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    The world is in the grips of mass formation―a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis―as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.

    Desmet’s work on mass formation theory was brought to the world’s attention on The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets around the globe. Read this book to get beyond the sound bites!

    Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history, its formation gaining strength and speed with each generation―from the Jacobins to the Nazis and Stalinists―as technology advances. Governments, mass media, and other mechanized forces use fear, loneliness, and isolation to demoralize populations and exert control, persuading large groups of people to act against their own interests, always with destructive results.

    In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold. By looking at our current situation and identifying the phenomenon of “mass formation”―a type of collective hypnosis―he clearly illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.

    With detailed analyses, examples, and results from years of research, Desmet lays out the steps that lead toward mass formation, including:
    • An overall sense of loneliness and lack of social connections and bonds
    • A lack of meaning―unsatisfying “bullsh*t jobs” that don’t offer purpose
    • Free-floating anxiety and discontent that arise from loneliness and lack of meaning
    • Manifestation of frustration and aggression from anxiety
    • Emergence of a consistent narrative from government officials, mass media, etc., that exploits and channels frustration and anxiety
    In addition to clear psychological analysis―and building on Hannah Arendt’s essential work on totalitarianism, The Origins of Totalitarianism―Desmet offers a sharp critique of the cultural “groupthink” that existed prior to the pandemic and advanced during the COVID crisis. He cautions against the dangers of our current societal landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative technologies and then offers simple solutions―both individual and collective―to prevent the willing sacrifice of our freedoms.

    “We can honor the right to freedom of expression and the right to self-determination without feeling threatened by each other,” Desmet writes. “But there is a point where we must stop losing ourselves in the crowd to experience meaning and connection. That is the point where the winter of totalitarianism gives way to a spring of life.”

    "Desmet has an . . . important take on everything that’s happening in the world right now."
    ―Aubrey Marcus, podcast host

    "[Desmet] is waking a lot of people up to the dangerous place we are now with a brilliant distillation of how we ended up here."
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    "One of the most important books I’ve ever read."
    ―Ivor Cummins, The Fat Emperor Podcast

    "This is an amazing book . . . [Desmet is] one of the true geniuses I've spoken to . . . This book has really changed my view on a lot."
    ―Tucker Carlson, speaking on The Will Cain Podcast


    • 00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro
    • 00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com
    • 00:01:37 Introducing Mattias Desmet
    • 00:10:06 Explaining Prerequisites for Mass-Formation Psychosis
    • 00:19:43 Mass-Formation Psychoses Historically
    • 00:30:42 How has Mass-Formation Psychosis changed over time?
    • 00:39:18 The Relationship between Inflation, Money Printing, & Mass-Formation Psychosis
    • 00:48:06 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios
    • 00:48:51 Take Control of Your Healthcare with Crowd Health
    • 00:50:00 How Money, Incentives, and Media Shape Mass-Formation Psychosis
    • 01:01:54 Human Nature and Programmability
    • 01:21:27 How can Humans “Reprogram” themselves toward Empathic Understanding?
    • 01:32:45 Where to find out more about Mattias's Work
    • 01:35:23 “What is Money” Outro

    --o-O-o--

    So you have all kinds of different governmental systems around the world and NONE of them are "corrupt free" all are (partly or largely) hijacked by psychopathic control freaks creating all kinds of crisis then blame "the system" not being "controlled" enough.

    So the more chaos the more total insanity (like the WEF pushed "new normals" normalizing insanity 24/7) the more they think they can "justify" even worse solutions to "clean up" the mess they are letting happen and/or are partly or largely help co-create in the first place.

    When all kinds of (highly) intelligent caring alternative media people exposing their (hijacked) corrupt governments they still assume they are "in power" and need to be "held accountable" >>> but at the same time more and more powers/decision-making were transferred to Eurocrats, WEF Globalists, WHO, UN, IMF etc. etc. transforming everything towards a "Global Governance" Technocracy >>> totally in sync with Tanshumanism Agenda2030 "The (Dystopian) Great Reset" and NetZero2050 using A.I. to micro-manage everybody (like the Chinese style A.I. run "Social Credit" punish reward system) >>> A.I. the new "immortal dictator" presented as "neutral" to "save the earth" BS.

