FourthBase » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:42 pm wrote:What's Happening? Specifically? Sure looks like this: A satanic cult of pedophiles who've been infiltrating and dominating and terrorizing the earth for decades, maybe centuries, are finally beginning to be BTFO. Remember the public furor in Portugal and Belgium? Did either of those countries have a long, proud tradition of revolt? Nah. Wait until Americans find out. Wait until the scope is revealed. Wait until the flash mobs inevitably form. The entire global pizza party of unspeakable evil will be over, sooner than later, with the bad guys either in prison for life or executed, and the good guys finally getting to enjoy a Normal World.
I don't think it's time to crack open any champagne bottles or shout about any revolution just yet, FB. What good guys are we talking about here?
I wish I could be more in agreement because the stuff you uncovered here had a big impact for me and inspired, or at least coincided with, a deeper level of engagement in getting to the bottom of this foul pizza box of a society. But at what point does awareness of a hidden and deeply appalling aspect of social reality lead to action, or to activism? I'd say not before our understanding is complete, and we appear to me to be decades, if not centuries, away from that moment, collectively speaking: i.e., for any sort of "cavalry" of good guys to emerge with any sort of social impact that doesn't just shakes things up on the surface and make it easier for the bad guys to secure a new underground layer.
Few thoughts maybe not directly related, but the name of this thread is "What's Happening. It," after all, and what follows is part of my own attempt to answer that (like everything else). It's actually continued from another post,
here, quoting David Graeber on structural violence and enforced accountability; you can skip the first couple of lines, the part about taboo is what's relevant here (I hope).
Over-simplification of our experience, perceptions, and feelings is oppressive, hence a form of structural violence that can lead to actual violence.
Enforced accountability (i.e., if you have certain thoughts or express certain feelings you are ____ (fill in the –ist) and as a ____ist
you are accountable. Instill people (from childhood) with feelings of guilt, shame, and fear of the social system, of other people, and of expressing their own thoughts, feelings, and responses, and what you get is people who are compliant easy to manipulate.
This relates to the use of
taboo to order & control society. Society depends on norms and norms require ab-norms, i.e., things that are considered unacceptable and for which we will be held accountable if we go there (and even if we express acceptance of them). These are the taboos, obviously. Today, from what I can see, many, maybe even most, taboos relate less to actions or forms of behavior than they do to values, beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and feelings. Actions once seen as taboo are now condoned by society, while questioning the values that are condoning them has become taboo (choose your example here). I’m not saying it’s either or, just that I can see both of these forms of social control in play: behaviors (and qualities) that are being condemned and persecuted in some strata of society, while they are being defended, condoned, and promoted in others, with the corresponding condemnation and persecution of whoever holds contrary values. And so on.
From a long term view, it’s possible to see how the same social programs, values, and agendas (and even the same groups) that, for example, practiced slavery, over time adjusted it into less exploitative but still unfair social arrangements, how they then endorsed and pushed
anti-racist ideologies while at the same time continuing to exploit people of whatever color in more or less the same ways. It’s the same deal with cigarettes: get people hooked on them and then tell them how deadly they are. Internal divide and conquer strategy. Implement racially exploitative social programs and ideologies (albeit ones that have a basis in territoriality, i.e., correspond with deep biological programs, which neoliberalism denies), then tell us
racism is wrong, morally speaking; ditto with women & misogyny, homosexuality and homophobia, and so on.
The ruling class (or social engineers if we want to draw back another, deeper veil) use taboo to control, oppress, and exploit the populace
regardless of color, race, sex, age, or ideological affiliation. How they do it, as far as I can figure it out (still trying to wrap my mind around this) is
by creating taboos out of the very things they themselves are doing behind closed doors (in dungeons, basements, occult lodges, churches, schools, night clubs, or Pizza restaurants), as well as some of the things they are doing openly (corporate crimes etc.).
By instilling people with fear, guilt, and shame around certain activities (sex and death being the main ones), they can be controlled. Taboo-fearing people will keep to the behaviors being prescribed to them in order to avoid the terrifying accountability of straying into the taboo areas, even by having taboo thoughts. I don’t think anyone alive can’t relate to this, and if they can’t, they are probably among the ruling class, i.e. “psychopaths.” Ordering society by using taboo is more or less like corralling cattle with electric fences, prods, and the like.
This may be observable historically (I'm no expert) in how the bourgeois class aspired to become, and tried to imitate, the aristocracy. On the mistaken assumption that the aristocracy was a highly moral class (don’t laugh), the bourgeoisie became
moralistic. They never suspected that the aristocracy were getting up to the most licentious behaviors imaginable, only that they, the bourgeoisie, weren’t being invited to the pizza parties, and never would be.
While they are aspiring to the imagined morality of the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie have an unconscious awareness (I mean, really, the aristocracy aren’t that careful about covering their vices up because they know that fear blinds; it’s basically how parents program children throughout the ages: “Do what I say, not what I do,” and it only works up to a point, because we are hardwired for imitation, not for obedience). So anyway, the bourgeoisie have an unconscious awareness of what the aristocracy are really up to and deep down they know that avoiding taboos and keeping within the moral boundaries they’ve been given by their superiors will never allow them to level up. To become socially empowered requires
imitating the hidden behaviors of the ruling class, and breaking the taboos.It is a lot easier to fool people than show them how they have been fooled.
