Reading Desmet's book also wakes one up to the fact that the government and financial elites have been running circles around the public for generations. These people will make full use of the psychological principles Desmet outlines to maintain their hegemony. It's become clear that they have also set up or financed the "opposition" movements in many cases. And now we're seeing how the climate change movement was also gamed by The System. That one had even the smartest of us fooled for a long, long time.
I only have to think back to my formative years in Ireland, the Catholic Creed was essential learning. One of the many conditioning techniques to ensure obedience to the script. Questioning or finding out one’s own truth was not encouraged. In many ways the participation mystic is alive and well.
Krishnamurti made some of us aware that we are conditioned from birth. So it is not hard to understand how easy it is for authority figures and institutions to control us. The programming is in place, they just have to update new instructions as required and we fall in line.
We are blind to much of the conditioning even when we think we are rational beings!! Fear turns off our prefrontal cortex so for many escaping in these times is doubly difficult.
Thanks. I enjoyed your take on the book and the background to the many ideas.
Those that “see” are presented with a ground swell of new possibilities from the many exploring and posting what this all possibly means for our present and future.
It has been a great time of unlearning for me. As they say - one has to kill off the you that others instilled to become the you one is meant to be.
Reading Desmet's book also wakes one up to the fact that the government and financial elites have been running circles around the public for generations. These people will make full use of the psychological principles Desmet outlines to maintain their hegemony. It's become clear that they have also set up or financed the "opposition" movements in many cases. And now we're seeing how the climate change movement was also gamed by The System. That one had even the smartest of us fooled for a long, long time.
I only have to think back to my formative years in Ireland, the Catholic Creed was essential learning. One of the many conditioning techniques to ensure obedience to the script. Questioning or finding out one’s own truth was not encouraged. In many ways the participation mystic is alive and well.
Krishnamurti made some of us aware that we are conditioned from birth. So it is not hard to understand how easy it is for authority figures and institutions to control us. The programming is in place, they just have to update new instructions as required and we fall in line.
We are blind to much of the conditioning even when we think we are rational beings!! Fear turns off our prefrontal cortex so for many escaping in these times is doubly difficult.
Thanks. I enjoyed your take on the book and the background to the many ideas.
Those that “see” are presented with a ground swell of new possibilities from the many exploring and posting what this all possibly means for our present and future.
It has been a great time of unlearning for me. As they say - one has to kill off the you that others instilled to become the you one is meant to be.
Excellent review, Art, of a truly important book for our time!
Brilliantly said!
Excellent stuff thanks