A few days ago, I was struck with the strange, strong, and thoroughly insatiable urge to watch old '90s clips of (long-running Australian soap opera) Neighbours on YouTube.
you make some really interesting points here Miri. I found myself watching Dallas last year from 40 years ago, and I could remember how scenes ended before the end of the scene. Meaningless little rows, all stored away in my brain. And the background music, so emotional and manipulative. And of course, they hook you first, before they hit you with any messaging. coronation street of 25 years ago was n't particularly manipulative the way it has been in the last ten . It's so interesting to revisit the recent past though, now that we know what we know. I came across a YouTube video of Douglas Murray from 15 years ago, and his 'concerns' about immigration. It's so obvious now that he was just shilling for Israel, but at the time I remember thinking 'yes, that's right'.
Youtube is the monster. Really powerfully addictive, I've given it up twice this year already, and it keeps pulling me back.
Thanks Kevin, and great observations, all very true. I was thinking similarly myself when I watched the Neighbours clips, that there wasn't much overt social engineering, it was just charting day-to-day life: relationship break ups and make-ups, work stress, minor crises etc.... But of course, this was to get us attached to the characters, so we accept the hardcore social engineering when it does begin.
What you say about Douglas Murray is done with lots of screen characters in various ways, for instance Donald Trump was seeded into plenty of film and TV, including beloved children's films like Home Alone, to get us comfortable with and trusting him for when the serious social engineering begins.
yes indeed. As a weird follow up, the algorithm on youtube has just presented me with an episode of neighbours and of Dallas from 1987, as one of the boxes I might want to click on. this is slightly disconcerting.
Interesting to know your methods! I listen to almost all content like that (because there really is SO much cleaning to do when you have a family and goodness I need entertaining to keep cleaning!). I read your stuff because I find it easier to absorb than your audios (although I sometimes listen to them). But, generally, I get my information through reading books and listening to podcasts.
Do you remember this? http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/Megalab.pdf I think you might have been too young, Miri, to have been watching (it was done in 1995). The study investigated whether the public were best able to detect lying through the newspapers, radio or television. A celebrity was asked what his favourite film was; one time he told the truth, the other he lied. The responses were shown on Tomorrow's World on television, broadcast on Radio One and printed in The Telegraph. Radio listeners detected the lies 73.4% of the time, newspaper readers 64.2% and television viewers 51.8%. So, TV watchers were a tiny bit better than chance. Newspaper readers clearly ahead and the radio listeners were hardest to fool. It's a great case for me to continue to mainly listen to podcasts (which is really my favourite way of getting updates of the day!). For more complex issues, like understanding how to create an independent trading club, I'd prefer to read, though, because some things are just too complicated for an uninterrupted podcast!
Also, I was thinking more about your "Big Picture" conversation and how to bring people together. As I see it, the primary reason that we need to create these communities is so we can trade. Once we can trade directly with each other and reduce (or ideally eliminate) our dependence on structures such as central banks, the courts and police, the whole house of cards will fall. I think those things will have to be based around a small farm so people's food requirements are met and, while we have bought into a small farm and get a lot of our food from there, it's not local. If you are at all interested in doing a tour where you help people come together, please say and I am VERY happy to help you organise this as, IMO, once there are a couple of farms like the one we've bought into in every county, the future will be visible and we'll reach a tipping point. I hope it appeals to you!
Thank you, Rosie, that's extremely interesting. I hadn't heard of that study, though am not surprised by the results. It obviously underlines completely how much easier it is to feed people lies through a flickering screen.
Great thoughts about community and trading! I agree it must all centre around food, and I will certainly give your kind offer more thought. Although it's not as optimal as being able to go somewhere in person, are you aware of the Good Food Project, who are doing something similar? https://www.goodfoodproject.co.uk/
I have heard of them. I think I listened to the founder on a podcast at one point. I am sure their products are great - my concern is what happens if something "problematic" happens with the money supply (hyperinflation, UBI/some form of financial rationing) or transportation which this sort of online shop is not protected against. I know lots of people through local groups who consider themselves "awake", but, at this stage, I am not sure how "awake" anyone is who still has heroes like "Tommy Robinson" (I met one only yesterday...). Also, when I suggested to this person that he didn't give me money for some soaps I was offering him and we talked about a trading system like a local club, I think he thought I was trying to pull a fast one. So, while I know and meet a lot of people who think they are awake, it's like the time I was in a barn and the mattress I was lying on caught on fire (we had had a candle on a plate and it burned down and set it alight). I was awake, but I was so subdued by the fumes from the mattress that I just watched it burning. The guy I was next to got up and started stomping the flames out and I just lay there impassively watching him doing it thinking "the way he's stamping on it is fanning the flames". I still did nothing. I didn't even *say* anything. Then he did it the way I realised he needed to and I thought "oh, that's good". I feel I am like the guy stamping on the mattress and there are people lying there impassively.
