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Title: The universal Rebel and the psy-op to neuter him
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Published: Nov 14, 2017
Author: Jon Rappoport
Post Date: 2017-11-16 06:23:36 by Deckard
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by Jon Rappoport November 14, 2017 If you want to track a civilization as it collapses, watch what happens to the concept of the rebel. From the 1960s onward—starting with Lee Oswald and the assassination of JFK—the whole idea of “the rebel” with power has been sequentially updated and repackaged. This is intentional. The objective is to equate “rebel” with a whole host of qualities—e.g., runaway self-serving paranoia; random destruction; out-of-control drug use; generalized hatred; the commission of crimes… On a lesser, “commercialized” level, the new rebel can define himself by merely showing up at a concert to scream and drink heavily and break something, having already dressed to make a dissident fashion statement. He can take an afternoon off from college classes and have his arms tattooed. All the while, of course, he functions as an avid consumer of mainstream corporate products. You even have people who, considering themselves rebels of the first order, support a government that spies on its people 24/7, launches military attacks all over the world, and now funds a Manhattan Project to map every move of the 100 billion neurons of the brain, for the ultimate purpose of controlling it. Even going back as far as the 1950s, the so-called decade of conformity, psyops professionals sculpted notions of The Rebel: He was the person who didn’t want to take part in the emerging bland corporate culture. He was imagined and presented as troubled, morose; a wobbly unfocused JD Salinger Holden Caulfield, or a beatnik, a Madison Avenue caricature of somebody who opposed Madison Avenue. In other words, the people who were shaping the consumer culture were creating the image of the rebel as a cartoon figure who just didn’t want to buy into “the good life.” Time Magazine ran a cover story on the beatniks, and characterized them as a disaffected trend. Marlon Brando, heading up a bunch of moronic motorcycle riders, invaded a town of pleasant clueless citizens and took it over, wreaking destruction. The 1953 movie was The Wild One. James Dean, who had the same trouble Brando did in articulating a complete sentence, was “the rebel without a cause” in the “iconic film” of the same name. He raced cars toward cliffs because his father couldn’t understand him. These were all puff pieces designed to make rebels look ridiculous, and they worked. They also functioned to transmit the idea to young people that being a rebel should be a showbiz affectation. That worked, too. Then the late 1960s arrived. Flower children rebels, in part invented by the major media, would surely take over the world and dethrone fascist authority with rainbows. San Francisco was the epicenter. But Haight-Ashbury, where the flowers and the weed were magically growing out of the sidewalks, turned into a speed, acid, and heroin nightmare, a playground for psychopaths to cash in and steal and destroy lives. The CIA, of course, gave the LSD culture a major push. For all that the anti-war movement eventually accomplished in ending the Vietnam war-crime, in the aftermath many of those college students who had been in the streets—once the fear of being drafted was gone—scurried into counselors’ offices to see where they might fit into the job market after graduation. The military industrial complex took its profits and moved on, undeterred. The idea of the rebel was gone. It later resurfaced as The Cocaine Dealer, the archangel of the 1980s. And so forth and so on. All these incarnations of The Rebel were artificially created and sustained as psyops. At bottom, the idea was to discredit the Individual, in favor of The Group. Now, in our collectivist society of 2017, The Group, as a rapidly expanding victim class, is the government’s number one project. It’s a straight con. “We’re here to make you worse off while we lift you up.” In the psyop to demean, distort, and squash the rebel, there is a single obvious common denominator: the establishment media are doing the defining; they are the ones who are setting the parameters and making the descriptions; they are the ones who build the cartoons; looking down their noses, pretending to a degree of sympathy, they paint one unflattering picture after another of what the rebel is and does and says; they have co-opted the whole game. These days, the ultimate rebels, the media would have you believe, are “gun-toting racist bitter clingers who have religion.” Another attempt to shape a distorted unflattering portrait You can take a whole host of political films and television series of the past 50 years, and look at them for signs of the Rebel: Seven Days in May, Advise and Consent, The Candidate, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Dave, Primary Colors, The Contender, Good Night and Good Luck, The American President, West Wing, Scandal, The Newsroom… Good acting, bad acting, drama, message—at the end you’re looking for the core. What do the rebel heroes really stand for? What are their principles? It’s