[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Gregus wrote:
The Power elite has Politicians to keep everyone divided. And if you look at the big picture that’s exactly the result they’ve had. They work the human psyche very well. Anyway, i woke up, have you?
PS.
I know I’m crazy.
No, you’re not.
"The first thing to be degraded in any nation is the state of Man, himself. Nations which have high ethical tone are difficult to conquer. Their loyalties are hard to shake, their allegiance to their leaders is fanatical, and what they usually call their spiritual integrity cannot be violated by duress. It is not efficient to attack a nation in such a frame of mind. It is the basic purpose of Psychopolitics to reduce that state of mind to a point where it can be ordered and enslaved. Thus, the first target is Man, himself. He must be degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic reaction pattern. He must think of himself as an animal, capable only of animalistic reactions. He must no longer think of himself, or of his fellows, as capable of “spiritual endurance,” or nobility.
The best approach toward degradation in its first stages is the propaganda of “scientific approach” to Man. Man must be consistently demonstrated to be a mechanism without individuality, and it must be educated into a populace under attack that Man’s individualistic reactions are the product of mental derangement. The populace must be brought into the belief that every individual within it who rebels in any way, shape, or form against the efforts and activities to enslave the whole, must be considered to be a deranged person whose eccentricities are neurotic and insane, and who must have at once the treatment of a psychopolitician.
An optimum condition in such a program of degradation would address itself to the military forces of the nation, and bring them rapidly away from any other belief than the disobedient one must be subjected to “mental treatment.” An enslavement of a population can fail only if these rebellious individuals are left to exert their individual influences upon their fellow citizens, sparking them into rebellion, calling into account their nobilities and freedoms. Unless these restless individuals are stamped out and given into the hands of psychopolitical operatives early in the conquest,there will be nothing but trouble as the conquest continues. The officials of the government, students, readers, partakers of entertainment,must all be indoctrinated, by whatever means, into the complete belief that the restless, the ambitions, the natural leaders, are suffering from environmental maladjustments, which can only be healed by recourse to psychopolitical operatives in the guise of mental healers.
By thus degrading the general belief in the status of Man it is relatively simple, with co-operation from the economic salients being driven into the country, to drive citizens apart, one from another, to bring about a question of the wisdom of their own government, and to cause them to actively beg for enslavement."
—from Soviet Handbook of Brainwashing
Read the above, then watch an Obama rally from last year.
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Although I respect whatever views you may have about our current administration, I have never met anyone I consider highly intelligent who would vouch for that sack of crap. If are trying to say that Obama is actively seeking to enslave the minds of his people, say it. Although, if that is indeed your point, I would advise that you begin with a much more practical means of argument rather than a subjective interpretation of your so called “soviet brain washing book”.
As I’ve mentioned before, the lack of faith for the current administration is the most interesting reaction I can imagine. Hypothesizing the effects of political philosophies and their probable outcome really doesn’t mount to a hill of beans. At least have the virtue of patience, Obama hasn’t even been around for a year!