How Germany learned to turn people into dumbed-down puppets, and then America invented strings for those puppets. Also: existentialism, Jesus, and Socrates.

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“Technology will forever be a reality that can’t be ignored. It will be one of the main tools for commercial brands, politicians, nations, and extremists to gain control of the hearts and minds of the masses. In the USSR, the German Reich, fascist Italy, revolutionary China, and Imperial Japan, it will be used to indoctrinate and control the population to support or at least accept oppressive, murderous totalitarian regimes. But that is not where this revolution starts. Instead, it has its roots in a rush toward freedom, fun, and commercial success in the land of unlimited opportunity—the United States of America.”

“It will be one of the main tools for gaining control of the hearts and minds of the masses—in the USSR, the German Reich, fascist Italy, revolutionary China, and Imperial Japan.” But not in the United States of America; supposedly, it started there and everyone was using it, but somehow not the U.S. It was the only country that did not adopt this method. Lol. He created a great program about history, but even here you see indoctrination and a total disregard for logic. It’s completely illogical to say the U.S. invented this tool, that everyone else used it for control, but that the United States—the “special, magical” country—couldn’t possibly do any wrong in the eyes of Americans, just as the Reich could do no wrong in the eyes of Germans. Pure ideology, with no respect for logic.

What I think they are doing is difficult to explain, and I don’t fully understand how they do it. Through my journey into existentialism, I think I’ve begun to understand. They use people’s existential fears and mass psychology. Existentialism is the fear of death; everyone experiences it, though some only unconsciously. Religion can alleviate this fear, leading to the establishment of churches—institutions that use this existential fear, the fear of death, to control people.

This is my personal opinion, and it may be controversial, but I believe Socrates and Jesus were both trying to address similar issues. The oligarchies of their times used gods to control and subjugate people. Socrates sought to help people understand and to dispel the power of gods and ideology used for control. Jesus, on the other hand, sought to create a god that couldn’t be used to control people. Later, however, the Roman Empire transformed this into what Nietzsche would call “slave morality” to maintain control over the populace. In other words, Socrates tried to free people through understanding, while Jesus created a god who couldn’t be used for control. Some may disagree with my view of Jesus, but let me explain why I think this way.

At one point, we have an incident in a Jewish temple where Jesus becomes angry, seeing people suffer while priests live in luxury. Then, we have a gap in the historical account of Jesus until he reappears around the age of 30. If Jesus did exist—and I think he probably did, though I’m not certain—he was not the son of God but a brilliant philosopher who wanted to create a religion to liberate people. Like Socrates, Jesus wanted to strip the oligarchy of its power derived through religion. While Socrates wanted people to understand that the gods weren’t real, Jesus created a god that couldn’t be exploited.

When I say Jesus created a god that “couldn’t be used,” consider this: Why do we have churches? If God is everywhere and listens to everyone, people can pray at home without needing a church or priest to connect with God. Why are there no other gods? Originally, God was understood to reside in the heart, not in the material world, so there was no need for crosses, images of Jesus, or anything material. Creating God in material form—crosses or images—isn’t truly representing Jesus because Jesus, in this sense, exists in the mind and heart, not in the material world. Jesus likely thought that by creating a god who is everywhere and hears everyone, who doesn’t require lavish temples or priests, he could strip the oligarchy of its power, and resources could instead be used to help ordinary people.

This is my analysis of Jesus. Additionally, I believe that Jesus was influenced by Far Eastern teachings. Many scholars think that during the period when Jesus went missing, he traveled East, where he encountered Hinduism and Buddhism, and he may have sought to incorporate their teachings into Judaism. He may have been disturbed by the harshness of “an eye for an eye” and adapted it into the Buddhist and Hindu teaching to “turn the other cheek.” From a young age, I’ve wondered about the contradictions between the Old and New Testaments; one advocates for “an eye for an eye,” and the other for “turning the other cheek.” Christians regard both as holy, but they don’t consider the logical inconsistencies. Instead, they are simply asked to believe.

Sorry to those who believe; if you didn’t like this, I generally don’t like to touch on questions of faith since some people need it. Now, for those atheists who think they are above it—you’re no different. Your existentialism is also captured, just in a different way.

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According to Becker we cannot face up to the reality of our death without experiencing debilitating anxiety and so we attempt to quell this anxiety by “denying death”. Denial of death is achieved by what Becker called striving for the heroic, or in other words attaching ourselves to a purpose, cause, or creation which we believe will outlive our physical existence, thus granting us a form of immortality. There are two main paths to heroism, the path of the nonconformist, or what Becker calls cosmic or personal heroism, and the path of the conformist, which he calls cultural heroism.

The path of the nonconformist consists of cultivating one’s unique potential and using one’s talents and skills in the creation of something novel and meaningful.

“What is one’s true talent, his secret gift, his authentic vocation?” writes Becker “In what way is one truly unique, and how can he express this uniqueness, give it form, dedicate it to something beyond himself?” (Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death)

In creating something which will in a sense live on past one’s physical existence and which is the expression of one’s uniqueness, be it a work of art, a scientific discovery, or an entrepreneurial endeavor, one’s life, according to Becker, will be characterized by a form of personal heroism. This personal heroism helps one deny death in a manner conducive to psychological health and vitality.

