Control control

Watching the triumph of technological progress and innovative art practitioners, do you get tired of enjoying life in a marvelous new world? Contact the story: the experiments of Nazi Germany have not remained in the past, but migrated in the digital era, the Haitian voodoo in a new form has become widespread, and the philosophy of extreme individualism turns the idea of ​​personal freedom inside out. It does not seem to you: anti -utopia has come for a long time - and now we will study it in the new section “1984”.

Control transformation

In 1946-1949, within the framework of the CIA secret program, PaperClip, many former German and Japanese scientists and specialists in different industries, including spheres such as psychology and psychiatry, were moved to the United States to continue research. At the end of 1946 , they were represented by the press of the US military departments. Of course, in their public biographies, war crimes were not listed. But from the report of the American military administration of Omgus in Berlin, the opposite was followed.

Scientists took an active part in the construction of a nuclear bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima a month after the test. It is still unclear whether Werner von Brown is involved in the founding father of rocket science, but the fact of his arrival in the United States on June 10, 1945 is unconditional. Ernst Ryudin practiced designing a theoretical base for punitive psychiatry. And the notorious Eugenic Joseph Mengele did not remain without work. Probably, it was he who became one of the main developers of the secret control program “MK Ultra Monarch”. The curator of the program was entrusted to the chief of the recently created CIA agency Alena Dulles. Despite the fact that the “secret” vulture was imposed on it, some information still leaked to the press, which is why senior officials had to give appropriate comments and answer uncomfortable questions of journalists. When the former CIA director Willyam Kolby was asked a direct question : “So what are you saying about the Monarch project?”, He stated that the program was stopped in the late 60s-early 70s.

If it seems to you that the stories about mass control have remained far in the past or exist only on the pages of anti -utopias, look around. The historical process is continuous, and the ancient principle of human management is today a reality in advanced technological progress.

In 1992, Dr. Corydon Hammond, a psychologist from the University of Utah, gave a lecture on the topic “Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual abuse” and confirmed that a certain percentage of his patients was “processing consciousness”. He also indicated that the US military and the CIA are actually successors of the German Nazis.

The English psychiatrist William Sargant, who collaborated with the MK-Ultra project, wrote in his book : “In the future, the conquest and retention of power over the minds will become much more important than the development of the most powerful, most perfect nuclear weapons; Therefore, it is very important to study how the brain works and how psychological pressure can be exerted on people. ”

Despite the fact that the program officially ceased to exist, in fact, the development of control methods did not stop. Thus, many psychological experiments conducted during the 1960s-1970s were aimed at studying the possibility of bowing an experimental individual to fulfill direct suggestions, suppress or, conversely, motivate. Many of them were later recognized as anti -human, and believers spoke about Satanism in the oval office.

Indeed, from a philosophical point of view, the intention to build a society on the principles of control is an extremely controversial idea.

After all, the fundamental law of man, giving attractiveness to the idea of ​​his existence, is a free will.

While the inner nature of man remained a mystery, and his behavior was more or less unpredictable, the need for control was expressed in the desire to keep him as close as possible. The slave lived next to the owner, the vassal - with a lord, and the serf - with the barin. Scientific and technological progress gave ideologists of control the ability to observe society remotely: numerous sociological and telephone surveys, psychological tests, votes, and in general, activity on social networks continuously supply analytical centers with various information and inform “controllers” about all changes and fluctuations in public moods. Thus, continuous monitoring of the social process allows “controllers” to make a number of valuable generalizing conclusions that promote the idea of ​​control at a qualitatively different level.

In 1971, psychologist B.F. Skinner, the ideologist and supporter of programming behavior, published the book "On the other side of freedom and dignity." In it, he describes the utopian society of total control, which is controlled by “architects of human souls” - psychologists, psychiatrists and others. Skinner was an ideological opponent of punitive methods and said that they were very ineffective, since they require significant efforts and resources. In addition, the patterns of fear of punishment are much more complicated by subsequent generations than, for example, motivation and interest. He recommended that the necessary behavior achieve with all kinds of incentives, for which he developed a whole system and called his views " radical behaviorism ." It was assumed that the society must be controlled so that its members also liked it: “There is no slavery more hopeless than the slavery of those slaves who believe himself free from the shackles,” wrote Johann Goethe. Even Hitler, despite the obvious contradictions, screamed during the speeches: "This is not the state controls you, but you are governing the state."

In order for the members of the society to like control and they find it by the non -alternative, it is enough to inspire them with the idea of ​​their own significance, assuring that they themselves form further paths of development of society. Therefore, modern control is inconceivable without democratic institutions and various kinds of functional organs that distributed all the necessary powers among themselves.

Moreover, such a situation should be established when individuals can not be terrible not so much control itself as fear of losing it, because the control system, firstly, has a monopoly to ensure security, and secondly, provides individuals with a wide list of services and goods for consumption. Such a need for external control and the infantry accompanying it is often formed in childhood thanks to the current educational and pedagogical ethics, and in adulthood are manifested in the habit of entrusting the responsibility for compiling the picture of the world to some opinion leader, expert, analytics. As Belinsky said, "the crowd lives according to legend and reasoned in authority."

