by Ghassan and Intibah Kadi for the Saker Blog
Who remembers the Herman’s Hermits and their 1967 song ‘There’s a Kind of Hush’? The hush the song speaks of is a hush of love, and it was a world of dreams in the sixties in the West, despite the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights protests in the USA and other global conflicts. The peace movements were strong and vibrant, and there was hope that the peace-loving youth will have their way and make a difference; because they genuinely believed in the slogan that ‘all you need is love’.
Alas, the love-hush seems now to be replaced with a hate-hush, and it is engulfing the world, particularly the West, with unprecedented anger and vile displays of demeanour, and this seems to be part of the ‘New Normal’ that some are pushing down our throats.
Not long ago, inspired by another song of the 1960’s, the article pondered where have all the flowers and peace movements gone. In such a short period since, discord and trouble has steeply risen to unprecedented levels, where we are witnessing now an ominous step forward into the abyss and a huge fall in the trajectory of humanity.
In comparison and as an example, when the Lebanese civil war erupted in 1975, it didn’t really come as a surprise to anyone as the specter of such calamity had always hung in the air and sat on the agendas of opposing political groups, as well as on the narrow minds of religious groups that held back unsettled sectarian scores for decades, even centuries.
In hindsight, it seems unfathomable as to how did the German people become so brainwashed and vulnerable to Nazi propaganda. They incrementally discarded all the humane values they had known before, replacing them with nationalist, exclusionist and supremacist values, eventually engaging, wittingly or unwittingly, in supporting or perpetrating injustices on minority groups including Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, the disabled, just to mention a few. Shockingly, when the civil war began in Lebanon, the Lebanese people actually saw a similar phenomenon happen right in front of their eyes. The world witnessed town turning against town, suburb against suburb, neighbour against neighbour, inflicting the most horrendous crimes of maiming, sniping, torturing and killing each other. The same happened again in Yugoslavia as it fell apart.
In more ways than one, latent hatred was expected to eventually manifest itself. If and when old sentiments are not dealt with and brought to closure, such an outcome of a build-up and explosion is to be expected.
But what we are witnessing today, in the West, is something quite different; a case where many people develop boiling, seething, foaming and frothing rage and hatred against others for no apparent reason or history at all.
In America at least, there are a number of actual issues that cause rage and dismay, such as unresolved racial tensions and injustices, perceptions of stolen elections, mishandling of the Corona Virus, the economy and so on. However, these issues are dealt with so vehemently, often with grave, unjust, illegal and disproportional measures, leaving many wondering if America is teetering on the brink of a civil war.
Most striking is the alarming phenomenon of other Western countries taking on board many of the divisive American-specific issues, all with the rage and social divisions that define America’s social status quo. People make ‘all or nothing’ stands and polarity on so many issues, reaching new frenetic levels each day. Even when a legitimate reason for anger exists, the expressions of these can be increasingly extreme and irrational and treated as a defining issue, one worthy of labelling, whether in America or elsewhere.
The authors observed that many people from all different sides of the political divide, within and outside the USA, when asked, are unable to rationally express the reason behind their extremely heated stands. Such a psychological situation can destroy the West; or what is left of it. Close friends, friends who have known and loved each other for decades accuse each other of the most heinous of ‘crimes’, attach labels to each other, just because they ask simple questions, trying to understand the rationale behind their feelings.
And feelings they are, because they are not well-conceived and fact-finding-based views, and their answers provided are merely emotionally based.
In the very near past, people and friends in particular, used to have deep political discussions with peers. They disagreed quite often, but such diverse views were discussed in a civil manner with the assumption that people had the right to have different views and opinions.
In the West today however, it seems that the ‘agree-to-disagree’ principle is no longer. The current rule is ‘you are either with me or against me’. Where have we heard this before? Instead of ‘me’ it was ‘us’?
Not only are we witnessing extreme and unwarranted actions between disagreeing individuals, we are also witnessing this on a collective level, one we often refer to as ‘thought-policing’. Its repercussions in recent times are rapidly morphing into what can only be described as torture ‘techniques’ such as the likes of ‘Cancel Culture’. This is exactly synonymous to the act of ‘banishment’ during the Spanish Inquisition days and the Witch-Hunt eras. Nothing much has changed, or perhaps things have gone full-circle.
In that time, ‘banishment’ meant that the banished ones lost their jobs, became socially isolated, prohibited from trading or buying goods, and quite often, this preceded being burnt alive at the stake. And, now it appears that ‘Cancel Culture’ means virtually the same thing. Whilst the victim may still be lucky enough to trade and buy commodities online, it still generally involves losing one’s job, stature, friends, memberships of associations, and facing humiliation and defamation among many other things. The only basic difference today is the absence of being put to death.