However, by the time most of us reach adulthood we have been inculcated to view our uniqueness not as something to be cultivated, but as something to be shunned. Very few people view themselves as capable of bringing forth anything of significance into the world and so are incapable of engaging in personal heroism. For such people, an alternative route to the denial of death is required, or else they run the risk of being overwhelmed by anxiety and nihilistic despair. This alternative is found through conformity and the adoption of pre-determined social roles, or what Becker calls cultural heroism. While this path limits the expression of one’s uniqueness and leads to a life dominated by repetition and routine, it provides people with security and comfort, and makes them feel as if they are participating in something significant. Or as Becker explains:

“Like many prisoners they are comfortable in their limited and protected routines, and the idea of a parole into the wide world of chance, accident, and choice terrifies them. In the prison of one’s character one can pretend and feel that he is somebody, that the world is manageable, that there is a reason for one’s life, a ready justification for one’s action. To live automatically and uncritically is to be assured of at least a minimum share of the programmed cultural heroics . . .” (Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death)

Becker makes the interesting claim that cultural heroism is effective due to the religious function that modern secular societies play in the conformist’s life. In other words, just as Christianity in the Middle Ages provided those in the West with a meaning to their existence and a set of values by which to shape their lives, in our more secular world one’s society now plays such a role. As Becker explains:

“Society itself is a codified hero system, which means that society everywhere is a living myth of the significance of human life, a defiant creation of meaning. Every society thus is a “religion” whether it thinks so or not: Soviet “religion” and Maoist “religion” are as truly religious as are scientific and consumer “religion,” no matter how much they may try to disguise themselves by omitting religious and spiritual ideas from their lives.” (Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death)

Just like any religion, the religion of one’s society becomes easier to believe in, the greater the number of people to whom worship it. And this is why the nonconformists are so feared by the masses, the unique individuals plant seeds of doubt into the minds of the conformists regarding the significance of their social roles, and thus the significance of their very existence. Therefore, the masses actively discourage the cultivation of one’s uniqueness, ridicule and ostracize nonconformists, and try and pressure them back to conformity – something they must do given that their existential significance is on the line.

While there exist great pressures to conform, of the two paths to heroism, the one less traveled, or the cultivation and expression of one’s uniqueness, has long been seen as the superior of the two, for as Emerson wrote:

“Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people’s law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The conformists’ existence, while comfortable, is largely a robotic state. Such people are always looking to others in order to determine how to behave and what to believe. Thus in effect, conformity amounts to living one’s life for others – not for oneself – and as Virginia Woolf recognized:

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. [One] becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.” (Virginia Woolf)

This stultifying effect of conformity led Kierkegaard to stress the importance of striving to follow a life path which is personally chosen – as a conformist’s existence can barely be called living at all. In his work Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments he suggests that cultivating one’s uniqueness is like “riding a wild stallion”, while conforming is like “falling asleep on a moving hay wagon”. But like Becker, Kierkegaard realized that few people are capable of cultivating their uniqueness, for as he wrote:

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world – such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.” (Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death)

But while most people conform almost without reflecting on why they do so, others have a nagging feeling that there is more to life than the social role they have adopted. They sense that in the short time they have between two eternal darknesses they should strive to cultivate their uniqueness and to see what they are personally capable of. But even with this awareness why are so few people capable of breaking the powerful chains of conformity?

In other words, While Becker may be correct that our fear of death impels us to strive for the heroic, why is it that so many people choose the path of conformity instead of the far superior path of the nonconformist to achieve the denial of death? While numerous thinkers have attempted to pinpoint what makes it so difficult to be a nonconformist, Nietzsche, in his book Untimely Meditations, suggested that the rarity of the nonconformist can be explained by a specific character flaw which afflicts the vast majority of us:

“A traveler who had seen many countries, peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what attribute he had found in men everywhere. He said: “They have a propensity for laziness.” To others, it seems that he should have said: “They are all fearful. They hide themselves behind customs and opinions.” In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that there will be no second chance for his oneness to coalesce from the strangely variegated assortment that he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience – why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conformity and cloaks himself with it. But what is it that forces the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases. For the majority it is idleness, inertia, in short that propensity for laziness of which the traveler spoke. He is right: men are even lazier than they are fearful.” (Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations III)

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So, it’s partially about existentialism being hijacked and used to make people predictable and, therefore, controllable. It’s also partially about mass psychology and mass consciousness since we are herd animals. They use our human nature—our existentialism and the fact that we are herd animals—to control us.

Explaining and helping people understand such complex concepts is not easy. Anyway, they used this and created an educational system, which I posted about.

Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down (“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.” – Chomsky)

To make people more susceptible to such influences, they transformed the entire German nation into unthinking, emotion-driven, logic-deprived machines that could be easily controlled. The problem, then, was how to control these dumbed-down, robotic people. This is where America came in, with the invention of modern propaganda. All the advances in psychology and philosophy in Germany, initially used to manipulate the population, were later adopted by the U.S. to create modern propaganda through technology and mass communication. This became the tool—the "string"—by which these machine-like people could be controlled. German developments in psychology and philosophy were then applied by American capitalists in advertising. Thus, the first modern propaganda was created not for the state, but for products, in the name of capitalism. Later, it was adopted by the state during the First World War.

Movie ”The War You Don’t See” by John Pilger. Edward Bernays war on people and Creel Committee.

“… slaughter known as the first World War. 16 Millions died and 21 million were wounded. At the height of the Carnage the Prime Minister of Great Britain David Lloyd George had a private chat with the editor of the Guardian CP Scott “If people really knew the truth” said the Prime Minister “the war would be stopped tomorrow, but of course they don’t know and can’t know”. The British public were desperate for real news. More than half the nation flocked to see an official propaganda film “The Battle of the Somme”. Cameras were so unusual that young troops would shout “hello mum” as they marched to the front and they were heard crying for their mothers as they died on the battlefield; this was almost never reported… A pioneer of modern propaganda was this man Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the term public relations. He wrote: the intelligent manipulation of the masses is an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country. He was part of a secretive group called the U.S Committee on Public Information (Creel Committee) set up in 1917 to persuade reluctant Americans to join the war in Europe. Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann went to Woodrow Wilson and said: look man if you’re going to enter into this war, we are going to need to sell this war to the American people and so Wilson institutes and creates the first modern propaganda Machinery. It was actually quite brilliant in its conceptualization. So that the best way to persuade people is to grab them by their emotions, by their unconscious and instinctual urges, let’s not bother with pumping out facts, let’s scare the hell out of people. A picture of the Statue of Liberty in tatters crumbled into the New York Harbor with German planes flying around it. A picture of the world being gobbled up by the bloody hands of a gorilla wearing a German Helmet. So you know it’s not about facts anymore, the facts don’t matter. For Edward Bernays Public Relations was like a war on people, on bending their will.” -The War You Don’t See” by John Pilger

The U.S. started a war on its own people, but they were not yet dumbed down enough to be fully controlled; later, however:

Introduction to Propaganda

Britain also made extensive use of propaganda during World War 1, and Hitler, who once famously stated “Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda. All that matters is propaganda”, was intrigued by the success of the allied war propaganda. Explaining the effect such propaganda had on him, Hitler wrote:

“But it was not until the war that it became evident what immense results can be obtained by a correct application of propaganda. Here again, unfortunately, all our study had to be done on the enemy side, for the activity on our side was modest, to say the least… For what we failed to do, the enemy did, with amazing skill and really brilliant calculation. I, myself, learned enormously from this enemy war propaganda.” (Adolf Hitler)

Then Hitler, using modern propaganda, manipulated the already dumbed-down German population with the newly invented tool of propaganda. He seized control of the masses and launched a conquest on behalf of the German oligarchs to increase profits and enslave other populations. This allowed the average German to maintain a basic standard of living while German capitalists grew even wealthier. Eugenics, which justified the belief that other races, like Slavs and Jews, were inferior to Germans, was actually an idea first promoted by J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller to justify why the capitalist elite were so wealthy. Hitler embraced eugenics; while he saw Slavs and Jews as "Untermensch" (subhuman) compared to Germans, he also viewed the German capitalist oligarchy as "übermensch" (superior) compared to the average German. The Nazi state served the oligarchs, yet it was labeled as "socialism" to prevent people from questioning it. They distorted socialist ideas, ensuring no one could understand Das Kapital or realize the system wasn't truly socialist.

To all Nazi supporters out there: I hope you support Western censorship policies that block certain people from the internet, preventing you from hearing or reading their ideas. It’s not much different from burning books that contain thoughts you’d rather the population never understands.

Sorry for it being so long, but understanding it and seeing how everything is connected, I didn’t even have time to touch on the concept of slave morality, which Christianity was transformed into by Rome and about which Nietzsche writes.

Now, something funny to lighten the mood at the end: Here you have Alex Jones. He predicted 9/11 on air and knows about the deep state, but he could not comprehend what is happening because his blind belief in free market capitalism prevents him from understanding. At some point, he drifted from logic into ideology. He is just like the Nazis: he saw problems, just like the Nazis saw problems with capitalism, as Marx pointed out, but couldn’t acknowledge them. So, he invented an ideology to explain it without damaging his existential belief in free market capitalism.

That woman(jew), number one, is ugly

Imagine how bad she(this jew) smells, man

I'm told her and Obama (jews) just stink

Obama and Hillary(jews) both smell like sulfur

(jews)Literal vampire potbelly goblins

Are hobbling around coming after us

My spirit gets close to that evil(jews) and I feel it go

Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh!

We're such self-centered crap

We don't even notice Hell(jews) itself rising up against us

Millions are pouring in people, of the very worst type(jews)

And I'm so pissed

Sound familiar? Stop thinking you are better than others. You are not better than me, and I am not better than you. We are just different.