I am not interested in moralising about this/judging these people, because I have no idea why other people are still watching telly and finding "new" heros (I mean Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson seem to cover an awful lot of men) I am simply interested in finding people who don't think my suggesting "direct democracy will not work while people are watching TV" reasonable and, basically, the end of the conversation. The reason I am perpetually petitioning you is because you are HARD CORE. Anyone reading you is NOT thinking "I love Tommy" and, I suspect, is taking a lot of personal responsibility/willing to make any personal changes necessary to create safe social structures so we can thrive, not just survive. I have also tried launching things online and, very weirdly, found I get people from all over the country (again, not helpful/what I want). I am not sure if you have the postcodes of everyone who reads you, but if any of them are NN17 (probably a bit optimistic!) or, at least NN, I'd be very interested to connect with them. Alternatively, if you only have about a few hundred subscribers (which I hope is NOT the case - I hope you have several thousand, albeit only a few hundred who pay) so 3-5 per county, I understand perhaps it is not quite *time* for this!
A video of the magician David Blaine popped up on my You Tube feed recently; he is mind-bogglingly good, a total master of illusion; yet if it he revealed how the trick was done we would probably think Ah ha! So that's how he did it. How clever! We naturally presume that it was just theatre and for our entertainment.
When tragic events happen such as 9/11, the Manchester bombing, the Southport stabbings and the Liverpool car attack etc. It doesn't matter how many Judy Woods or Richard D Halls explain, in detail, how it may have been orchestrated, we seem programmed into believing what we were first shown by the media and the authorities are perfectly capable of exploiting this programming.
Nice one Miri.
Looking forward to your comments on the latest McCann mystery soap episode!
Thank you, Kevin, and your observations about David Blaine are very true. Magicians and illusions play a far bigger part in all this than we know, which is really what RDH's catchphrase is telling us.
Re: MM, I've been thinking I'll need to do another update. I don't know if you've seen they're tipping her brother for stardom now, as an Olympic swimmer. One child world famous for being missing, another an Olympic athlete, quite the star family!
On point as always Miri. Don't know if I told you before. When I went to uni I remember a pretty girl approaching me saying she knew me from somewhere. I was pretty sure I didn't know her, but she was pretty and seemed really invested in talking to me, so we chatted. Within an hour, she declared "I've got it! You were in the audience in the Vanessa Phelps show and asked a question" She even described the clothes I was wearing, several years before. I'd already ditched the screens by then, but it reinforced why I had.
Wow, a very revealing anecdote. There's something about seeing someone on a screen that pedastalises them and imbues them with an air of specialness and authority (and what were you doing on Vanessa Phelps?!).
I enjoy reading your posts Miri. They keep me engaged. Thank you for writing.
On another note, as a walked past a friends massive giant tv screen and noticed a clip about Madeleine. I exclaimed to myself, OMG Miri is right again. There is Madeleine McCann's story on the news! They ARE bringing it back just like she said.
Yes, here she is again! After another "search for her body" predictably came to nothing, I think they're gearing up for the big court case with Julia Wendell in October...
I'm so with you. I hate watching didactic videos of more that a couple of minutes, and groan inwardly whenever a friend posts one, saying "you must watch this!". Articles are so much easier to read and absorb, and go back over bits you need to read again. I'm afraid that's why I never watch any of your videos!
Re Neighbours, I left TV behind long before that show appeared thus have never seen an episode. I did listen to a lot of radio, exclusively the aussie ABC's Radio National (which is now unlistenable, it's such atrocious woke vax pushing shite it's become the first media organisation with more staff than audience) and heard an interview with a Neighbours' character. He'd gotten stuck on heroin whilst living in Scotland and was scoring in a dark street in Glasgow. He'd been lured down a blind alley whereupon a razor was produced by one of the gang, his face was set to be cut up real bad. He desperately pleaded "you know me, I'm from Neighbours". Would you believe it, these fellows had their expert on Neighbours, who proceeded to grill him in micro detail about the show, to which of course he was able to answer every question and even add some interesting tidbits. So in the end they happily slapped him on the back and sent him on his way unharmed!
