THE ORWELLIAN GOVT OPPRESSION AND THE NEVER ENDING
WARS: AMERICAN SOCIETY IS ONLY FANTASY AND THE WALL IS TOO HIGH
1st published as HEY YOU in http://www.washingtonsblog.com/ December 17, 2012
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“HEY YOU”: Orwellian Government
Oppression and Never Ending Wars[1]
Hey you, don’t tell me there’s no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
Together we stand, divided we fall.
Pink Floyd – Hey You
“A really efficient totalitarian
state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and
their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be
coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New
World
The world makes less sense every
day. Little children are randomly slaughtered in their schoolrooms. Predator
drones roam the skies over foreign countries exterminating bad guys, along with
innocent women and children (collateral damage when it occurs in a foreign
country).
Drugged up mentally ill kids with no
hope and no future live lives of secluded quiet desperation until they snap.
Ignorant, government educated, welfare dependent drones with no self respect or
respect for others, assault, kill and rob within their government created urban
jungles.
Sociopathic criminals who committed
the largest financial crime in world history walk free and continue to occupy
executive suites in luxury office towers in downtown NYC, collecting millions
in bonuses as compensation for crushing the American middle class.
Academics, whose theories have been
thoroughly disproven, continue to steer our economy into an iceberg while
accelerating the money printing and debt issuance that will sink our ship of
state.
Corrupt, bought off politicians
pander to the lowest common denominator as their votes are only dependent upon
who contributed the most to their election campaigns, which never end.
Delusional, materialistic,
egocentric, math challenged consumers (formerly known as citizens) live for
today, enslave themselves in debt, vote themselves more entitlements, and care
not for future generations.
The alienation and isolation created
by our sprawling, automobile dependent, technology obsessed, government
controlled, debt financed society has spread like a cancerous tumor, slowly
killing our country.
Pink Floyd released The Wall 33
years ago. It was a concept rock opera album that explored the issues of
abandonment, isolation, alienation, authoritarianism, the brutality of war, a
tyrannical conformist educational system, and the walls individuals and society
build to protect themselves from having to confront reality and deal with the
consequences of their actions.
I attended the Roger Waters Wall
Concert this past summer at Citizens Bank Park with my three sons. Three
decades later, the message is more powerful than ever.
The government oppression and never
ending wars waged by the American Empire around the world have created a
society built upon fear and loathing. Roger Waters’ vision is colored by Orwell’s
1984 dystopian nightmare of lies, misinformation,
propaganda and brutality.
The missing piece, which Waters
didn’t see coming in 1979, was the ability of the oligarchs to use their
control of the credit system to entrap the masses by convincing them to love their
servitude and become so consumed with material possessions and the love of
money that they would become nothing more than passive egotistical consumers.
Since 1979, Total Credit Market Debt
in the United States has risen from $4.3 trillion to $55.3 trillion, a 1,286%
increase in 33 years. Over this same time frame total wages and salaries have
risen from $1.3 trillion to $6.9 trillion, a 531% increase. GDP has grown from
$2.6 trillion to $15.8 trillion, a 608% increase.
Luckily for the oligarchs, the math
challenged masses don’t understand that 375% of the increase in GDP is strictly
due to Federal Reserve created inflation, as the U.S. dollar has lost 68% of
its purchasing power since 1979. This GDP growth was driven by debt, with
consumer expenditures rising from 61% of GDP in 1979 to 71% of GDP today.
In the one hundred years since the
creation of the Federal Reserve the country’s population has tripled, while our
public debt and unfunded liabilities have risen from $2 billion to over $200
trillion, a ten million percent increase.
The masses have been programmed and
conditioned to love their debt servitude and yearn for more debt to fix an
economic system that collapsed due to excessive debt.
The cadre of ruling elite are
obliging by creating debt at hyperspeed levels. The corporate media, Wall
Street shysters and low-life captured politicians assure the sheep-like masses
that this is normal and beneficial to their interests, as the sheep are sheared
and led to slaughter.
