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Showing posts with label mind control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind control. Show all posts
3.01.2010
Weaponizing Mozart
· How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/24/weoponizing-mozart
We’re already the kings of CCTV. An estimated 20 per cent of the world’s CCTV cameras are in the UK, a remarkable achievement for an island that occupies only 0.2 per cent of the world’s inhabitable landmass.
A few years ago some local authorities introduced the Mosquito, a gadget that emits a noise that sounds like a faint buzz to people over the age of 20 but which is so high-pitched, so piercing, and so unbearable to the delicate ear drums of anyone under 20 that they cannot remain in earshot. It’s designed to drive away unruly youth from public spaces, yet is so brutally indiscriminate that it also drives away good kids, terrifies toddlers, and wakes sleeping babies.
Police in the West of England recently started using super-bright halogen lights to temporarily blind misbehaving youngsters. From helicopters, the cops beam the spotlights at youths drinking or loitering in parks, in the hope that they will become so bamboozled that (when they recover their eyesight) they will stagger home.
[...]
Britain might not make steel anymore, or cars, or pop music worth listening to, but, boy, are we world-beaters when it comes to tyranny. And now classical music, which was once taught to young people as a way of elevating their minds and tingling their souls, is being mined for its potential as a deterrent against bad behavior.
In January it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby in the midlands of England, was “subjecting” (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” the children are forced to endure two hours of classical music both as a relaxant (the headmaster claims it calms them down) and as a deterrent against future bad behavior (apparently the number of disruptive pupils has fallen by 60 per cent since the detentions were introduced.)
ne news report says some of the children who have endured this Mozart authoritarianism now find classical music unbearable. As one critical commentator said, they will probably “go into adulthood associating great music—the most bewitchingly lovely sounds on Earth—with a punitive slap on the chops.” This is what passes for education in Britain today: teaching kids to think “Danger!” whenever they hear Mozart’s Requiem or some other piece of musical genius.
The classical music detentions at West Park School are only the latest experiment in using and abusing some of humanity’s greatest cultural achievements to reprimand youth.
Read more...
http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/24/weoponizing-mozart
In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music—where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have been turned into tools of state repression—marks a new low.
by Brendan O'Neill
We’re already the kings of CCTV. An estimated 20 per cent of the world’s CCTV cameras are in the UK, a remarkable achievement for an island that occupies only 0.2 per cent of the world’s inhabitable landmass.
A few years ago some local authorities introduced the Mosquito, a gadget that emits a noise that sounds like a faint buzz to people over the age of 20 but which is so high-pitched, so piercing, and so unbearable to the delicate ear drums of anyone under 20 that they cannot remain in earshot. It’s designed to drive away unruly youth from public spaces, yet is so brutally indiscriminate that it also drives away good kids, terrifies toddlers, and wakes sleeping babies.
Police in the West of England recently started using super-bright halogen lights to temporarily blind misbehaving youngsters. From helicopters, the cops beam the spotlights at youths drinking or loitering in parks, in the hope that they will become so bamboozled that (when they recover their eyesight) they will stagger home.
[...]
Britain might not make steel anymore, or cars, or pop music worth listening to, but, boy, are we world-beaters when it comes to tyranny. And now classical music, which was once taught to young people as a way of elevating their minds and tingling their souls, is being mined for its potential as a deterrent against bad behavior.
In January it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby in the midlands of England, was “subjecting” (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” the children are forced to endure two hours of classical music both as a relaxant (the headmaster claims it calms them down) and as a deterrent against future bad behavior (apparently the number of disruptive pupils has fallen by 60 per cent since the detentions were introduced.)
ne news report says some of the children who have endured this Mozart authoritarianism now find classical music unbearable. As one critical commentator said, they will probably “go into adulthood associating great music—the most bewitchingly lovely sounds on Earth—with a punitive slap on the chops.” This is what passes for education in Britain today: teaching kids to think “Danger!” whenever they hear Mozart’s Requiem or some other piece of musical genius.
The classical music detentions at West Park School are only the latest experiment in using and abusing some of humanity’s greatest cultural achievements to reprimand youth.
Read more...
2.26.2010
Unplug the Signal
· The Truth Will Not Be Televised.
http://pupaganda.com/originals/Unplug_the_signal.html
[...]
