By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog
Corporations lie to us – the consumers – that we naturally follow their brand, cause and celebrity. We don’t. They follow us.
Whitney Houston Follows
Whitney Houston drowned at the age of 48, face-down in her bathtub. Oh, and yeah she was on cocaine and other drugs. But that‘s not how she died, said her drug-addict ex-husband Bobby Brown, who said she died of a broken heart. Warm.
Now, you cannot NOT know Whitney Houston. It is impossible. Why, because you followed her! You did not follow her? Well, now you are making yourself out to be a complete idiot, because you don‘t know how the human hierarchy works. You had no way NOT to follow Whitney Houston or any other mega American celebrity in the world – Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston – and I explain to you here why: THEY followed you!
You don‘t believe it? Well, Whitney Houston did not only believe it, she knew it. So this thought, the truth of celebrity and super stardom, turned her, like everybody else at the top of the information cartel, into a drug addict, a mental train-wreck and a broken vase.
Whitney Houston died in 2012, but they are still making money from her. She is such a perfect example for the theory of ‘They Follow’ that it needs to blow up. Whitney was a black soul singer who started her career with her mother in a church choir. She was tall, had a great voice and a beautiful smile.
Now think this girl through from the perspective of the music industry, producers, film makers, the media, the magazines and the entire culture: We have – back in the 90s – 240 million mindless consumers in America, and maybe 6 billion mindless consumers in the world that is dominated and colonized by America. How do we go to each and every mindless consumer and play, show, read and repeat to them Whitney Houston?
And after we did that, after we traced and followed all of them, mindless consumers, we turned around and announced: See, all these people follow Whitney Houston.
The people have no way not to follow. Whitney Houston plays on radio, is on TV, is on tape, vinyl records and CDs. She is in every youth magazine, every men’s magazine, every gossip journal, in every store, and at least 50% of the population is below average intelligence and thus talks about how they followed Whitney Houston. Well, they didn’t. They were totally overwhelmed and brainwashed by global marketing.
Call it a trap if you will. Consumers are basically coerced or forced to consume. They need music, even in jungles and deserts and even if they don’t speak English. So we wipe out their family musicians, their local talent, their nation’s singers, and replace them with Whitney Houstons. Same with your national radio station, which now plays Whitney Houston. Consumers cannot connect the dots back to major record label’s decisions in a far away country who control every country’s local music industries.
Next you say you refuse to follow Whitney Houston on radio. Instead you go to see a movie. And what do you know, Whitney Houston just so happened to star in that mandatory global blockbuster movie – The Bodyguard, The Preacher’s Wife, The Princess Diary. And when you return home, you can also watch Whitney Houston on Saturday Night Live or in a Coca-Cola commercial.
Consumers do not understand any of the industries and the 10,000 professionals involved who are constantly following them – the consumers. It is unnatural, unrealistic and absurd to believe that billions of people would actively search for that brown gospel singer girl from Newark, New Jersey. Yes, she is beautiful, but so are our own women, in our own community, our wives and friends. We should follow our own people, not some American.
Therefore, the producers and globalists and, this is not an exaggeration, even the US government and the military, must spend hundreds of millions of dollars to control networks of information and coercion, and must mass hypnotize every person on the planet to see, listen and watch Whitney Houston. This is the only way so that they can later claim she had the largest following on the planet.
Whitney Houston is following everyone, no deserters. You cannot live without reading, listening, watching, breathing Whitney Houston. She will find you, even in libraries under “The Greatest Artists of All Time” or in the book of records under “The Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time” and so on and so forth. The attack on consumers worldwide is ferocious.
So, say you are not into black gospel or pop culture but like the Beatles? No problem, Whitney Houston is also always mentioned in the same sentence with the Beatles for having produced “half a dozen of Number One hits.”
Whitney Houston is following you so hard, she was first painted white for a more Western European audience, and later extra darkened for the audiences of the Global South. Whitney Houston was aggressively used in national and international politics. She sang the National Anthem during America’s 1991 Super Bowl. She sang ‘How Will I Know’ in 1994 for Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
What about East-Asia? Well, she sang ‘One Moment in Time’ for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Korea, lest the East Asians were not yet followed enough.
It is all fake and lies. She didn’t even write the songs. That’s why she became mentally ill and a cocaine addict. Whitney Houston knew her fame was disproportional and unreal. Like she was some pleasure doll of some Galactic Dictator who can decide: I make you a star. And then she is a star. Because that is what Galactic Dictators do, they dictate everyone.
She knew she was just a pretty girl with a great voice, no more but also no less. For that great coercion that the whole world suddenly had “to follow” Whitney Houston, she felt ashamed. All American superstars experience that shame. They understand that there was no way anyone cared a rat’s ass for them if it wasn’t for the fact that the Galactic Dictator USA controlled Europe and Japan, Canada and Australia, and hundred more regions where every single consumer is traced, tracked and followed. If the global music, media and entertainment industry wasn’t targeting those idiot people with Whitney Houston, nobody would follow her.
How does that not make sense, if you think it through? The reason why the entire world is allegedly following Whitney Houston is that Whitney Houston global propaganda is actively and very aggressively following all of us.
And that’s the ultimate reason why the world follows American Whitney Houston and not some Indian, German or Chinese chick. O power of the global Dictator.
Günter Grass Follows
Günter Grass is the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature and thus a world renowned author.
He was state selected as a great writer because he wrote that Germany was guilty of atrocities and that it carries historic guilt and must pay reparations to the Chosen people and so on. So most European leaders agreed and supported the nomination of Günter Grass.
Again, same reverse principle at work, nobody would follow Günter Grass on their free account, because he is obviously regime fabricated. But then, we are given no choice because Günter Grass is following us – and everywhere we go, in school, during exams, on TV, in magazines, in all libraries and book clubs and newspapers and magazines.
If you are from abroad, you have not read him, I suppose, and neither is reading his works a particular sensation. He is totally unimportant for Americans, and I give this example of Günter Grass to remind everyone that if Germany was the global Galactic Dictator, and not the United States, than Germany would make Günter Grass mandatory and have him follow all of you – no escape, no hole to hide in.
