[Pages 196-201]
It is
threatening, destabilizing and disheartening to let go of closely held beliefs.
The worse the storm, the more tightly humans will cling to anything
familiar. For years now, we’ve been led
to believe and bought into the idea that we arrived at left/right political
polarization all own our own. Anyone that has spent any time whatsoever on
Facebook can clearly see just how emotionally invested many Americans are in
their political party of choice and beliefs about the current political system.
The “fringe left” and “radical right” are more like religious cults than political
beliefs and both are obsessed with cultural and social hot button issues — rather
than wallet issues. The time is long past due for someone to ask the question,
are social and cultural issues even within the role of government? Assuming the
answer is “yes,” then the question should be asked, how far down the list of
priorities should they be behind the critical issues of jobs, a strong U.S.
economy and wealth inequality? Shouldn’t food and shelter come well before 24/7
chatter about social and cultural issues? For far too long, Americans have been
focused almost exclusively on “social liberal” or “social conservative”
obsessions — while the middle-class in America disappears. Clearly the No. 1 role
of government is national security and No. 2 is the economy which includes good
jobs for American citizens, yet focus on No. 2 until just recently has been
virtually zero. Is that just coincidental or is it intentional, driven by the media
machine owned by the mega-rich oligarchy?
Take for
instance the 2009 Health Care (HC) debate. Although HC is not a “social issue”
per say, it certainly wasn’t priority one when president Obama and Party B took
the reins of power in Washington, D.C. Rome was burning, they had the wind at
their back and the hope that real change was possible was at an all time high
in America. What did they do? As Rome continued to burn, it was HC for
breakfast, lunch and dinner 24/7 for well over a year. When they finally
finished, there was nothing bi-partisan in the bill and they rammed down the
throats of the American people. Maybe, just maybe, that was the only way it was
going to happen and it will end up being “good medicine” in the long run, but
only time will tell?
Two things
about the HC package are debatable however: 1) Could America afford it during a
period of record federal deficits and are the added expenses to employers a
good idea in a recession and 2) Was this strictly an ideological pursuit that
took place in a “damn the torpedoes” environment when jobs and the economy should
have been priority one instead? While the
answers to both questions may be debatable . . . one thing is clearly NOT
debatable — no way should the entire American political system have been locked
down in one single debate for well over a year when Rome was burning economically. No way,
no how, no possible justification for it whatsoever! If you disagree with that
assessment, then you won’t for long because the medicine to come from such
inept leadership is a big dose of “liberty and freedom” [on top of non stop HC
repeal efforts].
Did we, do
we need massive HC reform? Yes! Should it have been allowed to suck the air out
of the room for an entire year? No! America had and still has far more pressing
economic issues. People are starving in America, jobs are going off shore, new
arrivals are taking jobs on shore, all wages/salaries are stagnant and wealth
inequality is at a level that is beyond words — yet we talked about HC for a
year. That’s not leadership and just like the 24/7 discussions on gay marriage,
abortion, the ground zero mosque, terrorism, airport security screenings and
whatever gets manufactured as priority one this week . . . it’s no accident
whatsoever.
These
issues and hundreds of others are the diversionary tools used by the mega-rich
media machine to steer us away from the really meaningful crucial issues facing
America — namely wealth inequality that impacts basic “food
and shelter” needs and pursuit of the American Dream. Admittedly, if we can
believe the 30+ million number of unemployed and underemployed supplied by our
government — which is highly dubious — most Americans are not yet worried about
food and shelter. Those Americans, who don’t yet see what’s coming, believe that
they can’t be replaced via an Internet worker. They don’t believe that their
wages/salaries will be sucked down the spiraling toilet of downward mobility
created by a mega-rich monopoly. Those Americans not directly impacted, aren’t
yet asking themselves, ‘who is going to buy their goods and services and with
what?’ It’s sure not going to be the millions of unemployed or underemployed
yet to come in the years ahead. Hair stylists and Botox providers will serve
the mega-rich alone. Clothiers, dry cleaners and fashion houses can forget
about it as well . . . food comes before looking good. Home builders who are
still in business will only be building mega-mansions . . . nothing modest for
a middle-class that will no longer exist. Again, 70+ percent of our economy comes from
exchanging goods and services within our borders and if an even larger
percentage of workers are replaced by off shore Internet talent and low wage
new arrivals, even more money is removed from the game. Ships bringing in offshore
manufactured goods and new immigrants displacing the lower middle-class
American workforce were just the beginning. It’s the white collar, middle
management professionals that currently have more and spend more in the economy
that are next on the list to be displaced.
