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Brainwashing a practiced art by those who wish to control

Jon Wood | 18.11.2002 02:58

How to identifie the symptons, can you declare yourself of clean and open mind?

The gentle art of brainwashing is practiced without your consent or knowledge, that is the art. For you to be unaware that others wish to control you for their own motives is imperative to the success of this tool of control.
So could it be, that you have been brainwashed?
Look at your source of information and the model of civilization you have evolved to accept and all those adverts of consumerism included between features.
Is the control of information held in the hands of a few?, are the powerful linked to that source of information?, do media reports offer two sides of debate? If the answers declare loudly that you are being deceived read on.



People only believe what they can profit from, that’s generally the case, all the warnings of doom and gloom are ignored as whitekind steps ever closer and more determined toward the end.
OH yes the end is nigh, repent ye sinner’s repent, but is it worth the effort? is there any profit in it?
Our entire civilization,( and don’t go confusing that with anything non-white,) is built on a structure of wealth creation and trickle down economics kept afloat by a welfare system to placate the many who are not players in the game.
To enable the wealth to be created, we within the western strongholds must have power over the regions of the world where resources can still be found in plentiful supply.

AS We pretend to be something we are not on the world stage, look ahead, and prepare for a certain future.
Looking ahead will present a few problems for us, it takes a lot of imagination, an ability to digest enormous amounts of information, and the ultimate acceptance of worst case scenario’s.
Without becoming submerged in the ins and outs of current affairs we can identify certain things contributing to present day thinking in this age of information. We can be certain that the purveyors of News Media have vested interests in maintaining the current systems, a motive for deceptive reporting.
The last WTO demonstrations succeeded in demonstrating only one thing, those with vested interest in wealth creation can get their side of the story told.
If I had only the mainstream media’s reporting to glean information from I too would be against those masked violent petrol bombing terrorists who put the police force in danger while they sought to destroy the only chance the third world has to develop.(Sorry none of that was true)
Some White people are convinced that the ‘powers that be’ are given their power in democratic elections by the wishes of the people.
As a tool of power, media has no other competition, it has always been the one thing which all powers strive to control. In its perverted use, media prevents informed consent.
So am I suggesting that our media is controlled by the government?, no, nor will I allow you to believe that media controls the governments.
Do streams conspire to create rivers? As I said it takes imagination to come to the truth, in each case the streams combine their efforts to reach the ocean or in this case wealth and power.
The six controlling interest of world media, all huge corporations align themselves with governments, giving each other the best environments to continue their business, it makes sense does it not?.
Governments as a result have been sculpted, so much so that it is hard to tell these days the difference between one or the other hence Australia’s recent by-polar voting behavior in state and federal arenas.
Remember that democracies are as recent as the first national vote counted every member of the adult populations. In addition to our fabricated notions of democratic civilization the driving force of our consumerist economics is a dependency upon unrestricted consumption of natural finite resources.
We whites consume enormous amounts of depleting stocks, and as a result we have to inforce control in the regions of the world where they can still be found.
We must also hide the increasing evidence of pollution, we must discredit any attempt made by those greens who only wish to inhibit our road to riches.
Any opposition to wealth accumulation by the richest nations on earth continues to receive bad press. 60 minutes dug up one lonely voice on Sunday to claim that the world was in good shape.
At the same time European flooding occurred again, this time during winter and a tanker split its sides off the coast of Spain, maybe it was laughing so much at the failure of our species to understand the connection.
Global warming is a direct result of unrestricted pollution, the Kyoto agreement is a obstruction to profit, and will receive bad press, although the informed can only support it, but can not vote for it’s implementation
Media will tell another story, blend propaganda with current affairs and present gift packaged illogical presentations.
Apparently the corporations involved with globalisation wish only to assist developing nations. They are donating their time and expertise to bring industrialization and wealth to regions where only poverty and hunger are only known.
Their selfless intent we are told is to improve the health of those they find, build stable economies and establish democracies, which mirror our own achievements in lifestyles.
If the other side of the tale was told, we should be wary, so far globalisation has had no great achievements to boast of, pollution and damage to pristine environments continue. Transference of democracies are a only ever achieved through use of war. Achieved through occupation and then orchestrated elections (which match our own)
Can you imagine a world totally devoted to consumerism? This is what our governments wish to achieve, free trade, a world with no restrictions in pollution, an open field without environmental protections, a license to lay waste for accumulating wealth.
What does it take to identify the road to the end of the world? The signs are obvious, Wrong way go back screamed at the turn we took during the 1950’s, the birth of consumerism, but we ignored it.
Since then we have lost count of the species extinguished along the way and the tree cover we once had, our rivers and oceans have become polluted our air unfit to breath, but we continue, we must, it seems we are on the only road, can we go back? I doubt there is any profit in that direction so why should we?
For all the warnings, we only believe what we can profit from, only change our behavior in receipt of tragedy.
The planet will survive, bio- diversity will decline in number and importance. The Air and water will be hard to swallow, and our future will require science to help our failing natural systems so that our descendants can survive the polluted future we bequest.
Not my problem, I’ll be dead by then, in the mean time allow me to profit. Is that how we wish to be seen in the future?

Jon Wood

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