Little Germans are forced to read Günter Grass in their school curriculum. There, see, they follow him! I am being cynical of course. Günter Grass – or better the Nation state and the ruling class behind this propaganda – is the one who follows. We Germans have no way to unfollow Günter Grass in any meaningful sense of the word in the same way all people under American dictatorship have no way to unfollow Whitney Houston.
These big celebrities follow us, not we them.
Think of all those “celebrities” they want us to swoon, to opiate, to inhale and to see, to see and follow. It is insane.
The Germans make a great bunch of good followers. I am being cynical again, because, evidently, it is us who are being followed by state authorities, the regime moderators and the propaganda machine. They are following us, not us them.
One cabaretist named Volker Pispers once modernized the age-old joke about dictators, but this time about Dear Leader Angela Merkel. Nobody voted for Angela Merkel because the people cannot vote for their leaders. They can only vote a party, but this is horrible, because the Merkel party barely got 35% of all votes, and this on the basis that only 65% of those 3/4 of the population eligible to vote cared to go to the ballot stations. So we could as well say that the Germans as a collective don‘t decide their leaders at all. Now I am going so far as to say that we don‘t even get a decide on which brands, causes and celebrities to follow. THEY follow us.
It is all a farce. The majority never voted for her, and most don‘t want to follow a dictator. “So, what does Angela Merkel do?” joked Volker Pispers. “She turns her back to the people and claims: “Look, they are behind me!”
The Economist Follows
One of the greatest hoaxes in science is… economics! Economics is not a science really. Economics describes what humans produce, trade, use, buy and sell. Ask yourself, do you trust the proverbial cars salesmen – what we in academe now call the economists? Never! They are bullshitters. They want to sell us their stuff, the more the better, by any means possible. They follow us.
Same principle described above with listening, watching and reading – people also need to do dressing, eating, shitting. So consumers will seek to buy clothing, food and toilet paper. And because corporations control these mindless consumers, corporations produce those commodities with brands, trademarks and logos on them, and tell people wonderful stories. And out of Walmart they march with their brand-new Levi’s jeans, Nike sneakers, Quaker oatmeal, Budweiser beer, and butt wiper tissue from Kleenex. Ask yourself, do we really follow those brands, or do those brands… follow us?
This is an existential question, in all of philosophy and during the last 2,500 years. Are you a free agent, or are those corporations laughing their butt off at your stupidity. It belongs to the theory of knowledge or epistemology, in the same category with questions such as Do we have a free will or Do we just dream this life of ours. We have to seriously ask this question. If they claim that we follow their Whitney Houstons and Günter Grasses or their Kleenex toilet paper brands, considering all their state, media, propaganda and control of everything we read, listen to and (have to) buy for daily consumption… isn’t it reasonable to turn our back on them and boldly speak the truth: “They are following us, for real!”
The ‘They Follow’ theory contradicts orthodox propaganda about the so-called free market, fair competition and fairy tales about demand and supply. From daily observation we know the market is not free, it certainly is not a fair game, and demand and supply are horseshit artificial under a global dictatorship. And we mindless consumers consume their stuff, surely we have to, and then they turn their back on the people and claim: See, they follow us. We don’t.
I am in Narita airport outside Tokyo right now, in a Starbucks cafeteria. Am I a follower of Starbucks and its Starbucks brand and bad coffee? No. They put that spooky furniture into every airport under global American stewardship. Starbucks thinks otherwise and will count me in as one of its billion followers, customers, consumers, fans or whatnot. I am sure they will multiply my utility.
So across the terminal lane there is also a magazine shop that flashes all the usual suspects of English magazines and papers – The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Esquire, GQ, and The Economist. Did I follow those propaganda magazines to Narita airport outside Tokyo, or were they aggressively planted in all airports under American stewardship across the entire planet, in other words: Do they follow me?
I know the answer to this. I remember how Whitney Houston was stuffed down our throats in those very magazines. I remember how I never followed Günter Grass but was ordered to read his regime propaganda. I know that not the people follow those brands, causes and celebrities, but that those brands, causes and celebrities follow us – the people. Mechanized, automatized hypnotism.
And so I turn my eyes back to my computer screen and, O shocker what can I tell you… I see in all of my American social media the autosuggestion to follow and subscribe The Economist magazine that I just so mentioned, for 50% off its price. Do they know what we write and talk about?
Everywhere we go, they follow.
The author is a German writer and cultural critic.
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By the way: Günther Grass volunteered for the Waffen-SS. He served in the notorious 10th SS Panzer Division “Frundsberg”.
All this became known only in 2006.
Of course, he was not deprived of the Nobel Prize.
Only the left and the Greens still see him as a moral authority.
But after WW2 he clearly saw his mistake and very much turned around.
Whats more, this nonsense about a young mans bad wartime decision gets regurgitated by always the same suspects – and only after Grass started to speak out about Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
This rant would have made more sense if you hadn’t chose someone as talented as Whitney Houston.
She wipes out your “family musicians, their local talent, their nation’s singers” – nobody wants to hear them compared to her, LOL.
With your reply you inadvertently made a good point for the author. And, by the way, “wipes out” is not really a nice expression when comparing artists. But I am aware that such language is the normal in American language. Which shows the sad state of “discourse” in your society.
Man, I mean that Whitney wipes your auntie on the living room piano all over the floor, jack!
America sincerely apologises to the author for inventing the phonograph.
He doesn’t want to see that “brown” cocoa butter Whitney? Well I do not want to know where you are going and, please, do NOT call me when you get there!
Who could finish an article from an author with such bad taste?
You seem to have the urgent need to expose yourself in an unfavourable manner.
This here is meant to be a forum for intelligent adults.
To me, this is shows something the world has lost. We no longer appreciate the local musicians and singers around us. People are led into a mass media where they see Whitney Houston, and they are also led into mental patterns of trying to say one thing is better than the other, and competing with each other about it. So, if someone does hear the singer down the road, they immediate start saying that “Whitney Houston is better” rather than just sitting back and enjoying the song.
