By Rostislav Ishchenko
Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
cross posted with http://www.stalkerzone.org/rostislav-ishchenko-zombification-and-steering-consciousness/
source: http://actualcomment.ru/zombirovanie-i-upravlenie-soznaniem-1807061054.html
A human is built in such a way that believing in a miracle is necessary. But at the same time the majority hopes that the miracle is rational. A considerable part of society considers believing in God to be something shameful and backward. Nevertheless, a human believes with pleasure in aliens who during millennia advise terrestrial governments in a hidden way. They believe in the all-powerful reptiloid from a far galaxy weaving plots for the purpose of destroying earth civilisation. They believe in Rothschilds-Rockafellars, who organised their secret world government of earth civilisation before the Pharaohs, and since then it has been secretively leading the world towards its mysterious purpose. They believe in inadequate frequenters of social networks known by nobody, “advising” all intelligence agencies of the world. They believe in the cunning games of the governments sending ciphered messages to their people via the lips of TV hosts.
One of the most popular public-political beliefs is the belief in zombification. Its adherents remain in a condition of cognitive dissonance because, on the one hand, they believe it is possible to zombify a neighboring nation, but that it is impossible to zombify the nation that they themselves belong to. And on the other hand, it constantly seems to this same adherent that all representatives of their own nation surrounding them are zombified (except a narrow sect that shares the views of this adherent in relation to nature and society), and that only they personally (and perhaps some other chosen ones) resist the work of the propaganda machine that zombifies society.
It turns out that the individuals (according to their thoughts) most resistant to zombifying turn out to be the first subjects of zombification. This logical contradiction doesn’t prevent them from fighting against zombification anywhere and everywhere. They are so active that under their influence normal people start seeing a false bottom in all news reported by the media and wake up in the middle of the night horrified by the fact that they are being zombified.
In reality the technology of zombification is just one of many information technologies. It is mainly used to influence the marginal sectors of society for the purpose of creating the framework of a specific idea. It was borrowed by political strategists from totalitarian sects and is based on the tools that are well mastered by them. In order to achieve success it is necessary to completely submerge the person in an information environment that is confident in the correctness of a certain super-idea. For example, that Grudinin can’t lose the elections; that the government dreams of selling the country to the Americans (like in the reptiloid narrative); that Russia cedes to the US (which is all-powerful) everywhere and in everything; that nobody in the world reckons with Russia in general at all; that without the “creative class”, which is stupidly doing nothing useful as junior office employees with limited competence assuming a level of responsibility no higher than sharpening pencils, it is impossible to resolve any important ethnic or global question; that 12/14-year-old blockheads have the right to demand that the authorities report on how “their taxes” are being spent, etc.
A certain source of information that is authoritative in or for this circle or must constantly repeat the same thought that is considered as super-valuable in this circle. The most sensible of such gurus tries to diversify the menu by leading people towards the same thought in different ways. For example, you were drenched under heavy rain but Putin is to blame for this, because what is the hydrometeorological center doing? Why didn’t they issue a warning in time? And if they did, then why did they do so insufficiently loudly? And on this day there generally is never heavy rain, and only now, when Russia ceded to the US in everything, could such a thing happen so that it started to rain and thousands of people were drenched because of the helplessness of the authorities. Well, and if the sun shines, the same chain of reasoning begins with the words “why is it so hot?”.
However, the line of reasoning is not cunning, nobody cares about plausibility and consistency. Putin can be scolded for the same actions that Xi Jinping is praised for, and the absolutely identical reaction of Moscow and Washington towards this same irritant can be presented as being shameful for Russia and victorious for the US.
It is absolutely all the same for the victims of zombification to what extent the world of their guru corresponds to the real world. They, as a rule, are intellectually lacking people who need an authoritative “explanation” for the simplest processes. The authority of the guru is indisputable, because if they were mistaken (lying is out of the question), how to live in a world without a wheel and sails. However, in zombie sects there are also quite enlightened characters. As a rule, they are weak infantile people who need a guide in life (mother, wife, boss, a more strong-willed comrade). But they find an ideal in precisely the guru of the zombie sect. After all, they are always ready to give simple answers to all questions (beginning with daily life and ending with the universe).
