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A number of years ago, I was fortunate to travel to the magnificent island nations of Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti. One of the highlights of my trip was a visit to a sheep farm in New Zealand’s Otago region in the South Island. It was there that I witnessed a remarkable display of both animal and human behavior.
The farm’s lead sheep herder, a middle-aged rugged-looking man who walked with a pronounced limp and a cane, was issuing a series of whistle commands to a border collie named King. The dog was on top of a grassy pasture roughly seventy to eighty yards away from where I and about twenty other people were standing. We all watched with utter amazement as King barked, zigzagged, and darted around a good sixty to seventy head of docile Coopworth sheep, herding them down the slope toward the narrow entrance of a gated corral just behind us.
For a brief moment, the dog had missed or misinterpreted one of the herder’s directional whistles. “King!” the man shouted in a deep, commanding voice. “You’ll lose the lot!”
King was back on track in a matter of minutes. The obedient collie had single-handedly ushered the entire flock of sheep into the entrance of the corral and after the last sheep entered, the man hobbled over and closed the rickety gate to a round of cheers and applause. He then took out his pipe and lit a bowl of tobacco. As he puffed away, he answered questions from the onlookers—everything from how long he had been a sheep herder to what he fed his dogs. There was one profound question that I’ll never forget. It came from a young boy who looked to be around nine or ten. “I don’t understand,” he said. “How does that happen?”
“How does what happen?” said the man.
“There are so many sheep and just one dog. Why don’t they all just get together and fight back?”
There was a hush over the crowd and everyone, including me, turned, and focused on the herder in anticipation of his answer. The man stared at the ground, his face awash in deep thought. He then looked up and lightly shook his head. “Son,” he said. “The only thing I can tell you is that this is how the world works.”
After my trip, I did a little research and learned that the symbiotic relationship between the herder, the dog, and the sheep had been cultivated over millennia. Through years of conditioning, each has developed an implicit understanding of each other’s intentions and their individual roles. This may seem painfully obvious to some, but I think it’s worth noting that on its own, a border collie wouldn’t instinctually set out to round up a flock of sheep and guide them into a gated corral or any other confined space. Nor would a herd of Coopworth sheep or any other species of sheep instinctually decide to interrupt a peaceful afternoon of grazing and obey the aggressive actions of a single dog directing them into a corral, later to be sheared, slaughtered, or both. On the contrary, the complicit behavior of both animals is the result of an external entity, an intelligent being with a keen sense of observation and a remarkable ability to process and manipulate patterns of behavior.
As humans became more complex—and to a large extent, more aggressive and violent toward each other—the development of weapons, everything from cannons to machine guns to poison gas, grew exponentially. Over time, kings, queens, and assorted despots realized that having the most advanced tools to eliminate and control their enemies was simply not enough to conquer foreign lands. To win the hearts and minds and complicity of their adversaries, they needed to understand things like what they ate; the meaning in the intonation of their speech; how they related to their children; their sense of humor; their everyday habits and concerns; and their anxieties and spiritual beliefs. Not dissimilar to sheep herding, this is a task that requires close observation, careful analysis, and keen incremental behavior modification.
Voilà! Enter Gustave Le Bon
The 18th and 19th centuries gave birth to an increased emphasis on understanding the psychology of crowds. French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon believed that an understanding of crowd behavior was essential for understanding both the history and nature of man. In his classic and highly influential work, The Crowd, A Study of The Popular Mind, LeBon astutely noted the following:
It is crowds rather than isolated individuals that may be induced to run the risk of death to secure the triumph of a creed or an idea that may be fired with enthusiasm for glory and honor. Such heroism is without doubt somewhat unconscious, but it is of such heroism that history is made.
Le Bon defined a crowd as a group of individuals united by a common idea, belief, or ideology. The idea that unites a crowd is not chosen by a process of clear reasoning and examination of evidence. Instead, crowds—similar to a flock of sheep—willingly accept beliefs and ideas and utilize them as fuel for participation in a collective action.
According to Le Bon, when an individual becomes part of a crowd, they undergo a profound psychological transformation whereby they actively cease to be guided by their individual will. They submit to becoming an automaton, content to sacrifice their personal beliefs, desires, and goals in favor of those of the crowd. LeBon writes the following:
In a crowd, every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.
The expectations of an individual in a crowd setting can be challenging, whether you’re at a street protest expected to respond to a demanding voice blaring out of a bullhorn (“WHAT DO WE WANT?” “JUSTICE!” “WHEN DO WE WANT IT?” “NOW!”) or find yourself in a considerably less volatile crowd setting like participating in a giant stadium wave—a collective crowd ceremony where, section by section, thousands of exuberant fans incrementally pop out of their seats jack-in-the-box style, both arms flailing, hollering and screaming like they’re on a descending roller coaster.
