The extinct dinosaur called The Individual

The extinct dinosaur called The Individual

by Jon Rappoport

March 19, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“Give up your dreams, if you must. Cease dreaming altogether. Call those dreams and ambitions and visions…delusions. Then you will be ready. Then you can truly serve humanity. You can fall back into the arms of the many who will receive you with love. You’ll become an empty vessel through which miracles are channeled. One day Oprah will interview you.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

In a BBC documentary, “Google and the World Brain,” the question of author-copyright is explored. Google has scanned and published out-of-print books that are still covered by copyright.

Interviewed, Kevin Kelly (twitter) (also here and here), the co-founder of Wired, makes a startling remark. In his view the whole issue of copyright is archaic. He explains that all authors draw their ideas from previous authors and therefore don’t own their own ideas.

It’s wonderful to witness such bloviating on the cusp of the New Civilization, in which “you didn’t build that” is taken to unprecedented levels.

Kelly should start a publishing firm; all his authors would work for free. After all, nothing is original, nothing is new, and these writers are merely rearranging other people’s words.

You might be surprised at how many people actually believe this tripe Kelly is passing along.

It’s part of the vastly expanding operation aimed at the individual.

The “modern” position is, we’re all one great big group.

Rimbaud was just redoing Shelley. Dylan Thomas was adding a few exhibitionist touches to Shakespeare, who was aping Sophocles. Plato was mimicking generations of Egyptian high priests. Socrates was staging dialogues based on arguments between cave men.

And if we could climb into a time machine, we could travel back to the age of the Neanderthals and see that Neanderthals were stealing thoughts after listening to what ants and gorillas and cabbages were saying.

Yes, it’s all spiritual collectivism, and we’re melting down into one cosmic goo-glob, and it’s marvelous.

“It’s all information” is the code phrase. Ideas, thoughts, sentences, books; nothing is original, nothing is new; we all “share” information floating in the collective consciousness; the individual invents nothing.


The move to wipe out the entire concept of the individual and erase it from human consciousness is a propaganda op. It is far easier to wield control over a group.

It therefore comes down to the individual vs. the goo. So be it.

Actually, if anyone cares, “the people” is a convenient term for “every INDIVIDUAL.”

This has been lost in translation. It has been garbled, distorted, just as the proprietor of an old-fashioned carnival shell game distorts the audience’s perception with sleight of hand.

Are “the people” one group? Well, that’s the ultimate Globalist formulation.

However, from the point of view of the free individual, things are upside down. It is HIS power that is primary, not the monolithic corporate State’s.

From his point of view, what does the social landscape look like?

It looks like: THE OBSESSION TO ORGANIZE.

I’m not talking about organizations that are actually streamlined to produce something of value. I’m talking about organizations that PLAN MORE ORGANIZATION OF LIFE.

If you want to spend a disturbing afternoon, read through (and try to fathom) the bewildering blizzard of sub-organizations that make up the European Union. I did. And I emerged with a new definition of insanity. OTO. The Obsession to Organize.

OTO speaks of a bottomless fear that somewhere, someone might be living free.

People tend to think their own power is either a delusion or some sort of abstraction that’s never really EXPERIENCED. So when the subject is broached, it goes nowhere. It fizzles out. It garners shrugs and looks of confusion. Power? Are you talking about the ability to lift weights?

And therefore, the whole notion of freedom makes a very small impression, because without power, what’s the message of freedom? A person can choose vanilla or chocolate? He can watch Law&Order or CSI? He can buy a Buick or a Honda? He can take a trip to Yosemite or Disney World? He can pack a lunch or eat out at a restaurant? He can ask for a raise or apply for a better job with another company? That’s it? He can swim in his pool or work out at the gym?

He can take Prozac, or Paxil, or Zoloft?

Mostly, as the years roll by, he opts for more cynicism and tries to become a “smarter realist.” And that is how he closes the book on his life.

Every which way power can be discredited or misunderstood…people will discredit it and misunderstand it.

And then all psychological and physiological and mental and physical and emotional and perceptual and hormonal processes undergo a major shift, in order to accommodate to a reality, a space in which the individual has virtually no power at all.


I’d be remiss if I didn’t include this one: “power=greed.” Mountains of propaganda are heaped on people to convince them that having individual power to make something happen is the same as committing crimes against humanity.

