Posted by Carmody
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Posted by Bill Ryan
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We've been talking on this thread about the wisdom (or otherwise) of alt media researchers and commenters utilizing various forms of commercially-driven promotion to try to make their voices better heard above the clamor.
And we've looked at Alvin Toffler's 'Future Shock' forecast of a world in which more and more people would react and withdraw from an ever-increasing wave of information and accelerating change that they'd be powerless to resist.
Here's another component. It's about the role of marketing engineering to shape our entire world (and the way our brains work).
Hervé drew attention to it in
his post #52, here.
Century of The Self was a brilliant (yes, brilliant) 2002 BBC TV documentary series by Adam Curtis on the impact of marketing on our world — and how it's been adopted cleverly and deliberately by those wanting to control and corral us.
The Avalon thread is here.
In
my post #5 there, back in in 2010, I'd written:
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I'm delighted to see this recommended here.
CENTURY OF THE SELF is the best documentary series I've ever seen. I can't recommend it highly enough.
EVERYONE should see Part 3 : compulsory viewing to understand what happened to us all in the latter part of the twentieth century.
In a couple of very inadequate sentences, it's how the rapidly growing (and threatening) Human Potential Movement of the 1960s and 70s was hijacked by corporate business, and self-aware people were tricked into compromising their new-found sense of personal power and independence by buying products that seemed to reinforce their individuality.
In one brilliant swoop (researched by the CIA-backed Stanford Research Institute), the threat of the Human Potential Movement was emasculated.
We might have changed the world: but instead, we were all duped. Learn from this, folks, and don't get fooled again.
When it was first shown on the BBC in 2002 I was spellbound - and spent a long time trying to find it again. I eventually found it in San Francisco in 2005 where it was shown in a theater as a four hour movie with an intermission. I was indescribably pleased to find it later uploaded to YouTube for all to see.
Watch this episode and emerge profoundly thoughtful - trust me.
Self work is ugly and puts serious dents in the ego.
Manipulation pets the ego in the way that the searching probing entity possesses their given ego based expectations.
Real life has quandaries that damage the ego and it's position in the self.
The path of manipulating searchers is to give them grief but pet the ego in ways that the ego can see around the corner on. Us recalling, of course that the ego straddles the unconscious and subconscious functions -and the conscious mind. So, pain as a path but where the ego can see the coming bit of petting and ego stroking. Something that the conscious mind may note but dismiss. Where the ego did the dismissing, but that is not really openly noticed in the given self.
Human growth requires ego stressing that damages the ego as it exists in us.... and eventually removes it from it's position of primacy. Manipulation does the opposite. When one starts with that as a point, then the way can be seen. The body mind ego thing will always try to find a path with the least stressing and the manipulations will either gently show that easy way out door or window, or blatantly paste it on the front of the paperwork. The body and mind ego package wants lip service to the human growth package - and this is what the manipulators know, and utilize.
The manipulators also work from the ignorance pathways of the average person and just above that in overall intelligence and speed of thought/learning. Aiming for those of higher intelligence is a different game.
See that range from 100 to 115, just to the right of the center peak? That's where they work, right there.
Smart enough to begin figuring things out, too slow to be ahead of master manipulators, and large enough in overall size and influence to integrate with the masses and make a functional wave and mind state. People rotating in, people rotating out, participants able to communicate with one another, and so on. Movements require that sort of positioned mass.
To grow a movement requires the right soil. That 34% is the right soil. Individualism.... but still with the broad communicable group consciousness effects that the masses live by and through.
It is the manipulation of the hero's story, as outlined by Joseph Campbell. We see it played out in films, every day, all day.
We have to be able to see the whole loop, and that's the ego manipulation angle. To see the pain but to also see the path to winning over it.
Real life has the ego drowning. For real.
Manipulation, in some way--- shows the way out. Monkey based avatars don't work autonomously any other way. Manipulation understands this and must provide in order to hold the spell. In some way or another, it must provide this.. in order to be effective.
The body/ego says, as a monkey,
"I need to make it to the water today. Is there a lion in the tall grass? This question and answer must be perfect. Other monkeys may even serve as a warning, in their death. But I must survive. I must make it to the water and back." In other words, in the manipulation, the path may be difficult and fraught with some danger but if the whole path is somehow visible and possible and seen, then the ego may allow. And living examples, like the snake oil seller, who has the shills at hand. Success must be visible.
As an example....I've never dealt with the Corey Goode stuff at all, but if one knows it or looks at it, I expect that it stinks exactly like that pattern.
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