You Say You Want a Revolution? Better Start with Your Own Mind
“Your mind is the battlefield. Be its commander, not its soldier.” — Sun Tzu?
Revolution: Old school style
In the old days, when we, the peasantry, got upset and demanded change to a corrupt system, we would in mass march on the palace, drag out the King, beat him senseless, then behead him in the public square.
We could use our guns, our pitchforks, torches and our homemade Molotov cocktails to wreak havoc on and terrorize those in control until they caved in to our demands.
On January 6, 2021, some less than capable, short-sighted self-proclaimed protectors of The Way Things Are showed us how useless the old ways of march in mass and occupy the physical seats of power have become.
Somewhere along the way, our Overlords got smart and learned that they don’t’ need to occupy a physical space to maintain control and power over us. They got sneaky and came up with a brilliant plan. Their new seat of power would be located where no one could get to them: they placed their seat of power within our own minds.
Controlling our minds: the tools of propaganda
It was a safe place where no one would ever think to look for them. All they had to do was convince us that they belonged there and were only looking out for our best interests. Over the next couple hundred years they set about manipulating us, aligning our beliefs with theirs.
We just had to believe in what they were selling us. We had to believe that people got ahead by working hard. We had to believe in the inerrancy of capitalism. We had to believe that people earned the wealth that they possessed. But mostly, we had to believe them when they said they had our best interests at heart. We had to believe them when they pointed at our “enemy” and told us what we needed to fear.
The birth of the radio and television gave them the tools they needed to steer our minds in directions they found appropriate. These tools have since been enhanced with their latest seemingly innocent tool: our smartphones.
Our phones are what many of us use today to inform us how to think, what to believe and how we should act. Their true purpose as tools to deliver propaganda, track our movements and influence our beliefs and behaviors are not at the forefront of most people’s minds.
They haven’t really replaced the old 3 major networks as much as they have enhanced the ability of those in power to direct and manipulate our lives, beliefs, thoughts and actions. They are used to protect us from real “reality” while superimposing their own reality on top.
It is through the use of mass and social media that The Powers That Be maintain order in society, but more importantly, it’s how they maintain control.
Tonight we ask, “Is it possible?” (for the thousandth time)
How many times have you turned on your local news to hear them ask the question, “Is it possible?” If you’re old like me, you’ve heard this question asked a thousand times. It’s a trick question. Its purpose is to stop us from exploring complicated topics, or things we don’t understand any further.
If they can get us to debate and ask, “Is it possible?” a divisive yes/no question, we will keep asking ourselves this question in perpetuity. We are never allowed to arrive at a conclusion and so are kept from action. So far, on some topics, this has kept the human race spinning in redundant, repetitive circles for a hundred years.
That simple question is just a 3 minute segment on a half-hour news show. It’s often used in the commercials for the news on a specific station to draw you in and convince you to watch their station over their competitors who are also running their own special segment on an entirely different topic. In the end, their coverage barely scratches the surface, doesn’t provide any real additional information, and inevitably draws the conclusion, “I guess we just don’t’ know” or one that is equally shallow and mindless.
Widespread use and abuse of this simple question shows one of the methods used to keep us in the dark about technology and our true nature as spiritual beings. The uselessness of this question is explored in more depth at the website askleo.com.
Lists of taboo topics we are supposed to ignore
Marijuana as well as all psychedelics were relegated to this realm of the unknowable and untouchable for a hundred years. We are only just now beginning to learn of the medicinal benefits and therapeutic effects of these “controlled substances.” Benefits which regularly far surpass those of the pills pushed by the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry.
Anything esoteric (i.e., anything intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.) is left shrouded forever in mystery while those who run this show take advantage of having access to the information denied to us, the other 99.99% of humanity.
The human bodies innate power to heal itself, the power of the mind, medicine and the placebo effect, levitation, telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnosis, precognition, mediumship and communication with other realms of existence, the purpose and power of dreams, telepathy, telekinesis, remote viewing, extraterrestrial civilizations and contact, ancient human history and lost civilizations, past lives, real nutrition, neurolinguistic programming, out of body travel, multidimensional reality, alternate realities real magic, and the power of meditation; 23 topics off the top of my head that are all shunned, forbidden, mocked, or deemed useless and thus remain mysterious.
And that’s just the human side. Who knows what technologies we are kept in the dark about. There’s a gluttony of possibilities including anti-gravity, teleportation, cold fusion, materials which can withstand extreme temperatures and other qualities, cloaking, faster than light travel, human augmentation, genetic manipulation, and probably things that you or I cannot yet imagine. Perhaps even aren’t allowed to imagine.
You can believe that all these things have been studied in great detail by someone, somewhere in secret and kept from us. I can tell by the flicker rate of my television set alone that we are being kept in a state of lower brain wave function. Our minds are put in a state of semi-sleep our whole lives. That is in addition to most people not getting the recommended 8–10 hours of sleep that the body and mind require to function property.
Other things we are not supposed to discuss
Being kept busy through competition for resources and setting group A against group B we are further distracted from our own minds with the additional benefit of providing a scapegoat for everything that is wrong in the world.
Considering everything that is done to keep us silent, stupid, and in compliance it hardly seems necessary to dumb-down the population through the education system, the media, and underpaid meaningless redundant work which lacks fulfillment.
Making disposable products which have a pre-determined shelf life that are meant to break down sooner than necessary requiring us to replace them (e.g., cars, furniture, refrigerators, etc.) ensure that a vast majority remains in perpetual debt. This feeds into our insecurities beating the confidence and dignity out of us. Yet an even further precautionary measure used by The Powers That Be to maintain order, complacency and compliance.
With all these measures taken and systems put in place to keep us in the dark, out of the loop, looking in the wrong direction, and misplacing blame on the assigned scapegoats, I’d think that those in power should feel more comfortable and secure in their position. Instead, they seem paranoid, fearing that any day now the masses will realize that they’ve been hoodwinked and rise up against them.
Because of our programing, recent generations have been made complacent
I think we’ve been sold (on credit, of course) too many comforts and entertaining distractions to do that. Stupefied by our smartphones, denied representation, and beaten down by a corrupt system on at least a monthly basis is enough to keep potential revolutionaries fat and complacent.
When we stop to think that trying to change “the system” might mean no more Hot and Spicy Cheetos, we have second thoughts. Instead of staying awake in the real world and trying to change the system, we revert to our fattening yet comfortable ways, staring hypnotized at bright and shiny objects on our TVs or smartphones.
Through the programming of our minds over the last 100 years, we’ve mass consumed ourselves to the brink of disaster. But as long as the virtual shelves at the virtual store remain virtually full of virtual products, I think it is doubtful that humanity will wake up to the predicament we are in until it is too late.
