From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement
Keywords: mass hysteria, mass mind control, mass enslavement, television, 1984
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:22:27 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories


In article <01GO7F524IKW0001S5@utarlg.uta.edu>, 
   B645ZAW@UTARLG.UTA.EDU (Stephen Tice) writes:

>  John DiNardo (jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com) on 28 Aug wrote on --
>> | "TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement"
   
>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.

   This concept, I feel, is profound because it cuts through all the 
   surface symptoms of what it really is, deep within people, that makes
   them act the same as Nazis. And you're right. It all starts with
   indifference -- not caring about others around us; not identifying
   with them as part of our own center of human existence. Rather, we 
   perceive others as being remote from us. Alienation leads to 
   condescension, suspicion, a fear that THEY are going to take over. 

   Though always concealed from public awareness, the worst extreme of
   this conceited condescension is among the fabulously wealthy ruling 
   elite who see the common people as ignorant masses who must be subdued,
   manipulated and controlled so that they can NEVER be allowed to think,
   because if they are allowed to think, they might realize that their
   human potential for self-determination has always been severely 
   circumscribed by the ruling elite. Having arrived at that realization,
   the masses might rise up and overthrow the ruling elite who are
   relentlessly conniving to expand their power while stifling the 
   ignorant masses. Indeed, cultivating our ignorance is the way
   that they stifle us. 
   
   But it all begins with indifference -- being too lazy to love, which
   is the seed that eventually sprouts into disdain for others who are
   different from us and who are, in some physical, cultural, class or 
   religious way, not high-quality people like us.

   These anti-human patterns always, in all societies and eras, seem to
   fester into abuses and then, ultimately into ethnic conflict:
   Armenians and Turks, German aryans and German Jews, Irish Catholics
   and Protestants, Croatians and Serbs, Hindus and Sikhs, 
   European-Americans and African-Americans.

   The terminal stage of this inter-human cancer is, of course, genocide.

>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

    I did feel a sense of rage and frustration when I went from Vietnam
    to the college campus and found myself surrounded by anti-war 
    animosity. I thought that the American student protest movement was
    conceived in disloyalty -- because the Big Lie of the ruling elite
    had been drummed into my head throughout my formative years, primarily
    through that infant medium called television. If you've ever seen
    BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, you'll know what I mean. I vividly recall
    coming home from school day-after-day and watching Sen. Joseph McCarthy,
    live, in the Army-McCarthy Hearings. That's the kind of stuff that 
    made me really fear and hate those "dirty commies."

    It was only after years of soul-searching as to the causes of hatred
    that I realized I had been duped: that the Vietnam War had been 
    concocted in the bowels of Hell that exists in the skulls of
    those demented old men who, rather than ruling America from the
    shadows of power, should be committed to hospitals for the 
    criminally insane.

>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

    Love; love is the cure for all maladies of thought. We must resolve
    to love people every day. The solution to the greatest problems 
    that wrack the world lies in that simplest of feelings.

>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.

     What really softened my heart was learning about the myriad atrocities 
     that have been committed by our own forces against the people of
     Vietnam; the massacres of women, children and old people;
     and the toxic waste dump that we have made out of that poor country
     with the dioxin-containing Agent Orange that Dow Chemical profited
     by and which was marketed by covering the Vietnamese landscapes 
     with it. Today, there are Vietnamese babies being born with arms
     growing out of their chests. A brilliant WBAI political scholar
     recently died from exposure to Agent Orange after enduring years of
     suffering from its effects. His name was Leo Cawley and he was a
     Marine veteran of that war. Before he died, he did a radio interview
     with one of his former enemies, a Vietnamese soldier who described
     the human needs and hopes common to all young men who are wrenched
     from their budding lives and hurled into the fiery pit of war.

     Crying for the victims of crimes against humanity is what softened
     my heart, and I guess, made me somewhat obsessed with publicizing
     the recurrent human annihilation that our rulers always attribute
     to Hitler but never to themselves.

>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. 

     Yes, those words are the best essence of Christianity or any religion,
     or any humanistic secular philosophy. 

>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.

    ... or why did ninety percent of the American People go from wanting 
    to stop Saddam Hussein from stretching from Kuwait into Saudi Arabia,
    then they went to wanting to SCARE Saddam out of Kuwait, then they
    went to wanting to DRIVE him out of Kuwait, to wanting American
    forces to pursue him back into his own country, Iraq, then they went
    to wanting to bomb his troops into nothingness, and finally they
    approved of Bush bombing the entire civilian infrastructure of
    Iraq into absolute rubble, bombing civilian centers and committing
    genocide to the tune of a quarter of a million CIVILIANS, not only
    by killing them with bombs, but by killing them through forced
    starvation and forced epidemic diseases -- a genocide which continues
    to this day!

    Hitler would have been proud to have our Ministry of Propaganda,  
    known concertedly as NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN.

>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
    
    Stay tuned. There'll be a lot more transcriptions about
    the Wackenhut Gestapo Service coming along soon.

>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.}

     We have to try to reach them. Our world depends upon it.


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