Surrealism

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The more one looks into the effects of modern society, the more one asks itself: "How could all of this happen, without the interference or protest from people? Just where did all of this come to pass and who allowed it to happen? Who are we to blame when we today experience the effects of what correctly could be characterized as the age of hidden enslavement?"

Contrary to popular belief, the introduction of modern ideas was not an immediate one, but a slow process building up across thousands of years. In the acknowledgement of this, it becomes much easier to understand why so many dangerous and life-threatening ideas have gained such large realization worldwide. These ideas did not arrive like a death cursed dog by the bed of health and life power, but merely found their way through peoples minds by slowly infiltrating the daily life.

Because this is how clever propaganda is used; dress it out as something "different" and positive, slowly integrate the ideas into newspapers, TV programs, radio music and the daily life activities, until more and more people start to mime the behaviour set out for them. When one is hypnotized, two quickly follow, then ten, then a hundred, until a whole town has started to believe that cats can fly. From that moment on there will be no difficulty in either maintaining or even continuing the widespread of the ideas, as such a large crowd not only speak for them, but live them and regard them as something normal and perhaps even needed for the survival of a "healthy" life.

The people in power today know this, and definitely know that dissidents therefore remain as a critical problem to their continuation of modern insanities. They have governmental control over people’s economic life, "cultural life", media-intake, mindset and even how you should behave and think. Their best weapon however, opposed to what most people think, is not their totalitarian control. It is the effect and use of surrealism, or the belief that the psychological mechanism of illusion (disorted perception of reality) ultimately can replace all other psychological, moral or reasoning perceptions of what life and reality is.

Surrealism is thus a dream-like vision of realism and is not in contact with immediate understanding of a certain physical or abstract mechanism. An example of how the people in power today take great use of surrealism to alter people's mindsets, is to sit down and have a close look at the myriad of movies that Hollywood monthly give out, in favour of the current political regime. Movies are plastic entertainment at best, but what many forget, is their impact on the mind of the viewer.

Take for example a film like The Shining, a somewhat of a horror classic for those familiar with the works of Stephen King. The story is simple: a family consisting out of a decisive and commanding father, an uneasy and compliant mother and their young esoteric son, decide to stay in a remote hotel over the winter season, in order to let the father do some writing for his upcoming book. For most part of the film, the viewer is introduced to a theme based on isolation, emotional reactions and fearful illusions.

This film relies on the slow progression of surrealism, where we first are introduced to obvious illusions in contrast to a realist worldview. The young boy is shown talking to his own finger; a part of his body that he believes possesses futuristic abilities. Clearly the viewer will indulge in this, but will at the same time remain knowing of the fact that it's "just a boy dreaming". Later on into the film as the story progresses, more illusionary things start to happen, until the viewer becomes confused -- "was that real or just an illusion?" The film takes an obvious illusion, twist it around and let the viewer experience the real-world effects of that illusion, which automatically interferes with the logical presumption that illusion and reality are two separate things, until the viewer at last becomes wondering: "but if that was an illusion, how could the person become affected in real life?"

At the most intense moments of this film, all illusions become integrated into reality, depicting a world where the lonely man alone can produce a multitude of realist effects without interfering with the physical reality. While this is a correct paradox, it can only be put into the context of a personal viewpoint. A classic example of this is the story about two people running around in the woods. These people ran around and played, until they stopped near a large tree. One of them exclaimed how tall it was, while the other demented that and thought it as pretty small. However, as both of these ran into the tree, both had their heads hurt. What does this tell us? Relativism between different perceptions of reality is obvious, but it is the same reality in which we're all living in. Thus, the film has let the relativistic perceptions of all characters involved become a unified reality, an experience of a whole.

Another interesting thing to note, is how surreal ideas fool even the sharpest of minds. For while obvious contradictions such as "freedom" today have gained an enormous power, we can similarly understand why and how this really took place. Freedom is a surreal and wishful idea that an individual is completely separated from the mechanisms of reality. There exists no freedom for all people -- only for those who are willing to uphold it, thus freedom to have non-freedom becomes demonized. But as long as people are willing to buy into the idea that they are "free", they remain fighting for surrealism in the thinking that they are reasserting reality.

Slowly we now begin to see the effects of these illusions; cultures and races are about to become intermixed with each other, money has become the ultimate determinator of all things worth fighting for, nature catastrophes are closing up on us and we don't even bother taking immediate action, meaningless jobs compute and artificialize our physical and psychological ways of dealing with everyday life and lack of consensus is breaking societies apart from the inside. The ideas and causes behind these effects are moving in slow motion, but their real-world effects are rapidly growing in both speed and power. And because the effects sometimes take decades to arrive, people remain passive and refuse to act in lack of "evidence", as the actual evidence is lying right in front of them -- inside their minds.

