Guest Post by Margaret Anna Alice
The noose is dangling gently around our necks. Every day, they cinch it tighter. By the time we realize it’s strangling us, it will be too late.
Those who – gradually and gleefully – sacrifice their freedoms, their autonomy, their individuality, their livelihoods, and their relationships on the altar of the “common good” have forgotten this is the pattern followed by every totalitarian regime in history.
Everyone wonders how ordinary Germans could have been manipulated to participate or stand dumbstruck while their government was transformed into a genocidal juggernaut. This is how. Read Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler memoir to see how this can happen anywhere—including here.
Everyone wonders how Russians could have permitted and even zealously reported fellow citizens for imprisonment and execution under Article 58, the penal code invented to incarcerate anyone who dared express the slightest whisper of noncompliance under Stalin’s homicidal state. This is how. Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s meticulously documented The Gulag Archipelago to witness this progression of authoritarian lunacy.
Everyone wonders how Hutus could have suddenly started axing their Tutsi neighbors to death after being inundated with waves of anti-Tutsi propaganda from Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines. Read Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
The list goes on. And on. And on. From Machiavelli’s The Prince to Étienne de la Boetie’s The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude to Edward Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent (and accompanying documentary) to BBC’s The Century of the Self, mechanisms of mass control have been chronicled for millennia.
George Orwell wrote,
As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings of opinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be turned on and off like a tap, are the result of newspaper and radio hypnosis.”
Can you imagine what master propagandist Edward Bernays would have done with access to today’s mainstream media conglomerate combined with the global surveillance infrastructure of Big Tech? And you really think that’s not happening now—with another century of psychological, neurological, and technological research under their belts?
The present ability to curate reality and coerce obedience is unprecedented, far beyond what Orwell envisioned in 1984, Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, Huxley in Brave New World, and Burgess in A Clockwork Orange.
A textbook example of Problem Reaction Solution, the current tsunami of worldwide hysteria is the latest and potentially most threatening example of mass control in history.
The recipe is simple. Take a naturally occurring phenomenon, say a seasonal virus, and exaggerate its threat far beyond every imagining—despite exhaustive evidence to the contrary. Suppress, silence, ostracize, and demonize every individual who dares present facts that expose the false mono-narrative.
Whip up a witches’ brew of anger, envy, and, most importantly, fear, escalating emotions to a boil so as to short-circuit our faculties of reason and logic.
Isolate us from one another, supplant real-world interactions with virtual feuds, label nonconformists as a threat to the group, and pump the public with a disinformation campaign designed to confuse and atomize. In essence, foster a cultlike mentality that shuts down thought to guarantee assent.
Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.
This ideological mass psychosis is religion—not science. If this were about science, the Media–Pharmaceutical–Big-Tech complex would not be memory-holing every dissenting voice, vilifying every thought criminal, and censoring every legitimate inquiry in quest of the truth.
Mark Twain said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
He also said:
>“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
The next time you’re watching the news, reading a social media post, listening to a friend repeat a scripted talking point, pay attention. Learn to identify the earmarks of propaganda, the clickbait used to trigger your emotions, the mechanisms employed to engineer your cognitive biases.
Don’t let your pride prevent you from seeing—and admitting—the Emperor is naked. We are losing our last sliver of opportunity to resist authoritarianism.
This is not a partisan issue. Those who wish to control us have made it such because disunited lemmings are easier to steer than independent, critical thinkers.
This is a human issue. This is about crushing the middle class—the backbone of a democratic republic—and transferring trillions from the middle and lower classes to the ruling plutocracy. This is about demolishing the foundations of a free society and building it back—not better, but better-controlled.
I will close by recommending a series of illuminating videos on menticide (“the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s values and beliefs … to induce radically different ideas”) throughout history by Academy of Ideas. This analysis of mass psychosis is nonpartisan and of value to every thinking human being.
- Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?
- The Mass Psychosis and the Demons of Dostoevsky
- The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?
Dare to question. Dare to disbelieve. Dare to defy ideology in favor of science while you still can.
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NOTE – This originated as a response to a Nextdoor.com post titled, “So many people think these Covid rules are for our safety but it’s really about control.” By the time I finished writing it, the post had vanished.
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In the past I read a few books on group psychology. They were extremely interesting but, I realize now, I viewed them as purely theoretical even though real life examples were always given.
It’s so shocking in real life.
Yep – real life is risky Guest. I learned much during my counselling training and try to help others by listening and discussing feelings – this is not done much these days I find.
Worth a read IMHO:
Great book. Too widely UNread. The one subject my Godmother pointed out was sadly lacking in religious literature by mid-century was: discernment of spirits. The few I’ve found recently published don’t have the same scholarship and authority as the ones which were allowed to go out of print about a hundred years ago.
From your name and what you say you are NOT a crazy Hungarian – (in fact quite smart).