The world is a poorer place for that. I’d rather have a million appreciated singers around me rather than one Whitney Houston. Oh, I’ve got no problem with Whitney, she had a beautiful voice. I’m not a big fan of the sort of shallow pop music she was in the midst of, but at least it didn’t hurt the ears like the fake music that has followed.
I do find it funny that I’ve never seen any of the movies listed in this piece. It is possible to just say no.
Buster – she is no doubt a very good singer whose performance has been enhanced with the finest recording equipment and audio manipulation, top notch arranging and good material to sing. Just as Miss America is not the most beautiful woman in the US (I know a former winner – very pretty but not overwhelmingly so), Whitney is undoubtedly not the best singer in her musical forte and can not be directly compared to a singer without the aforementioned advantages. I tend to agree with the author that she knew she was little more than a cog in the brainwashing industry called corporate America. She was likely a good person as only a narcissist would have reveled in that role.
He is a German! The only thing worse than their taste of politics is their taste in music.
I could drink buckets of liquor and Whitney Houston could play lullaby music in the background and make me sleep nice and sound,
I was sort of looking forward to Whitney Houston getting older and developing a real sense of passion in her singing from lived experience. Poor girl never made it that far. Not having a TV I was spared the helpless misery of listening to most of her greenhorn wailings, but there was one song that crept around corners anyway, so yes indeed I do know who she was. which since I left for Japan 37 years ago is quite rare among Western celebrities as I have absolutely no interest in that culture. RIP poor girl.
Looks like Whitney has followed us all to the comments section.
And O the truth about those sensational music shows check out what one winner had to say:
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/x-factor-winner-reveals-worlds-secret-religion-video/
As for my taste in music, i don’t follow any superstar and they don’t follow me either.
I am now following a Norwegian child/young lady now, with a golden, non-commercial voice, named Angelina Jordan. She’s super talented the way Whitney Houston was, but unfortunately Whitney was screwed by the industry, degraded to a trademark.
Another master-piece of deconstruction! As a child I had absorbed the certainty that America was the greatest of all all nations now and forever. Anyone not an American is a lessor person. However, my ethnic and religious background (Serb Orthodox) and my father provided an alternate understanding which has stood the test of time.
Please publish your blogs in the form of a book, essay or whatever. The message must reach the masses. Thanks.
The Economist is a lowbrow neocon propaganda rag that stupid and ignorant people read to feel smart and informed.
You can learn something from any publication, regardless of what it is or the subject, but far too many have a built-in trigger which says I don’t agree with this, so it becomes just another neocon rag which only the ignorant and lowlifes read, thus missing out on what they may have learned.
The key to profitably reading The Economist is to avoid taking seriously anything they have to say in regard to economics or politics. Their cultural and scientific coverage is well targeted toward the intelligent non-expert.
FWIW I subscribed to The Economist for decades, but ultimately gave it up due to their default politico-economic position that the West’s status quo, while not perfect, needs only minor tweaking in order to preserve the Pax Anglophonica for centuries to come. And for God’s sake, man, do not disrupt Our Banking System!
I am now content to occasionally read the Rothschild Rag when I visit the public library.
Saker pls connect with NEO Eastern they have very good authors. E.g. Quality, this is worth reading
https://m.journal-neo.org/2022/02/04/is-trump-behind-the-ongoin-tensions-between-moscow-and-washington/
Amazing piece of writing! My thoughts exactly. Besides Whitney (i like her) there is an army of celebrities that ”follow us” take ie Elvis Presley (he was no composer) Bob Dylan (horrible voice) he got some Nobel price for unknown reason. Madonna now pathetic figure, Bono from U2 now a ”freedom fighter” same as Springsteen (pathetics). Do not missunderstand me they do have some talent indeed but is disproportionate to their possible impact worldwide. I realized this lately so from now on I mostly listen music in my mother language with extreme exceptions (gil scott heron and a very very few that dont ”follow me/us”).
what the author misses is there is competition to follow you. that gives you the final choice in deciding which one you pick to “allow” to be followed. that’s the great unsaid part about it
do you get to choose who follows you round the various places your mind can go and places Perception Filters there?
This is kind of a rant and doesn’t make much sense, or bring any new ideas, for me.
Maybe the new ideas were in the last part of the piece.
I didn’t get there, because, well, I don’t “follow” Whitney Houston—never did, aside from seeing her fce on the covers of magazines sold at the supermarket checkout and watching a few videos when the Internet came online.
I am sure that most readers of this blog never “followed” Whitney Houston.
Why pick on poor Whitney, who was very talented and beautiful and who was, obviously, promoted by the music industry. Ultimately in ways that destroyed her. This is basically a very common story in the age of mass communications and entertainment: use and promote the human “product.”
Note, however, that the money and fame are also addictive for these victims of being commodified. It was what they wanted and strove for. Their own personal problems and demons, if not dealt with constructively by the subject, just become part of the material to be further commodified.
Note, however, that not all entertainment stars succumb to the syndrome.
I can’t avoid the feeling that this writer is just another who is using Whitney Houston to make obvious points obscurely and loquaciously.
“This is kind of a rant and doesn’t make much sense, or bring any new ideas, for me.”
If you go to any drug store / supermarket / pharmacy in any number of countries, you will find a range of toothpastes with different names and logos. Often with different offices and marketing executives in each country. But almost all products are made by a few giant corporations. Where I am at present, only Proctor & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive are in control. Often, they own a “local” brand as well. There is effectively no competition.
The author is pointing out that the same is true in the area of “soft propaganda”. A host of financial newspapers are owned or controlled by a few individuals. It is almost unbelievable how much of what we buy originates by companies heavily influenced by Blackrock and Vanguard. Have you ever seen their logos on consumer products?
“This is kind of a rant and doesn’t make much sense, or bring any new ideas, for me”.
“I can’t avoid the feeling that this writer is just another who is using Whitney Houston to make obvious points obscurely and loquaciously“.
I had the same take on it.
The pounding style ( how many times Whitney Huston name was repeated in the article) supports the point of the author, but is quite unpleasant and not necessary. I had a hard time to finish the article.
