Jeffrey Steinberg is a member of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine, an expert on American politics, national security, and the history of the political and financial oligarchy.
The $ 9 billion US video game industry, which greatly contributed to the massacres of Littleton, Paducah and Jonesboro, is much more than just the commercial application of techniques and technologies developed at the time as “legitimate” training tools for military and government officials. law enforcement. To get to the roots of this new type of programmable terrorism in the style of "Manchu candidate" Jonathan Demmy, one must go back to the days of World War II and the period immediately after it, when the Frankfurt School and London Tavistock Institute directed joint efforts to use Marxist and Freudian perversions of psychology, philosophy and other social sciences as a means of fooling and controlling the broad masses.
Cybernetics and the drug counterculture were the two battering rams used to disrupt the American intellectual tradition, when some big-name social scientists openly set out to use war-proven mass manipulation techniques to corrupt and take control of Americans. And in most cases, the emphasis was on children and the need to break family ties. Lord Bertrand Russell, who joined the Frankfurt School in their endeavors of mass social engineering, blabbed in his 1951 book, The Impact of Science on Society. He wrote:
Russell continued:
Russell ends with a warning:
Russell and the death chambers
Russell has been developing the concept of scientific dictatorship for decades. In a book published in 1931, "Scientific worldview", he devoted to this topic the chapter "Education in society on a scientific basis." Here he is just as outspoken in his oligarchic totalitarian views. Drawing a parallel with the two levels of education of the Jesuits, Russell argues:
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The education of the children elected to the ruling scientific class will be completely different.
In doing so, Russell made one very strong caveat:
"Concentration Camp for Mind" by Huxley
Russell's frank description of the scientific dictatorship was echoed by Aldous Huxley, author of the utopian treatise Brave New World, in his speech at Voice of America in 1961, a radio station owned by the US State Department. He spoke of a world of drug slaves living in a “concentration camp of the mind,” being treated with propaganda and psychotropic drugs, taught to “love their slavery,” and having lost the will to resist.
Speaking at the California State School of Medicine in San Francisco, Huxley stated:
Authoritarian personality
The first of these projects was started in January 1943 by a group of three social psychologists at the University of Berkeley, California. They were Else Frenkel-Brunswick (founder of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, known as the "Frankfurt School"), Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford. What began with a modest $ 500 grant to study the roots of anti-Semitism soon grew into the largest social research project to date in the United States.
In May 1944, the American Jewish Committee (AEK) created a department of scientific research, headed by the director of the Frankfurt School, Max Horkheimer. Horkheimer prepared a project called “Investigation of Prejudice,” which received generous funding from AEK and other agencies, including Rockefeller foundations. The Research Prejudice Project gave jobs to members of the Frankfurt School who, for various reasons, were not directly involved in the war (eg Herbert Marcuse and Franz Neumann worked in the Research and Analysis Department of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of today's CIA). The research project was developed by Gedda Massing, Mary Yagoda, Maurice Janowitz and Theodore V. Adorno,and under the leadership of Horkheimer they formally recreated the International Institute for Social Research, a transplanted clone of the Frankfurt School that existed in Weimar Germany.
The most important of the five studies commissioned by the AEK between 1945-1950 was Authoritarian personality (New York: Harper, 1950). Authors Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson, and Sandford assembled a large research team from the University of Berkeley's Public Opinion Research Group and the International Institute for Social Research to conduct thousands of surveys of Americans to uncover deeply hidden tendencies towards authoritarianism, prejudice and anti-Semitism.
Dr. William Morrow, the main protégé of Dr. Kurt Lewin, who was the main, key person who provided contact between the Frankfurt School and the Tavistock Institute, was the scientific director of the "Authoritarian Personality" project.
The study was an exercise in fulfilling one's own predictions and in Marxist-Freudian self-deception. Long before the first questionnaire was prepared, Horkheimer and Adorno spoke at length about the “authoritarian” nature of the American nuclear family, the “problem” of American belief in a transcendental monotheistic God, and the fascist background of all kinds of American patriotism. The survey data had already been “dissected” in advance, having developed a series of scales with which it was supposed to measure the propensity of Americans to anti-Semitism, ethnocentricity, anti-democratic ideology, and, ultimately, fascism. Not surprisingly, a group of researchers found that Americans were “guilty on all counts,” and sounded the alarm - if not radically revisit American ideology and popular culture. America will soon become the Fourth Reich, and will repeat all of Hitler's nightmares, but on an even bigger scale.
