Television, Media and the Hive Mind

[Dera]

Originally by Div:

You've heard about the internet, right? Seriously, get rid of those idiot boxes and piss off the media indoctrinators.

Oh, I forgot to ask. Where can I find unbiased news on the Internet? Got a link? Or do you trust the websites of ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, AP, FOX, Drudge,
FARK.com, or Alex Jones? Or is it that you trust only the ones that are slanted your way?

"Inquiring Minds" want to know!

[Divinorumus]

Originally by Div:

Oh, I forgot to ask. Where can I find unbiased news on the Internet? Got a link? Or do you trust the websites of ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, AP, FOX, Drudge,
FARK.com, or Alex Jones? Or is it that you trust only the ones that are slanted your way?

"Inquiring Minds" want to know!

Who says you need the media to learn what is going on elsewhere? Where do you live? If a big fire broke out there, do I need to turn on the TV to find this out, or will you mention it HERE? You can learn what is going on with your fellow earth citizens FROM your fellow earth citizens, and not some media machine. If you need to learn of economical conditions, do you need to find that out from the media machine, or can you look out your window or speak to your neighbors. TELEVISION IS "THEIR" TOOL to influence and control YOUR MIND and the fact that many CAN'T STOP watching television is PROOF POSITIVE that they have you addicted on their CRAP! Junkies!

Hey earthlings, prove to me you're all not a bunch of wussy television addicts and BUST that thing to pieces TONIGHT and show me your photos of COURAGE and STRENGTH. Sorry, but I do look DOWN upon television junkies, and it's because YOU are allowing yourselves to become THEIR TOOL! You bunch of TOOLS! Have some balls, JUST DO IT, pick that television up and toss it out the window. Can you imagine the crisis that would STRIKE the media and big borther if EVERYONE did JUST THAT? It wouldn't even make the news, because there would be no more of THAT to do so. Television addicts ARE the problem more than those that use YOU via television.

[Dera]

Originally by Div:

Oh, I forgot to ask. Where can I find unbiased news on the Internet? Got a link? Or do you trust the websites of ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, AP, FOX, Drudge,
FARK.com, or Alex Jones? Or is it that you trust only the ones that are slanted your way?

"Inquiring Minds" want to know!

I haven't watched much TV since I was gifted with a PC. I still, very occasionally, watch the Discover, History, National Geo., and the Animal Planet channels.

I actually sit for many more hours in front of the damned PC than I ever sat watching TV. The Internet brings me some amusement plus endless blathering from highly opinionated and extremely verbose--um--persons who attempt to bludgeon me with words so that I will see things only their way.

[Dera]

Who says you need the media to learn what is going on elsewhere? Where do you live? If a big fire broke out there, do I need to turn on the TV to find this out, or will you mention it HERE?

I live in a small town and have a few Internet friends in other small towns. If I rely only on them, it rather narrows the information that is available and of interest to me. I just don't know people all over the world. If events are not occurring in a person's own backyard, how can I rely on anyone to apprise me as I wonder just what their sources are?

It seems to me that when it comes to news, isn't it all just "caveat emptor"?

[Alpha]

My husband and I watch fox everynight. We consider it 'knowing thy enemy.'

Yes, Sun Tzu did have some good advice didn't he Hadriana

"keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

Div, I have two TVs in my house and I wouldn't throw them out, yet they are rarely used.

I agree with you, that for the majority of people, it is a medium that tells them what is cool, in, what to want, to aspire to, what success looks like, ...it molds or attempts to mold society in to a preconceived paradigm by someone else.


It is also a huge source of spin, smoke and mirrors with agenda, in the so called "news" arena.

However there are also wonderful things about this contraption...it allows one to travel the world without leaving one's home, become educated on topics that they are hungry for and perhaps do not have the resources for the internet or books, it allows for some cathartic and comedic relief on occasion, etc.

Between all the garbage thrown at us via the tube, there are also some gems, some excellent documentaries, some classic and foreign cinema, concerts etc.

A discriminate and intelligent viewer knows the difference between the MC machine and what is not.

Hadriana makes an excellent point...how are you going to know what "they" are up to unless you study it ..ie...watch, be aware and see what is being pushed and spun?

[Divinorumus]

But, wouldn't it be a beautiful sight to behold to watch Hoolywood crash and burn because we all WOKE UP and decided to chuck that part of this VAIN nation into the Pacific. I can picture it now, all the vain Hoolywoodians who make millions playing make believe for a few months each year all coming on television crying and whining and begging everyone to get back into watching grown adults play make-believe, ha.

You and others may THINK you are immune to televisions influence, but I know that NONE of us ARE because JUST LOOK AT THESE AMERICANS - they are the most selfish spoiled unsatisfied bunch of hoity toity exploiters on this planet, and I can clearly see TELEVISION made them ALL like that!

Really, when my television receiver box crapped out a few years ago, I ended up putting off replacing it because I had other priorities and was busy and then was too sick. But after a few months I began to notice the change in ME as a result of giving up THAT addiction despite the few decent things there are to watch, which can be purchased, borrowed, or rented instead (and in any case, OUT OF SITE, OUT OF MIND - so ). Those that turn that thing on every day should try giving it up this summer, and I mean cold turkey and no cheating and no exceptions (well, unless another live towering inferno special comes on again … I mean, who can resist watching LIVE disasters on Earth).

