Wednesday, August 04, 2010

The State Can Control The Mainstream Media - What They Fear Most Is You And Me

This video starts relatively slowly as Rachel gets her bearings around what she is trying to verbalize. But it builds to a very powerful yet simple ending. That is, the state fears you and me. It fears freedom of expression, freedom of ideas, freedom of thought and freedom of association. It fears true democratic ideals of a free mind. It fears these manifestations of basic human dignity for one basic reason - control. These human dignities and ideas created by a free mind threaten the insanity, corruption, power and control of the state.

We've talked about this dynamic a few times on here including during the Iranian uprisings. Social volatility has the ability to spread like fire. That happened during the Age of Enlightenment as repressed peoples learned of the rapidly expanding new ideas created and embraced by the free human mind and its associated dissent of tyranny.

It is not the media the state fears. The state can easily manipulate the mainstream media whether that is China, Dubai, Greece, Iceland, Japan, Britain, Saudi Arabia or the United States. It is you and me. They fear us. Not for fear of violence. For fear of new ideas that will topple their illegitimacy. The state's control is based in fear or terror. When its citizens no longer fear the state, control is lost. For control is always an illusion anyway. How can a relative handful of bureaucrats in repressive societies control an entire population if fear is lost? The greatest of humanity who fought tyranny or fear-based societies, such as Andre Sakharov, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, understood this. They were able to overcome the mind-body connection that perpetuates fear. They pushed through that connection to a state of consciousness where fear no longer controls our existence. Therefore, there was nothing the state could to do terrorize them. And that is why the state came to fear them.

Imagine how much more transformative the democratic changes would have been after the collapse of the Great Depression were handheld cameras or Youtube or Blackberries or blogs in existence around the world. The profundity would have been staggering. And so it shall be in today's world.

We are literally making history.
posted by TimingLogic at 5:38 AM