There are many pertinent points here about the mass delusion and inanity in which we live. When it comes to the lies and delusions promoted by the mass media, I am sure that some of them serve a vital strategic purpose. Yet I suspect that some of them don't really serve a vital purpose, but are merely there for the amusement of the elites, so they can have a good laugh at how gullible the masses are. Somewhere in the background you can almost hear the demonic cackle as whatever inane, common sense destroying talking point is earnestly contemplated.
20 June 2016 at 15:10
It is about three years since I started blogging the ideas that found their way into my mini-book about the mass media, Addicted to Distraction -
Since then I have been doing my best not to take notice of the mass media - but to be honest I have not done very well. It is extremely difficult to avoid the most harmful and significant onslaughts of propaganda - since they come at you from all sides, including other people's opinions and questions.
It seems clear that human beings are 'built' so as to 'take sides' on any question, and this - combined with modern Man's lack of any religious centre - is what makes us so easy to manipulate by selective and distorted reporting.
But although everything I see is consistent with the world being run by demons whose goal is the destruction - preferably by inversion - of all that is good; the single most striking thing is that the populations of The West (of Europe and the Anglosphere) seem not to care that they are continually lied-to and manipulated.
Actually, it is far worse than not caring. Although strategic and purposive evil emanates from the leadership elite, not from the population at large; there is a groundswell of active, mass, popular collusion in the process - and it is this which makes the adverse trend literally irresistible (without some mass, powerful religious and spiritual revival).
What seems evident is that there is (for whatever combination of reasons) no centre to modern public life - that is, no point around which oscillation occurs.
I do not mean that the centre has 'moved left' - that was an early phase - things now are much worse than that.
I mean that there isn't any centre at all.
That is not to say that 'anything goes' - because at any moment discourse is heavily constrained - but that there is no cohesive point around-which things are organised. The centre has a location only for the duration of an utterance - then reappears somewhere (unpredictably) elsewhere.
Most of what happens in the mass media is irrelevant and insignificant - but the big news stories are relevant and significant, and these are where the lack of centre shows-up; because there is no position from which to resist the concerted efforts of coordinated elite opinion to shape attitudes and opinions.
So the forces of evil always win - overall and on the whole.
After each major saturation news coverage, there is a permanent and almost universal degradation of public opinion that is not recovered.
The reason that people are not noticing what is happening is precisely that there is no centre and that they themselves have no centre - individuals with no centre do not posses a point of view from which change may be detected and measured.
This is also why the mass of men leads lives of quiet desperation without knowing it. The paradox of modernity is that of people assert that they have good lives in a good society which is engaged in moral progression - but have no hope for anything.
People have a public mask that says one kind of thing, and an invisible shadow that continually plots and schemes for personal and societal extinction. The mask is a fake, and the shadow knows it.
(And when Man has no religion there is nothing else but masks and shadows - it is masks and shadows all the way down.)
And people are so deeply disgusted at themselves that - from their anti-religious stance, with no other alternatives - annihilation is the best option.
Hence, people actively welcome being lied to, manipulated, whipped-up into fake frenzies of adulation and indignation, crushed down into passive terror and despair. This is what the people want, and this is what the media delivers - and the masses don't just lap it up, but seek it out and pipe it into their minds at high pressure 24/7. They feel that this is no worse than they deserve.
Schadenfreude is the only thriving business in the modern soul - where the only solid reality is the sneering satisfaction of the shadow-self triumphing at the incremental come-uppance of that smug, gullible idiot which is the respectable public persona.
"The centre has not moved Left - there is no centre"
2 Comments -
@J.R. - Surely you don't believe the mass media?!
20 June 2016 at 14:13
There are many pertinent points here about the mass delusion and inanity in which we live. When it comes to the lies and delusions promoted by the mass media, I am sure that some of them serve a vital strategic purpose. Yet I suspect that some of them don't really serve a vital purpose, but are merely there for the amusement of the elites, so they can have a good laugh at how gullible the masses are. Somewhere in the background you can almost hear the demonic cackle as whatever inane, common sense destroying talking point is earnestly contemplated.
20 June 2016 at 15:10