Prior to any banishment or ‘Cancel Culture’ being implemented, just like in the past where such people were branded as heretics, they are now given labels such as ‘denialists’ (disagreement with climate change theory), ‘anti-vaxxers’ (questioning the effectiveness and safety of COVID vaccines) and others. What is interesting here in all this madness, is that a person could be labelling another, only to end up themselves being labelled for something else. Someone who labels another as a ‘denialist’ may find him/herself branded as an ‘anti-vaxxer’.
What is most sinister perhaps is that, on one hand we see this violent, unexplainable, unwarranted irrational level of anger, but on the other hand, we see the West endorsing and accepting other irrational policies that can destroy it, but yet no one is batting an eyelid. Any keen observer can see that a whole myriad of changes have been imposed on the Western society, each of them alone can destroy the Western culture. Without much effort, we can see many such changes, but it suffices to mention the following:
- Political correctness that has gone way too far and continues to erode personal freedom of expression.
- The climate change debacle/hoax that elevated Greta to the level of becoming Time Magazine’s person of the year.
- The destruction of Western family values.
- The over-emphasis on LBGTI rights and all the changes imposed on the mainstream society, including such things as banning the use of words like mother and father.
- The COVID-thing; lockdowns, conflicting information, the vaccines that we know little about, the presence of nefarious people of influence like Fauci and Gates in decision-making.
- Confusing young school children with gender issues and almost encouraging them to become homosexual and/or transgender.
- The silence of the public regarding the censorship regulations of Facebook and Twitter.
- The silence of the public about the plans of the WEF’s ‘Great Reset”.
- The growing acceptance of thought policing and compliance to the state and media.
- The public indifference towards the groundless sanctions against Russia and their possible effect on global stability and peace.
- The public lack of knowledge and indifference about the support of their governments to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
- The West losing its industrial base under the watchful eyes of Western Governments.
- The West suffering from a huge drop in number of students majoring in STEM subjects.
- The West suffering from a growing lack of desire of young adults to have children and raise families.
- Giving blanket and unconditional support to abortion, even in the absence of any medical, psychological and justifiable reasons, including late-term abortion, and considering it (ie abortion) as a human right.
When people in the West are asked, why do those who do not agree with the above or accept it say nothing? The response is invariably fear, fear of being targeted and being subjected to the ‘Cancel Culture’.
Coerced to endorse the revolution of anger and phantom ideology, Westerners, especially the youth, have been socially engineered to become the corner stones of ‘controlled opposition’, all the while, they seem to have been conditioned to ‘unsee’ the real issues that threaten their survival in the future.
Coming to the crunch question; with what appears as increasing irrationality and insanity all around, have people been recently, or maybe incrementally, subjected to systemic brainwashing that renders them into such a state of irrationality, anger, volatility and blindness? If that is the case, then how was this achieved?
This brings to mind the tactic of subliminal advertising, a technique developed as early as in the 1950’s in which a person is subjected unknowingly to an advertisement. It can be sound-based or visual. A visual one is based on techniques like inserting a single advertisement frame, say of a bag of popcorn, into a movie. Movies show motion by playing a series of still frames, around twenty per second. In a single frame it is not noticeable by the conscious mind, but is picked up by the subconscious, and in this example given, will create a stimulus to buy popcorn. There is much evidence of more sinister or politically motivated subliminal messages inserted into Hollywood movies. Legal questions arose around this technique.
From such a simple, unsophisticated technique, in the same decade, a secretive project on behaviour modification was undertaken named Project MKUltra, eventually becoming the subject of an American Senate Intelligence Hearing . Mind-control technology took off, reaching ever new heights (or lows?), not just enhancing business and socio-political agenda, but becoming a crucial component of warfare, even with special strategies for social media, to target the public and their perceptions, making them compliant or malleable and even activating them to the extent this discussion indicates. Intibah Kadi’s work on this is cited in the preceding link to an academic paper.
The question is where else, apart from media and social media, have such techniques been used? What kind of technology and to what extent and what ends has this been taken to? And has such systemic brainwashing that we suggest, been ramped up in these last few years when Trump was President of the USA? This is predicated on the suspicion of Trump acting at times as the ‘disruptor” of a particular set of the ‘establishment’, or ‘swamp’ as he named it, one that either rejected him or he alienated.
This also brings to mind an old movie in 1977 by the name of Telefon, a fiction based on a few people who on the surface appear to lead a normal life, but in reality, are a team of professional assassins designated to kill certain individuals upon receiving a vocal message they had been hypnotized to respond to like robots.
