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WALL MECHANICS
Felipe L. Aranguren Sociologist and poet
Society of Control
During the 50’s and originating from the USA with the creation of television
there was a starting point for a Repression Society
or a society that holds the citizens represion as main element
to a Society of Control.
This Society of Control
executes authority through the four huge powers, thus
the executive, the legislative and the judicial, and the police control.
The fourth element of that control is television,
that television among other media who are always part
of big consortiums or big capitalists firms,
they are who finance and benefit from these media themselves.
This media serves three main purposes:
firstly to create consensus and ideology,
to create the basic shapes for operation,
advertising serves also the same purpose;
secondly, it distracts the population from their real problems,
keeping them busy dealing with things that normally are unnecesary.
And thirdly, to make myself a controller of the given information,
either that information I release or the one I keep hidden.
Thus, both systems complement each other,
the Society of Control helps the media
and the society from that media serves the Society of Control.
This model that starts in the US is transplanted to the rest of the planet
together with the expansion of capitalism,
in other words, the capitalism ocupies the world in a determined moment
also to be accomplished in Europe.
On the one hand the American processing is copied, although on another,
the European consortium begins
a concentration process, shall we say.
As much as capitals concentrate, so the media do upon themselves.
The Church has its own television channels,
the Cope great interests
remain also on televisin. That which is produced
in every case or at any moment are
unifications of those controls, for example
the merge between Cuatro and Telecinco
makes CNN dissapear and then the Big Brother shows up.
That is to say, a news program is retired to be replaced by a perfect system for peoples distraction.
Opinion creation
The information manipulation starts by the simplest factor.
That is the hands where those informations are held on, then,
once I restrict the number of hands that control the power on how to communicate
either the information or the news, then much better deal.
For that reason, for instante, there are only five news agencies in the world
who give away practically 90% of all news that get published
Reuters, France-Presse, etc.
The act of manipulation begins right at the moment I give information without contrasting,
and not only that, I am releasing an information without the opposite opinion.
Manipulation, on the other hand, has to do with concealment,
that is to say, if I do not turn up on television I do not exist,
if I do not appear on the press, I do not exist,
if I do not give you the word, you do not exist.
Thus, it is important to eliminate the discordant voices either from the official discourse
or the discourse the media wants to release.
The Western democracies, the USA and of course Europe,
cannot be so brutal as not to give an impresion there is certain freedom for the press,
or a certain freedom of information,
although that freedom of information is not real
because the citizens cannot get access
to those news or sometimes, they are hidden to them.
Internet has a democratic base although it also requires the criticism.
While on internet, one requires the specific knowledge to figure out
whether the information given is true or false,
it is certainly a true reflection of society.
Telejunk
The telejunk operates on two ways:
it is a feedback system.
On the one hand they say: we show junk because that is what people want, but
on the other they say: we do not know if the people want junk,
we give them junk TV
in case they do either want otherwise, nor they don’t.
The key factor on telejunk is its own feedback,
because people fall into it as if
they had a bit of ***,
that is to say, people begin to be literally addicted to that junk.
That magazine at the ladies' hairdresser becomes today an actual television
because people begin to use their leisure time
to talk about what they saw on telly last night.
I believe that televison has to be not only educational.
Television must contain all aspects, the trouble is that it does not hold any educational ones,
I mean, I believe we must have good television contests,
good spaces for entertainment, a solid sports coverage
and a series of other concepts but also the educational systems.
Although the media are not formed to create a critical opinion,
they are created to form just opinion, which is very different,
to make this expressed opinion the one generated by the media themselves,
those who either send the news or that particular opinion itself.
It is only due to the political will
that we get rubish on television and other media.
For that only reason television and other means of communication are full of junk.
Alienation
When I speak about distraction, it has to do
directly linked with the alienation concept, that is to say
the person is alienated when is out of his own being, literally.
The central objective of the manipulative media when distracting
is precisely to create aligned citizens, sick citizens,
those who focus neither on the real intentions of the media nor on their own necessities
nor their own real concerns,
to then focus on other things which are not relative to them.
The alienation is a concept of sickness
not perceived until we have it too close.