    So when ALL (corrupt) politicians worldwide are designed to fail even allowed to be exposed to a degree ... it is all part of the ultimate goal to replace "the old system" in to something new ... that "transition" of near total domination & control needs "believable" excuses to justify their pushed "solutions" no matter how evil it is as long as the majority of (corporate controlled) mainstream media suffers Stockholm Syndrome plus being a wilful slave/servant to the "New Global Governance" Agenda2030 also known as "The New World Order" Agenda which was denied for decades it existed even when hundreds of key-politicians worldwide were promoting it for decades claiming: "we need a New World Order" at the same time people exposing it were laughed at & ridiculed for decades >>> not anymore!

    Klaus Schwab wants all governments to be more "compatible" & "aligned" with the "17 Sustainability & Inclusion Goals" helping the "global transition" to be more "streamlined" for "the greater good" using all kinds of provable lies and tons of unchallenged unchecked made up assumptions concerning: crisis after crisis after crisis after another manufactured crisis and even more (partly fake) crisis to come ... all what I call: "perception wars" >>> connected to more new tyrannical pushed tunnel vision narratives.
    • The unchallenged & unchecked assumptions are the Global WEF pushed narratives where the mainstream media refuses to allow real critical thinking / real critical & skeptical debates.
    Anyone who dares to be like that are labeled "spreading 'dangerous' misinformation or disinformation" and "should be": punished, cancelled, buried, censored, banned, de-listed in search engines like: Google, Bing and Yahoo but also all big social media platforms having internal search engines helping to shadow ban, de-boost/de-throttle, labeling critical thinkers via (totally corrupt) authoritarian "fact checkers" sites >>> mostly (if not all) directly or indirectly financed by the same power-structures that are exposed as being part of the crimes against humanity.
    • And when all the above is proven to be 100% correct, you still have to face the massive refusal & mass denial of all kinds >>> especially mainstream authoritarians to ever admit what they are part of.
    When the enormous harm (on a massive scale) is done they all will most likely claim: "we were told to do it 'for the greater good' ... 'to save the earth' BS or they claim they have/had "no power" because the "ultimate decision processing powers" were already transferred to: Eurocrats, WEF Globalists Technocrats, WHO, IMF, UN etc. etc.

    You can correctly predict almost everything that is obvious tyrannical, you even will be vindicated faster and faster ... You STILL have people defending the mass injustice & mass crimes done to humanity as they refuse to consider how big & dangerous their propaganda lies are. And now we know why a large group of people behave like that >>> thanks to Prof. Dr. Mattias Desmet new book: "The Psychology of Totalitarianism".

    By blindly trusting & believing the MSM sold lies for so long their role being part of this huge scam is so enormous they rather attack you than admitting what they were wrong and are co-responsible for letting so much mass injustice happening day by day.
    • What exactly have we learned last 3 years about the:
    01. insane (pushed) wokism
    02. insane (pushed) cancel culture
    03. insane (pushed) climate hysteria
    04. insane (pushed) tunnel vision narrative about Nato-Ukraine-Russia Proxy War
    05. insane (pushed) covid hysteria lockdowns mandates face-masks social distancing etc. etc.
    06. insane (pushed) mass experimental mRNA injections with tons of adverse "side effects" which ARE the effects!
    07. insane (pushed) farmers environment regulations "green agenda" global induced food crisis etc. etc.
    08. insane (pushed) "energy transition" (NetZero2050 & Agenda2030) causing extreme inflation!
    09. insane (pushed) rigged elections
    10. insane (pushed) ... etc. etc. >>> the list of: "new normal normalizing insanity" is much longer ...

    Do you really think that those who are behind all (or some of) the above will "change their ways" when they introduce "universal basic income"? ... Hell No! ... it only makes it much easier for them to go to the next level of global tyranny!

    And yes those who obey (willfully comply) and those who are part of this (evil) dehumanizing system will feel very cozy & nice! ... They will not see the problem because everything is done "for the greater good" for "the great narrative" and they really think you are "crazy" to openly criticize anything I just mentioned >>> meanwhile defending total insanity defying all common sense & logic.



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    Good advice !
    It IS indeed a good read.