Globalism=collectivism=Glob-consciousness. We’re all one Glob. We exist in that great Cheese Melt.

Even the radical Left of the 1960s, who rioted at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, because they believed the nominee, Hubert Humphrey, and his allies wouldn’t stop the war in Vietnam…even that radical force on the Left eventually gave in and morphed into romantic sentimentalists who came to love the State under Clinton and Obama.

Sooner or later, it comes down to the question: does the individual conceive of himself as an individual, or as part of The Group?

Shall the individual discover how much power and freedom and imagination he actually has, or shall he cut off that process of discovery at the knees, in order to join a group whose aims are diluted and foreshortened versions of consciousness and freedom?

The individual answers these questions overtly, with great consideration, or the questions answer and diminish him through wretched default.


The Surveillance State is a robot camera. It captures everything, based on the premise that what isn’t Normal is dangerous.

The cartels of the world become the cartels of the mind.

At the outbreak of World War 2, the Council on Foreign Relations began making plans for the post-war world.

The question it posed was this: could America exist as a self-sufficient nation, or would it have to go outside its borders for vital resources?

Predictably, the answer was: imperial empire.

The US would not only need to obtain natural resources abroad, it would have to embark on endless conquest to assure continued access.

The CFR, of course, wasn’t just some think tank. It was connected to the highest levels of US government, through the State Department. A front for Rockefeller interests, it actually stood above the government.

Behind all its machinations was the presumption that planned societies were the future of the planet. Not open societies.

Through wars, clandestine operations, legislation, treaties, manipulation of nations’ debt, control of banks and money supplies, countries could be turned into “managed units.”

Increasingly, the populations of countries would be regulated and directed and held in thrall to the State.

And the individual? He would go the way of other extinct species.

For several decades, the pseudo-discipline called “social science” had been turning out reams of studies and reports on tribes, societal groupings, and so-called classes of people. Groups.

Deeply embedded in the social sciences were psychological warfare specialists who, after World War 2, emerged with a new academic status and new field of study: mass communications.

Their objective? The broadcasting of messages that would, in accordance with political goals, provoke hostility or pacified acceptance in the masses.

Hostility channeled into support of new wars; acceptance of greater domestic government control.

Nowhere in these formulas was the individual protected. He was considered a wild card, a loose cannon, and he needed to be demeaned, made an outsider, and characterized as a criminal who opposed the needs of the collective.

Collective=robot minds welded into one mind.


Exit From the Matrix


As the years and decades passed, this notion of the collective and its requirements, in a “humane civilization,” expanded. Never mind that out of view, the rich were getting richer and poor were getting poorer. That fact was downplayed, and the cover story–”share and care”—took center stage.

On every level of society, people were urged to think of themselves as part of a greater group. The individual and his hopes, his unique dreams, his desires and energies, his determination and will power…all these were portrayed as relics of an unworkable and deluded past.

In certain cases, lone pioneers who were innovating in directions that could, in fact, benefit all of humanity, were absorbed into the one body of the collective, heralded as humane…and then dumped on the side of the road with their inventions and forgotten.

In the planned society, no one rises above the mass, except those men who run and operate and propagandize the mass.

In order to affect the illusion of individual success, as a kind of safety valve for the yearnings of millions of people, the cult of individual celebrity emerged. But even there, extraordinary tales of rise and then precipitous fall, glory and then humiliation, were and are presented as cautionary melodramas.

This could happen to you. You would be exposed. You would suffer the consequences. Let others take the fall. Keep your mind blank. Do nothing unusual. Shorten your attention span. Disable your own mental machinery. Then you’ll never be tempted to stand out from the mass.

The onrush of technocracy gears its wild promises to genetic manipulation, brain-machine interfaces, and other automatic downloads assuring “greater life.” No effort required. Plug in, and ascend to new heights.

Freedom? Independence? Old flickering dreams vicariously viewed on a screen.

Individual greatness, imagination, creative power? A sunken galleon loaded with treasure that, upon closer investigation, was never there to begin with.

The Plan is all that is important. The plan involves universal surveillance, in order to map the lives of billions of people, move by move, in order to design systems of control within which those billions live, day to day.

But the worst outcome of all is: the individual cannot even conceive of his own life and future in large terms. The individual responds to tighter and control with a shrug, as if to say, “What difference does it make?”

