Utopia: the dream and the psyop that will never die

The goal of all mind control

by Jon Rappoport

June 16, 2015

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

“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. . . . Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.” (Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1981)

“I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced. (Buckminster Fuller,” Grunch of Giants, 1983)

“There are people who see a vision of utopia as clearly as they see a summer afternoon. They will never give up that vision. They are unaware that, parallel to their dream, a utopia psyop is running, like an endless television program, diverting the gullible.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Almost a century ago, Buckminster Fuller was writing about the abundance that technology was bringing to the human race. He was writing about how more and more would be done with fewer and fewer resources.

He was indicating that technology had ushered in an era where the basics of survival—food, clothing, and shelter—could be made available to all humans on the planet.

He was suggesting that technology (automation) was going to make industrial production expand vastly—while also, inevitably, throwing huge numbers of people out of work. He argued that work wasn’t an essential. People could be granted the basics of life, and left to their own devices—the most important of which would be the choice to educate themselves through free and open schools.

One obvious question that emerged out of Fuller’s work at that time, and later in Critical Path and Utopia or Oblivion: who would implement a system whereby every human on Earth would be guaranteed the fundamentals of survival? And how?

There are blithe and glazed-over people who believe the governments of Earth will present the gift.

This is like saying the old mafia will stop forcing shop owners to pay protection. This is like saying lifelong con men will turn over a new leaf and serve soup at kitchens for the poor. This is like saying Al Capone will go to work for the FBI. This is like saying a group of war mongers, who sleep well at night after decades of ordering the deaths of millions of people, will give away their criminally gained fortunes to restore stolen land to millions of Third World people.

This is like saying the same breed of government officials, after 50 years of sending a few trillion dollars into the poorest communities of US cities (did the bulk of it ever arrive?), with no more to show for it than more crime, more poverty, and more drugs, will recover their senses and figure out a way to give the essentials of survival to every American.

And this is also saying that 10 or 20 successive generations of Americans, having received those essentials of survival, gratis, will be motivated to build dynamic and innovative communities, embracing the uniqueness of every individual.

Really?

If future governments ever attempted this far-reaching plan, their true goal, as now, would be fostering stifling dependency, passivity, obedience, robotic allegiance and mind control.

In the 1940s, heads of major corporations began to see what Fuller was predicting: more and more automation; the ability of technology to engender greater production utilizing fewer resources; eventual vast unemployment, as automation took over; and therefore, the specter of a shrinking planetary consumer base.

At that point, the mega-corporations had a choice. They could continue to manufacture products for a consumerist society, based on whatever items populations could be convinced to buy—while ignoring the future handwriting on the future wall.

Or these corporations, some of them, could turn their attention to manufacturing, very cheaply, the essentials of survival, and selling those products to billions of people. They could turn their attention to true agriculture for the people. They could turn their attention to the herculean task of creating thriving local economies across the planet…and they could find a way to make profit through these enterprises.

Very small increments of profit on each sale, spread over billions of people.

A Utopian fantasy? Apparently; because we know which directions the mega-corporations chose.

They are still choosing to remain blind to their own future—a shrinking consumer base, and assembly lines operating at a fraction of their potential.

It’s all well and good to imagine a salvational public force that will drop, from the clouds, utopia on the masses; but that force does not exist.

It’s all well and good to hope for a vast “revolution” in “mass consciousness” that will inevitably bring about utopia; but mass consciousness is an ideological veneer that peels away and decays on the vine.

It’s far better to think about what can be done to invent/liberate self-determined economies in which billions of people can find work, and avoid having to live in medieval conditions that cause chronic illness and early death.

When you do think about that, you quickly discover that power-elites are bent on keeping grotesque poverty alive.

At the same time, they invent altruistic charities that deliver “help” to the suffering. They award themselves citations for courage and humanity. They promote vaguely utopian futures. They co-opt the dreams of the young. This is their psyop and their cover story.