That's a good article Miri, we know the territory but you have a stronger light to see deeper. Yet it's worrying to know that video is the principle medium of the minds now and the trajectory of the agenda is well embedded.
Thank you, Hugh, and that's an incredible story which I can well believe! This really is the power of the screen and the "surrogate family" of the soap opera. When this guy told the criminals he was "from Neighbours", it had a comparable effect to saying, "I'm family", or realistically, probably an even more compelling one. Revealing and shocking.
Another very interesting post Miri. I suspect you're definitely onto something concerning the ability of first Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) screens and then LCD, LED, OLED screens etc. using their frequency to almost direct drill images and ideas into the subconscious mind of we beings of frequency. Add in the forced replacement of all our incandescent light sources with LED lights and the inexorable increase in all the other EMF's assailing us the challenge of remaining immune to establishment hypnosis becomes ever tougher. Now please tell me where I can get myself a pair of those trainers!
Thank you, Trevor, a very pertinent point. It's definitely far harder to resist the trance-like lull of the screen now, than when "watching TV" meant staring at a tiny black and white cube with only 3 channels.... (that was my first experience of TV, as, although Channel 4 existed, the household television couldn't pick it up! Better days I feel...)
Yes, the change to digital light vs analogue, same as our recorded music. It must have a deep mechanistic effect on us..
Writing that gave me a thought you may like. I bought a new mandolin (an Eastman made from good American timber) and after a couple of months of playing decided to tune it to 432 (which is a bit of a pain when I want to play along with a friend or a soundtrack). After a few months the sound of the instrument has matured, it's fuller and richer. It must be because truer harmonies can resonate through fibers of the timber and align them in sync.
"I don't know why, but I simply don't like absorbing information by watching. I infinitely prefer to read (or, if it's a podcast, listen - or read the transcript). And, while I can happily read for hours on end with no lapse in concentration, I find concentrating on videos much harder, and my mind tends to wander."
Stuff written: much more easily camouflaged, disguised, manufactured. AI could write it. Script writers, pen it in an hour.
It may be full on up front true; or fantastically erroneous. You believe it because you like the author(s). A multitude of variations as to why the text is wrong, precarious, engineered nonsense or maybe half way to the truth.
I like my deceit out in the open; with faces, tags, images, body language, faux sincerity, impromptu acts. And, a fix on the orator, speaker, person delivering the word; the diatribe, the most godawful news: bang. You’re all gonna die. (Sorta true, really)!
A good example of this, is: one of the provided links; Naomi Wolf: Hoaxed Terror Attacks. Where someone as inept and backwards as myself, can almost immediately discern, that - Naomi’s main job is in fact to dupe us; confuse us, and get us into the ‘freedom movement’ - CIA - Gov/State - military coral, and await further orders. (She’s on the case on our behalf, yay)!
Essentially, she’s second wave Establishment. An Actress. An EX (?) politico. A talking head. With ‘nine major best selling books’ to her credit. And a major degree in some kinda Medical/Psycho-babble. And we’re not (the sycophants) allowed to forget it: it’s plastered all over her highly publicised web sites, and the ubiquitous anti-social media- manipulation shenanigans.
She points out the usual: red flags; false flags; deceptive techniques; the subterfuge. Actors dressed up as, say; PPK in Turkey, (American trained) or some other old nearly forgotten, cliched, trained up insurgents, rebels, trained by foreign entities; disguised as Arab peasants or goat herders; who pull out Kalashnikovs, from under their Djellabas and cause some local mayhem; of the intelligence services making. With hundreds of thousands already wise to this shit ((…and the millions, if not billions, who should pay attention; simply uninterested !oblivious !uncaring !))..
She’ll have the blessing of the military industrial complex, the State depts. who’ll no doubt furnish her with more delightful stories of cutthroat devious atrocities that she herself can embellish. More savoury little anecdotes to entice us.. all fun and games ‘til somebody loses an eye.
