by Jon Rappoport
July 23, 2014
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It was a time of great celebration.
The President was about to appoint a new Pope of NSA-Google-Facebook. Aside from 12 Western states, where gangs ruled the population, America was united as never before.
What many writers were calling The Greater System had taken hold in consciousness. People were aware they were living inside a bubble of super-surveillance, and they loved it.
Therefore, the appointment of a new Pope was a momentous event.
The man of the hour, the saint-in-waiting, was Jonas Hoover, formerly a professor at MIT. Famously, at the age of nine, Hoover had written this Facebook post:
“Below, you’ll see a complete inventory of every product I own, with footnotes on method of purchase in each case. My parents’ voting record for the past twelve years is also included, along with their job history, college transcripts, tax returns—and a link to audio recordings of 2000 phone conversations I’ve had over the past two years. See the link to our family’s complete medical records. My diary entries are included. As you’ll discover, I’ve profiled myself 236 times, each time attempting to identify more relevant markers that predict my behavior in a variety of situations. Feel free to contact me for more information, if you are a profiling agency. I’m seeking employment in the surveillance field…”
As a high school senior, at the age of 15, Hoover had published an essay in Metadata, the NSA-Google journal. Academics across America had praised it, particularly this trenchant passage:
“The Constitution was a noble attempt to explicitly limit systems by eroding the power of centralized authority. That document was mainly about enforcing less structure.
“However, the hunger to develop structure is what humans possess in abundance. They impose structure and live off it, like junk food. And why shouldn’t they?
“The overall template of the Surveillance State used to be grounded in the premise that everyone is a potential threat and danger to the herd. Therefore, spy on everybody.
“Now, however, we are well past that point. We recognize that living inside the space of universal surveillance, as a voluntary act, is its own reward, its own joy. No reasons necessary.
“A whole life can be lived by detailing that life and publishing it for all to see—hundreds of thousands of pages, hundreds of thousands of hours of video. A grand confession, if you will, but without guilt, without remorse.
“We’re talking about a bubble, inside which the narratives of our lives are floated and used to sell a product. Who buys? Who doesn’t? Well, each one of us is a product, and we offer ourselves to the world. No need to be anxious about succeeding. Someone somewhere will buy us.
“We’re audience, and as Marshall McLuhan once put it, ‘Audience is actor.’ We’re actors and we reveal our character in immense detail. The burden of ethical, political, or psychological considerations is gone. We’ve evolved past the need of carrying it. This is happiness.
“We’re looking at a kind of Mobius Strip or Escher drawing that feeds back into itself.
“In this state of mind, we tend to perceive reality on the basis of what we think other people are perceiving. Through universal self-surveillance, we move closer and closer to the far shore, where we are all, in fact, perceiving the same thing. And what is that thing? It’s a mere reflection passed through billions of mirrors, around and around, evanescent, sparkling, devoid of content.
“This is the day toward which we all strive.
“Critics have claimed this is voluntary self-induced mind control; people digging themselves a deeper hole in consensus reality. I view it as liberation. Don’t you?”
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In the Oval Office, in front of television cameras broadcasting to the world, the President, a minor functionary in the federal bureaucracy, bowed before Jonas Hoover and took his hand. He raised it and kissed the ring. He stepped back.
Hoover smiled and nodded.
“My fellow citizens, I’m honored by this appointment. It signals a new era for us all. From the shores of the old Silicon Valley, to the bunkers of Colorado, to the city of Detroit rebuilt as a single networked data storage facility, one idea has traveled through this great nation for a hundred years: tracking. Yes. We have now tracked ourselves to a degree never before thought possible. Remember Socrates’ ancient advice: know thyself. Well, now we do.
“Conscience, hope, anxiety, desperation; all gone. Outmoded. With gladness in our hearts, we give ourselves over to What Is. Every detail of it. We can record it, transmit it, save it, collate it.
“And with my ascension, we can inscribe it in the book of life. Open your church doors. Flood into their chapels. Give thanks. I am here to wipe away the last shred of doubt. We have arrived.
“This message has been brought to you by NSA-Google-Facebook, your window on the universe, and universe’s window on you.”
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
I have worked hard all my life even as a teenager and as I am reading this brilliant article, I suddenly thought, this is all just more paperwork which in and of itself is just documentation,
requests and/or demands. In all it’s just so boring, and a complete waste of time and well a waste of a life that is already very short for us all. I can think of better ways to spend my time and I am sure so can everyone else. We also have to remember that humans are terribly flawed skin bags with egos that will tell tall tales all day to puff themselves up. Can you image the amount of gobbledygook currently being documented and saved now, let alone the baloney stories people will create for the soon to be required portfolio called their life. In times past certain individuals who stood out for various reasons both good and bad had their lives documented for posterity such as Albert Einstein as well as the likes of Charles Manson, now it will be everyone single living being on the planet!