So why repeatedly
beat this drum once again during a discussion on the American media? Simple:
FOCUS! The next social issue or supposed crisis of the day that arises, ask
your self this basic question: ‘is this issue really important in the grand
scheme of things?’ Before you go off to Facebook or some other social media
arena or start e-mailing everyone you know, ask yourself how much food the
issue will put on people’s table? Does stopping or promoting a mosque at ground
zero make your job more secure? Does yammering about airport security
screenings create jobs? What does promoting or stopping gay marriage, abortion,
prayer in schools or gun control do to combat wealth inequality or creation of
jobs? Most Americans have an opinion on almost everything, but nine times out
of ten the issues and opinions are frivolous by comparison to our economic
issues. Divided by social issues, we cannot be united where it matters on
economic issues and the mega-rich know it and manipulate us like rats to work
against our own economic self-interests. More than 99 percent of our opinions
don’t ensure that the American Dream will continue. These opinions don’t put
food on the table and ensure that American children today and in the future will
have food and shelter. For all those that say we can focus upon and accomplish
both — YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WRONG! The last 30+ years of financial losses for the
middle-class proves that you are wrong. The idea that we can have it all and
accomplish it all simultaneously is exactly why nothing has been accomplished
to boost the money in middle-class wallets for decades.
As noted
early on, the mega-rich who currently control our American Monopoly board don’t
have ANY social or cultural issues. Social issues are for “the little people”
ONLY! What we “the little people” don’t seem to get is every time we allow the
mega-rich media minions to divert our attention with yet another social issue
to captivate our focus — instead of restoring the American Dream via the
economy and good jobs — we’re playing right into their hands. It’s no
conspiracy, just the corporate media playing the role of pied piper leading the
rats in any direction possible to keep them from focusing on the cheese.
It doesn’t
take a political scientist to quickly see just how deeply ingrained and
attached most Americans are to our dysfunctional two-party status quo. Much like
survivors clinging to a tree limb in a flood, anything that loosens their grip
is felt deeply inside as a threat that will wash them away. Because they have
been programmed over decades to hate the other party, any suggestion that in
fact there is only one party that serves only the mega-rich is blasphemy.
Nonetheless, when you follow the money, look at the voting records, review who
wins and who loses within the current political system — the mega-rich always
win and the people always lose. That can’t just be an accident of chance
whereby one party is always outmaneuvered by the other.
If we lived
in China or some dictator regime, Americans
would much more easily believe what you’re about to discover, which is: we’ve
been brainwashed into believing closely held beliefs that are just not true.
Before exposing the truth, let’s first define “brainwashing.” It is “a process
in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative
methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s),
often to the detriment of the person being manipulated. Also called
psychological operations, it includes conveying selected information and
withholding other information to influence emotions, motives and most
importantly objective reasoning.” Learning everything about your subjects such
as beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses and vulnerabilities is the
critical first step. From that point it’s not that difficult if you can get enough
exposure to your subjects because we’re two legged sheep who will follow each
other off a cliff once herded in that direction. If you doubt that reality,
even for one second, simply look at the current “freedom and liberty” cliff
millions are lining up to jump off, herded by the false promise of “American
exceptionalism,” that will simply place the boot of the mega-rich more firmly
upon everyone’s neck.
According
to A.C. Nielson Company, the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV
each day [28 hours per week, 2 months out of ever year], in a 65-year lifespan,
a typical American spends 9 years of their life glued to the tube.1
Add to those hours, talk radio and the Internet and we eat sleep and breath
media in one form or another like no humans ever before. The “enough exposure”
question, required for brainwashing, is affirmed.
Some of the
earliest instances of brainwashing were by the Chinese during the Korean War to
disrupt the ability of captured U.S. solders to effectively organize and
resist their imprisonment. The two elements of fear and duress are almost
always part of brainwashing and most Americans would agree, that today we’re probably
more fearful and under more economic duress than any time since the Great
Depression. What doesn’t seem to exist in America, that exists in almost every
brainwashing effort is — total control of the subjects to be brainwashed.
