The rebel against the controlled world

The rebel against the controlled world

by Jon Rappoport

May 30, 2013

www.nomorefakenews.com

The campaign and attack against the individual takes many forms.

In 2012, I was contacted by a disillusioned psychiatrist who had “left the field.” He told me he was interested in discussing his experiences.

Here is a key remark he made in our conversation:

Is there a normal state of mind? The answer is no. There is the ability to deal with the reality of the world, which is a very important skill. But state of mind is another matter entirely. You could have a million people who can deal with the world, and they’re all operating in different states of mind. There is no ‘normal’. ‘Normal’ is a modern myth that has no benefits—except to the people who invented it and control it. If you can control ‘normal’ and disseminate it broadly, slip it into consciousness, you have power. It’s like one of those steamrollers. You flatten people.”

There is no ‘normal’ state of mind. It’s a myth.

It’s sold.

The professional definitions of normal are supposed to create a uniform standard of thought and behavior. A collectivism.

Coming in from another vector, we have sociologists and anthropologists, practitioners of a fake science to rival psychiatry in promoting a climate of pseudo-babble.

One of the founders of sociology, Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), coined the phrase “collective consciousness.” Durkheim insisted there were “inherent” qualities that existed in society apart from individuals. Exposing his own absurd theory, he went so far as to claim suicide was one of those qualities, as if the “phenomenon” were present beyond any individual choice to end life.

He wrote: “Man is the more vulnerable to self-destruction the more he is detached from any collectivity, that is to say, the more he lives as an egoist.”

In other words, according to Burkheim, the individual who rejects the norms of society must be wrapped up in himself in some morally repugnant way. There are no other alternatives.

In his book, The Division of Labour in Society (1893) (wikipedia), Burkheim spun moral conscience in the following fashion: “…Make yourself usefully fulfill a determinate function.” He cited this as a kind of command issued by collective consciousness. If this sounds Marxian, and if it sounds like the presentation of the individual human as machine-cog, it is.

From the mud of sociology’s beginnings, the long sordid history of the academic discipline brings us to something like this. Peter Callero, of the department of sociology, Western Oregon University, has written a book titled: The Myth of Individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives (2013, 2nd Ed):

Most people today believe that an individual is a person with an independent and distinct identification. This, however, is a myth.”

By some mistake, Callero’s memo never reached me. For example, I’m under the impression that I’m sitting here writing these words. Apparently not. A collection or group is doing the job. Where are they?

Maybe they’re hiding under my desk or floating in the air of my room like invisible wraiths. Maybe they’re off in the Amazon annoying a tribe of hunters, shooting videos of their “daily customs and practices.”

Sociology and anthropology have established themselves as serious “social sciences.” That means professional journals, university courses, endowed chairs, conferences, links to foundations and governments, task forces designing optimum futures.

The practitioners of these fake endeavors are dupes and agents in a massive psyop, whose purpose is the deleting of the independent individual.

Collectivism is the replacement.

All their hypotheses start with a consideration of the group as the prime element of existence.

The psychiatric State operates hand-in-glove with sociology, in the sense that it promotes some 300 officially certified mental disorders that are the same in all people. Psychiatry is a collectivism of the mind.

I’ve established, in many articles, that psychiatric diagnosis is a complete fraud. There are no physical tests of any kind for any so-called disorder.


The 20th century saw the rise of systems-thinkers, who applied their ideas to society as a whole. They gained power because global elites were pushing forward a systems-program of their own: planetary management. (This is described well in Scott Noble’s film Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century (posted at YouTube)).

The Globalist program was (and is) all about central planning and distribution of goods and services, under the cynical rubric of “greatest good for the greatest number.” This is collectivism, plain and simple. It camouflages a leading prow of brute force, Soviet style, with more subtle forms of brutality.

Universities serve as mind-control factories, turning out graduates who only see the sunshine propaganda of group harmony.

Capitalism and socialism have sex, procreate, and their child is Globalism. It contains elements of both parents. The capitalism of the father is, however, is not about the free market. It’s founded in the crime of controlling the means of production, when what is produced (out of thin air) is money.

The Federal Reserve, along with other private international banking institutions, invent money at their discretion and profit from that invention. They give and they take. They expand economies and contract them. They create booms and busts. They bankrupt nations, as a prelude to asserting the only solution is a de facto single global nation.

At the same time, the fortunes of the old captains of industry have been diverted into foundations, which are run by men who were the diabolical spawn of the parents mentioned above.

