The Individual vs. the Staged Collective
by Jon Rappoport
October 17, 2017
Trumpets blare. In the night sky, spotlights roam. A great confusion of smoke and dust and fog, and emerging banners, carrying the single message:
WE.
The great meltdown of all consciousness into a glob of utopian simplicity…
There are denizens among us.
They present themselves as the Normals.
Beyond all political objectives, there is a simple fact: those group-mind addicts who have given up their souls will rage against the faintest appearance of one who tries to keep his. And in this rage, the soulless ones will try to pull the other down to where they live.
And somehow, it all looks normal and proper and rational.
In the 1950s, before television had numbed minds and turned them into jelly, there was a growing sense of: the Individual versus the Corporate State.
Something needed to be done. People were fitting into slots. They were surrendering their lives in increasing numbers. They were carving away their own idiosyncrasies and their independent ideas.
But television, under the control of psyops experts, became, as the 1950s droned on, the facile barrel of a weapon:
“What’s important is the group. Conform. Give in. Bathe in the great belonging…”
Recognize that every message television imparts is a proxy, a fabrication, a simulacrum, an imitation of life one step removed.
When this medium also broadcasts words and images of belonging and the need to belong, it’s engaged in revolutionary social engineering.
Whether it’s the happy-happy suburban-lawn family in an ad for the wonders of a toxic pesticide, or the mob family going to the mattresses to fend off a rival, it’s fantasy time in the land of mind control.
Television has carried its mission forward. The consciousness of the Individual versus the State has turned into: love the State. Love the State as family.
In the only study I have been able to find, Wictionary partially surveys the scripts of all television shows from the year 2006, to analyze the words most frequently broadcast to viewers in America.
Out of 29,713,800 words, including the massively used “a,” “an,” “the,” “you,” “me,” and the like, the word “home” ranks 179 from the top. “Mom” is 218. “Together” is 222. “Family” is 250.
This usage reflects an unending psyop.
Are you with the family or not? Are you with the group, the collective, or not? Those are the blunt parameters.
“When you get right down to it, all you have is family.” “Our team is really a family.” “You’re deserting the family.” “You fight for the guy next to you.” “Our department is like a family.” “Here at Corporation X, we’re a family.”
The committee, the group, the company, the sector, the planet.
The goal? Submerge the individual.
Individual achievement, imagination, creative power? Not on the agenda. Something for the dustbin of history.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: “‘Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines’! The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. ‘You really know where you are. For the first time in history.’”
George Orwell, 1984: “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.”
The soap opera is the apotheosis of television. The long-running characters in Anytown are irreversibly enmeshed in one another’s lives. There’s no escape. There is only mind-numbing meddling.
“I’m just trying to help you realize we all love you (in chains).”
“Your father, rest his soul, would never have wanted you to do this to yourself…”
“How dare you set yourself apart from us. Who do you think you are?”
For some people, the collective “WE” has a fragrant scent—until they get down in the trenches with it. There they discover odd odors and postures and mutations. There they discover self-distorted creatures scurrying around celebrating their twistedness.
The night becomes long. The ideals melt. The level of intelligence required to inhabit this cave-like realm is lower than expected, much lower.
Hypnotic perceptions, which are the glue that holds the territory together, begin to crack and fall apart, and all that is left is a grim determination to see things through.
As the night moves into its latter stages, some participants come to know that all their activity is taking place in a chimerical universe.
It is as if reality has been constructed to yield up gibberish.
Whose idea was it to become deaf, dumb, and blind in the first place?
And then perhaps one person in the cave suddenly says: I EXIST.
That starts a cacophony of howling.
In the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of JFK and the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the covert theme was the same: a lone individual did this.
A lone individual, detached from the group, did this. “Lone individuals are people who left the fold. They wandered from the communal hearth. Therefore, they inevitably became killers.”
In 1995, after the Oklahoma City Bombing, President Bill Clinton made a speech to the nation. He rescued his presidency by essentially saying, “Come home to the government. We will protect you and save you.”
He framed the crime in those terms. The individual versus the collective.
The history of human struggle on this planet is about the individual emerging FROM the group, from the tribe, from the clan. The history of struggle is not about the individual surrendering and going back INTO group identity.
Going back is the psyop.
The intended psyop.
As the trumpets blare in the night sky, as the fog-ridden spotlights roam, as the banners emerge carrying the single message, WE, as people below are magnetically drawn to this show, a unpredicted thing happens:
Someone shouts: WHAT IS WE?
Other pick up the shout.
And the banners begin to catch fire and melt. They drip steel and wax and the false grinding of hypnotic dreams breaks its rhythm.
The whole sky-scene stutters like a great weapon losing its capacity to contain heat. The sky itself drips and caves inward and collapses, and the trumpets tail off and there is a new fresh silence.
The delusion, in pieces, is drifting away…
The cover: gone.
Behind it is The Individual.
What will he do now?
Will he seek to find his inherent power, the power he cast aside in his eagerness to join the collective?
Will he?
Or will he search for another staged melodrama designed to absorb him in an all-embracing WE?
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)
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.