Make no mistake, the whole point of the CIA/Wolf (and Whitney Web, Austin -Fitts, et al) production - is to say: look how fabulously smart we are. This’s what we can do. (It never hits the mainstream, so no worries of waking anyone up). We’re cunning, smart and devious. We’ll make things scarier ((in case you’d forgotten any aspects of the tediously repetitive and all encompassing agendas)). And we could seriously wreck your life. And totally interfere with the world you plebs live in. We’re in control. So knuckle down, guys - and listen to Agent Wolf, with all the qualifications. And that beautiful hair; that spectacularly coiffed hair.
Do watch video, do listen to radio and podcast, do read the articles and books, do speak with real people - Do all this while exploring and researching a subject.
But never ever do anything that may have an impact on your life without a real paper with real signature of a real individual who would accept responsibility if anything that may go wrong.
If every jab that were put into the shoulder of each individual would be accompanied with such paperwork signed by an individual who administered the jab all these vaccination nonsense would not be able to even start, never mind to get into people's mind as normal and inevitable.
The same approach should be used for ever offer we are receiving from "governments" and "experts" and "influencers": the question is to have: Who will sign the indemnity responsibility?
I went through a quite short between jobs phase - three months at most - of watching Neighbours twice a day. In my defence I was in a new town and knew no one. I remember watching stopping abruptly when I felt quite bereft when my favourite character suddenly left the show. It was a deeply unsettling experience and I've never watched soaps since then but a wake up call to get out and meet actual people. I can absolutely see how they would use soap characters to push through "norms" and "agendas".
When it comes to ambitious conceptual mind manipulation you can't beat SF set in outer space. Series like Star Trek use the vast emptiness of outer space as a blank canvas to recreate the world any way they want with that infinitely expandable "final frontier". Every species they meet embodies some aspect of affluent liberal propaganda from thinly veiled "unenlightened" foreigners to equally thinly veiled paternal overlords in the bourgeois pecking order.
There is even an episode of Star Trek TNG that presages the trans project in which "Riker falls in love with Soren, a member of an androgynous race which finds gender specificity unacceptable". (Wiki)
you make some really interesting points here Miri. I found myself watching Dallas last year from 40 years ago, and I could remember how scenes ended before the end of the scene. Meaningless little rows, all stored away in my brain. And the background music, so emotional and manipulative. And of course, they hook you first, before they hit you with any messaging. coronation street of 25 years ago was n't particularly manipulative the way it has been in the last ten . It's so interesting to revisit the recent past though, now that we know what we know. I came across a YouTube video of Douglas Murray from 15 years ago, and his 'concerns' about immigration. It's so obvious now that he was just shilling for Israel, but at the time I remember thinking 'yes, that's right'.
Youtube is the monster. Really powerfully addictive, I've given it up twice this year already, and it keeps pulling me back.
Thanks Kevin, and great observations, all very true. I was thinking similarly myself when I watched the Neighbours clips, that there wasn't much overt social engineering, it was just charting day-to-day life: relationship break ups and make-ups, work stress, minor crises etc.... But of course, this was to get us attached to the characters, so we accept the hardcore social engineering when it does begin.
What you say about Douglas Murray is done with lots of screen characters in various ways, for instance Donald Trump was seeded into plenty of film and TV, including beloved children's films like Home Alone, to get us comfortable with and trusting him for when the serious social engineering begins.
yes indeed. As a weird follow up, the algorithm on youtube has just presented me with an episode of neighbours and of Dallas from 1987, as one of the boxes I might want to click on. this is slightly disconcerting.
I think AI is constantly analysing everything we read and write online, and bringing it all together across our devices. Disconcerting indeed.
Interesting to know your methods! I listen to almost all content like that (because there really is SO much cleaning to do when you have a family and goodness I need entertaining to keep cleaning!). I read your stuff because I find it easier to absorb than your audios (although I sometimes listen to them). But, generally, I get my information through reading books and listening to podcasts.
Do you remember this? http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/Megalab.pdf I think you might have been too young, Miri, to have been watching (it was done in 1995). The study investigated whether the public were best able to detect lying through the newspapers, radio or television. A celebrity was asked what his favourite film was; one time he told the truth, the other he lied. The responses were shown on Tomorrow's World on television, broadcast on Radio One and printed in The Telegraph. Radio listeners detected the lies 73.4% of the time, newspaper readers 64.2% and television viewers 51.8%. So, TV watchers were a tiny bit better than chance. Newspaper readers clearly ahead and the radio listeners were hardest to fool. It's a great case for me to continue to mainly listen to podcasts (which is really my favourite way of getting updates of the day!). For more complex issues, like understanding how to create an independent trading club, I'd prefer to read, though, because some things are just too complicated for an uninterrupted podcast!
