“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Your order from the scholastic flyer is in! Ripping open the package and fumbling through its contents, you pull out and unravel a knot formed around a plastic coin. Okay, you probably could have made this thing yourself, but you spent $2 from your allowance, so it must be the real deal. A few minutes later and it’s all ready to go, your very own a hypnosis kit.
Very well-stated. I agree that caring is key. If one doesn’t care, it’s easy to pass the buck, look for a human savior, and/or descend into apathy.
Again using my dog as an example, if I did not care, did not embrace the responsibility of bringing this damaged creature into my life, I could not have proceeded through difficult years of endless patience and unconditional love to rehabilitate him. Though he no longer resembles the terrified animal I first brought home, the work still goes on. Seeing him free and happy is truly the greatest reward, and it brings tears to my eyes.
I believe in personal relationship with God through Jesus. The caring and compassion we have for others (human and animal) flows from what Christ demonstrates to us when we come to Him damaged and He “rehabilitates” us, with endless patience and unconditional love, into the people we were always meant to be.
I commented elsewhere recently about having one’s eyes opened to the realization that most of life as you’ve known it has been one long psyop designed to advance a sinister agenda of mind-boggling scope. By God’s grace I saw enough truth early on to avoid the worst of the psychological warfare, but I am praying for God to help me in areas where I was damaged by the results of those psyops.
I am also asking Him to show me how I can help others who are damaged. I chose a career in the biomedical sciences instead of biotech because I wanted to indulge my love of science and help others in the process. I’m coming to realize that the greatest help I can offer may not be the direct product of my job. Thank you for the enlightening and encouraging dialogue.
Well done, I've not read an explanation of mind control that resonated. I still don't understand the part about money, though. I always thought that money brings out what's already there, or that the pursuit of money is taken up by people who haven't figured out a more worthy object. Still, great essay, thank you very much.
"In your temple," i.e., your mind, if money is your value system then you can be controlled by whoever controls the monetary system, but if you have a proper moral system "in your temple," then control is much harder. So you're right, money worship is for people who haven't discovered a more worthy object, but those people are now easier to influence.
I spent a lot of time thinking about it considering what recently happened, and continues to happen, which is still somewhat unbelievable. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
My motive for unsuccessfully bailing out of sub stack writing -- which you admitted was awful -- was the consuming desire to write one article; its theme: exception to a categorization of mankind as "species", and to a characterization of our earth as a "planet".
To worm my way out of range of such insults as "bible-thumper" or "Roman apologist" would consume all my strength -- and be a waste of precious time -- as I am less qualified than those who have egged me on toward such heresies.
To you, I hope to speak of these things over the next few weeks, since you've admitted you're crazy. The fat chick at the bar has successfully flattered a fool who simply tried to treat her with due courtesy.
The control and ruin of minds by fiat -- that's what I gather quickly; as the hypnotic pendulum of business cycles eventually persuade a man to eat what's not food. Your article merits a few careful readings.
Your choice of illustrations is astonishingly good; it is they that recommend rereading of the text; I'm slow with abstraction and can't readily see a way to reason out of the mess you describe.
I'm flattered and gracious you're reading it all :p
Abstractions usually need some kind of visual, or literary device, to be understandable. If I wrote out how I see these ideas technically, probably no one would understand..
Well, to tell you the truth, there may not be a way to reason out of it.
Everything has a cycle. The sun rises. The sun sets. The summer brings warmth. The winter brings cold. We may be in some kind of a winter / night for the societal mind. If everything lives, well everything dies too. But it doesn't have to be depressing. There are two death cycles, as with compost, one that burns out the disease and provides nourishment for the next cycle of life, and another that's toxic, sticky, smells and takes a long time to breakdown. If we are in a death cycle, then we have to burn out the pathogens and avoid the wet rot from hanging around for too long.
Your compost analogy is deeply significant. And where are the insects? Does one have to be an amateur entomologist to care about their disappearance? A ninety percent decline in flying insect biomass reported over the past thirty years, both in Europe and the States? The web of life is anchored by trillions of little feet, times six. Without them, the compost has to be sticky, smelly and toxic. Maybe it's time to start writing on substack, if only as consolation for the absence of these little pests.
Truly excellent discussion of behavioral conditioning. Everyone should read this.
Anyone who has ever trained an animal - dogs in my case - will recognize much of this. I have a rescue who was abused before I adopted him. He came to me as an introvert with crippling anxiety, requiring the use of counter-conditioning. He is now secure, happy, and learning to be fully himself, functioning in the world without fear. Humanity needs massive counter-conditioning, not just because of what’s happening via the manufactured crises we have been - and still are - experiencing, but also for the decades of subversion courtesy of propagandist Bezmenov and his ilk. Thank you for sharing strategies to do just that.
