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Rudolf Augstein | It does not really matter

“It does not really matter whether democracy functions according to it’s original idea but rather that it is seen as functional by the population.” Rudolf Augstein (deutscher Journalist, Verleger und Publizist | Gründer des Nachrichtenmagazins “Der Spiegel”) “Es kommt nicht so sehr darauf an, daß die Demokratie nach ihrer ursprünglichen Idee funktioniert, sondern daß sie von der Bevölkerung als funktionierend empfunden wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | The general population doesn’t know

“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” Noam Chomsky “Die Mehrheit der gewöhnlichen Bevölkerung versteht nicht was wirklich geschieht. Und sie versteht noch nicht einmal, dass sie es nicht versteht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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James Dresden | A truth’s initial commotion

“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” James Dresden (No one seems to know the source of the quote. Dresden James is thought to be Donald James Wheal who was a British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer.) “Die Anfangserschütterung einer…

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Jack Posobiec | homogenized consumer class of worker drones

“You’re going to be a homogenized consumer class of worker drones in order for them to establish Elysium, and this is also where … the metaverse comes in. Transhumanism, this is your bread and circuses now. It’s virtual bread and circuses to distract you from the suffering that goes on all around you.” Jack Posobiec | Eat Bugs, Live In Your Pod, Own Nothing and Be Happy: Wilsonian Thought Has Long Been Shaping Citizens into Serfs “Ihr werdet eine homogenisierte Konsumentenklasse von Arbeitsdrohnen sein, damit sie Elysium errichten können, und…

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Aldous Huxley | The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy

“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.” Aldous Huxley (Is doubted and is probably a quote from the „European Graduate School“ see here “Die perfekte Diktatur wird den Anschein einer Demokratie machen, einem Gefängnis ohne Mauern, in dem die Gefangenen nicht einmal davon träumen auszubrechen. Es ist ein System der Sklaverei, bei dem die Sklaven dank Konsum und Unterhaltung ihre Liebe…

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George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell, 1984 “Solange sie (die Proleten)…

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Vilfredo Pareto | All governments use force

“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to’the will of the people’the expression which the few desire.” Vilfredo Pareto (Quoted in Arthur Livingstone | The Mind and Society 1935) “Alle Regierungen wenden Gewalt an, und alle behaupten, dass sie auf Vernunft gegründet sind. Unabhängig davon, ob es ein allgemeines Wahlrecht gibt oder nicht, ist es in Wirklichkeit immer eine Oligarchie, die regiert und Wege findet,…

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Marshall McLuhan | The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research

“No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community.” Marshall McLuhan Philosoph, The Extensions of Man “Keine Gruppe von Soziologen kann den Werbe-Teams bei der Erfassung und Verarbeitung von auswertbaren sozialen Daten annähernd die Stange halten. Die Werbeabteilungen können jährlich Milliarden für Forschung und Tests von Reaktionen ausgeben, und…

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Eddy Lawrence Manson | We manipulate people like crazy

“We manipulate people like crazy in films and they love it. It’s a tremendous release. Every film composer mixes his experiences with a talent for musical manipulation, then projects that Machiavellian power gut to gut. The big thing about sexy music is the power of suggestion. A song with a porno lyric may cause laughter or embarrassment, but never an invitation to the bedroom. Sensual singing, an insistent beat that builds, suggestive lyrics — these are what turn people on today. One of the biggest motivations in record sales is…

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Stephen C. Perkins | psychological warfare, economic and political transformation

“The cavalier expression of such sentiments, the resurrection of a dormant specter from the crypt of America’s “cold war” with the former Soviet Union, is meant purely to foster the viral spread of collective apprehension in the fragile heart of the population which, over the centuries, has proved to be the Jesuit order’s most effective tool in the execution of psychological warfare, economic and political transformation (AKA order out of chaos), and social behavioral modification. Turns out, the looming threat of annihilation at the hands of “nuclear weapons” or viral…

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Aldous Huxley | man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions

“In regard to propaganda, the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” Aldous…

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Carl Gustav Jung | The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic…

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Aldous Huxley | Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control

“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World “Unpersönliche Kräfte, über die wir fast keine Kontrolle haben, scheinen uns alle in Richtung des Albtraums der Schönen Neuen Welt…

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Mahatma Gandhi | The state represents violence

“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” Mahatma Gandhi “Der Staat repräsentiert Gewalt in einer intensivierten und organisierten Form. Das Individuum hat eine Seele, aber der Staat, der eine Maschine ohne Seele ist, kann von Gewalt nicht befreit werden, da er ihm seine Existenz verdankt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Vladimir Lenin | While the State exists, there can be no freedom

“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.” Vladimir Lenin, Estado y revolución “Solange es den Staat gibt, kann es keine Freiheit geben. Wenn es Freiheit gibt, wird es keinen Staat geben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Steve Jacobson | Political and economic power

“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in…

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Walter Lippmann | The process by which public opinions arise

“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . ….

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Jacques Ellul | propaganda refines its techniques.