Also, I was thinking more about your "Big Picture" conversation and how to bring people together. As I see it, the primary reason that we need to create these communities is so we can trade. Once we can trade directly with each other and reduce (or ideally eliminate) our dependence on structures such as central banks, the courts and police, the whole house of cards will fall. I think those things will have to be based around a small farm so people's food requirements are met and, while we have bought into a small farm and get a lot of our food from there, it's not local. If you are at all interested in doing a tour where you help people come together, please say and I am VERY happy to help you organise this as, IMO, once there are a couple of farms like the one we've bought into in every county, the future will be visible and we'll reach a tipping point. I hope it appeals to you!
Thank you, Rosie, that's extremely interesting. I hadn't heard of that study, though am not surprised by the results. It obviously underlines completely how much easier it is to feed people lies through a flickering screen.
Great thoughts about community and trading! I agree it must all centre around food, and I will certainly give your kind offer more thought. Although it's not as optimal as being able to go somewhere in person, are you aware of the Good Food Project, who are doing something similar? https://www.goodfoodproject.co.uk/
I have heard of them. I think I listened to the founder on a podcast at one point. I am sure their products are great - my concern is what happens if something "problematic" happens with the money supply (hyperinflation, UBI/some form of financial rationing) or transportation which this sort of online shop is not protected against. I know lots of people through local groups who consider themselves "awake", but, at this stage, I am not sure how "awake" anyone is who still has heroes like "Tommy Robinson" (I met one only yesterday...). Also, when I suggested to this person that he didn't give me money for some soaps I was offering him and we talked about a trading system like a local club, I think he thought I was trying to pull a fast one. So, while I know and meet a lot of people who think they are awake, it's like the time I was in a barn and the mattress I was lying on caught on fire (we had had a candle on a plate and it burned down and set it alight). I was awake, but I was so subdued by the fumes from the mattress that I just watched it burning. The guy I was next to got up and started stomping the flames out and I just lay there impassively watching him doing it thinking "the way he's stamping on it is fanning the flames". I still did nothing. I didn't even *say* anything. Then he did it the way I realised he needed to and I thought "oh, that's good". I feel I am like the guy stamping on the mattress and there are people lying there impassively.
I am not interested in moralising about this/judging these people, because I have no idea why other people are still watching telly and finding "new" heros (I mean Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson seem to cover an awful lot of men) I am simply interested in finding people who don't think my suggesting "direct democracy will not work while people are watching TV" reasonable and, basically, the end of the conversation. The reason I am perpetually petitioning you is because you are HARD CORE. Anyone reading you is NOT thinking "I love Tommy" and, I suspect, is taking a lot of personal responsibility/willing to make any personal changes necessary to create safe social structures so we can thrive, not just survive. I have also tried launching things online and, very weirdly, found I get people from all over the country (again, not helpful/what I want). I am not sure if you have the postcodes of everyone who reads you, but if any of them are NN17 (probably a bit optimistic!) or, at least NN, I'd be very interested to connect with them. Alternatively, if you only have about a few hundred subscribers (which I hope is NOT the case - I hope you have several thousand, albeit only a few hundred who pay) so 3-5 per county, I understand perhaps it is not quite *time* for this!
A video of the magician David Blaine popped up on my You Tube feed recently; he is mind-bogglingly good, a total master of illusion; yet if it he revealed how the trick was done we would probably think Ah ha! So that's how he did it. How clever! We naturally presume that it was just theatre and for our entertainment.
When tragic events happen such as 9/11, the Manchester bombing, the Southport stabbings and the Liverpool car attack etc. It doesn't matter how many Judy Woods or Richard D Halls explain, in detail, how it may have been orchestrated, we seem programmed into believing what we were first shown by the media and the authorities are perfectly capable of exploiting this programming.
Nice one Miri.
Looking forward to your comments on the latest McCann mystery soap episode!
Thank you, Kevin, and your observations about David Blaine are very true. Magicians and illusions play a far bigger part in all this than we know, which is really what RDH's catchphrase is telling us.
