“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
― Noam Chomsky
So... instead, they should vote for the Republicans who just voted to sell off the National Forests? (<- This is a URL... stupid software makes it grey instead of blue) Is that what I'm getting out of your statement?
If the majority of blacks were not under mind control, they would begin to look at the Republican party blacks to see if their average life style and level of opportunity is better.
For example, almost all the marches for black rights, spawned by the shooting in Ferguson, that occurred last summer, were in Democrat controlled cities, like NY, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, etc. The most emotional protests were within cites controlled by the Democratic party; blacks and sympathetic white felt the most racism by the police.
The mind control is so skillfully done, this perception of racism by the police is blame on the republicans, who have little power in those cities. The republicans would do things differently, but they have no power to do so in those democratic party strong holds. Yet they are called the boogey man to be feared.
The question is how can you get so may people to ignore the obvious? One way is to keep them dependent on you so they are beholden to you. If a mother does everything for her son, he will learn to love the comfort and ease. This is nice but it impacts his own self reliance. He may love the way mom cooks, but he has to wait for mom to cook, before he can eat. He can't control when he and what he eats, unless he can control mom, which the blacks do not.
Because the son is dependent on his mom and can't control her, she can set conditions, before she will cook his favorite meal. This tactic works better the hungrier the son becomes. If the son is always full and satiated, he will become less dependent on her for food. This is why after 50 years of the war against poverty, the poverty rates have not change; the mind control needs hunger and need to remain for better leverage. The republican are not allowed to tamper with the formula for mind control success.
The republican party is more about self reliance, which requires the son do more for himself. The son may not be able to cook as well as mom, but if he learns to cook he be full and then he gets to control his life.
Just wondering who here thinks mass mind control exists?
I recall a friend of mine saying "simple things amuse simple minds".
Edit: I don't mean the OP.
I believe there is a need to clearly differentiate between the terms "control" and "influence".
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
I understand your point. Do you think this touches upon the philosophical subject of whether Free Will exists or not?I'd say there's little difference between the two because if you influence people by advertising lets say then you'd be, in a sense, mind controlling them at the same time. People are easily influenced lets say in buying a new shirt because they always need a new one every now and then. The companies know this and with that in mind roll out shirt adds that influence people into buying a new shirt, not just any new shirt but that companies new shirt. Seen enough times on TV, magazines, newspaper and heard on the radio people are being influenced into buying a new shirt but not just any new shirt but the companies new shirt that it was advertising about.
However the more you know your self the greater your capacity to self determine. The more ignorant you are of yourself and your subtle feelings the more easily influenced you are...( Examples that acknowledge this: Laws on age of maturity, age of consent etc)So people have that shirt in mind when they go out shopping and when they see it along side other new shirts the pick it out as a better new shirt because they were influenced by the commercials which were also controlling their minds about which shirt was better for them. This technique has been done for centuries with just about anything that companies have to sell.
and here I believes is a clue.You can use the same analogy with politics. People are influenced and thereby mind controlled by the media as to which political party is better for them. That's mind control at its best. Today politics is more based on how much money you'll get for voting for the "right" party rather than what's best to help everyone out. One party will tell you they will increase your welfare checks and if you are on welfare just hearing that will influence you to vote for that party no matter what the other party tells you unless they will give you more money which they never do.
However the more you know your self the greater your capacity to self determine. The more ignorant you are of yourself and your subtle feelings the more easily influenced you are...( Examples that acknowledge this: Laws on age of maturity, age of consent etc)
You raise a valid point I feel.. and one that can be added to all the others.But everyone is limited to what they want by what's available to them today. My example of shirts come to mind. There are only x amount of shirts that are made and only X amount of them are sold where you live in the stores that surround you. So if you can only choose what is in your area you are limited as to what they can influence you with to buy. You don't know of designer shirts because no one there carries them and aren't available to you. It isn't that your ignorant it is because many companies don't sell certain shirts everywhere. So you how can you choose if you don't have all the information?
You raise a valid point I feel.. and one that can be added to all the others.
Expanded a little you could use the Movies like Logan's Run or Matrix for example, where by people are controlled by their ignorance and presumptions.
"Your presumptions are my greatest weapon" someone I read ages ago said.
So ...what stops a person from questioning the status quo and looking beyond or outside the box? ( now that's mind control using your definition IMO)
There are many examples of this blocking of the "questioner" here at sciforums for example...as there are every where in societies around the world.
Perhaps if you answer my questions instead of progressing along without defining what you actually mean by "mind control"?Sarkus, perhaps if you do some serious research into the experiences of those persons who have managed to escape serious cultism and the post traumatic stress disorders they suffered we might be able to entertain a more useful discussion.(*)