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~ Social Control by the Power Elite ~
[Emile Durkheim: Unmasking the Power of Society]
[Emile Durkheim and the Definition of Sociology: Science, Uses Statistical Scientific Methods, Studies Social Facts …]
[Society is external to individuals (Yes); Society is independent of individuals (No); Society has its own reality (No)]
[Individuals are real. Society is a mental construct.]
Society is an abstract concept. A society cannot exist without real individuals.
Society consists of everyone other than you. Each unique individual lives in his own unique society.
Sociometrics is an inferential method of statistics. It uses the Classical Linear Regression model.
If the same data or variables are used on both sides of the CLR equation, it is circular reasoning, a fatal fallacy in logic.
That form of circular reasoning in the CLR model is called the simultaneity. It lacks even face validity.
The Social Welfare Function: Arrow's impossibility theorem says the following...
No voting system can convert the preferences of individuals into a community-wide ranking, ...
while also meeting a certain set of reasonable criteria.
[The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy]
Academicians are careerists first, and scientists or scholars second. This is the sociology of science.
[Intellectual Impostures]
Scholars, pundits and pedagogues serve society, not truth, and thereby receive prizes, awards and honors.
[Durkheim on Morality and Society]
[Suckcess]
[Suicide: A Study in Sociology, by Emile Durkheim]
[Map of Suicide Rates by Nation]
Social construction of reality is distortion of reality for the purpose of distraction from reality.
Distraction of the masses serves the power elite, the establishment, the vested interests.
Every society in every era has a power elite who control, oppress and exploit the masses.
[Power - Tactics - Operations - Strategy - Politics - Culture - Deep Culture - Desire]
[Power Elite Model: Power Flow from Powerholders through Laws, Myths/Norms and Institutions to the People]
[Power Elite Diagram: Social Upper Class, Corporate Community and Policy-Planning Network]
[Power Elite Model: Persons with True Power (1 in a million); Intellectuals, Academics and Activists (1 in a thousand); Everyone Else]
[The Power Elite, by C. Wright Mills]
[Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers]
Mind, ego, conscience, personality and character are social constructs.
These social constructs have utility value, but no truth value.
Social control uses external laws and internalized moral codes.
The internalization of identity and morals is social conditioning. It is hypnotic and unconscious.
[Mind Control 101: How to Influence the Thoughts and Actions of Others without Them Knowing or Caring]
[Classic Trance Nation]
The ego dynamic is: identify (either accept or reject), repress, deny and project.
Identification with false constructs leads to unconscious, mental repression.
The main strategy of social control is divide and conquer. The first division is the ego.
[The Social Cancer]
[The Reign of Greed]
The ego is the idea of separation from the whole. It is a false social construction.
[Ego Check - Pride Quadrant: Locus of Pride (Extrinsic or Intrinsic), and Evidence for Pride (Objective data or Self-serving data)]
In the DSE model of the divided mind, three ego overlays filter and distort reality.
[The DSE Process: Detect - Select - Effect: Input - Decision Making - Output: Three Overlays of Agendas, Communication and Human Information Processing]
[One Universal Consciousness = God = Invariance = Truth = Reality = The Law]
Ego is ambition, conflict and war. The ego-based society has a heartless intellect.
[Triangle Diagram: Ambition - Hatred - Fear]
[IQ Average and GDP per Head by Nation]
[There are two basic strategies that a group can follow in interacting with other groups: Cooperation and War,…]
[though in reality the two are often inextricably mixed together.]
[Divide and Conquer Devices: Skin colors, Religions, Social customs, Nationalities, Languages, Class or caste systems, Political preferences, …]
[… Professional specialization, Academic specialization, Individual "troubles", sufferings and discontent - …]
[- Nation-state system manipulated by transnational business, 140 holding pens, fossil fuel/nuclear power economy]
[The Power of Peer Pressure]
[Censorship Causes Blindness: READ!]
["The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose; for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion…" ~ Henry Steel Commager]
[You Write What You Are Told! Thanks, Corporate News! We Couldn't Control the People Without You]
[Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories]
["Absolutely revolting"...?]
[RCA: Scorpions: *** Killer]
["Good girl. Just one more - and you'll be safe." Fight Censorship]
Deviation from the norms and mores of society usually results in punishment.
[An Introduction to Deviance]
To control deviance: moralize it, medicalize it, criminalize it, regiment it, militarize it.
[Deviance and Social Control]
[Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 42 - 320 B.C.]
[Policing Dissent]
[The Social Control of Mental Illness]
Pavlov and Skinner explain conditioning as behavioral and operant.
[Operant Conditioning Quadrant: Positive Reinforcement (+R), Negative Reinforcement (-R), Positive Punishment (+P), Negative Punishment (-P)]
[Pavlov's Dog and Conditioning]
[Operant Conditioning: Antecedents - Behaviors - Consequences]
Manu originated the ancient caste system of social control in India.
[Manu's Code of Law]
[Caste System Started During Rig Vedic Period: Priests, Warriors, Merchants, Workers]
[Indian Caste System: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Sudra and Untouchable]
In his novel, 1984, George Orwell created a terrifying vision of social control.
[If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." ~ In 1984, George Orwell]
[1984, by George Orwell]
[A startling view of life in 1984: Forbidden love … Fear … Betrayal]
[Big Brother Is Watching YOU]
[Social Structure Model: Big Brother, Inner Party (less than 2% of the population), Outer Party, Proles (about 85% of the population)]
[1984: War Is Peace - Freedom Is Slavery - Ignorance Is Strength]
[Obey - Peace]
[1984: Only the Federal Government Could Be This Far Behind Schedule]
["A nation of sheep soon begets a government of wolves." ~ Edward R. Murrow]
[The Answer to 1984 Is 1776]
[The Bill of Rights: Amendments to the U.S. Constitution: Articles I through VIII]
[No War but the Class War]
[Eat the Rich]
In his novel, Animal Farm, Orwell created a vision of revolution as a mere change of the power elite group.
[All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others]
External revolution is like a revolving door - the old elite group is replaced by a new one.
[Peacekeeper]
Social taboos involving sex and death wound these two lowest energy centers in every individual.
Thus, every individual is arrested at some stage of development and expresses some degree of perversity.
The ego-based society is an unbalanced group of transmogrified, heartless monsters headed for collapse.
[Van Halen: Balance]
[Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau]
[Civil Disobedience: There is only one form of opposition now!]
[Wall Street: Jump! You ***!]
[Conscientious Objector]
[International C.O. Day - Support G.I. Objectors - No to War and Empire]
["Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." ~ Ben Franklin]
[Imagine: You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon]
The real revolution occurs in your consciousness, your awareness. It is the only miracle.
[What is the sound of no bombs dropping?]
To be free, go within, beyond the mind, to the innermost center of being.