Equality and individualism

According to the views of the psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm, the mania of control is the manifestation of one of the sides of the polar nature of the person, which he called the necrophilia. Fromm wrote: “Necrophilus is driven by the desire to turn the organic into inorganic, he looks at life as a mechanism, and at people as a gear of this mechanism. He can establish a connection with the subject - a person or a flower - only if he has it. The threat of his property is a threat to himself. He loves to control life and, controlling, kills it. His idols are a law and order. ”

Modern Western society is on the statement that all people are equal. First of all, in rights and opportunities, and not just in the face of a legal law. This means that Kolyuna, who is in alcohol delirium, has the same rights as the intelligent and decent Nikolai Nikolaevich. No wonder in the futuristic "marvelous new world" of Oldos Huxley the motto of the world state sounded like this:

Commonness, equal, stability.

In the world of the future, people appear from a test tube and are created there for one purpose - new working hands. Literally achieve the same: trying to get more twins from the conveyor. Periodically, businessmen call the incubator and order the desired “human resource”. There, the brains of 70% of embryos are exposed to oxygen starvation that reduces mental abilities. That is why the so -called "epsylons" are obtained, sharpened only for the simplest work. In our reality, suspiciously close to the gloomy imagination of the writer, there is a certain conditional line of normality, which means to deviate from the course of society and shake stability. The idea of ​​normality is very effectively used to control the behavior of the masses. Therefore, when someone starts talking about adequacy, he should first know that adequate in translation from Latin-“adecuatus”-means “equivalent, quite identical”.

“People are cars, and nothing can be expected from cars except mechanical action,” -

Approveed by Georgy Gurdjiev. In the understanding of modern necrophils from the authorities, we are already born by cars, and do not become such. And if a person is a car, then there is no free will, and all this is from the field of religious obscurantism. But then what is there? This question was actually answered by modern psychologists and physiologists, when they “established” that the entire palette of human feelings and emotions is secondary in relation to complex biochemical reactions in the body. In other words, this means that a person is a biorobot, and his consciousness is nothing more than a game of electrical impulses in the brain. So it turns out that free will in a popular sense is the concept of absurd, since behavior and character are predetermined by nature. And she is imperfect. So why not identify and eliminate the next mistake of nature?

Totalitarian states and empires in the twentieth century, due to the ongoing wars, provided the scientists of the maps of the card blanche: they supplied them with experimental human patterns, without applying any moral obligations on researchers. After all, it is one thing - when the same living person from blood and flesh lies on the table, a unique person, and another - when the scientist puts his not very humane experiments on the “machine”, a mechanism. But after all, the machine cannot have individual will and mind by definition. A purely mathematical rule says: the computer is unable to realize itself. And if so, you should not pay attention to the fact that the experimental as a result of the torment caused to him flowed out of the mouth: pain is nothing more than a side effect of evolution.

If you think that you are not managed, then you are controlled.

How does a good, high -quality manipulation of consciousness begins? With the confidence of the victim, that her consciousness cannot be manipulated and persuaded to decisions and actions desirable for the manipulator. The philosophy of extreme individualism is a nutritious soil on which the grains of manipulations grow by whole masses of people. The extreme individualist, manifesting his own uniqueness and originality, claims: "All people around are unique and individual, and if so, then no mass manipulation can exist by definition." Individualism as a worldview basis is extremely intolerant of typology, implying that the coincidence of many selected features is an insufficient basis for a conditional type, and therefore is skeptical of the possibility of predicting the behavior of an individual.

The situation of extreme individualism is perfectly described by theodor of Adorno in the "studies of the authoritarian personality." Here is how he resolves this question: “Criticism of typology should not lose sight of the fact that a large number of people are not individuals in the sense of traditional philosophy of the 19th century or even never were such. Thinking with “labels” is possible only because the existence of those that lends itself to it is largely determined by the “label” - standardized, impenetrable and powerful social processes that the individual leave very little freedom for actions and the manifestation of true individuality. With this consideration, another starting point arises for the problem of typology. Since the world in which we live is normalized and “produces typized” people, we have a reason to look for psychological types. Only in the event that in modern man we find cliche -shaped features, and not with the denial of their existence, can we resist a harmful tendency to a comprehensive classification and ordering . ” The declaration of universal equality and the proclamation of individualism by the moral foundation of liberalism in fact lead to paradox: today in public life, individualism is extremely demonstrative and manifests itself in the nature of consumption. Thus, equality and individualism magically turn into mutually exclusive concepts. The godmother of neuromarketing Edward Bernis clearly showed where individualism begins and ends and how, without leaving the seats, to instill new models of behavior, desires and habits, playing on their moods and emotions.

