Operant Conditioning
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Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the brightly sun lit, mild, calm, cool, collected island of Nantucket! Good to be chiming in LIVE this Twenty-Fifth Day of September, 2020, TGIF! Here’s hoping you and yours are surviving the insanity offered up by our new modern controllers, this bloody ‘brave’ “NEW WORLD ORDER’!
Becoming stranger by the day…
AHOY!
Two English writers, George Orwell (1903-1950) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), have given this ‘modern world’ two books that describe, perhaps, our very near future as a human race, or one that has already arrived.
“1984″ and “A Brave New World” respectively.
Each one differs in it’s predictions for the future, but not the endgame;
GOAL of CONTROL.
In these works, completely autonomous from one another, both authors describe coming dystopian societies where words like ‘freedom’, ‘free speech’, ‘free thought’, were as foreign to it’s citizenry as a cave man would be to a ’smart’ phone today.
What Orwell feared were those who banned books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban books, as there would be no one who wanted to read one…Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us, Huxley feared truth would be drowned out in a SEA of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture, Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. In “1984″, Orwell’s most famous novel, people were controlled by inflicting pain upon them. In “A Brave New World”, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. Orwell wrote what we fear will ruin us, Huxley what we desire would be our downfall. Hedonism and collectivism major points in their respective, prophetic works.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), considered the greatest German literary figure in modern history, wrote well before Orwell and Huxley,
“…none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
“War is peace”, “freedom is slavery”, “ignorance is strength” (just like vulnerability in the year of our Lord, 2020), or ’staying apart keeps us together’ define Orwell’s ‘fictitious’ “1984″ world of ‘double speak’, DOUBLE THINK wherein the “Ministry of Love” concerns itself with torture, “Ministry of Plenty”, starvation, “Ministry of Truth”, LIES, “Ministry of Peace”, WAR. These contradictions are not accidental, nor coincidental, for there are no accidents or coincidences, not when it comes to the coming “New World Order”, no sir! Nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy, they are deliberate exercises in DOUBLE THINK.
Double your pleasure with Double Speak!
All the kids are doing it!
In 1961 Aldous Huxley stated, “…there will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears. Producing a painless concentration camp for entire societies, so people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will ironically enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda and/or brainwashing. Brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods, and this seems to be the final revolution.”
Operant Conditioning.
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990),wrote,
“Now that we know how positive reinforcement works, and why negative does not, we can be more deliberate, hence, more successful in our cultural design. We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled…nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That’s the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement–there’s no restraint and no revolt. By careful design, we control, not the final behavior, but the inclination to behave–the motives, the desires, the wishes. The curious thing in this case is that the question of freedom never arises.”
In “A Brave New World”, the World Controllers, encouraged the systematic drugging of it’s own citizens by the State.
In conclusion, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), former slave who escaped to Maryland and eventually Massachusetts, a noted American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman, wrote these haunting words,
“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one… He must not be able to detect the inconsistencies in slavery, he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.”
Have a great week end folks!
Stay sane, stay strong;
stay in the stars…
PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