Yo reggelt kivanok
The Academy of Ideas is one of the best short video series available to understand the underlying trends in socio-psychology. Absolutely worth putting on your must watch list.
The author is correct in all the details, but one salient premise permeates the entire article and conclusion; we can resist or out-maneuver or ‘stand united’ against the evil bastards and , though the task will be difficult, all will be salvaged. Time is short but we can do this. Words to that effect, anyway.
Ain’t gonna happen, it’s never going back to what it was. I agree with being as truly aware of reality as possible, but not as a mechanism to restore or correct the system. The system itself is collapsing and all possible ways to fix it along with it. It’s going to get real personal before it’s all over.
No, we need to know as accurately as possible what is happening so that we know how to respond as effectively as possible. In my opinion, this is going to become a struggle for survival and I’m pretty sure most who actually ponder it a bit with a sober mind will agree. As gets stated here every so often – It sucks. Embrace the suck.
Thoughts on the brouhaha over the UFO sightings by the Navy?
If they promote something it should be assumed it is to our detriment.
And while I think that the rollout of a we are being invaded by aliens narrative is retarded as hell, after the past year and a half I am certain the majority of Americans will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
He knew about it way in advance-
Nick thinks it is not holograms but some sort of projected imagery. Perhaps along the lines of the Philadephia Experiment.
I posted a comment longago about buying a documentary of the Philadephia Experiment (homemade) where a bunch of supposed former timetravelling CIA agents told their stories about going backward and forward in time and the limitations of travelling in the “tunnels” is what they called them.
They talked about only being able to see things and not actually interact or carry things back and forth. The whole setup was so “Merv Griffin” with a panel of timetravellers interviewed by a panel of other experts no one had ever heard about.
So, we watched one or two of the DVDs and threw the whole set away as a dollar poorly spent at wherever I bought it for a dollar.
I don’t believe it now any more than I did then, but the potential for another mass delusion is great.
My husband recently ordered this for my Mother’s Day gift. LOL. Only the original will do.
some of it is real. some of it is hologram — nothing more. BUT, it isn’t other-worldly.
it is a higher tech than most want to accept as real.
holograms can now be not only seen but heard felt and viewed on radar as a solid object.
if people would only read the patents and scientific journals, etc you might actually learn something.
Well, War of the Worlds 1, on the radio, worked well enough, so a sequel…
There’s the beginning!
Chuck Missler spoke about this at length from a biblical perspective many years ago. it’s long, but here’s the link if anyone’s interested. I’ve posted it before.
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Who knows – he leans on the sensational – and like O’Reilly – lost in his own spin?
They are demonic, not ET’s.
Yep!
Demons are not extra-terrestrial? Where are they kept? Heaven and hell are right here on Earth?
They are interdimentionals.
At least that’s the closest explanation. Take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum and how teeny tiny the range of visible light is. They are already here, we just can’t see them. Yet.
So if they are from another dimension would they not, by definition, be extra-terrestrial? “Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond (extra-) the planet Earth (terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin words extra (“outside”, “outwards”) and terrestris (“earthly”, “of or relating to the Earth”).”
Just for fun…..
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/ufo-space-aliens-new-age-deception-to-explain-disappearance-of-millions-in-pretribulation-rapture-church/
That was excellent Rev6…
The demonic blitzkrieg of the enemy’s deception is just getting started.
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NTEB is problematic in that the writers believe we are living in the times of the signs when in reality, the signs from God ended 2,000 years ago and the Israel of today is not of God. This is why Paul instructs is to walk by faith, NOT by sight. There is one coming who will fool the majority with his signs and wonders. He’ll come via Israel. Those who believe that we live in the times of the signs will be fooled and they are legion.
Interesting thought nonetheless that the rapture might be explained away by those very signs. Perhaps a separation of wheat and chaff; but inverted. Like everything else.
Yep – with you all the way TS – it is going to get every personal and then the survivors will need their community of fellow travellers. We have that in spades here in deepest rural England.
And I here deep in the seclusion of the Eastern Oregon High Desert. We have our 100+ mile moat around us.
Great TS win can join forces when the great Tribulation is over!
I have a 2000 mile moat around me. I got when the getting was good.
No maple syrup but I have mangoes and bananas, and lemons and oranges and beans and guanabanas and sapote and mamey and nispero and chickens and no tax man.
Oh yeah and 50 Jerseys and corn and sorghum and 8 pigs and and and.
I told you guys in 2010.
But NOOO,.. chicken little here.
Ammo is expensive though. $1/ a bullet for 12 gauge and .38.
$2 for .357 and .45.
Expensive to shoot your neighbours more than once-hence the pigs.
The government is going to drone you with hell fire missles.
I’d study up on the Taliban or the Vietnamese.