It is disheartening to consider the scope and effectiveness of this psychological warfare, but it is also empowering to know there is a way out of it. I hope people will read this, implement strategies to break the psychological bonds, and share it with others.
I've had similar experiences with recuse cats who could be best described as "feral destroyers of flesh" when I first got them, but have since been transformed into live action stuffed animals.
Breaking that cycle of trauma is a long process, but it does work after enough care and attention.
Part of the solution, in my opinion, is caring enough to make a change. Consider its opposite, that creepy Cremation of Care ritual in Bohemian Grove, which allegorically symbolizes the death of care. Look how that perverse mindset affects all levels of authority and control, like "I'm just doing my job." The problem is people believe they don't need to care, and "an other" will step in and solve these hideous problems.
Genuinely caring about other people, descending into the depths of Hell to save their souls, that's the path forward.
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Have you ever seen the old BBC documentary Nazis: A Warning from History? Episode 2, Chaos and Consent, deals with the incredible extent to which the Nazi state relied upon its own citizens as informants to maintain totalitarian levels of control over the populace.
The historians involved in the project were really quite lucky that they had managed to find an intact records archive which hadn't been preemptively destroyed. The West was doomed the moment governments in the West were able to ascertain to power of Nazi and Soviet state propaganda. The problem is that each successive generation of the indoctrination becomes more immunised to Truth or epistemic rationality, and more firmly ensconced in the comforting platitudes of delusion. No, Western virtues are not human universals. What really surprised and disappointed me was how quickly they abandoned the power of persuasion, and just how quickly they turned the concept of Libertarian Paternalism into a weapon to be wielded against the population, with Liberal Democracies quickly turning Nudge units into unaccountable apparatchik bureaucracies wielding fear as a scalpel to coerce consent.
The use of fear is ultimately self-defeating. Fear introduced as a tool of persuasion always polarises the human distributed network. The highly educated, the affluent, the rich, the influential and the powerful always feels secure enough to become enforcers of conformity, whilst the powerless become the de facto opposition. If the decline in uptake for booster jabs is not enough to convince some, then consider just how quickly opposition is mounting to the more extreme, authoritarian and expensive climate policies amongst the economically marginal.
The empirical data from Sweden proves by every conceivable metric that there was a better way. Treat people like adults, and, to the astonishment of many, they actually act like adults.
I haven't seen that documentary, but I'll have to check it out.
Doesn't seem like too many people are taking the warnings from history seriously...
I do have a theory that these types of control schemes eventually diverge, but I can't transcribe it in a way not using Control Theory. Basically, when you make a control scheme for a physical industrial process, there's a sensitive convergence range keeping the system in balance, but step outside that convergence range and the entire system destabilizes wildly. This is one of the design functions for upstream and downstream safety systems, where the process gets shut off as a safety condition before divergence occurs.
So you're probably right, and a lot of this manipulation will backfire, somehow, and yield unpredictable destabilization. And there's no shutoff valve for human behaviour...
That's interesting. One of things we were introducing when I worked for a PVC windows and doors manufacturer was reliability-centred maintenance. In practice, it meant that we started not correcting small deviations from ideal on the basis of the theory that the tendency to overcorrect when calibrating would be slightly more likely to produce production errors. There is actually an element of truth to it, especially with older machines there is a tendency to settle through use, which can often deviate a little from the initial post-calibration settings.
On a similar subject, I think that many economists overlook engineering principles in there work. Most will discount the role of labour, when I think there is pretty good evidence that capitalism is a quite durable tight coupled system, with an optimum setting where capital only slightly outweighs the negotiating power of labour. These days, most tend to dismiss the Ford Model T approach of having a workforce capable of affording the product, but it's not as though capital was the driver of China's economic miracle. At 6% profit margins their manufacturing base was barely making enough to cover inflation, risk and taxes. Instead it was the purchasing power of labour creating a domestic consumer market which led to far more profitable companies able to exploit the new markets for goods and services which powered their economic transformation.
'So you're probably right, and a lot of this manipulation will backfire, somehow, and yield unpredictable destabilization. And there's no shutoff valve for human behaviour...'