Physiology of control

But what if these fragile limiters are eliminated, which make you believe in individuality as a guarantor of preserving human dignity? Then it becomes possible to paralyze human will and literally automatically gain access to control of the processes of the brain, and, if necessary, in the body. The idea is old as the world. The skilled sorcerer of Voodoo, before getting a walking dead man, strives to complete his consciousness. With the help of toxic plants, it causes irreversible organic brain damage, as a result of which the future zombie loses its memory and goes into a state of “permanent dissociation”, in fact, loses its personality. The shamans of the Far Eastern nomads were worn by prisoners of war on their heads caps of fresh camel leather and left them in the sun. Gradually, the hat dried and pulled together, squeezing the skull. As a result, the prisoners lost their memory and turned into half -dead slaves.

The developers of the MK-Ultra program had a wider set of tools than the voodoo sorcerers: electric shock, pharmacology, sleep deprivation, sound effect, introduction to whom and other pleasures. William Sargant suggested that suggestibility increases significantly during sensory overload. This assumption was based on the similar conclusions of Pavlov made as a result of studying the nervous system of dogs and some other wordless experimental. As a result, Sargant systematized the acquired knowledge and developed a harmonious technology for flushing the brain, in which the key place was occupied by the programmable to nervous exhaustion. After that, he became susceptible to external influences and had neither the strength nor the will to resist.

The British anthropologist Francis Huxley was widely interested in the phenomenon of Voodoo zubing and believed that a plausible explanation of this phenomenon was that the risen-haired dead man-zombie never died at all, but was artificially immersed in a lethargic sleep (or other borderline state of consciousness). Here is how he describes a typical zombie: “They are characterized by an absent expression on the face, looking down, a shuffling gait. They do not understand when they turn to them, and their own speech is almost always meaningless. That is, there are all signs of mental inferiority. ”

It is difficult to imagine, but for Haiti this phenomenon seems ordinary. In the Old Haitian Criminal Code, there was an article prohibiting the use of substances that cause lethargic sleep or other dangerous conditions. Even the Dictator President Francois Duvalier , who ruled Haiti since 1957 until his death in 1971, did not escape suspicions of enthusiasm for the art of zombies. A doctor by education, he managed to work in an American sanitary mission and undergo an internship at the University of Michigan, noticed in close cooperation with MK-Uultra. In 1964, he proclaimed Voodoo the main religion, declaring himself the supreme priest-bikor.

But Vuduism is not only a disgustingly smelling drug and an eccentric Medium sorcerer, calling for the help of mysterious forces.

Probably, we are talking about a whole system of thoughtful and consistent actions that immerse a person in the state described by specialists. In this case, we see that the ultimate goal of the bacon sorcerer is to make the mind passive using toxic extracts, encoding plants and ritual drums. Moreover, ritual drums are an integral attribute of the entire procedure, since the combination of rhythm and sound in different cultures has always served as a means of introducing fellow tribesmen for shamans. Thus, in the case of Haitian zombies, we observe primitive forms and methods of controlling the mind, pursuing very trivial goals of the use of gratuitous muscular force.

Сегодня приоритеты контроля несколько изменились, но тактика в целом осталась неизменной, поскольку пассивность разума человека и его нахождение в постоянном стрессе по-прежнему остаются основными факторами и условиями контроля. В Средневековье источником стресса был божий гнев и опасность угодить после смерти в ад, тогда как пассивность разума большинства достигалась распространением соответствующей системы взглядов, фактически приравнивавшей наличие критического мышления к сношению с дьяволом. Теперь же его стабильными источниками служат постоянная нужда и кризис, угрозы безопасности, исходящие от других членов социума и враждебных государств, риски возникновения эпидемий и природных катаклизмов и даже Апокалипсис. Ну а плотные графики, суета и многократно возросший вследствие этого ритм жизни лишь усиливают влияние стресса.

Попутно «контролёры» предоставляют действенный способ избавления от ежедневного стресса, приглашая посетить рынок чувственных и плотских наслаждений. В результате индивидуумы вовлекаются в хождение по замкнутому кругу: стресс, избавление и обратно. «Позитивным подкреплением» такой алгоритмики поведения выступают демонстрируемые в СМИ примеры успешности людей, которые якобы избавлены от необходимости жить в подобном режиме. Отсюда произрастает корень культуры потребления психотропных веществ, составляющих основу фармакологического метода по Хаксли и являющихся, согласно заверениям популяризаторов, панацеей от всех болезней общества. Но так как далеко не все члены социума находятся в состоянии перманентного стресса, их приобщение к потреблению происходит при помощи того же позитивного подкрепления (съешь марку — получишь откровение).

Если же анализировать механизм воздействия психотропов на психику, нужно отметить, что они не просто искажают работу органов восприятия, продуцируя галлюцинации, но также «необъяснимым» образом меняют мироощущение, что в результате испытанного контраста с обыденностью нередко даёт эффект откровения. С прекращением же действия всё возвращается на круги своя — человек вновь ощущает мир привычным способом, что не может его не угнетать. И вместо того чтобы качественно изменить собственное мироощущение путём долгой и упорной внутренней работы над собой, человек снова и снова покупает входной билет в иную реальность, чтобы взглянуть на мир «другими глазами» — и поплотнее усесться на крючке контроля.