Oh well, I guess it’s just a pipe dream that we could take down vanity and Hoolywood and a bunch of make-believers with a plan that doesn’t cost us a dime to implement which also results in lots of extra free time. Perfect plan but I guess no takers. Well, that’s the AMERICANS for you - they just don’t give a flying #$%@ about fixing and correcting anything in this world. “Oh, I can’t give up TV, my life would seem so empty and shallow and pointless and pitiful without the idiot box to entertain and occupy my time and mind and life and money.” Har har har … HUMONS!

So, I guess we’ll have to go with plan B (crash the economy) to take down vanity and the highly over paid pretenders, ha.

BTW, doesn’t it make any of you angry to be contributing financial to those vain elite pretenders that make millions playing house or doctor or some other childs make-believe pretender games on television? So many bitch about the rich getting richer, yet it is YOUS ALL that are SENDING them all that money. Go figure, it must have something to do with screwy backwards upsidedown earth human logic, ha.

[VOguy]

TV; like a book, a radio, a friend, or even a spouse, has it's place. But any one of them can tell the truth or a lie. It's best to to use the quote "trust, but verify" in most situations.

[Alpha]

I think way too much credit is given to Big Brother and their control of billion dollar media conglomerates or visa versa. It's all capitalism and making the next quick buck off advertising. If you don't like it there is something called a knob where you can turn off your TV. (Well an on-off switch for you young people.) In other words we have the freedom to choose what to watch or not watch.

Add to the fact that nowadays there is so much to choose from between the internet, TV, radio, books, tapes, records, CD's etc. etc. etc., that it would be pretty hard to program the population. This enables each person to individually "program" and choose their own entertainment day in and day out. Technology has furthered the cause of Free speech, free press and the freedom to choose!! Isn't capitalism and freedom great!!

Great post CM and I agree with you in sentiment...however that said, that's a no brainer for folks like you, I and most here.

I guess we're in the less than perhaps 10% of the populace who has that awareness and knowledge.

Just from where I look around and what I see ...sadly, the TV/media has become the new "mantra", "raison d'etre", that tells most what to think, what to want, what is true, what is not, what to consider, what not to...

Canada, has always had the highest penetration of internet homes and access....and yes, I can't imagine how I would ever live without information/disinformation at my fingertips, within seconds.

Guess we need to remember that in NA...this is not always the case.

The majority still rely on CNN or some other media venue to tell them what is real, worthy, how to think, how they can be successful, cool or not.

WE are a minority CM....and for that I am sad...however with all that access for those who have it, care and are aware of it...you are bang on!!

[teresius]

tv can be a useful tool. however, our soceity has been teaching dependence and irresponsibility for too long for it to be used properly by a large percentage of the population. the average citizen doesn't comprehend how his iq is lowered and his worldview skewed by this idiot box. even if you made him/her aware of this fact, they would just assume that
1. it's not their fault and
2. there's nothing that they can do about it.
they'll all have to wake up on their own.
i would also like to point out that the tv is not the only thing that's bombarding us daily with subliminal messages. it's everywhere. it's in the placement of items in billboards and print ads, the jingles on the radio, EVERYWHERE. it really reminds me of the movie "they live," with rowdy roddy piper.
for example, i was listening to the news on the radio the other night and heard, in between other news items and totally apropo of nothing that was on,
"george bush did not pardon his friend. karl rove was convicted of his crimes."

that's it. nothing else before or after that was related to this snippet AT ALL. i would wager that most people wouldn't have caught it at all, as it was on at about 2 am and it was snuck in very quickly. it would probably bypass their filters and stick right in the old brain-craw (yes i'm in the south). perhaps i'll start a thread on this subject in mind control: a thread where everyone can post any subliminal messages or ads that they see or hear.

[Divinorumus]

You should know that it’s not quite so simple as turning the dial for many humans when something comes on that they find objectionable and undesirable. Television can influence you even without any commercials or biased news and programs. And, it can cause stress, anxiety and discontentment. By this I mean most people would be quite happy and content with their life if they thought they were living the comfortable life. But a lot of this “OH, WE ARE SO DOWN AND OUT AND DEPRIVED COMPARED TO THOSE WE SEE ON TV” whining that is going on today is CAUSED by television. “Oh, look at how the folks live on that TV show, they have a new 60” LCD home entertainment system. And a pool in the back. And can jump on a plane and fly to the Cayman Islands for a months vacation at the drop of a hat. And they all have iPods. And …. woe are we who didn‘t have those things and were quite content until we saw others with such things and started COVETING them.”

You see what I’m getting at, right? You see the problem in our world right now, right? You’ve got 22 year olds graduating college that think because everyone on television lives in a half million dollar home then they MUST live like that too, least they feel like a failure or deprived or whatever. You got kids leaving college with tens of thousands of dollars in school debt, and they MUST have that NEW car, least they appear living substandard compared to how everyone else lives … as seen on television.

There are so many people that BITCH about their lot and place in life that would have otherwise been happy had TELEVISION not made them feel inadequate and deprived because they are not living up to the same standards of glutton and consumption that television depicts everyone else is apparently living. Were you happy until you found out everyone else has a tingamabop, and so now you must have one too, like the TV humons, and that makes you feel normal like the rest? If you saw on TV tonight that everyone else lives in a castle, would that suddenly make you feel deprived and left out because you live in a one bedroom appartment?