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    Quote Posted by Johan (Keyholder) (here)
    Good advice !
    It IS indeed a good read.
    I predict (or sense) that the vast majority of Avalonians who takes the time & effort to listen to at least the first 5 minutes of above featured video they are most likely triggered/inspired to listen to all of it ... I listened to it twice already while cleaning up my living room or some other simple duties.
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    • The narrator (reader) of the book out loud sounds eerily similar to the same: mannerisms, intonations, pauses, tempo, rhythm, melody, attitude, vibration of the lower tones, like a typical "voice fingerprint" of Bill Maher am not sure if it is him.
    Let me know if it is him or some one else ... it sounds really close to identical.
    • By the way I really like the voice how he reads the book out-loud ... you can sense he gets it ... he fully comprehends what he is reading ... which is rare nowadays!
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    • The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Dr Mattias Desmet:

    • Mattias Desmet - The Psychology Of Totalitarianism - A Headwind Documentary:

    • Mattias Desmet: ‘Mass Formation’ Hypnosis and the Rise of Technocratic Totalitarianism:

    • Mass Formation Explains How Totalitarian States Are Ushered In (Mattias Desmet & Bret Weinstein):
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    I am not sure it's okay to post it here but you can get the book with this link http://library.lol/main/1137A8B109AC...B6340171716998

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    We are already seeing the blatant re-writing of history, as this appears in the great political satire: 1984 being deliberately presented to justify Carbon Taxation, and reductions in fossil fuel usage, the cherry picked data taken from convenient years for this policy to be clearly supported, mass formation was mentioned by Robert Malone and I think this has given many people the incentive to pursue this idea further, Dr Malone is a hero of mine because he is fearless and he supports ordinary people. Thanks for the detailed presentation John.

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    Quote Posted by George (here)
    I am not sure it's okay to post it here but you can get the book with this link http://library.lol/main/1137A8B109AC...B6340171716998

    He is already very very successful in multiple languages ... and for people like us I am sure he would not mind ... maybe only his manager couldbe "upset" >>> if Mattias has one (I doubt that).
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    Quote Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
    We are already seeing the blatant re-writing of history, as this appears in the great political satire: 1984 being deliberately presented to justify Carbon Taxation, and reductions in fossil fuel usage, the cherry picked data taken from convenient years for this policy to be clearly supported, mass formation was mentioned by Robert Malone and I think this has given many people the incentive to pursue this idea further, Dr Malone is a hero of mine because he is fearless and he supports ordinary people. Thanks for the detailed presentation John.
    • indeed ... and I like to go deeper IF it really resonates with me and when I can sense if someone is pure, authentic & genuine.
    To me (complex) "psychology" is like breathing to me ... my mother studied Psychology at the University in Maastircht 1974 up to 1977 when I was about 8 up to 11 years old ... she taught me some things at early age ... even how to question what I have been taught too and why having a "blind spot" can happen to everybody .. She later organized big protest marches and was many times of radio & tv .... She even had her own radio shows in Amsterdam ...later when I got older I did the same.

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    Thank you for sharing this. Looks juicy.

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    • Billions Of People Are Affected By This & They Don't Realize It | Dr. Robert Malone (1,101,500+ views!)

    Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccine, breaks down the "mass formation" phenomenon that makes it difficult to reason with those who have fallen victim to the globalist leader propaganda. Hear what he says is the hope we have before a total takeover.
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    • Joe Rogan: Big Pharma Brainwashed The Left, Created Mass Formation Psychosis:

    Batya Ungar-Sargon and Robby Soave interview Twitter Files co-author Michael Shellenberger about how Big Pharma managed to brainwash the left. According to the CDC, all COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the United States are effective at preventing COVID-19. Getting sick with COVID-19 can offer some protection from future illness, sometimes called “natural immunity,” but the level of protection people get from having COVID-19 may vary depending on how mild or severe their illness was, the time since their infection, and their age. Getting a COVID-19 vaccination is also a safer way to build protection than getting sick with COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccination helps protect you by creating an antibody response without you having to experience sickness. Getting vaccinated yourself may also protect people around you, particularly people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Getting sick with COVID-19 can cause severe illness or death, and we can’t reliably predict who will have mild or severe illness. If you get sick, you can spread COVID-19 to others. You can also continue to have long-term health issues after COVID-19 infection. While COVID-19 vaccines are effective, studies have shown some declines in vaccine effectiveness against infections over time, especially when the Delta variant was circulating widely. The mRNA vaccines do not contain any live virus. Instead, they work by teaching our cells to make a harmless piece of a “spike protein,” which is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19. After making the protein piece, cells display it on their surface. Our immune system then recognizes that it does not belong there and responds to get rid of it. When an immune response begins, antibodies are produced, creating the same response that happens in a natural infection. In contrast to mRNA vaccines, many other vaccines use a piece of, or weakened version of, the germ that the vaccine protects against. This is how the measles and flu vaccines work. When a weakened or small part of the virus is introduced to your body, you make antibodies to help protect against future infection. Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot either 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series, or 2 months after their initial Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine. People ages 16–17 may get a booster dose of Pfizer at least 6 months after their initial series of vaccines. The CDC says A person is fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving all recommended doses in the primary series of their COVID-19 vaccination. A person is up to date with their COVID-19 vaccination if they have received all recommended doses in the primary series and one booster when eligible. Getting a second booster is not necessary to be considered up to date at this time. A study by The Cleveland Clinic found that both previous infection and vaccination provide substantial protection against COVID-19. Vaccination of previously infected individuals does not provide additional protection against COVID-19 for several months, but after that provides significant protection at least against symptomatic COVID-19.
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    Super thread John

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    Super thread John

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    it indeed, answers the big question:
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    The world is in the grips of mass formation―a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis―as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.

    Desmet’s work on mass formation theory was brought to the world’s attention on The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets around the globe. Read this book to get beyond the sound bites!

    Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history, its formation gaining strength and speed with each generation―from the Jacobins to the Nazis and Stalinists―as technology advances. Governments, mass media, and other mechanized forces use fear, loneliness, and isolation to demoralize populations and exert control, persuading large groups of people to act against their own interests, always with destructive results.
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    Such an important thread, but lots to read and consider. Thank you so much John.

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    Here is where, I think, we may have largely the same view, which is at risk of semantic debate over "-isms".


    What is being discussed as "Totalitarianism" is what I have taken to calling "Capitalism" for a number of reasons.


    One could say that "totalitarian" applies to other kinds of regimes of an ancient, crude, and brutal kind. When discussed in the psychological sense, then, one modern theory is Totalitarian Democracy (Israel 1951), which largely consists in making a mockery of your right to vote.


    I veered towards "Capitalism" with the main meaning of an intricately-crafted form of psychological totalitarianism, issuing from that "Black Rock of the Ages", the Bank of England, founded in 1694. Almost immediately, it began a wave of offshore tax havens, and contraband, which usually did not mean the goods themselves were illegal, but smuggled without tax stamps. For instance a lot of trouble in Northern Ireland started over such a wine tax. This kept going for four hundred years until two bombs in the City of London got things sorted.

    In the United States, the CIA is, ostensibly, a foreign intelligence agency guided by the State Department, by an unelected, appointed official, who has always followed the schemes of the Council on Foreign relations.

    "Americans were surprised" however, to find that the CIA has a domestic co-intel role, from Mockingbird out to W. Casey's admission that their task was to make sure that nothing Americans believe in is real.

    This, in essence, is simply an alignment with other foreign intelligence, the MI6 of Britain, as primarily influential to the CFR.


    Capitalism gets worse, if, you take the stock phrase New World Order, it literally means something, it is one of the private NGOs registered in New York, founded in 1980 by ex-CIA. It actually was never very big, until recently, it has hooked into "Industrial Revolution 4.0" with that band of actors who support the tasteless "Happytalism".

    So, I am attempting to use the term in a particularly English way, heavily conditioned by the London School of Economics. It may be true that there is a less-corrupt type of banking system which can operate perhaps what Russia intends as a "Market Economy"; I am not sure about this, and it is not the influential kind that went global as soon as ships could do it.


    I suppose we have a type of fusion of Capitalism, Totalitarianism, and Fascism, which prefers to operate psychologically, using different voices for the "left or right" all running a machine that makes the rich dominant over the poor.

    I would agree that Huxley was in an unusual position to understand "internationalist collective" and how the wars were an engineering project to re-define countries and banks. The German, formerly Prussian, Reichsbank, was copied almost note-for-note to make the Federal Reserve.

