here's something i originally posted at
infolib:
(am copy and pasting only my own words, please visit the site for the rest of the conversation)mind-control is abusive behavior. whether the propaganda uses lies or truth against humanity matters not, when it's all abusive, when the purpose is to deny people freedom to make their own decisions for themselves. repeated abuses are addictive. we crave that which hurts us most, and so long as we think it feels good, we think we like it, the abuse continues.
healing is happening, i think everyone feels it on some level or another. but you can't make an addict stop abusing, they have to want it to stop. you can't help them if they don't want your help. to force healing upon them would simply be more abuse, piled up on top of a lifetime of abuse. it don't work that way.
"if you really love someone" is a powerfully abusive phrase right there. love, like all feelings, is subjective. to objectively define love for anyone but yourself, is also abusive behavior. passive-aggressive abuse deals the same cards as violent aggression, it's all part of the system of abuse that we call "civilization". freedom is to be found in breaking the chains that bind us. it will never be achieved through forming a new organization based upon the same heirarchical system of control as the old one.
"What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one."
- http://www.listenlittleman.com/
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dave said:
"...what people are falsely told is public opinion is used to create groupthink, it isn't real but it helps keep people in denial of the truth."
denial is what perpetuates the abuse. so long as people deny that they have been sorely abused, they can continue to play the blame game and don't have to take responsibility for making it stop.
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hypnosis and propaganda work in the same way, to control the minds of the masses. how it works is they tell you things you already believe to be true, tell you that you agree with these things, which you do. then they tell you other things and tell you that you agree with them too.
it works subconsciously and most people don't even notice it. the use of truth turns off your internal bullshit meter (if you let it, if you respond to the use of emotional triggers, as we have all been trained to do. but if you know it's happening, you can make it stop.), and you let the other crap through, and accept the lies as truth.
there is a precise mathematical formula for how much truth is needed to support the lies. the bigger the lies are, the more truth must be exposed in order to get anyone to believe the lies. all the truth coming out now is because the lies got too big and started to collapse under their own weight.
i have no mentor. i never had one. i learn. i do not follow. i do not lead. i do not believe in playing such control games with people's heads. i'd much rather leave each person to do their own thinking. i believe they can. i know they can. i also believe they do not know it themselves, or they wouldn't be looking to leaders for answers they already have, they would not allow authority to make their decisions, if they knew they could do it themselves.
fear keeps the population under control, just like plato said. what i learned most from this site was to look at my fears and ask myself where did that idea come from? was it given to me? did i learn it through experience? why should i be afraid? and the only answer i found was that fear is the only weapon they have against us. our own fears. this is what allows us to be controlled. this is what makes us look to leaders for guidance and gurus for wisdom. this is what prevents us from being free.