The Cultural Revolution lasted ten years. It then took a further five years to acknowledge the depth of the catastrophe. I do think there is a natural shut-off valve, but it requires the masses becoming aware of some of the more deranged ideas being put into practice- the Left has become very adept at motte and bailey fallacies. There is one thing that Americans can be thankful for- at least they have the side-by-side comparisons of State vs. State. It's a natural corrective in terms of the democratic veto. I wish we had a similar mechanism here in the UK.
I think maybe mind control should stop being treated like a dirty word. As I stated in one of my articles, I learned actual hypnosis by myself as a toddler so I could go to sleep. Shepherding also sounds like a form of mind control on animals, but one that doesn’t involve breaking spirits. I’ve used mind control in self-defense and defense of others against attackers before because I got pretty good after all these years since learning to hypnotize myself to sleep as a toddler, so even antipathetic mind control isn’t all bad. The most important mind to control is your own, since I feel like all the nefarious mind control just comes in when people don’t do that, and I think I’ve basically become immune to torture because of that philosophy as much of a cliché as it is. Maybe sometime I should write an article in praise of mind control.
I think there's definitely a truth where if you can't control yourself then there's a desire to control others. And I think you're right, conscious habit forming is more than likely some kind of hypnotism that you apply on yourself.
The issue I have are the crazies trying to control the entire world.
You should definitely write something on the subject. Managing and learning more about the mind 'ought to be explored from as many angles as possible.
I also find the thing people hate the most, or get angry at the most, is generally an aspect of themselves they try to keep hidden, almost like pushing a beach ball underwater to the point where it blasts up above the surface.
I can't say I have that issue with my immediate family, but I do have that issue with extended family and friends, which likely explains why I like to keep to myself. The control freaks are often helpless, and I'm a sucker for being a crutch, because I don't like watching people suffer, but suffering is part of the learning process of life. If they can't learn then I can't really help, I just don't have the energy. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in and I try not to let it bother me too much.
But yeah, the right wing / left wing thing is all made up, like flipping a coin to make a decision and picking a side. Making decisions shouldn't involve a coin at all.
I know it is for me. That's how I came up with that little framework, because I discovered if I replaced a "should" in my mental chatter with a "not possible" I stopped getting angry, but the "not possible" realization is a little depressing. I don't really like that idea, but it seems to be the reality of the situation, unfortunately.
Very well-stated. I agree that caring is key. If one doesn’t care, it’s easy to pass the buck, look for a human savior, and/or descend into apathy.
Again using my dog as an example, if I did not care, did not embrace the responsibility of bringing this damaged creature into my life, I could not have proceeded through difficult years of endless patience and unconditional love to rehabilitate him. Though he no longer resembles the terrified animal I first brought home, the work still goes on. Seeing him free and happy is truly the greatest reward, and it brings tears to my eyes.
I believe in personal relationship with God through Jesus. The caring and compassion we have for others (human and animal) flows from what Christ demonstrates to us when we come to Him damaged and He “rehabilitates” us, with endless patience and unconditional love, into the people we were always meant to be.
I commented elsewhere recently about having one’s eyes opened to the realization that most of life as you’ve known it has been one long psyop designed to advance a sinister agenda of mind-boggling scope. By God’s grace I saw enough truth early on to avoid the worst of the psychological warfare, but I am praying for God to help me in areas where I was damaged by the results of those psyops.
I am also asking Him to show me how I can help others who are damaged. I chose a career in the biomedical sciences instead of biotech because I wanted to indulge my love of science and help others in the process. I’m coming to realize that the greatest help I can offer may not be the direct product of my job. Thank you for the enlightening and encouraging dialogue.
Well done, I've not read an explanation of mind control that resonated. I still don't understand the part about money, though. I always thought that money brings out what's already there, or that the pursuit of money is taken up by people who haven't figured out a more worthy object. Still, great essay, thank you very much.
"In your temple," i.e., your mind, if money is your value system then you can be controlled by whoever controls the monetary system, but if you have a proper moral system "in your temple," then control is much harder. So you're right, money worship is for people who haven't discovered a more worthy object, but those people are now easier to influence.
Got it. Thank you.
A veritable blueprint for what has happened to society. Your thoughtful, compelling piece is a masterpiece.
I appreciate your kind and heartfelt words :)
I can't applaud this enough!
this is impressively thoughtful.
I spent a lot of time thinking about it considering what recently happened, and continues to happen, which is still somewhat unbelievable. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
I was gutted, myself,that people went along with it so easily...
My motive for unsuccessfully bailing out of sub stack writing -- which you admitted was awful -- was the consuming desire to write one article; its theme: exception to a categorization of mankind as "species", and to a characterization of our earth as a "planet".
