Axiom

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Just2Good

I missed the point Axiom. Something about television branwashing people? Indeed, I think there may be some truth in that notion.

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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

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antichrist

Religious schools are brainwashing factories

Just2Good

Non-Religious schools are brainwashing factories

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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

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Axiom

Axiom : Schools are brainwashing factories .

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Calvin

Universities are brainwashing factories

Axiom

as well , correct .

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chesschesschess

brainwashing factories are brainwashing factories
(you never would've guessed that!)

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Axiom

illuminating reading : the history of mass compulsory schooling and the history of intelligence agencies

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Just2Good

Non-religious universities are brainwashing factories.

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Axiom

This amazing interview took place in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because the USA has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.

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Allegory Of The Cave: Meet Your Puppet-Handlers

Plato’s ‘The Allegory of the Cave‘ is from book VII of his most famous work, The Republic. He begins ‘The Allegory‘ by describing a dark cave found underground where a group of people are sitting in ‘one long row with their backs to the cave’s entrance’. They are chained to their chairs from an early age and all that the humans can see is the distant cave wall in front of them. Their view of reality is completely based upon this limited view of the cave which but an unenlightened view of the real world.

In addition to the chained people, there are other people in the cave. Plato refers to them as the puppet-handlers and they are the ones holding those in the cave captive. (It is important to realize that the prisoners do not realize this–in fact, the prisoners do not even realize that they are being held captive since this existence is all they have ever known.) Walking behind the prisoners, the puppet-handlers hold up various objects found in the real world. Due to a fire that is burning the mouth of the cave, the prisoners are able to see the objects and each other only as distorted, flickering shadows on the cavern wall in front of them.

The prisoners can not see the actual objects or the puppet-makers because they are unable to turn their heads. From childhood, “…their legs and necks [have been] in bonds so that they are fixed, seeing only [what is] in front of them…. As Plato goes on to later explain, “the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”

Similarly to the Plato’s engulfing allegory is the current state of todays world wherein humans believe exactly what they are told by the oligarchy (i.e puppet-handlers), refusing to question what their eyes behold.We are brutally fooled by the political masquerades thus easily allowing ourselves to believe what we hear within the limited scope of society (i.e the cave). Furthermore, we accept what our senses tell us – that what we are experiencing,seeing and hearing through the mainstream media is all that really exists – nothing more.
The puppet-handlers, as Plato calls them in his allegory, represent the prominent, authoritarian members of society (i.e the Government) who live inside the artificial paradigm that they have created for the rest of us.
Going along with the allegory we notice that Plato does give us hope; one freed prisoner who would eventually escape and flee the cave wherein he would see,for the first time, what the real world looks like.

After finding himself free the intellectual individual would then “…suffer sharp pains; the glare [would] distress him, and he [would] be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows….he’d be at a loss and believe that what was seen before is truer than what is now shown.”
This can easily be related to the amount of confusion one meets once he is aware of reality,beyond what the media and oligarchy have been feeding us. Later the confusion will subside and:

“When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities… He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven….Last of he will be able to see the sun…”

After the discovery of the sun (i.e The Truth) the intellectual individual will then wish to share the life-changing discovery of the real world with those still trapped in the cave – setting out on a mission to free them from their chains. An example of these types of intellectuals would be bloggers, underground media news broadcasters etc [...]

But as a blogger myself I can attest to the fact that this mission is not at all simple due to the fact that, like in Plato’s allegory, those still trapped in the artificial world become hostile and refuse to face the possibility of another reality – for this would go against every form of understanding they have been fed to believe.

The Allegory of the Cave, written over 2000 years ago, is undeniably relevant today – maybe even more than it was during the time of Plato – and
just as in the allegory there are main characters which cause the fable to continue:

1.Those chained within the cave:
Refusing to take notice to anything but the shadows on the wall. An example can be those who sit and watch their television,refusing to seek out anything besides the shadows displayed through the screen (the television sets we have are just more advanced cave walls).

2.The puppet-handlers:
Individuals/Groups who form the shadows on the cave walls for the prisoners to see (i.e mainstream media,government) – nothing more.

3.The freed men:
Those who leave the cave and walk into the light (i.e Truth) yet do not use the knowledge they have found or ignore it.

4.The freed men who come back to free the rest of the prisoners:
The bloggers,radical journalists,underground broadcasters etc [...]

The meaning behind Plato’s allegory is that the majority within society shall prefer to remain chained to their ignorance or allow themselves to remain shackled to the false reality fed to them by the oligarchy – left only to with the shadows of truth oftentimes manipulated by the puppet-handlers (i.e government). Only a few,the wise and intelligent,will be willing to free themselves from these shackles and open their eyes to the truth, no matter how blinding it may be at first.