It seems to be a tendency to spread negativity when we don’t know how to get rid of it. I understand that it is unpleasant to realize that we have been duped. Spreading the news can be useful but first one need to stop duping oneself. By that I mean to take responsibility for our choices, to the best of our ability: don’t buy into Starbucks? Don’t buy into it. Same with the magazines. Yes, the system is by nature systematic, so it makes it somewhat difficult for the people to be off the hook. Will power? Go in the desert.
On a personal note, i lived in Mexico in the 90’s and people in the country side , be it in the desert, in a fishing village of the coast, or the jungle, never heard Whitney Huston, Michael Jackson or Bob Marley on the radio.
“ la rancherita” local radio station was playing musica ranchera and passing on messages from and for people of the community.
Yes, I hear the point of the author, the followed/following thing.
I find that the author is generalizing in general. Kind of doing what is being denounced. Maybe it is the surest way to make a point? To incarnate it.
Still on a personal note, I have to confess with a mix of Shame and Pride that I missed out on Whitney Houston.
I heard the name and saw the face but missed the talent as well as the product.
Now, with smart phones and internet connection reaching far away places, the games of “following” keeps going. Colonization.
Sorry to be ranting about a rant.
I wish us well.
Disgusting comment
He was a 17 year old child when he went to the war
I imagine I’m at that age in that situation defending my homecountry would be OK
Nobody could blame him for that
He did what he had to do
I wouldn’t say they follow, so much as watch, which then turns into Kabuki theatre, of us influencing them, while they watch us, trying to influence us, while we watch them………I think the average Joe may surprise on how aware they are. Many choose to fly under the radar, rather than be a fly in the ointment.
As for the entire entertainment business, it’s manufactured and controlled from the days of National Radio (owned by National Insurance), where the race was on to sign ‘new’ ‘unheard’ voices to ‘contracts’ to fill the airwaves of the US’s first radio station. Selling insurance of course what else. How controlled, watch Mandel’s comedy shows from Montreal, every comedian will self identify at some point in their routine, or say a popular MTV show, ‘Ridiculessness’, every single black entertainer self identifies……..it’s a closed business. Sometimes one pays the price.
Cheers, M
Gotta say…I tried to read and understand this article…but failed. Probably my fault.
Compared to Dianna Ross, Whitney Houston was a mass produced fraud.
Dianna’s voice had a unique, organic resonance – a musically sweet, smoky, all woman purr – that required no other promotion than its own intrinsic appeal. I listened to Dianna because I heard her once and wanted to hear her again, not because someone with profits to uphold told me I should. Though, I would not have framed it as such back then.
As I grew in body and mind along came Whitney. I heard her once and was never compelled to hear her again, even though someone with profits to uphold repeatedly told me I should. Yet, she would not go away, an unwanted audio shadow lingering always at the edge of my awareness.
I even checked my own biases. With so much promotion, so much ostensible mass appeal, could I be missing something, could my own senses be lying? The answer came back a resounding ‘no’ in the echo of Whitney’s voice – technically proficient, yet oddly lifeless and hollow, a pure commodity of timbre and pitch without soul.
I never held it against Whitney. Poor, pretty black girl turned out by corporate pimps. Going through the motions. Beaten by her man. A mere prop in her own movie. Her life not her own. Ended, perhaps mercifully, by alcohol and pills under dirty bath water.
But ‘they’ follow us only as long as we follow ‘them’. It is symbiotic but without any mutual benefit. The few are enriched and become ever more powerful; the many are fleeced for their money and stripped of their human dignity, becoming ever more powerless, bringing into question notions of freedom and choice.
It seems as though the human population can always be divided along these lines: those who follow not even realizing they are led, and those who do not follow realizing instinctively they are being misled.
To put an end to this dysfunction would be tantamount to a quantum leap in human evolution. It will require a mass awakening. I’m not sure this is realistic or even possible. I can’t even ideate a plausible catalyst. More than likely it is on to the logical conclusion and bitter ropes end.
“Compared to Dianna Ross, Whitney Houston was a mass produced fraud.”
Real deal: Aretha Franklin.
Hmm..Pattberg insulted many readers with soft spot for Whitney Houston :-) Seriously, this piece was written in more serious and pedagogical manner, as if author did not want readers to misunderstand his message. Topic is of course well known, but always food for thought. First and last part come together well. Big chunk of Angloamerican soft power has traditionally come from dominating “mental field” of millions of people throughout the planet. Showbusiness, sports, and also scientific field, especially arts, humanities and economics.
There was and is big public funding even in unexpected places, like movies (Top Gun and countles others). If nothing else, USA army hardware is loaned to producers, if overall message of movie is positive form their point of view.
How do I know American army is invincible? And how do I know neoliberal economics is best and most accurate frame for organizing commercial relations? It was all literally embedded in my brain, through millions of messages, consumed in lifetime.
It sounds banal, almost childish, but it does work to extent, even for mature people. Again, it is incessant bombardment, which works primarily on subconscious level.
Those on what’s left of the left have seen the reports on the extensive script approval of modern Hollywood by both the Pentagon and the CIA. This goes beyond the free military hardware and technical support.
To show how far it goes, one of the modern comic book movies was changed, I think at the request of the CIA, because the scriptwriters had used by coincidence an Operation Name that actually matched one that the CIA had used at some point. Seriously.
Great, so my tax money is being spent reviewing the scripts of these silly comic book movies. Why, gotta go ask Col Flag (for old MASH fans).
If you don’t recognize the name Col Flag, and especially if you don’t recognize the name M.A.S.H. then go on YouTube and find this. Some brilliant comic send-ups of ‘Intelligence” from back in the 70’s when America still had enough ‘freedom’ that they could do this.
That problem of how to educate from childhood onward and not instill any conditioning/ zero cultural hegemony.
As Stahl said, and I agree, “I’m not sure this is realistic or even possible.”
The “years of combined monkey training” indeed, and what the repetitions and subliminal input have done to our subconscious might be impossible to ever calculate, regardless of whether we convince ourself that we are “realizing instinctively we are being misled”.