The message is, "Be a good consumer; always obey authority; you know nothing; listen only to experts; be content and never question or express new ideas." This signal is being broadcast across millions of screens, indoctrinating the unconscious minds of those who choose this as their only reality. Self-censorship occurs when these individuals become so deeply indoctrinated that they are afraid to discuss any information outside the paradigm of television-created culture; they police their thoughts to ensure they won’t conflict with this culture.
[...]
Virtually all forms of culture are created by the ruling class to build a false sense of reality, ensure social compliance, and control the future course of cultural evolution.
Predictive programming is a tool used by the establishment to acclimate the public to new ideas, trends, beliefs, and threats. It is used through television by including certain situations or ideas within the plots of many fictional shows, familiarizing the viewer with these concepts no matter what they may be watching. Just a few of these subjects include global warming, vaccinations, torture, terrorism, national security, the militarization of police, and the degradation of the family unit. Through predictive programming, television shapes culture and prevents individuals from asking questions.
[...]
Whether it be the threat of a pandemic or terrorism, the constant state of crisis has created a form of mental illness as we are slowly acclimated into an age of crisis. By using Hegelian dialectic, the television promotes the problem, guides our reaction, and presents the solution. We have been trained to accept the life of a prisoner.
[...]
From birth we take the world as it’s presented on television. We don’t question it and any serious criticism of TV is becoming psychologically impossible in society. Who would suspect getting born into a world where everything around you is a continuous lie?
[...]
However, it is a continuous battle to educate the masses for the television remains our greatest threat to individual sovereignty and the largest obstacle to becoming a truly informed individual. Fortunately, unplugging from the signal is easy. The television can simply be turned off. Through doing so, you may realize nearly our entire world is now a hoax; things once known as truth are fake. We have been trained like dogs to be obedient to our television; our master has had our minds on a tight leash. Let us never forget the truth will not be televised.
Read more...
http://pupaganda.com/originals/Unplug_the_signal.html
by Nathan JanesToday, the television’s constant signal shapes the conclusions of the masses and produces the collective norm. Through television, the masses can be made to accept the most monstrous distortions of reality. The signal is a chill wind of continuous oppression over the minds of the masses. It controls the management of society and culture, creating uniformity across all subjects.
[...]
The message is, "Be a good consumer; always obey authority; you know nothing; listen only to experts; be content and never question or express new ideas." This signal is being broadcast across millions of screens, indoctrinating the unconscious minds of those who choose this as their only reality. Self-censorship occurs when these individuals become so deeply indoctrinated that they are afraid to discuss any information outside the paradigm of television-created culture; they police their thoughts to ensure they won’t conflict with this culture.
[...]
Virtually all forms of culture are created by the ruling class to build a false sense of reality, ensure social compliance, and control the future course of cultural evolution.
Predictive programming is a tool used by the establishment to acclimate the public to new ideas, trends, beliefs, and threats. It is used through television by including certain situations or ideas within the plots of many fictional shows, familiarizing the viewer with these concepts no matter what they may be watching. Just a few of these subjects include global warming, vaccinations, torture, terrorism, national security, the militarization of police, and the degradation of the family unit. Through predictive programming, television shapes culture and prevents individuals from asking questions.
[...]
Whether it be the threat of a pandemic or terrorism, the constant state of crisis has created a form of mental illness as we are slowly acclimated into an age of crisis. By using Hegelian dialectic, the television promotes the problem, guides our reaction, and presents the solution. We have been trained to accept the life of a prisoner.
[...]
From birth we take the world as it’s presented on television. We don’t question it and any serious criticism of TV is becoming psychologically impossible in society. Who would suspect getting born into a world where everything around you is a continuous lie?
[...]
However, it is a continuous battle to educate the masses for the television remains our greatest threat to individual sovereignty and the largest obstacle to becoming a truly informed individual. Fortunately, unplugging from the signal is easy. The television can simply be turned off. Through doing so, you may realize nearly our entire world is now a hoax; things once known as truth are fake. We have been trained like dogs to be obedient to our television; our master has had our minds on a tight leash. Let us never forget the truth will not be televised.
Read more...
2.25.2010
How Advertising Manipulates Our 'Caveman' Brains (& How to Resist)
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/how-advertising.html
[More on consumerism...]
The Joneses Paradox: Brain-Scan Study Rewrites Economic Theory
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/11/the-joneses-par.html
[and...]
