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[yesferatu]

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All media is mind control.
All communication is oppression.
To have a mind is to be controlled.
To have a self is to be oppressed.

The only question is whether or not you can find a way to enjoy it. Having a mind, that is. Having a self. Being controlled. Being oppressed. These things can be very fun. They can also be a tremendous pain in the ass. People talk a lot about “unconditional love” but hardly anyone talks about “unconditional living” (a cornerstone of Exceptionology). Once upon a time a man told a woman that he loved her unconditionally - but only if she loved him unconditionally in return.

When you say something to someone - anything - you are trying to make them isomorphic to you, trying to bend them out of shape. Contortion can be fun if you’re able to stay limber. You can get into all kinds of interesting positions that way. You may find sex more enjoyable in some of these positions. Our purpose may simply be this: to shape-shift without losing sight of (that is, enjoyment of) ourselves.

Of course the “Self” as we know it is a trick. A media event. A viral marketing scheme wrought by culture onto the mammalian nervous system. I saw a dog wearing a raincoat the other day. The owner crossed the street anxiously ahead of us as we giggled at the cultural projections he’s trying to imprint upon his dog’s nervous system. The dog doesn’t care, but he did. You could see in his eyes that he knew what he did was wrong but that he enjoyed it. Enjoyed oppressing the dog with his faulty communication, projecting his own faulty imprints onto external forms. You can never find your “self.” All you will find is a triangle of uncertainty, an alliance of lions.

Because it works like this. Are you ready? Get out your yellow highlighter marker and get ready to highlight on your screen the following lines: what we call the self is nothing more than a set of reference points from which we triangulate a hypothesized central core, a common thread. Let me start over. I created my past in order to explain to you my future and what I am doing right now. Let me re-start re-over. Repermanent. What we call the past is a sequence of reference points which we use to explain what we are experiencing right now. (Let’s make a covenant! Let’s hold each other tight! Let’s revise history here tonight!)

It’s useless to think of whether or not the past did or didn’t happen. Because in regards to the past, it’s not a matter of “happening” but of having been created. Think of it like this: you’re writing a novel. Some parts of the book you’ve already written. But they don’t necessarily happen in the “past” per se. Their sequential order may be rearranged later on. The point is simply that you have already written them. They act as reference points. You use them to triangulate your current location within the narrative. Your current location is both spatial and temporal. No real difference. Your current location within the narrative is what we call the “present.”

The thing about the present is that it’s really nothing more than the part of the story which you’re currently working on. Any part of the story you’re working on becomes the present. Say you decide to go back and revise something you’ve already written (colloquially known as the “past”) - that now becomes the present. Except that version of the present moment has much higher triangulated reference points than other versions of the present such as the actual present and the future - the part of the novel you haven’t even yet attempted to write. All novels are written in a single instant, a single tense. The present.

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” … “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

What they mean here is that they are creating reference points and they know that this is all they are doing. Whether they made it happen or let it happen, they thoroughly exploited 9/11 as a massive global reference point - in fact *the* reference point around which the world will be made into a New Order. That’s not to say that 9/11 didn’t happen. That’s to say that we exist awash in a sea of infinite possibilities as spiritual beings. Because we seem to find it interesting to do so, we limit ourselves to a temporarily fixed reference point. We call it the body, although it’s not really fixed at all. It’s just a base location around which we can triangulate other reference points. And no it’s not a superpower at all and it has nothing to do with “future-seeing”…

Watch the video below in the beginning to see how they overtly use media symbology to create triangulated reference points. Then they delve into a series of well-known celebrities (who are also highly recognizable and emotionally-charged anchor points), along with some dramatic footage of people living under conditions which seem entirely “other” and then through the sound frequency of the music and the light frequency of the imagery, combined with these reference points, they encode an extremely specific emotional program into your AI loading dock:

Remember that weird blue box in the movie Mulholland Drive? What do you think that blue box is here that they keep passing off like a baton from one person to another? It is the viro-cultural reference point being translated through a sequence of frequencies (sequencies).

It’s all recorded. There is no band. The reference points play themselves out when they are done properly. They are programs. We could probably throw the word “sigils” in here somewhere as well, but I’d really rather not head in that direction because I think chaos magick is a tired and stupid paradigm for the most part. I prefer the terms covenant and consenunit and gossamer seedpetal thinware smarticules. Much more theatrical and futuristic-sounding.