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished … The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.” —–Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of philosophy & psychology who influenced Hegel and others – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810
you are right as rain, in my self education I also investigated Russell and fichte and found we have been prussianized. the question is can the individual snap out of this mindlessness?
I am fortunate to be old enough to have worked for a good wage inside a large-ish company when being an individual was preferred and rewarded. The owner and managers recognized that even the janitor might have an idea that could make or save large sums of money. A good, original idea was respected on its merits and the person was given a monetary reward pegged to the amount made or saved. That was a vibrant, alive workplace. It hummed, it made lots of money, everyone made above-average wages. Deadwood hires were trimmed when they were discovered.
And then the next generation took over and it all became a collective. Ideas were only good if from the top. Individuals were ruthlessly culled since they were apt to point out the idiocy of the top guys. Mediocrity and mendacity thrived. It was best to be ruthless and stupid. I think the company has fallen enough that I might get to see it shut down in my lifetime. I’m rather hoping I get to see that.
On my first week at my programming job, some 20 years ago, I came up with an idea at a product development meeting, on how to deal with an anomaly that was crashing customer’s systems. Everyone else in the meeting had already been “lobotomized” by the group mentality, so they had nothing to offer – there was no incentive. My idea was quickly adopted, but my boss announced at the end of the meeting that this is a team effort, and my idea was the result of that. Absolutely nuts. Now, there is no more product development team. There is just a skeleton crew supporting what someone else built years ago, as the company implodes. When will they ever learn?
it’s easy for me to lose the thread of inside/out as opposed to the programed outside/in. this guy pounds it home to help get that closer to the bone.
I noticed for years now, on tv, various series carry matching themes each week. Doesn’t matter what networks they’re on or what genres they are. This year I noticed radio programs are mirroring the tv program themes as well. One week this summer they all, across the board, pushed the idea of deranged, dangerous conspiracy theorists (usually portrayed as uneducated hicks or a military lone gunman gone off the rails). NPR aired a program that week called “Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?”, or some rot like that. The program was transparently designed to bash Alex Jones. I don’t know if others can see it. Brought up the subject with someone else and they thought it was just organic…like the subject of the day, or like a meme. But I don’t think it’s possible for different writers at separate networks, who write scripts well in advance of shows to coincidentally write about matching subjects Week after week. It must be engineered.
One exception was the short lived series Firefly. It did not include manufactured preplanned themes. In a corrupt universe the main character when deciding to warn others of this corruption proclaimed, “I aim to misbehave.” Whoa. The series presented several philisophical ideas I recognized and probably some I didn’t, had a happily married multiracial couple (both strong individuals) and a liberating theme song. Despite the episodes being aired out of sequence and being put in a poor tv viewing slot, and also confusingly changing slots a couple of times, the show had a very large following. It was shut down, however, in less than a full season.
So, yes. Group think all the way. Agendas are being pushed. TV is mind control. Pay attention and you’ll find out what who ever is driving it wants you to believe. Lately, by the way, it’s just been a whole lot of president loathing and bashing. Last month the theme was DACA. No imagination is really being used…they could do so much more to step up their game.
This is what Hollywood, Madison avenue, Tinpan alley etc are all about. The elites pumping mind control conformity into the populace, creating a false perception of reality.
‘It”s got to be rock n’ roll music, if you want to dance with me!’
‘It’s got to be Hollywood idols, if you want to hang with me!’
‘It’s got to be mind control media, if you want to be with me!’
Create your own world. Start in imagination.
Jonathan Hoenig sells a 1939 Reichsmark coin on his website, capitalistpig.com. They were minted with the words “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz” (“The community comes before the individual”) on the edge of the coin. This came to mind while reading Jon’s blog post. Rep. Samuel B Pettengill was so concerned of this country’s political drift towards National Socialism that he wrote a book on it in 1940, “Smoke Screen”.
“The essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from this hidden source in individuals.”
C.G. Jung
So for you Jon, the group is definitely “group think”?
The soap opera is the apotheosis of television. The long-running characters in Anytown are irreversibly enmeshed in one another’s lives. There’s no escape. There is only mind-numbing meddling. (Jon)
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Jon, Jon, Jon,, you know I like Soap Operas…LoL Come on Jon, Soap operas are fun and inspiring, much more than movies that bores me to death.
There are a lot of imagination and creativity in these soaps. The characters are all strong individuals who do not give a damn about what others suggest them to do or say, they always only believe in their own solutions.They follow no laws, they only trust their instincts.
After a day of listening to the Alex Jones show, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage Mark Levine, and reading your blog, nothing could be better than to watch a good old Soap Opera ? Its is a whole new world, where everything is possible.
Please Jon, do me a favor and take the time to watch this video. It is very interesting, and it is only 12 minutes long. It might change your mind.
Here it is:
4 larger-than-life lessons from soap operas
https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_adams_4_larger_than_life_lessons_from_soap_operas#t-12367
Variations of what you have written before, I feel sure, Jon.
A great article nonetheless and thank you.
Best
OT
Excellent writing Jon! This really spoke to me! ????
MGM just came out with a tv message for their Vegas resorts. It starts off with “TOGETHER WE ARE ONE.”
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To live a mask and be part of a collective mask.