Have we actually reached such days of a ‘New Normal’ in terms of the evident, debased level of social discourse, labeling, shaming and damning? Ironically, ‘New Normal’ is a term we hear every day, courtesy of world leaders, various officials and, of course, from the head of the World Economic Forum. Or is it ironic? Will brainwashing and behaviour modification techniques go far beyond that of what we commonly understand and well into the realms of Artificial Intelligence and Electromagnetism? And in these new realms, what extent, if any, do these play a role in these shocking days of ‘Cancel Culture’, the suspension of critical thinking and general mob-rule behaviour permitted for some in the West in recent years?
But above all, did the Western mind deteriorate naturally as a result of attrition or did social engineering cause it to devolve in a manner that fires it up chasing red herrings all the while being totally blind to what really matters? Or has it been manipulated by a devious master plan that makes any science fiction movie look like a Batman Comic?
“In hindsight, it seems unfathomable as to how did the German people become so brainwashed and vulnerable to Nazi propaganda. They incrementally discarded all the humane values they had known before, replacing them with nationalist, exclusionist and supremacist values …”.
The answer to that is very simple. Europe is rich in history and tradition, both positive and negative. This made Europe very stable and advanced, culturally and intellectually, but also very unstable, where the old ethnic hatreds come to light, including class hatreds. The Nazis in Germany (financed and supported by outside factors) came to power after the economic troubles of the 1920’s and 1930’s. In such circumstances extremists from the left and right come to into play. In Germany right wing extremists won the day. As for supremacist values, the old hatreds towards the Slavs surfaced, which explained Hitlers invasions of Poland and the Soviet Union (Russia), although this would not have been possible without financial support from Western bankers, who wanted to see Russia broken up.
As I mentioned, history is the basis of culture. This applies to all continents. When it comes to Western Europe, it has seen the creation of the EU, which – remarkably enough – has seen European countries enter it and lose their sovereign status. No doubt this fact has sobered up many of them, who are beginning to show insubordination to Brussels. This insubordination will eventually see the dissipation of the EU. Meanwhile, the EU bureaucrats will continue with the ‘cancel culture’. After all, the EU is a banker creation, created by the same people who financed the two world wars. A day will come when historians will have a tough time explaining how the EU was created at all. When that day comes, these same historians will also have to analyze how much damage the EU caused European countries, economically, financially, culturally, socially and ethnically.
Nazi propaganda. Corona propaganda. Same thing. Perpetuated by the same folks.
100% media driven. 100% virtual.
But who can differentiate between That-Which-Is and Harry Potter, between Reality and Netflix?
Only a meditator. Only one who has learned to witness the stream of his own thoughts without thinking,
judging, interfering. Without prejudices, fears, lust. Without learned nonsense, icky ideologies and childish concepts.
Seeing is the opposite of thinking. Thinking is dreaming, seeing is wakefulness.
What techniques have been used?
https://www.brighteon.com/8b8a427a-8ec1-42a6-a600-1cc32935d718
The London Olympics ceremony was a clear ritual as seen in the video. This is why it is so important for them to close the churches
i see the author as having an inquisitive mind, always searching for answers
that’s nice and all, been there done that, but time to move on…
my advice: stop trying to understand things, it is not worth it
there are million reasons why man will go against man
and you dont need to learn them all
we have been fed a fake image of humans, wrapped with social constructs: humane, kind, generous,
loving, tolerant, russians, americans, iranians, pro-trump, anti-trump, etc
but the real human is just an animal, and when times get tough animals lash out
recall the experiments with rats: 2 rats in a box, and when an external source of pain is applied
the rats turn on each other
substitute rats with humans, and pain e.g. with economic hardship
there is no “devious master plan” by the deep state, or sublime programming… only animal nature of the rats
same with humans, so when pain comes, some groups will split and have inner-group lashing out (Yugoslavia,
Soviet union), some groups with retain their cohesion and attack other groups (Nazi Germany), some
groups spread the pain evenly and kill off their offspring (China’s one child policy)
but the process is the same, Eastern nations are no different then Western ones
“recall the experiments with rats: 2 rats in a box” etc, etc.
There’s a difference. Humans can think. How’d you think they came up with the experiment?
You’ve missed one of the aims of this article.
Seu conformismo está no nível da aceitação da barbárie com resignação.
google translate … mod
Their conformity is at the level of accepting barbarism with resignation.
