From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo)
Subject: TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement 
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:44:36 GMT
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
Keywords: television, mass hypnosis, mass hysteria, mass enslavement


Our citizenry's growing allegiance to a strident, militaristic state
power structure is the fruit of television's systematic, perennial
inculcation of guileful mythology upon the American psyche.

The corporate/government/media axis owns, exploits, and subverts
television -- the medium of mass hypnosis -- as the ultimate weapon
in its arsenal of subjugation. The mentality of the mesmerized 
viewer is subtly and subliminally molded to accept and even to
welcome the corporate masters' theft of our earnings and their
usurpation of our Constitutional rights, bequeathed to us at  
great sacrifice by our nation's founding generation.

TV's persistent emphasis on street crime is designed to shroud 
the white-collar crime of politicians and corporate executives, 
while denying attention to effective measures of crime prevention. 
After all, they cannot transform a free society into a police state 
unless the people are tricked into demanding it. So, in the words of 
the late fascist, Meir Kahane: "The worse it gets, the better it gets."
Thus, TV's corporate-owned, high-priced talking heads (with empty 
hearts) are instructed to aggravate popular hostilities by chanting 
the mantra of fear, suspicion, resentment, anger and hatred between 
brothers and sisters of different colors, religions, ethnicities
and economic classes, as the media moguls define and refine the 
duplicitous role of TV as societal conciliator/provocateur.

If the Wizard of Oz behind TV's curtain of illusion can have us
at each other's throats -- well then, who's going to notice, 
on the periphery of the brawl, that the banking industry is 
robbing the S&L store?  And how many citizens will object when 
our corporate/government rulers eagerly amputate our Constitution
in response to the public's law and order outcries which have, for
so long, been carefully and subtly fomented by our de facto Ministry
of Propaganda lurking behind that flickering screen in your room.

The worse it gets, the better it gets for the ruling elite because 
an explosion of street crime will feed the public's fearful hysteria.
It will incite law-abiding citizens to demand the slashing of their 
own Constitutional throats in order to stop the drug trafficking,
the robberies, the assaults -- the riotous burning and looting.
So the ruling elite knows that it must continuously fuel a multi-
fronted societal crime wave if it is to progress, on schedule, 
with its master plan: to wrench the sacred jewel of liberty from
the temple of the United States Constitution. 

Thus cutting through the smokescreen of media deceit, it becomes
clear why the CIA should be America's supreme narcotics importer,
flooding our cities' streets with violence-inducing drugs.  It becomes
clear why the ruling elite should direct its television industry --
its prime tool of mass mind control -- to cultivate the ethnic outrage
necessary to ignite the Los Angeles riots.  It becomes clear why the
FBI should serve as the agent-provocateur who would pour fuel on the
fire: torching ghetto buildings from roving unmarked cars.

This is the way they trick the TV-mesmerized American People into
shackling themselves.  It's a lot easier than bludgeoning the people 
with martial law at this fragile point in the growth stages of the 
American dictatorship.  There will be time enough, soon enough, to
unleash their developing gestapo forces upon the populace. If you've 
learned about the Wackenhut Security Corporation of Coral Gables,
Florida, you will understand the realness of this spectre.

Consider another memorable episode in TV's history of conjuring mass 
hysteria; in calculatedly inflaming a People's national emotions:
The Flag-Burning Issue. That issue was the field-test of a weapon
in the covert war upon our people's liberties. The desecration of 
national and religious symbols is perhaps the most emotionally 
inflammatory instrument of mass psychology. And that is precisely
why they chose to use that particular instrument upon us in their  
experimental operation: to see just how stupid we really could be;
to see just how much of our Constitution we would readily relinquish
in our angry reaction to the political mind-game they were foisting 
upon us. They did it to us by conjuring in our minds images of 
burning flags and crucifixes immersed in urine.

These schemes are as old as the most ancient regimes that were ever
bent upon seizing power. The Nazis hatched similar schemes to incite 
the German masses into welcoming fascism.  

Through TV's years of stealthy purposeful mass thought-engineering,
the American people have degenerated into a nation of crass couch
potatoes, addicted to their daily video fixes. TV is their Big Brother,
their Svengali, their God, wherein all manner of social cruelty 
and interpersonal viciousness is acceptable, and even craved as 
junk food for lazy hedonistic minds and hollow souls. By creating
a nation of junkies, TV facilitates its mission as the opiate of 
sedation and seduction that leads us into our own subjugation.
And that process of entrapment continues apace. 

Before it is too late, our nation's TV-zombified chauvinistic yahoos 
must learn of the plans drawn up for their fate by a treacherous 
oligarchy that is entrancing the American people and misguiding us 
all into slavery. The first steps in salvaging liberty are to dispel
the media smokescreen and to rescue from TV-imposed exile an entire
people's capacity for free thought. Only then will it be possible
for the People of the United States to recognize and confront a
chronic cancer upon the human race. That is, the neurotic greed for 
power and wealth that has always driven the few to enslave the many.  
Those dark traits of human nature so blatantly oppressing peoples 
around the world are also at work in our United States.  
And logically so. If we refuse to recognize the universality of 
greed and power-lust that infects the soul of all humankind --
if we delude ourselves with the comforting fantasy that American 
leaders are somehow "kinder and gentler" than Chinese leaders or
Guatemalan leaders, or Iraqi leaders -- then our children will 
live to sweat and bleed under their yoke. 

How do I know so much about chauvinistic yahoos?  In the last 
generation, I was one of them.  I fell for the corporate/government's 
vintage lie about defending foreign people against aggression.
Over thirty years ago, I joined the Marine Corps and subsequently
became part of that insidious holocaust that poured fifty-eight 
thousand American lives and two million Vietnamese lives, for one  
decade, into the Southeast Asian meat grinder.  The prize:
two hundred and twenty billion dollars to further engorge America's
military-industrialist war profiteers. Just another feast to  
feed their insatiable appetites.

     John DiNardo