{"id":87852,"date":"2013-10-23T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:25:19","slug":"how-the-matrix-deals-with-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-the-matrix-deals-with-power\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Matrix deals with power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">How the Matrix deals with power<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">by Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">October 22, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomorefakenews.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size:large;\">www.nomorefakenews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">I&#8217;ve been asked to reprint this piece. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Here it is a with a new brief introduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Most people use memory to explain why they&#8217;re living the lives they have. They arrange memories as if they&#8217;re symbols, and the sum is: this is the life I have; no other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">If you could somehow take away all those memories and insert a whole new synthetic raft, people would arrange those to come to the same conclusion. And the same life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">So it is with the world. People look out at it and decide, on some subterranean level, that the world dictates what degree of choice and power they possess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Put them in a different home, a different city, on a different planet, and they would eventually settle on the same assessment of their power: small.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">In that sense (and many others), memory and the world are constructs the individual ingests, arranges, and builds to suit and fortify his conception of his \u201cgeometry\u201d: the shape of his life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">In previous articles, I&#8217;ve been making clear how THE VOICE narrates the story of our times through television anchorage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The elite anchor is groomed to be able to induce a seamless hypnotic trance in viewers and make HIS voice THEIR voice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">There is power in a voice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A voice can change reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Your voice is the voice that destroys the narrative that has been sculpted for us. Your voice is the voice that rolls over the voice of the elite anchor and the other elite leaders who speak for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">When your voice become your VOICE, you connect with something oceanic that rips away false separations and false systems and false ideas and deserts of sand on which our fake reality is built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">We pretend to be small. We pretend to be whispers. We pretend to be confused. We pretend to be creatures living inside the space of this deluded society. We pretend to be clueless. We pretend to have such limited power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">We pretend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">We pretend that some overriding system or structure SUPERSEDES OUR OWN VOICE. We bow down to that system, and then we see what that does to our own power. It diminishes it. It makes our voice small. It makes our voice thin. It makes us into weaklings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">It makes us walled off from each other, from THE REAL EACH OTHER. The real each other is each one of us with power, with A VOICE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The word \u201crant\u201d is interesting to analyze. It originally referred to someone speaking in a completely unhinged way. Its recent online meaning was invented by tech heads, who adopt a \u201ccool\u201d attitude toward problems and answers. These cerebral types consider any outward display of passion or outrage to be a rant. For them, the \u201cranting voice\u201d is suspect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Try this experiment. Find a piece of writing you love that expresses great passion and poetry. Read it out loud while you&#8217;re alone. Read it out loud 50 times over the course of a few days. Inject your own passion into the words. If you&#8217;re not already lying in a coffin, something unexpected will happen to you. You&#8217;ll find yourself coming alive in a larger way. You&#8217;ll experience glimpses of your VOICE. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">This has to do with BEING ALIVE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">You&#8217;ll experience the absence of little structures and systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Keep reading that passage over and over. Put everything you have into it. Don&#8217;t stint. Put more and more feeling into it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Then, watch the evening network news. Listen to the tone of the anchor. Pay attention to how he establishes a continuity. No matter how absurd you thought the evening news was, you&#8217;ll now comprehend that absurdity from an entirely new perspective. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">As you expand your own VOICE, and as you EXPRESS WHAT YOU TRULY WANT TO EXPRESS&#8212;-YOUR OWN THOUGHTS, YOUR OWN IDEAS, YOUR OWN FEELINGS, YOUR OWN INVENTIONS&#8212;you are cutting away layers of stagnant consciousness. Each one of those layers says: \u201creality is THIS.\u201d Each layer has a different restrictive portrait of reality, and as it disintegrates and tumbles away into space, you become freer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The VOICE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A path to greater power, greater aliveness, greater empathy, greater engagement, greater self, greater community, greater wholeness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Your voice, not the anchor&#8217;s voice. The anchor&#8217;s voice operates on behalf of the established corrupt order, as a mesmerizing tool. Your VOICE liberates you and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Many years ago, I was teaching a small class in a school in New York. The kids were all retreads from other schools, where they didn&#8217;t make it for a variety of reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">They were in a constant state of distraction. Unteachable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">So I picked a short passage from a poem by Dylan Thomas. A few lines. A few great lines. I had each student read the passage out loud. Then we all read it together. Then we went around and around with each child reading it again&#8212;I urged more feeling, more expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">It was like trying to break through an iron ceiling. Each kid read the lines in a monotone. It was eerie, as if they were all in a trance. But I kept going anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Nothing doing. Nothing happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Then I said, \u201cI&#8217;m going to read these lines like a newscaster would read them.\u201d I gave a pretty good impression of an anchor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The kids cracked up. They thought it was very funny. They immediately grasped how ridiculous the anchor&#8217;s voice sounded trying to give feeling to poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The kids began reading those lines as if they were news anchors. They had a great time with it. That&#8217;s what broke the ice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Now,\u201d I said, \u201cstop conning me. Read the lines with your own feeling. Come on. Put something into it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">And they did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Around and around we went. Each kid must have read those lines a dozen more times. They got into it. They shed their embarrassment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The VOICES that emerged that day in class convinced me that everyone has a VOICE, and it cuts through layers of conditioning like a knife through butter, once it&#8217;s unleashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">These kids were titanic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">When we were done (I was reading the lines too), we all sat there and looked at each other in amazement. We knew. We knew we had cracked the egg. The spell of \u201cflat reality\u201d had been broken. We were all alive in a new way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The famous lines we read?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Do not go gentle into that good night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Old age should burn and rave at close of day;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Though wise men at their end know dark is right,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Because their words had forked no lightning they<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Do not go gentle into that good night&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Although the overall sentiment of that poem might appear to be a kind of futility, when we read the lines over and over, WE came to a different place. A place where we knew that our words COULD fork lightning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">And then we read, from Fern Hill:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The night above the dingle starry,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Time let me hail and climb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Golden in the heydays of his eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Trail with daises and barley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Down the rivers of the windfall light&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">the calves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Sang to my horn, the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">And the Sabbath rang slowly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">In the pebbles of the holy streams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">To be astonished by something you see on a screen is one thing. To be astonished by what your VOICE can establish is light years beyond that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">VOICE is relentless life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The author of two explosive collections, <span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.mybigcommerce.com\/the-matrix-revealed-vol-1-cd-by-jon-rappoport-mega-info\/\" ><span style=\"font-size:large;\">THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.mybigcommerce.com\/exit-from-the-matrix\/\" ><span style=\"font-size:large;\">EXIT FROM THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size:large;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size:large;\"> District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. 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