In the
1950s, before television had numbed minds and turned them into jelly, there was
a growing sense of: the Individual versus the Corporate State.
Something
needed to be done. People were fitting into slots. They were surrendering their
lives in increasing numbers. They were carving away their own idiosyncrasies
and their independent ideas.
But
television, under the control of psyops experts, became, as the 1950s droned
on, the facile barrel of a weapon:
"What's
important is the group. Conform. Give in. Bathe in the great belonging..."
Recognize
that every message television imparts is a proxy, a fabrication, a simulacrum,
an imitation of life one step removed.
When this
medium also broadcasts words and images of belonging and the need to belong,
it's engaged in revolutionary
social engineering.
Whether
it's the happy-happy suburban-lawn family in an ad for the wonders of a toxic
pesticide, or the mob family going to the mattresses to fend off a rival, it's
fantasy time in the land of mind control.
Television has carried its mission
forward. The consciousness of the Individual versus the State has turned into:
love the State. Love the State as family.
Are you
with the family or not? Are you with the group, the collective, or not? Those
are the blunt parameters.
"When
you get right down to it, all you have is family." "Our team is
really a family." "You're deserting the family." "You fight
for the guy next to you." "Our department is like a family."
"Here at Corporation X, we're a family."
The
committee, the group, the company, the sector, the planet.
The goal? Submerge the individual.
Individual
achievement, imagination, creative power? Not on the agenda. Something for the
dustbin of history.
Aldous
Huxley, wrote in Brave New World: "'Ninety-six identical twins working
ninety-six identical machines'! The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm.
'You really know where you are. For the first time in history.'"
George Orwell, 1984: "The two aims
of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish
once and for all the possibility of independent thought."
The soap
opera is the apotheosis of television. The long-running characters in Anytown
are irreversibly enmeshed in one another's lives. There's no escape. There is
only mind-numbing meddling.
For some
people, the collective "WE" has a fragrant scent---until they get
down in the trenches with it. There they discover odd odors and postures and
mutations. There they discover self-distorted creatures scurrying around
celebrating their twistedness.
Whose
idea was it to become deaf, dumb, and blind in the first place?
In the
aftermath of the 1963 assassination of JFK and the 1995 bombing of the Federal
Building in Oklahoma City, the covert theme was the same: a lone individual did
this.
A lone individual, detached from the
group, did this. "Lone individuals are people who left the fold. They
wandered from the communal hearth. Therefore, they inevitably became
killers."
In 1995,
after the Oklahoma City Bombing, President Bill Clinton made a speech to the
nation. He rescued his presidency by essentially saying, "Come home to the
government. We will protect you and save you."
Clinton framed the crime in those
terms. The individual versus the collective.
The
history of human struggle on this planet is about the individual emerging from the
group, from the tribe, from the clan. The history of struggle is not about the
individual surrendering and going back into group identity.
Going
back is the psyop, the intended psyop.
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