Getting the Consent of the Ruled: Engineering an Individual's Choices Away From His Needs.

Are our lives being scripted by the ruling class? Are our minds filled with useless ideas, pedaled by the media and public indoctrination education system, thus, obscuring useful facts?  What happened to critical thinking?

Mind control:

“Since the dawn of time, small groups of human beings have instilled artificial circular limitations on the minds of their subjects through the procession of history. Traditionally, the limitations are imprinted on the servile population through a cunning use of language, instruction and media for the purposes of conquest, social cohesion, and authoritative order by harnessing the human resources of the broad population

Hegelian dialectic:

“To meet an agenda in conflict with the needs of individuals, the ruling class creates an artificial crisis [problem]-- to which the public reacts by begging for the ruling class to intervene [reaction]. The ruling class then enjoys the plunder made possible by removing the self-reliance from individuals [solution].

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The Dystopian Future is Upon Us.

It's undeniable. The question is which "dystopia"? George Orwell’s “1984”? Or, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”? It appears both visions were right. On the one hand, the repressive surveillance and security state grows larger everyday, and on the other hand, captivated by technology, we're addicted to mindless entertainment and consumption. Meanwhile, as Jacques Ellul once said, “Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systematization.” "We the People" are on the path to becoming mere numbers, each one of us indistinguishable from another, easily exchanged, and easily erased should we fail to conform.

From Raytheon: crowd control will be as easy as suffocating people with sound now that they've come out with the LRAD Sound Cannon. That is, low frequency sound waves that disrupt the respiratory tract and hinders breathing.

From IBM:  Mind Reading Computers  within five years.  That's right.  Beware, the "thought police" are no longer fictional characters. They're here.

And from the Brookings Institute, retroactive surveillance, or surveillance time machines. That is, digital storage that enables "shadowing people’s movements and communications that took place before the individuals became suspects, according to John Villaseno, author of “Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Government,” and a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA.

“For example, if an anti-regime demonstrator previously unknown to security services is arrested, it will be possible to go back in time to scrutinize the demonstrator’s phone conversations, automobile travels, and the people he or she met in the months and even years leading up to the arrest.”

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Persuaded Below the Level of Choice and Reason

"All that is needed is money and a candidate that can be coached to look sincere...the personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts are the things that really matter." Aldous Huxley

Below, Mike Wallace interviews Aldous Huxley, author of "Brave New World" in 1958, in which, Huxley gives an eerily prescient forecast concerning our nation's future.

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