There is a common unnoticed underlying problem in modern societies. It’s malnutrition. Most people think of malnutrition as simply starvation, but you can be malnourished when you have more food than you can eat. The same food varies in nutritional value according to the soil in which it grows. Agriculture is concerned with yields per acre, not with nutrition per acre. As farmers will correctly tell you they get paid based on the crop yield, not on its nutritional value. Thus anything that allows an increased yield is fine with them without regard to declining nutritional values. Evidence of declining nutritional values as a result of increased yields per acre is documented in the papers of the late soil scientist, William Albrecht, PhD. Evidence of the effects of the declining nutritional value of foods on humans is documented by Weston Price, D.D.S. in his book, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”. Evidence of the effect of lowered nutritional values in a controlled, ten year experiment on cats was documented by Francis Pottenger, Jr, M.D. in a book called “Pottenger’s Cats”. Evidence of declining nutritional values on cancer causation is explored by Andre Voisin, D.V.M., in his book, “Soil Grass and Cancer”.
The consequences of lowered nutritional values do not just lead to physical problems, they also lead to mental problems so well demonstrated by the society I live in.
An absolutely excellent point Gary – thank you for making it.
And when we add in the toxicity to the malnutrition, the vast amount of plastics, such that it is now estimated not one of us is free of nano-particles of plastics; the growth hormones and antibiotics, the heavy metals, — not to forget the huge amount of drugs, both legal and “street” – few in America I suggest are even aware that reliable, absolute stats have the 3rd leading cause of death as the activity of the medication profession – the GMO’s the air pollution, the EM light pollution – God what more do we need to know???
Thanks Pamela.
William Albrecht, Weston Price, Francis Pottenger, Jr, and Andre Voisin all shared the same point of view that I have adopted as expressed by Albrecht: “Its not the overpowering invader we must fear but the weakened condition of the victim.”
An experiment reported by Voisin demonstrates that this point of view even applies to cancer causation. An experiment in the first half of the last century demonstrated that the diet is more important in cancer causation that the carcinogen. The more nutritious diet provided protection against the carcinogen’s causing cancer.
““Its not the overpowering invader we must fear but the weakened condition of the victim.”
The thing is – that is known, but there is a reigning paradigm which refuses to allow wholesale admission of this fact.
Pasteur – after a lifetime fudging his results and telling lies, developed a strange mania. A junior associate recorded how he would sit pulling bread rolls apart at dinners, picking out what he claimed were “tiny parasites” which said associate was always unable to find in his own bread !!
Pasteur, held up as the Father of modern Medicine with his Germ Theory of Disease, and is known to have died saying;
“BERNARD {Bechamp} WAS RIGHT; THE PATHOGEN IS NOTHING; THE TERRAIN IS EVERYTHING.”
Yet still they try to destroy a world using his outmoded, discredited theory, as base.
All we can each do at the moment is look to ourselves; work out “what do I need to be healthy”?, not What is making me sick.?”
Gary,
I have read that some of the current claims by the transgender community may indeed have a biological basis. In short, hormones being recycled in the water supply and other chemical additives being ingested have led to gender confusion.
I haven’t researched this myself but it makes sense. I find it strange that all of a sudden, at this point in human history, there is this fairly widespread need to identify with another gender.
It may be a result of food additives causing chemical changes in the body. Things like this may also explain the sudden rise in autism cases.
Hi Mike:
We tend to look for what is in our diet that harms us rather than looking for what is deficient in our diet that harms us. Science being funded controls what investigations take place. Usually scientists are funded to create profits for the company funding the study. Albrecht was a professor at an agricultural college. Price, Pottenger, Jr, and Voisin were funded by themselves so they owed nothing to anybody with respect to their results.
I’ve mentioned this before somewhere Mike, but it could do with repeating.
A few years back, I found an old paper, dated 1922, which was written by doctors and researchers, who stated that “the greatest threat to health of Americans in the future is the state of our soil. Over the years it has been extensively farmed on a huge scale with no though to soil replenishment. The poverty of the soil food is grown in has becoming alarmingly deplete”.
There is a book of 10 yrs of research by a couple, called “What s really making you sick”. After sifting through papers by the ton, talking to researchers, they concluded only 2 things make us sick – depleted foods, and radiation.
As they said, for example, nearly all soils supermarket vegetables are grown in are deficient in Magnesium. So we think we need to take Mg orally. And indeed it can help, with poor sleep and body aches. But the damage for the vegetables is that they have an absolute need for Mg in order to take up other nutrients and to make them. So the lovely, crisp, green and red spotless veges in your supermarket are little more than very pretty water and some carb fibre!!!
And so it goes. However, as Gary pointed it, it doesn’t stop there. Not only can those suffering essential nutrient deficiencies not be expected to have brains that work, wrong food can have mental effects.
