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Is reality television?
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News

Jan. 25, 2005

Technological, mathematical, systematic control of the public mind is a reality today! It's true! Public billions in "psy-ops" research, private trillions of assets at stake, not to mention the sweet, intoxicating greed for CONTROL over all of Humanity. These are the forces. This is the power that was once only a devil's dream and has now become a psychic juggernaut that will spell the end of United States, at least.

Your tinfoil hat will not save you, because the technology is inside your residence, and you probably have it turned on, probably in more than one room, all the fucking time.

Yes I am talking about that damn box you stare at numbly for hours while passively receiving far, far more strain on your ties to reality than you would like to think.

NEWS FLASH: Your television controls you. Your television tells you what "the world" is. It is a tool that can be wielded by savvy individuals to frighten, befuddle, madden and control you and everything you think, feel and therefore do. Let me tell you how.

Much to my deep personal shame, I worked in the 'reality' TV game for a while as an editor of casting reels for major network shows. I made what could be considered commercials that my boss, the Casting Producer, would use to pitch the cast he wanted to the big fat brass at the networks.

This put me in the rather interesting position of doing to the network people what they were doing to the public daily and well. That is, manipulating the executives' perception of reality by what I revealed and what I concealed about the aspiring contestants in such a way as to achieve a desired state of affairs in their yes-man-twisted, unscrupulous, dirty little minds; that state being "Yes I will buy."

I was damn good at it. Over the course of only a few shows, I built my reputation as the original casting reel genius. So there is that.

Also, I had a very successful career in high school as a cheater. I passed Trigonometry without mastering a single trigonometric concept. I copied and copied and copied, and I never got caught.

Dear reader, I submit to you, that because of my experience in these areas I have become both media and cheating literate to the extent that I can reverse engineer from television and other media to which I am exposed a great deal of information about what is going on with what I believe to be the current hostile takeover of the U.S. government.

This is some of what I think they are doing and how:

First off, these people are cheating as a matter of course. They are the sort we are all sadly familiar with that not only lack a conscience but also regard anyone burdened with a conscience as a ridiculous sucker that would look funny on the end of a cattle prod.

It is my duty to report to you that I believe these people have the Earth. I'm convinced that it is over and that the bad guys have won. I don't believe that the people of the United States will do a goddamn thing about Bushite Fascism. That is because the people have been knocked hopelessly off balance by the content displayed on their televisions, and cannot possibly comprehend the scope and unholy grandeur of what is happening to us. Not before it is far, far too late.

If this article has a "They" it is none other than the worlds wonderful, friendly, helpful billionaires, with their not necessarily conspiratorial, but unavoidably identical world interests and their unfathomably complete control over all media that matters in the world.

Check it out: www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml.

Once in 2002 a dear friend of mine and I wound up arguing with a man who lobbied congress to legalize Marijuana for a living.

We brought up the issue of media concentration and he guffawed at us. He thought the idea that six companies were controlling every media outlet in the world was hilarious conspiracy claptrap.

"Are you saying that my hometown newspaper is controlled by these companies?" he drawled as he rollled his eyes all the way around.

"Are you saying that your hometown newspaper has a distributed international news-gathering force? Because I suspect that it doesn't. I bet that for national and world news it uses the wire services, same as every other hometown paper." I said.

"Yeah, and who the hell is going to care if some hometown newspaper runs something true in a story but CNN says it's wrong, and NBC says it's wrong and USA Today and the Post and the Times and Fox all say it's wrong?" my friend beseeched.

"Well they would never do that." Arrrrrgh!

Bear in mind that this was a man who worked in Washington D.C. as a lobbyist for fucking pot! Not some hayseed, Christian grade school teacher.

I offered to show him the afore-linked chart and he said, "I don't want to see a chart, I want to see an article from a reputable source." Arrrrrrgh!

A couple of weeks later Bill Moyers began his media consolidation swan song on NOW, and two years later he was run out of PBS by Fucking Congress. "PBS is too liberal. Give Tucker Carlson a show and get rid of Moyers, or you can kiss your pansy asses good-bye, commies."

Look, there are certain tangible mechanisms which shape public opinion, not just on issues, but on reality at it's basic core. In a capitalist society run amok, everything is for sale. It was just a matter of time before some group of bandits stole enough money to buy it all, and enough money to find out how to use it.

In 2001, after Bill Clinton's long season of merger after merger after uncontested merger, six rich men controlled all that their even richer golfing buddies would need to put up a smokescreen for the dismantling of no less than the power of the Nation State, and replace it with the anarcho-capitalistic dream of worldwide corporate control. Hallelujah!

