Lesson 5

Mind Control in the Classroom

If they knew they were free to choose, how many would freely and willingly choose statism and nationalism given its bloody history? How many young men would pick up a rifle, travel halfway around the world to kill total strangers on the orders of cigar-smoking old humbugs whose stomachs hang over their belts? Very few. To maintain the nation-state world system, mind control, starting as early as possible, is essential. This fact is widely acknowledged.

In his book, Man's Unconquerable Mind , Gilbert Highet says that we are engaged in a war for the enslavement or liberation of the mind of humanity. Highet sees three possibilities for the future: the expansion of knowledge, self-destruction, or thought control:

"The third possibility is that human thought will be deliberately and forcibly controlled and limited. This also has already happened a number of times in history; it is happening now... It is easy... to silence all questioning of established systems of belief and to regard critics as heretics, heretics as damned criminals. Throughout much civilized history most people have lived within such systems, approving the condemnation of heretics. Accordingly, it is perfectly possible that, within the next century or so, all human thought will be fitted into one or more new systems, with all the usual accompaniments of quasi-divine authority, group solidarity, and emotional satisfaction."

In America if your thought does not fit into the system of democracy and statism, experience shows you quickly become a criminal. The war rages violently every day over the minds of children. In a textbook on international politics we learn that:

From early childhood every human being is molded into a territorial being. Political leaders in all eras seem to have recognized the proper presentation of history as an important source of national enthusiasm. Glorification of past achievements may help a group overcome a distressing period or regain a lost sense of identity and self-confidence. An overwhelming stream of embellished memories, myths and legends is produced in every nation by the government, the schools, the army, mass communications media, patriotic organizations, historians, philosophers, poets and artists. An aggregate of human beings is transformed into a collective person, endowed with feelings, memories, pride, sorrow, and hopes-in another words, with a 'soul'.

(Here is the fantasy: the people become The People, Demos with a soul, the Greek myth that was believed to rule on earth long ago is now back.)

Indoctrination by history textbooks is not, of course, a Greek, Turkish, Arab, or Israeli specialty. All national communities engage in it.

Throughout the world , when the school takes over from the family, it only continues the nationalist indoctrination, usually at the cost of historical truth. From 1963 to 1966 a team of British and American historians engaged in a study of national bias in the secondary-school history textbooks of the two nations. National bias was found in all American and British history texts.

Whether it lacks one at its inception or not, every nation sooner or later acquires a meaningful history. Then, in due course, scholarly history books, textbooks, political speeches, monuments, national holidays, a national anthem, songs, poems, and children's stories will glorify and embellish the nation's past; how it started, built itself, fought, suffered and endured. An emotional and powerful identification of the people with one another and with the nation's past achievements will result. A nation does not spontaneously become an ultimate point of reference for loyalty and political action. It is a result of manifold pressures, manipulations, and messages that stress common experience and a common future. A mixture of rational egoism and emotional elation in response to constant prodding underlies the nationalist feeling. All states make use of symbols that are intended solely to mobilize sentiments.

Analysis of territorial nationalism has shown us how effectively individual men can be socialized into national beings... From his earliest years, like everyone else, he (the national leader) has been exposed to national myths and symbols, patriotic oratory, mass media, and history texts that glorify his nation while debasing the character and behavior of foreign nations. His mind too, like everyone else's, has stored distorted images and generalizations about his own country and foreign nations. Many of these stereotypes (which Walter Lippmann called "pictures in our head") have been based on hearsay and outright lies. Nations and Men; Duchacek; Holt, Rinehart, Winston; 1971.

You see, we have been lied to. Pictures have been put in our heads. It's no secret. Others have noticed the systematic indoctrination of young children in the name of the state:

A general state education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, ...it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. John Stuart Mills, The Occult Technology of Power , pg. 31.

All totalitarian movements are vitally concerned with the indoctrination of the young. Both Mussolini and Hitler organized youth before their rise to power. Friedreich and Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy, pgs 60-69.

Education of the young is used to condition them to what comes later, thereby eliminating the difference between propaganda and education. Propaganda cannot work effectively without education. The mind is conditioned with vast amounts of information posing as 'facts' and 'knowledge' despensed for ulterior motives. Remember the first principle behind mental programming: distraction. With propaganda, distraction focuses attention on information that is false. Repetition of the false information imbeds it in your subconscious mind so that your acceptance of its truth and accuracy becomes a conditioned response, circumventing analysis. Therefore, you accept this information as true without thinking about it. This is especially true in school where there is pressure to accept what is presented as true because that is what is expected from you. Remember that your trust in the source of information determines whether or not you accept it. What people think can be controlled by controlling information. People can be led to believe something that is not true when that information is presented by an accepted authority. Steven Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States, pgs 32,33.

'Often beliefs that we hold are never called into question; when they are not, it is relatively easy for us to lose sight of why we hold them,' says psychologist Elliot Aronson in the Socail Animal. Winn, The Manipulated Mind, pg.36. Our beliefs are often based on something other than personal experience. Beliefs acquired during childhood indoctrination at home, school and church often masquerade as knowledge. Such indoctrination means that the individual takes on conclusions of others instead of arriving at his own. We tend to protect what we believe and unconsciously filter out information we don't want to receive. Most of us are programmed without being aware of it. A child learns that his needs will more likely be met if he conforms to what is expected of him. Society and its institutions teach and reward conformity and obedience to authority. What this does is discourage the individual from serious challenge to authority. (Winn, Ibid., pgs 36-53). Jacobson, Ibid.,pgs 44-45.

Serious challenge to authority means telling wizards they are only common men and humbugs, just like they did in the Declaration of Independence. It means refusing to do what wolf-men tell you to do.

Girls, in this lesson you learn that grown-ups want to control your mind and program you with their fantasy world. You should be able to deprogram yourself or prevent it from happening in the first place. I hope you can. Maybe your parents will help you. Can you show me where the United States and the State of Alaska are on the spectrum of government?

Man's rule (Lies) (Mind Control)

God's Rule (Truth) (Free Thought)

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