alex jones and jeff rense
Anart said:
Also, it's important to remember that sources of disinformation always include small pieces of truth in what they write -that is the bait, as it were. The problem develops when they surround this truth with so many lies that the reader becomes confused, or misdirected.
Actually, the best disinfo is a LOT of truth wrapped around a crucial lie here and there wrapped inside that truth. And generally, the lie is introduced only after great confidence has been established in the source so that when the twist comes, when the diversion comes, it isn't noticed or if it is noticed, it is swept under the rug because it is excused. After all, the person tells so much that is right, they can be excused for that one little wrong thing! They just made a mistake! Never mind that it is a CRUCIAL mistake. (Because certainly, everyone makes a mistake now and then).
It's like the ten commandments. Just about everybody can agree that this little set of rules is a universal formula for decent behavior. But then, there's the clincher: you gotta worship Yaweh - because that's commandment number one. Never mind that he lets you know in that commandment that there ARE "other gods" and that free will is a pretty good idea too.
I just wrote to a correspondent the other day that, yeah, Jones and Rense and a few others really do seem to be doing such a fine job that it is difficult to see anything wrong. But there are odd clues that something is amiss in their backgrounds, and that they do have an agenda to "entrain" their audience in preparation for something - as yet undetermined.
Jones has a certain "fervor" that reminds me of Gurjieff's description of "abuse of sex." Here, he means a certain kind of energy, not necessarily a pervert though that can come into play with such people. Let me quote a bit that I hope will help to explain what I mean:
Gurdjieff in ISOTM said:
"Speaking in general, what is the most correct form of life in this connection from the point of view of the work?"
"It is impossible to say. I repeat that while a man does not know it is better for him not to attempt anything. Until he has new and exact knowledge it will be quite enough if his life is guided by the usual rules and principles. If a man begins to theorize and invent in this sphere, it will lead to nothing except psychopathy.
"But it must again be remembered that only a person who is completely normal as regards sex has any chance in the work. Any kind of 'originality,' strange tastes, strange desires, or, on the other hand, fears, constantly working 'buffers,' must be destroyed from the very beginning. Modem education and modem life create an enormous number of sexual psychopaths. They have no chance at all in the' work.
"Speaking in general, there are only two correct ways of expending sexual energy— normal sexual life and transmutation. All inventions in this sphere are very dangerous.
"People have tried abstinence from times beyond memory. Sometimes, very rarely, it has led to something but in most cases what is called abstinence is simply exchanging normal sensations for abnormal, because the abnormal are more easily hidden.
But it is not about this that I wish to speak. You must understand where lies the chief evil and what makes for slavery. It is not in sex itself but in the abuse of sex.
But what the abuse of sex means is again misunderstood.
People usually take this to be either excess or perversion. But these are comparatively innocent forms of abuse of sex. And it is necessary to know the human machine very well in order to grasp what abuse of sex in the real meaning of these words is.
It means the wrong work of centers in relation to sex, that is, the action of the sex center through other centers, and the action of other centers through the sex center; or, to be still more precise, the functioning of the sex center with energy borrowed from other centers and the functioning of other centers with energy borrowed from the sex center." [...]
"People who experience unpleasant feelings and sensations which have been evoked in them through ideas and imagination connected with sex are inclined to regard them as a great virtue or as something original; in actual fact it is simply disease. Everything connected with sex should be either pleasant or indifferent. Unpleasant feelings and sensations all come from the emotional center or the instinctive center.
"This is the 'abuse of sex.'
It is necessary, further, to remember that the sex center ... is stronger and quicker than all other centers. Sex, in fact, governs all other centers. The only thing in ordinary circumstances, that is, when man has neither consciousness nor will, that holds the sex center in submission is 'buffers.' 'Buffers' can entirely bring it to nought, that is, they can stop its normal manifestation. But they cannot destroy its energy. The energy remains and passes over to other centers, finding expression for itself through them; in other words, the other centers rob the sex center of the energy which it does not use itself.
The energy of the sex center in the work of the thinking, emotional, and moving centers can be recognized by a particular 'taste,' by a particular fervor, by a vehemence which the nature of the affair concerned does not call for.
The thinking center writes books, but in making use of the energy of the sex center it does not simply occupy itself with philosophy, science, or politics—it is always fighting something, disputing, criticizing, creating new subjective theories.