I distract people because I want to introduce them into a different idea
and I want to empty their lives of any content.
In that idea of emptying the content, I alienate the individual,
I turn him alienated literally,
just like that we can understand how millions can watch
certain television junk programs, as we have observed,
due to the alienation of people, those away from themselves.
Capitalism
The Capitalist System we are involved with
works in an opaque manner, it is opaque
because it will not give information out,
because it controls and manipulates that information
and, as any other power, because it is based on the population ignorance and fear.
If I am scared to loose my job I will not
follow strikes or walk on any protest march, I could get sacked.
Moreover, should there be an army of unemployed people
then I can get substituted tomorrow, therefore I cannot take risks.
On the other hand I do not know what they mean by crisis”.
Which crisis?
The crisis has become a theft of the peoples money
by a series of companies and banks, their money has literally evaporated,
that is what happened with the retirement pension in the USA with Lehman Brothers.
Forty million Northamericans have lost their pensions,
when I say: “they have lost their pensions”
it means someone has taken away the money from these forty million
people and someone has evaporated it, literally.
For that reason we are not talking about a system error but a pure crime,
these crimes have been perpetrated by those who have economically ruled the planet.
They are the International Monetary Fund,
the World Bank,
the people who have allowed
and enabled these big companies to have taken all their money away.
“The markets distrust, the markets attack!”
Do the markets attack? I don’t think so, they are actual names and persons. They are called George Soros,
it is Carlos Slim,
it is real people in flesh,
it is companies and banks who are stealing from people blatantly.
When the crisis arrives they sink and then
they oblige the governments to give them the citizen’s money.
In our country we had tax surplus.
Tax surplus means that not all citizen’s money in taxes
was spent, there was a remainder
that has now been given to the sinking banks.
Having not done that, the Capitalist System would have sunk as well.
Then, should the Capitalist System sink
We would get the same as with the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was neither defeated militarily, nor diplomatically, nor ideologically,
they were defeated economically.
If we allow the banks to sink
means the Capitalist System is not good at all.
We are just a bunch of people…, a country with a precarious economy,
for that reason, right now, no one relies on us, not in the renowned markets,
no one trusts we are capable to pay our debts,
because we have been indebted. Who?
The government.
Why?
Because they have given our money to the banks
and now the citizen’s have the debt, it’s the Argentinian “Corralito”,
exactly the same as the Argentinian “Corralito”,
The basic problem is that none of the two parties do question anything from the system,
now the differences we reach are minimal,
not only that but they find ourselves
in front of big difficulties with which they cannot face
taking into account we are part of Europe,
so our economical levels
do not respond to Madrid but
to Brussels, to what Mrs. Angela Merkel says,
or to what the president of the European Central BanK says.
In a certain way, the distrust from people
toward the political class is enormous in our country.
When we observe the statistics, the blame is all on the politicians.
No one believes what they say
but then they vote for them thereafter.
No one believes what they say but then they vote for them.
The system crashes from within
and it is maintained only by stealing from the citizens.
For that reason we should have a clear conscience at any moment
when the European Central Bank,
the International Monetary Fund,
or the World Bank, come to tell us what we have to do,
because they are the ones who created this crisis.
They are those who introduced us in the Euro
that has now been destroyed. Now the Euro has to be saved, not the citizens,
we must save the Euro.
The citizens should get interested in the economy
because it is the economy that moves the planet,
Don’t let anyone tell you that it is the markets fault, make him tell you who are these markets really.
Do your research and find out who are the speculators of the stock exchange,
who, like Soros, the guy who decides he’s going to sink the economy of a country
he sells the currency and destroys the country. He has done it already,
Georges Soros has done it with more than one country.
The current generation, maybe two or three generations more,
we are eating up all the planet literally,
so there is no radical economical system
or a civilising future.
While the crisis does not affect me, wow, I run away from it,
I do not have to look on someone else’s fate,
this is an empathy mistake forced upon us created by the system.
I move not only by what affects me but what affects you as well.
I do neither have to love you, or have to be a Christian,
or let you know I do it in the name of Christ for as much as..., no, no,
I do it for human empathy.
WALL MECHANICS