As stated repeatedly … I’m working diligently every day to understand what is happening to our country, to our people.
Why are Biden and Trump the only two choices WE HAVE TACITLY AGREED to as our choice for president? Both are equally dangerous. We, the Sheeple, have agreed to this nightmare and there are experts from the not-too-distant past who are able to explain our hypnotic march to out-and-out fascism. We are in danger.
How did we get here? How did we get to this place where MAGA zealots and Woke zealots and Christo-fascist zealots and Exhausted-Uninformed-Angry-Leave-Me-Alone-You-Pessimistic-Asshole Non-Zealots roam the streets …iPhone in hand… ready and willing to enter the meat packaging plant … so that the rich, powerful, violent, greedy, lying, war monger politicians and CEO’s and university presidents and mega-church leaders can whack us on the head and turn us into glue or baloney?
How many times have you … HAVE YOU … said to yourself our out loud …. How did we get here? When did this happen? Who the fuck have I become? I found another piece of the puzzle.
I found another author, another book, another term that maybe you are aware of but was new to me as of 6:00 AM today. A book you can read on-line at no cost. A book researched in 1933, published in 1956, that is as relevant now as it was in 1933.
The author is Joost Merlot, M.D. (1903-1976). The book is, The Rape of the Mind (lermanet.org). The term is Menticide, the killing of the spirit. And I’ve spent the day reading and have not as of yet assimilated what this brilliant scientist experienced, researched and wrote. The process described in this book is beyond brainwashing. Is beyond the mental torture of prisoners. This book is absolutely mind-bending.
I’ve decided to copy and paste the description of the book below and leave this particular post at that. My intent is to apply what I’m reading to current events and write more later.
These various experts from the 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s would be horrified if they knew that what they warned us about was being repeated in 2024. Horrified is not too strong a word.
SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on their victims' minds. The first two and one-half years of WWII, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at first-hand the Nazi methods of mental torture on more than one occasion...Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially....
After the war, he came to the United States...As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed - Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others - his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime...
It is Dr. Meerloo's position that through pressure on the weak points in men's makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a "traitor." And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized "rape of the mind."
He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.
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Good morning … yes, a frightening reality that the RNC and DNC have such power. Time to take back the power