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Philip Dormer Stanhope | A weak mind is like a microscope

“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.” Philip Dormer Stanhop |Lord Chesterfield | e, 4. Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), a British statesman and writer, known for his letters to his son in which he imparts life wisdom and social rules. The sentence criticizes people who get lost in trivial details while failing to recognize the really important connections – a problem that is more relevant than ever in our time. “Ein schwacher Geist ist wie ein Mikroskop, das unbedeutende Dinge vergrößert,…

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Christian Slater | We live in a kingdom of bullshit

“Is any of it real? I mean, look at this, look at it! A world built on fantasy! Synthetic emotions in the form of pills! Psychological warfare in the form of advertising! Mind altering chemicals in the form of food! Brainwashing seminars in the form of media! Controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven’t lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century! We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag…

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Philip K. Dick | Today we live in a society in which spurious realities

“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same…

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Mind control isn’t hard to understand

“Mind control isn’t hard to understand. If you do what the TV says, the TV is controlling your mind and you’re not. 2 billion people just pushed an experimental medicine under their skin, which was never healthy, simply because the TV told them to. That’s mind control.” Unknown | (probably Jason Christoff) “Gedankenkontrolle ist nicht schwer zu verstehen. Wenn du das tust, was das Fernsehen sagt, dann kontrolliert das Fernsehen deinen Geist – und nicht du. Zwei Milliarden Menschen haben sich eine experimentelle Medizin unter die Haut spritzen lassen, die…

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Matt Kahn | the simple difference between clarity and confusion

“Most people don’t see their beliefs. Instead their beliefs tell them what to see. That’s the simple difference between clarity and confusion.” Matt Kahn “Die meisten Menschen erkennen ihre Überzeugungen nicht. Stattdessen sagen ihnen ihre Überzeugungen, was sie sehen sollen. Das ist der einfache Unterschied zwischen Klarheit und Verwirrung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Stephen Hawking | Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun

“Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun but it also serves a serious purpose, that of expanding the human imagination.” Prof. Stephen Hawking on Star Trek “Science Fiction wie Star Trek ist nicht nur Unterhaltung, sondern erfüllt auch einen ernsten Zweck: Sie erweitert die menschliche Vorstellungskraft.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Aldous Huxley | The victim of mind-manipulation

“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.” Aldous Huxley | Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited “Es liegt in der Natur des psychologischen Zwangs, dass derjenige,…

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Edward L. Bernays | the manipulation of public opinion

“No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.” Edward L. Bernays | Propaganda “Kein ernsthafter Soziologe glaubt mehr, dass die…

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Edward L. Bernays | Mindless Conformity

“Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are…

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G. Edward Griffin | They’ve been programmed

“They’ve been programmed and I’m sad because I know that it’s hard for people like that to take an interest – serious interest in world affairs – taken serious interest in what their elected officials are doing and they’re not going to be really inclined to study and or discover the deception that’s being used against them and so I’m sad because I I see all of that in the flash in my mind as being an indication of how easy it is for the masses to be manipulated” G….

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Susan Sontag | Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear

“Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.” Susan Sontag “Autoritäre politische Ideologien haben ein ureigenes Interesse daran, Ängste zu schüren, das Gefühl einer bevorstehenden Übernahme durch Außerirdische zu vermitteln, und echte Krankheiten sind nützliches Material.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Etienne de Harven | Research hypotheses

“We are not witnessing viral epidemics; we are witnessing epidemics of fear. And both the media and the pharmaceutical industry carry most of the responsibility for amplifying fears, fears that happen, incidentally, to always ignite fantastically profitable business. Research hypotheses covering these areas of virus research are practically never scientifically verified with appropriate controls. Instead, they are established by “consensus.” This is then rapidly reshaped into a dogma, efficiently perpetuated in a quasi-religious manner by the media, including ensuring that research funding is restricted to projects supporting the dogma, excluding…

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It requires a high degree of mastery to turn the sword of truth against oneself

“It requires a high degree of mastery to turn the sword of truth against oneself in order to free oneself from one’s own blindness.” Unknown author “Es erfordert einen hohen Grad der Meisterschaft, das Schwert der Wahrheit gegen sich selbst zu richten, um sich von der eigenen Verblendung zu befreien.” Unbekannter Verfasser Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Chris Hedges | Empire of Illusion

“A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used either to bolster illusion and give it credibility, or discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—for example, as foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events…

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Lester Neil Smith | It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth

“It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.” Lester Neil Smith “Es ist oft gesagt worden, dass das erste Opfer eines Krieges die Wahrheit ist. Aber auch das ist eine Lüge, auf ihre Art. In Wirklichkeit muss die Wahrheit schon lange vorher geopfert werden, damit die meisten Kriege beginnen können.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Wolfgang Reinhard | But it is the central ritual of the democratic theater state