These foundations (Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc.) are devoted to funding projects, both intellectual and material, which promote and expand collectivism.

The independent individual is seen as a barrier to these operations.

He must go.

As always, the men who run this planet have put in place “the solution to their own problem.” They understand that their schemes will raise resistance, and so they’ve devised the favored form of that resistance.

It’s: false unity.

They bankroll groups and projects that seek to overturn the march toward a fascist world order. These groups offer, instead, their own form of collectivism, under the flag of “cooperation.”

If we all cooperate and come together, we can stop the spread of the evil empire. If we join hands around the world, we’ll attain social justice for all. If we see ourselves as One, instead of as individuals, we’ll emerge victorious.”

Naturally, this op causes considerable confusion. People want to cooperate. They want to do good. They want to join together. But when the means to make it happen are simply diversions from true resistance, we have a bait and switch.

And the target is still the free, independent, and powerful individual.

Occupy Wall Street was an example of a budding movement that went nowhere. It was co-opted by, of all people, the staff of the White House, who encouraged it, while at the same time carrying on their usual incestuous partnership with Wall Street.


The Big Sleep coming at the global population from a number of vectors is couched in terms of collective unity. The sign of waking up is a demand for individual freedom. And then, taking that freedom without waiting for permission.

The rebel is forged in any of a thousand different fires of mad controlling authority. That’s where he is born. He knows, in his bones, what these authorities are demanding of him: surrender.

He knows this in an unshakable core of his being.

He can spot the collective that asks for that surrender from a mile off. It approaches, these days, with a glazed friendly smile, produced out of thousands of hours of market research.

The rebel isn’t trying to produce a better overarching system. He isn’t falling for that one.

He knows that within him, the potential for creation is extraordinary. He doesn’t complain about a lack of answers. He invents them. He exposes arbitrary authority as an insane form of theater, more surreal than surreal.

He does this for his own sake, and then to wake others up.

Compromising his freedom to attain valuable goals isn’t on his list of things to do.

He knows the bait and switch.

He doesn’t need a mythical place where everyone comes together.

Like any fairy tale, myth, legend, story, collectivism began as the idea in the mind of one person. Somewhere in the mists of the past, that person dreamed it up. It was his notion. It was his perverse “work of art.”

He sold it to his friends as a way they could control the mass, the populace, the audience. He said, “Do you see how this works? We can subscribe to the most wonderful sentiments, we can appear to be servants of the Good, we can hide behind all that while we destroy freedom. It’s a winner.”

Collectivism isn’t a mass outpouring of share and care. It’s coming down from the top of the ladder.

The rebel understands these things. He knows someone, somewhere, cooked up the whole idea and promoted it, like flatware or recliner chairs or rhinestones.


The Matrix Revealed


In 1934, Smedley Butler became a rebel. He was the highest ranking general in the US Marine Corps. He’d been awarded two Medals of Honor. Approached by a group of corporate leaders to put together his own army, march on Washington, and dethrone Franklin Roosevelt, Butler pretended to go along with the plan, then exposed it.

Here are two of his more famous statements:

“Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.”

Butler’s second statement was published by Common Sense, a socialist newspaper, in 1935. The newspaper failed to realize that Butler’s derogatory references to capitalism applied to a specific kind of theft and murder, practiced by corporate men who ultimately intended to destroy whatever was left of the free market and, then, own all markets—State Corporatism, Globalism. Socialism.

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

Butler’s rebellion was actually against the elite capitalists who came to support socialism as the method for securing and expanding their wealth and power.

That’s the turnaround that many people miss, especially those who are dewy-eyed about what collectivism promises.

The rebel is able to defend himself against delusion all the way into the core of his own mind. He discovers and invents his own reality, and he doesn’t suppose that any other human being has to agree to the contents of that reality.

Oscar Wilde: “Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

Nevertheless, Wilde was a socialist. He labored under the puerile delusion that private property could be abolished, thereby freeing all people from the need to slave for a living. In this way, he urged, everyone would have the necessary leisure to pursue art.

Collectivism leading to freedom of the individual. How quaint.

The real strategy of collectivism is the squashing of the mind, making it into a center of passivity and obedience, bereft of any original thought. When all people share the same imposed reality, there is no reality at all. The mind then stands only symbolically, like a black tree that has been dead for years.


