So it is not that the lunatics have taken over the asylum; the fact is the damned place was designed and built by them.

There has never been a person who has been successfully brainwashed who believed he was brainwashed. It lies within the definition of the word itself. This is the crux of the problem that the crux of the matter reveals. The majority of the people are automatons responding to media and social cues and have no control over their destiny.

It is that horror envisioned by the film,  "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

Any number of 'futurist' stories have visited the main psychological terror of the film. Most of these stories were NOT analogies of the "future" however, but a deeper view of the present that they were told from. For most of
history humankind has in the main, been under the influence of powerful systems of dominance based on psychic as well as physical traumas.

So it is not that the lunatics have taken over the asylum, the fact is the damned place was designed and built by them. This is true as an allegory to the larger society and also literally true as to the history of psychotherapy and mental institutions--a tale of terror in itself. "Mad Doctors" are as real as lobotomies and atomic bombs.

This brings us to an important question:

What does it mean to be well-adjusted in a psychotic society?

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"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."~George Orwell
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In 2008 there was the credit meltdown, which showed purposeful malfeasance. Last year the BP disaster. This year, the Fukushima event, not only does it seem probable that the last two events were orchestrated, but that they are being aggravated by the means taken to control it...like the Corexit aggravation in the Gulf, and the apparent bumbling idiocy going on at Fukushima. That is the same excuse used for 9/11 as well.

This is all the work of maniacs.

That these maniacs have the ability to soothe and sweet talk the peoples of the planet into thinking it is all a matter of happenstance is one of the great wonders of the world.

Is it any wonder? Not unless you are comatose.

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"The day of combination is here to stay.  Individualism is gone never to return". ~John D. Rockefeller

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I have been reading and studying nonstop for 46 years now. I am serious about getting a grasp on it. My step father used to pound into me: "grow up and face 'reality'".

Although I discovered he never really did, I took his words to heart. I have been looking for this so-called 'reality' ever since. It comes in aspects and in varying contexts, and those who see everything in simplistic black-and-white terms are the same ones who go along to get along...

As all of us who take history seriously, I have come to reject 'pop history'--what I have come to term 'Lollipop History'. This paradigm imbues not only film and literature, but academia as well. So I have coined another term, 'Acamaniacs' to describe the mindset of those who never question the ground upon which they walk, taking too much for granted and never digging below the surface of these issues that divide men into camps of True Believers. Dogma is the root of all evil.

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"Only puny secrets need protection.
Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."~Marshall McLuhan

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All of us, who have chosen the path of thinking things through invariably come to the charge of being, "conspiracy theorists". The slurs are well known and well honed; "Tin hat conspiracy nut", "Paranoid daydreamers", "barking moon-bat crazy", and variations on this theme.

There are scores of Acamaniacs who are professors of "psychology" or "law" who have taken it upon themselves to explain why 'we' are disturbed individuals, while ignoring and burying the  fact that the paradigm of the system of this society itself is psychotic.

Who can deny that a society and system based on endless war is insane?

Only conformist bean counters and apologists for the
Military-Intelligence Industrial Complex.

'There is only one certainty available to man; "I am"...all else is conjecture. It is the reasonableness and rationality of the conjecturing that gives weight to it's profitability.

Amerika is a land of enchantment, virtually the entire population is in a trance induced by the magic spell of mass media. They are in the clutch of necromancy so high tech, and so powerful that it transcends anything humankind has faced in all of its history. It is a witko mass-mind--a psychotic super-social entity on track for mass suicide. It does not seem as if the world has gone mad, the world has indeed gone mad.

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