“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques.” Jacques Ellul (war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe.) “Mit der Kenntnis des Menschen, seiner Neigungen, seiner Wünsche, seiner Bedürfnisse, seiner psychischen Mechanismen, seiner Automatismen sowie mit der Kenntnis der Sozialpsychologie und der analytischen Psychologie verfeinert die Propaganda ihre Techniken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Tony Cartalucci | Your Real Government

“These organizations represent the collective interests of the largest corporations on earth. They not only retain armies of policy wonks and researchers to articulate their agenda and form a consensus internally, but also use their massive accumulation of unwarranted influence in media, industry, and finance to manufacture a self-serving consensus internationally. To believe that this corporate-financier oligarchy would subject their agenda and fate to the whims of the voting masses is naive at best. They have painstakingly ensured that no matter who gets into office, in whatever country, the guns,…

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Jacques Ellul | It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale

“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.” Jacques Ellul war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe. “Durch die Massenmedien kann Propaganda auf die gesamte Gesellschaft angewendet werden. Das Zusammenspiel von Presse, Radio und Fernsehen…

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | the illusion of democracy

“But what could make democracy attractive to the powerful, whose very power it limits and threatens? The answer is quite simple: Nothing! For democracy means precisely to restrict the power needs of the powerful and the rich, in which they naturally have no interest. This now results in a tension between the needs of the rulers to stabilize their status and our need to feel socially autonomous and self-determined with regard to our social situation. In history, this fundamental tension has often been discharged in the form of revolutions. From…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb | gap between journalists and the public

“The fact that there is a gap between journalists and the public is shown above all by the fact that the former are much more interested in the opinion of their colleagues than in the judgment of their readers. Compare this with a healthy system, for example that of restaurants. As we […] have seen, restaurant owners care about the opinions of their diners, not those of other restaurant owners, which keeps restaurant owners doing what their job is; it prevents the industry as a whole from moving away from…

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John Denver | As a self appointed messiah

“As a self appointed messiah, I view music as far more than just entertainment” John Denver, (zitiert in The Rock Report, S. 10) “Als selbst ernannter Messias sehe ich in der Musik weit mehr als nur Unterhaltung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Phillip Chapman Lesh | devery place we played was church

“In those days we used to say that every place we played was church and that’s what it was like. A pretty far out church but that’s how we felt.” Phillip Chapman Lesh (US-amerikanischer Musiker, der vor allem als Bassist von Grateful Dead bekannt wurde.) “Damals sagten wir immer, dass jeder Ort, an dem wir spielten, eine Kirche war, und so war es auch. Eine abgehobene Kirche, aber so haben wir uns gefühlt.” * Jerome John „Jerry“ Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American guitarist, singer…

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Gary Greenberg | The band was the high priest

“it was not just a concert. It was a place of worship. The band was the high priest, the songs the liturgy, the dancing the prayer, the audience the congregation. Out of these simple ingredients we created a tradition and enacted a ritual that was at once entirely familiar and thoroughly mysterious.” Gary Greenberg (Describes the Grateful Dead concerts as “A PLACE OF WORSHIP.” | Not Fade Away: The Online World Remembers Jerry Garcia, p. 42) [“The Grateful Dead embody not only the cultic potentials historically inherent in rock ‘n’…

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Hans Hermann Hoppe | Democracy is a soft variant of communism

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.” Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe (“Reflections on State and War”. Talk in Auburn, Alabama, on the occasion of receiving the Mises Institute’s 2006 Gary G. Schlarbaum Liberty Prize, www.lewrockwell.com. December 02, 2006.) “Demokratie hat nichts mit Freiheit zu tun. Demokratie ist eine weiche Variante des Kommunismus, und selten in der Geschichte der Ideen ist sie für etwas anderes gehalten worden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Kwai Chang Caine | the prison is within you

“If you trust me completely…I can help you. If I tell you you are not within a prison the prison is within you can you believe that?” Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine | Filmzitat | Kung Fu 1972) “Wenn du mir vollkommen vertraust, kann ich dir helfen. Wenn ich Ihnen sage, dass Sie sich nicht in einem Gefängnis befinden, sondern dass das Gefängnis in Ihnen ist, können Sie das glauben?” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Kwai Chang Caine | If you plant fear, fear will grow

“If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow.” Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine | Filmzitat | Kung Fu 1972) “Wenn du Reis pflanzt, wird Reis wachsen. Wenn du Angst pflanzt, wird Angst wachsen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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The Libertarian Pilot | rules of state power

“We were raised by people who dutifully follow the rules of state power. We were brought up to follow the rules & not question the state. But now malicious people make the rules. It’s time to teach our children something different.” The Libertarian Pilot “Wir wurden von Menschen erzogen, die brav die Regeln der Staatsmacht befolgen. Wir wurden dazu erzogen, die Regeln zu befolgen & den Staat nicht zu hinterfragen. Doch jetzt machen bösartige Menschen die Regeln. Es ist an der Zeit, unseren Kindern etwas anderes beizubringen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…