Post by hagall on Sept 28, 2005 14:52:19 GMT 4
Mass media is the terrorist tool of economic powers. According to the oxford english dictionary, a terrorist is:
one who uses violent and intimidating methods of coercing a government or community
Bearing in mind that violent encompasses vehement, passionate, and extreme in it's definition, as well as force and/or it's threat; Government and its media tool are the greatest terrorist threat for us to fear.
The following is a work in progress, an attempt to make sense out how and why the world has come this point. If we can understand the causes, we can start to find a solution.
Coherency out of Chaos; a truth in progress
The world of media has been a subliminal tool since man conceived a desire to control and dominate the world around. We discovered in ourselves an ability to shape the world around us to suit our needs and desires. We discovered how to shape the thoughts of those around by creating potent images in their minds which could frighten them into believing the creator of the images had the power to protect them. In this discovery we created a truth for ourselves along the lines of, “we can control it, and therefore we are its masters”. Instead of wondering about the consequences of this truth, or wether there might be more to the story, we didn’t wonder if we should it just mattered that we could. It didn’t matter if our actions would make life harder/worse for successive generations only that it would make things better for us here and now. Due to the influence of economic considerations, this way of thinking has become entrenched in the way we see value in our thoughts.
There a lot of things that I can do, I know that if I desire to learn and absorb another’s truth, with time and repetition I am able to replicate their truths. I can’t purely replicate though, I always feel like there is something more, can always see that one way of is not automatically better than another, each have their relevant points. I ask why? I ask should I? Just because we can do, should we? Most of the learning I have been exposed to is faulty; it is too rigid, too static. Due to learning and experience, these truths do not replace mine, but rather add to a repository of images which at times feel chaotic and incomprehensible. I believe that it is the dynamically chaotic nature of truth that makes people accept the simple truth to be the most correct.
Thought is not static, learning is not static, and the truth is not a fixed entity that can be discovered. Truth is the sum of all experiences, thoughts, and feelings, plus everything you will think about, feel or experience tomorrow. And as they say, tomorrow never comes, are rather it is always yet to come. This makes truth an incomplete sum.
A term I hear more often these days and wish to propagate, in the interest of using a simple image to describe the results of a complex campaign, is sheople! People being conditioned to act and react like sheep.
Sheople are existent due to simple human nature, it is easier to believe that there is a simple truth, something that can be grasped. Easier to let someone else tell us what is the best way of thinking, the best way of doing. Easier to follow a pattern, become a creature of habit. It is easier to let another gather the information and attempt to fit it together like a jig-saw puzzle, because of the complexity of the underlying image. It is through the many mediums of story telling that we receive the images/ thoughts of these thinkers. The problem is the one’s telling the stories can use these images to restrict and be in command of the audiences’ truth. Quite simply, control through conditioning.
Stories and the way they are told have a greater ability to influence whole generations and their descendants towards the desired goals of the ones with control over the telling of the story. Since the times of cavemen using images drawn on cave walls we have been exposed to stories as a way of conditioning successive generations to a way of thinking that reflects the morals and ethics, and basic ways of life that are the “truths” of the storytellers’ world. In the purity of communication these images grew with successive generations to encompass the collective knowledge.
As can be seen from Australian aboriginal art and the stories which are told in different areas of a vast continent; a similar way of belief can be influenced amongst tribes/nations which never came face to face, through the interpretation of images. In a time when verbal communication was more limited, pictures conveyed more meaning than sounds ever could.
In reality images we refer to as art are the first example of literature. Writing and words arise out images, since letters are symbols for sounds; when these sounds are ways grouped together, they create words; words are a mutual way of seeing an item, or image. Pictures, however, can have a different meaning for the reader than what the original artist hoped to convey. It is through these interpretations that learning, understanding, and communication has evolved. One person creates the image seen through their eyes, this is their truth. It comes from everything this person has seen and done. When another comes along and reads this truth, the interpretation is based upon the viewers’ experiences and feelings up to the time of reading the message. Communication and language has evolved around the diverse sounds attributed to image by artists and audiences.
