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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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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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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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Dr. Drew | alles in den Nachrichten Unsinn ist, alles

“I am open to everything now. I’m open to things that I never thought I would have been open to. And I — I really think that the door fully came open. I’ve realized that everything in the — in the news is BS, everything. There’s nothing that I can consume on any legacy media that I can trust. And that is shocking. And that’s disturbing. And it makes you wonder how long it’s been going on for. And I’m concerned, it might have been a very long time.” David…

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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…

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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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Joseph Goebbels | If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels | (Attributed/unexplained) “Wenn man…

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George Bernard Shaw | The longer I live, the more convinced am I

“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” George Bernard Shaw “Je länger ich lebe, desto mehr bin ich davon überzeugt, dass dieser Planet von anderen Planeten als Irrenhaus benutzt wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Georg Schramm | deflate their speech bubbles

“Interest groups make the policy. They pull the strings on which political puppets hang, who are allowed to pretend democracy on the stage of the Berlin puppet show. These political figures are then allowed to deflate their speech bubbles in the public service institutions with the toilet ladies Christiansen and Illner. And if there is still some dribbling left after their intellectual urination, they can mingle with the people at the emotional piss trough on Beckmann and Kerner.” Georg Schramm | is a German cabaret artist. “Interessensverbände machen die Politik….

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Baron Arthur Ponsonby | 10 principles of war propaganda

10 principles of war propaganda We didn’t want this war. The enemy is responsible for this war. The enemy’s leader is the devil. We’re fighting for a good cause. The enemy is using forbidden weapons. Horrible acts committed by the enemy are intentional; ours are accidental. Our casualties are minor; those of the enemy are significant. Artists and intellectuals support our cause. Our cause is holy/righteous. If you question (1)-(9), you are a traitor. Baron Arthur Ponsonby Wir wollen den Krieg nicht Das gegnerische Lager trägt die Verantwortung Der Führer…

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Christine Prayon | Welke & Co. made “atmosphere against those who think differently”

“I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I’ve also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don’t want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against…

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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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Winston Churchill | There is only published opinion

“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” Winston Churchill “So etwas wie eine öffentliche Meinung gibt es nicht. Es gibt nur eine veröffentlichte Meinung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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 “Klar, die Medien bilden die Realität nicht ab, sie erzeugen sie! Und deshalb brauchen wir Gegenöffentlichkeit!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | The power of radio

“The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb.” Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | Sociologist on Modern Propaganda “Die Macht des Radios kann nur mit der Macht der Atombombe verglichen werden” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn’t know.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila “In einem Zeitalter, in dem die Medien unzählige Dummheiten verbreiten, wird der gebildete Mensch nicht durch das definiert, was er weiß, sondern durch das, was er nicht weiß.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above

“A ‘war against X’ decreed from above – be it against ‘terror’ or against a pandemic – is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination.” Prof. Reiner Mausfeld “Bei einem von oben verordnetem ‚Krieg gegen X‘ – sei es gegen den ‚Terror‘ oder…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion

“The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who makes it, no one has ever met it personally, but everyone lets themselves be tyrannized by it!” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Das mächtigste Hirngespinst ist die öffentliche Meinung: Niemand weiß genau, wer sie macht, niemand hat sie je persönlich kennengelernt, aber alle lassen sich von ihr tyrannisieren!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Max Goldt | This newspaper is an organ of infamy

“This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely unacceptable socially. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unkind to them as the law will just allow. They are bad people who do wrong.” Max Goldt | a german writer, once wrote about the german tabloid „BILD“: “Die Bild-Zeitung ist ein Organ der Niedertracht. Es ist falsch, sie zu lesen. Jemand, der zu dieser Zeitung beiträgt,…

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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 “Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher: wenn die Sache mit dem Klimawandel auf wundersame Weise gelöst wäre, würden viele Deutsche nicht erleichtert aufatmen. Sie würden sich quasi über Nacht vor etwas anderem fürchten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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.” Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn | war ein britischer Politiker der Labour Party. Er gehörte dem House of Commons von 1950 bis 1960 an und erneut von 1963 bis 2000, also…

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Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.” Edward Bernays “Wenn wir den Mechanismus und die Motive des Gruppendenkens verstehen, ist es jetzt möglich, die Massen nach unserem Willen zu kontrollieren und zu reglementieren, ohne dass sie es merken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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 “Wenn Sie glauben, dass die grundlegendsten menschlichen Freiheiten von der Einnahme eines Produkts eines riesigen Pharmakonzerns abhängig gemacht werden sollten, dann sind Sie nicht liberal oder links. Sie sind weder konservativ noch patriotisch. Es gibt nur ein Wort, um Sie…

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Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” Robert A. Heinlein “Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als einen Menschen zu zwingen, für etwas zu bezahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil man glaubt, es wäre gut für ihn.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion

“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.” Charles MacKay | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds “Wir sehen, daß ganze Gesellschaften plötzlich ihre Gedanken auf ein einziges Thema fixieren und den Verstand dabei verlieren; daß Millionen von Menschen gleichzeitig von einer einzigen Wahnvorstellung ergriffen werden, bis ihre Aufmerksamkeit von…

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Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend

“I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you.” Russel Brand „the mainstream media is not your friend“ “Ich habe viele Fehler gemacht, ich habe mich oft geirrt, aber langsam glaube ich, dass ich…