Years ago now, when I was searching and studying to try find a solution to a medical problem I clearly had, but which Doctors – including specialists – could do nothing to help with, clearly out of their depth, my Father gave me a book he though might help. Written by an English psychiatrist, it was called “Not all in the Mind”. By a Dr. Richard McMasters. He talked of some psych patients who he discovered were reacting to intolerances to diet – so often to food additives. One woman who seemed clearly psychotic and self destructive turned out to be reacting to bacon – a highly unnatural food.
It was from him I learned of the fantastic work of the Canadian doctor, Dr. Hans Selye, who showed the world nearly 100 yrs ago, that there are in us adaptive systems which try to help us tolerate foods that our bodies cannot tolerate.
The problem is, this covers up the problem. We think we can eat all foods. But eventually, this adaptive system breaks down – the adrenal glands, which are responsible for so much, just cannot cope. And this is when “disease” sets in for so many.
We can work out how to recognise this and handle it. But you wont find one doctor in 1000 who knows anything about it or has even heard of Selye. Science takes generations to get into medicine, I’m afraid.
And one of the symptoms of Adrenal Insufficiency Syndrome? Extreme, unusual, irritability !!!
Now, some of us have AIS due to an inheritance – we just cannot store the amount of stress control substances we need – and under various stressors, become drained of in certain essential hormones, and exhibit a strange irritability. But others are doing it because their systems have tried to cope with the messed up foods, nutritional deficiencies, but are now not coping, so leading to adrenal breakdown.
So, no, it’s not “all in the mind”, but so much is due to the total messed up food supply we have now.
This has been happening in Japan too, among grade school children, despite the language gap and vastly different culture they are brought up in. An elementary school principal told me there has been an increasing number of children who do not identify as the gender whose physical traits they were born with and want to use the other restroom. During the past ten years, I’ve seen students more frequently who were completely unable to concentrate on schoolwork with their mind racing from one thing to the next, and all I could do was try playing games with them. They all seem to love games like hide and seek way beyond the age most kids get bored with them. Prior to ten years ago, I’d never seen one in Japan. Their culture demands, reticence, patience and studiousness.
I think my own generation of girls (in their early 60s now) was also affected more subtly, becoming more “assertive” in ways my mother’s generation could not understand or identify with. Right about the time they were born, Tupperware parties became the big thing among housewives–no proof of a correspondence, but there we are.
Excellent article.
It raises so many issues.
I often think, “things have really gotten crazy.”
This article recapitulates the many axes of craziness confronting us simultaneously.
Cancel culture can work both ways, you can boycott those who are bowing to cancel culture pressure, it’s up to the reasonable people to fight fire with fire…..maybe it’s just reasonable people are in short supply?
It’s a pity no one wants to know why,
The LORD (Yahweh, lord of standing armies) is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
The last meaningful sacrifice ended 1945, one generation is 20-30 years, 1945 + 3×25 = 2020.
Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Jesus came and taught forgiveness even up to the end “Forgive them Father they know not what they do”. Obsession with revenge is the hallmark of only one particular group.
This “ it seems unfathomable as to how did the German people become so brainwashed and vulnerable to Nazi propaganda. They incrementally discarded all the humane values they had known before,
and this “ did the Western mind deteriorate naturally as a result of attrition or did social engineering cause it to devolve in a manner that fires it up chasing red herrings all the while being totally blind to what really matters? Or has it been manipulated by a devious master plan that makes any science fiction movie look like a Batman Comic? ”
Try a little Western History, to get the context.
The first comment, you need only investigate the TRUE causes of the First World War – not the excuses the modern world of AngloSaxon Oceania give; and the conditions forced on a nation that never wanted war to start with of the iniquitous Versailles Treaty. Consider what was done to a people not only in terms of leading lives of terrifying poverty, but disgrace, humiliation and worse of all, a sense of loss of National Identity.
Then, for your last, especially your concept that the “Western Mind” was once a wonderful thing, but only recently brought down – go and see what that nice, kind, AngloSaxon “mind” did to the approximately 80 – 100 million natives living on the Western Continent after they invaded it in the 1700’s. Go see where the natives are now. Go see what was done to those who arrived starving from Ireland, Europe; those who went on strike for a due payment.
Go see what other AS than Americans did, when they arrived in the Island Continent of Australia – what happened to the native inhabitants who had the longest recorded civilisation known to man, 65,000 yrs. Go look at it now. Go look – oh just at all it, from it’s history of invasion, theft, destruction, despair and death right up to present day.
The past casts a long long shadow and no person or nation can escape the character lying at the heart of them.