“Politicians who want to stay in power have to keep the voters happy, even though the election itself is only symbolic. But it is the central ritual of the democratic theater state. After all, it is no longer about substantive decisions, but only about the confirmation or replacement of political figureheads, who are legitimized by the fact that citizens are allowed to perform this ritual. This symbolically reinforces the fiction of popular sovereignty on which modern constitutional states are founded. In this way, and not through substantive decisions, elections contribute…

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Aldous Huxley | … the greater part of the population is not very intelligent

“… the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.” Aldous Huxley “Der größte Teil der Bevölkerung ist nicht besonders intelligent, fürchtet die Verantwortung und wünscht nichts sehnlicher, als dass man ihm sagt, was er zu tun hat. Solange die Herrschenden nicht in ihre materiellen Bequemlichkeiten und ihre liebgewonnenen Überzeugungen eingreifen, lässt sie…

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Dave Chappelle | Being “awake” isn’t cool

“Being “awake” isn’t cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don’t sound like a lunatic.” Dave Chappelle | US-amerikanischen Comedian “Erwacht zu sein ist nicht cool. Es bedeutet, dass man jeden Tag 98% seiner Unterhaltungen verdummen muss, damit man nicht wie ein Verrückter klingt.” Dieses Zitat stammt von dem US-amerikanischen Comedian Dave Chappelle: “Being “awake” isn’t cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don’t sound like a lunatic.” Es stammt aus Chappelles Comedy Special…

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Friedrich Nietzsche | Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Manchmal wollen die Menschen die Wahrheit nicht hören, weil sie nicht wollen, dass ihre Illusionen zerstört werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Avro Manhattan | No political event or circumstance can be evaluated

“No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of The Vatican’s part in it. And no significant world situation exists in which The Vatican does not play an important explicit or implicit role.” Avro Manhattan | English historian, 1960 The Vatican and World Politics). “Kein politisches Ereignis oder Umstand kann bewertet werden, ohne dass der Vatikan daran beteiligt ist. Und es gibt keine bedeutende Weltsituation, in der der Vatikan keine wichtige explizite oder implizite Rolle spielt. ” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Henry Louis Mencken | And what is a good citizen?

“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.” Henry Louis Mencken | Henry Louis Mencken, usually known as HL Mencken in American, was an American writer and journalist, literary critic, columnist,…

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Franz von Holtzendorff | The worst and most dangerous slavery

“The worst and most dangerous slavery is that which people no longer feel because they have become accustomed to it.” Franz von Holtzendorff “Die schlimmste und gefährlichste Sklaverei ist diejenige, welche von den Menschen deswegen nicht mehr gefühlt wird, weil sie sich daran gewöhnt haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Franz von Holtzendorff | The highest conceivable degree of lying is reached

“The highest conceivable degree of lying is reached when judgment between truth and falsehood ceases and the liar believes his own lie and is indignant that others place doubt in his words.” Franz von Holtzendorff “Der denkbar höchste Grad der Lüge ist dann erreicht, wenn das Urteilsvermögen zwischen Wahrheit und Falschheit aufhört und der Lügende seiner eigenen Lüge glaubt und sich darüber entrüstet, daß andere in seine Worte Zweifel setzen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Frantz Fanon | Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.” Frantz Fanon “Manchmal hegen Menschen einen tief verwurzelten Glauben. Wenn ihnen Beweise vorgelegt werden, die gegen diesen Glauben sprechen, können sie die neuen Beweise…

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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 “Oh sterblicher Mensch, gibt es irgendetwas, das man dir nicht glauben machen kann? Von allen Mitteln, die ich kenne, um die Menschen zu leiten, ist das wirksamste ein verborgenes Geheimnis: Das Verlangen des Geistes ist unwiderstehlich.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

“We’re in a post-truth world where you can’t believe the media, you can’t believe Big Pharma, you can’t believe politicians, you can’t believe what you’re eating, you can’t believe yourself. Since we’ve existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it’s now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can’t trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,” Robbie Williams “Wir leben in einer postfaktischen…

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Howard Zinn | Our problem is civil obedience

“As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem…

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The Analyst | Die Schäfchen gehen nirgendwo hin. Sie mögen meine Welt

“Im Moment fühlst du dich gut wegen dem, was du getan hast. Das sollten Sie auch. Es war ein Sieg. Bravo. Und was jetzt? Sind Sie hergekommen, um eine Art Deal auszuhandeln? Du denkst, du hast alle Trümpfe in der Hand, weil du in dieser Welt tun kannst, was du willst. Ich sage, greifen Sie zu. Macht es neu. Legt euch ins Zeug. Bemalt den Himmel mit Regenbögen. Aber die Sache ist die. Die Schäfchen gehen nirgendwo hin. Sie mögen meine Welt. Sie wollen diese Sentimentalität nicht. Sie wollen weder…

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Julian Assange | Every time we witness an injustice

“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to…