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Tag Archives: Distraction
Generation Numb: How Losing My Phone Exposed Me to the Pain of My Peers
This terrible void of which everyone stays pleasantly unobservant is the unofficial sickness of Gen Z. By Ben Scheer Source: ScheerPost I hadn’t planned to give up my smartphone. After all, I was starting my sophomore year of college and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alienation, Anxiety, Awareness, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Distraction, Dystopia, Education, Internet, media media literacy, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
By Tim O’Shea Source: Information Clearing House Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, elites, Empire, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Aldous Huxley, corporate news, culture, Dissimulation, Distraction, Edward L. Bernays, Entertainment, GMOs, iraq, Mainstream Media, media, news, Perception, Perception Management, PR, propaganda, Psy-ops, Public Opinion, science, society, Spin, Sports, Television, war, war on terror
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The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
By Robert J. Burrowes The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’. The Executive Summary … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, news, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged arms race, Distraction, fear, General H. R. McMaster, Jim Mattis, John Kelly, North Korea, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, psychology, Russia, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Foreign Policy, Violence, war
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America’s Painful Self-delusion
By Allen Marshall Source: Information Clearing House America is the only nation brought forth by a set of beliefs, and those beliefs, captured so eloquently in our founding documents, are some of the most powerful and inspiring ever conceived. We … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged addiction, Alcoholism, America, Cognitive Dissonance, corporatocracy, culture, Debt, Denial, Distraction, Health, Insomnia, media, Mental Health, Mental Illness, obesity, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, society, Stress
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Grim New Year tidings
By Stephen Lendman Source: Intrepid Report The new year traditionally is a time for hope and change, a new beginning, a shift from policies causing so much harm to many millions worldwide—nameless, faceless victims of imperial ruthlessness. New Year’s day … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, False Flag, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, police state, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 2016, Distraction, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, geopolitics, Neoliberalism, new year, police state, propaganda, terrorism, tyranny, war
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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, media, Militarization, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Battlefield America, corporate media, corporate news, Distraction, Diversion, Jacques Ellul, Militarization, News Cycle, police state, Prisons, schools, Spectacle, Television
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