@doctorthoss: +1 ... well said, I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. The vast majority of people always have, and always will, support the status quo regardless of how much grumbling about it they may or may not do. They support it by how they spend their time and their money (by doing business with the major corporate entities)...they support it by voting for either of the two major parties...they support it by willful ignorance...they support it because of their desire for social acceptance.
All that the “controllers” need do is mold and maneuver the status quo. This is easily accomplished when nearly all of the establishment/institutional “authorities” are locked into the system: the major corporations, the regulatory agencies, the scientific establishment, the churches, the establishment media, the government schools, etc. All just different aspects of the same over-arching social engineering scheme.
On any given issue, the system creates the illusion that all or nearly all of the credible experts are in agreement...so the vast majority of people then accept that verdict, especially if it is a scientific authority making the pronouncement. It is almost never really true that the credible experts all agree with the status quo...it’s just that only the experts who tow the line are promoted by the establishment media. The individual has to make a personal effort to seek out other information, from other experts...and very few ever do.
If the “authorities” say all smoking is bad and all smokers should be penalized, most people will not question it. IMO, at the core of so many of our problems is the dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship between “the people” and “authority”. Stanley Milgram’s experiments shed interesting light on this problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVlI-_4GZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpAbig8ttY
All that the “controllers” need do is mold and maneuver the status quo. This is easily accomplished when nearly all of the establishment/institutional “authorities” are locked into the system: the major corporations, the regulatory agencies, the scientific establishment, the churches, the establishment media, the government schools, etc. All just different aspects of the same over-arching social engineering scheme.
On any given issue, the system creates the illusion that all or nearly all of the credible experts are in agreement...so the vast majority of people then accept that verdict, especially if it is a scientific authority making the pronouncement. It is almost never really true that the credible experts all agree with the status quo...it’s just that only the experts who tow the line are promoted by the establishment media. The individual has to make a personal effort to seek out other information, from other experts...and very few ever do.
If the “authorities” say all smoking is bad and all smokers should be penalized, most people will not question it. IMO, at the core of so many of our problems is the dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship between “the people” and “authority”. Stanley Milgram’s experiments shed interesting light on this problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVlI-_4GZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpAbig8ttY