The idea was to purchase the trusted brand names of America's fine journalistic institutions and use the fifty years of credibility they had established, that is, the authority they had as purveyors of reliable facts, to distribute psychological munitions that would allow them to do whatever they wanted brashly, publicly and conveniently, while shorting out any public opposition that might result by driving everyone in the country bat-shit insane.

If you haven't heard (and you probably haven't) people do not generally think for themselves at all. Thinking it out on one's own would require the actual comprehension of mildly complex ideas, something for which most brains are poorly wired. So, people pick an authority figure or figures to believe in, and just believe in and do what they are told.

What a monotheistic culture does is create a union of authority in the subconscious of the masses; an idea that all authority must flow from God and is in some way not to be questioned. This gives a tremendous amount of power to the ancient lizard brain because this is the area of mind which is concerned with ritual and social dominance hierarchy. Oh yes, and aggressive behavior as well.

Carl Sagan wrote a fantastic book about the triune or three-part brain called "The Dragons of Eden." In it he explores the well known theory that the human brain is really a "stack" of three brains, each one added on the other (adding on being far more practical than starting over from scratch when it comes to evolving.)

According to this theory we have an old lizard brain as described above, a medium-aged limbic system which controls the limbs and gives us emotion (the mammal brain), and the neocortex which is the fancy new meat package that boasts the addition of advanced written language and atom bomb capabilities at no small expense to our local environment.

In our culture the lizard is energized by our concept that existence is a gift from a single source at the top of the hierarchy. So, this supercharged collective lizard brain not only floods the masses with religious fervor for Jesus, Elvis, J-Lo, the Tooth Fairy or whoever the face of ultimate authority is to each person, but it also creates the subconscious aggregate assumption that if someone is in charge of a situation (i.e. your shit-heel boss), then that person has been anointed by the will of all power, necessarily.

So, because the general impression in the unexamined shallows of the public mind is that all power flows from a single force, the only assumption one's mind can rest upon without effort is that all persons in power must be in power for a good reason.

It gets us in weird places, and hardly anyone speaks up if they notice something fishy.

There have been only two warnings in U.S. presidential farewell addresses; Washington's against political parties and Eisenhower's against the military/ industrial complex.

Nobody listened to George Washington!

But as it turned out, political parties sure as hell have bitten us in the ass. Ever wonder why everybody bitches about politicians being liars, but then proceeds to believe every lie told to them by politicians? This is the power that authority figures have over the hyper-stimulated, collective, lizard brain.

Ever wonder why the public stands by and allows the government to blow ass-loads of dollars a day on payments to private corporations for military procurements in a cost-plus system that rewards the companies financially for running costs up? Maybe they haven't heard of it, but if they did they wouldn't listen, because those corporation people are powerful, therefore they can't be as nasty as you say they are or God wouldn't have put them in charge.

And nobody listened to Dwight D. Eisenhower about the military!

It never makes sense. It just can't make any sense, because it doesn't come from the area of the brain capable of making sense. It comes from the region capable of making you sway back and forth and hiss at the approaching females then lay your belly down on a flat rock to bask in the Paleolithic sun.

Western Civilization was built on Roman secular and Egyptian/Hebrew religious unity of power as a means to create populations that would follow the directives of all authority figures whether they made any sense or not. The dominance of the collective Lizard brings about the collective dominance of the established social order. So the rich boys get to keep it all, like magic!

And these are just the big buttons they've been pushing for millennia, declaring themselves Pharo, sending out missionaries and burning big libraries etc.

Television came on the scene and was immediately seized upon by the world's "great leaders" as a way to spread the word about their glorious authority. One of the first television broadcasts in history was a speech delivered by Adolf Hitler at the '38 Olympics.

As time wore on, and techniques became more and more sophisticated (largely due to the exhaustive research in the field of advertising), more and more became known about the fledgling field of psychology.

The Army got itself a psychological operations operation, and began spending lots of that sweet sweet classified slop that congress kept on sending them with which to fight the commies. Plenty got learned about using TV to get lots of people to do the thing the General says they need to do.

Now the mergers of all of the world's media companies combined with a situation in Washington D.C. similar to a commodities trading floor for congressional representation, brought about a flash point in mind control possibilities.

Just as we must look out the window to see outside, we must look at the box to see the outside world. If I could trick your window into showing you snow, I could make you wear a coat. If I can show you what I want on your TV, no
matter what major, "trustworthy" channel you are on, I can make you extremely unlikely to question authority and eager to forget what I said yesterday in favor of my explanation today.

