-priced junk food. Over time my friend made him feel guilty about such business practices and the owner finally sold his theatre chain.
Also, most of the so-called entertainment such as professional sports is fixed anyway. I know of a case last summer where, in the presence of witnesses, a bookie predicted the two teams who would appear in the Super Bowl. He said the minimum number of games each team will win, the Super Bowl contenders, etc. is all predetermined based on individual team financial situations and what is best for the league. His prediction proved correct.
Bmp.
Part 4, "Education as Black Ops"
Post 27, the series continues...
Part Five: Dr. Frankenstein I Presume?
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