Am I making my point here? In other words, more people would be more happier without television than television telling them THIS WAY is the happy life. How many people feel deprived because everyone else has an iPod and they don’t? Did they feel deprived before iPods came into being? How many people were happy going camping for their vacation until they learned that everyone else was flying off to wherever and staying in luxury 5 star hotels?

Sorry, but television is what has made you all the people you are today, and that ain’t a good thing. You should never allow any media that kind of influential access to your mind, thoughts, and beliefs. The whole point of television is to keep yous all WANTING MORE AND MORE AND MORE CRAP. The fact that television is supported by commercial advertising dollars is PROOF that this is true. I mean, would you drink the Kool-Aid if it was paid for by big pharma? You’re messing around in the lions den when you watch those idiot boxes for more than 5 minutes a month.

Oh well humons, crash and burn and live and learn.

[Alpha]

Div you make some excellent points...I agree that the media is a conditioning tool that sets a paradigm for many relative to what success is, what one should to and/or aspire to.

I stumbled across this article this morning...it's long, however a good one IMO...

From: fourwinds10.com

Mass Mind Control Through Network Television


Alex Ansary


Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid?



A major component to a full understanding of why this kind of governmental and corporate corruption is to discover the modern science of mind control and social engineering. It’s baffling to merely glance at the stacks of documentation that this world government



It isn’t being constructed for the greater good of humanity. Although there are a growing number of people waking up the reality of our growing transparent soft cage, there seems to be just enough citizens who are choosing to remain asleep. Worse yet, there are even those who were at least partially awake at one time but found it necessary to return to the slumber of dreamland.

This is no accident; this is a carefully crafted design.



The drive to dumb down the populations of planet earth is a classic art that existed before the United States did. One component to understanding and deciphering the systems of control is to become a student of the magicians of influence and propaganda.



In order to defeat our enemies (or dictators), its imperative that we understand how they think and what they believe in.


When people think about mind control, they usually think in terms of the classic “conspiracy theory” that refers to Project MkUltra. This program is a proven example of ‘overt mind control.’ The project had grown out of an earlier secret program, known as Bluebird that was officially formed to counter Soviet advances in brainwashing. In reality the CIA had other objectives. An earlier aim was to study methods ‘through which control of an individual may be attained’. The emphasis of experimentation was ‘narco-hypnosis’, the blending of mind altering drugs with carefully hypnotic programming.


A crack CIA team was formed that could travel, at a moments notice, to anywhere in the world. Their task was to test the new interrogation techniques, and ensure that victims would not remember being interrogated and programmed. All manner of narcotics, from marijuana to LSD, heroin and sodium pentathol (the so called ‘truth drug’) were regularly used.


Despite poor initial results, CIA-sponsored mind control program flourished. On 13 April 1953, the super-secret project MK-ULTRA was born. Its scope was broader than ever before, and only those in the top echelon of the CIA were privy to it. Official CIA documents describe MK-ULTRA as an ‘umbrella project’ with 149 ’sub-projects’. Many of these sub-projects dealt with testing illegal drugs for potential field use. Others dealt with electronics. One explored the possibility of activating ‘the human organism by remote control’. Throughout, it remained a major goal to brainwash individuals to become couriers and spies without their knowledge.


When it was formed in 1947, the CIA was forbidden to have any domestic police or internal security powers. In short, it was authorized only to operate ‘overseas’. From the very start MK-ULTRA staff broke this Congressional stipulation and began testing on unwitting American citizens.
Precisely how extensive illegal testing became will never be known.



Richard Helms, CIA Director and chief architect of the program, ordered the destruction of all MK-ULTRA records shortly before leaving office in 1973. Despite these precautions some documents were misfiled and came to light in the late 1970’s. They laid bare the spy agency’s cynicism. Despite the widespread knowledge of MK Ultra and the civil lawsuits that followed, this form of behavior modification is not the most expansive. The real dangers are the types of thought control that are ‘covert’ and not the subject of several dozen Hollywood movies like “Clockwork Orange” and Mel Gibson’s “Conspiracy Theory.”


Our founding fathers faced enormous challenges in the formation of this country and its bill of rights. One challenge was laying down the groundwork or a free society without knowing what kind of technological advances would be made.



Who would have guessed in those times that we needed an article in the bill of rights that specifically prohibits the government and it’s associates from engaged in mind control or thought control.





The closest item that promises our protection from the government is the 4th Article in The Bill of Rights which states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Like many are now beginning to note, the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights are merely given lip service by our supposedly elected officials.


One of the most common examples of mind control in our so-called free and civilized society is the advent and usage of the television set. This isn’t to say that all things on TV are geared towards brainwashing you. They’re not. But most of the programming on television today is run and programming by the largest media corporations that have interests in defense contracts, such as Westinghouse (CBS), and General Electric (NBC).



This makes perfect sense when you see how slanted and warped the news is today. Examining the conflicts of interest is merely glancing at the issue, although to understand the multiple ways that lies become truth, we need to examine the techniques of brain washing that the networks are employing.


Radio isn’t any different in its ability to brainwash a population into submission. Sixty-seven years ago, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare. It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles’ explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape the alien invaders.


According to researcher Mack White ( http://www.mackwhite.com/), “Psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University’s Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program.


Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done groundbreaking research on, among other things, mass brainwashing.
Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of “psycho-political operations” (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).