“Let’s send in a few thousand heroic and heraldic doctors to deliver (toxic) drugs and (toxic) vaccines to the population. Of course, the actual and only cure is nutritious food, establishing basic sanitation, reducing overcrowding in cities, cleaning up the water supply, and returning stolen growing lands to the people…but we won’t touch all that…we’ll just look good and conceal our real program: continued conquest.”

Events, circumstances, and trends have a way of returning to the individual.

Each and every individual.

That is when, thrown back on his own resources, he discovers deeper layers of his own power. If he chooses to.

This dimension does not begin in the physical world. It is in the individual mind and imagination. Its cardinal quality is unpredictability.

No systems control it.

Its prerequisite, come hell or high water, is freedom.

Most people quit the field at that point. They seek a pale simulacrum, a cartoon of what they can really achieve.

They substitute, if anything, a longing for utopia, for a force that somehow will deliver it.

The world, more and more, is dedicated to a fog that obscures the individual. The world claims he is an extinct delusion, a momentary construct of the evolutionary past; perhaps necessary at one time, but no longer useful.

The world (by which I mean the current tonnage of propaganda) insists that only through mass consciousness can we ascend to a higher level.

Translation: Collective passivity is the goal.

Utopia is always presented as a collective enterprise. That is no accident.

Why would the independent, powerful, and intensely creative individual have any place in it?

And that’s the whole point of utopian psyops. They exclude the unique individual.

“People of Earth, listen. We, your leaders, have a great message. We can bring you all to a new level of living. We now have the means. We can emerge as One into a shining future. Together. Your only task, and it is simple, is to surrender the thing that has kept Utopia from emerging all these centuries: your fantasy that you are individually separate. That is the sickness. That is psychological problem. We have discovered the mental illness. It is called UDD. Uniqueness Delusion Disorder. Fortunately, we can now diagnose it and treat it. The result is, all your anxiety will lift and disappear. You will finally find the state of mind toward which you have been groping. We are so close. Help us over the last barrier…”

That is where the “mind pioneers” intend to take us.

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 29^th 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 OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

The passive android and the creative force

by Jon Rappoport

March 9, 2015

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Asymmetric warfare in the arena of the mind is the only way to get out of the hatchery where androids are cultivated and made. You attack the stasis, the rest points, the places where the machinery of the mind is absolutely sure things are what they’re made out to be. You come at those skyscrapers from all sorts of unconventional angles.

That’s what the surrealists did. They interrupted the eternal Hum of the skyscrapers of the mind. They were crazy, but they were heroes.

Most people don’t want to know about these things. They want to accept what’s handed to them, or they want to poke holes in the consensus, but they don’t want to invent something entirely different. No, that’s too much. The preacher or the scientist or the educator or the doctor might not like that. God might not like that. The universe might be offended. There are all sorts of figureheads who might be offended. These figureheads represent fundamentalisms. Reduced-down views of the world. Stupidly simple. Hypnotically simple. That’s how the game works.

You convince people that anything important is terribly simple. You keep boiling the soup and boiling the soup down until it’s almost nothing, and then you point to it and say, “There, you see? That’s what it’s all about. That’s all it is.” That’s what hypnotism is. The boiling down. The reduction. The old man in the sky sitting in a big chair combing his beard—and his cousin, the guy who wouldn’t agree and who was therefore suddenly the embodiment of evil. You boil it all down to that.

Then you hand that story to someone who’s there at the circus watching the elephants and the almost-naked beautiful lady standing on the elephant’s back and dreaming he could meet that lady somewhere quiet and, for once, experience pleasure in his blood. But that will never happen, because he’s got the story now, the good and the evil, the reduction, and he’s a goner. He’s an android in the garden of delights, shut out, waiting for the sun to go down, waiting for the dark curtain.

There are hundreds of ways to turn humans into android-like creatures. Humans will do it to themselves without any outside help. They’ll induce their own trance at the drop of a hat…while still remaining quite active, quite normal, quite average.

You can drag an android to water, but you can’t make him drink. And that’s the whole point. He won’t invent something. He won’t jump into his own imagination and invent something. He’ll just stare at the water and notice the pretty little reflections, including his own, and he’ll hang around hoping for something important to happen.