“There are some ideas so wrong that
only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” – George
Orwell
“And always, everywhere, there would
be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the
ruling suggestion givers, always everywhere, the tribes of buffoons and
hucksters, the professional liars, the purveyors of entertaining irrelevances.
Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically,
their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go
on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of
trained poodles.” - Aldous
Huxley
Aldous Huxley and Edward
Bernays realized in the 1920s that the utilization of
conditioning and propaganda techniques could be used to control and manipulate
the masses.
Ivan Pavlov, the famous Russian
physiologist, conducted the ground breaking work on conditional reflexes.
Pavlov discovered that when a bell was rung in subsequent time with food being
presented to a dog in consecutive sequences, the dog will initially salivate
when the food is presented.
The dog will later come to associate
the ringing of the bell with the presentation of the food and salivate upon the
ringing of the bell.
To a critical thinking human being
who questions authority, resists being told what they should think, and values
their humanity, over what is crammed down their throat by government run
schools and the corporate controlled media, the thought of being treated like a
dog is revolting.
But to people like Edward Bernays,
who believed manipulation of the masses by an invisible contingent of
intellectually superior men, conditioning the minds of the masses through
propaganda was a necessity in a democratic society to keep the herd under
control.
Just a cursory examination of our
society reveals a population of salivating consumers (dogs) who can be
stimulated to buy the latest iPhone or techno-gadget with a simple Madison
Avenue advertising campaign (bell).
Everyone has seen the videos of the
masses lining up like cattle on Black Friday, stampeding through aisles, and
fighting each other like their the entertainment at Michael Vick’s house on a
Saturday night.
All the mega-corporate retailers and
the corporate media have to do is ring a bell (SALE) and the dogs start
salivating.
Product placement, Hollywood star
endorsements and influential people using a product immediately convince the
easily manipulated dogs to salivate and purchase the products.
The difference is that these dogs
have credit cards issued by the Wall Street banks and funded by the Federal
Reserve with dollars created out of thin air.
We are inundated with millions of
TV, newspaper, radio, billboard, and internet advertisements designed to make
us salivate (spend). Huxley’s dystopian vision of a society whose economic
values, in which individual happiness is defined as the ability to satisfy
needs, and achievement as a society is equated with economic growth and prosperity,
has come to full fruition.
He never conceived of consumers
having the ability to consume without even having the money to do so. The
credit card became our form of Soma.
The so called progressives point to
our ever increasing “advancements” in technology as proof that our society is
progressing. Huxley knew otherwise, decades before we reached this disgusting
point in history:
“Technological progress has merely
provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” -Aldous
Huxley
In reality our “technological
progress” has done nothing more than create a humorless, shallow, superficial
world of alienation and egocentric desires.
Just as in Huxley’s Brave New World,
science and technology have not been used to seek truth and advance our
culture. They have been used by the State to sensor, control, and monitor the
citizens. They use technology as a means to create electronic entertainment
machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption
and production that are the basis of societal stability and state designed
happiness.
When those in control talk about
progress, they mean greater control over our lives. When the consumption of
material goods isn’t enough to fill the holes within our souls, our owners are
quick to prescribe a pill to smooth over those feelings of unease and discontent.
In Huxley’s novel the population
voluntarily consumes Soma to dispel any anxieties or negative emotion. The
saying was,“One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.”
In America the government controlled
drug industry has thousands of pills to treat every ailment or unhappy thought
that might ail you. Just don’t try and treat yourself with an unapproved
natural or banned substance. The threat of imprisonment always lurks in the
shadows. They just want us to be interchangeable bricks in the wall.
And
the Worms Ate Into His Brain
“The real hopeless victims of mental
illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them
are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because
their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not
even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are
normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are
normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect
adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.
These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to
which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” - Aldous
Huxley
Hey you, out there in the
cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don’t help them to bury the light
Don’t give in without a fight.
