Back in the mid-1970s, Eric Trist and Fred Emery, two leading Tavistock Institute brainwashers and "experts" on the effects of mass media, forecast that, by the end of the century, the United States was likely to become just such a fascist police state.
The two developed a theory of "social turbulence," by which a society is delivered a series of "shocks" - administered as shared, mass phenomena - energy shortages, economic and financial collapse, and TERRORIST attack. If the "shocks" were to come close upon each other, and if they were delivered with increasing intensity, then it was possible to drive the entire society into a state of mass psychosis, Trist and Emery said. They also stated that individuals would become "disassociated", as they tried to flee from the terror of the shocking, emerging reality; people would withdraw into a state of denial, retreating into popular entertainments and diversions, while being prone to outbursts of rage.
That rage could easily be steered, said the two brainwashers, by those who had access and control over the means of mass communication, most notably television.
It was the view of Trist and Emery, in two works widely circulated among the networks of brainwashers and social psychiatrists associated with Tavistock and among the psychological-warfare operatives of the U.S. and Britain, that the process of watching television was in and of itself a brainwashing mechanism. They cited their own studies, that regardless of content, habitual television viewing shuts down the cognitive powers of the mind and has a "narcotic-like effect" on the central nervous system, making the habitual viewer an easy subject for suggestion and manipulation; in addition, they found that such effectively brainwashed "zombies" would hysterically deny that there was anything wrong with them, or, even, that such manipulation of what they "thought" were possible.
In a chilling metaphor, Trist and Emery proposed that the terrorized, violent society of the Anthony Burgess book, "A Clockwork Orange," made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, was the logical societal outcome for an America that would, by the end of the century, have been subjected to more than 50 years of mass brainwashing by the "boob tube." Burgess's world is one of perpetual violence and terrorism, as a daily part of life; it is accepted that, if you go out at a certain time, or walk in a certain neighborhood, you will be attacked and/or killed. There is no purpose to the violence - it is random and meaningless, and therefore all the more terrifying. The wealthy are protected; everyone else is told to go about their business with knowledge of the risk.
With terrorist youth gangs roaming the streets, people stay home, watching their televised entertainments, or go only to certain areas, which are heavily protected by police and military. The most sickening thing about Burgess's image is the sense of hopelessness, of inevitability, that nothing can be done about it - it is just "the way it is," as Dan Rather's predecessor as CBS News anchor, Walter Cronkite, used to remind us each night, as he closed his broadcast.
While the Trist-Emery thesis is not exactly required reading in the caves of Afghanistan, it is quite familiar to the psy-warriors and brainwashers who have launched a war on the American population. There is a particular kind of oligarchical evil that would think like this, that would see a Clockwork Orange society as a necessary outcome, to protect their continued privilege and power. Are we Americans already so brainwashed that we would allow this to happen? The next weeks and months will determine whether we truly do have the moral fitness to survive.
"The end of the world. Details at 11. Now back to your regular programming."
The first step in deprogramming yourself from mass-media brainwashing, to freeing yourself and your neighbors from its evil clutches, is to recognize that you and they are, indeed, brainwashed. It gets a lot easier, and things begin to get much clearer from there on.
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From the site: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=205