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Memory Wiping Of American People Poses Grave Global Threat
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the
present controls the past.”
George Orwell (1903-1950): English
novelist best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the
dystopian novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four (1949)
Special Report from Sister Ciara
Over the past
week, like many others around the world, my attention was riveted to the events
surrounding the Stoneman
Douglas High School Shooting in Parkland,
Florida—but as an historian, my
central focus was on the control over social memory this horrific event showed
was being employed against the American
people.
One of the best
intellectual guides for one to use in exploring the uses, and more frequently
the abuses, of social memory, as it pertains to population manipulation, is CONTROLLING
THE PAST: Documenting Society and Institutions - Essays in Honor of Helen Willa
Samuels—that was written in honor of Helen Willa Samuels, the esteemed retired institute archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and was published, in 2012, by the Society Of American Archivists.
The themes
prevalent throughout this “CONTROLLING
THE PAST” book revolved around the critical importance of archiving
historical documents so that future generations would have available to them an
accurate record of the social memory of past generations—but whose headwinds
for doing so were explained by the late American
author and media theorist Neil Postman in his
seminal 1992 book Technopoly:
The Surrender Of Culture To Technology wherein he defined “technopoly” as a society in which
technology is deified, meaning “the
culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in
technology, and takes its orders from technology”.
In 1985, Neil Postman expounded on his “technopoly” theme with his groundbreaking
book Amusing
Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business—and
that posited one of the most important questions facing our world today: “What
happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment?”
In 2016, 31 years
after Neil Postman posited this
question, a presidential election in the United
States answered it—and whether for good or ill (as only time can answer that question), America now has its first reality television show presidency with Donald Trump that no historical
comparison can be made with—and whom, without any doubt, has successfully
merged both media and politics to become the greatest entertainer the world has
ever seen.
Though attributed
to the 19th Century American
showman and circus owner Phineas (P.T.) Barnum,
but most
probably first used by the Irish
Republican and “drinker with a
writing problem” Brendan Behan, the
phrase “there is no such thing as bad
publicity” has been wholeheartedly embraced by the master entertainer Trump in his merging media with
politics—but whose main casualty is the social memory of the American people.
To best understand
this you need to remember that showmen need publicity more than anything else
to ply their trade, but whose success depends upon a willing and compliant
media establishment—with both the showmen and the media then forming a
symbiosis—an interaction between two different organisms living in close
physical association, typically to the advantage of both—and in this case saw Trump catapulted into the presidency,
and the media becoming
fabulously rich because of his being there.
Last year, in
early 2017, the noted American
author Andrew Postman (the son of
the late Neil Postman) wrote an
excellent article for The Guardian
titled My
Dad Predicted Trump In 1985 – It's Not Orwell, He Warned, It's Brave New World
wherein he explored this issue in great detail by comparing the dystopian
futures of media and politics becoming entertainment as envisioned in the Brave New World by
Aldous Huxley and Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell—with
his writing:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban
books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for
there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell
feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley
feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity
and egoism.
Orwell
feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley
feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Orwell feared
we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial
culture.
Andrew
Postman further detailed that the
average weekly screen time for an American
adult – brace yourself; this is not a typo – is 74 hours (and still going
up)—the consequence of he wrote: “We
watch when we want, not when anyone tells us, and usually alone, and often
while doing several other things. The soundbite has been replaced by virality,
meme, hot take, tweet. Can serious national issues really be explored in any
coherent, meaningful way in such a fragmented, attention-challenged
environment?”
Knowing, too, that the complete social memory
of the entire American populace was
being destroyed, Andrew Postman
provided a common sense strategy for combating the destruction of the past—and whose
tactics he described are:
First:
treat false allegations as an opportunity. Seek
information as close to the source as possible. The
internet represents a great chance for citizens to do their own hunting –
there’s ample primary source material, credible eyewitnesses, etc, out there –
though it can also be manipulated to obfuscate that.
Second: don’t expect “the media” to do this job for you. Some
of its practitioners do, brilliantly and at times heroically. But most of the
media exists to sell you things. Its allegiance is to
boosting circulation, online traffic, ad revenue.