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don’t help them to bury the light
Don’t give in without a fight.
Pink Floyd
– Hey You
The
tragic deaths of twenty children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut this past week and the similar tragedies in Aurora,
Columbine, Virginia Tech and Tucson are a reflection of the twisted society
we’ve created.
The progressive control freak
do-gooders that believe the government can solve all problems and improve our
lives with another law or regulation, have as usual come to the wrong solution
for the wrong problem. Stricter gun control laws would not have averted this
this tragedy.
Connecticut has the 5th toughest
gun restrictions in the country according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun
Violence. The guns were purchased legally by the mother of the killer. Mentally
deranged people should not have access to guns, knives, automobiles, gasoline,
or baseball bats.
The real issue is not what he used
to kill these innocent people, it’s what caused him to snap. Those in power
want to divert the attention from this crucial question.
In Huxley’s novel the characters do
everything they can to avoid confronting the truth about their own lives. They
try to alter reality by ingesting Soma, encouraged by the state as the ultimate
form of willful self-delusion.
Soma clouds the realities of the
present and replaces them with happy hallucinations, and is thus a tool for
promoting social stability. America has taken Huxley’s dystopian vision to an
extreme. There are millions of children in this country being drugged on a
daily basis to keep them under control.
A majority of the mass murderers
were taking psychotropic drugs, including the mentally deranged killer this
week. These killings are a result of the state sponsored drugging of children,
a culture that promotes narcissism, broken families and our technologically
enhanced suburban sprawl isolation from human relationships, love and
compassion for others.
We glorify technology even though it
encourages the building of brick walls, creating a self-imposed isolation from
society. The traditional family unit has been discarded, with 50% of marriages
ending in divorce and 43% of all children born out of wedlock.
Millions of families are
dysfunctional, with parents too busy with their careers and acquiring material
possessions, to bother with raising their children in a loving nurturing way.
One in ten American adults choose to
escape their man made cells with prescription anti-depressants. Almost one in
four women in their 40s and 50s are popping pills to escape their depressing
lives. Huxley envisioned a Soma Nation.
America is a Prozac
Nation. The wealthy think medicating their kids, spoiling them
with toys, gadgets and cars, and occupying their days with organized sports and
activities passes for involved parenting. Poor urban children are lucky if they
ever lay eyes on their father.
Ignorance, violence, and dependency
are a given for most of these kids. And all of these children are matriculated
into the government run schools whose sole purpose is to teach kids what to
think, rather than how to think.
Our owners need to keep us “happy”
and focused on feelings, material possessions, and an infinite number of
distractions, so they can retain control and continue their pillaging of the
national wealth.
Our leaders have attempted to design
their own Brave New World, retaining control by making America’s citizens so
contented and superficially fulfilled that they no longer care about their
personal freedoms, liberties and civic responsibilities.
The consequences of increasing state
power are a loss of dignity, morals, values, and emotions. We are losing our
humanity.
The society created by Bernays and
his minions who occupy the executive suites in NYC and slither through the
halls of Congress has been built upon destroying all human truths, such as
love, friendship, community, and personal connections.
Decades of media propaganda, public
education mind control, and peddling of debt convinced the majority that
happiness meant immediate gratification of our desires for food, sex, drugs,
clothes, iGadgets, and all the other consumer crap made in corporate sponsored slave
labor factories across Asia.
These delusional hallucinations of
happiness are the prison walls we’ve built brick by brick.
“This concern with the basic
condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably
necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man
to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and
yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the
representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the
nation, want him to think, feel and act.” - Aldous
Huxley
It took the intellectuals and
progressives that wield power across the land only moments to hijack the
feelings of sorrow and pain sweeping the nation, to misdirect attention from
the mental illnesses caused by the society they’ve created, towards the false
storyline that gun violence is sweeping the land.
