Mind Control [Track 13]
"None are more helplessly enslaved than those who faslely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang GoetheMind Control picks up where The Rebirth of Hope left off. The intro sets the stage for the song's intensity and creates an allure that the listener is not going to necessarily like what s/he hears, but it is necessary to recognize because people are playing with your mind like it is a Nintendo game. The use of the word 'Nintendo' here is suppose to be as an inter-connecting reference to "Puss & Cush (Nintendo)."
The second verse is a whole mess of knowledge and information crammed into 16 bars! Pluralistic Ignorance is an illusory group correlation where the actual popular opinion is thought to be the minority view. Cognitive Dissonance is holding two contradicting ideas simultaneously without realizing it. It is often a product of environmental forces and manifests itself as rationalizing and/or justifying unfortunate event in life.
Smedley Butler |
The CFR refers to the Council on Foreign Relations which is a group of important figures in business and industry congregating to talk about foreign policy. In conspiracy theory circles it is seen as the apex of a secret society conspiring against the public in a kind-of seemingly harmless multi-billion dollar corporation "chamber of commerce" club. I mention it here because it is rather "shady" and exemplifies an unpopular warning from Adam Smith:
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
We don't have to look any farther than the Bush family, and how the Bush administration (basically) operated with impunity while they were in power , to understand who really has control in America.
It's simple really. The influences that Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about--and the entities JFK tried to shut down--used their power, wealth, and resources to first control our money supply, then neutralize threats to their power, and then put leaders into power that were sympathetic to their rule/ideology. Is it really that outlandish? Have you ever heard of the Quiggley, Butler, the CFR, or pluralistic ignorance before now?
This is what I mean by Mind Control: the systematic manipulation of a mental picture that paints society as a free republic by omitting evidence that portrays a plutocratic elite who rule as an aristocracy.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
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