We have an underground bunker here in Bruton, just below me – a remnant of the cold war. WE will be safe – no worries!
Ginger – By the time any move like that happens here, the game is so over it won’t have any relevance anyway. By any measure I’ll either be raptured out or dead by then. There is NO strategic value anywhere near here, no matter what their agenda. So, by the time they get to us everything else is gone anyway.
Who really knows what will happen and the timeline, I’m just using past actions by the very government the taxpayer pays for. And those past actions were often attempts of eradication.
You do not have to look far back in history, just look at Syria.
I saw this pbs news report of all places that had this woman reporter going to report on something in Afghanistan, and she and her news crew were walking down this country road Off to the side there were these two really young, armed Taliban actually guarding them, but they slunk along in the trees and brush never really exposing themselves.
Bunkers and isolation are fine, but death will be lurking.
Personally do not believe there will be this great connection of community.
Unless it is an organized military type group.
Anyway, here is the free pdf for those interested.
https://www.pdfread.net/ebook/the-gift-of-fear-gavin-de-becker/
I read it every couple of years. Read it cover to cover today in one sitting.
GDB mentioned that extortionists should not be paid. I admit to being a little more than stunned with the pipeline incident. Gov punting treatment to the owner of the pipeline. Owner paying the ransom. The asshole who calls himself President responding “no comment” when asked if he knew. What a liar. So fucked up.
Did the establishment orchestrate this to foster their agenda or did we just give in to terrorism?
Notice how the blame went to people “hoarding gas”.
“It was your fault” says the government, ” You sorry captalist need to be driving electric cars to work”.
Guess the fbi, nsa, and cia are too busy looking for a hate crime on some poor black crossdresser somewhere.
They can’t even seem to find the thieves scamming old folks over the telephone about their social security, which if I remember correctly is a Government Agency of all things.
Right, first the government tried to deny the gas shortage in the first place. When they couldn’t, then they slung blame. At least we know after a four day investigation that, “Russia didn’t do it”. Alright then.
Time’s that flat disc. Eeternal recurrence. All that. Never’s along time. And doesn’t really Venn the mortal diagram.
Time may not be the only flat disc.
Just sayin.
I am super sceptical about that “other”flat disc being flat instead of round just because of all the apparent evidence against flat (airplanes, great-circle navigation, the way the horizon works at sea when you spot sails or masts or whatever long before the actual approaching vessel is visible, the way the moon, sun and stars appear to operate, the cycle of tides and seasons and years, etc), but I REALLY appreciate the way TBP’ers such as yourself bring the meat of inquiry to the table. Same thing with chemtrails. I’m still super sceptical but my mind is opening to the possibility thanks to an earlier debate with TS.
Not trying to hijack this thread, I’m just saying thanks. There are GREAT minds in this community, and there are a lot of lurkers and mostly lurkers (like me) who come here for the articles and stay to read these comments.
Given all the flat discs that were spun into my receptive ears from birth onwards – even as the orbs-of-my-eyes registered into my brain contradictory, even diametrically opposite, actions vis a vis the soundtrack – I agree skepticism is the way to bet. Hedge the crop.
A meteor impact is one category of black swan event. But those are apparently too rare to be relied upon. So false black swan flags hoisting it is.
I was going to remind folks it is a new quarter and TBP doesn’t depend on the Googleplex for server support. Which is why this excellent Primer can be posted here to all of our benefit.
At least someone, Margaret Anna Alice, can see the forest for the trees:
CoVid-19(84) – THE GREATEST PSYOP IN KNOWN HUMAN HISTORY!
You and I, freethinker, will need to resist The Evil Fucker demonic NWO/Beast System with EVERYTHING we’ve got.
But get right with God first.
Rational fear is normal and can save your life/physical existence. Irrational fear will make you do stupid things you will regret afterwards.
There is a difference……
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker is a must-read on that topic. I suggested it to the OYA (Oregon Youth Authority) Training Academy clear back in 2001, and it became one of their teaching aids afterwards.
Outstanding book.
Great book. Gave each of my nieces a copy when they were preteen. Told them to pay special attention to the story of the woman that was bound in her bedroom and saw the perp close the blinds and turn up the volume on the television. “Always go with your gut feeling” is for real.
One of my must reads every couple of years. I wonder what would have happened to Kelly if her neighbor’s door would have been locked. Fear served her well, but other forces were at work. Don’t know what they are.
Yep…I had my wife and daughter read it many years ago and then sent them to a womans self defense course.
Left of Bang is the Gift of Fear on steroids
After a quick look-see, I believe I’ll have to get a copy for the military section of my library. I am amazed that I’ve never seen this before. Be a good next-level companion piece to Infantry Combat – The Rifle Platoon by John F. Antal.
TS
Here is another one just in case:
Hannah Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism
2 Things about cults.
T he first is they put you in a room with no windows and open all doors for you if you want to go to the bathroom.