Then, during World War II, Cantril and Rockefeller money assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study Nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying Nazi techniques to OSS propaganda.




Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council. Thus, by the end of the 1940s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up–just in time for the Dawn of Television.”

Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body’s own natural opiates–thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit. It’s no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.

The dumbing down of humanity is represented by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the “fight or flight” response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is “only a film,” on a conscious level we do not–the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us, but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised–and the effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers.



This is where the manipulators use our own emotions as strings to control us. The distortions and directions we are being moved to are taking place in the subconscious, often undetected.


Propaganda techniques were first codified and applied in a scientific manner by journalist Walter Lippman and psychologist Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud) early in the 20th century. During World War I, Lippman and Bernays were hired by then United States President, Woodrow Wilson, to participate in the Creel Commission, the mission of which was to sway popular opinion in favor of entering the war, on the side of Britain. Edward Bernays said in his 1928 book Propaganda that, “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”


The Creel Commission provided themes for speeches by “four-minute men” at public functions, and also encouraged censorship of the American press. The Commission was so unpopular that after the war, Congress closed it down without providing funding to organize and archive its papers. The war propaganda campaign of Lippman and Bernays produced within six months such an intense anti-German hysteria as to permanently impress American business (and Adolf Hitler, among others) with the potential of large-scale propaganda to control public opinion. Bernays coined the terms “group mind” and “engineering consent”, important concepts in practical propaganda work. The current public relations industry is a direct outgrowth of Lippman’s and Bernays’ work and is still used extensively by the United States government.



For the first half of the 20th century Betrays and Lip man ran a very successful public relations firm. World War II saw continued use of propaganda as a weapon of war, both by Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Gobbles and the British Political Warfare Executive, as well as the United States Office of War Information.


Turn on your local newscast. You have a few minutes of blue-collar crime, hardly any white collar crime, a few minutes of sports, misc. chit chat, random political jibber-jabber, and a look at the weather that no one is forecasting correctly. Is that what happened in your town? And we’re supposed to own the airwaves! The mainstream media openly supports the interests of the prison industrial complex. The stories focus on minority criminal groups, and exploit the real threat to appear much more dangerous than they are. Think about the growing per capita number of prisoners in the country. Then remember that this is happening at the same time that our prison boom began. The police on our streets have created criminals. The focus is to keep us in a state of fear, that way the elitists can attack any group they want to without fear of consequence. This is why the media is continuing to craft the timeless art of dehumanization.


The techniques are increasing in their sophistication over time as the mind scientists that serve the empire continue to discover scientific breakthroughs as to how the human brain functions, learns, retains information, and behaves.



The most effective brainwashing techniques are used on the most successful propaganda networks. Examine the music bed that lies low during the fright night scope of the second. It’s spooky. I wonder if we are supposed to be thinking with our minds or getting ready for stunt. Observe the graphics with the music. They’re glitzy and flashing. Like the monkey that is attracted to shiny objects, it’s our monkey hand that controls to remote often stops the search for entertainment when the proper amount of glamour catches their attention.



Most importantly, notice the repetition behind the lies that the politicians and their corporate media groupies tell us. You see, the unimaginable fallacies are created as ‘truth’ not because it’s logical or provable, but because of the broken record technique. No matter how ridiculous the lie, it’s repeated often enough that the brain doesn’t know the difference between reality and nursery rhymes. This technique is under estimated in its ability to allow the puppeteers to hypnotize millions of people. Instead of “Fair and balanced” it’s “We say it enough times, and you believe it.”


It’s a tragic day when the state can monopolize on the enslaving and imprisonment of a population.



Hollywood will continue to frighten us with films on the mafia, gangsters, and the corrupt blue collar criminal whose stupidity and greed get them caught. In the end, our minds are already pre conditioned to accept living in a police state economy and society because we read it in the paper, saw it praised on the news and talk shows, or saw it in a movie. There are several movies planned right now that support the official story of 911 and a few movies that glamorize the War on IRAQ. According to David L Robb, Author of Operation Hollywood, “Hollywood and the Pentagon have a long history of making movies together. It’s a tradition that stretches back to the early days of silent films, and extends right up until the present day. It’s been a collaboration that works well for both sides. Hollywood producers get what they want - access to billions of dollars worth of military hardware and equipment - tanks, jet fighters, nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers - and the military gets what it wants - films that portray the military in a positive light; films that help the services in their recruiting efforts.



The Pentagon is not merely a passive supporter of films, however. If the Pentagon doesn’t like a script, it will usually suggest script changes that will allow the film to receive the military’s support and approval. Sometimes these proposed changes are minor. But sometimes the changes are dramatic. Sometimes they change dialogue. Sometimes they change characters. Sometimes they even change history.” They create something coined ‘disinfotainment’. They mix disinformation with entertainment and call it disinfotainment.


Unadulterated Violence is now accepted on regular TV. Killing in the name of the mother government is praised, that is unless the violence is committed in self defense to protect someone from the system. Sharp shooters, bombers, and assassin are worshipped if they are fighting for the system, are in the military, or are associated with groups that control the masses locally, such as the local police department. I don’t condone violence, however it’s hypocritical to support one form of homicide when it favors the elite, and condemn another when it’s done to protect your land, freedom, or loved ones.



