| by Charley Reese
http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb1075995
The difference between true education and vocational training has
been cleverly blurred. Here are a few tips on how smart people can
control other people. If any of this rings a bell - Well, then wake
up!
The first principle of people control is not to let them know you
are controlling them. If people knew, this knowledge will breed
resentment and possibly rebellion, which would then require brute
force and terror, and old fashioned, expensive and not 100 % certain
method of control.
It is easier than you think to control people indirectly, to manipulate
them into thinking what you want them to think and doing what you
want them to do.
One basic technique is to keep them ignorant. Educated people are
not as easy to manipulate. Abolishing public education or restricting
access to education would be the direct approach. That would spill
the beans. The indirect approach is to control the education they
receive.
It's possible to be a Ph.D., doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist,
or an accountant, just to name a few examples, and at the same time
be an uneducated person. The difference between true education and
vocational training has been cleverly blurred in our time so that
we have people successfully practicing their vocations while at
the same time being totally ignorant of the larger issues of the
world in which they live.
The most obvious symptom is their absence of original thought.
Ask them a question and they will end up reciting what someone else
thinks or thought the answer was. What do they think Well, they
never thought about it. Their education consisted of learning how
to use the library and cite sources.
That greatly simplifies things for the controller because with
lots of money, university endowments, foundations, grants, and ownership
of media, it is relatively easy to control who they will think of
as
authorities to cite in lieu of doing their own thinking.
Another technique is to keep them entertained. Roman emperors did
not stage circuses and gladiator contests because they didn't have
television. We have television because we don't have circuses and
gladiator events. Either way, the purpose is to keep the people's
minds focused on entertainment, sports, and peripheral political
issues. This way you won't have to worry that they will ever figure
out the real issues that allow you to control them.
Just as a truly educated person is difficult to control, so too
is an economically independent person. Therefore, you want to create
conditions that will produce people who work for wages, since wage
earners have little control over their economic destiny. You'll
also want to control the monetary, credit, and banking systems.
This will allow you to inflate the currency and make it next to
impossible for wage earners to accumulate capital. You can also
cause periodic deflation to collapse the family businesses, family
farms, and entrepreneurs, including independent community banks.
To keep trade unions under control, you just promote a scheme that
allows you to shift production jobs out of the country and bring
back the products as imports (it is called free trade). This way
you will end up with no unions or docile unions.
Another technique is to buy both political parties so that after
a while people will feel that no matter whether they vote for Candidate
A or Candidate B, they will get the same policies. This will create
great
apathy and a belief that the political process is useless for effecting
real change.
Pretty soon you will have a population that feels completely helpless,
and thinks the bad things happening to them are nobody in particular's
fault, just a result of global forces or evolution or some other
disembodied abstract concept. If necessary, you can offer scapegoats.
Then you can bleed them dry without having to worry overly much
that one of them will sneak into your house one night and cut your
throat. If you do it right, they won't even know whose throat they
are cutting.
Charley Reese
E-mail: OSOreese@aol.com
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