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By: William Whitten
Date: 2010-07-17
Now information is interpreted by the sane individual in one way and by the insane, or mind controlled individual in another. Such as, the way that Orwell’s book, 1984 was accepted as a warning of horrible future possibilities by most. Others however, those involved in the state control apparatus for instance, were intrigued in quite the opposite fashion.
The same is true in the case of the Milgram experiments. The information itself in neutral. While Milgram proved a particular point about human psychology with regards to obedience to authority, his was an academic exercise, not a policy recommendation. Those with the position to effect social policy interpreted the Milgram information as a clue to further modes of social control—not as a warning to humanity.
I do not know Milgram’s personal views on social engineering, whether he was an advocate or not. I do know that Aldous Huxley, with his novel, Brave New World, was sounding an alarm in the same way as Orwell had with Animal Farm and 1984. Theirs was not neutral academic data—theirs was humanistic compassion. And still the social engineers took their works as playbooks and instruction on how to control the masses.
It is hard for the common man to imagine that there were those who identified with Ming the Merciless back in the days of the Flash Gordon serials. But any who have gone to science fiction conventions can testify to the hoards of “storm troopers” and “Darth Vader” costumed attendees to these events. This ‘romance of the costume’ may seem innocent enough in such settings. However, any who have studied the Nazi regime, the ‘Hitler Youth’ in particular, come away with a more sophisticated understanding of the ‘cult of the uniform’. Which is in no way missing from modern militarized Amerika. In fact, those who play out their fantasies at afore mentioned Sci-Fi outlets are much healthier exercises than those who long for ‘patriotic duty’ in the ‘cult of the uniform’ in the official military services. But there is a crossover psychologically.
So again; what does it mean to be well adjusted to a psychotic society?
In my youth it meant ‘identifying’ with John Wayne in ‘Back to Bataan’, or John Wayne in the film ‘The Alamo’, or any other jingo patriotic fervor that was programmed into the society by the Hollywood propaganda machine. Too many of the kids I grew up with took this programming deep in their young psyches and joined the Marines, and volunteered for ‘Nam’ to go play John Wayne.
Of course the contemporary scene is no different, unless it is even
more extreme. The psyop of 9/11 did create a bump in the direction of extremism that has yet to level off. Milgram’s experiments tested how much pain an ordinary, well educated, citizen would inflict on another person; upon being ordered to do so, by an experimental scientist. In those experiments, “apparent authority” was tested against the strongest moral imperatives forbidding hurting another. Even with the ‘teachers’ hearing screams of the ‘victims,’ authority won more often than not – 65% of the time, in optimum conditions. The experiments demonstrated the willingness of ordinary and educated adults to comply with the command of “perceived authority.”
One thing the Milgram studies did overturn was the fraudulent concept
of the Germans as being ‘especially racially cruel and merciless’, as Leon Uris would have it in his novel, Armageddon. And as this idea, born of Amerikan WWII propaganda, persisted for decades, it was long enough for the terror state of Israel to become entrenched as a ‘reality on the ground’.
Going Along To Get Along
But going along to get along doesn’t need to be as extreme as shocking a victim to the point of possible death, as in the Milgram studies. Just showing up at a job you despise and wasting your whole life, by not doing what you long to do,by not being what you long to be; and all because of peer pressure—this in itself is a strong case for neurosis. And a strong fountain of suppressed and unacknowledged simmering hatred. The dialog, “Why worry about something you can’t do anything about it?” It is a script originating in this squirming cauldron of the modern id. It begins with NOT doing what you know you were born to do. With not being what you know deep inside you were meant to be—even if you have long forgotten what that was. Because you obviously “can’t do anything about” anything else, once you have given up your power to be yourself.
And THIS is what social engineering has done to the modern world: regimentation.
And THIS is what it means to be ‘well adjusted’ in a pathological society. –WW
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By: William Whitten
Date: 2010-07-17
Now information is interpreted by the sane individual in one way and by the insane, or mind controlled individual in another. Such as, the way that Orwell’s book, 1984 was accepted as a warning of horrible future possibilities by most. Others however, those involved in the state control apparatus for instance, were intrigued in quite the opposite fashion.
The same is true in the case of the Milgram experiments. The information itself in neutral. While Milgram proved a particular point about human psychology with regards to obedience to authority, his was an academic exercise, not a policy recommendation. Those with the position to effect social policy interpreted the Milgram information as a clue to further modes of social control—not as a warning to humanity.
I do not know Milgram’s personal views on social engineering, whether he was an advocate or not. I do know that Aldous Huxley, with his novel, Brave New World, was sounding an alarm in the same way as Orwell had with Animal Farm and 1984. Theirs was not neutral academic data—theirs was humanistic compassion. And still the social engineers took their works as playbooks and instruction on how to control the masses.
It is hard for the common man to imagine that there were those who identified with Ming the Merciless back in the days of the Flash Gordon serials. But any who have gone to science fiction conventions can testify to the hoards of “storm troopers” and “Darth Vader” costumed attendees to these events. This ‘romance of the costume’ may seem innocent enough in such settings. However, any who have studied the Nazi regime, the ‘Hitler Youth’ in particular, come away with a more sophisticated understanding of the ‘cult of the uniform’. Which is in no way missing from modern militarized Amerika. In fact, those who play out their fantasies at afore mentioned Sci-Fi outlets are much healthier exercises than those who long for ‘patriotic duty’ in the ‘cult of the uniform’ in the official military services. But there is a crossover psychologically.
So again; what does it mean to be well adjusted to a psychotic society?
In my youth it meant ‘identifying’ with John Wayne in ‘Back to Bataan’, or John Wayne in the film ‘The Alamo’, or any other jingo patriotic fervor that was programmed into the society by the Hollywood propaganda machine. Too many of the kids I grew up with took this programming deep in their young psyches and joined the Marines, and volunteered for ‘Nam’ to go play John Wayne.
Of course the contemporary scene is no different, unless it is even
more extreme. The psyop of 9/11 did create a bump in the direction of extremism that has yet to level off. Milgram’s experiments tested how much pain an ordinary, well educated, citizen would inflict on another person; upon being ordered to do so, by an experimental scientist. In those experiments, “apparent authority” was tested against the strongest moral imperatives forbidding hurting another. Even with the ‘teachers’ hearing screams of the ‘victims,’ authority won more often than not – 65% of the time, in optimum conditions. The experiments demonstrated the willingness of ordinary and educated adults to comply with the command of “perceived authority.”
One thing the Milgram studies did overturn was the fraudulent concept
of the Germans as being ‘especially racially cruel and merciless’, as Leon Uris would have it in his novel, Armageddon. And as this idea, born of Amerikan WWII propaganda, persisted for decades, it was long enough for the terror state of Israel to become entrenched as a ‘reality on the ground’.
Going Along To Get Along
But going along to get along doesn’t need to be as extreme as shocking a victim to the point of possible death, as in the Milgram studies. Just showing up at a job you despise and wasting your whole life, by not doing what you long to do,by not being what you long to be; and all because of peer pressure—this in itself is a strong case for neurosis. And a strong fountain of suppressed and unacknowledged simmering hatred. The dialog, “Why worry about something you can’t do anything about it?” It is a script originating in this squirming cauldron of the modern id. It begins with NOT doing what you know you were born to do. With not being what you know deep inside you were meant to be—even if you have long forgotten what that was. Because you obviously “can’t do anything about” anything else, once you have given up your power to be yourself.
And THIS is what social engineering has done to the modern world: regimentation.
And THIS is what it means to be ‘well adjusted’ in a pathological society. –WW
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
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