This odd reality transfers itself into the shady world of video games that are stepped in plots and tasks to kill as much as the player can. The players are getting younger and younger with 7 out of 10 children playing games with a ‘Mature’ rating. Recently I was browsing the PC video game selection at a very large electronics store. I was appalled to see nearly 50 different games in which the setting of the game is IRAQ and the goal is to kill as many insurgents as possible and fulfill the mission. Children today are being indoctrinated through their favorite games and law enforcement programs to be the button pushes of the weapons of mass destruction for tomorrow’s world.


Is it any wonder why there are two house bills and a senate bill (with more on the way), which are giant steps in dismantling free speech of the general public. These bills together would kill (PEG) cable access centers where the public still owns the airwaves. It’s the programming created locally, without censorship or commercial gain. Their income is derived from franchises within the local cities and a small percentage cable subscriber frees.



This is a corporate takeover because this is centralizing communication by removing the locally based programming and moving the audience to the more official, nationalistic, and sensational programs that promotes violence, uniformity, and slavery over peach, diversity and freedom. Cable access features free speech and information with perspectives neglected by mainstream television. It also features a free flow programming system with fresh programs being aired by new producers on a rotating basis. This keeps the content and information creative and locally based while network TV is rigid with regular time slots and repetitive programming.


The blocks of programming that are universally accepted parallel the shift to craft our entire lives towards the factory’s bell and the illusion of time.


This is the creation of the hive mind. The hive mind is result of massive brainwashing to the general public. Everyone shares the same thoughts, goals, knowledge and understanding. A hive mind society gears itself towards conformity and ignores diversity while masqueraded as the road to utopia in mainstream television.



Network programming, weather it’s the news or drama, is geared towards artificially creating your world and reality. With the proper amount of entertainment and sensationalism, we may even be living our lives through the television set. Many anchors and actors are beautiful and research shows that attractive people are usually perceived as trust worthy. While the real news rolls quickly by on the bottom of your screen, the anchor is selling you on the idea of having your very own police state hell hole right here in your local jurisdiction, or how 2 sports opposing teams chased around on a court for 2 hours in attempt to score points means something to you. No education, no information, SPIN. Today the media represents a tool of brainwashing and indoctrination that is utilized on behalf of the owners interests.


Since the 1996 Telco act, television and radio stations all across the nation were bought out by major international media outlets. Clear Channel and Infinity are the two largest corporations in radio today. This has centralized the distribution of information and has threatened our free society ever since. The media drums to the heartbeat of its owners, whose interests are not of the general public. Instead they are interested in their other financial endeavors like defense contracting, oil business, political parties, prison industry. The conflicts of interest are monumental with the deregulation of the corporations. The lines are now blurred between one network’s coverage of the war and the other.


Once we come to the conclusion that the media is intentionally deceiving us, we can apply the principles of problem-reaction-solution. This formula takes a problem by either creating it or allowing it to happen and presenting that to the population. It could be terrorism, molestation, extra terrestrials. These topics create fear and no one in their right mind would support terrorism or crime. It’s therefore OK to blast the television, the papers, and radio with ‘the problem.’ The natural reaction from the people is a request for more control to ensure more safety. Most let their fear and emotional side control their decisions and usually translated into something like, “The government needs more power over our lives to make us safer and freer from tyranny. I believe what the media tells me so I will support whatever decisions they make.” Today’s mainstream corporate news program discourages dissent of the war and paints activists with a negative brush that hints of treason. At the same time, the so-called journalists are cogs in a much larger machine who know that if they report a story that paints the government in a dark light, is likely to remain on ‘the wire’ and off the front page.


The most disturbing thing about spending a single hour examining network cable news and modern Hollywood films are the reoccurring themes in the backdrop. The central ideas of countless “investigative reports” or “Friday night special” features are about a threat of some type over the horizon.


The end of the world as we know it is being sold. If the news isn’t feeding it to you, then the History Channel or Discover Channel are either talking about the crusades, asteroids, UFOs, earthquakes, terrorism, or exposes about serial killers. They are crafted a message that our world is unstable, and the threat is always an invisible and dangerous one that only our military can fix. When you record and log all the messages, you end up with a script, a screen write produced through the movie studios of Hollywood hell.


I am not alone in noting this observation. Local and network news are designing their editorials about despair and fear because the owners, producers, and editors now understand that fear sells. The end result are the desired ratings, delivered like expected. The masters of modern spin understand that we like to be terrified.



Just look at the success in the action/suspense/terror genres that have plopped onto the conveyor belt and packaged for our glee consumption. When the editors in charge found out that simply plastering a terror alert chart didn’t scare the people the same way it used to, they began to kick up the campaign of terror a few notches with new and creative ways to sell the police state.


When you get to the other side of the terror alerts of all shapes and sizes, you find another nightmare masquerading as the savior. The ‘Ministry of Truth’ will protect you. The mother government is here to rescue you and squash this brown terrorist bug, this gray alien, this avian bird flu, and every other nightmare that the nightly news brought you. The finest public relations specialists take the science of worshipping our kings down to a frame by frame level. George W. Bush is pictured in numerous poises with a hallo around his head. In other pictures, he stands tall with dozens of American flags blowing in the wind behind him. A more blasphemous display features him speaking in front of the cross of Jesus Christ. The message send couldn’t be more clearly presented. Our current leaders are of the messiah status and only through them, will we reach the gates of safety.