    One of my favorite anecdotes is about a piece of money. The first American Federal Reserve Banks were all issuing their own currency for a brief period up to around 1922 or so. I saw a note from this period where, beside the printed "Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago", someone, in what was clearly the penmanship of the time, wrote "Bolshevik".

    The internal America was pretty fiercely resistant to this nonsense, and then by around World War II, their brains start getting scrambled really hard.

    Or, one could say, that Wall Street was instrumental in getting the Constitution passed, and New York always had a clique of exploitative financiers, who were resisted by most of the rest of the country. But then these same people are later grateful for "British help". Seen in this light, the Constitution was a vehicle for the payment of war debts, but even so, for a long time, they would not finance the government by allowing Treasury Bonds into the banks.


    Just like the Bank of England is an effectively permanent, immortal influence, ever since 1863, Lincoln's Empire began financing the government by putting Bonds in the banks. Then, there were a series of mostly-engineered catastrophes which allowed planners to scream for something that would become the Fed, along with the baptism of "Corporations" as "People".


    Another expression I have seen is that the West is in a Soft Kill system, compared to other exports such as Bolshevism using Hard Kill, which of course is what most westerners will begin to associate with "fascism" or "totalitarianism", and forget about the psychological kind and start believing their own lies.

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    Burning Books In A Brave New 1984 World

    Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...new-1984-world





    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

    “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ― George Orwell, 1984

    The Venn diagram above perfectly captures the zeitgeist of our current dystopian world better than any academic drivel disguised as a scientific study or any regime media produced propaganda disguised as journalism. In fact, these three novels capture everything that has gone terribly wrong in our world, and I put the blame at the feet of totalitarian governments and an apathetic fearful populace who went along because it was the easiest path to follow.

    These three novels, considered among the top 100 novels ever written, were penned between 1931 and 1953, during three distinct periods, which are reflected in the themes and story lines of their dystopian worlds. They were supposed to be works of fiction, providing warnings of what could happen if we made the wrong choices and trusted the wrong people. Sadly, they became user manuals for today’s authoritarian dictators in how to control, condition and cow a population of indoctrinated sheep, as displayed during the covid pandemic exercise.



    Knowing the fate of the three protagonists in these novels does not provide much hope for those trapped in the same nightmarish dystopia we are experiencing today. The three protagonists in these dystopian novels have more similarities than differences. Montag, the fireman who burns books in Fahrenheit 451, is the protagonist who begins to question his life, his profession, and why he and most of the population are deeply unhappy. His curiosity about the books he previously burned leads him into conflict with his family, his bosses, and society. He murders his boss and becomes a fugitive among the other rebels who love books and refuse to knuckle under to the totalitarians blowing up and burning their world.



    John the Savage, who is a complete outsider in the “civilized” World State culture, is the main protagonist in Brave New World (a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest). His knowledge of Shakespeare provides him with the rhetorical ammunition to hold his own in a debate with the controller of the World State, Mustapha Mond, but Mond’s totalitarian state where stability and happiness outweigh individuality, emotional connections and humanism, win in the end. John’s weakness leads to him giving in to his desires and ultimate suicide, much like a Shakespearean character.



    Winston Smith, a Party member who commits thoughtcrimes by keeping a diary, believing The Party misleads about history, and questioning The Party orthodoxy, is the non-charismatic protagonist of 1984. His passive resistance against the totalitarian state becomes more overt and ultimately puts him into the clutches of O’Brien and the Thought Police, who inflicted physical and psychological torture upon Smith, until he breaks and becomes an emotionally deadened, loving follower of The Party.



    Three of the greatest novels of all time, all written within twenty years of each other, had similar themes, analogous protagonists, and equally disheartening endings. It is certainly clear the warnings of these brilliant men were not heeded by the masses, mainly due to the techniques described in the novels regarding population control and suppression. The overlapping themes in the three novels have played out in various forms over the last several decades, as our world has slowly descended into a dystopia of our own making. There are several key themes in these novels that are perfectly aligned with our current predicament: (1) Technology as a Means of Control; (2) Censorship; (3) Individuality Versus State Control; (4) Truth, Happiness, and Materialism; (5) Dangers of Totalitarianism.

