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In reply to the discussion: The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)29. Freedom is for those who can afford it. Poor kids rot unknown in jail for five years and die...
...while warmongers who've killed millions for oil and banksters who've tossed millions from their homes to pocket billions walk free.
Yet, the more we lurch rightward, the more people who should be past pissed acquiesce.
I think they are putting something in the water -- meaning our minds.
The Waters of Knowledge
versus
The Waters of Uncertainty
Mass Denial in the Assassination of President Kennedy
by E. Martin Schotz
INTRODUCTION
My task this afternoon is to explore with you the reasons the American people do not know who killed President Kennedy and why. In order to do this we will have to deal with three interdependent conspiracies which developed in the course of the assassination and its aftermath. These are (1) the criminal conspiracy to murder the President by a cabal of militarists at the highest echelons of power in the United States; (2) the conspiracy which aided and abetted these murderers after the fact, by covering for the assassins, also a true criminal conspiracy involving an extremely wide circle of government officials across the entire political spectrum and at all levels of government; and (3) a conspiracy of ignorance, denial, confusion, and silence which has pervaded our entire public.
The major focus of my talk today is this third conspiracy on the part of the public, which includes our so-called "critical community". I want to show you that our failure to know is not based on any lack of data or because the data is ambiguous. It is all extremely simple and obvious. Rather we don't know because we are deeply emotionally resistant to what such knowledge tells us about ourselves and our society. Furthermore the powers-that-be do not reward people for such knowledge. Indeed if a person is willing to acknowledge the truth, is in a position to share such knowledge with the public, and wishes to do so, then the organized institutions of our society will turn sharply against such a person.
Now this is not a new problem in the history of society. In fact, I want to read to you a Sufi tale from the Ninth Century which can help to orient us to the problem. The tale is entitled "When the Waters Were Changed." It goes as follows:
When the Waters Were Changed
Once upon a time Khidr, the Teacher of Moses, called upon mankind with a warning. At a certain date, he said, all the water in the world which had not been specially hoarded, would disappear. It would then be renewed with dfferent water, which would drive men mad.
Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water, went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character.
On the appointed date the streams stopped running, the wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to his rdtreat and drank his preserved water.
When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding.
At first he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living, behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water, and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.
The struggle for truth in the assassination of President Kennedy confronts us with the problem of the "waters of knowledge" versus "the waters of uncertainty." Let me give you an example involving two important individuals who attempted to bring the truth before the American people. I am speaking of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison and filmmaker Oliver Stone.
CONTINUED...
http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/27th_Issue/schotz.html
"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
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Perhaps that article also points to why some so strongly de-emphasize the "U" in "DU" as well....
villager
Aug 2015
#1
It's beyond a Wurlitzer-it's a heavenly choir thanks to NASA (Dulles's PAPERCLIP pals) et.al. K&R
bobthedrummer
Aug 2015
#9
I'm pretty sure you mean this thread, for those who may have somehow missed it
Electric Monk
Aug 2015
#14
Kick and an invitation to join in on a discussion of "information operations" aka Psy-Ops for those
bobthedrummer
Aug 2015
#20
It used to be against the law, directing propaganda against the American people.
Octafish
Sep 2015
#26
Freedom is for those who can afford it. Poor kids rot unknown in jail for five years and die...
Octafish
Sep 2015
#29
Wait; is that, could that possibly be, and involving all sorts of people, a.....govt CONSPIRACY??
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#30