One major culprit that could be removed fairly effectively, is the one Robert mentions re the Economist magazine and “It is a compulsory global subscription bundle”… I have often thought of a very large part of the ‘advertising industry’ really just a giant Ponzi scheme with many of the advertisers effectively forced into compliance for ‘acceptance’ – go along to get along – but I realise my possible inability to be objective due to my conscious, and unconscious, bias to advertising.
Anyway, here is that step in the right direction that could eradicate much of the problem Thorsten’s article elaborates:
An American of German descent, warned of this poison and gave an obvious solution in 1959, sadly *a solution that would never be allowed*
Frederik Pohl^, *”the Bill of Wrongs”* in his fictional piece “The Waging of the Peace” :
” 1. The First Wrong that we must abolish is the forced sale of goods. In future no one shall sell goods. Vendors may only permit their customers to buy.
2. The Second Wrong that we must abolish is advertising. All billboards are to be ripped down at once. Magazines and newspapers will confine their paid notices to one-quarter inch per page, and these may not have illustrations.
3. The Third Wrong that we must abolish is the commercial. Anyone that tries to use God’s free air for pushing commodities offered for sale is an enemy of all people , and has to be exiled to Antarctica, at least.”
That would be a start.
Yeah I did like that read and it is good for reference!
‘They follow’ a possible nod to the movie great ‘They Live’ of a similar theme?, the truth glasses slipped on during the third story for me🙂, considered another wonderful addition to this exceptionally thought prevoking series.
The best thing about having spent time in ‘the counter-culture’ is that in the process I unplugged from this entire BS machine. And in the words of Neil Young, “once your gone, you can’t come back, when you are out of the blue, and into the black.”
Once you disbelieve them, it is hard to ever believe them again. I’d imagine that most readers here have a similar experience, not with a counter-culture, as that was a rare and beautiful and brave attempt at decency. But, with the general principle of that once you see that they are lying, its hard to be sucked back into the lies again. Maybe there is some form of conversion therapy I could be chained and forced into that might make me believe the BS again, but it would take something pretty extreme.
To explain a bit more, the counter-culture was when people looked at the ‘American’ culture of the 1950’s and 60’s and thought it was horrible and that they could do better. For example, in the counter-culture, two key words were “Peace” and “Love”. And while those words were the core of the teachings of Jesus Christ, they were foreign to the Christians of America in the 1960’s. Dr. King saw this and expressed it memorably in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech with “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ”
In many ways, it was a “if we build it, they will come” sort of effort. The general idea was that if we go off and create for ourselves a decent society and culture, others will see the value in it and come join in.” Instead the American response was the assassinations of the 60’s, Richard Nixon, and Ron and Nancy’s war on drugs. America’s response to an attempt to create a decent culture was “lock them up.” And if you can’t lock them up, shoot them.
But, mainly I’m just happy as I read “Now think this girl through from the perspective of the music industry, producers, film makers, the media, the magazines and the entire culture: We have – back in the 90s – 240 million mindless consumers in America, and maybe 6 billion mindless consumers in the world that is dominated and colonized by America. How do we go to each and every mindless consumer and play, show, read and repeat to them Whitney Houston?”.
Because I was completely disconnected to this. They could think that they wanted to reach me and force Whitney Houston down my throat, all they got was a message that ‘this number has been disconnected’, and the mind-control could thus never reach me.
You can unplug. Its probably harder today, but you can. And it is a wonderful to see that the lies have just gone right past you because you had already pressed the “off” switch and gone outside to sit under a tree.
There is no counter-culture today. Or if there is, I don’t know what it could be. There don’t seem to be any influences by which people can get unplugged these days. I was too young for the counter-culture and only got to read about it and listen to the music. But I was lucky and saw through the veil early even before that through a variety of different experiences and influences. Maybe today there are micro-scenes, but nothing that will elevate the consciousness and free the minds of many in a shared way. It is all completely fragmented. No one is even curious anymore. Everyone seems terminally plugged into this corporatist termite colony with no hope of escape. The worst are those who don’t even realize it. You can’t escape from prison, if you don’t even know you are there.
You cant escape even if you do know you are there. God made a rule, no one gets out by mistake, its all by design.
Like they say, its a small club, and you aint in it.
Sorry Jerry but your mention of Neil Young is to much to bear. He’s the up him-self A/Hole who recently left a web site called Spotify because he want the World to wear masks for no good reason. (ie – They don’t work). He identified with the .1% to bar someone who’d spoken out.
Neil Young is getting support for leaving Spotify this week – even the director of the World Health Organization is praising the musician. Neil Young is a complete idiot for backing the NWO for ongoing Jabs from an experimental so called vaccine. He wants masks to be an ongoing feature of our existance. Crazy ! covid link removed … mod — Dr. Theodore Noel explains the facemask aerosol issue ( Under 3 min Video )
So, in conclusion …. I rarely listen to Whitney Houston. I know who she is, but I’ve never extensively listened to her music. I’ve never seen any of the movies mentioned. I’ve never bought her music. I had never heard of Gunter Gross and have never read him. And I don’t read the Economist.
The one thing I can’t say strong enough, it is very possible to block this. It is not some unblockable force that has to come into your life. You can say No. You can turn them Off. You can ignore them. Ignoring the morons with nuclear weapons is not wise, but you can ignore the morons who pick which music you are supposed to listen to. Its as easy as O-F-F. Then go sing a song of your own.
And, if there is some corporate moron who thinks today that he can force me to listen to someone she’s promoting, well, my personal entertainment project has been to listen to every show the Grateful Dead played in 1977. I heard someone on the internet say this was their best year, and it was a bit before I got on the bus. So, I’ve set off on my own trip to go Further and for entertainment this year I’m listening to every show done by the Grateful Dead that year. So, good luck to the mind-control morons who want me to listen to some rap or something.
You can turn them off. You can ignore them.
And the best thing is that by doing so, you take power away from them.
“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
Sometimes we visit your country and live in your home
Sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone
Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own”
“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
But the heart has its beaches, its homelands and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover, that you are the song that morning brings
But the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own”
— from “Eyes of the World” by the Grateful Dead.