The Consumer Paradox:
Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem and Materialism Goes Hand in Hand
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/11/the-consumer-pa.html
It is becoming increasingly clear that widespread consumption is wrecking havoc on the planet. But, if it’s making us happier then perhaps it’s worth the compromise, some argue. Strangely, that doesn’t appear to be the case, either. The spreading westernized belief that “more” possessions equates to more happiness hasn’t panned out. In fact, statistically, the First World now has more depression, alcoholism, crime, anxiety, obesity and overall dissatisfaction with life than was reported 50 years ago. What if “more” isn’t “more” in terms of consumption? Recent research is now shedding light on the phenomenon.
These studies suggest that our Stone Age brains, or what scientists refer to as the “primitive” brain is evolved to want more, but not necessarlily to ENJOY more. For example, Brain scans by Emory University revealed that the reward-chemical dopamine is released when we spot a product and consider buying it. Interestingly, only the anticipation releases dopamine. After the item is bought, the high often evaporates within minutes, and the purchaser may be indifferent to having one more item or even suffer from “buyer’s remorse”.
Last year Bonn researchers used brain scanning to show that humans don’t want lots of stuff, so much as they want MORE stuff than others. This is a confusing, scarcity paradigm that we share with monkey’s and other primates. The study found that whether or not people made big paychecks, for example, was much less of a motivating factor than whether they made MORE than their coworkers. In other words, winning the arbitrary “competition” appears to be more important than the reward itself.
Read more...These studies suggest that our Stone Age brains, or what scientists refer to as the “primitive” brain is evolved to want more, but not necessarlily to ENJOY more. For example, Brain scans by Emory University revealed that the reward-chemical dopamine is released when we spot a product and consider buying it. Interestingly, only the anticipation releases dopamine. After the item is bought, the high often evaporates within minutes, and the purchaser may be indifferent to having one more item or even suffer from “buyer’s remorse”.
Last year Bonn researchers used brain scanning to show that humans don’t want lots of stuff, so much as they want MORE stuff than others. This is a confusing, scarcity paradigm that we share with monkey’s and other primates. The study found that whether or not people made big paychecks, for example, was much less of a motivating factor than whether they made MORE than their coworkers. In other words, winning the arbitrary “competition” appears to be more important than the reward itself.
[More on consumerism...]
The Joneses Paradox: Brain-Scan Study Rewrites Economic Theory
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/11/the-joneses-par.html
"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
· Epicurus (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)
The Consumer Paradox:
Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem and Materialism Goes Hand in Hand
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/11/the-consumer-pa.html
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes,
working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."
- From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
2.24.2010
Soldiers of Conscience: To kill or not to kill?
Soldiers of Conscience is a powerful and balanced look at the choice a soldier makes when he finally must pull the trigger. In fact, its clear all soldiers wrestle with the morality of killing in war. Its a split-second decision in the heat of combat that can never be forgotten or undone. A rare documentary.
"El Alma de la casa es la cocina y no la televisión" - Roy Littlesun
· "La casa es el primer centro de gobierno y su corazón es la cocina."
http://www.elblogalternativo.com/2010/02/21/roy-littlesun-ensenanzas-del-sabio-hopi-sobre-la-alquimia-de-la-alimentacion-el-poder-arrebatado-de-la-mujer-el-maiz-azul-sagrado-y-la-revolucion-de-las-10000-cocinas-el-alma-de-la-casa-es-la-c/
"La nutrición representa una parte muy pequeña del papel de la comida. La extraordinaria importancia de la comida reside es que nos hace recuperar la memoria de Unidad, nuestra conexión con la Tierra. Por eso nuestra dieta debería incluir diariamente al menos un 50% de grano integral. Es el grano el que posee una mayor memoria, al contener todos los estados de su evolución en si mismo, es fruto y semilla a la vez. Y un grano puede almacenarse más de 10. 000 años, y mantendrá íntegra su memoria."
"La Inquisición apartó a la mujer de la naturaleza bajo amenaza de ser quemada en el fuego, más tarde desvirtuó la alimentación, contaminó el aire y el agua, introdujo electrodomésticos innecesarios y perjudiciales, llenó el espacio de ondas…, es así como debilita nuestra sangre manteniéndonos sumisos a su política en la que el dinero tiene más valor que la vida."
