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Milosz Matuschek | Permanent Toxic Rape of Consciousness

"Almost a hundred years ago, the philosopher John Dewey said that we are living in the greatest flood of mass suggestion that mankind has ever seen. But in 100 years, the superlative has only swelled, albeit without this being publicized today. Edward Bernays called propaganda the “executive arm of the invisible government”. And he recognized that propaganda is to democracies what violence is to dictators. Perhaps that would be a contemporary definition of propaganda: it is a Permanent Toxic Rape of Consciousness, or PTRC for short. It is a permanent mindfuck by governments and corporate business, mediated by the media, carried out by bought comedians à la Böhmermann, pseudo-journalists à la Lanz, pseudo-intellectuals à la Precht, pseudo-health politicians, such as the pharmaceutical and drugs minister Lauterbach, pseudo-defence politicians such as Strack-Rheinmetall-Zimmermann, and other parvenus such as Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Sarah Bosetti and other stirrup holders in editorial offices, theaters or foundations. "

Milosz Matuschek

Prof. Dr. Franz Ruppert | Anyone who actually feels the need to get their hands on the levers of power

"Anyone who actually feels the need to get their hands on the levers of power in order to control other people, to tell them what to do, to scare them, is mentally disturbed."

Prof. Dr. Franz Ruppert

Michael Rivero | Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker

"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."

Michael Rivero

Terrence McKenna | which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion

"We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us."

Terence McKenna

Adam Weishaupt | The hankering of the mind is irresistible

"Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible."

Adam Weishaupt

Dr. Jörn Berninger | politically or medially predetermined thought prison

"There are always events that are played up in the media and lead to more and more people subscribing to the opinion given from the outside. This in turn leads them to build up beliefs that become a thought prison. If one is stuck in such a politically or medially predetermined thought prison, one begins to identify with it and hardly finds a way out. You have to look for a loophole to break out of this thought prison."

Dr. Jörn Berninger

Niklas Luhmann | the media don’t depict reality, they create it

"Sure, the media don't depict reality, they create it! And that's why we need counter-publicity!"

Niklas Luhmann

Henry Louis Mencken | The urge to save humanity

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts."

Henry Louis Mencken

Rob Schneider | If you turn off the news

"If you turn off the news and talk to your neighbors, you'll find that our country is far more harmonious than you're being told"

Rob Schneider

Fritz Bauer | no to state injustice

"The certainly stirring but decisive lesson of our trials, however, demands a readiness to say an unequivocal no to state injustice." The trials demand that people renounce private and family advantages and are also prepared to make personal sacrifices if they are required to do or tolerate evil, even if it is the state that makes itself the advocate of evil."
Fritz Bauer

Ignatius von Loyola | those who do not love them at least fear them

"Princes and persons of distinction everywhere must, by all means be so managed that we may have their ear, and that will easily secure their hearts: by which way of proceeding, all persons will become our creatures, and no one will dare to give the Society the least disquiet or opposition . . . Finally, the Society must endeavor to effect this at least, that having gotten the favor and authority of princes, those who do not love them at least fear them."

Ignatius von Loyola

Fritz Bauer | obedience par excellence is a virtue

"Unfortunately, it is a typical German trait to think that obedience par excellence is a virtue. We need the civil courage to say 'no'."

Fritz Bauer

George Orwell | Real power is achieved

"Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges."

George Orwell

Petr Skrabanek | The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth

"The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness."

Petr Skrabanek

Erich Mielke | Fear, is the most effective driving force of human action

"Fear, is the most effective driving force of human action".

Erich Mielke (Allegedly)

José Luis Sampedro Sáez | They govern us through fear

"They govern us through fear."

José Luis Sampedro Sáez

Vince Ebert | They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight

"I'm pretty sure: if the climate change thing was miraculously solved, many Germans wouldn't breathe a sigh of relief. They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight."

Vince Ebert

David Graeber | We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth

"We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."

David Graeber

Roland Baader | Ecologism is a decay product of Marxism

"Ecologism is (among quite a few other ism) a decay product of Marxism. The failed "impoverishment thesis" is replaced by the eco- and climate catastrophe. The goal is the extinction of capitalism - and thus of Western freedom."

Roland Baader

Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

"I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people... ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control."

Tony Benn

George Orwell | Until they become conscious

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

George Orwell

Dave Smith | basic human liberties

"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist."

Dave Smith

Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

Carl Sagan

Jesuit Guy Consolmagno | Aliens for their salvation

"Very soon the nations will look to Aliens for their salvation."

"contemporary societies will soon see extraterrestrials as the saviors of mankind"

"Jesus might be the son of a star child."

Jesuit Guy Consolmagno

Jesuit Pater Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti | information coming from another world

"Very soon we will not have to deny our Christian faith...but there is information coming from another world, and once it is confirmed it is going to require a re-reading of the Gospel as we know it."

Jesuit Father Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti

Plato | No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

Plato

Thomas Jefferson | I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln | If you want to test a man’s character, give him power

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power,"

Abraham Lincoln

Mark Twain | Get your facts first

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Mark Twain

Christian Drosten | to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded

"We also tried this for a long time, to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded. That's how it is for many labs around the world that have tried. Zhengli Shi is actually the only lab back in Wuhan that managed to do that, to isolate a virus for once.[....] I know Zhengli Shi used the ones in the lab for that as well. Here you have to say, when you do this, practically the first thing that happens with the SARS-2 virus is that this furin site in the virus is destroyed. So when we isolate SARS-2 virus in Vero cells from patients, that furin site goes away immediately because that's a selection disadvantage for the virus in cell culture."

Christian Drosten