Funny thing of course is that we are finding out that some of what has been documented through the years as well as documented recently about famous and infamous people as well as science, medicine, and especially history etc. is completely not true and/or heavily misconstrued for either nefarious purposes, or out of plain old laziness ( ie why spend time gathering correct information when one can just make it up and be done in an hour or less). There are examples of this everywhere from the recent scandal over medical journal articles being faked to the artifacts
that were found and discarded or hidden in nondescript museums that tell a very different history than what we were taught in school, to the recent issue where a University Dean was found to have lied about his PHD and was in fact currently enrolled in a different University to try and obtain said degree before anyone found out his lie, needless to say he was unsuccessful. That being said I cannot decided if I should laugh, cry or shudder at current and future events. Well I guess I am doing all three right now.
Dateline 2072: the new pope of NSA-Google-Facebook
http://conspiracydesk.com/dateline-2072-the-new-pope-of-nsa-google-facebook/
That many people fully involved in self-analysis, flawed or not, would be awesome. The least important thing in the world would be government or any external agency or organization. Wow…
Wow…
Ahh FaceBook, the new global religion. And we except your old religious denominations and allow you to have your own page too…until you get on a cause or become an activist…then we just brand you, ‘as the troublemaker that you are’. And shut down your page. And censor all your lies.
Pages…in the book of life…must be true.
I am always entralled with the ice-breaker, and definite conversation starter…”You’ll never guess what I read on FaceBook the other day.
Ad nauseum mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”-Napoleon Bonaparte
And nobody seems to care…There seems to be a disconnect from real world problems regularly exposed to auditing by self trained observation on the net. Net surfers who still gaze at the idiot-tube/hypno-blaster can be seriously terminally dense when confronted with multiple versions in oligarch proprietary media[which are ubiquitously present. It’s like soaking your brains in high fructose corn syrup and losing access to the normal critical factors that lead to epiphanous rejuvenation. What really helps the hallelujah chorus folks remain rutted is FEAR. Genius cannot run scared and produce enough “lovelight” to stay healthy and even survive the constant marination in idiocy. Many, probably most potential boycotters of insanity ride the duty to family/society meme to remain passive in the ugly face of murderous corruption engaged in by transnational corporate despotism. GHU
The “believer-freezer” again.
A few days ago I heard David Icke saying, on Alex Jones’ show: “What you believe is what you perceive, and what you perceive is what you experience.”
This may be, on the whole, only 90% true, or even less. Anyway, I’ve been trying to kick belief out of my life as hard as possible for many years. Even before I stumbled over Nietzsche’s writings concerning the problem.
To confide in one’s own powers (or a friend’s, a mate’s, the own people’s) is one completely different affair. “Good vibes” oscillate directly where they are supposed to go. No “God” or some other such something that may exist or not is put in between. No deviation of mental energy. Eradication of brainsucking intermediaries. Advice from true friends, beloved ones, great philosophers, open, straight, direct folks and unselfish teachers only. (Maybe a few more that I may be omitting.)
No matter how many Dracos or Rothschilds or even Mantids be behind the curtains, or Upanishads on the run, and Annunaki and whatnot; or whatelse about Jesus and even the lesser kinds of real (as having lived) or made up prophets: We have to fight from the first to the last not to be completely enslaved.
And there it’s everybody’s turn. Individually as well as in forming adequate circles. And indeed, in the mind it begins.
I, as opposed to usual thinking, in turn know so much more about NSA-Facebook-Google than even its new Pope is in the least likely to grasp.
Of me, they have only data. Yes, quite a lot on my life, my preferences, my behaviour, my typical vices and virtues. But they don’t know what I’ll do next. They don’t really understand my “system”. Whereas I have little data on all their data, but I very well see with which means and how they act and where they are heading. This is not all too difficult.
Thus we should be joking more instead of complaing. Cheer yer folks up! They line up the machines against us? We’ve got the oilcans and some long fine steel bars to stick them into wherever they rotate. F… them!
Me, I should go down into some drugchipcontrolled state, creeping around, if not, for better convenience, killed before, on this earth, for some craven, filthy, rotten, absurd liars? WHAT?
I know great, free, joyful times with many. Now just down the gutter, my children?
To mollify the above in a way a bit: Of course it does not not matter where delusion and dire concepts came or come from. The better you know who wants to chain you the better you can hew out your counterstrategy. It’s just about not losing too much on speculating about that. Be careful, study. But act. Rant. Build. Clearly. Possibly at the selfsame time when you cheer your audience up. Tell yourself, tell them all to just stay on.