by Christopher Barr
“And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.” -Niccolò Machiavelli
“The driving force in society is not love but fear.” – American Psychologist, John B. Watson
So what is mind control? Are we all unknowing victims of it or is it simply necessary to control a mass population of people with minds of their own? Is mind control something we should fear as in the case of George Orwell’s 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, where omnipresent government surveillance is watching the population under a totalitarian iron fist? Big Brother maintains its control over the population by punishing people for individualism and seeing independent thinking as thought-crimes. Or is mind control something we embrace, at least chemically embrace, like in the 1931 novel written by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World? The story surrounds a technocratic society in the distant future with a population pharmaceutically drugged into loving their servitude, a society where operant conditioning, sleep-learning and psychological manipulation are used as methods of control.
Mind control isn’t only a subject in futuristic science-fiction. There’s also plenty to draw from in the past as depicted in Plato’s Republic, the Greek Philosopher writes the Allegory of the Cave. This dialogue is narrated by Plato’s mentor Socrates to Plato’s brother Glaucon and is described as a group of prisoners, held immobile since childhood, chained in a cave and facing a blank wall. The prisoners watch shadows, including figures of men and animals made of wood, on the wall projected in front of an enormous fire behind them and are able to ascribe forms to the shadows. Then Socrates explains that one of the prisoners becomes free, exits the cave and sees the true reality of the bright sunny world thus understanding that the shadows on the wall were illusions simulating reality much like the TV does today. Upon returning to the cave and freeing the remaining prisoners, the freed prisoner, with his eyes no longer accustom to the darkness, educates the prisoners that these shadows are only representations of reality but not actually real. The prisoners look at this man with corrupted, unfocused eyes and are afraid of anything he has to say that is contrary to what they already know to be true. These prisoners might get so disturbed by this betrayal of information they might kill the freed man for corrupting their illusions.
The allegory is about mind control and what a population is capable of doing as in the actual case of the Philosopher Socrates who was condemned to death for corrupting the minds of the Athenian youth. Like the prisoners in the cave, we’ve been conditioned early in our lives to obey authority and see them as our leaders and our protectors in this capitalistic invisible prison, via the television screens in our living rooms. One assumes, through our educational system, we would grow up to be unique individuals, with original thoughts and the ability to embrace all the fruits of life, not conformists that become worker clones for the globalists. Rather than nurture our independence, form our own points of view, we instead accept what we are told by our teachers, government leaders and parents as blind truth.
The purpose of our education system is to manufacture human resources to create more wealth for the elite globalist. The school is but a training ground for future workers and socialising the population, to learn how to do what they are told to do with Behaviourist, B.F Skinner-type, negative reinforcement versus positive reinforcement. By removing self-reliance at the adolescence stage of life, this will inevitably create an obedient adult that relies entirely on the system that oppressed him or her in the first place. Then there is the fear of paucity, the fear of insufficiency, a child’s fear of abandonment and the sustenance one needs to survive, thus removing a desire for creativity and self-teaching, which help develop individuality and iconoclasm.
This ubiquitous dumbing down of society has a single goal of controlling workers and maintaining a rich economy. Mind control in advertising products, which is scripted by the ruling class, also contributes to a population of non-thinking people, because advertising doesn’t require credible evidence for an individual to believe it’s true. Thus applying this line of non-thinking and an illusion of knowledge, when presented with Presidential elections and propagandised media justifications for war crimes against non-threatening nations. Our thoughts and motivations and desires don’t come to us naturally but rather they are engineered by scientific architects that program us to be soulless cellphone welding commodities. Our entertainment is an agreeable occupation for the mind, where happiness is delivered artificially, and we can have opinions, feel experience and never come to the conclusion that this is a distracting device to keep mice properly behaved in a maze created by ruling men from such organisations as the Bilderberg Group, The Trilateral Commission, The International Monetary Fund (IMF), The Vatican, The Council On Foreign Relations.
This form of control on a national level persuades the population to follow orders and behave, not because they want to but because at any given time, they may be being watched and thus documented for possible incrimination. Our population is victim to this form of mind control. Where we think we are the authors of our lives and the creators of our futures, through blinders most of us wear, we are obedient consumers in a society that’s under constant surveillance.
I think that telling people to ‘wake up’ isn’t going to do the job. Education is the way to do it. I don’t mean formal, I mean alternative or at least less main stream. Man need to study himself, to understand how he thinks to overcome this mind control that is held over him. We are dealing with a war on consciousness and we must use the mind as a weapon of defence. We must realise that there is a darker side of our psyche that we wish to keep tucked away to avoid asking questions that may take us to that darker side. Carl Jung says, “One thing is sure, a great change of our psychological attitude is imminent, that is certain…because we need more…we need more psychology, we need more understanding of human nature because the only real danger that exists is man himself, he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it, we know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.”
“There exists a shadow Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” ~ Senator Daniel K. Inouye, U.S. Senate MK-ULTRA hearings in 1977