Mechanical thought is the big feature of the android mind. The connections may be sophisticated, but they’re quiescent. Pieces are hooked up to other pieces of ideas, but with no creative ambition or force involved.

Take a chance? Not on your life.

No dice.

This, by the way, is how freedom dies. It just sits there and becomes a hard old stone, because a person won’t move and fly off that platform to invent something quite, quite different and new.

And all the while he’s shouting about how he wants his freedom. But he doesn’t want it. He wants the stone and the shadow in the hard dirt. He wants some kind of weird zero that’s reduced even further down to an absolute zero. That’s the subconscious of the android.

DARPA, the tech and mind-control arm of the Pentagon, is now embarked on yet another new project: how to insert images directly into the brain. No chips, no implants, no holograms sitting in space. That’s old hat.

Instead, beam signals directly into the visual cortex.

Of course, a lot of this is sheer PR science-hype, geared to get their hands on government cash for contracts. But it does show you where they want to go.

And human androids are the perfect target, because they’ll buy any image, as long they’re not creating it. Doesn’t matter where it comes from: the television set, the computer screen, the newspaper. They’ll take it in and eat it for lunch.

Theoretically, you could eventually outfit one of these passive good citizens with a complete wall-to-wall series of pictures—a movie—that would constitute his daily experience.

Riots in the streets, bombings, lootings, but all he’s seeing are rainbow gardens and cotton-candy machines and pink balloons and naked virgins.

“My brother Bobby called me again today and warned me that I’ve been sitting on my couch for six months, but he’s crazy. I’ve been living at Disney World, seeing the sights, riding the rides.”

He even has an adoring wife and two well-behaved children. They sprang up out of nowhere one day. He thought he was a loner living on the fringe of the city, but it turns out he’s a responsible family man.

Food stamps, welfare, disability. It’s a wonderful life.

Mickey Mouse is the President of the United States, Donald Duck is the Vice-President, and Goofy is the head of Homeland Security. The people have spoken. What more could they want?

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 29^th 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.

Intelligence ops: inventing a parallel universe

Trial balloons

Moving targets

by Jon Rappoport

March 3, 2015

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“Do you want to manufacture Time? Jump on the elite bandwagon and earn your stripes as an elite propagandist. Past, present, and future are yours to shape, infinitely elastic and malleable.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

In my latest collection, Power Outside The Matrix, I’ve included a long section titled, “Analyzing Information in the Age of Disinformation.”

I invite you to read about Power Outside The Matrix at NoMoreFakeNews.com.

Oxford Dictionary defines a trial balloon as “a tentative measure taken or statement made to see how a new policy will be received.”

That’s a bland description. The measures taken aren’t always tentative. In fact, some may be quite aggressive: criminal prosecutions of the innocent; drone strikes; pronouncements of fake epidemics; bills curbing freedom; wars.

In other words, all intelligence ops and important government/corporate actions always include the trial-balloon aspect.

A war going on overseas? Analysts at home are put to work assessing public reaction, levels of public resistance, and so on.

Depending on their verdict, new propaganda strategies are launched to gain public support.

These strategies constitute moving targets for independent minds who are trying to figure out what’s going on.

The last Iraq war was variously promoted as: a necessary and relevant reaction to 9/11; an invasion to disable Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction; an effort to topple an evil dictator and liberate the Iraqi people; a continuance of the mission to spread democracy around the world; a geo-political action to prevent destabilization of the Middle East; and even George W Bush’s revenge for an earlier dastardly effort to assassinate his father.

Reveal the fraudulent basis of any one of these claims, and a new one would pop up.

Understand that each piece of propaganda for war against Iraq was a calculated decision, and was based on an assessment of US public reaction to prior pieces of propaganda.

Each item of propaganda was a trial balloon. Float balloon A, gauge the reaction. Based on the nature of reaction, float balloon B, gauge the reaction. And so on.

The war against Iraq itself was also treated as a trial balloon at every stage of the operation. How is the public responding on day one of the invasion, day four, day 27, day 46…

It isn’t always one series of consecutive propaganda items—these bits can overlap. But you get the idea.

