Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control

SOTT.net ^ | 26 February 2010 | Brenday O'Niell

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

Libertarian ping? It’s not US, though.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Thanks for the picture - it was in my mind while reading this article. I guess this is how you control a country of yobs? Who knew?

[Nevadan]

I think the same thing could be accomplished by playing Yoko Ono songs or some of those old yodeling cowboy songs (the song used against the Martians in the movie, “Mars Attacks”).

[ShadowAce]

Perhaps, but studies have shown classical music played while you are pregnant is beneficial to the baby. Perhaps that knowledge is what inspired these people to make kids hate classical.

Just an example of the dumbing down of the population.

[Travis McGee]

Gotta love that Ludwig Von.

[TChris]

One news report says some of the children who have endured this Mozart authoritarianism now find classical music unbearable.

When you use something as a punishment, people will learn to hate it.

Duh?

[the invisib1e hand]

fascist architecture bump.

[HungarianGypsy]

Really? My children love classical music. One of my favorite memories of my daughter is of being in a Taco Bell where classical music was playing and she was rocking out to it.

[bamahead]

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[bamahead]

Absolutely. And I’ve got the perfect graphic for this :)

[bamahead]

Bump.

[Charles Martel]

"That's not Mozart... that's Beethoven."

[redpoll]

“Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva, And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.”

First read it at the age of 15, which explains a lot, really. And that last paragraph, written above, has stayed with me for 30 years.

As they said in another British dystopia: “Be seeing you!”

[ShadowAce]

I first saw the movie in college (early ‘80s). It made quite an impression on me about tyranny and the progression of gov’t towards it.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Great literature and very prescient.

[MrChips]

I once did a science project on the affect of different kinds of music on plants. All my hard acid rock plants died.

[ctdonath2]

Someone needs to remind Parliament that classic British dystopian novels were written as WARNINGS, not HOW-TO GUIDES.

[ShadowAce]

When citizens are being prosecuted for self-defense in their own homes, I think the “warning” cry rings a little hollow.

[doberville]

There was a string quartet playing at Auschwitz as well.
Mengele, it seems, liked music.