Le Bon maintained that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and propels them to act toward a common goal. These persuasive ideas are never created by members of the crowd. Instead, they are designed and formulated by an external entity with a greater understanding of crowd behavior and a specific population’s susceptibility to new modes of thinking and acceptance, be it an average consumer, a learning institution, a political organization, or the entire world for that matter.
More often than not, the intent behind the introduction of such ideas is nefarious, usually motivated by greed, power, or both.
Take, for example, the manipulation of the women’s suffrage movement that took place in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, commonly referred to as first-wave feminism.
Contrary to popular belief, the early women’s movement was not popular with many women during that period.
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In her book, Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women’s Liberation, historian Rachel Wilson writes:
Suffrage was so unpopular with women in 1895, that the state of Massachusetts asked women of voting age whether they wanted suffrage. Of the 575,000 eligible women voters, only 22,204 voted yes. That is only 3.8%. So, if the female populace at large was NOT demanding the right to vote as we are always told they were, how was such a thing passed? Well, they say that if you want to know who or what is behind something, follow the money.
Today, most women are unaware that the suffragettes were funded in large part by wealthy financial magnates like the Vanderbilts. They and others like them knew all too well that voting rights for women would eventually lead to the breakdown of the family unit and force women to enter the workforce where they would earn wages and consume goods and services that would further line the pockets of industrialist and Wall Street fat cats.
Torches of Freedom
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In the early 20th century, it was considered unladylike and socially unacceptable for women to smoke in public. This posed a huge problem for tobacco companies who were salivating at the prospect of marketing cigarettes to women and increasing their consumer base by a whopping 50 percent. Stumped, but not without hope, they turned to Edward Bernays, referred to as the father of public relations who was also the American nephew of Sigmund Freud. Utilizing his uncle’s groundbreaking theories and understanding of the subconscious, Bernays—in the true spirt of vulture capitalism—had figured out how to manipulate the masses by employing a technique similar to what might be referred to today as “social engineering.” He contended that to effectively change public perception, one needed to identify and appeal to their irrational emotions. On a mission to understand what cigarettes meant to women, Bernays contacted Dr. A.A. Brill, a leading psychoanalyst in New York at that time. Brill told Bernays that cigarettes were a symbol of the penis, and male sexual power, and that if he could find a way to connect cigarettes with the idea of challenging male power, women would smoke because they would then have their own penises. That’s all Bernays needed to hear.
At an annual New York Easter Day parade attended by thousands, Bernays staged an event that would forever erase the taboo of women smoking in public and establish a groundbreaking technique as a means of altering public perceptions.
The Scheme: Bernays organized a group of young debutants to hide cigarettes under their clothes. The women were to join the parade, and when given a signal from him, they were to light their cigarettes and defiantly start puffing away. Bernays then informed the press that he had heard that a group of suffragettes were planning an outrageous public spectacle by lighting up things called “torches of freedom.”
As planned, a gaggle of news-hungry photographers were right there to capture the moment. The next day, the outcry was overwhelming. Almost overnight, the phrase “torches of freedom” (a rational slogan validating an irrational and destructive behavior) had been added to the public lexicon and had officially taken up residency in the consciousness of both men and women.
Mission accomplished. The image of young women—debutants no less—smoking “torches for freedom” in public, a symbol analogous to the proud and majestic torch-bearing Statue of Liberty, undoubtedly meant that anybody who believed in equality for women pretty much had to support women’s rights and, by association, their right to smoke in public.
The Result: Cigarette sales in the United States and other countries around the world began to rise and profits for tobacco companies soared.
“You’ve Come Along Way, Baby”
In the 1960s, some forty plus years after Edward Bernays’s historical experiment, advertisers continued to capitalize on the concept of equating women’s smoking habits with justice, equality, and empowerment. A commercial for Virginia Slims—elegantly crafted cancer sticks specifically designed for “women only”—was introduced to the public with the tagline “You’ve Come Along Way, Baby.”
After that spot hit the airwaves, cartons of Virginia Slims flew off the shelves and profits increased big-time along with increased cases of lung cancer.
“Welcome to Marlboro Country”
When it comes to being manipulated, women should not feel singled out. Men—historically, the largest population of smokers worldwide—have been the main target for big tobacco companies since the invention of the cigarette. Forget wanting a penis. If you were a man back in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, and you didn’t smoke a rugged he-man’s brand of cigarettes like Marlboro or Camel, you weren’t a man and didn’t HAVE a penis.
