Saturday, February 12, 2005

The Self-Hating Media and the Cult of Militarism

By Mark Hand

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  1. How things change. Is this the same Toledo Blade that ran stories about war crimes in Vietnam years ago? I sincerely believe this president has a voodoo grip on the media in this country. Some day, all of them will pay--and unfortunately us with them--for all this insanity and blood lust.

    Posted by Kurt Nimmo from  on  02/12  at  04:27 PM

  2. A cursory study of hypnosis/trancework reveals a phenomenon called a consensus trance.  What we are seeing are manifestations of a particularly potent consensus trance that is at work within our country today.  The induction techniques for a consensus trance are similar to those used for hypnosis too.  Most trancework practitioners that I’ve met agree, that our country is currently experiencing a particularly strong consensus trance within its borders.  If this is, indeed, the case, then perhaps we should take a strong look at the techniques which work towards dehypnotizing an entranced general public.

    Posted by Nader Rider from  on  02/12  at  06:48 PM

  3. Senator Dodd is a nobody about as distinguishable from a Republican as Joe Lieberman or Joe Biden.  As Mark Twain said, “The only truly criminal class in America is Congress.”

    Posted by Tracy McLellan from Chicago  on  02/12  at  07:18 PM

  4. Who else would Jack ‘the Islamofascist ripper’ Kelly find ‘great pleasure’ in killing?

    Get back Jack.  Are you just gullible or are you stupid, too?

    “War is Peace.”—George Orwell

    It’s peace in the valley.  No such thing as war when war is peace.

    All is fair in love and war.  All is fun in love and war, too!

    Posted by MDPB from  on  02/12  at  09:04 PM

  5. Consensus trance—I think Nader Rider is on to something here. There is some force (besides the consumer-confidence-index-driven corporate media) that is putting everyone in suspended reality and allowing them to accept unfettered militarism, including the killing of innocents, without a whimper. But, as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Kurt Vonnegut have pointed out, it’s all happened before. The average American couldn’t care less. Michael Jackson is more interesting, and cheap beer and Ipods.

    Posted by Don Bacon from California  on  02/13  at  01:00 AM

  6. “The Influence of Trance in Democracy”

    http://www.trance.edu/aprosex.html

    “Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister said: ‘Simplify and repeat. Simplify and repeat.’ He knew what worked as a propaganda and indoctrination strategy. As a strategy that simple formula still works today. It is used extensively as a de facto model of modern advertising and is undeniably a controlling paradigm of our political life. But when trance is used to advance greed or violence, or to promote the uncritical acceptance of lies and deceptions, then trance becomes the means of enchantment of the most evil sort.”

    Posted by Nader Rider from  on  02/13  at  04:26 AM

  7. I also like Nader Raider’s Consensus Trance theory. A recent poll in Minnesota, that bastion of liberalism, showed that 42% oppose Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security, while 49% support it. An even more surprising point in the statistical breakdown is that only 69% of those who support privatization would actually invest. Deep thoughts.

    Posted by Greg Stricherz from Minneapolis, MN  on  02/14  at  02:08 PM

  8. Thanks for this piece, Mark!  ‘Cult of Militarism’ indeed - and most of the MSM are not even aware of it ..

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  04/01  at  06:28 PM
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