The authors of The Authoritarian Personality present all this in the final chapter of the book, where they summarize all the findings and offer recipes for social transformation:
The authors end with an extremely eloquent sentence:
It was eros that became the weapon that the Frankfurt School and its adherents used over the next 50 years to shift the cultural paradigm from the so-called “authoritarian” matrix of man, the sanctity of the nuclear family and the primacy of the republican form of the nation state over other forms of political organization of society.
They transformed American culture into an erotic, perverse matrix associated with the modern “politically correct” tyranny of tolerance for dehumanizing drugs, sexual perversion, and the glorification of violence. For the Maxist-Freudian revolutionaries of the Frankfurt School, the most effective antidote against Western civilization was to destroy civilization itself from within, turning entire generations of youth into necrophilia.
If this seems too strong, consider this: In his 1948 book The Philosophy of Contemporary Music, the leader of the Frackfurt School, Theodor Adorno, argued that the purpose of modern music is to literally drive the listener crazy. He justified this with the statement that modern society is a hotbed of evil, authoritarianism and potential fascism, and liberation is possible only through the destruction of civilization, the spread of all forms of cultural pessimism and perversion. He wrote the following about the role of contemporary music:
Necrophilia, he writes further, is the highest expression of "true health" in a sick society.
Erich Fromm, another Frankfurt School leader who played a key role in the development of scales later used in the study of authoritarian personality in the 1930s, devoted much of his 1972 work, Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, to the analysis of necrophilia, which he declared to be the dominant trend in modern society.
Fromm attributed to necrophilia all forms of obsession with death and destruction, especially with a pronounced sexual connotation. Curiously, he considered the counterculture of drugs, rock and sex to be an alleged "cure" for these massive social perversions in the late 1960s. In the chapter “Malignant aggression: necrophilia,” Fromm writes that “simultaneously with the growing development of necrophilia, the opposite tendency also develops - the love of life. It manifests itself in different forms: as a protest against the death of life, a protest of people from all walks of life and age groups, but especially young people. There is hope in the growing protest against environmental pollution and war … The same protest can be seen in the addiction of young people to drugs.”
Liberation through drugs
It is noteworthy that one of the four leaders of the "Authoritarian Personality" project, R. Nevitt Sanford, played a key role in the experiments of 1950-60. with psychedelic drugs, with their subsequent mass distribution. In 1965, Sanford wrote the foreword to Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD 25, published by Tavistock Publications, the publisher of Britain's main psychological warfare body, the Tavistock Institute.
Tavistock provided leadership for the British Army's Psychiatric Administration during World War II, and many of the best brainwashing specialists were dispatched to the United States shortly after the war to work on secret CIA and Pentagon mind control projects, including the MK-Ultra project, which carried out studying LSD and other hallucinogens.
In a foreword to Utopians, Sanford, who headed the Institute for Human Research at Stanford University, the main outpost of MK-Ultra's secret LSD experiments, outlined the arguments for legalizing drugs that are the mainstay of drug propaganda today. Sanford wrote:
The main propagandists of the drug industry today - George Soros, Ethan Nadelman and others - base their pseudo-scientific quackery - arguments for legalizing drugs - on the same arguments as Sanford, 36 years ago, in his introduction to Utopiatam.
Cybernetics Group
The “big lie” running through Fromm’s Anatomy of Human Destructiveness was that the counterculture of drugs, sex, and rock was the antidote to cybernetics, a technotronic “necrophilic” society. In practice, the Fracknfurt School and their closest associates from the British oligarchy Russell-Wells-Huxley were the architects of cybernetics and counterculture projects in the 1960s. The Cybernetics group, funded by the Joshua Macy Foundation, was the front behind which the CIA and British intelligence conducted massive experiments with mind-altering hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD-25. The experiment eventually spilled over into the streets of San Francisco, New York's Greenwich Village, and swept across campuses across the nation, eventually leading to the 1966-72 countercultural “paradigm shift”.
The Cybernetics Group, which its members called the Man-Machine Project, was unofficially formed in May 1942 at a conference in New York called the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, funded by the medical director of the Joshua Macy Frank Foundation. Fremont-Smith. Participants included Warren McCulloch, Arturo Rosenbluth, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, and Lorerns K. Frank.
Rosenbluth, a protégé of Norbert Wiener, painted a big picture of the proposed project. Speaking on behalf of Wiener and John von Neumann, he proposed combining engineers, biologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists and psychologists into one group to conduct experiments in social management, based on the quack assertion that the human brain is nothing more than a complex machine with input and output. and that human behavior can, in fact, be programmed on a personal and social level.
