By: Gary D. Barnett
“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
~ Peter Hitchens
One wonders how we got to where we are today; a society of non-critical thinkers, non-thinkers period, relying on the State as if a parent or god, fully dependent on this failed system of corruption, indoctrination, and control over every aspect of life. This begins with turning over children as young as toddlers to the State and its atrocious brainwashing schooling monstrosity falsely called the ‘public education’ system, where every child is treated the same, taught not to think but to obey, and not to question but only accept. This is the beginning of what becomes a lifetime of mediocrity, that leads to a caged-mind existence of coerced or even voluntary slavery.
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In a society based upon this model, division among the serfs is mandatory, and easily accomplished once one is subject to the brainwashing that begins almost from birth. Division in family, division among race, division among classes, conformity of the collective herd at every level; all this leading to a disconnected system based on violence and fear. History and tradition are marginalized, rewritten, hidden, or erased, so that the entirety of society thinks life is, and always has been, what it is in the present.
Once this level of ignorance and indifference is reached, due in part to horrible processed foods, poisons, toxic spraying, and deadly injections, ill health is the result, which then leads to a life dependent on a heinous medical system doling out lethal prescription drugs; drugs that maim and kill mind and body, leaving but a molded, non-questioning, burned out, and intellectually empty shell of a man. Autonomous man has disappeared in favor of a collective creature, void of morality, self-responsibility, empathy, and humanitarian behavior; leaving a dominated machine-like drone cognizant only of an accepted, all-powerful ‘authority.’
Look around and most of what you will see is extreme division, blanket hate, fear-based existence, immoral lifestyles, mass confusion, blank stares, and psychological chaos. This is the America of today. It was no accident, and was a plotted outcome for well over the past century. After dumbing down one generation after another, basically generational brainwashing, the task of controlling an entire population became a much easier undertaking, as the elimination of the individual brought about a nationwide herd mentality based on compliance and obedience to false ‘authority.’ Independence has been replaced by mob-think, and when people gather as one, intellectual curiosity and intelligent thought disappear. This is the scourge of collectivist ‘thinking,’ which rules out intellectual honesty.
Populations at large, and not just the younger generations, have given themselves completely over to technology. In essence, they are owned, monitored, recorded, surveilled, and consumed by AI, the internet of things, cell phones, gaming, and social media. The tech and AI masters it seems, have captured most of society in the clutches of a neo-feudal algorithmic ghetto. When this happens, normal communications, personal interaction, organic relationships, and family are sacrificed for a virtual reality existence, where artificial lifestyles replace meaningful association. What is most troubling is that this form of existence is now considered the norm, and not understood by most to be the destruction of the human mind, body, and soul.
In real terms, this is the theft of humanity as it has existed over thousands of years; all being replaced by cold, machine-like drones conditioned to “own nothing and be happy.” None of this is new, and has been incrementally advanced for decades, but the current acceleration of this process is astounding to say the least, and must be stopped if any sanity is to return to ‘modern’ man.
Since 2024, Flock cameras have expanded from a few hundred to well over 120,000 in 49 states, this according to Flock’s own claims. This is just one type of mass surveillance, but there are many more. The digitization of society and all its functions are a direct threat to every single person in this country. By last count, there are now 4,000 to 5,400 data centers in the U.S. alone, and that number is still growing, so obviously, data on every single man, woman, and child is being captured, analyzed, and stored. Every communication device is constantly monitored, and with full and monetary digitization completion, everyone’s activities, financial transactions, movement, and behavior will be captured, and all of us and our activities will become programmable. If (when) this happens, this will truly be a slave society, fully controlled 24 hours a day. This is what tyrannical evil looks like, and it is now already at your doorstep, but I have not even scratched the surface of the totalitarian madness that is now happening.
None of this could have happened unless this population at large had been dumbed down, brainwashed, and indoctrinated for generations, causing dominance by the ruling element and government to expand to such an extent as to allow the few to take control of the hundreds of millions without so much as a whimper. In fact, much of the ‘voting’ population continues to laud and support this system that is continually building digital prisons to control all; in other words, the people of this country are voluntarily building their own cages.
As John Taylor Gatto stated: “Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization, organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements, conformity — these things are at the very heart of our national state policies, and are the poison that has killed our families and left individual survivors in a numbed, angry, nearly hysterical condition.”
I have barely mentioned all that is coming; this given the gross weather manipulation, the spraying of toxic poisons, deadly injections, the total surveillance state, programmable digital currency, plotted and staged wars, depopulation efforts, democide, genocide, famine, intentional water and energy ‘shortages,’ and the ever-increasing hyper-inflationary environment.
Much, if not most, of the fault lies with the people, and only the people can change this course we now face. After decades of watching the complete deterioration of this country, my optimism going forward is almost non-existent, and that is why I continue to write and warn about the looming catastrophic collapse and reset that is bound to happen unless large numbers of Americans decide en masse to “not take it anymore!”
Either disobey, dissent, do not comply with this tyranny, and learn to live as an individual, or be relegated to being a slave in the technocratic prison state being built around you.
“Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.”
~ Peter O. Gray
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