To worm my way out of range of such insults as "bible-thumper" or "Roman apologist" would consume all my strength -- and be a waste of precious time -- as I am less qualified than those who have egged me on toward such heresies.
To you, I hope to speak of these things over the next few weeks, since you've admitted you're crazy. The fat chick at the bar has successfully flattered a fool who simply tried to treat her with due courtesy.
The control and ruin of minds by fiat -- that's what I gather quickly; as the hypnotic pendulum of business cycles eventually persuade a man to eat what's not food. Your article merits a few careful readings.
Your choice of illustrations is astonishingly good; it is they that recommend rereading of the text; I'm slow with abstraction and can't readily see a way to reason out of the mess you describe.
I'm flattered and gracious you're reading it all :p
Abstractions usually need some kind of visual, or literary device, to be understandable. If I wrote out how I see these ideas technically, probably no one would understand..
Well, to tell you the truth, there may not be a way to reason out of it.
Everything has a cycle. The sun rises. The sun sets. The summer brings warmth. The winter brings cold. We may be in some kind of a winter / night for the societal mind. If everything lives, well everything dies too. But it doesn't have to be depressing. There are two death cycles, as with compost, one that burns out the disease and provides nourishment for the next cycle of life, and another that's toxic, sticky, smells and takes a long time to breakdown. If we are in a death cycle, then we have to burn out the pathogens and avoid the wet rot from hanging around for too long.
Your compost analogy is deeply significant. And where are the insects? Does one have to be an amateur entomologist to care about their disappearance? A ninety percent decline in flying insect biomass reported over the past thirty years, both in Europe and the States? The web of life is anchored by trillions of little feet, times six. Without them, the compost has to be sticky, smelly and toxic. Maybe it's time to start writing on substack, if only as consolation for the absence of these little pests.
Yeah, if inspirations hits you, go for it. There's lots of good ideas floating around and best to put them to good use.
Once again, it looks like I failed to hit the comment bubble; please examine upward to find my comment to your latest post.
Truly excellent discussion of behavioral conditioning. Everyone should read this.
Anyone who has ever trained an animal - dogs in my case - will recognize much of this. I have a rescue who was abused before I adopted him. He came to me as an introvert with crippling anxiety, requiring the use of counter-conditioning. He is now secure, happy, and learning to be fully himself, functioning in the world without fear. Humanity needs massive counter-conditioning, not just because of what’s happening via the manufactured crises we have been - and still are - experiencing, but also for the decades of subversion courtesy of propagandist Bezmenov and his ilk. Thank you for sharing strategies to do just that.
It is disheartening to consider the scope and effectiveness of this psychological warfare, but it is also empowering to know there is a way out of it. I hope people will read this, implement strategies to break the psychological bonds, and share it with others.
I've had similar experiences with recuse cats who could be best described as "feral destroyers of flesh" when I first got them, but have since been transformed into live action stuffed animals.
Breaking that cycle of trauma is a long process, but it does work after enough care and attention.
Part of the solution, in my opinion, is caring enough to make a change. Consider its opposite, that creepy Cremation of Care ritual in Bohemian Grove, which allegorically symbolizes the death of care. Look how that perverse mindset affects all levels of authority and control, like "I'm just doing my job." The problem is people believe they don't need to care, and "an other" will step in and solve these hideous problems.
Genuinely caring about other people, descending into the depths of Hell to save their souls, that's the path forward.
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Have you ever seen the old BBC documentary Nazis: A Warning from History? Episode 2, Chaos and Consent, deals with the incredible extent to which the Nazi state relied upon its own citizens as informants to maintain totalitarian levels of control over the populace.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074knp
The historians involved in the project were really quite lucky that they had managed to find an intact records archive which hadn't been preemptively destroyed. The West was doomed the moment governments in the West were able to ascertain to power of Nazi and Soviet state propaganda. The problem is that each successive generation of the indoctrination becomes more immunised to Truth or epistemic rationality, and more firmly ensconced in the comforting platitudes of delusion. No, Western virtues are not human universals. What really surprised and disappointed me was how quickly they abandoned the power of persuasion, and just how quickly they turned the concept of Libertarian Paternalism into a weapon to be wielded against the population, with Liberal Democracies quickly turning Nudge units into unaccountable apparatchik bureaucracies wielding fear as a scalpel to coerce consent.
The use of fear is ultimately self-defeating. Fear introduced as a tool of persuasion always polarises the human distributed network. The highly educated, the affluent, the rich, the influential and the powerful always feels secure enough to become enforcers of conformity, whilst the powerless become the de facto opposition. If the decline in uptake for booster jabs is not enough to convince some, then consider just how quickly opposition is mounting to the more extreme, authoritarian and expensive climate policies amongst the economically marginal.