all bland. It’s vague. It has the posturing of importance, but little else. As I was finishing this piece, a friend wrote with a quote attributed to Robert Anton Wilson: “The universe is a war between reality programmers.” This is exactly where the real rebel enters the scene. He’s not trying to program people. Freedom means cutting loose from programming. The Rebel doesn’t go to the market and choose which reality program he wants. They’re all used up as soon as they come out of the package. Albert Camus once wrote: “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. It would be easy, however, to destroy that good conscience by shouting to them: if you want the happiness of the people, let them speak out and tell what kind of happiness they want and what kind they don’t want! But, in truth, the very ones who make use of such alibis know they are lies; they leave to their intellectuals on duty the chore of believing in them and of proving that religion, patriotism, and justice need for their survival the sacrifice of freedom.” “THIS or THAT” is the history of Earth: choose reality program A or B. The choice was always a con. We’re well into a time period when the experts and scientific authorities are settling on the human being as a biological machine that can only respond to programming. That’s their view and their default position. It’s sheer madness, of course, but what else do you expect? We’re in an intense technological age, and people are obsessed with making things run smoother. They treat their precious little algorithms for control like the Crown Jewels. They’re terribly enthusiastic about the problem they’re solving, and that problem is us. We’re the wild cards, a fact which they take to be result of our improper and incomplete conditioning. They aim to fix that. “Why not stop diddling around and just make the whole thing over? Why not reshape humans?” Having decided that, the battle begins between competing programmers of the mind. Which program for humans is better? The rebel is against all such programming, no matter how “good and right” it sounds. “Good” and “right” are the traps. The ultimate rebellion is against programming, whatever it looks like, wherever it occurs. Programming is someone else’s idea of who and what you should be. It is never your idea. Your idea is where the power is. There are some people who hear the word CREATE and wake up, as if a new flashing music has begun. This lone word makes them see something majestic and untamed and astonishing. They feel the sound of a Niagara approaching. They suddenly know why they are alive. Most people don’t want to travel to that grand arena because they have been trained like pets by some sector of this society to be good little girls and boys. The truth is, if people want to live the creative existence, they have to be willing to destroy—and the main thing that awaits their destruction is their own illusions and their commitment to the World of Nice where doily power is the only power. Where that tired phrase, “the approval of others,” is the guiding precept and the stick of fear. The creative life isn’t about little changes done in little penguin steps. It’s about putting your arms and your mind around Deep, Big, and Wide Desire. It’s about making that Desire come to life. 99% of the world has been trained like rats to adore systems. Give them a system and they’re ready to cuddle up and take it all in. If they have questions, or if they want to argue, it’s about how to tweak the system to make it a little better. And with every move they make, they put another blanket over the Fire Within. Maybe you once saw something truly free that didn’t care about consequences, and it blew you away and turned on your soul’s electricity for an hour. Maybe you’re sick and tired of bowing and scraping before a pedestal of nonsense. CREATE is a word that should be oceanic. It should shake and blow apart the pillars of the smug boredom of the soul. CREATE is about what the individual does when he is on fire and doesn’t care about concealing it. It’s about what the individual invents when he has thrown off the false front that is slowly strangling him. CREATE is about the end of mindless postponement. It’s about what happens when you burn up the pretty and petty little obsessions. It’s about emerging from the empty suit and empty machine of society that goes around and around and sucks away the vital bloodstream. People come to the brink, and then say, “I’m waiting for orders. I’m looking for a sign. I want the signal that it’s okay to proceed.” People pretend they don’t know anything about imagination, about how “it operates” (as if it were a machine), about what it can do, about where it can go, about how it can take them into new territory. They feign ignorance. “I want to stay the same, and I’ll do anything to maintain that.” It’s a test of loyalty. Do you want to remain faithful to an idea that is just a small piece of what you can be, or do you want to take the greater adventure? The propaganda machines of society relentlessly turn out images and messages that ultimately say: YOU MUST BELONG TO THE GROUP. The formula is simple. Imagination transcends the status quo. Therefore, belong to the group and avoid the possibility of transformation. Or…REBEL.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
