From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [alt.conspiracy] Re: "TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement"
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:43:20 GMT

A repost with permission from alt.conspiracy:

From: B645ZAW@UTARLG.UTA.EDU (Stephen Tice)
Subject: Re: "TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement"
Date: 31 Aug 92 01:38:00 GMT

John DiNardo (jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com) on 28 Aug wrote on --
| "TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement"
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Screaming his message into the dulled and jaded senses of America
and the World...

For brevity (and to see if I understand his points) here's a summary:

1.  Americans are willingly becoming slaves to those heading the
    "corporations/government/media -- who act out of greed & power lust.

3.  Their method is incitement through the constant drumming up of
    "fear, suspicion, resentment, anger and hatred" aimed at racial,
    ethnic, economic and religious differences in our society -- through
    the media.

4.  Ultimately the goal is to enact a police state, but the media wears
    a mask by which they appear to be against this, while all the while
    amplifying and focussing the evil through their programming.

5.  In the mean time with the public distracted, corporate and political
    criminals have raped the public through S&L's and now the banking
    industry.

6.  So when the corruption is exposed again, (ie S&L & BCCI), Americans
    will gladly give up freedoms so that common and corporate criminals
    can ostensibly be caught and punished.

7.  Television is the prime tool of this public manipulation, and is used
    to promote =psychological operations= against Americans (and increas-
    ingly more peoples in the world). The methods are very similar to those
    used by former proganda ministries (Nazi & Soviet).

8.  Ultimately the mechanism of enslavement will be the nullification of
    the Bill of Rights.

9.  Government participates by controlling the smuggling of guns and
    drugs, which are used to seed real violence in isolatable areas
    such as the inner city. The elites also act in concert through the
    media to foment ethnic outbursts as needed. All of this is tightly
    controlled to achieve the desired ends through the CIA, FBI, and other
    Law Agencies (such as when the police "held back" to let LA burn).

10. The point is that the television coverage is then used to foment fear
    in the general populace, ultimately in order to force imposition of
    stronger central control through martial law.

11. Other evidence of manipulation is the hysteria engendered by the
    "flag-burning" and "crucifixes immersed in urine," calculatedly
    designed to inflame the people, but actually a test to gage how
    effectively manipulation of religious and patriotic symbols can be used.

12. A historical parallel can be found in the methods Nazi's used to
    institute fascism.

13. Television is the ultimate tool to date for such manipulation. It's
    used like a drug to push hedonism and junk on the "mesmerized
    masses." The nation is rapidly being turned into zombi/robots to
    feed the power-lust of it's leaders, who are no better than Chinese,
    Guatemalan, or Iraqi rulers. "Kinder-Gentler" is just part of the
    facade, and the evil in them has taken over.

14. It's all happened before in America. Viet Nam was an excuse to
    destroy several million people in order to gain $220 billion for
    the war profiteers. And it's happening again.


John, please, correct me if I've mistaken some points. If the evidence
weren't plain before us for anyone to see, I'd say you were paranoid.
But I think what you're saying is clearly obvious for anyone who doesn't
cover their eyes.

The core dynamic you've described is the corruption which takes over
when the evil in each of us is given sway. It seems to come out not so
much in rage and violence as in hard-heartedness. And in order to gain
power and riches it takes an attitude of indifference and disdain, which
eventually make violence and lies acceptable.

Most of us witness the hardness and arrogance of the elites every day,
right along beside the hypocrisy of supposed "public advocates" who claim
to be counter to such coldness. The medias' jadedness is constantly
evident and rivals that of any mass-murderer.

You spoke of having been a marine; myself, I'm ex-navy. I reckon youv'e
had to confront your own inner rage or frustration, which can too easily
be given release to strike down another. For myself, I learned to diffuse
the rage, and I'm now slowly learning, to deal with the coldness that's
there as well, (I suspect it replaced the rage). That willingness to
"objectify" others is all too easy to fall into. There are times when
-- were I to let myself go -- then I'd willingly blow-up every prison
in America, (...or congress or the bureaucracy instead). That pit of
uncaring is in me, and to judge from the intoxication or indifference
that most feel when seeing the violence in the movies -- I'm not alone.

Without help from God to soften my heart it would be too easy to act
as a vigilante against others who are likely no different than I. And
for those who think what I've written is religious nonsense, that's your
choice. But it's my belief that stays my hands and quites my mind from
thoughts such as: how to turn pumped gasoline, a misting garden hose,
and sewer pipe into a fuel-air bomb. Or how coldly effective an insect
poison can be for mass murder. Or how fragile our cities really are to
disruptions of traffic, utilities, and communications. I reckon such
ponderings could arise from having served with special forces, but the
fact is that we all live very fragile lives, which our egos ignore most
of the time. Destruction is easy. Then again it could be that such
madness is the result of having grown up watching television, which I
quit about 3 years ago.