Re: MM, I've been thinking I'll need to do another update. I don't know if you've seen they're tipping her brother for stardom now, as an Olympic swimmer. One child world famous for being missing, another an Olympic athlete, quite the star family!
On point as always Miri. Don't know if I told you before. When I went to uni I remember a pretty girl approaching me saying she knew me from somewhere. I was pretty sure I didn't know her, but she was pretty and seemed really invested in talking to me, so we chatted. Within an hour, she declared "I've got it! You were in the audience in the Vanessa Phelps show and asked a question" She even described the clothes I was wearing, several years before. I'd already ditched the screens by then, but it reinforced why I had.
Wow, a very revealing anecdote. There's something about seeing someone on a screen that pedastalises them and imbues them with an air of specialness and authority (and what were you doing on Vanessa Phelps?!).
I enjoy reading your posts Miri. They keep me engaged. Thank you for writing.
On another note, as a walked past a friends massive giant tv screen and noticed a clip about Madeleine. I exclaimed to myself, OMG Miri is right again. There is Madeleine McCann's story on the news! They ARE bringing it back just like she said.
Thank you, Farleyboy, and thanks for reading!
Yes, here she is again! After another "search for her body" predictably came to nothing, I think they're gearing up for the big court case with Julia Wendell in October...
I'm so with you. I hate watching didactic videos of more that a couple of minutes, and groan inwardly whenever a friend posts one, saying "you must watch this!". Articles are so much easier to read and absorb, and go back over bits you need to read again. I'm afraid that's why I never watch any of your videos!
Thank you, Mike, and I completely agree!
Re: my videos, no worries!
So that's why they booted you off Youtube.
Re Neighbours, I left TV behind long before that show appeared thus have never seen an episode. I did listen to a lot of radio, exclusively the aussie ABC's Radio National (which is now unlistenable, it's such atrocious woke vax pushing shite it's become the first media organisation with more staff than audience) and heard an interview with a Neighbours' character. He'd gotten stuck on heroin whilst living in Scotland and was scoring in a dark street in Glasgow. He'd been lured down a blind alley whereupon a razor was produced by one of the gang, his face was set to be cut up real bad. He desperately pleaded "you know me, I'm from Neighbours". Would you believe it, these fellows had their expert on Neighbours, who proceeded to grill him in micro detail about the show, to which of course he was able to answer every question and even add some interesting tidbits. So in the end they happily slapped him on the back and sent him on his way unharmed!
That's a good article Miri, we know the territory but you have a stronger light to see deeper. Yet it's worrying to know that video is the principle medium of the minds now and the trajectory of the agenda is well embedded.
Thank you, Hugh, and that's an incredible story which I can well believe! This really is the power of the screen and the "surrogate family" of the soap opera. When this guy told the criminals he was "from Neighbours", it had a comparable effect to saying, "I'm family", or realistically, probably an even more compelling one. Revealing and shocking.
Another very interesting post Miri. I suspect you're definitely onto something concerning the ability of first Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) screens and then LCD, LED, OLED screens etc. using their frequency to almost direct drill images and ideas into the subconscious mind of we beings of frequency. Add in the forced replacement of all our incandescent light sources with LED lights and the inexorable increase in all the other EMF's assailing us the challenge of remaining immune to establishment hypnosis becomes ever tougher. Now please tell me where I can get myself a pair of those trainers!
Thank you, Trevor, a very pertinent point. It's definitely far harder to resist the trance-like lull of the screen now, than when "watching TV" meant staring at a tiny black and white cube with only 3 channels.... (that was my first experience of TV, as, although Channel 4 existed, the household television couldn't pick it up! Better days I feel...)
Yes, the change to digital light vs analogue, same as our recorded music. It must have a deep mechanistic effect on us..
Writing that gave me a thought you may like. I bought a new mandolin (an Eastman made from good American timber) and after a couple of months of playing decided to tune it to 432 (which is a bit of a pain when I want to play along with a friend or a soundtrack). After a few months the sound of the instrument has matured, it's fuller and richer. It must be because truer harmonies can resonate through fibers of the timber and align them in sync.
"I don't know why, but I simply don't like absorbing information by watching. I infinitely prefer to read (or, if it's a podcast, listen - or read the transcript). And, while I can happily read for hours on end with no lapse in concentration, I find concentrating on videos much harder, and my mind tends to wander."
I'm the same way.
I hear all the best people are... ;)
You do very well without a crystal ball! If you relied on something like that it would deceive you the same as AI would do.
