"What
luck for
rulers that men do not think"
- Adolf Hitler
So, with all the
"stuff" out there in terms of what we are being told every day, how do
we keep ourselves from becoming duped and "doped"? Can we achieve
immunity from the vast epidemic of mindlessness that sweeps each year
like clockwork through our society?
What do I know, and how do I know it? From what source am I getting my
information? How do I recognize a "snowjob"?
If an idea is presented to you as THE explanation for some event or THE
solution to some problem, you must say to yourself, "what other
solutions are available?"
Try playing with
other explanations that will lead to other solutions, such as reversing
cause-effect relationships.
SWEEPING GENERALITIES or "ALLNESS" STATEMENTS: When you hear or read
statements such as "doctors say" or "experts agree", the implication is
that all doctors say, or all experts agree. Say to yourself, "have you
talked to every doctor on the planet or every expert on the planet?"
Likewise, when you hear the expression "nobody knows" or "no known
cure" or "no evidence for", talk back to them and say to yourself,
"Nobody you know knows", or "There is no cure you know of", or "There
is no evidence you know about." Try substituting SOMENESS in place of
ALLNESS - "Some doctors agree", or "Some scientists say", and you'll
get the true picture.
Be ALERT for words
like: all, everybody, no one, no, never, always, entirely, totally,
completely and absolutely.
Example of an ALLNESS statement: The Salk vaccine was hailed as the
"most dramatic breakthrough of the 20th century". Here, the unqualified
superlatives assume that whoever said this was familiar with all the
scientists who ever lived and all the breakthroughs of the 20th
century. The statement also assumes that "a purely objective standard
of superiority exists", which it doesn't. When superlatives are used,
they should always be qualified, such as "the greatest breakthrough
I've ever known". ALLNESS statements expressed by those who have set
themselves as society's "experts" (with your unwitting support) use
ALLNESS statements to "box you in". Of course, they have to stay in
that same box if they want to keep their "job" as a social
"expert".
Ad Verecundiam:
This
rather trite Latin phrase refers to the fallacy of logic of believing
"leading authorities" without any supporting science. Externally, we
are speaking of the "mystique" of perceived "authority". The
maintenance of the "authority mystique" depends heavily on:
Limiting access to
information
Limiting access to choices that challenge the position of the
"authority"
In other words, ISOLATION of the population. ISOLATION is also a
component of brainwashing. Because the intellect learns by COMPARISON,
when it is presented with only ONE POINT OF VIEW or CONFLICTING
DUALITIES as presented in the orthodox media (resulting in chronic
indecision), the intellect loses the capacity to discriminate and
ultimately ITS CAPACITY FOR FULLY RATIONAL THOUGHT.
We must not forget
that there are many orders, degrees, levels, and kinds of realities
that correspond to as many kinds of minds that perceive and create
those realities. When this fact is forgotten, TUNNEL VISION
develops.
Groups in "power"
mode
pretend "absolute objectivity", which of course is impossible, and
because they are emotionally and "promotionally" involved, develop
TUNNEL VISION. When a group in power has a vested interest in sickness
and disease, the approaches to the problem (which in many cases has
been deliberately created) will be expensive, circuitous and complex .
(AIDS,CANCER, GULF WAR SYNDROME, WAR ON DRUGS, GUN CONTROL)
ONE CATEGORY: One
of
the results of the Elite - Non-elite polarity in society, as well as
the growth of global socialism, is the lumping together of everyone in
the population and the adoption of "mass treatment" programs that
ignore individual sensitivities and characteristics which socially and
biologically makes every "human being" unique. Thus, we see "mass
vaccination", "mass fluoridation", "mass genocide" and other forms of
this that manifest themselves as HERD PROCESSING. This type of thought
and action carries a tendency to over-simplify solutions, exaggerate
benefits, minimize or ignore hazards, discourage or silence the
scholarly or thoughtful opposition, create an urgency where none really
exists, create mass fear and extend the concept of state police powers
far beyond its conceptual limitations.