Such sects serve as a fine basis for different kinds of color revolutions. It is easy to bring them out to the streets under any flag and with any demands that the guru will add their signature to. And the gurus of zombie sects are never disinterested, but are very inexpensive. However, zombie sects exist not only in politics. Moreover, the main business in zombification happens exactly out of the political sphere.
Nevertheless, as we already noted, zombification is one of the many political technologies used for the creation of the framework of a certain super-valuable idea. All of these infantile intellectuals and de-intellectualised marginals form quite active and loud extras [a fake crowd – ed], creating the impression that a certain idea indeed agitates society. The conditions for the introduction of a topic in political circulation are being created.
But further, the technology of zombification is powerless, because at the next stage the idea being “sold” becomes a subject of public discussion. The loud and ignorant adherents who think that those who don’t share their views are the enemy are incapable of holding a discussion. On the contrary, the manner of insulting political opponents inherent in them averts the adequate masses from the doctrine that they defend. But the guru by definition can’t lower themselves to have a discussion with just anyone, because the guru is infallible, they are above the crowd of ordinary people, they don’t argue, they only teach. If to assume that the guru can argue with someone, then it means that this person is equal to the guru in everything. I.e., they themselves can be a guru. But two gurus can’t exist in the sublunary world at the same time. Thus, the guru can only point out to the crowd of his own adherents the latest “sacrilegist” who doubted the guru’s infallibility. And further, it is the crowd that must persecute the villain who dared to threaten the “sacred” one.
With such methods it is easy to protect a sect from the temptation of having alternative ideas, but they don’t allow to actively expand the number of adherents (unless you manage to have State apparatus serve you and involve brute force against the opponents). It is precisely for this reason that the technology of zombification remains one of the most elementary political technologies and never plays an important role in serious campaigns. The most that it can be useful for is to swindle the silly rich and candidates in provincial elections who own a media agency via unfair and low-skill (and often even self-appointed) PR managers. Banally, the person is sold what they already have for big money. If their resources appear to be enough for victory, then they win, and if not, then they are consoled by the fact that they took “3rd place out of 12 candidates” and that they are told in strict confidence that both candidates who overtook them fought representing “different towers of the Kremlin”. PR speculators love the “multi-tower” theory – which, by the way, zombies willingly trust – precisely because it gives them the opportunity to attribute to the mythical Kremlin the support of an unlimited number of candidates.
Indeed, an important role in the creation of national political projects is played not by the technology of zombification, but by the more subtle and complicated technology of steering consciousness. They correspond to each other like the first attempt to stand in self-made skates on a frozen pond and the performance of the world champion in figure skating, or, perhaps, like the game of “Chapayev” and the chess game between grand masters.
The ordinary person can easily and quickly study and effectively apply the technology of zombification. There is just a need to have a certain level of impudence and shamelessness. There is nothing complicated in constantly inspiring mentally defective and ignorant hamster-sectarians by harping on about their greatness. It is just that not everyone will go out with brass knuckles to plunder on the main road (this technology also isn’t complicated), and also not everyone will dare to commit mental violence over these little people for the purpose of unjust personal enrichment.
The technology of steering consciousness in its highest manifestations can’t be simply studied. This is like a high-level chess game or like the military operations conceived by great commanders; a mixture of exact science (which can be studied) and high-level art, which demands congenital talent – and being a genius is even better.
Like all things great, at first sight this technology is simple. It is just necessary to rely on absolutely truthful, easy to verify data and events. But the effect of attracting the masses onto the side of one’s idea is achieved due to interpretations. No news comes into circulation in a pure form. Already at the first stage of arriving on the news feed, when the text is at its most informative and neutral, it is possible to add the necessary emotional coloring thanks to the title and clever wording (for example, a spy and a scout are the same thing, but the emotional coloring is different). Upon further discussion, expert opinions join and the collection of additional information by reporters begins. During the entire time that the news is in circulation (from a couple of hours up to several years) it becomes overgrown with interpretations, opinions, explanations, and discussions stated in certain terms and carrying a certain emotional charge. As a result, an information and emotional field is being generated around it that has a direct impact on the psyche of the person perceiving this news. Proceeding from this perception, the person forms an attitude towards characters known to them and events of current affairs.
Further, it is necessary to understand that the modern information space produces thousands of news items every second. Nobody (no government) can filter out what’s necessary and neutralise what’s harmful, simply because the availability for the population of a whole massif of global information is necessary from the point of view of both the successfulness and the simple survivability of the State as an information-political system.
