A State of Never-Ending Crisis: The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria
We
have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully
orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a
population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from
the citizenry.
This is mind-control in its most sinister form.
With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a spate of
violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country, and gives
the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and
institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of
national security without many objections from the citizenry.
This is all part of the Deep State’s master plan.
Ask yourselves: why are we being bombarded with crises, distractions,
fake news and reality TV politics? We’re being conditioned like lab mice
to subsist on a steady diet of bread-and-circus politics and an endless
spate of crises.
Caught up in this “crisis of the now,” the
average person has a hard time keeping up with and remembering all of
the “events,” manufactured or otherwise, which occur like clockwork in
order to keep us distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from
reality.
All the while, the government continues to amass more power and authority over the citizenry.
When we’re being bombarded with wall-to-wall news coverage and news
cycles that change every few days, it’s difficult to stay focused on one
thing—namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule
of law—and the powers-that-be understand this.
Yet as John Lennon reminds us, “nothing is real,” especially not in the world of politics.
In other words, it’s all fake, i.e., manufactured, i.e., manipulated to distort reality.
Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show,
in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television
show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political
scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully
calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and
control a population.
This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.
As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged,
always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the
viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against
tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.
The more that is beamed at us, the more inclined we are to settle back
in our comfy recliners and become passive viewers rather than active
participants as unsettling, frightening events unfold.
Reality and fiction merge as everything around us becomes entertainment fodder.
We don’t even have to change the channel when the subject matter
becomes too monotonous. That’s taken care of for us by the programmers
(the corporate media).
“Living is easy with eyes closed,” says
Lennon, and that’s exactly what reality TV that masquerades as American
politics programs the citizenry to do: navigate the world with their
eyes shut.
As long as we’re viewers, we’ll never be doers.
Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch—and I would posit
that it’s all reality TV, entertainment news included—the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.
“We the people” are watching a lot of TV.
On average, Americans spend five hours a day watching television. By the time we reach age 65, we’re watching more than 50 hours of television a week, and that number increases as we get older. And reality TV programming consistently captures the largest percentage of TV watchers every season by an almost 2-1 ratio.
This doesn’t bode well for a citizenry able to sift through
masterfully-produced propaganda in order to think critically about the
issues of the day, whether it’s fake news peddled by government agencies
or foreign entities.
This holds true whether the reality
programming is about the antics of celebrities in the White House, in
the board room, or in the bedroom.
The ramifications for the
future of civic engagement, political discourse and self-government are
incredibly depressing and demoralizing.
Ultimately, the reality
shows, the entertainment news, the surveillance society, the
militarized police, and the political spectacles have one common
objective: to keep us divided, distracted, imprisoned, and incapable of
taking an active role in the business of self-government.
Look
behind the political spectacles, the reality TV theatrics, the
sleight-of-hand distractions and diversions, and the stomach-churning,
nail-biting drama, and you will find there is a method to the madness.
How do you change the way people think? You start by changing the words they use.
In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a. police states—where conformity and
compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government
dictates what words can and cannot be used.
In countries where
the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as
tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and
thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind.
Even when
the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal
language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism, condemning
violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred—inevitably, the end
result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination, infantilism, the
chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run
counter to the cultural elite.
Labelling something as “fake
news” is a masterful way of dismissing truth that may run counter to the
ruling power’s own narrative.
As George Orwell recognized, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
A populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its
backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to
represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the
face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy
combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government
surveillance that sees and hears all.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s time to change the channel, tune out the reality TV show, and push back against the real menace of the police state.
If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political
programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows
more absurd by the minute.
Reprinted with permission from the Rutherford Institute.
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