In intelligence groups, analysts are always there collating public and press reactions, and their conclusions are used to come up with new PR approaches. It’s a feedback loop.

The entire era of the 1960s was eventually treated as a trial balloon and examined by many analysts at think tanks and intelligence agencies and even advertising agencies.

The objective?

“What lessons can we learn that will enable us to exercise more control over the population?’

At a very important level, one lesson was: promote the idea that humans are groups, not individuals.

Judging by the enormous protests against the war in Vietnam, analysts could see there was a rising sentiment for collective action and collective thought.

How could this growing trend be channeled to produce a reduction of freedom?

One important point that was discovered: when the compulsory military draft ended, serenity (apathy) was immediately restored on college campuses. No more demonstrations. No more protests. Students suddenly focused on how they could “find a niche in the job market.”

So, lesson learned, and going forward: initiate a threat, encourage collective action, reduce the threat, bring about passivity. Introduce a new threat (real or imaginary), stimulate collective action, reduce that threat, create more apathy. On and on. Stimulus-response.

The end result? A generalized chronic apathy, plus an attitude that the individual is going extinct, and only the collective matters.

That’s a powerful dose of toxic medicine for a population.

Backing away from the entire era of the 1960s and viewing it as a trial balloon—a strategy that worked.

(Of course, during the 60s, various ops were launched with the intention to distract and dumb down the young population; among them, the flood of drugs, the Laurel Canyon hatchery of music stars, etc.)

Recently, we saw the Disneyland-measles op. Based on an absurdly small number of purported cases, a great amount of sentiment was stimulated.

First and foremost (without which the whole campaign would have fizzled), we had the Disney component.

“Happiest place on Earth…plus dire disease in children…horror story…the good turns sinister…where can we take our children for fun these days and remain safe from harm…save us…”

That was stage one.

Following from the initial imagery that transformed happiness into fear (the basis of any good horror movie), we were treated, in succession, to:

The kids who got sick weren’t vaccinated. Protect our children. They all need to be vaccinated. Without vaccination, sudden destruction spreads. Some parents are delinquent. What’s wrong with these parents? They’re anti-vaccine. They’re crazy. They’re against science. They’re uneducated morons. They’re criminals. They should be thrown in jail. Their kids should be taken away from them. We have to pass new laws making vaccination mandatory in all cases, in all places. What? You mean vaccines aren’t already mandatory? How can that be? Listen to doctors. They know the truth. The anti-vaccine crazies are pretending they’re doctors…

Moving targets. Knock one down, another pops up. One propaganda item (trial balloon) after another is launched. Public reaction is positive? Good. Float the next balloon. The public support is growing? Good. Press harder.

“Wow, this is going better than we expected. Fantastic. Let’s get a whole bunch of states to pass laws knocking out all exemptions to vaccination. Let’s double down.”

Again, this isn’t a perfectly executed machine-series of propaganda items…but it is a conscious op, and there are analysts who are gauging public reaction, blow by blow, and greenlighting new levels of pressure on the public.

Notice: the group phenomenon is at work here as well. Herd immunity must be obtained. Protect all the children through vaccination. Mothers must join the battle. The whole population is at risk. Collective propaganda. Collectivist thinking.

What any individual may decide about vaccination, based on belief, based on actual investigation… this must be discredited. The individual doesn’t count. He’s an outlier. He’s out of the loop.

Even in acknowledging that resistance to vaccination exists, government authorities and media anchors always frame the situation in terms of “a small but significant group” that opposes vaccines.

It’s never the individual. Why? Because that cuts too close to the bone. It tends to awaken the realization that freedom of choice and reason ultimately belong to the individual, not the monolithic State.

Don’t touch that hot wire. Leave it alone.

How about GMOs and Monsanto? US media propagandists occasionally admit there are groups and consumers who oppose GMOs in food, but how often do you see a featured lengthy story highlighting a single independent researcher’s conclusions criticizing Monsanto?

Again, keep the spotlight off the individual. He’s too real. Too impactful. He tends to remind people they are, in fact, individuals. Bad for business.