The Second World War postponed the project by four years. But shortly after the Japanese surrendered, McCulloch proposed to Fremont-Smith that a second meeting be convened under the formal auspices of the Macy Foundation. The first of these meetings was held in New York on March 8-9, 1946, and was called Feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biology and the Social Sciences. This meeting marked the beginning of the next ten major conferences and many years of work between 1946 and 1953.
The first meeting not only gave impetus to the demonic desire to create an absolutely controllable society based on the fusion of man and machine. The core of the group of 20 people set themselves the task of achieving this goal, and a whole network of permanent institutions was created, in which work continues to this day. A year after the first meeting that launched the Macy project, Wiener coined the term “cybernetics” to describe what they were doing.
Who were those “Dr. Jekylls” who gathered around the table during Macy’s first conferences?
Warren McCulloch was the honorary chairman of all ten conferences. At the time of the first meeting, he was a professor of psychiatry and physiology at the University of Illinois, but later transferred to the Electronics Research Laboratory at MIT.
Walter Pitts, McCulloch's protégé, first worked in Illinois, then at MIT.
Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist and then husband of Margaret Mead, later became director of research at Veterans' Hospital in Palo Alto, California, where he was the lead researcher for the MK-Ultra program and other secret government-led mind-altering drug experiments.
Margather Mead, at that time was the assistant curator of the department of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, for the cybernetics group she [that is, Mead] was an “earthly goddess”, contributed to the birth of the modern feminist movement through Betty Friedan, then a student protege Kurt Levin.
Kurt Lewin, founder of the Group Dynamics Research Center at MIT, one of the main supporters of the Frankfurt School, his collaborations with the founder of the Frankfurt School Karl Korsch on linguistics formed the basis of research on artificial intelligence. Lewin's National Advanced Training Laboratory later evolved into the National Education Association, and was instrumental in materializing Russell's monstrous ravings about how to teach children to believe that "snow is black" in the American public education system.
Paul Lazarfeld, director of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, ran the Radio Research Laboratory at Princeton University during the war, and patronized Theodora Adorno.
John von Neumann. Norbert Wiener.
In the first seven years of its work, the meetings of the Cybernetics Group were attended by the most unexpected guests. Among them was Max Horkheimer, head of the Frankfurt School, who collaborated with the Cybernetics Group while he was leading research on prejudice.
Dr. Harold Abramson, one of the leading CIA scientists involved in secret LSD experiments, not only attended the sixth conference of the Cybernetics Group, but with Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith, director of research at the Macy Foundation, organized a series of parallel conference MK-Ultra's staff had the ability, under the cover of the Macy Foundation, to develop plans for America's mass needle landing. In turn, Abramson diligently supplied Fremont-Smith with his inexhaustible supply of LSD-25.
The Macy Foundation also funded and advertised the English social engineer Dr. William Sarjant, whose 1957 book, Battle for the Mind, became a textbook for mass brainwashing. Sarjant spent 20 years in the United States, worked on the MK-Ultra project, and participated in other secret developments by the US and British governments aimed at establishing control over the human mind.
Among the vilest projects launched by the Cybernetics Group is the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH), the first president of this federation was Brigadier General John Rawlins Rees, director of the Tavistock Institute, England's premier center for psychological warfare.
For the opening of the World Federation for Mental Health in the summer of 1948, Rees, Mead, Laurence C. Frank, Fremont-Smith, and Horkheimer gathered in Paris. Kurt Lewin, who had died a year earlier, had been preparing the federation through the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and the International Committee for Mental Hygiene, which had half a dozen members of the Cybernetics Group. Both of these bodies oversaw more than 4,000 psychic shock troopers, as Rees put it, at the heart of the global social engineering apparatus that permeated every cell of society.
Margaret Mead and Lawrence C. Frank, two pillars of the Cybernetics Group, wrote the founding statement of Rees's World Federation for Mental Health (both Mead and Frank later succeeded Rees as president of the federation), which they called the “Manifesto of the First International”. Mead and Frank wrote quite openly:
Frank even suggested starting a new religion of mental health.
Computers and artificial intelligence
For John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener, the Group's mission was to develop computers, and in the long term, to combine powerful computers with artificial intelligence to literally “program” the human race. At the heart of these efforts was von Neumann's unshakable, though obviously ridiculous, belief that the human mind is nothing sacred, and that the human brain is a machine that can be replicated and, over time, surpassed by computers.
Dr. Jerome Wisner, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is almost home to the Cybernetics Group, has attended several Macy Foundation meetings. He made this view of man clear in an interview with counterculture propagandist Stuart Brand, published in a 1987 book entitled The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT:
Brand asked Wisner, "Do you think this will happen?"
