The Hidden Persuaders: The Subversive Use Of Sacred Symbolism In The Media

In 1935, we have the Historian Tocqueville in his review of America and in review of the genres that were going on of his time, wrote these words. He said “I fear that the productions of democratic poets may often be surcharged with immense and incoherent imagery with exaggerated descriptions and strange creations, and that the fantastic beings of their brains may sometimes make us regret the world of reality“.
You think that’s old? Plato was doing the same thing in 300 BC when he warned about the artists quote/unquote, this has been misinterpreted by many scholars, but he just said that the artists quote/unquote, if they’re given too much dominion over the mind, there will be a decline of civilization. I believe that he was aware of people even then who are still with us, still operating within our society today. Don’t believe it? Here’s a quote. It says “I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions“. (John Kricfalusi, creator of the Ren and Stimpy Show)

“Children’s television and MTV, in fact, are the easiest places to launch counterculture missiles. The more harmless or inane the forum, the more unsuspecting the audience.” Douglas Rushkoff

These individuals, they do go back a long way and they have understood completely your psyche. They’ve had generations, centuries to study it. Their type of sorcery involves different kinds of techniques, but it’s still the same effect – Tele-hypnosis, Metacontrast, Hemisync, Synaesthenia, Embedding – new names, new terms, but for a very old well known practice to get you into group think and subservience. To get you to embody dialectical divisions to which there is no end in our society. To fashion your allegiances for you. To plant associations that your mind might not normally associate.