Secondly, they try to occupy all your time. They don’t want you to have any time to yourself.
Stress elicit s weirdness in all people. Subjects them to worshipping Totem Poles.
I want to give proper attribution so please correct me if I’m wrong; I think it was Voltaire that said “those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”.
You are correct.
And from a little different angle, and a different one of their strategies, Thomas Pynchon:
And that is why it is so important to never take the first step along a false narrative.
False premises’ll escort ya’ right of the premises, every time…”except” when the busted clock lines up.
Welp, I must say that this last 15 months was an IQ test for the civilized world and looks like the results are, to say the least, underwhelming. I was hoping for 4 more years to prepare to retire before the worm turned again as it has done throughout my life with government induced shortages or bubbles. Great economy that was purposely turned to shit.
People need to wake up to the fact that liberals/socialists are your enemies and not rivals. Shun these people as much as possible and do not ever view them in any other light except as predators. That goes for their mindless useful idiots as well.
TWO articles on the selling of the vaccines. Desperation seems to be setting in, as there are short adverts popping up on U TUBE showing families playing with their children, saying, “Get back to what you love”,
get the vaccine.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/05/15/planet-lockdown.aspx?ui
I was on NextDoor for a little while, but I got off. I jokingly call it “NaziNextDoor”.
Yes there is something going on but I don’t believe it is what you think. There are energies manipulating humans for their own purposes. Some call it Terriforming of both the earth and humanity. Some would call those energies Satan, God or even Aliens, but for this to affect this many people all at the same time tells me that those energies do not have our best interest at heart and it is time to force our Government to come clean in what it knows, aside of what the Pentagon is supposed to be revealing in the next month or so.
Insanity this compromising of our rational though, is the reason most won’t ever bother to look for the real reasons, as we fight each other for control, as in a Civil War coup to take out a fake president and reinstall Trump as our rightful president, verses allowing the DemonRats to continue to destroy our country by a thousand cuts.
it is time to force our Government to come clean in what it knows
Nice idea but dream on. Just how do you propose to accomplish that?
Once again, I am being encouraged to “Watch this video!”. Sorry, I don’t do videos. You want to impart some particular information, write it out. I’m not wasting my time with your stupid movies.
Most aliens I know look like Mexicans.
Do you think these look more like flashing triangles instead of flying pyramids?
Just wondering…
“This is a human issue.” Think bigger. This is a demonic issue. They want us ALL dead, and as many souls lost as possible. Their final slap in God’s face. The ONLY human part of it, aside from being the ‘victims’, is our blind, ignorant, willful choice in cooperating with it. We were given the Way, we just have to choose Him.
As to your disappearing post, it’s happening to a lot of us – in real time. That’s why I copy to a local file before hitting ‘post’. Change a few words, as sometimes that works. The (so far, pretty dumb) AI is getting faster and more comprehensive. Try ‘describing’ links, since YT, etc. won’t allow most of them anymore.
Great column. Thank you. I intend to follow every link.
WHY does this happen. You trusteth too much in GODvernment. Trust the real God instead and ignore the hating psychopaths of humanity who are narcissist deprived.
When you see a Fake thing called “Covid” that somehow turns up in Every Business Commercial, Every News Story, Every Government Propaganda Story, All Schools, All Churches, Temples, Mosques, Different modes of Transportation, All Sports, Every Grocery Store, Drug Store, Gyms, Parks, Beaches, Forests, etc – You Know it is 100% Bullshit. There has Never been Anyone, Anything, Anywhere at Anytime in the History of Humankind that has Dominated ALL Things at ALL times including people’s Belief or Disbelief in the Almighty. Yet even if you Know this & try to Ignore or NOT Read, Listen to or Watch ANY MSM it still creeps into Everything to the point that if You Fart Too Much it’s Covid or if You drive Erratically it’s Covid or You have a Headache it’s Covid or an Upset Stomach – Covid – if You think you are suddenly Transgender – definitely Covid. The Only thing these days that is Not because of Covid is “White Supremacy” the Now Only Disease More Deadly than “Covid”. Bullshit on top of Bullshit or Bullshit + Bullshit = More Bullshit! Welcome to the “New Normal” brought to you by The Disunited States of Unamericunts, Commies, Antifa, Nazis & BLM & don’t Forget their Corporate Partners who Will Tell You How to Think & Behave or else – Or Else What = we The People Won’t Buy Your Worthless Products & Services? Yeah Satanic Bitches That’s Already happening So Please just Go FUCK Yourselves!
Nice rant and gets my support….
The government is beginning to piss more and more people off. And I don’t mean just the Federal government. The local government acting stupid in the last 18 months has revealed their incompetence to handle the existing and coming problems that we all have to face.
Contemplate on this.
County, State, and especially Federal…I despise all three…both parties.