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What is Intelligence? 84
but when we finally crack up healthwise, or psychologically under the
pressure of stress and depersonalization, they have got an equally huge
compendium of “solutions” – some medical, some not – to what happens
to us when we have succeeded in destroying ourselves under the hypnotic
agenda of their “motivational therapy” (i.e. purchase and be happy).
The real agenda of government and the power brokers of our society is
well demonstrated in the John Carpenter “cult movie” They Live, as is
also demonstrated the stubborn difficultt one has in trying to make the
mass of people see their hypnotic state, which by definition is almost
impossible, as hypnosis implies unawareness, ignorance, mindlessness.
And this hypnosis of us, carried out almost entirely by the media is a
never ending process. Every day we are told not only what to buy, but
what to think, what to feel, what to be, because we are continually
confronted with images of what others feel and think and are doing, and
we feel compelled to join in.
If on television tomorrow was announced that the leading members of our
society had decided that pogo-sticking, nude yoga or whatever was the
most important thing to do in our leisure time, huge numbers of us would
join in, no matter how crazy and ridiculous it seemed.
First we would shake our heads, and momentarily think “this is stupid,
this is crazy”, but they would first show us images of the “leaders” and
“authorities” in celebrity society doing it, you know - Jennifer Anniston,
Madonna and the equally feministic Nicole Kidman, or their male
counterparts Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Guy Ritchie and so on - and think up
increasingly sophisticated arguments – just like in the Emperor’s New
Clothes story – to persuade us that such is the way to behave.
For example, millions of people go to rock concerts and blaringly loud
discos, where one can’t even hear what the person next to you is saying,
merely because it is what everybody else is now doing.
We have already mentioned the psychological experiment in which
twenty people in a line are told to identify the colour of a blue object, and
when the first nineteen (“plants”, told to lie) say it is green, invariably the
twentieth (innocent person, unaware of the “conspiracy”) will say green
also, despite the evidence of their senses totally to the contrary.
This “peer pressure” now directed to us all via every channel of social
activity is absolutely staggering.