Alan Watt
"Cutting Through The Matrix" Live On RBN (#236)
Poem Copyright Alan Watt Jan. 16, 2009:
Planned Institution of Social Evolution:
"Bernays' Consumerism
to Make It Better,
With Frankfurt Joined and Then Together
With Doctrines on Mental Variety,
Planned a Future for the Great Society,
Using Entertainment and Commerce as Tools,
They Programmed the Public, Scorned the Fools,
Brought Their Doctrines into Politics,
Advising Leaders Seeking New Tricks,
Guiding the Left and the Right,
Whose Leaders Perform, Feigning Fight,
Policy Directed by Social-Scientist Think Tanks,
And Then to Hollywood We Must Give Thanks
For Conditioning Public, Thoughts a-Stealing,
Programming Them Through Drama and Feeling"
© Alan Watt Jan. 16, 2009
Friday 16th January 2009
Poem & Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 16, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
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"Code of Silence" by
Bruce Springsteen
There's a code of silence that we don't dare speak
There's a wall between us and a river so deep
And we keep pretending that there's nothing wrong
But there's a code of silence and it can't go on
Hi folks, I am Alan Watt and this is Cutting Through The Matrix on the 16th of January 2009.
For the newcomers, as always, I ask them to go into www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com and, on the website, they can download hundreds of talks I've given, over the past few years, and you can download them for free. It goes into tig system and systems that work together to bring out this supposed New World Order, which really is just an upgrade of the last world order, into a more perfected system of control. I try to give the shortcuts and show you that big foundations and big institutions work together, creating the NGOs that are the pressure groups that have a voice in society and this is the new democracy that was predicted 100 years ago that this would happen by writers of that period.
Also look into www.alanwattsentientsentinel.eu where you can find transcripts of these talks and you can download them, print them up, and pass them onto your friends, they're written in the various languages of Europe.
Now, this morning, after getting up, after a night in fact where once again it plunged around 40 below Fahrenheit, which is the same Centigrade I think, I sat at the kitchen table and looked south, as always and it was a clear morning and there's the planes going back and forth, back and forth just spraying and spraying and spraying until you end up with this incredible mush over your head and people are all sniffing and their sinuses are blocked and that's what happens as we get sprayed and I thought you know if we can't get people or any organisation or any government to talk about this and come out say what's really going on with it, because this the 10th year that it's been obvious in Ontario and it's been pretty-well continuous types of spraying. I sat there and looked at it and I thought that I'd noticed before when they sprayed it often raised the temperature and I went to the store today and the woman said "well, it's supposed to get warmer later on" and sure enough, it has with all the spraying there. So, I guess they're busy trying to get global warming back on the burner; but, you know, we'll never know what all the effects of the spraying is all about, they will never tell us. You can guarantee it because it's having physical fall-outs on lots of people and they'd have to answer to that, therefore they cannot come out and tell us now. Its one thing being discovered, before they do it, it's another thing to be doing it and then be discovered, they can't come out and tell you what's happened, because the consequences, physical consequences, to answer to and it's obviously a must-be because no one will talk about it in government. If we can't get to the bottom of that, how on earth can we get to the bottom of anything really? It's so hard to get the facts on anything, in this day and age.
I was thinking too about all the different links I get coming in to the different media and you wonder even how much of that is put out there for us all to talk about. Yesterday I mentioned all the wars and policing actions, as they've been called by the UN, that I've seen growing up and living and it used to astound me why the United Nation would send troops into one country and just sit back and tsk tsk when another country did the same thing. It's above our heads, because we're not even in the picture, we're not allowed to know. I'll be back with more, after this break.
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Hi folks, I am Alan Watt and we're Cutting Through The Matrix. This past week, I've been doing shows on how we're controlled by media and entertainment and even by the massive marketing companies really that started it all off and getting us to buy their products. They did it by studying us, in so many different ways, we had no idea we were even being studied. This, eventually, was incorporated into government and all government now uses what they call P.R., which is really the same techniques of psychological manipulation of masses and I've given some of the history of that, some of those involved in it, like Bernays and others and quite a few people before him in fact too. He didn't dream up this whole science by himself.
Power over the masses has always been of critical importance, to those who already rule and to those who would like to get up there and rule. Last night I talked about the Frankfurt School, very important school, because many of its members, and those who were taught by those who came over, went right into the music business and into writing novels and writing movies, with a particular twist, to get you to think along a certain direction, which they wanted you to think along. It's kind of different than passing out pamphlets and asking people to read it, to create social awareness. This is actually manipulation through your emotions and through those things which you like; it's a very clever technique. This is the technique that Lord Bertrand Russell talked about, when he said we have to get Madison Avenue, meaning the big marketing companies, those who understood mass psychology, on board, to create this New Order of things.
I'm going to continue with this report on the Frankfurt School tonight; and, here's an unfortunate thing, for those really who want the usual kind of show, I have decided I have to go higher, to help those who want to understand. Many people don't want to understand the truth, they already believe they have it all, they're in their pigeon holes, they've taken their stances, they're in their sides and they see their enemies and they'll probably stay there forever and they attack anyone who doesn't go along with them and that's just too bad. If you understand the kind of material I'm giving out, you'll understand how it's all done and how even your enemies are given to you. It says:
The work of the Frankfurt School provided what Paul Lazarsfeld (1942), one of the originators of modern communications studies,
"modern communications studies". That wasn't how to use a radio, that was how you get thoughts and ideas across to people.
called a critical approach, which he distinguished from the "administrative research." The positions of Adorno, Lowenthal, and other members of the inner circle of the Institute for Social Research were contested by Walter Benjamin, an idiosyncratic theorist loosely affiliated with the Institute. Benjamin, writing in Paris during the 1930s, discerned progressive aspects in new technologies of cultural production
"cultural production" – right?
such as photography, film, and radio.
It's amazing to have single shots of people or events that are put on mainstream magazines can have such an impact on us.
In "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1969), Benjamin noted how new mass media were supplanting older forms of culture whereby the mass reproduction of photography, film, recordings, and publications replaced the emphasis on the originality and "aura" of the work of art in an earlier era. Freed from the mystification of high culture, Benjamin believed that media culture could cultivate more critical individuals able to judge and analyze their culture, just as sports fans could dissect and evaluate athletic activities. In addition, processing the rush of images of cinema created, Benjamin believed, subjectivities better able to parry and comprehend the flux and turbulence of experience in industrialized, urbanized societies.
You have to bear with me as we go through this, because they're telling you really how it works.
Himself a collaborator of the prolific German artist Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin worked with Brecht on films, created radio plays, and attempted to utilize the media as organs of social progress. In the essay "The Art