The lie that has been accepted by so many as truth is that this is a religious war. Numerous prime time programs are telling the story of the crusades (without the horrors) to synch our vibrations up to something out of the 13th Century, instead of the 21st Century. If the America people accept the fact that the crusades are here, that George Bush reports directly to god, and that revelations are here, then they have won the war for our minds.


The loudspeaker whispers, “All our problems are by accident, never design.” Across the room the system’s minion snorts, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” It’s that plot that says Middle Eastern terrorists from an Afghan cave are the reason beyond our little, “War on terror.”


Related messages in the script demonize young minority males and suggest harsh punishments for crimes they commit. They don’t come out overtly and state their racist agenda. They come at you from the side by airing the same crime news repetitively, usually when it’s committed by the minority group. The networks love the fact that the TV sets the norms in society and today, and hence politically opinion. Who would imagine that in the United States of America, both candidates of both parties in the 2004 election would be members of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University? Out of 290 million Americans, this is the best we could come up with?


It is the decision of the owners to influence producers, editors, and others involved to paint to brush to fit the objective, which is the bottom line. If Sports is what the people want, then they get it, usually in large doses. Multi-media sports (or spectator sports) is just an escape from our own existence. It’s like gambling, or drug addiction. It provides that buffer zone of rooting for something with other people that we’ve been told is good. People’s fantasies also lead them to fixating on sports. Its simulated masculinity, in an age where there’s a push to change us from men to robots. It’s human nature to resist and fight that which is suppressing us. The sociologists and psychologists in areas of influence know this.


Spectator sports prove the outlet internationally for what has been stripped away from us. We’ve lost the right to rebel and change our government through warfare if necessary. Today the bulk of our nation’s population today doesn’t know what’s really going on with the fall of the American dollar and the plans for the transfer of American wealth to other countries. However, most can tell you who the top basketball or football players are. A lot of fans wish they were the stars, out there on the stage, the court, and the drag strip. Either you’re “numero uno” in center stage or you’re nothing. End of story.


What I never understood when I was in high school was why my peers and friends would act naïve or ignorant in a “Wayne’s World” or “Beavis and Butthead” kind of way. What I’ve learned since then is that the numerous programs that are pimping themselves of as ‘entertainment’ are actually demo graphed to the lowest common denominator. This is especially true with disc jockeys in Radio today. The reason our airwaves are saturated with jokes and content centered on fart jokes, private parts, borderline racism, and general trash talk is because it is selling.



In the meantime, large numbers of our children, young adults, and older audiences are mimicking what they see and hear because the current ‘norm’ is selling this behavior as cool or ‘chic.’ When the conditioned is so intense that these forms of content are considered the norm, anything else seems either bizarre or uninteresting to the average American’s attention span that is decreasing by the day.



Hypothetically, if a producer on a network did get away from a feature story exposing government corruption at the highest levels, chances are the large impact necessary wouldn’t be realized because the average viewer’s brain has already been conditioned to seek out certain types of disinfotainment.


The media has created the picture perfect society that could exist if we only did things their way, (their interests/government interest). It tells us what happiness is and what it is not and same for love, hate or anything else they can implant into our sub consciousness. We can become the perfect slave to the system through indoctrination given through network TV. Over time the messages are becoming increasingly racist, violent, and dishonest.



But the programming began decades ago and few have the eyes to see it for what it has become. We live in a world where the populations give their minds away to the official version of the event, where utopia is right around the corner when big brother is riding shotgun. It’s a world where Hollywood can make you believe anything, even that you are free. It’s a world in which the prosecutor and the judge sit on the same side of the bench. The most obvious reason that our minds are being controlled on a massive scale psychologically, is become our culture has been conditioned incriminatingly to a TV, a radio, or a paper. We are given the world reality through a screen, some ink, or radio waves.



The truth is hiding in plain site. The indoctrination through these mediums warns us that views other than those presented by them are unimportant and too be condemned. This Administration and media monopoly has a carefully crafted dehumanization program to anyone that dissents the official version of events.


Some people are wrong about 5% of the time. Some are wrong most of the time. I wish I was wrong all the time. A lot of people deal with these
intense realities, by asking me rhetorically, “What is the solution, smart guy?” Remember, it’s the viewers, the consumers and all the other little votes called dollars that helped this oligarchy system lay its concrete foundation in our backyards.



We must recognize the truth about why the system is flawed and enslaving us if we wish to beat it.


The most important solution to fighting this type of brainwashing and mind control is to start with ourselves and our own awakening in the smaller things.


In this case, it’s brainwashing but after awhile we break Outside the Box and begin venturing outside the system and into unknown terrain. Fighting with people and forcing them to understand ‘our truth’ is not a solution.


If our collective free will created this nightmare, than only our collective free will change it. The battle begins in the heart and mind of the beholder, and then extends outward from there, only to those open to the information.



If you choose to travel the road to the truth, then you must be prepared for the obstacles that await you. You may be condemned or criticized by your family, your friends, your lovers, or your co-workers.



This is their programming that began at birth that is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. You’re going to have to be stronger than that. You must realize that there is a reality that exists outside of this controlled artificial system. Like Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade, he took that ‘leap of faith’ over the bridgeless canyon in an attempt to get to the other side. Like Neo in the Matrix, he took the red pill from Morpheus in his attempt to cross over to his real self.