The methods of communication that we refer to as media, the amalgamation of images and sounds with the intent of constructing a desired interpretation, creating a desired feeling; changing an image within one’s memory. Through stories, media is able to subliminally insert messages into entertainment
With the spoken word, a talented speaker can create an image in the mind of the listener. This is because we think in images rather than words. The image created in the mind of the listener will also be different from the intended message, due to the interpretation being based upon past experiences and present feelings at the time. If the image created by the speaker is more potent than the images in listeners memory, if the listener is drawn into the story as a result of being entertained, it supplants one’s thought, replaces one’s own truth. For most it is easy to accept these potent images as truth. Acceptance comes from inability to see beyond the images, see that there might be things missing from the image or things added to it. Only the one telling the story can fully know what truth is in the story, and what has been added or left out; even the storytellers’ truth is jaded by memory, and another storyteller’s truth.
Mass media is a tool of population control. It is forceful utensil for effecting static belief. Mass media reaches out to the general populace as one, and subtly attempts to sway the thoughts and feelings of the masses. Creating the desired appearance of how to think and act, through potent images which must be a reflection of the majority, due to their potency. When the images created by others supplant our capacity to adapt our own thoughts and feelings, we develop belief and faith in the creator. In this way our thoughts become static, belief in the images is strengthened by the repetitive similarity we are shown in the mass media. It is in accepting these images that sheeple were created.
When you look at it carefully enough, you can see that religion is a searing example of how much control mass media can evince within a populace.
Yet, the most durable stories throughout our evolution and growth teach us of the fallibility of man’s attempts to control rather than complement our surroundings; we erroneously attempt to replicate our own truth in others, rather than allowing ourselves to evolve to a larger truth evident in collective knowledge.
The purest ideal of the internet is collective knowledge; promoting the open interaction of wide-ranging truths with the aspiration of being able to see the ever evolving big picture. The dynamic truth! Those who desire to discover, to learn, and gain wisdom, have the ability to share this desire, are the ones that created the internet. “Wisdom and knowledge cannot be forced upon another, it has to be wanted. Yet, as with all other media, the ideal of the internet is subject to corruption. Where one sees the medium as a way of sharing knowledge to increase understanding, others see it as yet another tool for manipulation of truth; another means enforcing static truths, like economy.
Static truth equals control; we have been conditioned to believe economy is a true necessity of life. This conditioning has been so thorough that the accruement of wealth is the driving factor for thought. If we cannot see profit in a way of thinking, then the thought is unworthy of attention. Unfortunately, due to such conditioning profit is associated with money; unless you are in a financial position to indulge in “fantasy”, society attempts to attach a sense of guilt to the pursuit of knowledge.
one who uses violent and intimidating methods of coercing a government or community
Bearing in mind that violent encompasses vehement, passionate, and extreme in it's definition, as well as force and/or it's threat; Government and its media tool are the greatest terrorist threat for us to fear.
The following is a work in progress, an attempt to make sense out how and why the world has come this point. If we can understand the causes, we can start to find a solution.
Coherency out of Chaos; a truth in progress
The world of media has been a subliminal tool since man conceived a desire to control and dominate the world around. We discovered in ourselves an ability to shape the world around us to suit our needs and desires. We discovered how to shape the thoughts of those around by creating potent images in their minds which could frighten them into believing the creator of the images had the power to protect them. In this discovery we created a truth for ourselves along the lines of, “we can control it, and therefore we are its masters”. Instead of wondering about the consequences of this truth, or wether there might be more to the story, we didn’t wonder if we should it just mattered that we could. It didn’t matter if our actions would make life harder/worse for successive generations only that it would make things better for us here and now. Due to the influence of economic considerations, this way of thinking has become entrenched in the way we see value in our thoughts.
There a lot of things that I can do, I know that if I desire to learn and absorb another’s truth, with time and repetition I am able to replicate their truths. I can’t purely replicate though, I always feel like there is something more, can always see that one way of is not automatically better than another, each have their relevant points. I ask why? I ask should I? Just because we can do, should we? Most of the learning I have been exposed to is faulty; it is too rigid, too static. Due to learning and experience, these truths do not replace mine, but rather add to a repository of images which at times feel chaotic and incomprehensible. I believe that it is the dynamically chaotic nature of truth that makes people accept the simple truth to be the most correct.
Thought is not static, learning is not static, and the truth is not a fixed entity that can be discovered. Truth is the sum of all experiences, thoughts, and feelings, plus everything you will think about, feel or experience tomorrow. And as they say, tomorrow never comes, are rather it is always yet to come. This makes truth an incomplete sum.
A term I hear more often these days and wish to propagate, in the interest of using a simple image to describe the results of a complex campaign, is sheople! People being conditioned to act and react like sheep.
