Written by Edward Curtin via Off-Guardian.org,
We live in a media society moving 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, where brainwashing is cunning and inexorable, and the consumer audience is absorbed by thoughts and perceptions filtered by electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate government.
This propaganda occurs in 2 forms: hidden and open. The latter, but most effective form, carries a large dose of fact offered at a velocity by famous, authoritative voices through prominent media. The fact is surrounded by subtle messages that make it barren.
This has been happening for a long time, but it is even more visible in the age of images on screens and digital media, where words and images flow distant like water in a fast flowing stream. The late sociologist Sigismund Bauman, updating Marx's celebrated quote: "all that is solid, melts into the air," he called it "liquid modernity".
Welcome to Operation Pandemonium.
You see, these experts say they say what we're telling you is true, but it's impossible to draw the final conclusions. You gotta drink water of uncertainty forever so you don't become crazy about conspiracy theories. But if you do not want to be so drawerd, accept the simplest explanation of the matters that disturb you – Ockham's razor that the real answer is the simplest – which is always the authoritative explanation. If it sounds contrary, it's due to the fact that it is. That's the way it is. We induce schizophrenia.
And that's the way it is, as these experts suggest, due to the fact that we live in a planet where all cognition is relative, and you, an individual, like the village fool Kafka, who in his parable "Before the Law" effort to bypass the doorman to enter the interior sanctuary of the Law, but never let him pass; you, the individual, must accept the futility of your efforts and agree with this saying that all cognition is relative, which, ironically, is an absolute dictum. This is the Law. The law of contradiction proclaimed from above.
Many writers, journalists and filmmakers, allegedly revealing the fact about the criminal operations of the U.S. and their allies in the country and abroad, for decades cunningly conveyed the message that we would yet "never know the truth", real facts – that there was no convincing evidence.
This refusal to draw conclusions is simply a cunning maneuver that protects many careers, while slandering, intentionally or not, the names of serious researchers who come to conclusions on the basis of overwhelming circumstantial circumstantial evidence (the basis of most of the convictions for murder) and detailed, based on sources of facts, frequently utilizing the words of the guilty themselves, but are being disposed of by the CIA by the word "conspiracy theorists".
This frequently escapes the average man who does not read footnotes or sources, if he even reads books. They read screens and mainstream media, which should now be understood as covering most "alternative" media. And they watch all kinds of movies.
But this meme "we'll never know," this false mystery, is cleverly and frequently indirectly connected to another: that we know due to the fact that the authoritative explanation of events is actual and only crazy people could believe otherwise. Propaganda by paradox. Operation chaos.
Attack on JFK and release of files
There are so many examples for that, and 1 fundamental 1 is the assassination of president Kennedy. In this case, as with Trump's current false disclosure of subsequent acts concerning JFK's murder, the ongoing "secretary" is always reinforced by the hidden or public presumption that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, but at the same time suggests that there are more secrets to research indefinitely due to the fact that "people" are paranoid.
(Trump stands in office, as he late said in an interview with Clay Travis that he always believed Oswald murdered Kennedy, but wonders if he could get help).
They are paranoid not due to lies by the government and the media, but due to the fact that "a popular culture" (not upper-wing culture) created paranoia. To add spice, there is frequently a proposition that president Kennedy was murdered on orders from the mob, LBJ, Cuba or Israel, while facts to overwhelmingly confirm that this was organised and carried out by the CIA. A. O. Scott's fresh article on the front page "The fresh York Times"in consequence to the disclosure of JFK files – "JFK, Blown Away, What Else Do I gotta Say?". (a title decently taken from Billy Joel's very fast song and music video) – is an excellent example of specified legerdemain.
Hence the trick to constantly discuss the assassination, get the latest documents, etc., to satisfy the insatiable paranoia of "people". Extracting CIA emergency stories 2, 3, or even 4 erstwhile everything else fails. Dr. Martin Schotz, JFK's researcher, rightly compares this to the definition of George Orwell's Crimestop:
"Crimestop" means the ability to stop, as if instinctively, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. This includes the power of not knowing the analogy, not noticing logic errors, or misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are hostile [powers that are]... and that they are bored or repulsed by any thought series that may lead in a heretic direction. "Crimestop" in short means protective stupidity.
It's due to crazy people, not Scott or those who support him in The TimesA paper that lied about JFK's execution from day one. The same applies to the murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy and others and many another key events in the past of the United States. This is simply a game of creating intellectual chaos by claiming that we know due to the fact that the authoritative explanation is correct, but we do not know due to the fact that people have been paranoid. If only people weren't so paranoid! Unlike us in "The Times" – we read in the hidden message.