Distributing instructions “from the Kremlin” to an army of experts, commentators, and journalists is senseless and counterproductive. Such a kind of reaction will always be considerably late. I.e., custom-ordered interpretations and comments will be inefficient. They will explain yesterday to a society that already entered tomorrow.
It is also necessary to understand and remember that society consists of individuals and sub-communities, far from being standard. They differ in terms of education level, intelligence, experience, perception of reality, interests, etc. Each unique community and individual needs his or her formulation of the corresponding interpretations. It is clear that it is physically impossible to centrally approve and formulate millions of information decisions per day, and, in the case of global information projects, it can be about tens and hundreds of millions of decisions.
The last and most important thing: it is necessary not just to adhere to the formal validity of the initial fact, but to remain constantly in the stream of public understanding of good and evil and truth and lie. Big communities, being exposed to informational influence, intuitively feel a lie. They are seldom capable of independently formulating their understanding of the truth, but they sense a lie and refuse to support lying politicians.
Thus, effective propaganda, forming society’s ideas of what is good and evil, must lean on the idea of what is good and evil that was created in society earlier. It must not contradict, but develop on these ideas, even if the ultimate goal of reformation is a fully diametrically opposite change of position.
As we see, the realisation of a similar strategy requires a system leaning not on traditional feedforward/feedback in the form of a report on the problem/receiving an instruction/a report on implementation, but on anticipatory impulses.
In this case the authorities responsible for information policy collect not all information (which is impossible to process, even having collected it), but only crucial elements that allow to predict the development of the information field in an anticipatory way. In other words, the authorities collect analysis today of the potential day after tomorrow information, with already ready and outlined directions of work. Moreover, this day after tomorrow information is being created not under an order, but at the initiative of the people who are inclined towards precisely this sphere of political analysis. In the opposite direction an unformed impulse, and not an instruction, is also sent. Speeches, statements, and the actions of several leading politicians and media figures set some kind of trend that the others are guided by not because they were told to do so, but because it is precisely these people who are listened to, read, and watched the most. I.e., they are informationally more capitalised, and the others are guided by them, trying to increase their own capitalisation.
We are dealing with processes that are extremely fined-tuned and impossible to control using traditional bureaucratic command methods. In fact, a self-control mechanism is embedded in society, not allowing it to go beyond the limits of patriotic and statist meanings (including from the point of view of mercantile interests and the regime of self-preservation). But the task of the authorities – both political and informational – is the reasonable use of this trend (Ukraine is an example of what is unreasonable), and also the early tracing and prevention of attempts from abroad to interfere in the national information space for the purpose of reformatting it. Well, and of course – external propaganda, which also reaches its highest efficiency only due to the introduction of their own meanings in the information space of others.
In order to effectively manoeuvre in this information ocean it is necessary to understand and feel the soul of the people who you work with, to literally become a part of them, which became aware of itself and its interests, and which now can inspire them throughout the entire organism.
We see daily the work of the system of fine-tuning the steering of consciousness. Moreover, everyone having their own level, we participate in this work because the system needs the maximum participation of everyone in order to be efficient. But it is impossible to write a textbook or manual on fine-tuning such a system like how it is impossible to write a manual on La Gioconda’s creation. It is possible to publish a textbook on artistic style or artistic skill — there are many of them. It is easily possible to create a textbook on political science or on information policy. A mass of textbooks on strategy, actual at the time of writing, and also on the general basics of strategic skill was created in military academies of all eras and people. But none of these textbooks can teach the feeling of victory that a truly great commander feels, the ability to correctly evaluate the situation and to make only the right decision at only the right moment. Just like how it is impossible to teach the highest forms of art of information work. People are born with it and die with it. It is possible to improve existing skill, but it is impossible to acquire it (if it isn’t given from birth). Like how there are many good football players, but there is only one Pelé.
From the first sentence, this tune popped into my head.
“Somewhere out there is a place that’s cool
Where peace and balance are the rule
Working toward a future like some kind of mystic jewel
And waiting for a miracle”
— “Waiting for a Miracle” by Bruce Cockburn ( a wonderful songwriter worth checking out cause the corporate pro-war media isn’t going to tell you about him …. check out “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” too!)
