(Bill’s note: I wrote this article exactly one year ago for another web publication but since this site was new at the time, it didn’t get much traffic here. Got shitpiles on the other site however. After a re-reading, it seems just as pertinent today as it was one year ago. Enjoy.)

“In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.”  Ludwig Quidde

Psychology as a field of study originated in the late 1800’s in Germany. Originally its goals were understanding human behavior and mental illness. It didn’t take long however as its precepts were being formulated that certain corporations and governments realized that it is a powerful tool for maximizing sales and control of populations. They also realized that it is a powerful tool for social engineering, by using psychological techniques a population can be steered in the directions they wished. These tools are so pervasive in modern life that I doubt there’s not one thing that you’ve been exposed to today that doesn’t have some remnant of a psychological tool imbedded in it.

 “I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb him or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.”  Albert Ellis

When I read that quote, I was enraged. “Seriously disturb himself”? Shit, that’s all part of growing up, being disturbed and learning how to deal with it on your own. The problem is that using psychology on people has been extremely successful and it’s been such an unqualified success that exposure to it starts at a very young age. From the design of kid’s toys, to what’s on TV on to the design of school systems, psychological tools are employed to ensure that the adult that results conforms to what the elites wish. Which is an entire population that is docile, materialistic, hedonistic and unable to think critically.

This has caused incredible damage not just to people but also families, institutions and social structures. It’s caused the population to be unable to set norms, has caused a steep decline in the moral character of this nation, has made more and more people dependent on others for their needs, has made the majority of the population support immoral “Wars” on terror and drugs. In short, the use of psychological tools on the population has induced a kind of blanket social schizophrenia where logic goes out the window and whatever behavior you wish to exhibit is excused and many times encouraged.

And the majority of the population has no idea that they are being mentally manipulated for these ends.        

“Idleness is the parent of psychology.”  Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s no coincidence that the rise of psychiatry happened at the same time of the ramping up of the industrial revolution. Before the industrial revolution, life in this country was much more agrarian and if you were working the family farm, there wasn’t much idle time and what there was you spent with family. Generally several generations of them. You learned lessons from them, learned your moral code from them and learned how to comport yourself from them. With the industrial revolution, all this changed, farming became more and more mechanized and intergenerational families were broken up as more and more people moved to cities to work in factories. More people found themselves with idle time on their hands and idleness isn’t good for a human, it causes all kinds of mental problems. Enter psychiatry. Once psychiatry was ensconced in the culture, the elites were free to use it as a mean to their ends.

Don’t think you’re immune to it; every individual is susceptible to it in one shape or form. Even though each person’s perspective is unique there are huge societal pressures to conform in one way or another. There used to be societal boundaries that most didn’t cross but when there are no boundaries and all kinds of aberrant behaviors are tolerated then you get the crumbling, sick society you see today. It’s all because psychological tools have been used on the population to brainwash them into accepting what was at one time unacceptable. Present society’s inability to set norms is one of the crowning achievements of the elites using these tools to meet their goals.

Some are starting to wake up however and the internet is the reason. Only on the internet is where what the elites have been doing for over a century (and maybe a millennia) is being exposed. I call it the Internet Reformation (first coined by the Daily Bell) and it’s having an effect that can be compared to what happened after the Gutenberg press was introduced. The elites don’t have a monopoly on information anymore and they are panicking. Why do you think all these new draconian laws and executive orders are being implemented? What they used to be able to do through psychiatric manipulation isn’t working so well anymore and a growing percentage of the population is becoming increasingly angry. Look at what’s happening in Europe and the Middle East, it’s never reported on the MSM but with a click of your mouse, you can watch Greece burn and the Syrian government killing protestors. And that scares them. Thus the big push to regulate the internet, it was a mistake  they never saw coming.

I don’t know precisely what’s going to happen in the future, just educated guesses, but times they are a changing.

Good.