Why, you thinking dangerous thoughts?
Dangerous thoughts? Dangerous to who? The CIA has already been caught spying on peaceful activists not only recently
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10540, but even during the Vietnam War.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/print/1/displaymode/1098/Jefferson said that "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." Unfortunately, this dissent is being criminalised with legislation like HR 1955- "The Violent Radicalisation and Homegrown Terrorism Act" which could define dissent as terrorism. (Force and violence are mentioned separately; check the various definitions of force). Tyranny is slowly being forced on the American people as they even get arrested for reading the Constitution
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/021007_reading_constitution.htm, government spying on their phone calls
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ABC_NSA_agents_admit_spying_on_1009.html, and even preparation for martial law. Surely someone has heard that the 1st BCT of the 3rd Infantry Division has been deployed on US soil
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10366, violating Posse Comitatus. And this is a fraction of the tyranny that is being perpetrated under the phoney War on (OF) Terror
Seriously though, I don't believe in thought police. The human brain is a big mystery to us, and I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out we can inherently never understand how it works because the human brain can't model itself (in the same way that the Peano axioms can't be used to prove their own mathematical consistency). Sure, we could possibly do small things like detect lies or emotions or even induce things like fear or pleasure, but reading actual thoughts? Bollocks. I've nothing to substantiate this claim, but this is what I firmly believe.
Well, actually, the ruling establishment doesn't need Orwell's Thoughtpolice. Why force people when as Aldous Huxley said,
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people
love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact
have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
More pertinently, there isn't a necessity for a Thoughtpolice because people are perfectly capable of
crimestop (For those unfamiliar with 1984,
crimestop is a mental technique to stop short of any politically unacceptable ideas). Why should someone who is perfectly contented with society take on a worldview that condemns and exposes the fraudulent society he is living in? Why come to the realisation that the elections are a farce, that who comes to power doesnt make a damn difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfJzpS_F-4, when it would alienate you from your peers? In that sense, it is peer pressure. Even though 125 powerful business and political elites meet at the annual Bilderberg Meeting under armed guard for secretive meetings, which is never mentioned by the mainstream media, though the farcical G8 is, why would someone want to believe it, even though its true, and risk challenging his entire worldview? Orwell wrote,
"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Unfortunately, in the real world, a minority of one (figuratively) means you are mad, no matter how right you are. Edgar Allen Poe wrote this in one of his essays, (one of my favourite quotes):
"Hell could invent no greater torture than that of being charged with abnormal weakness on account of being abnormally strong."
Sorry if I digressed, couldn't help it. Anyway, I think that the brain can be read, scientists have already experimented with detecting specific parts of the brain that are activated upon thinking of a particular word (though I couldn't locate the URL for that), but Orwell's lobotomy scene comes to mind when I read this article on how scientists managed to erase portions of a mouse's memory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081022/hl_hsn/scientistserasespecificmemoriesinmiceBut certainly, our brain waves can be manipulated to put us into certain states of mind.
Mind Control by Cell Phone
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=25420However, such things aren't that necessary when you got the greatest social engineering tool available to Man, the TV. Edward Bernays wrote that "We are governed, our minds moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of". And TV as well as education, perform this job extremely well. To avoid going into the details, for I know I've rambled on for too long, I'll just provide any one interested in this subject with several links.
Television May Be Doing Your Thinking
http://www.naturalnews.com/024530.htmlThe Corporate Media Survival Guide
http://www.frostcloud.com/forum/blog.php?b=45The Rise of the Technocracy (This one is really good, explains how society was engineered through the deliberate use of education to produce docile, obedient workers, not thinkers.)
http://oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinker%20news/rise_of_the_technocracy.htmP.S Has anyone seen that Youtube video? Talks about some really far-fetch'd stuff which are technologically possible, but politically shocking if it were carried out. I always try to maintain an open mind. After all, if you think someone or something's a crackpot conspiracy theorist (or theory), do you really know that? Or are you just conditioned to think that?
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