I feel that important questions for people of our time are “How to Live in a Heavy Propaganda Environment?” and “How to Discuss Issues With Others in a Heavy Propaganda Environment?” Thus, this is a very important and interesting article.
Fascinating that I was just reading a recent Uri Avnery column on a similar topic, “Are YOU Brainwashed?”
(note to mods, the All Caps is in the author’s article title :) )
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1528467876
“DURING THE last few weeks we have been seeing a perfect example of this mechanism. The events on the Gaza Strip border have activated a mechanism of brainwashing that dictatorial regimes in the world can only envy.
Let’s examine ourselves: what have we heard over the radio? What have we seen on TV? What did we read in the papers?
Within a few weeks more than a hundred human beings were shot dead, and many thousands were wounded by live fire. Why?
“We were forced to fire at them because they were storming the border fence”. And indeed, did the Gazans themselves not proclaim their will to “return home” – meaning, to return to Israeli territory?
But on May 14, “Black Monday”, 63 unarmed demonstrators were shot dead and over 1500 wounded by live fire. Every Israeli knows that this was necessary because the demonstrators stormed the fence and were about to swarm into Israel. Nobody paid attention to the simple fact that there was not a single photo showing such an occurrence. Not even one. In spite of the fact that on both sides of the fence there were hundreds of photographers, including Israeli army photographers, who filmed every single detail. Tens of thousands stormed, and not a single picture?
One should notice the use of the word “terror”. It has turned into an adjective attached to everything. There are not just tunnels – they are all always “terror-tunnels”. There are “terror-activists”. There is “the Hamas terror-regime” and there are “terror-bases”. Now there are “terror-kites”.”
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That’s just a bit of it, the article appears well worth a read along with this fine article for which I thank The Saker’s site. :)
yes, And there are many politicians but only one Putin. Very interesting ideas and anyone who starts an essay with that first sentence has my rapt attention.
The “informational space ” of at least the younger generations of the American people is the internet which the deep state gnashes it teeth in frustration to control. “Anticipatory impulses”: there has been much tossing around of the idea of an uncivil “civil war” in the USA, but those dealing it really do not understand that the “anticipatory impulse”of this has the population even more loath to “go there”. There will be no cultural revolution in the USA…not today.
As I explained to a Soros-funded telephone pollster ( before I told him politely to take me off all lists and to never call again) almost 2 years ago in December after Trump had just been elected: “No matter what you do, the American people, we, are not going to fight each other.” Even Alex Jones’s unfortunate buying into this future scenario has been called out by others in the anti- NWO informal coalition.
We lack spiritual-political masters in the USA, but luckily for humanity Russia has at least one. And, besides, the Russian people throw great parties!
Freeing one’s mind from the groupthink soup one lives in from birth is a long and difficult process which is never really completed, but must be constantly renewed and maintained for one’s lifetime. Intelligence, luck, persistence, many helpers, agility in avoiding the oppressors, and many factors need to come together to allow a measure of success in this crucial venture necessary for becoming a real, free, authentic human being. I speak from 87 years of often painful experience – it ain’t been easy!
Well, after reading this rather long article, methinks it can be summed up in but a few words, but you have to understand and take in to account that I have no ‘high education’, ergo for many my humble thoughts are of no consequence. In a nutshell, a somewhat well known quote from BC, Before Computers, and BI, Before Internet:
“You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.”
For those of us who have been on this blog since the fettuccine hit the whirling blades back in late ’13 and through ’14 and ’15, it’s obvious that some informations posted by guests are rather long winded to pontificate what are simple and basic truths. Those of us who are the ‘Old Guard’, and those of us who are not ‘Old Guard’ but lurk and post as they see fit, see right through all the bovine scatology promulgated by MSM on both, or all three or all ten, sides and yes, some guest writers and posters, and they often point out in posts the fallacy of branding any one idea or promulgation as abject truth. There is only one absolute, and that is ‘The only absolute is there are no absolutes’. Now, whoever penned that wonderful and succinct dictum obviously had no experience with tax collectors, but I digress.