No where
and at no time in the history of mankind has any population had more media
outlets and publications, not to mention the World Wide Web, with an apparent
environment of absolutely zero censorship of any kind. It would appear that brainwashing
is just not possible, with all of our so called “free press.” Even if someone
was feeble minded enough to believe that, somehow via the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), “government” controls our media, there is
complete lack of control of Internet outlets. While this lack of control and censorship
is obvious, it is in fact the very tool that enables “brainwashing.” The very
freedoms we believe we have is what makes most Americans never mentally deploy any
filters or guards whatsoever — because we can change channels, stations or
click to another website . . . even though most Americans never exercise that
freedom. If there were walls and restrictions we’d see them, we’d recognize we
were being limited. We’re just not dumb enough to be taken in by some elaborate
brainwashing scheme.
If we could
see the walls and the chains that bind our perimeters of thinking, we could and
would resist, but what if the restraints are invisible. What if they are
literally hidden within our apparent sense of “freedom” serving as the primary
vehicle to deliver the knock-out punch?” We’re exposed to the messages of both
the so called “left” and “right” and we can constantly change channels, go to
different websites and read different publications of our own choosing, but we
don’t. In reality, only a very small percentage of Americans get their
information anywhere but the main sources. Just like sheep, we’re a herd
species.
Nearly everyone
wrongly assumes that brainwashing can only have one singular indoctrination
goal. Where is that idea established as fact or reality? The idea that
brainwashing must have one singular mindset is just not true. It’s simply what
we Americans have been led to believe for more than 30+ years. We buy into the
game of Party B versus Party A, liberals versus conservatives, good versus
evil, us versus them, the good guys against the bad guys and all the while
we’ve been losing our posteriors financially. As long as we have an opponent we
can see and fight against, we’re happy little warriors fighting the battle for
social conservatism or liberalism. All the while, for more than 30+ years,
trillions of dollars have been sucked somehow from underneath our American
Monopoly board and into the pockets of the greedy at the top of the American
class pyramid.
Virtually
every single American wants to trust and believe in our leaders, both political
and corporate, as well as our media. From birth, we’re taught to believe in our
nation, to support our nation, to be patriotic, wave the flag and support America. Loving our nation and supporting
it, is as it should be, but it is brainwashing nonetheless or at least “indoctrination.”
If that works so well and it appears to, then why would anyone have trouble
believing that Americans could have just as easily been brainwashed into
believing in two apparent opposing party mindsets? When you think it through,
it is far easier to pull that off than brainwashing everyone into one single mindset.
We would have recognized that for sure . . . we may be stupid, but we’re not
that stupid!
What if the
mega-rich were master manipulators that devised a way to herd Americans into acting
and heavily investing emotionally in completely opposite belief systems? Could
they use such beliefs to further their goals of constant monetary gain? A
divided population fights each other don’t we? If we’re divided, does it really
matter whether we wear a little liberal or conservative tag? We’re going to
focus on the apparent adversary . . . the other party. Wealth inequality and
some far fetched pyramid scheme that’s sucking all the money upward, is and
will remain, a nonexistent priority as long as we’re fighting each other.
The only
way something this sophisticated, this devious could be pulled off would
require all the media to be under the thumb of one controlling force. Well America, that force has been in play for
centuries and in the past few decades it has overridden every other force, it
is called greed and money. The war strategy being deployed is as old a war
itself, something that has worked to perfection over and over again throughout
history. Once fully accomplished, it has never failed to topple great armies
and nations alike. It’s called “Divide and Conquer” and it works in sports, war
or any other venue where it’s critical for people to work together in order to
succeed.
It doesn’t
require some grand conspiracy, some new world order, some singular Oz like
figure behind the curtain pulling the levers. It simply requires a fairly small
group of people to all be on the same page, all working toward the same goal.
There is no need to coordinate, no need to draw up an elaborate game plan or
have secret meetings. All that’s required is to work separately toward either
one or two options: push the American people down chute A or chute B
[conservative or liberal]. Once that’s accomplished and “the little people” in camp A and B believe 100 percent that some
epic battle is taking place for their benefit . . . they’ll remain docile,
pliable little pups who are easily manipulated by diversion tactics and party
propaganda.