"Hoy LAS GRANDES CORPORACIONES SON LAS HEREDERAS DE LA INQUISICIÓN: el Banco Mundial, el FMI, las farmacéuticas y el sistema sanitario, la industria armamentística, la industria alimentaria, los medios de comunicación… En ellas prima el capital frente a los seres humanos, desplazándonos a simples consumidores productivos. Dos de cada tres personas en el mundo debe malvivir en la pobreza para que el sistema en el que “bienvivimos” sea sostenible. Todos nosotros lo permitimos, reproducimos y alimentamos."
"Fuera de nuestro Sistema Solar las energías del Universo se centran alrededor de las estrellas, que se interconectan unas con otras por los rayos de luz. Nuestro sol es la estrella más cercana a nosotros y con su luz el planeta Tierra recibe las energías del Cielo. Por esta unión de Cielo y Tierra, las plantas crecen y, cuando comemos esas plantas, las estrellas de afuera se convierten en las estrellas internas, nuestras células del cuerpo. Igual que el sol se interconecta con todos los otros soles, nuestro corazón busca la unión con todos los soles internos a través de la luz del sol licuada -la sangre."
"Para sanar debemos comer semillas, grano entero de CUALQUIER CEREAL AL MENOS 1 VEZ AL DÍA cualquier cereal al menos una vez al día, pues el grano guarda la memoria original desde el principio de los tiempos y el recuerdo de quién somos en origen. Los alimentos refinados que tomamos producen olvido y enfermedad en el organismo humano, esto se ve claro ahora que el sistema también manipula la semilla y la vuelve enferma, separada ya de su sabiduría natural…"
"Titus, último maestro de la tradición, murió dejando instrucciones sobre cómo el Maíz Azul debía encontrar un lugar para la purificación y transmitir sus enseñanzas al mundo. Me dejó a cargo de esta misión y, tras siete años de búsqueda, encontré ese lugar en Glastonbury (Avalón), centro energético y espiritual de Inglaterra. Desde allí las enseñanzas del Maíz Azul se transmiten al mundo por aquellos que han recibido estas enseñanzas a través de la Medicina del Corazón Único. Ahora el Círculo Sagrado de la visión Hopi ha llegado a España y se está plantando el Maíz Azul para continuar cumpliendo la Profecía de expandir esta semilla sagrada, que guarda la memoria de miles de años de oraciones a la Madre Tierra."
"La mujer siempre fue la alquimista, la sacerdotisa que tenía en su cocina el laboratorio. Para acabar con la alquimia, la transmutación por el fuego, y dar la prioridad a la reacción, la química, se realizó la caza de brujas que dejó una memoria de gran miedo. Por ese miedo se ha restado importancia al fuego del hogar, al fuego alquímico. Otra forma de manipular el poder de la mujer es mediante la MODA. La mayor fuerza de la mujer, su vientre creador de vida, es una parte corporal que necesita estar caliente, abrigada. Pero la moda impide que eso sea así, exponiendo el vientre incluso al frío del invierno. Estas jóvenes padecerán sin duda problemas de ovarios, útero, infertilidad y cáncer de pecho en el futuro."
Leer más...
http://www.elblogalternativo.com/2010/02/21/roy-littlesun-ensenanzas-del-sabio-hopi-sobre-la-alquimia-de-la-alimentacion-el-poder-arrebatado-de-la-mujer-el-maiz-azul-sagrado-y-la-revolucion-de-las-10000-cocinas-el-alma-de-la-casa-es-la-c/
Roy Littlesun
"La comida es la principal forma por la cual somos manipulados. Lo más pernicioso ha sido la introducción en nuestra dieta de azúcares, alimentos refinados, foráneos o fuera de temporada.""La nutrición representa una parte muy pequeña del papel de la comida. La extraordinaria importancia de la comida reside es que nos hace recuperar la memoria de Unidad, nuestra conexión con la Tierra. Por eso nuestra dieta debería incluir diariamente al menos un 50% de grano integral. Es el grano el que posee una mayor memoria, al contener todos los estados de su evolución en si mismo, es fruto y semilla a la vez. Y un grano puede almacenarse más de 10. 000 años, y mantendrá íntegra su memoria."
"La Inquisición apartó a la mujer de la naturaleza bajo amenaza de ser quemada en el fuego, más tarde desvirtuó la alimentación, contaminó el aire y el agua, introdujo electrodomésticos innecesarios y perjudiciales, llenó el espacio de ondas…, es así como debilita nuestra sangre manteniéndonos sumisos a su política en la que el dinero tiene más valor que la vida."
