Tonight is a ‘Presidential’ debate. I use quotes because these two soulless hunks of flesh are not deserving of the title President as envisioned and defined by intellectuals in the 1700’s.
In his book, Rape of the Mind (A.M. Meerloo, M.D., 1956) Dr. Meerloo writes about how mass hypnosis, lying and manipulation was used by Adolph Hitler to control the masses. Dr. Meerloo experienced the SS first hand beginning in 1933, so he speaks from experience not just theory.
Below these two photographs I have simply taken quotes from Dr. Meerloo’s book. You decide if your mind and soul … and the soul of the United States of America has been raped. Personally, I am horrified and terrified that my tax money has been used to murder Palestinians and Ukrainians, to mutilate and orphan children and to create a vortex of evil that will now spin for generations to come.
I have such deep fear that God, Yahweh, Allah, Tunkasila, Siva, Kali Ma … whatever name you prefer … stands as horrified as most of us. It is time to re-read ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ , to burn away our hubris and conceit and apologize to the world. To find humility and compassion again., To throw aside greed, stealing, lies, lust, violence and hoarding.
Whatever, whomever, if you are still there please forgive us and guide us.
Dag Hammarskjold: “With every thought, word and action ask yourself … “Am I creating or am I destroying.”
(The US and UK have been accused by university researchers of obstructing a United Nations inquiry into the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN secretary general.)
Keep in mind … all of the following statements were written in 1956
It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking
minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and
compliance or otherwise, is conditioned rather early in life.
In his important social psychological experiments with students, Asch found out in
simple tests that there was a yielding toward an ERRING MAJORITY opinion in
more than a third of his test persons.
In his important work Asch discovered that 75 percent of subjects experimented upon
agreed with the majority in varying degrees. In many persons the weight of authority
is more important than the quality of the authority.
Continual suggestion and slow hypnosis in the wake of mechanical mass
communication promotes uniformity of the mind and may lure the public into the
"happy era" of adjustment, integration, and equalization, in which individual opinion
is completely lost.
The mechanization of modern life has already influenced man to become more
passive and to adjust himself to ready-made conformity. No longer does man think in
personal values, following more his own conscience and ethical evaluations; he
thinks more and more in the values brought to him by mass media.
Headlines in the morning paper give him his temporary political outlook, the radio blasts suggestions into his ears, television keeps him in continual awe and passive fixation. Consciously he may protest against these anonymous voices, but nevertheless their suggestions ooze into his system.
What is perhaps most shocking about these influences is that many of them have
developed not out of man's destructiveness, but out of his hope to improve his world
and to make life richer and deeper. The very institutions man has created to help
himself, the very tools he has invented to enhance his life, the very progress he has
made toward mastery of himself and his environment -- all can become weapons of
destruction.
The specialists in the art of persuasion and the moulding of public sentiment may try
to knead man's mental dough with all the tools of communication available to them:
pamphlets, speeches, posters, billboards, radio programs, and T.V. shows. They
may water down the spontaneity and creativity of thoughts and ideas into sterile and
streamlined clichés that direct our thoughts even although we still have the illusion of
being original and individual.
What we call the will of the people, or the will of the masses, we only get to know
after such collective action is put on the move, after the will of the people has been
expressed either at the polls or in fury and rebellion. This indicates again how
important it is who directs the tools and machines of public opinion.
In the wake of such advertising and engineering, eventually people no longer have confidence in any program, any position, and when they are unable to form intelligent judgments anymore, they can be more easily influenced by any demagogue or would-be dictator whose strength appeals to their confusion and their growing sense of dissatisfaction. They surrender to the "Zeitgeist," often without being aware of it.
Unknowingly, we may become opinionated robots.
The slow coercion of hypocrisy, of traditions in our culture that have a levelling effect -- these things change us. We crave excitement, hair-raising stories, sensation. We search for situations that create superficial fear to cover up inner anxieties. We like to escape into the irrational because we dislike the challenge of self-study and self-thinking. Our leisure time is occupied increasingly by automatized activities in which we take no part: listening to piped-in words and viewing television screens. We hurry along with cars and go to bed with a sleeping pill.
Every human communication can be either a report of straight facts or an attempt to suggest things and situations as they do not exist. Such distortion and perversion of facts strike at the core of human communication. The verbal battle against man'sconcept of truth and against his mind seems to be ceaseless. For example, if I can instill in eventual future enemies fear and terror and the suggestion of impending defeat, even before they are willing to fight, my battle is already half won.
Our boredom may welcome any seductive suggestionThere is another important weapon the totalitarians use in their campaign to frighten the world into submission.
Hitler was never logical, because he knew that that was what he was expected to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot - it confuses those who think straight. While the ‘other’ is still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the manipulator can assault him with another.
Manipulators are very ingenious in arousing latent guilt in us by repeating The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one. The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and consciences.
Actually yes, Maria Anna Schicklgruber
No I haven’t … but it’s in my stack of 400 books to read!!! It is like the wisdom of the originators in our field, linked with modern knowledge and science, is creating ‘new’ psychology. I loathe being 73 because I feel like I’m just beginning to wake up. But society has retired me and thrown the old white male professor away. I live week to week now on SS and think about my past… how I tied money to success… so felt a bit unsuccessful. Fascinating how we take in the stories people place upon us… we make them our own. Tonight’s debate… will be a storytelling session. I wish Americans would be awake enough to really hear what is being said. How we are all brainwashed by the politicians who actually know so little. But we measure by their money and thus their power. Instead of measuring them by character and integrity and kindness and love. Ag well. Next life Thank you for writing … it means more than you know. Tom