Finally, and most importantly, we must teach our children,
from a very young age, to be skeptics, to listen carefully, to assume everyone is lying about everything. Check sources.
Consider what wasn’t said. Ask
questions.
Now what’s amazed me most about the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting,
especially when viewed in the light of understanding of what I’ve written here,
are that thousands of ordinary American
people organically began investigating this tragedy for themselves—and who
believed that they were being lied to, refused to believe what the money making
mainstream media was telling them, and sought their own information as close to
the source as possible—and was the exact strategy outlined by Andrew Postman in order to insure this
event’s true social memory.
And by their
actions, these Americans on their own
discovered a mystery involving a Stoneman
Douglas High School Shooting survivor named David Hogg—who immediately after this massacre was prominently
featured on all of the US mainstream
media outlets railing against guns—and who told
CNN that he was proud of his father
who is a retired FBI agent.
David
Hogg (right) presenting himself to US mainstream media as a survivor of
Discovered by
these Americans about David Hogg, though, was how he could have
possibly been a student at Stoneman
Douglas High School when this shooting occurred when even the simplest
internet search showed
him having graduated from Redondo Shores
High School in California in
2015.
David
Hogg (second row middle) pictured as graduating senior in 2015
Quickly, also, discovered by these Americans questioning how David Hogg could have been a shooting
survivor in Florida when he had
already graduated from a California
high school in 2015, was how brutal the US
“technopoly” actually is whenever its
questioned—with the Google owned YouTube
video site banning one video about this when
it reached over 200,000 views, their banning
another user for 90 days after they raised questions, and their permanently
banning the popular Richie Allen Show
deleting all 76,000 of their subscribers and 1,400 videos they had.
Along with YouTube conducting its massive crackdown against anyone questioning
the “official narrative” of the “technopoly”, Twitter, likewise, has begun
deleting thousands of accounts of conservatives—with the online publishing
platform Medium quickly
following by its banning all of its conservative users too—with it being
noted:
In its previous set of rules, the Medium had billed itself as a “free and open platform for anyone to write
their views and opinions,” and said it believes “free expression deserves a lot of leeway, so we generally think the
best response to bad ideas is good ideas, not censorship.”
This language has been scrubbed from the current
version of its platform rules.
There are only a handful of times in the past
nearly 50 years that I’ve agreed with the American-Hungarian
billionaire socialist George Soros—but when he spoke last
month at the World Economic Summit in
Davos, Switzerland, his words
echoed through me, as they should through you, and who
warned:
The international community needs to take
seriously the threats posed by Facebook and
Google who are spinning a web of
totalitarian control...and if they are not reined in, the result will be a strain of authoritarianism the likes of
which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have ever imagined.
To the “Brave New World” the American people are being forced into
by their new “technopoly” overlords makes
me wonder sometimes if our Lord will
one day destroy them like Sodom and
Gomorrah—with the latest affronts to all human decency being displayed
by them saw fashion
models demonically carrying their own severed heads down a runway, while
the popular Netflix television
service preparing
to air the most sadistic programme ever imagined called “The Push” to see if the “contestant” can be pushed into
committing murder by pushing another man to his death.
“And God condemned the cities of
With the memory wiping of the American people by their “technopoly” overlords constituting a
grave threat to the entire world, as without the knowledge of their past no
future for them can be envisioned, it remains the Holy duty and obligation of all of God’s children to keep this atrocity from happening—but that can
only be accomplished by our banding, and then holding ourselves together
against the vile evil that confronts us.
Therefore, as our duty before the Lord is to keep you as informed and
knowledgeable as possible to true things, your duty must be to keep us able to
do that—with your guide being our Lord’s
words that say: “Do not withhold
good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.” [Proverbs
3:27]
As times of war,
also, demand great sacrifice, our respectful request for you to aid us is
really but a pittance for what you receive in return—after all, and as we
always say:
Our needs today are
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truth about what is happening now, and what will be happening in the future
isn’t worth 5 US pennies a day what is?
With God,
Sister Ciara
23 February 2018
Our needs today are dire indeed,
but, if every one of you reading this gave just $20.00 today, our budget for
the entire year would be met! So, before
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about what is happening now, and what will be happening in the future isn’t
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