Having been behind enemy lines twice, in ’14 and ’15, I can assure you the while in public many in CehSha (США) and E’YS (EC) will pull the ‘Russia is evil, Putin is evil’ bovine scatology in public, in private they invariably ask ‘So, what is it really like in Russia, how is life there.’ I don’t pull any punches, they get the good with the stench of the garbage so to speak, but the main thing is I am 100% honest with what I personally see and understand in this small AO.
I think the author of this article, and I am in no way denigrating his writings or thoughts, is somewhat mistaken in assuming that the vast majority of our erstwhile ‘enemies’ believe what they are being told. Ain’t so, and all he has to do is speak to some them, or a lot of them, to understand the fallacy of this argument.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A Deep Look In To Russia, Her Culture And Her Armed Forces
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
Ishchenko got lost in this one. It is indicative of the “need to publish” for experts (and he has his legitimate and trustworthy expertise).
However, herein, he wandered into a bog. It’s a long piece and convolutes different “masses” being massaged with information warfare. Russia, US, Ukraine audiences, as well as a very long demographic of generations.
The great truth is the most common man, woman or child when questioned is not much of a fool. However, they are powerless unless they play dumb.
Look at the messaging around the World Cup. You would think it was going to be a failure and the experience for millions going to it a disaster. The Media told us so, over and over in so many ways.
Right up to the final seconds of the Croatia-Russia penalty shoot out. And even in loss, Russia won the hearts and minds of the world audience and everyone inside Russia, the stadium, the five cities of the tournament, on TV, radio, Internet and word of mouth.
Propaganda (Highly Likely) has a stench to it. Children can see through it.
Yes, we all suffer from the millions of willingly led zombies. But the world is just so ready for a new vision and fresh message. It’s shaping up naturally. It’s coming from the East.
The West is over. Cadavers (Dead Souls) are its face and voice.
The reaction is not merely Resistance. The reaction is Rejection. Like a transplant the body refuses to accept.
The information presented in this article is first and foremost written for Russian people, especially those who saw today’s Russia in a different format (USSR), and outlines the main societal trends that are now taking shape (with the help of the fifth column). This fact is of paramount importance. For Western/non-Russian people the information can be most effectively applied when it isn’t directly extrapolated to western societies/paradigms/algorithms.
In reality, the battle that “pro-Russia” Westerners profess to be fighting isn’t actually about Russia at all (although they imagine it is, because Russia/Putin is the “guru”/God) – it is exclusively about their own survival in their own environment (inside their own heads). Today the task of the “powers that be” isn’t about ensuring that every single person is committed to a certain ideology or thinks that Russia is bad, for example. The task it to form and maintain a certain shape – a certain equilibrium. And this task is being solved via different layers of complex simulacra, which is both dynamic and self-regulating. Ultimately, all of this describes the future of NGO work. The “Arab Spring”/Maidan technologies are now too dated, and the nuts and bolts of how they work is known to even the most “backward” (according to the West’s barometer) African states.
P.s. A Brit coming to Russia for a few days and saying some nice things about the country actually doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things. You can take the person out of the West, but not the West out of the person. And it is a zero sum game anyway, since the burden of proof for all these charges brought against Russia didn’t lie on the layperson.
The fight against the NGO/Western Ideology in Russia is multifaceted and ongoing. Having watched the sun rise in the silence and peace of Sevastopol this dawn, my wife and I discussing this article and the fight in general over our morning coffee on the balcony, our opinion is we are at a very dangerous phase of the struggle against the fifth column, and even in this arch conservative city, the outward appearance is we are not winning, nor are the fifth columnists winning.
However, the columnists are relentless, and watching the steady inroads of Russian Culture by ‘western’ values, ideas and morals, one can be gripped by a sadness as one sees would was, what could be and what should be, being relentlessly destroyed. It’s the little things, the little nibblings that of the moment matter naught, but in the end every little nibble is a bite against Russian Culture, and enough tiny bites and the Culture will come crashing down. As the saying goes, even an avalanche starts with but one flake of snow.
For the majority of the Russian people, the argument against this destruction of the culture has to be in more simple terms and spread as far and wide as possible. The problem is many of the citizens living in the big metropolitan areas have no clue that with some of their actions, they are creating the seeds of destruction of the very culture they profess to love and support, these seeds being implanted in their children. We see this every day, even in this little village, and the reality is there is nothing we can do about it. Therein is the frustration.