Once you wake up, it’s as if a hypnotist came along and snapped his fingers. You wake up and say to yourself, “Oh my god. I can see it now. Why did it take me so long to wake up?!” For some of you it can be a major shock.



Like anything else, take this information and knowledge in stages. If it took a lifetime for them to mold your reality for you, then you know that it may take longer than a day to fully awaken. Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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Good article IMO on this topic so I thought I would share:

From: thecleaver

Detonating Hive Mentality: The Way Of The Outsider


Quality, depth and truth are rarely, if ever, found in the mainstream. Whether in art, music, literature, science, history or knowledge itself, the good stuff always emanates from the outside.



The mainstream edifice lies at the heart of every industrialized society. It is presented to the populace as a guidebook of how to live: what to do, what to consume, what to think. It erases any sense of the divine and sovereign nature of being, deconstructing the individual as soon as possible to achieve a smoother level of compliance. By dissuading personal reflection or metaphysical contemplations through the amplification of stress and urgency, the mainstream succeeds in sucking everyone into the consensus median where all things are pre-defined, undemanding and officially approved. No thinking required.

Through invasive expression at every node in the matrix, education, healthcare, commerce, war and government, the mainstream resonance pattern is firmly established in each individual, usually irreversibly so, by the age of seven. From here on, it becomes clear that the mainstream is operating the old carrot and stick routine. The stick being the pressure to conform, the carrot being the material profits that conformity brings. It rewards obedience over enquiry, apathy over engagement, distraction over enlightenment. The mainstream is the antithesis of individuality. As William Blake said in 1818, “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.”

Welcome To The Hive

The mainstream is the way of the hive. Perceive the hive as a medieval city within defensive walls. What goes in and what goes out is controlled by official guards operating under strict orders. All access to information, goods and services is meticulously regulated by the rulers of the city. As a citizen living within the hive, the knowledge that is available to you has been edited, spliced and diluted before you get anywhere near it. You have no real idea about what goes on outside the hive. Many hive dwellers believe that those outside the hive are plotting its downfall. After a few generations of living in the hive, the general citizenship (a) have become accustomed to obeying hive law, (b) cannot remember what came before the hive and (c) cannot imagine what might be a better alternative to life in the hive.

Up until the end of the 17th Century, the hive was a literal and physical reality for many. Feudal society, characterized by the legal subjection of the majority of the population to a hereditary landholding elite, reigned for many hundreds of years until it was finally brought down by the peasant class who decided that a lifetime of enforced slavery to the elites was unfair and inhuman. Stories of bloody revolts and uprisings (by no means limited to just peasants) fill the history books. It was a long and bitter struggle to change society with 330 years of separate revolts over France, Estonia, England, Catalonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Finland and Russia, officially ending with the Swiss Peasant War of 1653.



In the face of this massive social disintegration, the elites realized that a shrewder system of control was required to keep man from realizing that he can and should be governing himself. The subtle shift from overt to covert control was manifesting and it was to be the sanctified dominion of religion that would take the laws out of the hands of the common man and seemingly pass them to God himself. The Christian church, having systematically slaughtered millions in a series of military campaigns lasting 250 years (aka the crusades), was now set to become the new standard bearer of the hive’s sociological, moral and spiritual edicts.

The church austerely decreed and upheld hive principles, on every issue under the sun, from commerce to sexuality, from art to science, from taxation to war. The state was inextricably linked to the church and failure to give allegiance to God (the Church) and the King was punishable by death. These were the good old days for the Control System. If they didn’t like what you said they’d take you away, chop your head off and stick it on a spike at the city gates. Individuals, groups, countries and whole continents were subject to the destructive tyranny of a single belief system.

In today’s secular society, the Control System has once more transferred the hive reins. This time, they have been passed from the church to the corporations; the mega-corporations that own the governments, military and media - and even these super powerful entities are merely executing the plans of higher masters. If this is in any doubt to the uninitiated reader, I would suggest there is further homework to be done, not for summarization here.

Group Think

A central tenet in the philosophical model of the hive is group think. This is a system of thought within which group members reach consensus without critically analyzing or evaluating specific ideas and concepts. Group think can be manipulated to produce everything from infernal Kafkaesque bureaucracies to rampaging mobs, depending on the desired outcome.

Psychologist Irving Janis determined eight symptoms that are indicative of group think: (1) illusions of invulnerability, (2) rationalising warnings that challenge group assumptions, (3) unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, (4) stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, disfigured, impotent, or stupid, (5) direct pressure to conform, (6) self censorship, (7) illusions of unanimity, (8) mindguards, self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information.

Every major Capitalist, Communist and Totalitarian regime demonstrates these characteristics. Group think is not an Orwellian fiction, it is a day-to-day reality.



Carefully implanted group think memes are used over and over again to accelerate and heighten public opinion and social trends. Problem – Reaction – Solution as it has become known (thanks David). As a perfect and perennial illustration, in order to manufacture civil unrest, the Control System uses an inflammatory formulation of nationalism, negligent immigration controls and the mixing of incompatible racial groups to manufacture a ready-made time bomb.

In recent times, this is most evident with the purposeful social polarization of Britons against Pakistanis, Americans against Mexicans, French against Algerians, Italians against Albanians and so on. They achieve this by establishing parallel segregated communities (slums), exploiting working class tensions over jobs and housing and highly sensationalist and irresponsible reporting of inter-racial violence.