What’s not left to Chance though and more important is the Illusion of Choice for POTUS. CIA Obama or MIC McCain, Goldman will get the Keys To The Treasury regardless. That kind of revolving door continuity flitting between Government Posts, Defence, Finance, Corporate & Think Tank Boardrooms keep the wheels on the bus going around.
Loss Leaders like CNN & Other CIA Platforms, Newspapers, Magazines receive Funding to continue God’s Work, numbing minds.
Trump said ‘We’ll Build A Wall and Mexico Will Pay For It and the Mexican President replied, he’s confused, Bibi Netanyahu told Israelis, We’ll Build An Iron Dome and America Will Pay For It.
Remember Dr Udo Ulfkotte who was Epsteined for blowing the whistle on the CIA running German Media, well Ho-Lee-Fook, wasn’t it the CIA then who screwed RT.de?
“A Mother gives birth to a Child, and A child gives birth to a mother”
The author seems to have observed certain psychological peculiarities of man, which he relates via the tragedy of Whitney Houston & other scenarios.
In my opinion, the idea of “following” or Who follows who ?, depends on perception. So the author is indirectly speaking about the nature of human perception . Unfortunately he goes as far as his German brainwashing / conditioning allows him to go. The end result is a half cooked something unsavory .
Finally, I find the author’s usage of the words “mindless consumers”, to be an oxymoron.
Of course, after quoting those lyrics, I had them in my head and just had to go listen to the song. There are of course many instances of “Eyes of the World” on Ytub and other platforms. The Dead were always a live band, and with them, a live performance is almost always preferable to the album.
This is the one I picked for myself. Thought I’d share. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXkeSWPRtCk
Why did I pick this one. Its a video of the performance, rarer from the 1970’s. I wanted the song in the flow of a set. And I love another song called “The Wheel” and believe its a wonderful companion piece and this came up when I searched for both.
And, if YTub were flash up a link offering me Whitney Houston, I get a great big belly laugh because there is not a chance in hades that I’d turn off this music for Whitney Houston! Not a figgin prayer of that working. LOL!
I have to diverge a little bit from the theme here. It doesn´t quite lock onto what actually happens in the US.
Whitney was not a mystery for us. She was a local girl from NJ. Her family was from there and the culture from her family, home turf was much stronger than anything the handlers could overcome. When Whitney died, we saw it as a tragedy for her family and a waste of God given talent and opportunity ….. God given.
Whitney did not sit on top of the mountain in her day. There were others held in the same or greater light; Pat Benatar is one example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhUHDif9n4
We Americans are not as lost as you think, as easily controlled as others perceive. On the road we have taken to escape the perfect trap, the journey began a long time ago and has never stopped. Soon, if you pay attention, you may see. And, we have always looked upon people of success, fame, with the light which examines personal merit: did they do as much as they could, with what they were given ………. the biblical story of the talents.
My family has lived in the US during 3 centuries, since perhaps prior to 1850. Living in the US for a few decades, or any other place for that matter, is not enough time to know the integral part of what runs in our blood. There is no grounded understanding of how we have evolved. The family is far from dead in the US and is now arising, since the ones who wish it´s destruction have arrogantly and blindly come out into the open.
We are getting there all. But, if you don´t look, truly yearn to understand us, you will miss what we are. President biden and the Neo´s are just punks, who will pass into the night. We will still be here after they are gone. If it was not true, I would never have found this blog.
I wish better days to all.
A very positive comment. It’s your leaders who need re-education.
Listening to that bit of Grateful Dead, what I find fascinating is that it works as a shield of protection against the mind control. At times, Google/Youtube try to lead you to a different choice. I try to run ad-blockers to block as much as I can, but I’ll be listening something and some ‘suggestion’ will come up in the corner.
So, after reading this, I imagined that a little ‘suggestion’ that I switch to a Whitney Houston pop song appeared on my screen. The idea that I might click that was funny. Here I am, listening to a 6-piece, improvisation jazz band playing an intricate bit that I regard as a classic, and in comparison, the notion of listening to a pop song is a complete non-starter. Not only would I not click it, but if someone tried to do it by grabbing my mouse, why, that would almost make a pacifist start a fight. Its not happening.
The music of the Grateful Dead, to me all good jazz music, is a mental experience. Your mind is engaged. Pop music is in many ways the opposite. Instead of intricate rhythms from drummers, there is a steady 4-beat or something. And it goes on and on and on. I have long found most pop music to be quite boring. And that is a direct result of listening to a lot of Grateful Dead, and of course other good music in jazz, or blues, or classical that listening to the good music of the Grateful Dead leads to.
One is a creative and engaging. The other to me is boring. And what fascinates me today is the way this acts as a mental shield against what is described in this article. I wouldn’t possibly click away from this to Whitney Houston. Is not going to happen. And for that …. thank you Jerry!
This writer is quite perceptive about what is going on. However, it is not something against which there are no defenses. As I’ve enjoyed reading and thinking and writing and listening this afternoon, I can list several that have come to mind. 1) There is an off switch. 2) Follow your heart, and let it lead you. 3) Seek and enjoy beauty.
I note the references to “The Economist.” Having worked for them in the distant past, i have an insiders view of their ‘game.’
One problem that I face, personally, is that i enjoy the written word…but not just that…i enjoy a really well written essay, article or book…and worse still…i tend to want to keep the info as a reference…which creates a dilemma – how to store it all…
I still prefer a book…whilst e-books do have the advantage of a much reduced amount of paper, i still prefer to have a book as a reference source, within easy reach.
I do appreciate the fact that publishers much prefer me to send manuscripts by email in Word file. They are far easier to edit than the old handwritten manuscripts, which just fileld the shelves of the publishers stores.
So i am not against modern technology.
But what i do dislike, is the change in emphasis, by the journalist profession, from analysing situations, explaining the historical background and the developments from this, in precis form and then explaining to the reader how recent events have changed the situation….to a situation today where journalists simply write their own opinions, which are quite transparently designed to manipulate the reader…and no longer to inform and educate and allow the reader to make his own judgement.