He has bought the collectivist package. His own uniqueness and inner resources are submerged under layers of passive acceptance of the consensus.

And make no mistake about it, this consensus reality, for all its exaltation of the group, is not heraldic in any sense. The propagandized veneer covers a cynical exploitation of every man, woman, and child.

Strapped by an amnesia about his own freedom and what it can truly mean, the individual opts for a place in the collective gloom. He may grumble and complain, but he fits in.

He can’t remember another possibility.

Every enterprise in which he finds himself turns out to be a pale copy of the real thing.

The deep energies and power and desire for freedom remain untapped.

Yet a struggle continues to live. It lives in the hidden places of every individual who wants out, who wants to come back to himself, who wants to stride out on a stage.

Freedom and power again. The shattering of amnesia.

In this stolen world.

…Suggesting the premise of a new stage play:

The extinct individual returns.

Petty little hungers and obsessions become great hungers.

Dominoes of the collective begin to fall. The stinking structure collapses, a wing here and a wing there, and the robots open their eyes.

The vast sticky web called “the people” begins to disintegrate in roaring cities and in the mind.

A new instructive message appears on billboards and screens:

“Normal=Crazy.”

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 emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.

21 comments on “The extinct dinosaur called The Individual

  1. SamAdamsGhost says:

    “You didn’t invent the English language.” – so all the text you write and words you speak are obviously not really ‘yours’. You just rearranged the already invented letters a little bit.

    Hmmmm – I debated whether I should post this since some #^%+$ may actually try using this argument someday.

  2. middleway says:

    … and for those who survive the great culling and transition, the faded promises of the past will remain as a fairy tale;… “Once upon a time”…

  3. From Québec says:

    The Individual has power, a lot of power. The problem is that the individual rarely uses it, its scares the hell out of him.

    Individual, like William Benney and Edward Snowden, fears nothing, they use their full power. I admired these kind of individual, they are true heroes!.

    William Benny, yesterday, hosted alone the 30 last minutes of the Alex Jones Show and talked about individual power and what an individual can do to stop the insanity of the totalitarian state.

  4. qingchuan_lyu says:

    Thanks for your blog. I agree with most of your opinions. As a Chinese girl, my teacher always told me to sacrifice myself for other classmates. The main reason she asked me to do so was that other classmates were richer than me. Collectivism is a tool for evil people. After all, the individual happiness is the most important.

    • Reverend Draco says:

      Beware of anyone who claims that there’s a choice between the “good of the individual” and the “good of society.”
      It’s an utterly false dichotomy, because the good of the individual *IS* the good of society.

      • robertrun says:

        hear hear

      • ozziethinker says:

        That is “draconian” thinking.

        At many intervals and in many cases are there conflicts between individuals and the “group”. Collectivism works WHEN it works. It is neither good nor bad until it is deemed so. Individuals don’t parry with such luxurious support until they join in.

        Herein lies a strange anathema. Individuals do not need to be members of the group to inspire the collective. That is why those lone, barren voices can change the instinctive fate of humanity. I believe Jon Rappoport, in his own way, is one such voice. I only hope I can rise to meet these standards – one day!

  5. robertrun says:

    Until one understands the reality of of Individual Consciousness, there is no way that it is possible for one to understand the true empowerment in collective action. Consciousness manifests in the individual, consciousness does not manifest in “the collective”, there is no “collective” in the philosophical sense, “the collective” is a myth. The individual must be the seat of rights. Individual Rights, applied Universally to all people is the only way the true potential of humans, collectively, will be reached. Corporate Personhood is a fallacy instituted and enforced under the myth of “the collective”, as is the political class, unbound by common law, as is Religion, unaccountable to evidence. The anti-civilization is dependent on the conflation of destructive ego with self-esteem and self-worth. For the anti-civilization to continue, the Individual must be denied on behalf of the collective, business must be conflated with greed, the political class must be conflated with morality, and the Individual must not be allowed to defend itself. https://www.facebook.com/WriterRobertRun/posts/264499603688650

  6. Anon says:

    The recognition that copyright is an abridgement of the individual’s cultural liberty does not necessitate the ‘unrecognition’ of individual creativity. See http://culturalliberty.org/blog/index.php?id=276

  7. markus aeris says:

    Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority experiment. It can happen again, time to resist mass conformity, before the slaughter. Good luck.