Such are the ways used by the liberal democrats today, where small illusions eventually become synonyms with reality. "Races do not exist", "Democracy is not perfect, but the best political solution mankind has created", "We must never accept discrimination", "All humans lives are equal worth". These catchphrases define the situation in which we today are living in. There is no escape. Why did we let it happen? Why did we not stop it when we had the chance? Because it was out of our reach. Slowly these ideas emerged from the minds of the insane mass. Given power, they'd hunt down and execute any dissident leader. Surrealism may be beautiful on paintings, but in real life it can become an effective way of reasserting madness through confused perceptions of reality.- alexis

I have to agree. We live in a time where we can discuss anything but reality, because reality might be offensive. Man has become more important than the world at large. This will inevitably lead to illusion and our downfall. Some recognize this, but they're outnumbered by people who do not care. What to do?
 
It's up to those who are not hypnotised by the surrealistic nonsense to try to wake up others. Discussing such topics in forums or anywhere else helps. The trouble is that the herd pay too much attention to the media, and so it is hard to influence them. Individuals within the herd, who are unified by their conformity to supposed ideas of normality, and social acceptability (political correctness) don't like to drift far from the others. They feel a safety in numbers - often a good survival strategy in nature, at least in the wild. But, for humans, (as with cows and sheep) being in a herd only makes things easier for the farmer.

The internet is the biggest threat to the mass mind control. It may have taken hundreds of years for things to very gradually get this bad, although the deterioration has been massive during this last century, but the media propaganda has to be constant to maintain the control. If it ever stopped, people would start to wake up.
 
My question would be wake up and do what exactly? Demand accountability from their governments and stop watching Jerry Springer? I'm not sure exactly what we are supposed to be waking up from and what we are supposedly gaining by "waking up" in the first place. Of course people are distracted by daily life, things like working for a living and providing for themselves and their families. What we are talking about here is basically a mental exercise where people in a metal forum honestly believe they are "awake" and all the other people are simply "cows and sheep" who follow the leader like rats dancing to a flute. Of course life isn't that simple.
 
Keltoi said:
My question would be wake up and do what exactly? Demand accountability from their governments and stop watching Jerry Springer? I'm not sure exactly what we are supposed to be waking up from and what we are supposedly gaining by "waking up" in the first place. Of course people are distracted by daily life, things like working for a living and providing for themselves and their families. What we are talking about here is basically a mental exercise where people in a metal forum honestly believe they are "awake" and all the other people are simply "cows and sheep" who follow the leader like rats dancing to a flute. Of course life isn't that simple.


Just waking up would actually be sufficient to save ourselves and our planet from being exploited into oblivion. Not believing the lies that we are told to believe, and realising what the agenda is. Non cooperation, in small ways or large ways all helps. If people could only realise how many of their opinions are made for them and actually question things and think for themselves. We look at the world through coloured spectacles given us by our rulers. Demanding accountability from our government and not voting for any party that we think is all part of the same process would be a good thing. This would show a withdrawal of approval that would have large repercussions. Soldiers not agreeing to go to fight in wars that they have thought about and decided to be immoral. And the public not agreeing to our men losing their lives for a stupid war which costs the country greatly. A greater interest taken in, and objection taken to, abuses of power by the government. Opposing the financial speculation that takes money out of the country and into the hands of greedy monopolies. Realising the deliberate policy of the destruction of the family. Many things like this just don't interest the herd. They put their trust in the system and jump through all the hoops set out for them, when it would often cost them nothing not to do so. Many think that when there are articles published in the media itself or politicians raising some of these, or similar, concerns that this is the proof that all is well. Someone is looking at these issues and things will be taken care of for them, without them ever having to take an interest in anything.

In fact the magazines, papers, etc will make phoney attacks on the establishment that will contain many trivial points and argue a hundred sides to every point just in order to cause confusion, so that people don't know where they stand, and apathy. This is actually the system controlling the opposition and presenting it in such a way as to keep the herd reassured that all is well. Meanwhile the programme is to withdraw more and more of our freedoms. The aim is that freedom of the press, right of association, freedom of conscience, and many other things including even the voting principle must be withdrawn. These they will promise to give us back as soon as they have quelled the enemies of peace.
 
People were saying the same things when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in the U.S. When President Lincoln suspended habias corpus. Sometimes the laws we have to protect our personal freedoms are also an enemy, because they allow those who wish to do harm the ability to live, work, and eventually kill among us. I don't have a problem with things like the Patriot Act for this particular reason. Freedom comes with responsibility. Congressional oversight is important obviously, and these new laws should come under review many times.
Usually this talk of a coming tyranny goes hand in hand with people who like to say the word "Neo-Con" like parrots. Sounds like some inhuman race of space creatures who can turn into automobiles. The ideology put forward by Fukuyama and others is just that, a political ideology. An ideology that believes democracy can be forced on the middle east if necessary and the end result would be worth the sacrifice. Most of them have changed their view on that due to the coalition experience in Iraq. I know there are those out there who believe in some grand conspiracy involving "Neo-Cons", Jews, Illuminati, space aliens, the bullet that missed JFK, the Bee Gees, and The New World Order to take over the planet and enslave us all. Fine, have fun with that.
 
Keltoi said:
I'm not sure exactly what we are supposed to be waking up from and what we are supposedly gaining by "waking up" in the first place.

The illusion of modern society; reality.