The empirical data from Sweden proves by every conceivable metric that there was a better way. Treat people like adults, and, to the astonishment of many, they actually act like adults.
I haven't seen that documentary, but I'll have to check it out.
Doesn't seem like too many people are taking the warnings from history seriously...
I do have a theory that these types of control schemes eventually diverge, but I can't transcribe it in a way not using Control Theory. Basically, when you make a control scheme for a physical industrial process, there's a sensitive convergence range keeping the system in balance, but step outside that convergence range and the entire system destabilizes wildly. This is one of the design functions for upstream and downstream safety systems, where the process gets shut off as a safety condition before divergence occurs.
So you're probably right, and a lot of this manipulation will backfire, somehow, and yield unpredictable destabilization. And there's no shutoff valve for human behaviour...
I usually follow people when they follow me. That's the first time somebody has followed me after I've followed them!
Cheers!
That's interesting. One of things we were introducing when I worked for a PVC windows and doors manufacturer was reliability-centred maintenance. In practice, it meant that we started not correcting small deviations from ideal on the basis of the theory that the tendency to overcorrect when calibrating would be slightly more likely to produce production errors. There is actually an element of truth to it, especially with older machines there is a tendency to settle through use, which can often deviate a little from the initial post-calibration settings.
On a similar subject, I think that many economists overlook engineering principles in there work. Most will discount the role of labour, when I think there is pretty good evidence that capitalism is a quite durable tight coupled system, with an optimum setting where capital only slightly outweighs the negotiating power of labour. These days, most tend to dismiss the Ford Model T approach of having a workforce capable of affording the product, but it's not as though capital was the driver of China's economic miracle. At 6% profit margins their manufacturing base was barely making enough to cover inflation, risk and taxes. Instead it was the purchasing power of labour creating a domestic consumer market which led to far more profitable companies able to exploit the new markets for goods and services which powered their economic transformation.
'So you're probably right, and a lot of this manipulation will backfire, somehow, and yield unpredictable destabilization. And there's no shutoff valve for human behaviour...'
The Cultural Revolution lasted ten years. It then took a further five years to acknowledge the depth of the catastrophe. I do think there is a natural shut-off valve, but it requires the masses becoming aware of some of the more deranged ideas being put into practice- the Left has become very adept at motte and bailey fallacies. There is one thing that Americans can be thankful for- at least they have the side-by-side comparisons of State vs. State. It's a natural corrective in terms of the democratic veto. I wish we had a similar mechanism here in the UK.
I think maybe mind control should stop being treated like a dirty word. As I stated in one of my articles, I learned actual hypnosis by myself as a toddler so I could go to sleep. Shepherding also sounds like a form of mind control on animals, but one that doesn’t involve breaking spirits. I’ve used mind control in self-defense and defense of others against attackers before because I got pretty good after all these years since learning to hypnotize myself to sleep as a toddler, so even antipathetic mind control isn’t all bad. The most important mind to control is your own, since I feel like all the nefarious mind control just comes in when people don’t do that, and I think I’ve basically become immune to torture because of that philosophy as much of a cliché as it is. Maybe sometime I should write an article in praise of mind control.
I think there's definitely a truth where if you can't control yourself then there's a desire to control others. And I think you're right, conscious habit forming is more than likely some kind of hypnotism that you apply on yourself.
The issue I have are the crazies trying to control the entire world.
You should definitely write something on the subject. Managing and learning more about the mind 'ought to be explored from as many angles as possible.
I also find the thing people hate the most, or get angry at the most, is generally an aspect of themselves they try to keep hidden, almost like pushing a beach ball underwater to the point where it blasts up above the surface.
I can't say I have that issue with my immediate family, but I do have that issue with extended family and friends, which likely explains why I like to keep to myself. The control freaks are often helpless, and I'm a sucker for being a crutch, because I don't like watching people suffer, but suffering is part of the learning process of life. If they can't learn then I can't really help, I just don't have the energy. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in and I try not to let it bother me too much.
But yeah, the right wing / left wing thing is all made up, like flipping a coin to make a decision and picking a side. Making decisions shouldn't involve a coin at all.
I know it is for me. That's how I came up with that little framework, because I discovered if I replaced a "should" in my mental chatter with a "not possible" I stopped getting angry, but the "not possible" realization is a little depressing. I don't really like that idea, but it seems to be the reality of the situation, unfortunately.