Exit From the Matrix


To the degree it ever existed, the principle of the individual determining his own reality is being lost. What’s replacing it is the idea that “common ground” comes first and last. This means doctrine. This means operant conditioning in schools. This means a Holism that preaches delusional unity.

The anthropomorphic religious diddle called Gaia has ascended. The idea of humble devotion to Mother Earth is a fool’s errand. As George Carlin put it: “The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?”

It’s one thing to keep the environment healthy. It’s quite another thing to worship it and feel anxious about its future. Humans aren’t going to destroy the Earth.

But humans may end up submitting to a level of brainwashing that rivals the all-encompassing mind control of the Mayans. Humans may forget how to rebel. Humans may accept the loss of freedom as a minor bump on the road to promised salvation in the arms of “the wise ones.”

The Reality Manufacturing Company turns out its product every day. It strives to improve its sales pitch and televised fabrications. It deploys talent spotters to enlist the best and the brightest in its research divisions. It invests considerable time and money in diversionary scandals and their subsequent exposure by way of the limited hangout:

Yes, mistakes were made. A few heads will roll. These people, who were supposed to serve the public good, wandered off course, and we promise to make every effort to see that this doesn’t happen again.”

Do you want to be normal? Buy our product. You’ll never feel so welcomed, so accepted. You’ll resonate with all other minds. You’ll ascend to the highest point of the collective star. Be the first on your block to sign up for the future.”

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a heavily armed, surveilled Disneyland. Everyone takes the same rides and eats the same cotton candy. In this cartoon called reality, whoever declines and defects is reeducated.

The list of functioning conspiracies in our time period is very long. But the conspiracy of conspiracies is systemic. It is the action of the non-rebel, who shapes his own mind as a receptacle, inviting in any philosophy that suggests interconnected zeroes.

This is a mind where any thought or idea is automatically stripped of meaning and then hooked up to another such zero, and the whole apparatus is networked for ceaseless motion.

It is, in fact, a mirror of collectivism which, similarly, insists on an intimate relationship among all persons, who have themselves been emptied of individuality.

The rebel says no. And he means it.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

I AM one of those people you were lying about in Roanoke, Mr. Obama

I AM One of Those People You Lied About in Roanoke, Mr. Obama

By Jon Rappoport

July 19, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

On July 13, 2012, President Obama made a speech in Roanoke, Virginia, that will live in infamy. He said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Media outlets criticized those who “put such a narrow interpretation on the president’s words.”

Here is my proud confession.

I am one of those people Obama talked about in his speech in Roanoke. I AM one of those people.

Obama claimed I didn’t create my own business. I am one of those people Obama claimed wasn’t really there at all as a prime mover in his own enterprise. I am one of those people Obama claims is eternally beholden to the system, the public sector, the government, which is his business.

His business, as with the parade of our fake presidents, is stealing everything he can. That’s what knows how to do and that’s what he wants to do. He never invented a business. He never created an ongoing enterprise in the private sector.

I am one of those people he thinks “wasn’t there” and “didn’t do it.” He is making a religion out of that intentionally perverse and foul perception. I never imagined I would see the day when a US president came right out and said, “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Those were his catastrophic words. That is his tool for dragging in more support from the expanding impoverished underclass his own administration is creating.

I’m one of those people he was talking about in Roanoke, and I won’t forget it.

He is saying, as sub-text: “We, the government, will give you what you need. We just need to rein in those horrible people who are making their own money and keeping too much of it. Help us rob them, and then we will give you what we steal.”

Since I’ve gone this far, let me take one more step. I’m not rich from the sale of my products. I’m not even close to being rich. But I would gladly be very rich if I could sell enough of those products, and I would not feel a shred of guilt if that happened.

Okay? Have I made myself clear? If I could make a billion dollars selling my products, which products I believe to be of the highest quality, I would gladly take the billion dollars. And I would say I EARNED THEM.

Does that sound like a sin to you? Have we reached the point where THE EXCHANGE OF MONEY FOR FAIR VALUE, FOR GOOD VALUE, FOR EXCELLENT VALUE is no longer acceptable? Have we reached that stage in our moral decline?

Yes, I use the word MORAL. Because that’s what we’re talking about. The parade of fake presidents we have seen in this country are IMMORAL. They steal. They take what is not theirs to take. They spin lies and fantasies about altruism and humanity and “we are all in this together” to promote their evil designs of theft.