Wisner:
Dr. Wiesner was involved in more than just the Macy Foundation Cybernetics Group. In 1952, he became head of the MIT Electronics Research Laboratory, where Wiener, McCulloch, and Petes settled. Soon, the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence spun off from the Laboratory of Electronics, where Dr. Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky began programming human behavior and human interaction.
By the 1980s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had opened the Media Lab, another direct legacy of the Cybernetics Group of the 1940s and 1950s. Social engineering specialists worked hand in hand with engineers and machine designers who developed high-power computers, computer graphics, holography, and the first generation of computer simulations. A significant amount of work by MIT and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratories at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, was funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Steve Joshua Haymes, author of the semi-official history of conferences on cybernetics at the Maisi Foundation, Cybernetic Group, wrote that by the 1980s the cybernetic group had even created their own religion - an openly pagan belief system, which is very remarkable, in full accordance with Timothy Leary's dreams of “scientific paganism”. Haymes wrote:
When describing the work of the media laboratory, Haymes already openly and enthusiastically welcomes it, and it must be borne in mind that the media laboratory, in turn, was a direct product of the cybernetic project of the Macy Foundation …
Addicts fuck with cyber hackers
In 1974, Stuart Brand, the chief promoter of the psychotropic and computer revolution, published a collection of previously published essays under the general title Cybernetic Frontier II. The two essays were interviews he had with Gregory Bateson, one of the fathers of the psychedelic revolution in America, while he was at Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto, where much of the MK-Ultra project was being experimented with. Bateson was one of the five most influential members of the Cybernetic Group. Another, longer essay in this book, Fanatical Life and Symbolic Death Among Computer Geeks, was published in December 1972 in the leading countercultural publication, Rowling Stone magazine.
Brand began an essay in Rowling Stone with a boastful statement: “Ready or not, computers are coming to us. And that's good news, maybe the best since psychedelia.” He continued: “This does not coincide with the 'computers are a threat or intimidation' doubt held by liberal critics, but it is surprisingly similar to the romantic dreams of the fathers of this science - Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, J. C. R. Licklider, John von Neumann and Vannevar Bush. This trend is fueled by a strange combination of forces: youthful enthusiasm and a staunch no to the computer science geeks establishment, and a surprisingly enlightened research program backed up at the very top of the Department of Defense, unexpected moves by small computer makers to bypass the market.and an exuberant midnight carnival called Space War.
Brand gave a detailed description of Space War, possibly the first computer war game. “Yes, Space War. Every night (after a working day) hundreds of computer geeks in North America literally go out of their way in front of their displays and wage a mortal battle for hours, lose their sight, disfigure their fingers in a frantic dance on the keyboard, happily destroy their friends and steal their owners' expensive machine time” …
Beginning in 1963, when the US space program was transferred from the military to NASA, J. C. R. Licklider convinced his boss at ARPA (the organization that later became DARPA) to spend some of the budget on computer research. At the time, the Department of Defense was the world's largest consumer of computers. Licklider became head of the Information Processing Techniques Division at ARPA, and in the following years has funneled millions of dollars into various computing and artificial intelligence research centers.
Until 1969, when the Mansfield Amendment imposed restrictions on the Pentagon on R&D spending, there were no barriers to funding projects from the Information Processing Techniques Division. Billions of dollars have been spent on the development of computer networks, computer graphics, "virtual reality", computer modeling, and other foundations of today's commercial video shooter industry, at a volume of 9-11 billion dollars a year. Two of the magnets that attracted this money were the MIT Media Lab and the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab, which did research that fueled the development of the Pentagon's simulation training programs and the nascent video game industry.
In On Killing, Lt. Col. David Grossman recounts how the invention of high-speed computers enabled social engineers to overcome the aversion to killing in soldiers and provided an unrivaled method for training stimulus-response behavior change. Increasingly realistic video graphics, subtle work on neurological processes - all this from a cybernetic project "man-machine" - turned the US military into programmed killers, in the end, these approaches became for manipulators the "preferred weapon" for distorting the brains of millions of young Americans.
Social manipulators, who embody the dreams of Adorno, Horkheimer, Russell and Huxley, of a fully governed society under the control of a "scientific dictatorship" have never moved away from computers and artificial intelligence laboratories where these techniques were developed and tested. Time passed, and just like with LSD in the 1960s, when the secret military testing phase was completed, Americans became the object of self-programming for sex and violence with the help of Doom and the like.
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