REASONING BY
ANALOGY:
Because of the uniqueness of people and events, very often the shared
characteristics between events or situations are fewer than the
differences between them. When a person decides to make a point by
comparing the small number of shared characteristics, it is called
"reasoning by analogy". The problem with this kind of reasoning is that
often crucial differences are ignored, leading to faulty analogies and
post hoc reasoning in order to support an argument. Example: Epidemics
occurred many years ago and were apparently corrected by vaccines,
therefore these epidemics will reoccur if no vaccines are used. This is
post hoc reasoning assuming a casual relationship between two
events.
POLARITIES: To
most
people, the world is divided into two camps, right/wrong, black/white.
There is no alternative. It is also called either/or or two-valued
thinking. Two-valued thinking can be very useful for the propagandist
because it creates FALSE DILEMMAS. An example of this is when an
allopathic physician declares to parents concerned about the inherent
danger in vaccines that "the risks of the disease outweigh the risks of
the vaccine". In other words, he is saying "there is only ONE WAY to
prevent the disease - vaccine use", and there are no alternatives.
CARD STACKING:
Card
stacking is an extension of the two-valued thinking just mentioned. It
is the "art" of carefully selecting and presenting ideas and data (that
may be true or false) so that only the best or worst possible case is
presented. Any other possibilities are either ignored or discredited.
The object of all this is to get the public to REACT STRONGLY, "FOR" or
"AGAINST" an idea, issue, person, or object.
An example of this
technique would be a pediatrician who explains to a television audience
how "vaccines wiped out" dread diseases, without giving credit to
improved sanitation, personal hygiene, improved diet, or the supreme
capabilities of the immune system. The technique is very often
accompanied, in terms of "studies", by publication of incomplete data,
promotion of far-reaching claims and refusal to publish collateral data
which questions the safety or efficacy of what is being promoted.
Card stacking can
also
be concealed by misleading use of words and "discussions" where only
the proponents of a particular group are present.
LOADED IMAGES: The
goal of the propagandist is to "stack the deck" with emotionally
charged meanings or connotations. An example would be reference to a
disease as a "hidden menace" or a "killer and crippler" and that "a
vaccine is the only solution." Interestingly, in terms of vaccines for
relatively benign, self-limiting diseases of childhood, these diseases
have because of vaccines been transformed into more serious conditions
in adolescents and young adults. See our master analysis of the vaccine
paradigm or books on the subject for details.
LOADED WORDS:
Loaded
words can be used to get attention, arose fear and induce the
population to obey "authorities". Newspapers are a good source
illustrating this. With reference to disease and the allopathic
paradigm, words like "dread", "deadly" and "risk" appear frequently in
order to intimidate the reader. In order to suppress movement toward
alternatives, words like "quack" are ironically directed toward
"unapproved" solutions. The irony is that the word "quack", associated
with incompetence and deception, belongs with orthodox allopathy, not
as a blanket ALLNESS directed toward non-polaric alternatives and
proponents of them. But, this is the way orthodoxy attempts, and
succeeds, at intimidating the public.
THE BANDWAGON
APPROACH: Everywhere you will find editorials in newspapers which argue
for passage of a particular law or proposal by pointing out something
like "16 states now have this law" or "35 states now use fluoridation",
or "65,000 children received this vaccine last year in Ohio",
suggesting that "everybody is doing it" so it "must be right". The
bandwagon approach to propaganda. The idea that something is "right" or
"good" if enough people are doing it is one of the most seductive of
mental traps, because within it lies the human need to belong to a
group. The problem with "bandwagons" is that they can easily promote
mindless conformism and unconsciousness. Because bandwagons are
action-oriented rather than critical-inquiry oriented,
unconsciousness is often a consequence. The "solutions" often demanded
by bandwagon approaches are nearly always quantitative in terms of
"status quo" solutions. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the
vaccination and AIDS bandwagons. With vaccines, it is "more education"
and "more legislation" to get more people injected. With AIDS, it is
"more money" for "more research" into "more drugs" and "more vaccines".
Bandwagons, therefore, can easily become part of the problem
itself.