This is our allegory and we are living it right now.
So take your pick – Do you stay in the cave or free yourself?

Allegory Of The Cave: Meet Your Puppet-Handlers « Political Theatrics

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antichrist

Ax, I have not read all of this as too lengthy but could an analogy be drawn with posters who don't challenge mods on bb? who behave as not to be seen to be self-thinkers

Axiom

I would certainly consider that to be a most valid viewpoint .

It's the spirit of the age

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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
October 18, 2009

It’s another pitiful example revealing that the Tea Party movement is being played. Drew Zahn, reporting for WorldNetDaily, covers protesters around the country this past weekend “challenging the mainstream media to drop a perceived news bias and give fair coverage to the growing movement against Obama administration policies.”

Supporters of Fox News and Glenn Beck’s 9-12 movement accused the media in general of biased reporting on Big Government issues like health care reform and stimulus spending, according to Zahn. They carried signs reading “State Run Media,” “Take the Left From Your Slant,” and “Journalism Malpractice – Just Report the Facts.”

They went after CNN, ABC, MSNBC, local news media and newspapers. Fox News was not included in the protest.

Infowars and Prison Planet have noted on numerous occasions that CNN is a branch office of the Pentagon and the Pentagon is hardly a liberal or leftist organization. The death merchant General Electric owns NBC. GE and Microsoft, the software corporation founded by the eugenicist Bill Gates, jointly own MSNBC. Mega-transnational corporation Westinghouse — also dedicated to the death merchant business — owns CBS. ABC, owned by Disney, gave $640,000 to the neocons and Bush election campaign.

Large transnational corporations are not liberal or leftist and do not subscribe to socialism or Marxism, as the protesters claim. However, they do subscribe to big government, so long as they are part of the arrangement.

Obamacare is not about socialism. It’s about mega-corporations gaining market share at gunpoint. The Baucus version of Obamacare was written by a senior aide, Liz Fowler, a former VP for Public Policy and External Affairs at WellPoint, a health insurance company which is the largest member of Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

According to Rep. Dennis Kucinich from Ohio, the uproar over private versus public health insurance options is really a ruse to cover up a proposal for taxpayer-funded subsidies that will be paid to the billion-dollar private insurance industry.

It would seem the protesters are locked in a Fox News generated voodoo trance. Obama administration policies are not significantly different than those of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs and the banksters controlled the Bush administration the same way they now control the Obama administration.

Henry Paulson, Bush’s Treasury Secretary, was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. Bush’s chief of staff, Josh Bolten, and the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Jeffery Reuben, were Goldman operatives. Stephen Friedman, who briefly headed the White House National Economic Council, came from Goldman and then went back. Goldman hired Robert Zoellick, who stepped down as the US deputy secretary of state, and Faryar Shirzad, who worked as one of Bush’s national security advisers.

The 9-12 and hijacked Tea Party movements demand an end to Big Government schemes. Case in point, Obama’s “stimulus” boondoggle. If you read between the lines you will soon discover this scheme has nothing to do with socialism, Marxism, or mitigating the effects of the bankster engineered depression on the average person. It’s all about enriching the bankers and corporations at the expense of blindsided plebs.

It’s about expanding the national debt. “The Obama administration economic stimulus package is going to force the Treasury to borrow approximately $2.5 trillion in 2009 and another $4 trillion in 2010, with the result of increasing the current $10 trillion national debt by 65 percent in just two years,” writes Jerome Corsi. “If the Obama administration increases the national debt by 65 percent every two years, the debt will be $16.5 trillion in 2010 and $27.225 trillion by 2012, the year of the next presidential election.”

George Bush increased the national debt by more than $4 trillion during his reign, the largest increase in U.S. history. On the day Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion and by the time he exited it had ballooned to more than $9.849 trillion, a 71.9 percent increase.

In the video above, you will see no placards calling George Bush a Marxist.

How does Congress pay for a stimulus that stimulates nothing except astronomical debt into perpetuity? It turns to the Federal Reserve. The banksters who own the Fed loan the money to the government with interest. The money does not exist. It is created out of thin air and entered as numbers in computers by the banksters and then loaned to the government. Interest on the debt now stands at more than $12 trillion. That’s more than $1.2 billion per day.

So long as protesters and activists engage in silly theatrics — calling the Pentagon’s disinfo operation and Obama’s Goldman Sachs operatives Marxist — the cancer will continue to metastasize and eventually destroy the country.

Instead of yelling at NBC talking heads at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, they need to protest at David Rockefeller’s address and that of his fellow banksters at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.

They also need to stop taking marching orders from Glenn Beck and Fox News.

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