The emotional center preaches Christianity, abstinence, asceticism, or the fear and horror of sin, hell, the torment of sinners, eternal fire, all this with the energy of the sex center. ... Or on the other hand it works up revolutions, robs, bums, kills, again with the same energy.
The moving center occupies itself with sport, creates various records, climbs mountains, jumps, fences, wrestles, fights, and so on.
In all these instances, that is, in the work of the thinking center as well as in the work of the emotional and the moving centers, when they work with the energy of the sex center, there is always one general characteristic and this is a certain particular vehemence and, together with it, the uselessness of the work in question.
Neither the thinking nor the emotional nor the moving centers can ever create anything useful with the energy of the sex center. This is an example of the 'abuse of sex.'
Now, as you know, from our point of view, the place to begin in changing the world, the system, or doing any useful work for humanity, is to work on the self first, and to create networks where there is no hierarchy, where information and data is shared openly and transparently. We also know that humanity has pathological elements that can utterly destroy any attempt to bring positive change, so hand in hand with work on the self and creating networks comes the work of removing those destructive pathological elements from one's association.
In other words, the only way to really accomplish anything at all is to first learn REAL psychology, apply it to the self and others. Only when you start out with a healthy foundation, can anything healthy grow. This has been our premise from the beginning.
But, for some reason, this premise does not "sit well" with such as Rense and Jones. It is as though they have "instructions" from some authority that they must not EVER, under ANY circumstances, link to our promote our work. As we noted the other day, for about an hour, a link to a review of Ponerology was on Rense, but it disappeared - was censored from his page - within a short time because, obviously, someone discovered that it linked to our work and that positive remarks were made about me.
The same thing happened with the Pentagon Flash. It was literally an internet phenomenon, and yet Rense removed it as soon as he discovered that it linked to SOTT.
A year or so later, I wrote an article and mentioned this fact, the next day, the PS was on Rense (which indicates that he IS reading our stuff and paying attention!), but it was a version that had been altered and was hosted on a different site than our own so that it was certain not to bring any attention to us and our work.
Now, Alex Jones is all about rabble rousing and fiery speeches, and passionate activism. But all he is doing is sharply polarizing people and doing so in a moralizing way. It's all about labels that have nothing to do with the crux of the matter: psychopathy/deviants and their "reality creation" vs normal people and their ability to empathize.
If he really cared about the future of the U.S., of humanity, he would easily see that all of the conflicts that are labeled "Jew vs Muslim" or "Christian vs Muslim" "black" vs "white" or "right vs. left" or "democrat vs republican" or "patriots vs fascists" and so on, all reflect artificial distinctions and that the core of the problem is psychopathy and its dominance of our reality. Instead of preaching (and he DOES preach - a sign of abuse of sex energy) about the "New World Order" as he does, he should be teaching people about psychopathy vs normal humans and how the whole NWO thing is really about deviants taking over the world. He should be teaching that its not about the ordinary labels that have been created for us by psychopaths in order to divide and conquer, but rather that it is about conscience and consciousness.
Well, okay, he could do what he does best, Rense could do what he does best, and they could send people to us to do what we do best: teach about conscience and consciousness. But they don't. And THAT is the warning sign that their agenda is really to polarize people in the same ways that psychopaths have always polarized people. On this subject, Andrew Lobaczewski writes:
Political Ponerology said:
When bad times arrive and people are overwhelmed by an excess of evil, they must gather all their physical and mental strength to fight for existence and protect human reason. The search for some way out of the difficulties and dangers rekindles long-buried powers of discretion. Such people have the initial tendency to rely on force in order to counteract the threat; they may, for instance, become “trigger-happy� or dependent upon armies.
Slowly and laboriously, however, they discover the advantages conferred by mental effort; improved understanding of the psychological situation in particular, better differentiation of human characters and personalities, and, finally, comprehension of one’s adversaries.
The fact is, yeah, this planet has some serious problems and we need to figure out some solutions and we need to do it pretty quick. But starting a revolution by polarizing people as Jones is doing isn't the way to go about it.
It strikes me that Jones and Rense both are "vacuum cleaner" operations. They have followers of a certain "type," and that type can be easily "turned" to any purpose with clever propaganda. And the reason they can be so easily turned is because they do not have the deep psychological knowledge recommended in the quote above and Rense and Jones are making damn sure that they are not exposed to it.