I have nursed and cared for many many people, and it’s then you really do get “up close and personal”. I came to one conclusion – I dont think being under stress whether from sickness, fear, tension or threat, changes anyones character. It can make us more hard to be with, of course. Irritable – yes. Tense and fearful, certainly. Weepy and needy, definitely. But the core, the heart of a person – that doesn’t change. A decent man will still be, underneath these things, still a decent man.
But when nastiness shows through I believe it’s always been there. It’s just that now that the person is well below parr, they have no energy to hide the real them. The true them which they have been able to cover up with manners, false fronts, now shows through.
Its the same with national character too. We live in a Mandelbrot world, where the small so often mirrors itself on the larger scale.
The things you speak of are just parr for the course – they’ve been in evidence for hundreds of years. There’s nothing new about it at all.
I think there’s been a concerted effort since the 80s (?) to dumb down the population – especially of the West – with vaccines and poor food and TV.
Its all part of a cleverly conceived plan of the globalists – some very old now – and their Boss – the guy with bat wings and claws on his fingers, although he has many disguises too for he’s the father of deceit –
Its like a many pronged attack that’s happening now. But there’s a vast number of people that are aware of this attack and that love each other and converse on the internet about what’s to be done.
Humanity will win this – maybe not tomorrow – but those awakened humans are enough – maybe 10 – 20 – 30% globally – its enough.
Thanks God and Christ and the Higher Hierarchies, the nature spirits too – who are having such a beating right now – but one candle lights a whole room….one rhino baby saved – lightens Nature’s heart.
Pamela, having been ill near to death twice (praise be to sulfa drugs and penicillin) and under extreme psychological stress several times, I recognize myself in what you say about the effect on character. I said and did things which I came to regret — sometimes years later but usually much sooner. Our psyche is a battle ground between cosmic forces; hold fast to what is good.
“For we wrestle not [only] against flesh and blood but between powers in the Heavens” — St.Paul
Sorry to hear that Dr. Maroudas. Glad to see you are clearly recovered now.
It can be so difficult to deal with all the ramifications of illness, and as we struggled to cope with feeling ill, sick, in pain and fear, we often dont even realise until recovered that we were often rude to someone, short tempered, or demanding.
It’s the one thing which distinguishes the nurse from the doctor – we are there to see it and deal with it, and it breeds in us patience and tolerance.
But I know that the essential “you”, with your held values, never changed. If you are a person who could never deliberately hurt another – you still would not have done that.
And one can be sorry that we said and did some things, but dont regret it. We have to have a little kindness and tolerance for ourselves at such times, too, I believe :-)
Stay well.
This should also be taken into consideration: Stem counts in men have been halved within the last forty years – mostly in men living in Western countries.
I think this tells a lot and has mainly to do with the environment, he kind how to live as well as with malnutrition. And maybe too with some sexual wishes being to many sexual influences by some media and/or being easily to have lots of prostitutes at hand (like in Europe). Which maybe doesn’t satisfy the own body of real need for more lasting love and is just for some sexual intercourse which maybe have some side effects on men.
The idea of electromagnetic control of the brain has been around for a very long time. In principle total control is possible. The means to achieve it using scalar electromagnetics, for example, has been discussed. Therefore the proposition that total control is possible must be taken seriously as an achievable goal by some cadre somewhere in the world.
I doubt that complete control as yet would be desirable for it would be too obvious. Systematically biasing peoples perceptions and beliefs in a minor way would accomplish much and be relatively hard to detect. This means that any perceived aberration of thought may be occurring based upon historical precedents but it is quite possible that new, very potent tools of manipulation may be at work.
I doubt we shall know until someone goes public with the actual tools and demonstrates their power or until the collective aberrations become so bizarre as to convince most everyone something new is loose in the world.
One should be mindful of the likelihood of all sorts of new possibilities emerging from the shadows. A good case can be made that public perception of scientific and technological progress has been heavily manipulated throughout the last century to establish a definite opinion of what is and what is not possible in the public mind.
People who have the scientific and technical means to contradict such narratives have been suppressed throughout the past century and in some cases assassinated. Cancel culture in the past has been more subtle and surreptitious, but it has definitely been present.
Therefore major and multiple surprises could appear at any time to refute the public’s assumptions about the possible. As in 1945 when the nuclear bomb vastly changed public perceptions of available destructive power, new developments can be expected to change drastically public understanding of the world they inhabit.