Auslander
Aus and Ollie,
I think that, people in large Metropolitan Cities will always be detached from the reality of Life. The people outside those Cities are more exposed to that reality and therefore think differently. I believe that, one can be from large City but his/hers upbringing determines their thinking.
As for the FIFA or any other occasion, people exposed to the camera lens will try to be more polite than they would be in private, unless they are paid to spread the manure.
I was also discussing something with my wife on Sunday, I can’t remember what started it, but I said “People are exposed to lies constantly and I used an example where in the days of 1917 Revolution, Russian people were told by the Reds that they were freeing them from Tsar’s oppression, while after they came to power they oppressed and murder millions of Russians. This is how it’s done, Lies, Lies and more Lies and it’s really difficult to see thru the mess.
Auslander,
I always respect your contributions. But your summary of the article is incorrect. Your questioning enemy is not a Zombie – a hamster beholden to a super-idea as portrayed by a guru. He is more affected, I suspect, by the effort at steering consciousness in his informational environment. The author did not say everyone believes, but it is the Steering conscious that forms the boundaries on what might occur to someone, what informs their actions and choices. Ukraine was even cited as a shallow, artless pool in this regard. And even if he was at one time a zombie, once a person’s life is on the line, I’d expect them to question everything.
“I think the author of this article, and I am in no way denigrating his writings or thoughts, is somewhat mistaken in assuming that the vast majority of our erstwhile ‘enemies’ believe what they are being told. Ain’t so, and all he has to do is speak to some them, or a lot of them, to understand the fallacy of this argument.”
Bravo, Sir!
I hope Saker’s readers will read your books — they’re great, ‘the real deal’.
Another method of influencing consciousness is to not report on some stories at all. Complete silence on some subjects in the mainstream – the most glaring example – the biggest elephant in the room – and growing bigger by the day: is the situation in South Africa with the slow ethnic cleansing of a particular white minority off from their farms. This has been going on for years, but have reached critical stages – and now with the current regime there planning to change the constitution to confiscate land without compensation – land that has been in the hands of the farmers´families for generations- land either traded for or bought or settled in unoccupied areas, are now being claimed by the the SA government as black land that has to be `given back` – although it was never taken in the first place.
Unlike the Ukraine situation in relation to the ethnic Russians and Russian speakers there at least it got a fair amount of mainstream coverage. Not so in the casce of South Africa – is this not curious? Remember how the controversy of Apartheid and events that unfolded during the ANC´s armed revolution was featured on news non-stop in the 80´s and 90´s? Non-stop. And now? Democracy has failed there. Is this not news? Some political parties in S.A. have called for and to reconciliation – and yet this is of no interest to anyone at all. What should one make of it? Well, one cannot make anything from it if it´s not happening. If it doesn´t exist, because it is not being reported. It´s out of consciousness. Until a similar arrives near you.
First they came for the farmers..
Anon, your comment would have been more appropriate under the post about the plight of farmers in SA who are looking to move to Russia. We cannot move comments so please feel free to carry on your discussion at the other post. Mod
A mind free of craving, aversion and illusion is in its clearest state. A less clear mind cannot “zombify” it because the tactic will be seen through. I have learned this from Gautam Buddha’s insights. It seems that the world is going to have to rely on them now more than even in his time, 2600 years ago :)
The process of domination starts with controlling the people’s mind. No matter where, and by whom, illusion, deception, diversion uses the same tactics and strategies to dominate people and exploit them.
Document 16.2: Excerpts from Deng Xiaoping’s speech “Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite as One in Looking to the Future,” December 13, 1978
http://chinasince1644.cheng-tsui.com/sites/chinasince1644.cheng-tsui.com/files/upload/16-2.pdf
“Today I mainly want to discuss one question, namely, how to emancipate our minds, use our heads, seek truth from facts and unite as one in looking to the future.”
First, it is because during the past dozen years Lin Biao and the Gang of Four set up ideological taboos or “forbidden zones” and preached blind faith to confine people’s minds within the framework of their phony Marxism. No one was allowed to go beyond the limits they prescribed. Anyone who did was tracked down, stigmatized and attacked politically. In this situation, some people found it safer to stop using their heads and thinking questions over.