Every year the media seeks to outdo itself. Every year a new extreme is
introduced and what used to be taboo becomes common. That's a simple
enough dynamic without resorting to conspiracy theories. In order to
make a buck it's necessary to out-do the other syndicate. The same is
true whether it's strictly entertainment, or a news service. And I
reckon it's not just TV, but any media where the user is passive --
whether that's TV (the major example), radio, or the news periodicals.
Moreso, I suspect that the news and entertainment have become basically
the same thing.

I'd like to believe "talk-radio" is different, but there are those who
manage to manipulate it just as TV. When I first encountered =Rush Limbaugh=
it was easy for me to consider him a cartoon (like a political cartoon).
I'd think of him as "Uncle Rich Blimpo" (kindof a fat-cat caricature,
a mascot for the moneyed elites). No longer though. I haven't listened
to the man since before the Democratic convention -- corruption comes
through completely unchecked. Not that I'm any less cripple-hearted, but
money and fame apparently have snared the man -- who soon will be loosed
onto the national television audience. He justifies his hardness as
being a counter to the hardness of liberals, yet both are just as closed
to each others views -- there's little difference. It makes for quite a
circus to distract from more meaningful concerns. Rush Limbaugh is so
filled with himself and his ego, so full of self concern, that he has
become a perfect parody of the the right-wing, who overlook that there
should be a balance of =cooperation= and =competition=, rather than just
the latter. Which of course explains why the left wing radio stations
that carry him are happy to do so, the man is clearly unbalanced to the
point of mockery.

Lest my Right-Wing Christian Brothers and Sisters object, let me remind
them that Jesus' 2nd "commandment" was that we love our neighbors as
ourselves. Not a commitment I'd expect to hear from RL, based on the
radio persona; perhaps he's more tolerant in real life. Nonetheless,
Rush Limbaugh is a propagandist, used to distract, and to make money,
and belittle others.

Larry King is hardly any better than Rush Limbaugh. He does seem to
care more and have more tolerance for other viewpoints, but Larry King
swings the other way. Instead of even-treatment, he seems to place a
priority on altruism -- selflessness. His propaganda is that everyone
owes something to those less fortunate. My concern is not so much
for a balance as for the realization that one of our most precious
abilities is that we each can freely choose what should be done, and
that a free will is as important a facet of a person as is being alive.

Guilt and fear rob you of your ability to freely choose. With Larry King
there is a basic hypocrisy in standing for the-right-to-choose-in-abortion,
but not standing for the-right-to-choose-in-taxation. So Larry King is
no better than Rush Limbaugh. As "media figures" they are each driven
into a coldness toward others, while both promote big government at the
expense of the individual. One for defense/law-n-order, and the other for
social-well-being. Which is not to say that they wouldn't push for cuts
in the other's pet concerns while pushing their own.

So here are two of our media-puppets, pushers for big-government (and
whatever it takes to enforce that) at the expense of those they look
down on. Neither would support mail-in-voting, nor automatic-voter
registration at birth in my opinion. Neither want you to have a
free-will (though one talks of free-speech and free-choice, and the
other hypocritically bemoans taxes). Both (shortly) will have shows on
radio =and= TV --- exactly because they are good propagandist.

Which is the point. Television and radio are tools to manipulate the
populace, by prompting concern on a shallow subset of issues. The
goal is to prompt the nation all at once, because it's easier to
manipulate masses (or troops) when they all move together. And if
you think you aren't being manipulated then answer why so many big
corporations are willing to spend so much money on the media? Ditto
for politicians.

It's easier to see if you try going without the media for a week --
which of course is the old smokers test to see if your hooked. You
are. On the average 15+ hours a week for every person in the US. Put
another way, that's a month each year assuming no breaks for anything
else. A solid month of listening to the manipulators. = Passively =


{John, except that I didn't follow the Wackenhut reference, I think
you're exactly right. I'd like to believe that more interactive media
can counter the manipulation (such as talk radio, and computer
networks), but it may be too late for most people to escape.}


I for one am not willing to wander around for 40 years in a wilderness
of big-government or personal debt. The piper's tune from the media will
convince you it's your duty to follow merrily along and spend, spend,
spend. Watching TV a total of a solid month each year, is nothing other
than pure brainwashing -- to get you to spend money and accept whatever
your told by the elitist. And none of what I've written will make sense
to you if your mindlessly hooked -- no different than booth or tobacco.


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