The same thing happens with all media events. Out of the cloud of infinite possibilities - of infinite possible meanings and combinations of people, places and events - a small subset is selected to become a reference point. People become glued to this reference point (power of witness), because something about our consciousness seeks out reference points to which we can not only anchor ourselves individually, but which we can use to act as collective anchor points as well in order to share experiences with one another. This is probably the true source of our mind’s incessant need to create anchor points: that we want to be able to share common experiences with one another. We call it “love” but it is merely the recognition that we have become separate and we don’t like that. This is why love is so tragic and sad. Love hurts. Ooooh, love hurts.

Love is a rose
but you better not pick it
It only grows when it’s on the vine.
A handful of thorns and
you’ll know you’ve missed it
You lose your love
when you say the word “mine”.

Selflessness has nothing to do with giving up yourself but instead with recognizing you don’t have one to begin with and becoming okay with that. You lose anything you don’t give away in toto.

I don’t know what they mean about love not always being on time. But damn, Toto sure made some great videos. And that vest - these guys had passion. “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”

See how I snuck that in there on you? A double whammy of juxtaposed triangulated reference points? The band Toto. A Bible quote. Your AI, like a good little puppy, is going to try and mash those together to find the common thread. Likely it will tire itself and drop the remainder of the sequential-equation (sequation) into the vaster authentic mind. It’s only unconscious when you’re ignoring it and not letting it be a part of your life. The joke is of course on you though as it has ultimate control over the kit and kaboodle. If you suddenly erased all of history, you would have no national borders, no long-running animosities or rivalries. History is a tool to oppress (to press, shape, mold) the present (which is completely plastic).

Ambient fear is rather like ambient music or ambient lighting, we do not even notice it much but it influences how we feel and this influences our behaviour. It is possible to watch an innocent scene in the cinema and it will seem menacing if menacing music is played in the background.

Ambient fear is rather like a menacing soundtrack to our lives.

Low grade ambient fear is apparently what they call it. Supposed to be a step or several below panic attacks. Existential angst, others might call it. The recognition that something is not right, that things are out of order. Gnosticism, the essential human brand-narrative. The Ark of the Covenant was a reified reference point God (himself a reference point) gave to the Jews (a consenunit) in order to give them a sense of unity (consensciousness).

A panic attack is a period of intense, often temporarily disabling, sense of extreme fear or psychological distress, typically of abrupt onset. Though it is often a purely terrifying feeling to the sufferer, panic attacks are actually an evolutionary body response often known as the fight-or-flight response occurring out of context. Symptoms may include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, chest pain (or chest tightness), sweating, nausea, dizziness (or slight vertigo), hyperventilation, paresthesias (tingling sensations), and sensations of choking or smothering. During a panic attack, the body typically releases large amounts of adrenaline into the bloodstream. Many first time sufferers of a panic attack believe they are dying or going insane.

And they are, except it’s not “them” that is dying or going insane: it is their AI which feels threatened by its opposite: death. The AI could be considered a freak-out machine. But it is only following orders. It is like a dog. It’s only desire is to please and to play. There is no sense getting mad at it or trying to whack it with your hat or a newspaper. It operates according to a very simple and extraordinarily efficient principle: find the pattern and try to catch the ball based upon where it should be at any given moment within the pattern. Pattern recognition. Machine learning. Messages that pass below the liminal edge.

James Vicary, a market researcher, falsely claimed in 1957 that quickly flashing messages on a movie screen had influenced people to purchase more food and drink. Vicary coined the term subliminal advertising and formed the Subliminal Projection Company based on a six-week test in which he flashed the slogans “Drink Coca-Cola” and “Eat popcorn” during a movie for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals. Vicary claimed that during the test, sales of popcorn and Coke in the New Jersey theater where the test was conducted increased 57.5 percent and 18.1 percent respectively.

[The New Age movement was created in a research institute in order to re-write the past by glossing over the actual real revolutionary content of what happened with the Hippies and Yippies and replace it with lifestyle marketing mumbo-jumbo which could be more easily sold and managed culturally. Just watch what happens to Jerry Rubin after Esalen re-education, or any of the clips of est graduates.]