Sheople are existent due to simple human nature, it is easier to believe that there is a simple truth, something that can be grasped. Easier to let someone else tell us what is the best way of thinking, the best way of doing. Easier to follow a pattern, become a creature of habit. It is easier to let another gather the information and attempt to fit it together like a jig-saw puzzle, because of the complexity of the underlying image. It is through the many mediums of story telling that we receive the images/ thoughts of these thinkers. The problem is the one’s telling the stories can use these images to restrict and be in command of the audiences’ truth. Quite simply, control through conditioning.
Stories and the way they are told have a greater ability to influence whole generations and their descendants towards the desired goals of the ones with control over the telling of the story. Since the times of cavemen using images drawn on cave walls we have been exposed to stories as a way of conditioning successive generations to a way of thinking that reflects the morals and ethics, and basic ways of life that are the “truths” of the storytellers’ world. In the purity of communication these images grew with successive generations to encompass the collective knowledge.
As can be seen from Australian aboriginal art and the stories which are told in different areas of a vast continent; a similar way of belief can be influenced amongst tribes/nations which never came face to face, through the interpretation of images. In a time when verbal communication was more limited, pictures conveyed more meaning than sounds ever could.
In reality images we refer to as art are the first example of literature. Writing and words arise out images, since letters are symbols for sounds; when these sounds are ways grouped together, they create words; words are a mutual way of seeing an item, or image. Pictures, however, can have a different meaning for the reader than what the original artist hoped to convey. It is through these interpretations that learning, understanding, and communication has evolved. One person creates the image seen through their eyes, this is their truth. It comes from everything this person has seen and done. When another comes along and reads this truth, the interpretation is based upon the viewers’ experiences and feelings up to the time of reading the message. Communication and language has evolved around the diverse sounds attributed to image by artists and audiences.
The methods of communication that we refer to as media, the amalgamation of images and sounds with the intent of constructing a desired interpretation, creating a desired feeling; changing an image within one’s memory. Through stories, media is able to subliminally insert messages into entertainment
With the spoken word, a talented speaker can create an image in the mind of the listener. This is because we think in images rather than words. The image created in the mind of the listener will also be different from the intended message, due to the interpretation being based upon past experiences and present feelings at the time. If the image created by the speaker is more potent than the images in listeners memory, if the listener is drawn into the story as a result of being entertained, it supplants one’s thought, replaces one’s own truth. For most it is easy to accept these potent images as truth. Acceptance comes from inability to see beyond the images, see that there might be things missing from the image or things added to it. Only the one telling the story can fully know what truth is in the story, and what has been added or left out; even the storytellers’ truth is jaded by memory, and another storyteller’s truth.
Mass media is a tool of population control. It is forceful utensil for effecting static belief. Mass media reaches out to the general populace as one, and subtly attempts to sway the thoughts and feelings of the masses. Creating the desired appearance of how to think and act, through potent images which must be a reflection of the majority, due to their potency. When the images created by others supplant our capacity to adapt our own thoughts and feelings, we develop belief and faith in the creator. In this way our thoughts become static, belief in the images is strengthened by the repetitive similarity we are shown in the mass media. It is in accepting these images that sheeple were created.
When you look at it carefully enough, you can see that religion is a searing example of how much control mass media can evince within a populace.
Yet, the most durable stories throughout our evolution and growth teach us of the fallibility of man’s attempts to control rather than complement our surroundings; we erroneously attempt to replicate our own truth in others, rather than allowing ourselves to evolve to a larger truth evident in collective knowledge.
The purest ideal of the internet is collective knowledge; promoting the open interaction of wide-ranging truths with the aspiration of being able to see the ever evolving big picture. The dynamic truth! Those who desire to discover, to learn, and gain wisdom, have the ability to share this desire, are the ones that created the internet. “Wisdom and knowledge cannot be forced upon another, it has to be wanted. Yet, as with all other media, the ideal of the internet is subject to corruption. Where one sees the medium as a way of sharing knowledge to increase understanding, others see it as yet another tool for manipulation of truth; another means enforcing static truths, like economy.
Static truth equals control; we have been conditioned to believe economy is a true necessity of life. This conditioning has been so thorough that the accruement of wealth is the driving factor for thought. If we cannot see profit in a way of thinking, then the thought is unworthy of attention. Unfortunately, due to such conditioning profit is associated with money; unless you are in a financial position to indulge in “fantasy”, society attempts to attach a sense of guilt to the pursuit of knowledge.