Very true. In the 1960s Alan Frey reported that he was simply unable to reach the public with vital information on the health effects of radiofrequency radiation. The pressure to suppress it has become much more visible this year, with any criticism of 5G being openly censored. Basically, over the past 70 years people were being cancelled over this. People always assume that if what I was trying to tell them were true, they would have heard about it from someone else, or they expect like I initially did that the news will soon come out with it because of all the evidence of harm. Most people being subjected to this sort of gaslighting try to find ways of explaining it that do not rely on a conspiracy of some shifty-eyed cabal hiding somewhere. But then you occasionally run across “targeted individuals” with harrowing tales. Secret research goes on in the name of military advantage or national security or whatnot, and enough is known about this that some sneaky cabal playing mean psychological tricks shouldn’t really come about as a surprise to anyone.
What is left unsaid here is that although totalitarian movements can arise from the left or the right, in today’s America the danger comes from the left, and the Democratic Party. The old-line Democrats seem to think they can use Wokeism as a tool to obtain power, without realizing that this insane movement will swallow them as well, if it gets the chance. Try a re-read of ‘Darkness at Noon’ for clarification.
7The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” We all fight the same emeny. You are a phoen or a fow. You choose. The thing I know is, we love ourselves and want the best for our children and Satan counts on it. Go not silent into that dark night.
This is a real “back to the future” article. Truly, the onus is on humans to start a collective effort to correct past errors and advance solutions for a better future. Alarming but enjoyable.
It was yesterday when I came across a video discussing a similar “cancel culture” phenomenon… in Japan of all places. Until then I was frankly not expecting there to be one to begin with – at least not in same vein as the one practiced in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tRmInqoFRk
Then again, years ago I did hear of certain singers, actors, etc. in Japan get ‘canceled’ after offenses such as drug possession, causing any works they did to get discontinued. This extends to having said works be absent in newer releases of compilations or anthologies.
The cancel culture is not the problem here. The problem is why would anyone want to listen what the opinion is of 1 virtual entity on the internet (like for example on twitter) and act on it?!
The internet has made it easy for every virtual entity to express their dumb opinion.
Why would anyone want to listen to noise on the internet?
What interest do corporations have listening to virtual noise (of a minority) on the internet?
Do corporations want to break every barrier like borders, culture, morality so they have a larger global market with even more individualized and eager buyers? Replace nations and culture with 1 global consumer culture?
Interesting article because I ponder daily just what is going on with the “insouciance” in general of people and the particular targeting of those who should know better i.e. the intelligentsia. My brother, Phd Sociology, is 80 years old and he made the blanket statement last week, ” White people are racists.” ( He is “white” married to a Colombiana from the upper class who is actually “whiter” than he—she burns with the least bit of sun) My friends from Northern Spain have similar reactions to the solar rays.
Rather than take him on directly ( ok, so Obama was elected by a large majority in his first campaign because of what? racist white people who forgot to be racist?) I demurred saying the logical—“Some white people are racists, but most people want the same across race, ethnic, religious lines—a decent living for their family,affordable housing, education and health care for their children and a bit left over for some enjoyment/recreation in life. Surely we can find a program to unite around these issues in common.”
It was as if I had turned on a light and he agreed. It won’t last because his mind won’t fix on it.It is not sexy–no drama–no emotional power surge of righteous indignation ( 3rd Chakra/adrenaline surge) I think this due to a spiritual debasement of the culture with its constant emphasis on sex and violence which puts people automatically into lower physical energy states ( the lower and mid belly area) which are most susceptible
to low level addiction. Nefesh…the animal soul. Neshama is the human aspect of the soul and it is heart based. Ruach is the mind aspect of soul in the older mid Eastern tradition. If one can keep a person in Nefesh mode primarily then they want, sex, money and/or power. Forget love, honor, respect and gainful work in a life of service to Self through others.
Note the over eating in the West and the rampant drug taking and the sex, sex, sex , sex as the way to project yourself or “brand” yourself in the world i.e. “I wanna be a rock star!” Pornography sells and is used addictively—The Sexual 2nd chakra is a major creative area of the physical body but which if stymied or drained leaves one uncreative, longing and lost looking for the next new “high”.
No balance….the West has lost its balance and discernment,i ts yin/yang, which is why when the CCP elites who are striking deals with Silicon Valley put the dagger in the back of the US techno-fascists, they won’t even see it coming. But this may not be a logical leap on my part…maybe macrodosing tech billionaires’ grandiosity will save them.
Actually in my most paranoid moments, I suspect substances in the food and water and fear vibrations somehow superimposed in the EMF waves. Keep the GMO foods away from your fields, the LBTQXYZ away from your children and use fiber optics whenever possible especially in residential areas.
“No balance….the West has lost its balance”
YES.
