| result of a person wanting to change their appearance or health by controlling their animal instinct for food. This is merely a small example of how a human can change his or her actions by using thoughts and emotions. Knowing this, it stands to reason that anyone who can gain influence over the thoughts and emotions of others will also be able to control the actions of those people. How many times have we all heard or read about the enormous power that Hitler gained in 1930s Germany? That power was not the result of tanks and marching storm troopers. It was the result of winning the hearts and minds of millions of men and women, thus allowing the dictator to build his tanks, supply his storm troopers, and suppress dissent. It was only by winning the population over that Hitler was able to dominate them. In modern America (and much of the West), we tend to believe that we are totally immune from such manipulation. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Virtually every part of our lives is controlled by someone else, and that control is being used to push us further away from making our own decisions. The two most obvious arenas of control are the government and the workplace. The average citizen will have to come into contact with both on thousands of occasions, so both represent a great opportunity to shape the thoughts of the people. When used in tandem, they are especially effective at bending minds. It has been said that governments will only continue to make new laws, partly as a way to stay with the times, and partly as a way to stay in power. The true problems begin when the greedy bureaucracy that makes new laws for the sake of staying in power starts to encroach on individual rights. Visiting sites like infowars.com will spell out to even the most ardent believer in the system that our government is attempting to take away our rights and liberties every day. Stories from mainstream outlets on the site range from recent efforts to discourage free speech on college campuses, to the involuntary collection of DNA from all those who are merely accused of a crime. The point is the government is making great strides at dictating law to we the people, and even greater strides at getting us to believe that’s a good thing. Instead of laws flowing from the bottom up, as is supposed to be the case in a republic, we are witnessing the sharp increase in laws coming from the top down. And of course, the yes men in the mainstream media promote this to no end. We are losing control of our nation, and yet we are being told by the government and media that the only way to save the Constitution is to trample it. The only way to save the flag is to burn it. The only way to save America is to destroy it. This, in turn, spurs many people to follow what they see on the news, and actually believe that only destruction of our way of life will save them. If you think this is untrue, do a small experiment to support your argument. Ask a friend or coworker who has only seen the mainstream news what he or she thinks of the war on terror, or any other current “hot topic”, and chances are they will give you a carbon copy answer of one of the two “sides” that appear on the TV. One of the reasons this type of programming and absolute lies will be accepted by the masses is their lack of time and/or energy to sift through the headlines and find out what is going on. It takes effort to look for truth, and for many people, after a day of hard work there is little desire to go hunting for answers. The workplace is the means of getting the people whipped down to the point of complacency, and is a nice way to increase willingness to believe what is seen on TV. It’s obvious that the majority of people have to work for a living. Most have to work for other people. Working for others lends itself to certain losses of freedom, because, in effect, you are selling those 8 or 10 hours per day of your life to the employer. Unfortunately, the corporate structure itself compounds this loss of freedom tremendously. Basic corporate set up is fascist by nature. Usually there are a large group of low level employees, who report and answer directly to a smaller set of managerial types, who in turn often report to another level of manager. Creative input, particularly at the lower level, is usually discouraged, and typically results in friction with those who “rank” higher. Individualism is completely forbidden, or limited to cubical decoration and tie color. In fact, most of the lower level workers end up being so paralyzed by fear that they will often do as much as possible to go unnoticed. Being exposed to such an environment that prohibits individualism and stymies creativity often lowers morale, and these feelings usually travel home with the worker, long after the day is done. The feeling that remains is that the individual is just one cog in a giant machine that cannot possibly make a difference, so why try? After all, it’s easier just to follow orders and keep your mouth shut. Go along to get along. The danger is that this attitude imprints in the mind of the individual, and finds its way to other facets of his or her life, including family and government. The worker, now beaten down and worn out, is ready to go home and click on the television news, in the perfect, fragile condition to accept the lies and propaganda of the infobabe or “most trusted” journalist of the month. By exhausting people both mentally and physically, and also demoralizing them by preventing any kind of input or individualism, the workplace often lowers resistance to the government propaganda appearing on the news. It is in this way that people are trained to believe that there is no reason to stand up and think differently, or act differently than the people shown on television. Instead, they are given acceptable behavioral models on the TV, models that display when the proper time is for protests, tears, laughs, anger, hatred, and love. By stamping out feelings of individualism, and exhausting people mentally and physically, the workplace facilitates the belief in any sort of presented “authority” that appears on the screen. This near worship of authority also provides a fierce resistance to information that is not seen on TV. The action that follows this tragic series of events is inaction, and continued blind acceptance of whatever the world news tonight displays as truth. This is the basis for the corporate/government axis. |
| The Corporate/Government Axis By Kevin Newsom Humans are very unique creatures. We have the ability to control our behavior by the use of reason and feelings. Whereas many members of the animal kingdom are chained to instinctual behavior, people have the ability to alter their actions based on their beliefs. For example, it is our instinct to eat when we are hungry, and those who are fortunate enough to have food are free to enjoy it whenever they wish. There are many, however, that have plenty of food and don’t eat when they are hungry. Dieting is the |
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