Thank you, John, and I agree. I remember using the 'Magic 8' ball as a child and that charlatan frequently got it wrong!
I had to look up a magic 8 ball! My somewhat sheltered early years.
Stuff written: much more easily camouflaged, disguised, manufactured. AI could write it. Script writers, pen it in an hour.
It may be full on up front true; or fantastically erroneous. You believe it because you like the author(s). A multitude of variations as to why the text is wrong, precarious, engineered nonsense or maybe half way to the truth.
I like my deceit out in the open; with faces, tags, images, body language, faux sincerity, impromptu acts. And, a fix on the orator, speaker, person delivering the word; the diatribe, the most godawful news: bang. You’re all gonna die. (Sorta true, really)!
A good example of this, is: one of the provided links; Naomi Wolf: Hoaxed Terror Attacks. Where someone as inept and backwards as myself, can almost immediately discern, that - Naomi’s main job is in fact to dupe us; confuse us, and get us into the ‘freedom movement’ - CIA - Gov/State - military coral, and await further orders. (She’s on the case on our behalf, yay)!
Essentially, she’s second wave Establishment. An Actress. An EX (?) politico. A talking head. With ‘nine major best selling books’ to her credit. And a major degree in some kinda Medical/Psycho-babble. And we’re not (the sycophants) allowed to forget it: it’s plastered all over her highly publicised web sites, and the ubiquitous anti-social media- manipulation shenanigans.
She points out the usual: red flags; false flags; deceptive techniques; the subterfuge. Actors dressed up as, say; PPK in Turkey, (American trained) or some other old nearly forgotten, cliched, trained up insurgents, rebels, trained by foreign entities; disguised as Arab peasants or goat herders; who pull out Kalashnikovs, from under their Djellabas and cause some local mayhem; of the intelligence services making. With hundreds of thousands already wise to this shit ((…and the millions, if not billions, who should pay attention; simply uninterested !oblivious !uncaring !))..
She’ll have the blessing of the military industrial complex, the State depts. who’ll no doubt furnish her with more delightful stories of cutthroat devious atrocities that she herself can embellish. More savoury little anecdotes to entice us.. all fun and games ‘til somebody loses an eye.
Make no mistake, the whole point of the CIA/Wolf (and Whitney Web, Austin -Fitts, et al) production - is to say: look how fabulously smart we are. This’s what we can do. (It never hits the mainstream, so no worries of waking anyone up). We’re cunning, smart and devious. We’ll make things scarier ((in case you’d forgotten any aspects of the tediously repetitive and all encompassing agendas)). And we could seriously wreck your life. And totally interfere with the world you plebs live in. We’re in control. So knuckle down, guys - and listen to Agent Wolf, with all the qualifications. And that beautiful hair; that spectacularly coiffed hair.
Do watch video, do listen to radio and podcast, do read the articles and books, do speak with real people - Do all this while exploring and researching a subject.
But never ever do anything that may have an impact on your life without a real paper with real signature of a real individual who would accept responsibility if anything that may go wrong.
If every jab that were put into the shoulder of each individual would be accompanied with such paperwork signed by an individual who administered the jab all these vaccination nonsense would not be able to even start, never mind to get into people's mind as normal and inevitable.
The same approach should be used for ever offer we are receiving from "governments" and "experts" and "influencers": the question is to have: Who will sign the indemnity responsibility?
Thank you Miri
I went through a quite short between jobs phase - three months at most - of watching Neighbours twice a day. In my defence I was in a new town and knew no one. I remember watching stopping abruptly when I felt quite bereft when my favourite character suddenly left the show. It was a deeply unsettling experience and I've never watched soaps since then but a wake up call to get out and meet actual people. I can absolutely see how they would use soap characters to push through "norms" and "agendas".
When it comes to ambitious conceptual mind manipulation you can't beat SF set in outer space. Series like Star Trek use the vast emptiness of outer space as a blank canvas to recreate the world any way they want with that infinitely expandable "final frontier". Every species they meet embodies some aspect of affluent liberal propaganda from thinly veiled "unenlightened" foreigners to equally thinly veiled paternal overlords in the bourgeois pecking order.
There is even an episode of Star Trek TNG that presages the trans project in which "Riker falls in love with Soren, a member of an androgynous race which finds gender specificity unacceptable". (Wiki)