“Tune in, turn on, drop out” doesn’t have to mean drugs or becoming a slacker.
Some say it is going Galt or living off the grid.
Maybe it is just unplugging from television and socialist networking where you are pummeled for 8-12 hours a day with liberal rhetoric. Even if you know what it is, it can be depressing or bring on anxiety to have to continually be bombarded by a litany of lies, smears, half truths, and coverups. And what they choose to ignore is as much a part of it as what they do cover. And it isn’t just in news, it’s the steady drumbeat in programming (fiction as well as “documentary” and infotainment interviews), advertising, and previews of other programming.
I don’t reject liberalism ‘because I don’t know what it is’, I’ve heard their arguments directly for 30+ years (even considerably longer in my lifetime but clocking from college onward). I’ve read the texts. I know them and I never bought into it.
So y'all need to be joining a Tea Party or a Lions Club, Kiwanis Club or some other civic minded organization.
Get out there and increase your sphere of influence.
If you think you have not been brain washed (to some extent)..
you are wrong...
Some to a greater extent than others, true..
Example: if your paying taxes on something you OWN... (or don’t own)..
You are paying rent on it to the givernment that OWNS IT..
YET; think you own it.. when you don’t.. a delusion..
>>President Obama’s campaign staff was filled with social psychologists.
JFK’s 1962-63 national security seminar ( industrial college for the armed forces) included Vance Packard’s “The Hidden Persuaders” on the recommended reading list.
This text was a study of the tricks used by ‘Mad Men” advertising teams on Madison Avenue in NYC as prompted by psychologist research on market manipulation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/books/review/Greif-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
The Hard Sell
By MARK GREIF
Published: December 30, 2007
The volume I made off with was a 75-cent paperback of “The Hidden Persuaders” by Vance Packard. It did scandalize me, completely. But it did so by exposing the secret world of advertising and brands. Published in 1957, it is now enjoying its 50th anniversary and a new edition from Ig Publishing, with an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller. I remember my own edition as small enough to hide — not that I really needed to — but packed with dynamite. It had a lurid cover illustration showing a barbed fishhook buried in a gleaming apple. Packard’s book reached into the darkest corners, not of sensuality, which I was sure I knew all about from television, but of the cynical selling in the commercials that ran between the shows...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Packard
In The Hidden Persuaders, first published in 1957, Packard explores the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including depth psychology and subliminal tactics, by advertisers to manipulate expectations and induce desire for products, particularly in the American postwar era. He identified eight “compelling needs” that advertisers promise products will fulfill. According to Packard these needs are so strong that people are compelled to buy products to satisfy them. The book also explores the manipulative techniques of promoting politicians to the electorate. The book questions the morality of using these techniques.
bkmk
One of the linked articles cited in the thread article:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201211/the-obama-campaign-s-secret-weapon-psychologists
contained this:
“In dealing with the right wing claim that Obama was a Muslim, it was suggested that an affirming, competing message would be more effective than simply denying the claim. The Obama campaign apparently took this advice to heart and repeatedly emphasized that Obama is a Christian.”
The claim that Obama is Christian is a lie. His “fight the smears” page even said he was a lifelong Christian. He was born to an agnostic mother, raised by two muslim fathers, enrolled in school in Indonesia as a muslim where he attended koranic studies (a fact he wrote about in his autobiography) and then was raised by his Unitarian grandmother. He said he came to Jesus through Jeremiah Wright (an ex-muslim reverend with little credibility). When was Obama baptized? His interview with “God’s Girl” on faith wasn’t very convincing. He sees Jesus as a historical figure but not the only way to salvation. Sin is what goes against “Obama’s values”. These are his own admissions.
But Obama needed the church going black vote to take office. Never mind that pastors lied to their congregations about Obama’s stance on abortion and homosexuality.
Obama may not be a muslim, but it is a lie to deny he was raised in the muslim faith for at least part of his life. It’s also a lie to sell him as a Christian. He doesn’t attend church now because he says it would be disruptive in the congregation. This didn’t seem to be problematic for the other 40+ presidents.
BTTT
It is a lengthy article and I found myself getting sidetracked by some of the embedded links to articles under discussion. I will try to read the whole thing tomorrow.
Placemarker to read with coffee in the morning. Thanks for posting the article.
Bkmk
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Awesome article. Plan to read the book soon.
There is no greater mass delusion than the belief in the supernatural.
the point of gay marriage is not gay marriage...
it the 2+2=5 moment...
the state is taking something self-evidently irrational and reprogramming society that any arbitrate idea of the state is to be the accepted “rational” ... it's simply a brainwashing tool...
the point is to break you ...to break logic and reason.. to replace any self-evident truths you should be able to see for yourself with only state declared truth
Bump for reading later.
Like that Waco biker shootout -- pretty obvious and easy to figure out what happened there, where a bunch of bad-ass bikers were gathered at some "breastaurant" in Texas and got in a gun fight, the cops showed up, and nine bikers ended up dead, another 18 wounded, and about 170 arrested and tossed in jail. Good riddance to bad rubbish and hooray for the cops! That story made me chuckle, because I have a lot of Harley friends who don't have much good to say about dumb-ass bikers of the type that shoot up restaurants in Texas.
And it was the delusion I allowed myself to maintain for TWO WEEKS, until I did some homework and saw a delusion shattered.
Some aspect of the psychology of mass delusion must operate at least on some level with the understanding that people are very apt to think, as I did in this particular case, that they can just read the headlines and the lead paragraphs and have a pretty good idea of what's going on.
The reality is that just reading the headlines and the lead paragraphs, leads one right into the corral of mass delusions. Thanks to the Waco charade, I know better now and will ALWAYS understand that if I really want to know what's going on in a story that catches my eye, I have to treat the story as a mere starting point and take responsibility for doing my own homework. People who rely on the MSM to do it, are going to be led down the garden path to mass delusionville.
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