"Hoy LAS GRANDES CORPORACIONES SON LAS HEREDERAS DE LA INQUISICIÓN: el Banco Mundial, el FMI, las farmacéuticas y el sistema sanitario, la industria armamentística, la industria alimentaria, los medios de comunicación… En ellas prima el capital frente a los seres humanos, desplazándonos a simples consumidores productivos. Dos de cada tres personas en el mundo debe malvivir en la pobreza para que el sistema en el que “bienvivimos” sea sostenible. Todos nosotros lo permitimos, reproducimos y alimentamos."
"Fuera de nuestro Sistema Solar las energías del Universo se centran alrededor de las estrellas, que se interconectan unas con otras por los rayos de luz. Nuestro sol es la estrella más cercana a nosotros y con su luz el planeta Tierra recibe las energías del Cielo. Por esta unión de Cielo y Tierra, las plantas crecen y, cuando comemos esas plantas, las estrellas de afuera se convierten en las estrellas internas, nuestras células del cuerpo. Igual que el sol se interconecta con todos los otros soles, nuestro corazón busca la unión con todos los soles internos a través de la luz del sol licuada -la sangre."
"Para sanar debemos comer semillas, grano entero de CUALQUIER CEREAL AL MENOS 1 VEZ AL DÍA cualquier cereal al menos una vez al día, pues el grano guarda la memoria original desde el principio de los tiempos y el recuerdo de quién somos en origen. Los alimentos refinados que tomamos producen olvido y enfermedad en el organismo humano, esto se ve claro ahora que el sistema también manipula la semilla y la vuelve enferma, separada ya de su sabiduría natural…"
"Titus, último maestro de la tradición, murió dejando instrucciones sobre cómo el Maíz Azul debía encontrar un lugar para la purificación y transmitir sus enseñanzas al mundo. Me dejó a cargo de esta misión y, tras siete años de búsqueda, encontré ese lugar en Glastonbury (Avalón), centro energético y espiritual de Inglaterra. Desde allí las enseñanzas del Maíz Azul se transmiten al mundo por aquellos que han recibido estas enseñanzas a través de la Medicina del Corazón Único. Ahora el Círculo Sagrado de la visión Hopi ha llegado a España y se está plantando el Maíz Azul para continuar cumpliendo la Profecía de expandir esta semilla sagrada, que guarda la memoria de miles de años de oraciones a la Madre Tierra."
"La mujer siempre fue la alquimista, la sacerdotisa que tenía en su cocina el laboratorio. Para acabar con la alquimia, la transmutación por el fuego, y dar la prioridad a la reacción, la química, se realizó la caza de brujas que dejó una memoria de gran miedo. Por ese miedo se ha restado importancia al fuego del hogar, al fuego alquímico. Otra forma de manipular el poder de la mujer es mediante la MODA. La mayor fuerza de la mujer, su vientre creador de vida, es una parte corporal que necesita estar caliente, abrigada. Pero la moda impide que eso sea así, exponiendo el vientre incluso al frío del invierno. Estas jóvenes padecerán sin duda problemas de ovarios, útero, infertilidad y cáncer de pecho en el futuro."
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[Via Myriam. Visca la CooPi!]
2.21.2010
2.09.2010
The Blue Brain Project
The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
[Source: bluebrain.epfl.ch]
2.08.2010
Cognitive Dissonance through Self-Imposed Ignorance
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/cable_news.php
A new paper by Shawn Powers of USC and Mohammed el-Nawawy of Queens University of Charlotte looked at the effect of international cable news on the ideology of its viewers. Not surprisingly, they found that people were only interested in "news" that didn't contradict what they already believed:
Powers and el-Nawawy show that global media consumers tuned in to international news media that they thought would further substantiate their opinions about U.S. policies and culture, and provide them with information on the international issues that they deemed most important. The study found a strong relationship between the participants' attitudes toward U.S. policy and culture and their choice of broadcaster. Those who were dependent on BBC World and especially CNNI were overall more supportive of U.S. foreign policy.
[...]
The Princeton political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels analyzed survey data from the 1990's to prove this point. During the first term of Bill Clinton's presidency, the budget deficit declined by more than 90 percent. However, when Republican voters were asked in 1996 what happened to the deficit under Clinton, more than 55 percent said that it had increased. What's interesting about this data is that so-called "high-information" voters (these are the Republicans who read the newspaper, watch cable news and can identify their representatives in Congress) weren't better informed than "low-information" voters. According to Bartels, the reason knowing more about politics doesn't erase partisan bias is that voters tend to only assimilate those facts that confirm what they already believe. If a piece of information doesn't follow Republican talking points (and Clinton's deficit reduction didn't fit the "tax and spend liberal" stereotype) then the information is conveniently ignored.