With the European Super State now encouraging movement from Eastern Europe to the more highly technocratic West, there has been a massive influx of Polish and Ukrainian people into England. The gentle middle classes are privately displeased to hear a Polish accent at the supermarket checkout. This is precisely the desired reaction the Control System seeks to illicit. It is the precursor to the radical social solution that they will inevitably proffer: an enormous all-encompassing surveillance and tracking system. The requisite infrastructure is already present in every major UK city, from London to Birmingham, from Manchester to Edinburgh. Nowhere else on the planet has so much surveillance.

Are You Normal?

The hive seeks to associate normality with hive behaviour. Do what everyone else does and you’ll have no problems. Thus it swells the ranks of ‘the lowest common denominator’ who so obediently and diligently uphold the values of the mainstream.

In behavioural psychology normal means a lack of significant deviation from the average. It is considered good to be normal and anything else is either a bit weird or just bad. One only has to take a look at the proliferation of reality TV talent shows which encourage viewers to ridicule the outrageous and feel relief at their own normality. This is an amusing concept for those who value genius, creativity, eccentricity, passion and vision. None of these things ever spring from that which is normal. Yet the hive vigorously champions the normal and rewards those who infect themselves with its crass mediocrity and conformity with guarantees of group acceptance and pleasurable distraction.

Even abstract concepts like ‘intelligence’ have been co-opted by the hive and strictly aligned with prescribed doctrines to associate ‘achievement’ with behavioral and intellectual conformity. In this vein, we are taught that intelligence is a faculty of the mind that is developed and measured using a set of officially sanctioned tests and examinations. Accurate recall of facts and figures being as valuable, if not more so, than inspired interpretation or better still, invention. The fluent repetition of official theory and data sets, from the age of 5 to 25, is a mark of consenting to the Control System reality broadcast. Philosophical and metaphysical contemplation are discouraged and devalued by playing down their relevance to a modern technocratic society. Music and the arts play an ever diminishing role in the central curriculum for primary and secondary education. For hive dwellers, their intelligence is a circus trick and nothing more.

Intelligence is better conceived of as the act of synchronously connecting with the universe. In any particular moment this may be represented by a thought, a conversation, a creative impulse, or an act of love or deep friendship. The level of intelligence is characterized by the degree of relevance, lucidity and inspiration in any such form of expression.

Don’t Touch That Dial

Hive messages that ooze from the TV must be scrutinized with particular care. This is, after all, the place where most people get their information, so it follows that an extraordinary amount of time and effort go into infusing apparently innocuous programs and advertisements with group think conditioning.



Screen images of laughter, pleasure and the aspiring family unit can seem harmless enough, even morally agreeable. Though after a little study, their underlying memes become transparent. For example, the hive message of “relax, enjoy your hard earned leisure time and chill out” actually means “eat Doritos, watch TV and shut the **** up”. The hive's evening news broadcast with grim tales of war, disaster, murder and failing healthcare and infrastructure systems is, in reality, vigorously discouraging you from seeking out your own information, because it will make you feel uncomfortable. They are selling the idea that news is inherently unpleasant, but at least they dress it up nicely. Apart from their official broadcasts, no news is good news. Communication is one way only: from them to you. They talk you listen. Don’t ask questions. “A still tongue makes a happy life” (answers on a postcard).

I witnessed a conversation recently, where an old lady said, “If aspartame was bad for you, the government wouldn’t allow it in the food. So it must be OK.” This is a reminder of the devastating penetration of the Control System and the efficacy of hive mentality. Viral ignorance and total loss of selfhood. Resisting the temptation to grab the soda bottle from her hand and smash it against the wall (for her own good), I reflected instead that in her case, it would be wiser for her brain to be suitably desensitized from the coming dramas. Better just suck on that soda.

It should be noted that hive mentality differs significantly from unitary consciousness or the 4D transcendental mind in several essential ways. There have been some researchers and commentators who have expressed concern that the oneness and unity of certain models of consciousness sound alarmingly like the cybernetic hive mind or global state that the Illuminist groups are desperately trying to manufacture. There is no cause for concern. Even with the most cursory of glances, it should be crystal clear that the two things bear no resemblance to each other. Where the hive seeks hierarchical classification of authority and information, unitary consciousness dissolves hierarchy completely and all information flows transparently and telepathically. The hive states you’re either with us or against us, black or white, good or evil. Unitary consciousness moves beyond such polarity knowing that these illusions arise from separateness and fear. Where the hive suppresses the development of individuality, the 4D mind welcomes it as a beautiful creative act of consciousness, the dynamic expression of divinity in the individual soul.

t’s high time we left the hive. Time to go outside. The Control System shift from King > Church > Corporation may possibly end with something even more egregious and unpleasant. Think Gary McKinnon’s investigations that got him into hot water. Now is the time to lessen dependencies on hive infrastructure. This is certainly more spiritual and psychological than physical. Sure, think about land, food and water, and community, but in the end it is one’s own psychological preparedness and the spiritual frequency we emanate that will be of most benefit to ourselves and others. Find yourself, then find the others.

The hive also offers a poor vantage point from which to witness the dimensional shift that is already occurring around this beautiful planet. Instead, I’d recommend finding a nearby forest clearing, wooded hillside or mountain stream. Just stand there, breathe it in and marvel at the unfolding illusion. It is the grand teaching… moving from the paradox of polarity to the harmony of being the one.

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Good short 10 minute clip