ADVOCATING TRUE FREEDOM INSIDE THE MENTAL ASYLUM OF WESTERN NORMALITY

How free are we? How free from conditioning by legacy media or
subtle indoctrination by political/media talking heads? Or, even from
self-imposed limits of everyday life where blissful banality rules?

They come across as honest brokers don’t they? They are given utmost
respect by interviewers on your TV. They are well-dressed and equally
well-rehearsed. They wouldn’t hurt a fly, would they? After all, these
are the defenders of free speech, human rights, democracy and all the
western values we all enjoy. These are virtual saints are they not, the
good guys and gals, those with the ‘right stuff’ to guard us all and
keep us safe from those foreign savages ‘over there’.

You are used to them and their ways, their sometimes rumbustious
politics, their silly arguments, the to and fro of normal politics. It’s
all just harmless normality, crude, sometimes contemptuous… but not
dangerous. Not dangerous. Mostly harmless…

Yet take a deeper look into the effects of such men and women away
from the ‘Yah boo sucks!’ Punch and Judy show of everyday politics. Look
at them in the milieu of the larger theater of their geopolitical
ambitions, their global maneuvering and their ultra-serious
determination to retain their power to manipulate, dominate, interfere
in, undermine, bring war and chaos to and exploit nations far from their
borders. That is where you will see these harmless “saints” for the
criminal, and often totally murderous cabals that they truly are.

In respect of a global theater of operations these elite westerners,
these designer-suited, well-coiffured and apparently highly urban,
liberal-minded innocents, take on the value-systems and degree of
integrity found in confidence tricksters, psychopaths and mass
murderers.

You will find these people directing assassinations, engaging in
plots to bring down presidents and prime ministers through manufactured
scandals, you will find in this political cesspool, men and women
creating non-governmental organizations to train activists in the art of
bringing down governments, you will find them arranging black sites
where torture can take place away from the scrutiny of human rights
organization. In short you will find these western “saints” indulging in
the most heinous and unconscionable acts of criminality imaginable.

In spite of all the above and it being reported time and time again
by those not in the pay or sway of these political chameleons most of
you will be mesmerized by the large, black, rectangular frame through
which the facade of their respectability is incessantly delivered right
to your brain. The very normality of this process will corrupt and
condition most of you to one extent or another.

Your mind will revolt against the idea that these decent-appearing,
normally-talking men and women can be anything other than what they
appear to be. Nothing out of the ordinary will arrive through legacy
media to disabuse you of this deeply conditioned belief. At least not
while you are not motivated to, too tired or too uninterested to look
deeper than what that thin screen tells you.

Looking deeper can be an uncomfortable and in fact highly
discomforting experience. The apparently normal and relatively cozy
world where few questions are asked except for those most banal and
commonplace, the usual fare, no challenge to the intellect in terms of
any challenge to the accepted and acceptable norms of the average
western life.

Moving from that shallow but predictable, and highly reassuring life
of the banal everyday, has risks that the average subconscious may well
warn you against. What’s in it for you? Only more grief perhaps? Extra
anxieties you hardly need when you have more than enough already in
terms of your work or relationships? Perhaps it’s best to stay
comfortably numb, plumbed securely in the land of blissful ignorance and
avid consumption that the average western life consists of.

Yet, slowly but surely the western way of life is unraveling. The
headlines concerning social unrest, societal decay, violence, increasing
chaos, anarchy, drug-taking and both physical and mental diseases are
having their effect, disturbing your vicarious enjoyment of mind-numbing
normality. Slowly but surely the decay outside is entering inside.
Disputes within the home are becoming more frequent and solutions to
family disorders of one kind or another are rising.

Money is growing short, rents, mortgages and prices in general are
rising. It’s getting ever harder to make ends meet. And all the while
you feel sicker and sicker in both mind and body. Are your politicians
taking care of you? Truly? Is the system of blissful ignorance still
working for you?

While you continue to suffer as one of the classes well below the
level the political and media elites who manipulate you, these latter
are in their element. Democracy has been transformed from something that
once had some power of choice behind it for the elector is now a sham, a
duopoly fix where your very limited intellect is guided and coaxed to
choose between two extremely similar possibilities.

You are being taken for a ride on a merry-go-round that is no longer
merry at all but has become a fixed circular loop with no exit. Except
to venture out of the mainstream mental institution where blissful
ignorance has you in a strait-jacket.

Until the day dawns as in the film ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’
when the inmates get free (for a while) the criminals who run things in
the West will keep giving you your daily dosage of reassuring banality
and comfy distortion. The tranquilizers that have worked to mollify and
sedate you until the day you broke free will now have no effect. On that
day you will be TRULY free, not kept captive within the semantic
mindtrap of what western politicians and media call freedom. You will be
among the truly awoken and will never again be mesmerized in any way by
the insistence that you be liberal, woke or a supporter of western
wars. You will be free and on the outside.

There, in a totally new mindspace you will see with crystal clarity
that those you believed were ‘normal’, the very usual, smiling,
semi-convincing political class who run the western asylum are just as
manipulative, just as cold-hearted and just as criminal and desirous of
seeking your perpetual imprisonment as Nurse Ratched in Ken Kesey’s book
and Miloš Forman’s film starring Jack Nicholson, ‘One Flew Over The
Cuckoo’s Nest’.

You may not be instantly happy at that point… but at the very least you will at last be truly free.