But you see, it all comes down to the individual human being. We tend to forget that. And when we forget it, we lose track of what this country is supposed to be all about: the so-called public sector exists to enable the individual. For God’s sakes, do we really now believe it’s the other way around? Have we sunk that far? Are we that stupid?

I am one of those people Obama talked about in his speech in Roanoke—a day I say should live in infamy forever. (And in case you don’t know anything about my work, I am no supporter of Mitt Romney.)

I’m one of those people who invest their own sweat, energy, emotion, intellect, creative power, and commitment to inventing an enterprise I can be proud of, come hell or high water. I do it every day. I write articles by the ton. I cover stories people in the mainstream won’t cover. I expose crimes. I expose what goes on behind the scenes of these crimes. I present a philosophy of the free individual and I present the vision of what the free individual can really do and accomplish. That’s my self-chosen work and my job and, yes, my business. MY BUSINESS.

I’m proud of every penny I earn. I don’t automatically owe those pennies to some cause a president promotes through his lying teeth. I don’t bow to the altar of the public sector. I never will.

Is this getting through to you? Does what I’m writing here sound like the expression of an extinct species? I’ll tell you a secret. Are you ready? I believe there are millions of people like me. They invented and they run their own businesses. They offer a service and a product and they are proud to offer them. They make as much money as they can by those sales. They aren’t gouging customers, and they certainly aren’t stealing from them, as the government does.

They know what it’s like to get up in the morning and re-create their enterprises and make them work every day. They know how much energy it takes. They know it isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but they value the FREEDOM it brings. They know how it feels to follow their own desires. These people are real. They exist.

THEY OWN THEIR BUSINESSES. THEY OWN THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY.

They experience frustrating days when their business isn’t going well. On those days, they feel trapped in the very universe they created. They wonder how it might be to give up and go to work for someone else. They even wonder how it might be to get a desk job in government and feel the protection of government. But they don’t give in.

They’re too damn stubborn to give in. They show up every day and they do what they can to push their enterprise forward.

And these are the people about whom Obama says: “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Sure, Mr. President. We weren’t there at all. We’re fictions. We don’t exist. Other people are always standing in for us. It’s not our sweat, it’s not our power, it’s not our imagination, it’s not our vision, it’s not our commitment that invented and sustained our businesses. It’s all done by remote control from Washington. I’m glad you finally clarified this mystery for us. You’re a genius.

A few moments later in his Roanoke speech, Obama tried to qualify his disastrous words a bit, as if he was throwing a dog a bone. He praised entrepreneurial “initiative.” Thanks, Barack, but we don’t need that. We don’t need it. And we don’t need those delusional followers of yours who want to slam every person who owns his own business.

And make sure you understand this. Just because some businessmen are corrupt, we don’t accept the repulsive slimy equation that tries, by extension, to make all independent businesspeople corrupt. That’s an argument that’s nothing but propaganda in the phony class war you’re promoting.

We see what you’re doing. Okay? We’re not falling for the stage magic. You’re doing everything you can to erase the idea of the FREE INDIVIDUAL. We’ve seen your game.

You’re trying to eradicate the entire reason this Republic was created in the first place. It was created, despite the corrupt intentions of aristocrats of that time, FOR THE INDIVIDUAL. Somehow, the words of the Constitution were written on paper and somehow they were signed, and they were ratified. You want to talk about magic? THAT was magic. It was a miracle. But it happened. And it wasn’t perfect. We all understand that. We’re not idiots.

You’re trying to erase the whole concept of the FREE AND POWERFUL INDIVIDUAL—when in fact it was the centerpiece of the Constitution. These are the words that have endured. Slavery didn’t endure. Tom Paine wanted slavery outlawed from the beginning, but his colleagues had no stomach for that battle. There were other sins of omission and commission involved in the Constitution.

But the words that limited the power of the central government and elevated the free individual survived.

I am one of those individuals and I feel no shred of shame. Why the hell should I? I am proud of it. I LIVE on that basis of freedom every day, and I know there are many other Americans who do, too. I’ll never meet them, but I salute them.

It’s time we stopped screwing around here. It’s time we defined the terms of this war we’re in. It has everything to do with the government trying to impose a completely different set of values on us. The government wants to make THE GROUP the primary unit of existence in this country. Get it? Everything must be about THE GROUP. THE COLLECTIVE. THE HIVE.