Epistemological games by any filmmakers
It is widely known that people present watch much more tv and streaming movies than read books. The fact that individual with a pen in his hand leans over a book with footnotes on an crucial subject is now as uncommon as individual who doesn't have a mobile phone.
The optical-electronic combination of the eye-eye screen rules most of life, intellectual and sensory. Marshall McLuhan, although somewhat premature, referring in 1962 to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – a French philosopher, paleontologist and Jesuit priest – wrote sixty-three years ago in Gutenberg Galaxy:
Instead of aiming for a immense Alexandrian library, the planet became a computer, an electronic brain, just like an infantile discipline fiction work. And erstwhile our senses go out, large Brother goes inside. [emphasis on my] So, if we don't realize this dynamics, we will immediately decision into a phase of Panic Fear, precisely matching the tiny planet of tribal drums, full interdependence and overlapping. panic is the average state of all oral society, due to the fact that in it everything affects everything all the time.
Four years ago, this month, I wrote an article – "You Know We'll Never Know, Don't You?". – about a fresh series of documentaries BBC by an acclaimed British filmmaker, Adam Curtis,"Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional past of the Modern World".
The series is simply a pastich movie filled with over 7 hours of fleeting, fragmentary and fascinating archival videos from archives BBCIn which Curtis worked for decades accompanied by Curtis' skeptical commentary on "a planet where everything could be anything due to the fact that nowhere makes sense". These historical paintings jump from 1 seemingly unrelated subject to another to strengthen his viewpoint. He says "there's no point trying to realize why things are happening." He says we all live like we're "on an acid trip."
Although I was not on an acid journey on which I had never taken, I remembered this late erstwhile I was watching a fresh documentary – Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025) – equally celebrated American documentaryist, Erroll Morris, a movie about CIA head control operations, MKULTRA, and its usage of LSD. As everyone knows, the CIA is the hippie organization from Virginia, who is always determined to spread peace, love and good vibrations.
While the content of their films varies, Curtis focuses on Manson and Tom O'Neil's book, Chaos: Charles Manson, CIA, and the Secret past of the Sixties, I was struck by the tendency of both filmmakers to obscure, while at the same time turning the audience on materials and information that make their claims of ignorance lie. In this respect Curtis is the most open and extreme.
Morris does not usage Curtis's language, but at the end Chaos makes it clear that he does not believe Tom O'Neill's argument in his well-documented book that Charles Manson was part of a CIA head control experimentation led by a psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Jolyon "Jolly" West. West worked in 1967 for the CIA on MKULTRA brainwashing projects at the Haight Ashbury Clinic during the summertime of love, utilizing LSD and hypnosis erstwhile Manson lived there and frequently stayed at the clinic with his supporters.
April 26, 1964 West besides "accidentally" visited imprisoned Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas Police Department, and erstwhile West left the meeting, he immediately stated that in the last 48 hours Ruby had become "positively insane" and there is no chance of reversing this "unwavering" and "permanent" madness. We do not know what happened between the 2 men – due to the fact that there were no witnesses – but it can be assumed that West utilized his hypnotic skills and an arsenal of drugs, which were an integral part of MKULTRA methods.
MKULTRA said:
MKULTRA was a sinister and secret CIA head control project, officially launched in 1953, but preceded by Operation Bluebird, which was renamed Operation Artichoke. These operations began immediately after planet War II, erstwhile American intelligence collaborated with Nazi doctors, torturing Russians and others to uncover secrets. They were brutal. MKULTRA was led by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and was even worse. He was known as The Wizard. With the LSD formula, the CIA had an unlimited amount of drug for widespread use, which it besides did. He played a crucial function in MKULTRA experiments with head control along with hypnosis.
Tom O'Neill sums it up this way:
The agency hoped to produce couriers who could put hidden messages in their brains, implant false memories and remove real people without their knowledge, convert groups to opposing ideologies and more. The eventual goal was to make programmed killers. . . Scientists from MKULTRA ignored this code [Norymber Codex, which emerged from the processes of the Nuremberg Nazis] constantly, mercilessly – and in a way that stunned the imagination. Their work included everything, from electronic brain stimulation, sensory deprivation, to "induced pain" and "psychosis". They were looking for ways to trigger heart attacks, severe seizures, and intense cluster headaches. If the drugs hadn't handled the case, they would have tried to control ESP, ultrasound vibrations, and radiation poisoning. 1 task tried to usage the power of magnetic fields. [emphasis on my]
In 1973, during the Watergate affair, CIA manager William Helms ordered the demolition of all MKULTRA documents. Most of them were, but any were forgotten, and over the next fewer years Seymour Hersh reported it, and the legislature Church Commission went further. They discovered records that indicated participation in the experiments of forty-four universities and universities, eighty institutions and 185 researchers, among whom were Louis West. Bad cat and his large trash came out of the bag.