In reality, violent crime has been
falling for over a decade as gun sales have soared. The homicide rate in this
country is the lowest since 1964, with the vast majority of homicides occurring
in the urban kill zones created by the five decade long progressive war on
poverty. The truth is of no interest to those brandishing power.
After decades of conditioning, the
masses are psychologically captive to the messages designed to make them
salivate.
They will be compelled to think,
feel and act as instructed by the Alphas.
There will be calls for more police,
despite the fact that police rarely stop a crime. With all of their armaments,
technology, high powered weaponry, and political clout, they can be counted on
to arrive five minutes after the tragedy is over.
But they are brilliant in luring
clueless Muslim teenagers into terrorist plots, picking the target, providing
the fake bombs, and taking credit for foiling the plots they created.
More union police officers will
increase our safety as much as more union teachers have made our kids smarter.
This tragedy will be used by the
propagandists to impose further restrictions upon those who choose personal
responsibility and self-reliance over dependency and trust in the efficiency
and fairness of our benevolent government overlords.
As the father of three sons I can’t
imagine the pain, sorrow and emptiness the parents of these beautiful children
must be experiencing. The grief is overwhelming. I mourn for the children and
adults slaughtered by a mentally deranged young man created by our truly
perverted culture of alienation.I mourn for the children being raised in a
society run by evil psychopathic liars that use the power of propaganda and the
tools of debt to control and manipulate its citizens. I mourn for unborn
generations that will be forced to confront the dreadful depraved chaos created
by our culture of egocentric greed and narcissism.
The things we value in this culture
– accumulating wealth, outward beauty, acquisition of material possessions,
instant gratification, access to debt, government control, and curing our ills
with drugs – are driving us insane.
Who is really abnormal in a
profoundly abnormal society?
Believing that possessions, more
laws or another medication will truly make us happy is insane. Popping a pill,
buying a new iPhone, or passing another law will not cure the disease that
permeates this nation.
We need to recapture the humanity,
civic pride and self-responsibility that built this country.
Only an awakened populace can change
our course.
Huxley feared that our desires would
ruin us. Orwell was afraid that what we fear would ruin us.
The oligarchs have pushed the Huxley
vision to its sustainable limit. The avarice and greed of these invisible power
brokers has devoured the vast resources of the nation.
These psychopaths weren’t satisfied
with siphoning off most of the wealth of the country.
They wanted it all and wrecked the
global economy in their odious pursuit of mammon. We are now in the death
throes of the most decadent, delusional, debt engendered era in the long
history of mankind.
Those in power realize it is
slipping away. Their “solutions” reflect an air of desperation. Their
propaganda efforts have been redoubled.
As more middle class workers lose
their jobs, more young people graduate from college with tens of thousands in
student loan debt and a future of dramatically reduced expectations, and more
people are driven beyond their breaking point, this materialistic shroud of
happiness will be torn asunder.
Anger is building like a lava dome
within a volcano. A critical thinking minority are questioning the motives of
those in power. The unsustainability of our economic paradigm is certain.
The seeds of revolution are being
sown. Our society is only fantasy. The wall is too high. It will be up to an
irate tireless minority of freedom minded citizens to tear down the wall. The
alternative is to allow the worms to eat into our brains. Each of us must
answer a simple question. Are you just another brick in the wall?
But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Pink Floyd
– Hey You
The oligarchs will not give up
without a fight.
Their
realization that the Brave New World method of
controlling the masses has run its course has convinced them to shift their
methods towards Orwell’s 1984 tactics. In
part two of this series – Mother Should I Trust the Government? [2] -
I’ll address how the use of fear, war,
pain, and surveillance are becoming the new controlling method of the
oligarchs.
Endnotes:
- “HEY YOU”: Orwellian Government Oppression and Never Ending Wars: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hey-you-orwellian-government-oppression-and-never-ending-wars/5316087
- [Image]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Violent_Crime_Rates_in_the_United_States.svg
