Where do we get this sense
of shame for having moral values... a sense of right and wrong... the
sense of the whole purpose of keeping oneself well-informed is to come
out knowing nothing, and having no grounds for making value judgments...
and even a growing sense of guilt for wanting to preserve a political system
that offers real choices? What is that vast pervasive power that influences
people's sense of reality far more than family, school, church, employers,
government, the economy and the mental health system, this thing that seems to
be omnipotent... all seeing... that knows everything and sees everything, but
without there being a human face behind it?
In the great big blur on the surface of reality, it is the media, but
behind it all, we can find real human beings. The media are not God, although
as a monolithic facade with its peculiarly uniform perspective now covering a global
outreach that assimiliates everything in its reach,
it does create the impression of a universal entity that controls the
perceptions of all people on the planet. The media are like the pyramid
and the all-seeing eye that we take for granted on the dollar bill along
with the Freemason slogans in Latin, one of which claims that God favors
their actions.
But there are human faces behind it. They seem invisible and
untouchable only because of the power they have to decide what we don't
need to know. How many daily newspapers and major television networks have done
investigative reports on the media conglomerates and the media mergers the
past few years? When ABC was bought out by the Disney Company
a few years ago, I recall that Ted Koppell
gave a frank assessment of the implications of it with a veiled warning about
how media mergers will inevitably compromise the content of news coverage, yet
even before Koppell's commentary, Newspeak was
already a reality. Koppell is no George
Orwell.
George Orwell's book, 1984 has provided the most penetrating look at the power
of those who control the media of our times. The most illuminating thing
that Orwell showed was the power of invisible elites to induce people to think
that words are realities in themselves. These are a class of words
that refer to the assumptions of an unconscious collective mind that governs
us, but yet are full of contradictions. Orwell was aware of the
power of this language, but he didn't go into specific detail as to how the
"Doublespeak" and "Insoc"
of his totalitarian scenario parallels the underlying psychology of the
media abuse of language in the real world... how this language allows logic
to support illogic and rationalism to be used to rationalize the irrational and
evil to be masked as good, even in the name of God. At the International
Coalition for Intellectual Cooperation website, I have compiled a list of
articles with the most extensive study of the Doublespeak on the Internet at
http://home.earthlink.net/~openbook/Coal.cont.html under "Psychology as
Totalitarian Control.
Before you go there, I'd like to give you a sample of how the atrocities that
we live with daily are presented in the media as being of a mysterious nature
independent of anyone's moral judgment and independent of blame of any human
beings.
In the local San Francisco media yesterday, there was news of the Surgeon
General David Satcher's decision to start taking
the high rate of suicide in this country seriously along with the more general
problem of "mental illness" as a public health threat.
According to an Associated press article, there were
about 30,000 suicides in 1997 compared with fewer than 19,000
homicides. What is most startling is that the suicide rate has doubled
since 1980 among children ages 10 to 14 and by 14 percent for the 15-24
year-olds age group. The contradictions of the adult world are
particularly difficult to tolerate for sensitive young people trying to
make sense of education and the moral codes in a society that tells us to
ignore what they are taught and what their eyes see. To survive, all people
must learn how to tolerate contradiction.
In another news item from the San Francisco Examiner, there is an
article for 7-23-99 headlined, "Mexican women go on strike against machismo.
Some of the content of this article is about the Mexico City mayor urging women
to refrain from all forms of housework for 24 hours as a statement against
machismo. But, further into the article, we see that it isn't a statement about
the quest of women for fairness in the distribution of household duties,
but about the "equality" that affluent working women in Mexico
have gained to go to male strip shows. It boasts that since "For Women
Only," a show featuring male strippers opened April 21, it has sold
170,000 tickets. An administration member is quoted as saying, "What we
are fighting for is for equal rights and for a better quality of life."
Two days after the above article appeared in the S.F. Examiner, there is
another article that shows the "progress" of women towards
"equality". This article is headlined, "Violent crime by young
women no longer rare, growing quickly." This article tells us that the
number of arrests of young women is up 25% in 4 years while the rate for
males has remained unchanged. In the context of the media, any
relationship between the two stories must be regarded as purely coincidental,
since there are no other women with a different perspective from the women
represented who think that watching male strippers is progress for women.
Certainly, there are millions of other women out there with high moral standards,
but again, real information doesn't count as news; only fluff. And if their
children commit suicide, more money will be called for by the government for
counselors and public "education" about "mental illness".
The greatest call to action to the faithful is not any of the political
parties, but the New World Order. Rather than attacking any of the
symptoms, we need to go directly to the disease, itself. Moral people are
the greatest victims of the New World Order. We have been demonized,
marginalized, made invisible and turned against each other. So it is time to
fight back, and organize protests at the doorsteps of the media. We must not
allow faith to be suffocated. Let's fight the New World Order at the doorsteps
of TV studios and, local newspapers, the wire services, and their corporate
offices. We need people to get out the word. Let's do it! Please help get the
ball rolling.
Look up aspartame,
suicide, and A.D.D.