MKULTRA allegedly ended in 1973. But only the most naive think that it does not proceed in another form. In 1964, McLuhan wrote that "the average is simply a message". The fresh medium, which has been developed over the past decades, has been effectively directed right at the brain while watching screens. And the message?
Tom O'Neill's strong suitcase
Admitting that he yet failed to prove his thesis, due to the fact that he was never able to confirm that Manson and West were together, O'Neill in his book accumulates a immense amount of convincing leads that make his argument very strong, that it was so, and that Manson's ability to urge his supporters to kill for him was the consequence of the control of MKULTR's head and the usage of LSD. which he utilized widely and which was introduced by the CIA and utilized by West. Both men had an inexhaustible amount of this mind-changing drug that they could usage on their victims.
This is the subject of Morris' film, in which he interviews O'Neill on camera, which explains the extraordinary fact that Manson was able to hypnotize his supporters to kill for him without remorse or shame. "They couldn't get him out of their head" even years later. This was, of course, the intent of the MKULTRA – by utilizing brainwashing and drugs – to make "Manchurian Candidates".
This case has far wider consequences than the 1969 Hollywood sensational murders for which Manson and his supporters were convicted; It is clear that Manson's "family" who committed murders on his orders seemed to be under all hypnotic control. How did a two-bit, erstwhile convict, Pipsqueak, a tiny musician learn to accomplish precisely what MKULTRA spent so many years on?
However, at the end of the film, Morris makes a final comment, not to mention the anticipation that O'Neill is right. He says he doesn't believe O'Neill. It seemed very unusual and irritating to me, as if O'Neill had been prepared for this event, which I believe actually happened.
But at the same time I recognized in this Morris's method of setting up, and then questioning communicative characters in his films, which seemingly aim to get to the facts, but never do; These are the stories that all we always have are endless interpretations and that unknowable, confused by human fallacy. Everything dies in the fog of Morris's method, which is not random.
Frank Olson
Then I found the interview O'Neill gave in 2021, in which he said that he withdrew from Morris' motion image due to the fact that Morris wanted to make a movie that would connect Frank Olson's story (CIA biologist) with his Manson story.
In an interview, O'Neill said he knew Eric Olson, boy of Frank Olson, who spent his full life proving that the CIA murdered his father in 1953, but did not explain why he withdrew from the project. However, it frequently appears in Chaos, interviewing Morris in front of the camera, only to be challenged at the end. I don't know why he yet agreed to take part in the project.
I'm certain he did. Wormwood(2017), recognized (all are recognized) Netflix Morris's movie series about CIA biologist/agent Frank Olson and his son, a heroic quest throughout Eric Olson's life to prove that the CIA murdered his father due to the fact that he had a crisis of conscience over the agency's usage of torture, brainwashing, LSD, and the usage of American biological weapons in Korea. many of them in connection with the Nazis.
Evidence is overwhelming that Frank Olson did not jump from a fresh York hotel window in 1953, but was drugged by LSD in order to induce hallucinations and paranoia, hit on the head and thrown out by the CIA. [Reading] This and display to] Despite the strong evidence he had before filming WormwoodIn another example of Morris's method, he disagrees with decades of conclusive investigation by Eric Olson that his father was murdered.
Conclusion
Filmmakers specified as Adam Curtis and Erroll Morris are examples of a much larger and dangerous phenomenon. Their emphasis on inability to know—this apparent void in the human mind, the endless journey by acid through kaleidoscope interpretations—is much greater than they are. It is profoundly rooted in today's society.
One of the fewer areas where it is said that we are able to know anything for certain is organization politics. Here, interior cognition is the rule, and the another side is always wrong. Fight, fight, fight for the hosts! Nostalgia behind "knowledge" is fueled here, as if we did not live in a media society operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in which brainwashing is cunning and inexorable, and the consuming audience is absorbed by thoughts and perceptions filtered by electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.
With the advent of electronic digital life, "knowledge" is presently on the screen. If you don't want to confirm McLuhan's prophecy – "just as our senses went outside, so large Brother goes inside" – it is appropriate for everyone to return to the light of the lamp to read and survey books. And go for a walk in nature without your machine. You can hear the cry of a small bird.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
