{"id":95928,"date":"2013-12-03T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2013-12-03T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T19:15:57","slug":"technocracy-is-failed-mind-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/technocracy-is-failed-mind-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Technocracy is failed mind control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether we know it or not, like it or not, want it or not, we are engaged in a struggle, and that struggle concerns the human spirit\u2013understanding it, experiencing it, defending it against attacks.<\/p>\n

The spirit isn\u2019t some vague ghost or apparition. It\u2019s front and center, even in this blind world. It animates action. It has great power. It defies reduction.<\/p>\n

The spirit proliferates thought and vision. It doesn\u2019t settle for simplistic harmonies that short-circuit its inventions. It isn\u2019t a happy-happy rainbow. It isn\u2019t a child\u2019s fairy tale.<\/p>\n

In articles about my collection, The Matrix Revealed, I\u2019ve stressed, over and over, that human thought originates in a non-material sphere. A sphere outside conventional energy and space and time.<\/p>\n

That means the brain isn\u2019t thinking. It\u2019s performing calculations directed by ideas that are far more than chemical\/biological reflexes.<\/p>\n

Technocracy and its utopian fantasies provide a perfect negative example.<\/p>\n

Addled researchers look forward to the day when your brain, connected to a massive computer that is \u201ca super brain,\u201d will have instant access to so much information it will ascend to a new level of knowledge and power\u2026and then Greater Reality will emerge.<\/p>\n

But on what assumptions is this fantasy based?<\/p>\n

First, you can \u201cdownload\u201d information from the super brain. You can perceive it all and somehow incorporate it. Translation: the super brain will impose itself on you. This is called mind control, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be able to \u201cthink with the super brain,\u201d which directs your thought patterns and your conclusions. Again, mind control.<\/p>\n

The super brain is like a very, very wise parent who gives you \u201cbest information and best conclusions.\u201d You will obey, because the parent is right, correct, and is looking out for your best interests.<\/p>\n

As if that isn\u2019t enough, you\u2019ll also be able \u201cgain new insights,\u201d because your brain and the super brain (computer) are in sync. But none of this really involves active thought, because what the two brains are doing is automatic.<\/p>\n

So insights, whatever they may consist of, are programmed into you. If that sounds like freedom, Pavlov was Thomas Paine.<\/p>\n

Brain activity on any level, whether biological or chemical or machine, isn\u2019t about freedom. It\u2019s about carrying out directives that originate in free choice.<\/p>\n

Actual thought is based in freedom. You think, which is to say, you make inquiries and decisions and conclusions outside the automatic venue of chemical and biological activity. You do that.<\/p>\n

You aren\u2019t your brain.<\/p>\n

If you were your brain, freedom wouldn\u2019t exist and we could all pack it up and go home and forget about life and the future.<\/p>\n

Therefore, no super brain computer is going to supply you with freedom. It\u2019s going to enforce automatic reflexes based on somebody\u2019s algorithms.<\/p>\n

How did we get into this mess? The answer is simple. We forgot about what freedom is. For decades, we\u2019ve taken it for granted. We\u2019ve overlooked the study of freedom and its implications.<\/p>\n

If you develop a vision about the future you want, that\u2019s thought taking place in a sphere outside the automatic chemical\/ biological reflexes and processes of the brain. That\u2019s you thinking, freely.<\/p>\n

Technocracy is all about \u201cbest answer.\u201d It\u2019s a fairy tale in which all humans go along with a master plan.<\/p>\n

And as for the nuts and bolts\u2026do you really believe that if you have access to a program that teaches a foreign language, you\u2019ll instantly be able to speak in that language?<\/p>\n

If the super brain gives you a one-second blast of information about automotive repair, do you really think you\u2019ll be able to open the hood of your car and fix it?<\/p>\n

Do you really believe you\u2019ll be able to plug into a reservoir of data about playing the piano and immediately sit down and roll out Chopin and Beethoven?<\/p>\n

Take chess. We\u2019ve already seen that big computers can defeat human chess champions. Does that mean you can plug into the computer\u2019s programs and become Bobby Fisher? Having access and actually doing something with that access are two very different things.<\/p>\n

Doing something means you are making choices and decisions, freely. It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re submitting to a mechanical pattern.<\/p>\n

Technocracy is the latest piece of insanity derived from the notion that you can have everything you want handed to you on a silver platter. I have news. At bottom, people don\u2019t want that silver platter. They want the fruits of their own efforts. They want the joy that comes from those efforts and freely made choices.<\/p>\n

Technocracy is the latest effort to explain \u201cthe genius mystery.\u201d It offers the lunatic notion that genius is a mere program that can be loaded into a brain.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s called a metaphor, but it\u2019s being taken seriously as a literal explanation.<\/p>\n

Talent, achievement, and creative imagination are far more interesting and marvelous than programs. They originate in non-material spaces where the individual invents thought and energy.<\/p>\n

The Matrix is the sum total of efforts to deny and bury that fact.<\/p>\n

This is why I do the work I do.<\/p>\n

Back in the late 1980s, when I met a brilliant hypnotherapist named Jack True, I changed my focus. Jack told me a simple thing: \u201cI stopped doing hypnosis because I realized new patients who were walking into my office were already hypnotized.\u201d<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t mean they were in a zombie-like trance. He meant that their ceaseless activity covered a core place in their consciousness that was asleep.<\/p>\n

In this core, people are submitting to a program about how to perceive reality. This complex program is devised to hide their basic non-material power to change reality, to invent new reality on a radical scale.<\/p>\n

Because that is how the projection of mass reality is achieved: by spreading amnesia about the capacity of every individual human to create without limit.<\/p>\n

Technocracy is a mirror of that amnesia.<\/p>\n

Technocracy is a surrender to that amnesia. It\u2019s a blockbuster movie loaded with special effects that hide its paucity of real ideas. It\u2019s lack of free thought parading as advanced thinking. It\u2019s simplistic plot operating like junk food\u2013pleasant impact followed by vacuum and blank stare.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore you can figure out all the lies, we\u2019ll have you trapped in a new system.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the challenge hurled at us. How we respond will decide the future of life on planet Earth.<\/p>\n

Our response depends on our understanding and conviction about what we are. Free and intensely creative beings, or sub-machines connected to the Big Machine.<\/p>\n

Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th 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. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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