Written by Zach Rahed
We are what we think about. Perceptions. Lest we have forgotten, emotions, feelings, and memories result from what we are told to think about. What we experience during the day can linger in our heads at night such as the emotions that are triggered when we hear on the news about a lost dog that went missing in the woods and was later found mutilated in mysterious ways. Our minds are galvanized by such said stories in a way that warrants unbelievable effects on the whole body. Emotions thus transform into, sometimes, permanent perceptions. So this is why it is important to choose wisely who we allow to impact our perceptions. Because those who have the power to cause an impact may use that power abusively.
Take for example the news media. If a certain piece of information is circulated, disseminated over a period of time and directed to a large enough audience then that information inevitably becomes fact. Not just popular opinion. It doesn’t matter what the subject of the information is. Permit me the right to quote propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who had infamously believed, “A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”[i] This philosophical idea has the same effect as training your dog to go to the bathroom outside. The success of inculcating an idea into a brain remains contingent on Repeating an idea.
Receiving information on a specific subject for the brain to decode and thus inculcate puts the receiver of that information in a precarious place. Of course this is not always true. The viewer, however, should remain vigilant because they are apt to fall victim to dirty brainwashing techniques. Because they, the receiver or viewer, will never know if that information is propaganda or straight and honest truth. Watching television, as having a correlation to this idea, becomes all the more an instrument of coercion, of subtle deception.
What I am alluding to is an ardent notion that what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears is not always conducive to truth. Former CIA director William Casey is noted for saying at a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in 1981, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”[ii] In other words, as long as the American public cannot decipher right from wrong, the powers that can shape perception will continue to do so while, at the same time, controlling the brain and, therefore, they will practically be able to control the mechanisms by which society operates.
In short, what we perceive about ourselves and how we perceive the world is paramount when we want to understand who we are and where we as a human race desire to go in the future. That is, our perceptions will act as architects. Actions and reactions will decide the livelihoods of our children. If we choose to have our perceptions shaped by one or another source of information we must be aware of the consequences that would likely ensue from listening to that source.
Let the following be a reminder to the indiscriminating majority: an acquiescent brain, a brain which cannot think behind the veil or question the veil will provide to the ruling powers a subservient attitude that will grant the latter with the effectual means to expedite specific undisclosed globalist agendas which were prescribed behind closed doors with the utmost preeminence.
The people deserve to hear the truth. Yet it is also the prerogative of the people to seek the truth. To paraphrase George Orwell, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the people have the right to hear what they would not normally hear.”
Text © Zach Rahed
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positive and negative feedback is appreciated. any thoughts on how perception can shape ourselves and the future of society?