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Frightened and Demoralized - by Design?

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Frightened and Demoralized "" by Design?

 

Ibrahim Turner

 

If you take the temperature of the public who are fed up with war crimes, lies and threats of terrorist attacks, the threats of world war three, and the rising food and oil prices, and wonder what the hell is going on, you could be forgiven if you think that these forces manipulating the world populations are invincible and that you can't do anything about it, short of revolution.

Now many say that 9-11 was an inside job and that the London 7/7 tube train bombings had so many similarities, like simultaneous "security exercises" going on, just like on 9/11, that it too was a false flag operation. Be that as it may, the "climate" of constant "terrorist alarms" some real, some obviously fabricated with arrests, which eventually lead to the suspects being released, or charged with small "unrelated to terrorism" charges. This "climate of fear" is being constantly raised and the MSM is full of threatening opeds about war with Iran, questions about medical drugs being unsafe, GM foods being foisted everywhere as a "solution" to the food crisis, WWIII, police state legislation, arrests of protesters, all this produces in many people is a sense of impending doom.

Is this by design? Are the manipulators of public opinion doing all this with something specific in mind? If that is the case, what is the result they want?

 

I'll tell you what the public opinion manipulators don't want. They don't want educated, healthy, confident people thinking for themselves. You can find all sorts of apparently kooky ideas on the Internet, from poisoning the populations with Aspartame sweetener, fluoride in the water impairing intelligence, chem trails seeding the air with heavy metals, to excessive vaccinations of young babies (with a view to what?), weather and earthquake manipulation, rising temperatures and melting icecaps blamed on man-made global warming. Wherever you look, there is something to be worried about besides the high cost of gas. Why is that?

Are all these things to worry about real, or some of them? And what effect does that have on you? Are you thoroughly demoralized and depressed enough yet?

Playing on your insecurity deep down inside is easy for these people. Just talk about "security" as if it can be given to you by the "authorities" enough and you will clamour for more security. And they will give it to you. The FISA spying bill will track the terrorists and you will be able to sleep easy, right? If you still don't feel safe, then efficient Blackwater types, helped along by the tazer-wielding police, will round up the dissidents into already built and staffed camps. Why do you think that Bin Laden, who died in 2001/2, reported by some credible sources, has not been published in the MSM? Because he is the boogey man who is of use to manipulate the fearful into more hiding in the cupboard denial.

The people who are the driving force behind all this fearfulness know exactly what they are doing. Everyone who has observed and read widely about psychology knows that most people are afraid inside; yes even the strong blusterers, perhaps even more than the apparent quiet cowards. In one philosophical system it is manifested under the name of "inner considering." You want to say something but you are afraid of what people will think of you, so you do not say it, or you modify what you say, to put yourself in a better light. In the process, you keep your ego intact, safe and not open to criticism. That is the fear we all have deep down inside, acknowledged or not.

Of course there is the opposite idea called "outer considering" where you make the effort to put yourself in others' shoes. Do you think that from that position you would say the same things? Of course not. You would say what you have to say, with a view of taking into account the others' fears, and with an agenda to effect change in the situation in a positive way. But sadly most people operate from the inner-considering stance. They want to impress, they want to show how clever, intelligent or strong they are, and if confronted are usually outraged or claim they are misunderstood.

So given this psychological climate in the general population, you can see that it is very easy to frighten people, and if you pile on the bad news, you demoralize them all into the "it is too big for anyone to do anything about it" mind set. This is where we are, in spite of the many attempts for calls to do something, rallying calls to march, strike, protest, boycott, impeach, stop buying things and so on. And what is the usual result of these calls to do something? A few petitions garnering a few thousand signatures, or a few hundred protesters, with no apparent breakthrough to reach the millions of sleeping people, who wallow in the dog and pony show of the primaries and the run up to the elections. There is never anything substantial discussed by the presidential candidates, nor are any awkward questions allowed. It really is a circus of the absurd, pandering to the mistaken idea that voting gives the millions power.

I have written this because it has been on my mind for some time, but I do not have any solutions, none. Calls for the populations to wake up and smell the coffee fall on deaf ears, drowned out by the MSM trivia. They are too powerful, too wealthy, too entrenched to dislodge without a major awakening of the population, which seems to be off the agenda, at least for now in the runup to the circus show in November.

There is one person I have come across lately that has been saying things for twenty years, making predictions of what was going down, which have now been proved right. At the time of his beginning on a major TV show, he was ridiculed and ostracized, and suffered terribly along with this wife and children. He could not even walk down the street without being laughed and sniggered at, including his children at school. The benefit of all that, he says, is that he never worries about what people think any more. He is immune.

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A well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (more...)
 
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