A drug company has committed egregious fraud by convincing doctors to prescribe a drug for off-label uses? On the network nightly news, where is the in-depth interview with a former company detail man whose job it was to visit doctors, in their offices, and persuade them to breach their Hippocratic Oath? Where is the interview with a doctor who took the bait?

Better to leave individuals out of it. Focus on groups: the company; the doctors; the patients. Less real. More abstract.

During the first stages of the “AIDS crisis,” just after HIV was announced as the single cause, a few astute researchers began taking apart the HIV hypothesis.

(Note: As a bonus, an .pdf version of my book, AIDS Inc.: Scandal of the Century, is included with the Power Outside The Matrix collection.)

HIV attacks the T-cells of the immune system? There is no evidence of high levels of HIV in those cells.

Next trial balloon (moving target): HIV actually does the most damage to the macrophages, another type of immune-system cell. No real evidence of that, either.

Wait (another trial balloon): HIV causes the immune system to attack the body in a whole cascade of deadly auto-immune reactions. No proof of that.

Wait: HIV is hiding very deep in the body, that’s why it’s hard to find much of it. But we can measure the amount of it (“viral load”) by doing the vaunted DNA test called PCR. Nonsense; the PCR doesn’t measure quantity.

One trial balloon after another; each one shot down.

But the overall effect? Many critics of the HIV hypothesis became tired, threw up their hands, exited the playing field, and sank into disgruntled apathy. Mission accomplished.

These various ops are really intelligence-agency type schemes, whether they come from the specific agencies themselves, other government bureaus, think tanks, PR firms.

For them, Reality itself is propaganda, outfitted along a time line with constant trial balloons, subsequent feedback, new and improved balloons, more feedback…a loop moving from present to future.

In other words, we are talking about the elite manufacture of the content of Time.

Propaganda isn’t merely a bag full of lies. It’s the continuing invention of a parallel universe. A parallel continuum.

And in that continuum, trial balloons and moving targets are prime instruments.

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 29^th 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.

The “dependent victim” psyop

The psychological operation to destroy the individual

by Jon Rappoport

February 28, 2015

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“American and British feminism has amazingly collapsed backward again into whining, narcissistic victimology… Too many of today’s young feminists seem to want hovering, paternalistic authority figures to protect and soothe them, an attitude I regard as servile, reactionary and glaringly bourgeois…” (Camille Paglia, the National Catholic Review, 2/25/15)

I could have titled this piece: “What government fears: the black entrepreneur.”

But the situation is much wider than that—-

Any person who comes out of an “officially designated victim-group” …and then succeeds in life on his own… and then goes one step further and refuses to identify his entire existence with his group… but instead stands as a unique individual… why, that person, at the very least, must be a criminal, if not a terrorist, right?

That’s the crux of the issue: never leave your group.

That’s how society, civilization, and culture are promoted these days.

“Groups have needs, agendas, and problems, and the solution will come from government.” That’s the all-embracing formula.

Who would invent and expand that formula? The beneficiary. Government.

The fake appearance is: victim groups are fighting for recognition and special status, and the government is pushing back—but that’s now a ruse. That’s a cover story. In fact, victim groups and government have the same goal: a relationship based on dependence. One side depends and the other side gives and protects.

The individual is out of the equation. He is portrayed as the greed-obsessed reason these victim groups exist and need help in the first place.

Banks, Wall Street, and mega-corporations are depicted as the end result of individualism, whereas the government is valiantly striving to solve this endemic problem.

In fact, government, banks, Wall Street, and mega-corporations are joined at the hip. They brush each others’ teeth first thing every morning.

Political correctness and the burgeoning movement to outlaw “offensive language” are merely tactics to: preserve groups’ separate identities; foment conflict between them; and ultimately foster their dependence on government authority.

The idea that the free and independent individual is a sociopath responsible for the existence of victims is absurd.

The truth is, you can’t get free individuals to depend on government. Only “besieged groups” can be relied on for that purpose.

In the State’s eyes, a perfect society would be composed of groups who have entirely forgotten the concept of the individual, as if it never existed.