Second, it is because democratic centralism was undermined and the Party was afflicted with bureaucratism resulting from, among other things, over-concentration of power. This kind of bureaucratism often masquerades as “Party leadership,” “Party directives,” “Party interests” and “Party discipline,” but actually it is designed to control people, hold them in check and oppress them. At that time many important issues were often decided by one or two persons. The others could only do what those few ordered. That being so, there wasn’t much point in thinking things out for yourself.
Third, it is because no clear distinction was made between right and wrong or between merit and demerit, and because rewards and penalties were not meted out as deserved. No distinction was made between those who worked well and those who didn’t. in some cases, even people who worked well were attacked while those who did nothing or just played it safe weathered every storm. Under those unwritten laws, people were naturally reluctant to use their brains.
Fourth, it is because people are still subject to the force of habit, the small producer, who stick to old conventions, is content with the status quo and is unwilling to seek progress or accept anything new.
When people’s minds aren’t yet emancipated and their thinking remains rigid, curious phenomena emerge….
People whose thinking has become rigid tend to veer with the wind. They are not guided by Party spirit and Party principles, but go along with whatever has the backing of the authorities and adjust their words and actions according to whichever way the wind is blowing. They think that they will thus avoid mistakes. In fact, however, veering with the wind is in itself a grave mistake, a contravention of the Party spirit which all Communists should cherish. It is true that people who think independently and dare to speak out and act can’t avoid making mistakes, but their mistakes are out in the open and are therefore more easily rectified.
Once people’s thinking becomes rigid, book worship, divorced from reality, becomes a grave malady. Those who suffer from it dare not say a word or take a step that isn’t mentioned in books, documents or the speeches of leaders: everything has to be copied. Thus responsibility to the higher authorities is set in opposition to responsibility to the people.
Without discussing the text of the Ishchenko’s message i will say only one thing: The Title represents a Valid Truth, because this is how it works. Suggesting that this is somewhat modern thing is nonsense.
I will give one small example and I will say that not many people actually know this small fact from the war between the Greeks and Persians. I am talking about the second war. While discussing the strategy, Leonidas (King of Sparta) and Themistocles (Navarchos (Admiral) of the Greek Fleet) decided that in the open sea near the Thermopylae Greek fleet outnumbered by the Persian fleet 6:1 stood no chance therefore Themistocles was to withdraw the fleet south to a more suitable place. While withdrawing, Themistocles knowing that Persian fleet consisted of many Greek ships from the Greek Cities in the middle East, asked his men to paint messages on the exposed rocky surfaces reminding them who they are and who should they support. This is a first recorded Propaganda. Propaganda or Brainwashing if you will, was constantly with us throughout the existence of Homo Sapience Species.
So, in order to judge someone’s article one has to know writer’s political or other allegiances. Knowing all that we can make the corrections for any possible hidden agenda’s, etc, etc.
In the self-proclaimed Land of the Free, one of the primary methods of zombification is through American patriotism and the celebration of its rituals, as exemplified by the July Fourth celebration.
Indeed, as Paul Craig Roberts states, the July 4th holiday is actually Matrix Reinforcement Day–or better yet, American Empire celebration day.
July 4 Is Matrix Reinforcement Day
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/03/tomorrow-is-matrix-reinforcement-day/
We are talking about zombies in the matrix. This is a zombie observation. The truth is that’ there are no Human- Beings on the earth plane[maybe 10]. We have devolved from Godlike beings into monkeys in someones cage. Have any of you read the Ringing cedars of Russia series. Hu-man[Godlike]. never met one until the Siberian recluse Anastasia revealed herself to Siberian businessman Vladimere megre.. This is the real reason why Russia is under attack. Someone has created a more powerful image than the sorcerers who run this earth as a concentration camp. Anastasia has no material possesssions, and lives in a bears winter den. But communes with the Creator in real time. Something us zombies cannot do.
The Canadian media analyst Marshall McLuhan, author of The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, among other books which examine the new visual medium of knowledge based information argues that human consciousness, itself, is being inexorably altered under the glaring influence of the video image and how the old printed medias’ predominance over the portrayal of our reality shall eventually be made mute. “It is written”, is becoming an anachronism.
“It is written” used to create a powerful matrix of its own — totally insensible to those who spoke in that way. Or else why would a millennia old text be considered “holy”? What does “holy” mean when applied to a piece of writing?
We are just moving from one matrix to another. But the truth lies within — the priceless key to seeing through :)