“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.
Excellent stuff, Theodore -- especially that final point about dealing with people who have yet to come around to the ways in which they're being manipulated and demoralized. Tempering our frustration when it is family and friends that succumb can be very difficult, indeed.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
A veritable blueprint for what has happened to society. Your thoughtful, compelling piece is a masterpiece.
I can't applaud this enough!
Excellent stuff, Theodore -- especially that final point about dealing with people who have yet to come around to the ways in which they're being manipulated and demoralized. Tempering our frustration when it is family and friends that succumb can be very difficult, indeed.
this is impressively thoughtful.
Excellent article Theodore. 👍
scott
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.
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.
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 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.