The bleak lesson is that we turn the spotlight of attention into an information-filter, a way to block-out disagreeable points of view. Consider this experiment, which was done in the late 1960's, by the cognitive psychologists Timothy Brock and Joe Balloun.
Brock and Balloun played a group of people a tape-recorded message attacking Christianity. Half of the subjects were regular church-goers while the other half were committed atheists. To make the experiment more interesting, Brock and Balloun added an annoying amount of static (a crackle of white noise) to the recording. However, they allowed listeners to reduce the static by pressing a button, so that the message suddenly became easier to understand. Their results were utterly predicable and rather depressing: the non-believers always tried to remove the static, while the religious subjects actually preferred the message that was harder to hear. Later experiments by Brock and Balloun demonstrated a similar effect with smokers listening to a speech on the link between smoking and cancer. We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.
Read more...
Powers and el-Nawawy show that global media consumers tuned in to international news media that they thought would further substantiate their opinions about U.S. policies and culture, and provide them with information on the international issues that they deemed most important. The study found a strong relationship between the participants' attitudes toward U.S. policy and culture and their choice of broadcaster. Those who were dependent on BBC World and especially CNNI were overall more supportive of U.S. foreign policy.
[...]
The Princeton political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels analyzed survey data from the 1990's to prove this point. During the first term of Bill Clinton's presidency, the budget deficit declined by more than 90 percent. However, when Republican voters were asked in 1996 what happened to the deficit under Clinton, more than 55 percent said that it had increased. What's interesting about this data is that so-called "high-information" voters (these are the Republicans who read the newspaper, watch cable news and can identify their representatives in Congress) weren't better informed than "low-information" voters. According to Bartels, the reason knowing more about politics doesn't erase partisan bias is that voters tend to only assimilate those facts that confirm what they already believe. If a piece of information doesn't follow Republican talking points (and Clinton's deficit reduction didn't fit the "tax and spend liberal" stereotype) then the information is conveniently ignored.
"Voters think that they're thinking, but what they're really doing is inventing facts or ignoring facts so that they can rationalize decisions they've already made."
The bleak lesson is that we turn the spotlight of attention into an information-filter, a way to block-out disagreeable points of view. Consider this experiment, which was done in the late 1960's, by the cognitive psychologists Timothy Brock and Joe Balloun.
Brock and Balloun played a group of people a tape-recorded message attacking Christianity. Half of the subjects were regular church-goers while the other half were committed atheists. To make the experiment more interesting, Brock and Balloun added an annoying amount of static (a crackle of white noise) to the recording. However, they allowed listeners to reduce the static by pressing a button, so that the message suddenly became easier to understand. Their results were utterly predicable and rather depressing: the non-believers always tried to remove the static, while the religious subjects actually preferred the message that was harder to hear. Later experiments by Brock and Balloun demonstrated a similar effect with smokers listening to a speech on the link between smoking and cancer. We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.
2.03.2010
Mind Control: America's Secret War
1.14.2010
1.07.2010
1.05.2010
12.18.2009
Mass Society Drugging - MSM News
[Feel dumb lately? Cocaine, MDMA, heroine, hemp, etc... you think these are bad? Lithium, fluoride, carbamazepine, mercury, chloramphenicol, etc... are all found in regular drinking water -all over the world. Do you know what these chemicals do to you???]
Mass Drugging Of Society With Lithium, FOX...
Pharmaceutical Drugs and Toxic Chemicals Found in All US Drinking Water Supplies, MSNBC...
Poison tap water in Major USA Cities, CNN...
Mood stabilizers being placed in drinking water, KWGN Denver...
Drugs in Drinking Water, Mind Control and Others (research)...
Mass Drugging Of Society With Lithium, FOX...
Pharmaceutical Drugs and Toxic Chemicals Found in All US Drinking Water Supplies, MSNBC...
Poison tap water in Major USA Cities, CNN...
Mood stabilizers being placed in drinking water, KWGN Denver...
Drugs in Drinking Water, Mind Control and Others (research)...
12.15.2009
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