"You are unlovable because you smoke." (Sponsored by Nicoderm™)

"You and your kids are too fat and you need help to quit eating." (Sponsored by Atkins™ brand books and stuff)

"16 guys with box cutters constitute a major threat to National Security so just follow orders and don't ask questions." (Sponsored by Scull and Bones Old Tyme Secret Society and Den o' Thieves™)

These are the munitions being unleashed through your television, constantly and expertly. The relatively new term, spin, describes a very old form of lying brought into a new dimension of effectiveness with the advent of consolidated mass media delivery platforms.

Spin begins with a conclusion then through emphasis of writing and skill in delivery makes the facts fit.

This is why Shakespeare said, "First, kill all the Lawyers."

Still many of you will say, "What about The New York Times? They are always fighting Bush. And all the networks run at least some negative stuff on him." This is where my expertise in cheating informs my assessment of things.

When I would copy say, a test, I would always, always make intentional mistakes in order to throw the teacher off my scent. The CIA calls this kind of maneuver in cheating "plausible deniability."

The question becomes, "If we are controlling the media then why are we letting all these liberals give us such a hard time?"

The answer is, "The opposition we see in the mainstream media is the straw man with whom the powerful are picking a fight, and the real opposition like this article is relegated to the kinds of distribution methods which ensure that it will be drowned in the noise, unendorsed by recognized authority."

The straw-man opposition that people are familiar with is actually no opposition at all. The Democratic party is now well to the right of every industrialized nation in the world. Paul Wellstone and Mel Carnahan are fucking dead.

Maybe the best way to look after your ass while you are raping every man woman and child on Earth is to have someone loudly accusing you of tax evasion on
CNN, while making sure that anyone important trying to accuse you of rape, winds up in an "unexplained" plane crash just before election night.

The puny, fake-ass opposition that receives massive, constant publicity dwarfs and crushes the real opposition through a process of filling the majority of citizens that hate Bush's lying guts with the feeling that they are alone and therefore probably wrong.

Public will must be activated by strong leadership, and in today's world, if there is no-one to follow on basic cable, there is no-one to follow at all. Amen.

So, that is where I think we are, and if I am correct I am afraid we have little to hope for.

The one thing that keeps a faint glimmer way down in the frostbitten cockles of my heart is to remember the fact that Adolf Hitler was elected by a vast majority of his countrymen. Bush's house is built almost entirely on an illusion of support.

It is possible that problems will surface that cannot be hidden behind the television smoke screen. If and when that happens, the numbers are there.

It's just a matter of figuring out a way to reach out to them and break through their media-accelerated self-doubt without first presenting the badge of established authority.

It is the longest of shots.

Good luck, neighbor.


© 2004, by the author.


What do you think?


There's much more than this at Unknown News.

If I could trick your window into showing you snow, I could make you wear a coat.

If I can show you what I want on your TV, no matter what major, "trustworthy" channel you are on, I can make you extremely unlikely to question authority and eager to forget what I said yesterday in favor of my explanation today.










































NEWS FLASH: Your television controls you.

Your television tells you what "the world" is.

It is a tool that can be wielded by savvy individuals to frighten, befuddle, madden and control you and everything you think, feel and therefore do.










































The idea was to purchase the trusted brand names of America's fine journalistic institutions and use the fifty years of credibility they had established, that is, the authority they had as purveyors of reliable facts, to distribute psychological munitions that would allow them to do whatever they wanted brashly, publicly and conveniently, while shorting out any public opposition that might result by driving everyone in the country bat-shit insane.










































The opposition we see in the mainstream media is the straw man with whom the powerful are picking a fight, and the real opposition like this article is relegated to the kinds of distribution methods which ensure that it will be drowned in the noise, unendorsed by recognized authority."

The straw-man opposition that people are familiar with is actually no opposition at all.

The Democratic party is now well to the right of every industrialized nation in the world.

Paul Wellstone and Mel Carnahan are fucking dead.

Maybe the best way to look after your ass while you are raping every man woman and child on Earth is to have someone loudly accusing you of tax evasion on CNN, while making sure that anyone important trying to accuse you of rape, winds up in an "unexplained" plane crash just before election night.

The puny, fake-ass opposition that receives massive, constant publicity dwarfs and crushes the real opposition through a process of filling the majority of citizens that hate Bush's lying guts with the feeling that they are alone and therefore probably wrong.

Public will must be activated by strong leadership, and in today's world, if there is no-one to follow on basic cable, there is no-one to follow at all.

Amen.










































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