The psychology of tyranny

“Conspiracy theorist” as an all-purpose term of ad hominem argument to dismiss arguments which cannot be refuted and thus goes back to the years after the Kennedy assassination, when the public was expected to accept that it was US government policy that this great crime, along with the further assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968, would remain permanently unsolved, and that those who objected would be vilified. (Webster Tarpley)

(See footnote 10/25) Testimony to the truth of Tarpley’s assessment is the laughable conspiracy theories that are accepted and believed. There are the 19 Arabs who shut down the air defense system and brought down seven buildings. As ludicrous as that sounds (and even discarding the fact that at least four of the nineteen were still alive on September 12, 2001), it is not questioned in public. Tea Party members who believe that Obama was born in some foreign land are probably expressing a deeper contempt for the color of his skin, but nonetheless harbor a widely accepted theory. I once interviewed a prominent right-winger in Montana, Tom Keating, who assured me with thoughtless ease that environmentalists all conspire to bring down capitalism by means of lawsuits. This idea is legal tender among his friends of the right wing.

Tarpley wrote the book 9/11 Synthetic Terror, Made in the USA. A significant percentage of Americans (and even more of Europeans, Arabs, Russians, Chinese and Persians) were immediately suspicious of the events of 9/11 and the fabulous tale of 19 Arabs. In the ensuing years there’s been a real, though unofficial, investigation. Much is yet to be known. But as with the Kennedy’s and MLK, the official position of government, the intelligentsia, academia and the chatterboxes is that this crime too shall forever remain unsolved.

9/11 is easily unraveled to a degree where even an unsuspicious person can see that it was a domestic conspiracy. But the most intriguing aspect of 9/11 was that it was a PSYOP – a psychological operation done by people who understand our thought processes and societal structure, and who knew that repression of natural curiosity could be enforced by mere imposition of social ostracism. It’s not a new phenomenon, of course, as Hans Christian Andersen and George Orwell would attest. (2+2 = 5 was not just a lie, but a lie that Winston Smith had to truly believe). 9/11 was also a made-for-TV reality show. There were no jets flying into buildings, no hijackers, no “Let’s Roll!” or phone calls from the abyss. But these myths, implanted during our trauma, will never be dislodged. It was invented reality, but permanent reality for most Americans. And just as history books tell our youth today that Lee Harvey Oswald murdered JFK, so too will students in 2061 be told the story about the 19 Arabs and the bearded guy in a cave.

The saddest part of it is this: Those who eschew conspiracy theory will never understand politics, just as one cannot master physics without mathematics. Politics is conspiracy, hanging out there for all to see in a country where politicians pretend they are not legally bribed. For our intellectual classes, the “bought priesthood,” conspiracy theory is a barrier – none shall pass there. These are supposedly our best thinkers, and they are paid to not think.

But there is more than mere emperor’s clothes involved. In our society there is severe punishment for merely suspecting that what we see is not what we are getting. Any politician who openly questions the official 9/11 myth will be summarily destroyed. Even suggesting that we have a true investigation will end a career, as Anthony Weiner and Peter Toricelli can attest. Ours is a repressive culture, and discipline is readily administered at all levels.

This is the nature of tyranny. When it is in place and working, we know not to question it. “2+2=4” is a conspiracy theory.

We are boring, and are required to be boring to be credible. But that is more than some of us can take. Dean Wormer reminded Flounder … “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” Americans: Lazy, ignorant and incurious is no way to preserve a republic.

Perhaps that’s why we don’t have one.
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(Footnote 10/25): I admit to being pessimistic about reaching the inner life of any small part of the American public, so long deadened by propaganda, sports, entertainment and fake news. But if there is a lock in place there, 9/11 is perhaps the key that might move its cylinders a bit. The crime was so bold and audacious that mere revelation of a detail or two, like the “discovery” of a passport of a supposed hijacker among the immense sea of rubble, ought to create some dissonance. If that does not trouble you, then you must return to your fantasy life. Do so this moment!

I have discovered that there is discord among the researchers on what happened to the towers that day, with camps forming around mini-nukes and DEW, or directed energy weaponry. I tend to lean towards the latter (perhaps both), as the cloud that covered Manhattan was not a deadly pyroclastic one like those that killed so many people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People reported that it was even cooler than the ambient air temperature. And indeed three massive steel buildings did not blow up – they dissolved before our eyes. The “planes” that flew into them were CGI, but the collapses molecular dissociation was quite real. It was only outside our frame of reference. We describe what we see based on what we have seen before. Confronted with a new phenomenon, our first instinct is to put it in existing framework, which is why so many people were sure they witnessed controlled demolition on 9/11.

The Navy reports here that they are two years away from laser weaponry. That is a somewhat different animal than what we witnessed on 9/11, but the story was interesting because the Navy does not “report” shit to us, especially on weapons research. They only speak for effect, and there is a message embedded in that story, for someone. The Russians have developed sophisticated new missiles, unlike anything before, that travel under control a mere 30 feet or so above water for very long distances, undetectable until too late. The technology is beyond French Mirage and American Cruise weaponry. Such a missile could easily destroy aircraft carriers. There is a possibility that they have given such weaponry to Iran. Is this planted story, then, a message telling them that the US already has the antidote?

I’ve come far enough in my reading to know that it is a waste of time to look further into means and methods, especially with disinformation campaigns all about. That is the Puzzle Palace. I echo Dr. Judy Wood, the mechanical engineer who realized what we saw that day was new to our eyes, and who refuses to speculate about what she does not know. She only offers optimism: The weapons used that day contain a secret technology that has now been divulged – abundant cheap energy. Of course, given to Americans, they only want to keep it secret and weaponize it. But if given over to peaceful use, crude oil loses its sheen. We no longer have reason to attack the rest of the world. That puts a mighty fright into our warrior class.

It’s a pleasure to be in such a state of mental upheaval as reading about 9/11 produces. It’s not uncomfortable, and even offers a ray of hope. The dark forces that gave us that day not only committed a heinous crime, but also they expressed fear and acted in apparent desperation. They are vulnerable. Something threatens their world, perhaps merely collapse of our empire, which is no big deal. Maybe it is even a good deal for us, but certainly more so for the rest of the world. The American oligarchy, like the British aristocracy before it, is a criminal class of indescribable villainy.