    Technology as a Means of Control
    “It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451



    Technology is the central source of societal evils in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. It is the fundamental reason for the decline in reading by the populace and the means for destroying books with high tech flamethrowers. Bradbury’s view is that the advancement in technology is ultimately destructive to society and humanity. Bradbury’s vision of the future was spot on, with wall sized televisions and radio earbuds providing endless entertainment and distraction to the population, making books obsolete. Television was in its infancy, with small black and white screens and little programming in the early 1950’s.

    Today, even the poor have big screen HDTVs on their walls and everyone at the gym has earbuds with their playlist blasting. No need for human interaction or reading a book. Thirty percent of Americans haven’t read a book in the last year, and a significant percentage of the 70% who say they have are lying. I’ve had friends and co-workers who acted proud of not having read a book since college.



    The dumbing down of Americans and addiction to our gadgets can be greatly attributed to the “advancement’ of technology. Super-fast automobiles and a Mechanical Hound programmed to hunt down and kill fugitives are other examples of technology in Bradbury’s novel of addictive contraptions and robots used by totalitarian regimes for nefarious purposes. Today expensive fast cars are the narcissistic status symbols of shallow people trying to impress their friends and neighbors. Robots capable of killing and attacking humans are a reality and now Artificial Intelligence programmed robots are theoretically capable of thinking independently and potentially destroying the world.



    Maybe Bradbury’s most strident warning was regarding nuclear technology, having written the novel only eight years after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, and the Soviet Union testing their 1st bomb in 1949. In the novel, two nuclear wars had already occurred, and it ends with an atomic bomb dropped on the city. Today, as Biden and his neo-con handlers push for war with Russia and China, the potential for nuclear war is the highest in fifty years. These psychopaths actually think they can “win” a nuclear confrontation with Russia and China.



    Huxley’s fundamental warning in Brave New World is the danger of handing control of new powerful technologies to authoritarian minded men, who use the technology to control the population, rather than benefit society. The strict control over reproduction through technological manipulation, removal of female ovaries, and conditioning techniques, to produce the desired number of people in each class dehumanizes the entire population.

    The leaders of the World State use technology to promote their desired outcome of stability and a compliant populace who are conditioned to think they are happy. The technological entertainment machines produce harmless leisure and high levels of consumption and production, producing the desired stability for Mustapha Mond and his apparatchiks. Technology is used to develop drugs like Soma, encouraged by the state to be taken as a means to increase happiness, complacency, and apathy towards seeking truth or meaning in life. Creating a superficial world through technological inventions like “feelies” insures a sedated controllable population of sheep.

    The ability to grow fetuses in high tech digital pods is already being planned and designed. Technology exists to manipulate DNA to produce a desired human product. Everything Huxley warned about regarding reproduction is going to happen, with the horrible consequences to follow. We were warned but have allowed sociopaths to gain control of our government, universities, media, corporations, and medical industry.

    The worldwide baby killing business, using high tech murder gadgets, and technology created pharmaceuticals to murder babies quietly, allows anyone who feels inconvenienced by pregnancy to terminate it. Down syndrome babies can be killed, so the lives of the parents aren’t disrupted. With further “advancement” in technology, we’ll be able to terminate babies that aren’t the right gender or may have an IQ below 120. Isn’t technology grand? The birthing pods envisioned by Huxley are now a reality.



    The purpose of entertainment technology in Brave New World was to create a false sense of happiness in order to maintain stability in society. In reality, if you keep the masses dumbed down and distracted, they will never consider revolution against the controllers of society. This method has been utilized brilliantly by the ruling class to keep the American masses amused, distracted, entertained, and ignorant regarding their civic duty to ensure our society functions in a way in which all citizens have a say in how community standards are designed.

    Allowing a small cabal of unelected psychopaths to control our government, media, corporations, and educational institutions, while the masses are entertained by their X-boxes, i-gadgets, Tiktok, Facebook, Twitter, HDTVs, Hollywood, sports, gambling, and porn, has gutted our culture and allowed the ruling class to accumulate obscene levels of wealth and power. Having the sheep-like masses distracted and ignorant is the kind of stability our current day controllers’ desire.