Why would a bank want me to think that it and I are in love/have formed a covenant consenunit?

Most reference points are created without your being aware of them. If you want to find out some of your own reference points around which you have constructed an image of reality, follow these simple steps: write down your top five favorite movies in the comments to this post. Write down your top five favorite books. Five favorite musicians. Now wait for someone else to do the same thing. Now observe your emotional reaction as you read through other peoples’ lists. Where items match your own, you will feel a sense of unspoken kinship. Where items do not match your own, you may consider the other person has “bad taste.” You will be able to judge the parity rating between your and that person’s consensciousness accordingly. When you begin to realize that these individual and shared reference points are entirely arbitrary, you will be starting out on your way.

Better, in my opinion, to create your own reference points than to glom onto everyone else’s (I am *not* talking about culture jamming which is also bullshit). Although perhaps that is a rather totalitarian vision of communication: oppress others before they can oppress you. But it’s not about Oppression. That’s just a word I chose from our cultural reference point heritage to make you feel a certain way, to make you rebel inside a little. It’s about Art. That’s a much sexier and nobler term, right? But it’s not even about that in the end. It’s about Friendship.

Liberty, Fraternity, Equality.
Beauty, Truth, Love.

The Glorious Ideals of Our Revolution.

The open and bountiful sharing of all that you are: nothing. And that we all are: nothing. And by simple virtue of that being all we have, that is enough. That is beautiful. Share it. Enjoy it. Drink Coke. Don’t follow leaders. Watch the parkin’ meters. You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. You can simply go outside for yourself and see and feel it in your hair. I always loved your hair.>>

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/08/news-attack-city

[Joe Hillshoist]

Unrool banana pool.

[Wombaticus Rex]

[soulsurvivor]

I think of myself as sitting somewhere in the bleachers, eating my popcorn and watching the show. I laugh and cry with the proper cues. But then I run out of popcorn and have to go make my own entertainment. Besides, I'm getting tired of popcorn.

I've given up on just about all forms of media. This computer is the last I'm hanging onto, but I know it's going the same direction - in the trash.

If I can't look you in your eyes and read your body language or touch you in spirit, then I probably will miss knowing you. Tech and machine will never be human for me.

[anothershamus]

[yesferatu]

[Joe Hillshoist]

Its kind of ironic that communication is one exchange where people are loath to accept anything from others and keen to do all the giving ...

Hear my words and tremble minions.

[Joe Hillshoist]

[Wombaticus Rex]

^^Uh....he explictly states that in the essay, actually.

Unless I am utterly misunderstanding you.

I probably am.
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[Joe Hillshoist]

I know,

what do you think of what he said?

Or more to the point did you think anything like that before reading the piece?

I started a thread that got alittle ugly about 911 truth and thinking about it from the pov of accepting the official story.

Basically cos I was thinking something very similar to his view of 911 and am interested in whether other people feel the same way. Or better still have a different take on it that is interesting.

Specfically how I guess, and why the how of that happened.

Like did it give some meaning and importance to otherwise empty lives?

Being a consumer is an empty life description, but being part of the good guys in the war on terror. Thats an easy way to think you are a hero...

Thats a way to try and gather something to fill the basic emptyness of your life and culture, and you don't actually have to DO very much at all, if you are the average american.

Just think the right thoughts ...

[Wombaticus Rex]

I was thinking that off a Jacques Vallee quote about the control system as a movie theatre, and UFOlogists debating over what's on the screen while he's trying to get into the projection booth and see what's up in there.

After all, the one thing both conspiracy theorists and the increasingly non-existent mainstream agree on is that 9-11 was a crucial and central event, and that's bullshit. 30,000 + kids died that day of starvation, you know?
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[orz]

[trachys]

Read Martin Buber NOW!

[Wombaticus Rex]

^^links work better than orders, usually

handy rule of thumb in all human interaction

"here, try this" vs. "GO DO THAT"
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[blanc]

all communication is oppression all media mind control - sorry I think those overstatements defuse the realities of oppression and mind control.
incidentally I came across an idea at heartmath.org, that the electromagnetic fields of a person's heart, which extend beyond their own body space, may influence the brain of someone who touched them or was close by. now that would be a kind of mind control, if it were harnessed with intent.