  8. theodorewesson says:

    OTOD! Obsession to Organize Disorder!

  9. Bill says:

    It is not OTO but toto (22) or better yet Dorothy’s Toto, eh?
    Republic=Individual rights are paramount!
    Democracy=mob rule? Not anywhere on Earth, especially US! We have aristocratic plutocracy.
    Besides, a secret ballot begs the question? Who the hell are we afraid of knowing how we vote!
    Must we actually fear anyone knowing we voted down a school tax increase?
    Rather, everyone’s vote should be public by law! Be proud of your vote!
    It isn’t sanity. It is insanity!
    Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161 to 180 AD:
    “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius quotes from Meditations

    Great article as always!
    Blessings and Good Fortune to All

  10. AngryHateMusic says:

    You don’t own me: https://youtu.be/uWCMhL5qxlE

  11. babylovet says:

    “Interviewed, Kevin Kelly (twitter) (also here and here), the co-founder of Wired, makes a startling remark. In his view the whole issue of copyright is archaic. He explains that all authors draw their ideas from previous authors and therefore don’t own their own ideas.”

    This is primarily because he and his “libertarian capitalist” comrades want to free themselves from any obligation to pay for content and obviate any need to actually pay writers; ie, “content providers”. This is an unacceptable drain on their profits. It’s the “old economy”, stupid!

    That’s why they also love sites like flikr where the end-users, for a modest quarterly fee, create content for their while they provide the hosted cloud-infrastructure.

  12. Dave Mowers says:

    Everyone could pursue their dreams if our banks were mandated to loan money to the poor at the same rates and terms as the rich enjoy.

    Who would ever work for someone else when they could get financing to do what they really want to do?

    Why should the dreams of the many be crushed by the greed of the few?

  13. Gordon Logan says:

    I am a renegade former spy who has been entirely independent for much of his life. Most of the major intelligence services have tried to make my life difficult – they have even tried to kill me on several occasions. I can assure you that in the secret world of puppets, an obstinate/courageous non-puppet can wreak havoc. Although most people are sheep that have lost their souls and become merely a part of a group, there are individuals that really matter and really do make a difference. We should always remember that.

  14. ozziethinker says:

    It is my opinion, Jon, that people do not want original books. As everybody plugs into the “system” they need it to be affirmed to the hilt – and this includes the majority of your readership.

    “References” and “credibility” become more important than information and the message. Take my book as the example which, for my records, but one of your blog visitors purchased. It is 90% original – no reference or source material. Pure information and message. Oh great horror – “we can’t have that”.

    Admittedly since I gave the title a nice airy, “bright” name “The Beauty of Decoded Existence” sales have slowly started happening (people did not like the dark “Dimension, Deceptions & Demons”), but it adds to the point. People like to purchase “positively affirming” safe stuff. If positively affirming is “hang all Senators” then that message will sell millions.

    MAN is CORRUPT to the core as he is not interested truth and will only buy VALIDATED messages that support an akin cause or viewpoint 😉

  15. Tracy says:

    I, if I dare use that word, find this empowering Jon.

    “I” = “selfish” to many.

    It seems to be a crime to try to “get what you want”.

    “What’s isn’t normal is dangerous”.

    I’ve got about five psychiatric labels. I am dangerous. That’s automatic. I would have preferred the free steak knives. Instead, you belong to the “mentally ill” group. Welcome.

    […]

    […]

    Laughter is good.

    Up she went in a cloud of smoke. Yellow, strong acidic smell. The stench filled the air above and around me. The smoke followed her as she drifted upwards.

    Incoherent words.

    “I cannot understand you”, I laughed.

    When I looked up to the clear sky she was gone.

  16. Pat says:

    To question authority is and always should be a right, to take that right away, will be the destruction of ‪#‎freedom‬ itself.
    Without freedom, you will never carve your own path.
    Pat Kempen

    https://patinthehat00.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/freedom/

  17. Collin Merenoff says:

    All this philosophical gymnastics to deny that everyone lives in the same world. To deny that everyone makes their own little impact on that world.

    I don’t need to follow any ritual of proclaiming freedom in order to prove that I’m an individual. I know I’m an individual because I know I’m a living human being. As the saying goes, “I think therefore I am”.

    If you believe in a Glob and a Surveillance State, fine. That’s your religion. Meanwhile everyone except your cult will continue to be individuals.

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