And that, I truly believe, is the key. In so many things and ways, The Collective West has lost all balance. And worse, doesn’t realise it, nor has the first idea if it could realise, how to get it back.
The majority of people are born decent and that is their natural tendency. Interesting though how people more likely adopt insane views as a group and rarely arrive at them individually. It is well known that groups are easier to mislead than individuals, with the way the world is structured around media, msm and social, it has never been easier to control our thought patterns should those that control the levers wish.
The woke movement stems from the fake left, if from the right it would be distrusted, seems obvious when we see dubious characters like Gates etc donating millions to groups claiming math is racist that there is deliberate widespread manipulation occurring. Woke culture is a deliberate change in mindset with useful idiots as the storm troopers. Considering its sponsors it will not end well for the majority.
Hi Ghassan and Intibah – wonderful essay- thanks so much
In hindsight it is anything but unfathomable. European anti Jewish sentiment was so ingrained that at the Catholic “reconquest” of Spain Jews were given three months to convert or leave or they would be killed (the Ottoman Sultan sent ships to rescue them). One of the Crusades, I forget which, had would be Crusaders rampaging through France and Germany massacring Jews on their way to rape, loot and destroy Palestine, and, incidentally, the Byzantine Empire. Jews were forbidden from engaging in most occupations except usury, and were then accused of being usurers. European anti Judaism hatred was always there, though it was infra dig by the 19th century to express it in public. All the Nazis did was let the hate find its way into the open. That is all.
In exactly the same way, the gibbering globetrotting genocidal gangster Gujarati government of Narendrabhai Damodardasbhai Modi in India didn’t – Indian secularists’ desperate desire to pretend otherwise to the contrary- invent hatred against Muslims out of the thin air. That hatred was always there, but no regime before Modi’s permitted, let alone encouraged, it to go mainstream. I remember drawing room conversations in Great Indian Muddle Class get togethers inevitably turning to anti Muslim mutterings, but they would always be in private. Nobody ever openly expressed their anti Muslim animus in public. Now under the Modi regime, television channels like OrKnob CowSwamy’s Ripupthepublic TV are as open hate spreaders as the Nazi rag Der Stürmer, and the effect is easy to see. Now people who are not anti Muslim try to keep that fact hidden, because in seven short years to be seen as secular has become a liability.
What is so “unfathomable ” about that?
Thank you Ghassan and Intibah Kadi
Love and hate, the riddle and drama of the earth….
Hate arrives accompanied by jealousy, ambition, and power lust. Love is ultimately unifying,
If it flashes out briefly like a comet in a world of deepening hate, that moment is for all time, and cannot die, but hatred will consume itself in fire. And yes, the Spanish inquisition repeat! Humour is best, and overcomes paranoia and fear, and the daily dose of self education, for tolerance, kindness.
The Western mind is not the first mind entirely manipulated in times of decay. Between 300 and 400 A.D., the minds of the inhabitants of Rome were equally manipulated and the Romans lived in a “panem et circenses” world exactly as childish, stupid and agressive as the US/Holywood world. There are other similar examples in history. But there is even worse! The “elites” of one country of our planet, Japan, have succeeded very early in manipulating entirely the minds of their common people, and this, independantly of social decay or rise: From around 500 A.D. on, the Japanese commoners actually believed, that their emperor was a half god, that their elites had to be always followed and that personal mistakes “against” these elites should be crowned by Sepuku (suicide). These “beliefs” did not disappear until the end of WW II. And not a few people still accept these “values” to day. These “values” are obviously very convenient for the Japanese elites! And the elites reached that without inserting nano-chips in their people’s brains! Read David Bergamini’s “Japan imperial conspiracy” to understand what I mean.
The counter punch is all this tripe is to cause intelligent & strong people to strike back at all this.
Those behind this are going to be dealt with shortly.
The CIA infiltrated and introduced serious chemical drugs into the 60’s culture, versus organic pot. [See Documentary of the Grateful Dead: Long Strange Trip] Everything that had sincerity, integrity and true grit in the 60’s, as well as everything that was fun was intentionally corrupted. Even tie-dye t-shirts and embroidered and beaded jeans, which was an individual creative expression, ended up becoming a mass-produced product later. This turned the 70’s into a “synthetic, plastic version of the 60’s” with a massive hang-over. The 60’s culture of free-love and family values (marriage or not) was additional “crushed” when abortion rights became legal in 1973 with Roe v. Wade (this was NOT just a right to choose initiative). This eventually led to the shiny gold corporate corral of the highly materialistic 80’s and 90’s. The is the short-version of history as I lived it anyway.
Great article, yet tragic reality. Where political correctness has been main enabler of the downturn!