    When they are not distracted and amused by technology, current day variations of Soma have been created through the use of medical and biotechnology to enrich the sickcare industry, pill pushing pharma industry whores, and the regime media hawking the pills, while sedating the masses and keeping them in a permanent drug induced stupor. They start them young, with millions of boys diagnosed with ADD by women who want boys to act like girls, forced to take Ritalin, Adderall, and a myriad of other Big Pharma concoctions that turn normal rambunctious boys into passive zombies who do as instructed in the public-school indoctrination centers.



    Once they attain adulthood, it’s on to Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, or dozens of other technologically create anti-depressants, designed to sedate and numb the masses from the reality of their leaders pillaging and looting their wealth through taxation, inflation, and corruption. The richest country on earth has the highest antidepressant usage on the planet because the average person’s existence is so shallow, meaningless, and devoid of value, they feel the need to escape reality. This is particularly true of older white women, with more than 25% of them taking anti-depressants.

    It’s not a coincidence these mentally ill Karen’s are the easily manipulated dupes who vote for Biden, wear pussy hats, cheer for abortion, believe the bull**** climate change narrative, were gung-ho for the Big Pharma toxic jabs, and still wear masks while driving alone. The ultimate Soma-like creation has been the mRNA technological “miracle”, which the ruling class used as a test case in ruling the world through coercion and fear, while enriching themselves, and jump starting their de-population agenda. They had to change the definition of vaccine to convince the masses they were taking a vaccine, and not an untested experimental gene altering therapy, that has killed far more than it saved.



    “Big Brother is Watching You.” – George Orwell, 1984

    Dystopian technological totalitarianism has been epitomized by the picture of Big Brother monitoring everything the proles did, said or thought. By means of telescreens and hidden microphones, the Party is able to monitor most of its members and/or invoke fear into the hearts of the masses. Orwell essentially created the concept of a dystopian Zoom seventy years before its invention.

    Orwell envisioned a centralized Party exerting control over the means of production, sources of information, surveillance machinery, and the fearsome torture apparatus used to keep the proles in line. His warning was based on Stalin’s Soviet Union. Instead of heeding Orwell’s warning, we allowed totalitarian psychopaths to use 1984 as an instruction manual. The use of technology to monitor and control the masses has exceeded any tyrannical apparatus Orwell’s mind could envision in its darkest recesses.



    Today, surveillance cameras are universally utilized by the State to control the proles, collect fines for minor vehicle infractions, and prosecute anyone who breaks one of their millions of ridiculous laws. Your phones listen to every word you say, using them to bilk you out of your money through targeted ads. Even worse, as revealed by Edward Snowden in his book Permanent Record, the NSA can access your computer and phone in real time and store everything you say, text, or type.

    They essentially have a permanent technological record of every communication by every person on the planet. And if you are deemed a threat or dissent from their approved narrative, they can and will use that information against you, without providing context. They can make anyone into a “criminal” whenever necessary for their purposes. Now they have the technology to turn your vehicle on or off and gain complete control of the vehicle. I’m sure this will work out well when you piss off the powers that be.

    “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984



    By linking everything you do (home security, utilities, internet usage, appliances) to wireless networks, you are captive to the whims of the State (Party). As we have seen in the last few years, authoritarian government, corporate whores, and social media tyrants have colluded in a corporate fascist scheme to use their combined dominance over social media platform technology to propagandize their agenda (Covid scam, Vaccine con game, climate hoax, transgender degeneracy, race hustles, Ukraine lies) and suppress the truth.



    By deplatforming the critical thinking dissenters, silencing the truth tellers, destroying the livelihoods of those who have been proven right, and purposefully misleading the masses to further their agenda, these totalitarian psychopaths have far exceeded what the Party accomplished in Orwell’s 1984. And now, for the coup de grace, the ruling class plans to roll out CBDCs as a means to capture complete control over the proles.

    Once your social credit score drops below the acceptable level, due to your brazen disregard in accepting the approved narrative, your ability to transact will be cut-off. No food or fuel for you, until you bow down to your masters and beg for their mercy. We will have allowed technological handcuffs and shackles to be placed upon us as we rot in our self-made techno-gulag. We’ve chosen momentary faux happiness over enduring hard-earned freedom. Orwell warned us and we failed to heed the cautionary tale.

    "The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” ― George Orwell, 1984

    In Part 2 of this article, I will examine the role censorship played in the three dystopian novels and how our current censorship state exceeds Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury’s worst fears.

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