ROFLMAO! This makes the spot where I quit reading this series of brain farts. How the hell can this cretin speak with authority about things he knows nothing about? Reading books written by a bunch of clowns who didn't understand what THEY were writing about doesn't make you an authority on anything but how to be a clown. For example,name ONE person you know personally who ever considered Oswald to be a rebel or a hero. The whole freaking concept is ignorant on a level that borders on insanity. People become rebels BECAUSE THEY FEEL POWERLESS,NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE POWER. As for the Brandon movie,it was all exaggeration based on an actual event in Hollister,California,and the so-called "Rebels" were almost entirely WW-2 Vets that rode motorcycles and went there for a weekend of fun. Being WW-2 vets,they didn't take kindly to the local police trying to bust their chops to please the local businessmen,and the result was the so-called Hollister Riot". It was started by the cops,not the motorcycle riders. Cops who had yet to learn the lesson that you "Don't try to push people that push back". Then again,this fool is getting paid by the printed word,so he might not be as big a fool as he appears to be. At least he is earning his pay. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
ROFLMAO! You should read a book sometime. The CIA had a lot to do with mainstreaming the use of LSD and the creation of the entire "hippie" culture. For example,name ONE person you know personally who ever considered Oswald to be a rebel or a hero. The MSM made him out to be a REBEL, which is what this article is about - not heroes, artificially constructed rebels. The answer to these questions is Herbert Crowley's "The Promise of America" written in the early nineteenth century and the Frankfurt School's slow march though Western Culture conceived of in about 1923.
LOL! I read actual books all the time. The CIA had a lot to do with mainstreaming the use of LSD and the creation of the entire "hippie" culture. You see tiny little CIA agents hiding in your corn flakes. The CIA didn't have squat to do with mainstreaming LSD. The US Army tested it on people without their knowledge as well as with their knowledge, and it was and IS a VERY effective drug to use with people who have psychiatric problems,which is what it was invented to treat. Some people used it for recreational use,and the dickwads that thump their bibles went nuts and demanded it be banned. AFAIK,it is still banned. For example,name ONE person you know personally who ever considered Oswald to be a rebel or a hero. That has to be THE most bizarre question I have ever been asked. You would have to be barking at the moon insane to consider Oswald to have been anything but a nut case. The MSM made him out to be a REBEL, which is what this article is about - not heroes, artificially constructed rebels. In what alternate universe did this happen? I am old enough to remember when this happened,and that sure ain't the way I remember it. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
The MSM made him (Oswald) out to be a REBEL, which is what this article is about - I can verify about WWII vets damn near rioting over mistreatment by local cops. -- My father was a bartender right after the war when the local cops thought the ex - GIs were partying a bit too much. The cops were taught a lesson one night in my home town, by some much tougher guys. As to Oswald, no one I knew in the day thought he was a rebel.. He was seen as a creepy dupe of communists/intelligence agencies, -- who undoubtedly had help in the assassination.. I Hell, we all wondered how he got in the Marine Corps.
I'm still wondering. That was the peacetime USMC,too. The only thing I can come up with is that the economic boom of the post WW-2 era was still in "full boom" as all of Europe and Asia were rebuilding,and the USMC didn't exactly have a line of eager enlistees to choose from. I remember seeing a photo of John Wayne visiting Marines on Okinawa in the very early 60's,and there was Oswald in the background. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
The CIA, of course, gave the LSD culture a major push.
#2. To: sneakypete (#1)
The CIA, of course, gave the LSD culture a major push.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
What do the rebel heroes really stand for? What are their principles?
#4. To: Deckard (#2)
You should read a book sometime.
#5. To: Deckard, sneakypete (#2)
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As for the Brando movie,it was all exaggeration based on an actual event in Hollister,California,and the so-called "Rebels" were almost entirely WW-2 Vets that rode motorcycles and went there for a weekend of fun. Being WW-2 vets,they didn't take kindly to the local police trying to bust their chops to please the local businessmen,and the result was the so-called Hollister Riot". It was started by the cops,not the motorcycle riders. Cops who had yet to learn the lesson that you "Don't try to push people that push back". --- sneakypete by
#6. To: tpaine (#5)
Hell, we all wondered how he got in the Marine Corps.
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