Category: Inspiration

Hard to grasp how farsighted were some of the writers of years past, how they could accurately predict future scenarios. I guess it shows how well they understood their fellow man.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” — Edward Bernays, the “Father of Public Relations” as quoted in his book “Propaganda,” pg. 37, (1928)

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” — Bob Marley paraphrasing Marcus Garvey

Always follow the $$$. “Facts” can and will be manipulated when the “fact checkers” have a vested interest and financial incentive to slander and smear. Welcome to 1984, I mean the 2021 info wars, folks.

During the 1950s, Dr. Curt Richter from Harvard University performed a series of experiments using water, buckets, and both domesticated and wild rats which resulted in a surprising discovery within the field of psychology.

In the first experiment, Richter placed his test subjects into large buckets half filled with water with even those rats which were considered above average swimmers, giving up and dying within a few short minutes.

In the second experiment, Richter pulled each rat out just as it was about to give up due to exhaustion and let them rest for a few moments. Upon inserting the rats back into the bucket of water, Richter found that the rats continued to struggle to survive for up to 60 hours as the rats now believed that if they continued to push forward with enough effort put forth, eventually they would be rescued once again.

Richter recorded in his notes, “after elimination of hopelessness, the rats do not die”.

From the Nuremberg Trial (1945) Herman Goring to the question “How did you convince the German people to accept all this?”, He replied: “It was easy and had nothing to do with Nazism, it had to do with human nature. It can be done in a nazi regime, communist, socialist, monarchy or democracy. The only thing you need to do to enslave people is to scare them. If you can think of a way to scare people, you can do whatever you want with them.”