26 December 2023
I previously mentioned my desire to offer some information about manipulation and mind control.
In order to set the frame of reference properly, I'm going to suggest a couple of videos (roughly 20 minutes each) featuring a fellow named Derren Brown. He's a magician who is known for "mind-reading" tricks. In the first, he demonstrates his talent for a TED audience, while explaining a part of why this trick works.
In the second video, he's featured on the Joe Rogan Experience and he explains how he does hypnosis. It has distinct limits and works only with a portion of the population.
Note: Westerners in particular are ripe fruit for the picking when it comes to this man's brand of trickery. He explains that the key issue is who holds control of the encounter. Everyone wants this to work, and so they tend to play along. He must be able to tell when someone doesn't easily play along and avoid them. The resisters are in the minority in any given audience. Most people are quite willing to be fooled.
Derren Brown takes advantage of this for his shows. Our culture programs us to respect authority figures entirely too much. It's not so much a question of how much trust, but for what kinds of issues that we trust authority figures. Most of us are discouraged from having a sense of mission and purpose. Our western heritage denies that convictions exist, that they cannot be trusted because the contents cannot be inspected and verified by proper authority figures.
A critical element in this weakness is our social instincts. Our culture presses hard on making us socially fragile. While the evil powers that be would love to make us all one kind of thing, they know it won't work. So, they have worked out a system of presenting us with a menu of things they'll accept. The menu is varied enough to cover the majority at any given time, and those who don't pick from the menu will be marginalized.
Very few people can tolerate being marginalized from the mainstream. Worse, those who can are kept from finding each other. Hypnotism relies on our common social instincts, but brainwashing requires we be isolated. That's the first step in brainwashing. Denial of information about how all of this works, and denial of meaningful communications is the key to that.
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Randy
Thank you again. I enjoy you blog very much.
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