In the middle of all the brain-research going on, from one end of the planet to the other, there is the assumption that the individual doesn’t really exist. He’s a fiction.

There is only the motion of particles in the brain. Therefore, nothing is inviolate, nothing is protected. Make the brain do A, make it do B; it doesn’t matter.

What matters is harmonizing these tiny particles, in order to build a collective consensus, in order to force a science of behavior.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Individual power. Your power.

It stands as the essence of what the founding documents of the American Republic are all about, once you scratch below the surface a millimeter or so.

Therefore, it stands to reason that colleges and universities would be teaching courses in INDIVIDUAL POWER.

As soon as I write that, though, we all fall down laughing, because we understand the absurdity of such a proposition. Can you imagine Harvard endowing a chair in Individual Power?

Students would tear down the building in which such courses were taught. They’ve been carefully instructed that the individual is the greatest living threat to the planet.

If you can’t see that as mind control, visit your local optometrist and get a prescription for glasses.

So we have this astonishing situation: the very basis of freedom has no reflection in the educational system.

You can say “individual” within certain limited contexts. You can say “power,” if you’re talking about nuclear plants, or if you’re accusing someone of a crime, but if you put “individual” and “power” together and attribute a positive quality to the combination, you’re way, way outside the consensus.

You’re crazy. You’re committing some kind of treason.

In order to spot the deepest versions of educational brainwashing, YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME STANDARD AGAINST WHICH YOU CAN COMPARE WHAT IS COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE INTO THE MINDS OF STUDENTS.

If you lack that standard, you miss most of the action.

If you lack that standard, you have already been worked over by the system.

And in this case, the standard is INDIVIDUAL POWER.

Clean it off, hose off the dirt, polish it, look at it, think about it, remember it.

Then you’ll see some Grade-A prime mind control. Everywhere. Because schools either don’t mention it, or they discredit it.

Back in the days when I was writing on assignment for newspapers and magazines, I pitched a story about individual power to an editor. I wanted to trace its history as an idea over the past ten years.

He looked at me for a few seconds. He looked at me as if I’d just dropped some cow flop on his desk. He knew I wasn’t kidding and I had something I could write and turn in to him, but that made it worse. He began to squirm in his chair.

He laughed nervously. Then he stopped laughing.

He said, “This isn’t what we do.”

For him, I was suddenly radioactive.

I had a similar experience with a high-school history teacher in California. We were having lunch in a cafe in Santa Monica, and I said:

“You should teach a course in individual power. The positive aspects. No group stuff. Just the individual.”

He frowned a deep intellectual frown, as if I’d just opened my jacket and exposed a few sticks of dynamite strapped to my chest. As if he was thinking about which agency of the government to report me to.

Now, for the schizoid part. The movies. Television. Video games. Comics. Graphic novels. They are filled to the brim, they are overflowing with individual heroes who have considerable power.

These entertainment businesses bank billions of dollars, because people want to immerse themselves in that universe where the individual is supreme. They want it badly.

But when it comes to “real” life, power stops at the front door and no one answers the bell.

Suddenly, the hero, the person with power is anathema. He’s left holding the bag. So he adjusts. He waits. He wonders. He settles for less, far less.

He stifles his hopes. He shrinks. He forgets. He develops “problems” and tries to solve them within an impossibly narrow context. He redefines success and victory down to meet limited expectations. He strives for the normal and the average.

For his efforts, he receives tidbits, like a dog looking up at his master.

If that isn’t mind control, nothing is.

Once we enter a world where the individual no longer has credibility, a world where “greatest good for the greatest number” is the overriding principle, and where that principle is defined by the elite few, the term “mind control” will have a positive connotation. It will be accepted as the obvious strategy for achieving “peace in our time.”

At a job interview, a candidate will say:

“Yes, I received my PhD in Mind Control at Yale, and then I did three years of post-doc work in Cooperative Learning Studies at MIT. My PhD thesis? It was titled, ‘Coordination Strategies in the Classroom for Eliminating the Concept of the Individual.’”

From Wikipedia, “Cooperative Learning”:

“Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals. Unlike individual learning, which can be competitive in nature, students learning cooperatively can capitalize on one another’s resources and skills… Furthermore, the teacher’s role changes from giving information to facilitating students’ learning. Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds.”

That is a towering assemblage of bullshit.

“Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds.”

You could use that quote on the back cover of Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World.

Everyone does not succeed — because the individual never finds out what he can do on his own.

That avenue is cut off. He only knows what he can achieve in combination with others. He only knows what he can understand when he borrows from others. He may never glimpse what he truly wants to do in life.

This is a tragic situation, but the tragedy is concealed, because the memory of shifting from individual independence to group dependence is gone.

There is no such memory. A child is brought up without independence. Therefore, how can he recall losing it?

He only knows the group and the team and the participation and the praise. He only knows the organizing of his life within a synthetically produced context.

He is taught that this is good and necessary.

So, one day, when a bolt comes out of the blue and he recognizes he is himself, what will he use to grasp that revelation and build on it?

Yes, there are productive groups and teams, and one is always working with others, to some degree. But the core and the starting point is one’s self.

That is where the insight and the magic begin. That is where the great decisions and commitments are made. That is where the world is born, every day.

I see no end of writing about this magic, because civilization has been turned upside down by treacherous people who have been fabricating a counter-tradition that will sink the ship.

By Jon Rappoport 

 To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.

Source: http://humansarefree.com

 

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5 COMMENTS

  1. This is what I have been searching for! For several years! Common thinking in a fellow human. I am plagued daily with thoughts of “am I the only goddamn person around noticing what the hell is going on around here?” [Here being vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.] I the way I see things is that if I’ve managed to come to certain conclutions based on observation and a little bit of digging, then surley so have others. Much to my disappointment, not so much… the ones that have gained some degree of understanding, have zero desire, will, capacity or balls to even venture thought toward some sort of solution for christ sakes. Granted, Canadians tend to go so far as writing a strongy worded letter when prompted to an elevated state of anger, as a default. But I strongly believe that action, beyond ‘spreading the word isnt sufficient. Nor is there time left to hold effective information seminars of any kind. I have no idea what ‘action’ means or looks like, per say, but I and some others are willing to follow, lead, wait or whatever is best. Please, some insight or guidance with regard to this rutt. Thank you kindly.

    Reggie

  2. It’s excellent and clean observation from the eye of wisdom but a mass diverted in many directions of Life. No individual will care about his/her capabilities as an individual power. I highly appreciate your views in article

  3. What a beautiful essay!! It is so sad that every word is right on the mark. I am trying to establish a Learning Center where the Principles of Freedom would be one of the basic courses. The basic principle being that each individual is a sovereign being. No group, organization, government AGENCY or other gang has any rights that supersede Individual Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. So sad that I have lived long enough to see the demise of the Constitution and these basic principles. Tough times ahead for all the young folks who never taught the meaning of Sovereign.

  4. Good article. Glad you brought it up, as I believe the individual is very important and also the ‘collective’. However, if the sway in group consciousness is at a low level and no higher level exploration within each individualm then the world is lost and mediocrity and mind-control rules.

  5. Im sensing the change in the human herd, (for visual purposes for those who want another way to see it) big time and in details. I am working to help in my community by forwarding an agile framework to bring people together to resolve the disruptions to their wellness and of those around them.
    Thank you for your insights. Everything is just a matter of communication– getting the tones right, flowing the vibrations while connecting the dots…to get the left and right brain back in sync instead of experiencing cognitive dissonance issues. So glad we’re all doing this together. Some prefer to stay distracted and redirected until they feel able to let go and just breathe. ? Thank you for your efforts and articles.

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