Behind it
all are the mega-rich and their political class puppets, also known as an
oligarchy or a plutocracy. They possess all the buttons, levers, stations,
channels and websites that we believe we’re choosing for our news and
information every day. While they each vie for more money of course, they have
one thing in common. It’s a bond stronger than any other force on earth, except
survival — an unquenchable thirst for more money and more wealth. Their lust
for even more money, trumps love of any nation or people and their aim is the
exploitation of the entire planet and everyone on it. Please don’t confuse the
mega-rich with those people across town living in the country club with an
inflated ego. This is strictly a discussion of the super-rich, the dynasty
families, the transnational corporations and the political class that we have
been repeatedly voting into office for decades because it seemed we had no
other choice. Essential to their pursuits, first and foremost, is a virtual
lockdown and total control of the American media machine. Don’t get a lump in
your throat or panic now, it’s too late, it already happened [while citizens
were watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars]. While they were amassing all the important
properties on the outside of the American Monopoly board, they bought up
virtually all the media and consolidated it into the hands of a few.
Over the
past several decades we have seen an absolute media explosion of more channels,
outlets, websites, radio, cable, satellite communications, mobile
communications, books, magazines and newspapers. Never before in history have
we appeared to have more freedom in communication channels, outlets and
choices. As the outlets have grown something has shrunk while virtually no one
was paying attention — ownership. Today, revenue producing media to include TV,
cable, publishers, websites, newspapers, movie studios and radio are in the
hands of a smaller pool of people than ever before in modern history.
Most
recently, without even a peep from the American people, Comcast used the FCC’s “APPROVED”
rubber stamp and $13.8 B to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal from
General Electric Company. Philadelphia-based Comcast has about 23 million cable
TV subscribers and nearly 17 million Internet subscribers. It also owns a
handful of cable channels, including E! Entertainment and the Golf Channel, as
well as a controlling interest in the Philadelphia 76ers and Flyers sports
teams. Taking over majority ownership of NBC will transform the company into a
media powerhouse. NBC Universal owns the NBC and Telemundo broadcast network,
26 local TV stations; popular cable channels including CNBC, Bravo and Oxygen,
the Universal Pictures movie studio and theme parks and a roughly 30 percent stake
in Hulu.com, which distributes NBC and other broadcast programming online.
The move
simply furthers a disturbing trend, whereby just six companies called “the Big
Six” control almost everything you watch, listen to or read. Independent
journalism, objectivity, fair and balanced reporting are now a thing of the
past. It’s all about control, manipulation, divide and conquer political games,
smokescreens and maintaining a status quo political oligarchy in which the
mega-rich rule America with their iron fist of oppression.
The Big Six
Corporate Media Monopolies:
- General Electric (Comcast)
- Disney
- News Corp
- CBS
- Time Warner
- Viacom
Just these
six had combined 2009 revenues in excess of $250 B. Just below the Big Six are
a second tier of 27 corporations that pretty much own everything not owned by
the Big Six media giants. The word “everything” means EVERYTHING to include:
cable, TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, publishers and telecom.
In essence,
33 companies control virtually everything you see, hear or read. Movie studios
and the publishing industry are closely aligned, if not owned by this same
mega-rich group of people. A singular small group of elite people [less than 40
companies] control it all! Their annual revenues are half a trillion dollars or
more and they have one thing in common: mega money and way too much power,
influence and control over everything that happens or doesn’t happen in America as well as the world.
They “officially”
get together yearly at a “media-mogul retreat” to ensure that their profits and
propaganda machines are fine tuned to benefit their mutual lust for even more
wealth. Unlike what the conspiracy theorist fruit loops believe, they do not
wear cloaks and meet in darkened caves with a lot of candles, but instead sport
Botox faces and designer fashions. What is essential for you to understand is
that these media moguls do not have “viewers, listeners and readers” in mind
when they get together. They already know that you are going to watch, read and
patronize their garbage machines because A) you’re already brainwashed and
emotionally invested B) you will cling to anything, like a child to their
favorite toy, if it provides any crumb of hope or sense or security and C) at
this point you’ll take any respite or diversion from reality you can get. As
long as we remain “brainwashed,” their profits are secured and not at any risk
whatsoever. Sure they compete with each other, but when you’re a
multi-billionaire losing is subjugated to the ultimate goal of taking care of
your fellow mega-rich and the political status quo. It’s far easier to cry over
the loss of a few million dollars on your yacht than to cry with your starving
children in a homeless shelter. As long as they are all working toward the same
ultimate goal of maintaining the status quo — they all win and just can’t lose.
The American Monopoly board belongs to them and the American people are being played
like rats in a maze.