So if the written word is a historical account and a fact based narrative, it is worth keeping…
If the written word is just an opinion piece of a rather ill-informed journalist….it is not worth keeping…
So…the Economist… They have a very subtle approach. They inform the reader about current events. The information is misleading as there is an editorial agenda. They develop a forecast based on their analysis of events. To cover themselves they create three scenarios…a worst case… medium case and best-case… it is entirely speculative. Thats how they create an image of being ‘thorough’ in their analysis and ‘helpful’ to the reader, who wants a quick succinct analysis from what they view as a reputable paper.
Did we , as insiders have the same respect for what was being churned out? NO…i can assure the reader that we did not. The other arm of the business, the consultancy side, was and is, fact-based and thorough but the magazine contents are of a type, that if you read it only one year later, you see it for what it is…empty words…the magazine has no value as a historic document.
Even if TIME or Forbes have a skewed pro-Empire slant, these are still worthy historical narratives that are worth keeping…but the Economist has no merit as a keepsake…
And that to me, thoroughly devalues the worthiness of the Economist.
It is then amazing, to read just in what high esteem the Economist is held by political circles in the UK and USA…it is truly the blind leading the blind….a self-deceiving-loop.
Analyst, thanks for sharing your experiences. I agree, it is a very shady mag.
My understanding is that the Economist is followed not for veracity, but as part of an elite ritual.. Like getting into Studio 54 in 1978 nyc. All of us need markers to follow, a “guidestone.” Luciferians have the Economist. It is an occultist numerology and imagery based feast for them. They anticipate it the way kids look forward to the printing of new editions of serial comics. And they wish to initiate the captive masses into their signs and symbolism..
Deciphering the covers is sometimes sufficient, as they are usually loaded. They aim to craft their own reality, as Karl Rove said, so the truth is secondary. It is a cypher, meant for cognizant insiders. Analyzing it won’t make sense for us normal folks living in fact-based non-satanic worldview. It is a disturbing spread, best avoided, unless needing to note the designs of the demented.
Very well put, A.H.H…just look who the editors have been over the years…all dancing to the same tune as the Financial Cabal…and they remain widely quoted…by other journalists “who should know better.”
Any of you remember the cover with the Phoenix, the Queen, $€£¥ and many other weird occult and one world gov. Symbols? I tried to figure that one out for years.
well just saying did not know whitney… … but anyway did Presley and Michel Jackson…. Presley nah not a fan… Jackson my son were fans… of this incredible guy… so must admit I was too… however thats not really your story… but rather about how rotten our world is…
Well well well welll we are entering a new era… China Russia era… much much better,,,
You make me feel hopeless with your stories, but ok: The Economist Group is partly a CIA-MI6 intelligence operation. The magazine is just a small branch of the group. It is a compulsory global subscription bundle, together with the other magazines you mentioned. Airports must order them assorted, same with libraries and universities. It is not possible to order just the New York Times without getting the Economist, and vice versa. Its headquarter in London is a shadowy act. Rothschild, Pearson, Agnelli is all cartel money. You put in, you get prestige and favors. Cadbury financed the South Africa love bombing campaign from 2014 to 2018, despite SA’s killings of white farmers and its economic decline.
Marketing is a euphemism for making a killing. Apple spent $1.8 billion on paid search ads and advertisement in 2020, and every sold iphone is a billboard. Google is moderating everything you see online. Youtube is owned by Google. This is global American monopoly. Now Apple, Disney and Netflix compete against Facebook, Apple and Amazon for the metaverse – the future of the internet. I see only future enslavement. And they are all American companies but if you post about it, you are a terrorist or worse an antisemite.
“The Economist Group is partly a CIA-MI6 intelligence operation”
It’s never “partly”. For security reasons.
Everyone MAGICALLY knows the same set of American brands and celebrities. I wonder why. ;-D
This is sometimes embarrassing for Americans when they talk to Europeans or Asians, because those folks seem to know your music, history and culture pretty well, while you know almost none of their local talents.
You should have pointed out that all over the world school children haven to learn English. Millions of years of combined monkey training spent on free American advertisement. Americans learn no foreign languages.
It would lower their social standing.
Witney Houston was outstanding, but I get it where you’re coming from. There is no sense in marketing her a superstar in the whole world in the same way there is no sense in marketing Coca-Cola the superdrink in the whole world. She was a super drug addict, and Coca-Cola is super unhealthy. It is this reckless attitude of American super capitalism that ruins every country. Cheers mate!
Well done this guy is an excellent commentator! Must be child abuse and torture to read Gunter Grass in school, especially after it was discovered, long after he had received the Nobel Prize, that he actually was in the SS Youth. ICH WILL DAS NICHT!
” It was all literally embedded in my brain, through millions of messages, consumed in lifetime.”
They got much faster recently by using the same techniques described in the last chapter, “Pay-2-Play”. Now they added “Cancel Culture” to deal with those who are immune.
This is nothing new. Cults used same emotionaly loaded, repetitive narative since forewer. Laced with colourful iconography and various mind altering substances. The only change is that followers does not have to be physicaly present in the Temple.
Alas, brute force always trumps cult-like methods, and that is exactly where World goes.
The basic premise I can believe. It‘s like ‘They Live’ by John Carpenter which came out in the 80s, just there was no Internet then. They had only television and billboards. So this homeless bump comes across several boxes of strange glasses. When he tests one of these glasses, he gets a completely new perspective on things. He is suddenly confronted with the truth. Advertising posters suddenly say “Obey” and money says “This is your God”. Then he realizes that there are people who don’t look like normal people at all, but like aliens from another planet. The homeless bump is so appalled by the aliens that he freaks out and so the aliens immediately report him to their mothership as an enemy of state.
Anyway, the bump gets away at first and pairs up with a black construction worker, and the two want to broadcast what they see through the glasses to the rest of the nation, big time through a TV station. Needless to say, the plan goes horribly wrong, because the TV station is obviously part of the alien propaganda infrastructure.
The internet of 2002 to 2016 was reminiscent of those strange glasses the bump found in a box. Suddenly, a lot of people found glasses and saw through the deception of our regime and the lies of the media and how they keep us in obey-mode as “sleeping sheep”. But when the truthers shared their discoveries across the internet, the rulers were alarmed and identified the truthers as enemies of state and conspiracy theorists.