It’s a clever and appealing way to destroy the country. But we don’t want to destroy the country and what it means. We’re crazy enough to believe that, however many crimes the government has committed, at home and abroad, and however many crimes its corporate partners have committed, under the cover of lies, there is still something alive here on this soil. Alive and good. And it all starts with THE INDIVIDUAL.

How dare you try to demean and finagle and lie and pervert that, Mr. President. How dare you stand up on a platform and tell us we weren’t there, we had nothing to do with taking our destiny in our own hands. How dare you claim somebody else did it for us. How dare you lie.

It would be easy to say you lied because you simply never had experience launching your own business enterprise and you don’t know what it really means. You don’t know what the sweat means and the struggle means and the vision means and the power to keep doing it every day means, and you don’t know what the satisfaction of making money means and victory means. It would be easy to say that and it would be true. All too true.

But that’s not what is at the bottom of this campaign of yours. You do have some idea about what a FREE INDIVIDUAL is. You do. And you don’t like it. You just don’t like it. You want a world of Central Planning. That’s where you’re heading. You feel a welter of emotions, all negative, when you contemplate that glorious fact: THE FREE INDIVIDUAL. You’re against it.

And you and I both know that if you’re against that, it’s obvious what you’re for. It’s no secret, is it, Mr. President?

I am one of those people you were talking about in Roanoke. I’m one of those people who “didn’t do it,” who wasn’t there. Well, I’m here. I was never anywhere else. I built the substance of my own vision. It’s a lot of things, but one of them is a business. It’s mine. I own it and I stand on it.

I hope and believe there are a lot of other people out there who share my stand and who will speak up about it in their own terms.

We’re not gone. We’re not erased. We feel pride in our businesses, big and small. We should. WE BUILT THEM.

We are FREE INDIVIDUALS, and we never stop.

No matter what you say, what you do, what people like you do, Mr. Obama, freedom never dies. The individual remains.

Money is not inherently evil. Profit is not inherently evil.

What is evil is trying to melt the individual into the collective. That has always been evil. If you want to forward that goal, that is your business.

It’s not mine.

It may seem outlandish to say this, but it is my absolute bottom line: Each truly free individual is more powerful than all the force of collectivism taken together, and some day, in some way, there will transpire on this continent a vindication of that, and we will fully see, for the first time, by contrast, what foul, despicable, and slimy crimes the leaders of collectivism have committed, to keep their monstrous control intact.

That’s my bet, and I have shoved in all my chips on it every day for the last thirty years.

I am one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke, Mr. President.

I caught the drift of your message. I caught the stench and the decay. I know the agenda. People like me have been fighting against it all our lives. We’ve heard that tune played a thousand different ways—you must surrender and give in to The Group. We’ve logged a lot of time rejecting that message. We’re veterans in this war.

I’m one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke, Mr. President. I’m talking back. I’m talking to you and your allies.

Since the early days of ancient Egypt and India, and earlier still, the high priests have tried to sell your message. They were the original masters of collectivism and the phony “we’re all in this together.” You’re just the latest in a long line of suits that are blowing the same PR. You’re nothing new.

The pyramids and temples you want us to build “all together” are a bit more subtle, but they amount to the same kind of slavery. You want us to be joyful in sacrifice to your version of “the greater good.”

I know how evil that plan is.

I was one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke. I got the message.

You tried to defame the very essence of what free individuals are and do. The thing is, you can’t defame it. That essence is forever. You would never understand it. You missed that boat. You were schooled in a different world. What you speak about as your privation was really the absence of something called your own essence as an individual.

You chose, all the way along the line, to avoid your own essence. You had to live with that disastrous decision. And now you think you can outlaw the essence of freedom and power from every individual.

You lose.

That’s the end-game.

You will lose.

I ought to know. I was one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke. I heard you. I saw through your front. I was not alone.

In the truest sense, you stand clueless in the Oval Office.

Our freedom will not vanish.

This is about so much more than you imagine.

What the free and powerful individual IS is something you have to LIVE AND CREATE, in order to understand.

You’re living on the spur line, Barack. And no matter how good things look to you now, your empire of dreams will eventually collapse in heap of garbage.

I know. Others know. We were the people you were talking about in Roanoke. We’re here.

We live lives you will never comprehend.

To us, you are just the latest con man working his pitch, mugging for the mob, shaking down the rubes, promising what you don’t have but are trying to steal. It’s a hell of business, pal.

We are the people you were talking about in Roanoke. Hello.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.