Volunteer Slavery: A Novel Idea
When Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection in 1916, he did so with the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War.” In 1917, when US entry into the First World War seemed an inevitability, Wilson faced the enormous task of convincing the American people to line up in support of the war efforts. To accomplish that, he turned to George Creel, who headed up the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and launched a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war.
One of Creel’s key strategies was to institute a program called the “Four Minute Men.” The program enlisted 75,000 eagerly willing volunteers across the country to deliver well-crafted speeches promoting war and patriotism. The speeches were given in public places in front of captive audiences: libraries, county fairs, etc. But they were mainly given in movie theaters. The speeches were limited to four minutes because that was the amount of time it took to change the film reels in the projection room.
Creel boasted that in eighteen months his 75,000 volunteers delivered more than 7.5 million four-minute orations to over 300 million listeners in a nation of 103 million people. The speakers attended training sessions through local universities and were given pamphlets and speaking tips on a wide variety of topics, such as buying Liberty Bonds, registering for the draft, rationing food, recruiting unskilled workers for munitions jobs, and supporting Red Cross programs. Ethnic groups were addressed in their native languages.
Creel ensured that no stones were left unturned. The CPI also worked with the US Post Office to censor seditious counterpropaganda.
The Conformity Experiments
Students of psychology and the social sciences are undoubtedly familiar with the groundbreaking conformity experiments of Professor Solomon Asch. In the 1950s, Asch conducted a series of psychological experiments that revealed the degree to which a person’s own opinions were influenced by those of a group. Asch discovered that people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group. He had developed an ingenious methodology for establishing his premise: The experiment involved having people who were in on the experiment pretend to be regular participants alongside those who were the actual, unaware subjects of the study. Those that were in on the experiment would behave in certain ways to see if their actions had an influence on the actual participants.
In each experiment, an unsuspecting participant was placed in a room with several accomplices who were in on the experiment. The subjects were told that they were taking part in a “vision test.”
The accomplices were all told what their responses would be when the line task was presented, and the group was asked to identify and compare the lengths of three different size lines to the size of a single target line. The naive participants had no inkling that the other students were not actual participants. After the line task was presented, each student verbally announced which line (either 1, 2, or 3) matched the target line.
Amazingly, nearly 75 percent of the participants in the conformity experiments went along with the rest of the group at least one time. After combining the trials, the results indicated that participants conformed to the incorrect group answer approximately one-third of the time.
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire
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What LIES Ahead
We are currently experiencing unparalleled tectonic shifts in geopolitical power structures, global financial systems, and an epic fight to the finish for control of the earth’s remaining resources.
While people are bickering over the merits of a narcissistic president/former game show host and the latest Hollywood scandal, global elites are pouring billions of our tax dollars into devising ways to effectively proliferate and control the “pandemic” and other manufactured narratives designed to distract, manipulate, disempower, and poison and reduce the world’s population.
Most, if not all social media platforms are either funded, developed, and/or partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Utilized as tools for mass surveillance and data collection, these platforms were moved into the commercial space and marketed for mass appeal (“Hello Moto,” Motorola’s slogan) to maximize participation and collect personal information on a global scale.
Accessing and synthesizing this data is a process referred to as the “neural network,” a massive system that we—you and I—have collectively volunteered to build by our every online search, text message, keystroke, and smartphone conversation, and every photo and video that we have allowed the tech giants to capture via our electronic devices.
Fifth Generation Warfare—5GW
Not to be confused with 5G cellphone technology, 5GW is a war on objective reality and human perception. I wish I were making this up, but this is actually a tactical framework currently in progress.
For a clear definition of 5GW, Grey Dynamics, a military industrial contractor at the forefront of this insidious innovation, provides the following summary definition.
Fifth Generation Warfare:
– Is a war of information and perception
– Targets existing cognitive biases of individuals and organizations
– Creates new cognitive biases (social engineering)
Is different from classical warfare for the following reasons:
– Focuses on the individual observer/decision-maker
– Is difficult or impossible to attribute
– Nature of the attack is concealed
Essentially, what this means is that outside of our collective perception and belief in the existence of a sun and moon, and the notion that a wild bear shits in the woods, everything else we know to be sane, rational, and true is now up for grabs.
We are currently in the crosshairs along with our hopes, our dreams, our truths, our lies, our history, our politics, our spiritual beliefs, our mythologies, our sexual preferences, our music, our art, all our creativity, the minds of our children, and our DNA. It is all being sucked into a giant algorithmic vortex. This is the Library of Alexandria on steroids, one that globalists have dreamed of forever.
To this I say the following. Please Repeat After Me: “I Will NOT Comply!”
Note: If you’re confused and having trouble navigating this dystopian nightmare, you might consider checking out the “Inverted Reality Quick Reference Guide.” It’s a virtual life saver.