I guess the party ended in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump. That was our failed TV station coup. Yes, we made everyone else see the aliens for a few weeks or months, but within a year or two, they regime was in total control again. When I see Klaus Schwab talking about “the Great Reset”, I see an alien communicating with other aliens: “We got everything under control again!”
The message from the ruling class is clear. A new perspective is not even allowed. Even if we see the truth momentarily or by chance, nothing can save us because it really is a world conspiracy and we are completely controlled.
The homeless bump in ‘They Live’ even admits the glasses act like a drug. You feel high first and afterwards it’s hell. When he challenges the false narrative and dies in the end, unbeknownst to him but very clear to the viewers, he achieved nothing because the viewers see that the entire world is already occupied by those aliens and there is even a scene where they are f****ng with our women.
With all the internet censorship and crackdown on truthers since 2016, I think it is safe to say that they monitor our travel and consumer behavior, know what we like and how we feel. They really follow us.
Everything we think we like, we like because it was sent our way. Whitney Houston or Starbucks is what we think we like, but really we like them because that’s all we gonna see.
Excellent commentary, SaberTooth. Artists like Carpenter have this knack of showing things clearly, so much better then all intellectual verbiage….
I choose who follows me.
One can choose, although we are all trapped o some extent in his web called international capitalism. Or better fascism. The state of the state where one no longer can clearly differentiate if capital determines politics or politics determines capitalism that determines politics.
I buy the clothe usually used. At the Sally Ann.
I read Grass, but now he sits in my library. There are better ones who follow me. Trollope. Austin. Brecht. Karl Krauss. Heinrich Heine. Alfred Doeblin. Knut Hamsun. Traven. Gogol. Gorki,
I permit those musicians to follow me: Jimi Hendrix. Model T Ford. Albert Mangn Bros. follow me.esldorff. Keith Jarrett. Robin Trower. Tony Williams. Cassandra Wilson.
I have those actors follow me: ….can’t remember.
I have that movie follow me. I watch it every few years. RAN. And Kagemusha.
And I have the director follow me. Kurosawa.
And the Coen Brothers.
I buy my soap, shampoo according to price. I buy my sneakers according to my feeling if they will last more than three years and don’t cost above 50€.
I let Ukiyo-e prints follow me.
The red wine that follows me is local. From the island next door.
There still are some choices one can make.
The cheese that follows me is local oo. From this Island.
Maybe not that important for the economy overall, but for yourself.
So Thorsten. One answer to one question and your job is done. Who was leading whom in 1939 in Germany?
It was the Anglo-American Empire, leading the Germans into a “you and him” fight to the death against Russia to keep both Germany and Russia down and the Anglo-American Empire on top; in other words a repeat of WW1. See Anthony Sutton, Guido Preparata, and Nikolai Starikov (and Harry Truman’s comment “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible… “), for three different perspectives on historical truth!
Oh, and the German war guilt promoted by that Gunter Grass (whom I have never heard of before)? Simply the Anglo-American Empire trying to escape accountability by projecting its own guilt onto one of its victims. Germany, and Hitler, were guilty in large part of letting the Anglo-Americans lead them down the “Rosy Path” of ruin.
If you reject a comment I’d think it only polite to state why but it’s your site and rules.
I even edited my original commment thinking it was a little bit harsh mentioning the ones behind so many of the world problems.
Not a big deal. Not the only game in town.
Have a good day.
Sir,
You’re at your best.
Whitney Houston actually could sing, could not act (the BodyGuard was bad). She was good and did not deserve the fame she got. You’ve explained here that she knew it. I could add that at 48 she knew she was about being dropped off because she could not satisfy the Consumer any more. I wonder why I remember how cruel is menopause to pornstars. WH could have noticed that she was gaining a lot of weight and would not have make it through any further. I pity her.
I never could stomach Günter Grass. You are the first to tell me why. Thanks!
I love your idea of aggressiveness in the advertising industry. Edward Bernay created it. I love your take of being forced feed by the Western publishing industry under any form including the political. We are being forced feed narratives and ordered not to think about them.
The idea of reality as a socially constructed thing appears to be a consequence of this. Post modern philosophy too. Wokenism is a poor reaction against that. It only tells us to refuse that systemic oppression. It does not tell us a way out of it.
The Western world, my world is in a poor shape. This systemic organization of reality is crumbling and nothing is ready to replace it. People in that world, I suspect, are noticing it and are fighting either to save it or ending it hoping something better will come out of that.
For the while, the 0,001 % USA appear to me as aggressively fighting for its survival. A lot of their consumers would be in a panic state if their forced feed of thoughts would stop. Anxiety is an horrible state to be in.
I stop here because I’m digressing a lot and writing about things I have no actual idea. For instance, I do not know anything about the 0,001% upper crust of my society. I only can imagine what they think.I only can deduce things from my experience and I’m not so sure it can be generalized at that level.
Excellent, again. Thank you.
I agree with the author’s point. I am a psychologist. I never followed Houston, and would not see any of her movies or shows because she was obviously superficial and unproductively seductive. I came to this article though because she recent found me. I came across an article on the 10th anniversary of her death, and realized I had not seen the Bodyguard. Had the article followed me? Well, it got me. I realized I could see it on HBO, and I was seduced whole hog. Then I wanted to know all about this amazing woman. I began researching. Then I discovered one of her leaps to fame was performing at the Superbowl the week our U.S. invaded Iraq in 1991. Then she hosted Welcome Home concerts for 500k that HBO waiver the fee for. After 9/11 she re-released the Superbowl song again for free, again providing patriotism for our Homeland. We were soon off to war again. Houston never hot around to speaking out against the wars, torture, and false flags. I found this article because I realized she had been used for propaghanda extremely well, and us Americans were about as mindless as could be. So I Googled her name and the word “propaghanda.” I hoped someone would notice what she had been used for. So, she, and they finally found me: after 30 years I finally watched The Bodyguard…which was one of the most popular movies, but poorly rated by critics. ..
Этот человек обладает большим писательским литературным гением.
This man has a great writing literary genius.