Edward Bernays Was On To Something
Wanted to introduce my latest home page piece by asking this question, just wondering. Will there ever be a time when enough people get that they are being played by those making them believe what they want them to believe? Oh I know I'm now a card-carrying member of the tin-foil hat wearing brigade, I know. Ho-hum. I've had worse.
But there ya go. People can't get how much they aren't getting it, by just calling others names, while those others are authentically asking questions, seeking truthful things, actually caring about people not being taken in. But so many people are taken in that those doing the work Edward Bernays exposed a century ago are making wallopping amounts of money taking them in.
The difference between your typical conspiracy theorist and the one who takes his or her cue from Scripture is that the latter understands that the conspiracy was designed to be that way for the ruler of the city, as God elucidated in the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis. The ones who trust God and the way He does things are more of what I call World System factualists.
We just want to know how things really are.
And there is so much in and around the System that is is indeed challenging to keep up with it all. It is so enticing to immerse oneself in its clutches.
Without residence in a Kingdom of peace, joy, assurance, charity, salvation, and eternal life with the Son of God, however, investigation of the System tactics only brings dejection, despair, and loneliness. And then there's the move on to the ferocious crusading for your chosen potential potentate. Clinton, Trump, some pointless libertarian, environmentally sensitive wonk, or yes, some brilliant conspiracy exposer who screeches about having some new investigation of things. Doesn't matter.
Powerful people have terrifically huge chunks of anyone who is in the visible ivory tower seats, and they pay expert handlers to do the phenomenally hypnotic marketing to showcase them. In turn the average constituent has huge slabs of his or her soul on the altar.
Human sacrifice still happens.
Here's a bit of confirmation of these truths, from the pages of a well-known and reputably objective, impartial, unbiased (at least they've sort of been that for some time so I think you can trust them).
When more and more people buy into the marketing, more and more work the System for their slab of the rent. Rent-seeking is now a fully capitalized hegemonic industry -- "K Street"? It's a whole new world. People are really only doing one of two things.
They're attaching more chains to their limbs as properties of the World.
Or they are becoming sons and daughters of the King.
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But there ya go. People can't get how much they aren't getting it, by just calling others names, while those others are authentically asking questions, seeking truthful things, actually caring about people not being taken in. But so many people are taken in that those doing the work Edward Bernays exposed a century ago are making wallopping amounts of money taking them in.
The difference between your typical conspiracy theorist and the one who takes his or her cue from Scripture is that the latter understands that the conspiracy was designed to be that way for the ruler of the city, as God elucidated in the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis. The ones who trust God and the way He does things are more of what I call World System factualists.
We just want to know how things really are.
And there is so much in and around the System that is is indeed challenging to keep up with it all. It is so enticing to immerse oneself in its clutches.
Without residence in a Kingdom of peace, joy, assurance, charity, salvation, and eternal life with the Son of God, however, investigation of the System tactics only brings dejection, despair, and loneliness. And then there's the move on to the ferocious crusading for your chosen potential potentate. Clinton, Trump, some pointless libertarian, environmentally sensitive wonk, or yes, some brilliant conspiracy exposer who screeches about having some new investigation of things. Doesn't matter.
Powerful people have terrifically huge chunks of anyone who is in the visible ivory tower seats, and they pay expert handlers to do the phenomenally hypnotic marketing to showcase them. In turn the average constituent has huge slabs of his or her soul on the altar.
Human sacrifice still happens.
Here's a bit of confirmation of these truths, from the pages of a well-known and reputably objective, impartial, unbiased (at least they've sort of been that for some time so I think you can trust them).
When more and more people buy into the marketing, more and more work the System for their slab of the rent. Rent-seeking is now a fully capitalized hegemonic industry -- "K Street"? It's a whole new world. People are really only doing one of two things.
They're attaching more chains to their limbs as properties of the World.
Or they are becoming sons and daughters of the King.
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