Peter Collero, of the department of sociology, Western Oregon University, has written a book titled: The Myth of Individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives:

“Most people today believe that an individual is a person with an independent and distinct identification. This, however, is a myth.”

When Callero writes “identification,” he isn’t talking about ID cards and Social Security numbers. He’s talking about an absence of any uniqueness from person to person. He’s asserting there is no significant distinction between any two people. There aren’t two individuals to begin with. They’re a group.

This downgrading of the individual human spirit is far from accidental. It’s launched as a sustained propaganda campaign, the ultimate purpose of which is top-down control over billions of people organized into groups.

“The cold truth is that the individualist creed of everybody for himself and the devil take the hindmost is principally responsible for the distress in which Western civilization finds itself — with investment racketeering at one end and labor racketeering at the other. Whatever merits the [individualist] creed may have had in the days of primitive agriculture and industry, it is not applicable in an age of technology, science, and rationalized economy. Once useful, it has become a danger to society.” (Charles Beard, 1931)

Beard, a celebrated historian, sees no difference between individual racketeering and the individual freely choosing and living his own life. In making this judgment, he becomes an intellectual/propaganda racketeer of the highest order.

“British empiricist philosophy is individualist. And it is of course clear that if the only criterion of true and false which a man accepts is that man’s, then he has no base for social agreement. The question of how man ought to behave is a social question, which always involves several people; and if he accepts no evidence and no judgment except his own, he has no tools with which to frame an answer.” (Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values, 1956).

Bronowski is quite sure that hearing other people’s evidence and then keeping one’s own counsel is wrong. One has to accept that evidence on its face. This is sheer idiocy. Individuals are capable of deciding, on their own, what social agreements to enter into.

Here’s what journalist Glenn Greenwald (who is gay) has written about the symbolic nature of the American Presidency. Though not making reference to the group vs. the individual, Greenwald’s remarks illustrate the degree to which victim-symbology has taken hold in the US:

“Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a fucking hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the first female president, and women in America are going to be completely invested in her candidacy. Opposition to her is going to be depicted as misogynistic, like opposition to Obama has been depicted as racist. It’s going to be this completely symbolic messaging that’s going to overshadow the fact that she’ll do nothing but continue everything in pursuit of her own power. They’ll probably have a gay person [as President] after Hillary who’s just going to do the same thing.”

Regardless of the fact that the State and its allies are real oppressors who contribute mightily to creating real victims, what I’m talking about here is something quite apart from that: growing numbers of people who voluntarily take on the victim-mantle and seek comfort in nests of self-promoting groups who exaggerate and distort their own claims to special status.

The State needs these people. The State wants these people. Increasingly, the State employs these people.

Edward Bernays, the father of modern public relations, wrote: “It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.”

Bernays understood that the basis of successful propaganda is a mass audience, an audience composed of groups, not individuals.

Retired high-level propaganda operative, Ellis Medavoy (pseudonym), once told me, “There are two aspects of propaganda. There is everything you do to get people to think of themselves as group members. And then there are all the messages you send to those conditioned group members. You need both aspects.”

When a group assigns itself solid “victim-status,” it creates one basic rule: a member must not leave the group. Why? Because if he does, he’s claiming he is no longer a victim—and that assertion is a betrayal.

Nice and neat. A prison.

“I’m a free individual.”

“You’re crazy. There is no such thing. Now get back in the group where you belong.”

Down at the root, betrayal begins as self-betrayal. The individual gives up the ghost. From that point on, his politics don’t matter. He forgets what he could have been. He defines himself by race and religion and country and rank ideology and group. He finds words and feeling through which he can express his role in a stage play that decays him from the inside out.

Eventually, if lunatics have their way, every person on planet Earth will be designated a victim. That will be the group of groups.

It won’t matter why and how everyone supposedly turns out to be a victim. The reasons will be forgotten. People will “instinctively” sign on to the agenda.

And the management team running the world will put another check mark on their sheet of objectives:

“Earth is beginning to resemble one giant hospital/mental institution. Break out the champagne.”

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 29^th 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.