Posted on 10/20/2013 4:04:49 PM PDT by EBH
So here I am sitting watching the History channel, instead of NFL and they are talking about the mystery of 3, the ancient Egyptians, monoliths, and different dimensions. Out of nowhere they make a leap to a discussion of the White House and President 0bama authorizing the Brain Initiative.
So I am a little more than caught off guard. Being the curious sort I immediately jump on my computer to look up this 'initiative,' and why our government would be so interested in our brains. Much to my surprise the website comes up on the first try and initially looks fairly innocuous.
Today at the White House, President Obama unveiled the “BRAIN” Initiative—a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.
Scanning down through the descriptions it all sounds ok to be doing, except it is the government doing it. But then as you get to the bottom of the page...the goals are finally outlined. And the number one goal?
Understand how brain activity leads to perception, decision making, and ultimately action.
Suddenly this initiative doesn't seem so innocuous, so innocent, so helpful as all the ornaments they hang out in front. Considering how much many of us have been puzzled by recent events, people's reactions to events and how they perceive them, and how people are so willingly doing things that are against their own self-interest, and dare I say even some of the recent mass shootings that provoked a bit of conspiracy thought of government mind control perhaps there is much more happening to us than we even know. And that DARPA is involved in this 'brain mapping' raises even more questions
Reading down even further we find that the President is heading up things in regards to the bioethical implications. Concerns over ethical, legal and societal implications.
oh please. how can you never have heard of DARPA before??? I mean do you read no news. Do you not even read the posts at FR?
I know nothing....I know nothing
There is more.
As soon as we put two or more “words” together in an effort to establish context, their ability to process the meaning is lost to their overriding relativism.
And they say that we are close minded ?
And this from half way down the DARPA page:
“Like all potentially powerful new technologies, this research can lead to societal questions about its use. DARPA plans to engage a broad set of experts to explore these issues.”
I feel so much more relaxed about it already.
In all seriousness.
Have you ever read the Unabomber’s Manifesto ?
While I wholeheartedly disagree with his tactics.
It is a well thought out analysis of liberalism and the effects that have followed.
I have not, but I’ll give it a look. Thanks.
The price of paperclips.
The price of paperclips.
Priceless !!!!
I can hotwire most cars with a paperclip.
After that, you may need to explore the “extremely hard core” sarcasm on popular culture from this man.
Most folks don’t get it.
An American Prayer:
Jim Morrison;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npk6n5AHnu0
They might have a video of the interview on the Fox News website.
Probably completely unrelated, we had a couple of cases of reporters and TV personalities (including Judge Judy) speaking in gibberish in the last year or so. There were at least 2 cases of it.
Very interesting. So does anyone know what she did say at the podium or are we to infer that it was what she repeated at the elevator? And really, who was the white haired man?
Everything, and I do mean everything, in DC is just so ‘off’ it’s sickening. No stability at all.
I wish that I had the ability to have me replies or comments accompanied by a short, maybe simple musical riff that would provide deeper understanding of the point I may be trying to convey.
Thanks again. Great stuff.
It’s funny: I was just going to post one of my “weekend vanities” earlier today about the straddle that I and probably many here feel as conservatives of one sort or another who are still deeply connected in various ways to the 60’s and all that flowed into and out of that decade.
I’ll ping you if I do it some weekend. Thanks again.
When we first heard of the stenographer going off, I speculated on FR if someone had drugged her or something. What with the Navy Yard and the woman shot, it’s just too coincidental. This video certainly does bring more questions than answers and I agree with the author.
Remember years ago when they were using subliminal messages on the tv? They were supposedly told to stop that practice but I've often wondered if they were still doing it and to what extent.
Many of our founding fathers and presidents were Masons - Washington, Franklin, Paine, Hancock, Revere, Knox, Roosevelt, Ford and Francis Scott Key to name a few. A good number of FReepers are, too.
Good discussion around how listening to him speak you seemed to hear one thing, but when you actually read the transcript you understood things very differently.
Obama use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches Why is this important to understand in the fullness of the Brain Initiative Project announced by 0bama this year?
One needs to understand the Democrat leadership are using techniques to implant ideas into people's minds about...tea party, republicans, who is a terrorist, guns, even the Constitution. We have pondered for years why we can't control the narrative, how they can just change the meaning of words that were once innocuous? We're surprised by the characterizations.
But we should also strongly consider how this initiative is being implemented by our military.... Strategic Social Interaction Modules (SSIM) SSIM research focuses on three major technical areas: the science of social interactions and human dynamics, technological and pedagogical design of training tools for developing human dynamics interaction proficiencies, and assessment of SSIM training and subsequent performance outcomes.
All this sounds a little Star Wars to me, but consider this kind of stuff in the hands of Marxists?!
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