Reply #59: Uh, well...

[freshwest]

I had a spell of listening to the thing for half a year during the closing year of the Bush reign of terror. At that point, the worse Bush and the wars were portrayed, the better. So I tuned in along with other disaffected anti-war lefties. :blush:

It's addictive, and amazing how many venues it's in. It can be listened to 'live,' or as most right wing radio shows like Rush, on repeat. It's in podcasts, internet radio, broadcast, Sirius, etc.

The program was 3 hours live more or less, repeated during the other 21 hours of the day, and the weekends. People without other means, can listen to it on the phone. It's ubiquitous, never shuts down. And fear is a potent persuader, because we all have to have a certain amount of that to survive. Anything that flies the real flag of not surviving *must* be attended to. But as this author wrote:

"Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads, which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time." J. A. C. Brown, 'Techniques of Persuasion'

The show is complete with music to evoke a sense of dread, and Prison Planet television is frequently uploaded to youtube. Some of the videos use a classic subliminal technique, imagery going on in the background and a spinning ball on the lower part of the screen. These are mnemonics designed to activate memory in a part of the brain that makes sure what is heard goes straight to the irrational subconscious without any buffering. The first time I saw this used on cable networks was through those crawling messages. The subconscious records everything and triggers the limbic system.

The show was interesting because it talked about current events, and expands from there back into time. I don't have a problem with 'conspiracy' stuff since I'm always eager to learn other people's viewpoints. If nothing else, to identify the next wing nut to walk in the room. I may not agree with them, but we don't learn our shortcomings from our friends, usually. And the truth about ourselves is more important than anything else, because it's why we do what we do.

I realized that among the ideas being put forth, certain assumptions of the right wing were being made, and never questioned. That while screaming about the system and the rich and the powerful, that those voices I know to have been vectors for social change and freedom, were being discounted.

There is an element of high school football rivalry in most debates. People defend and attack other groups, just because it's not theirs. This is not useful to us as a whole. The opposite, open minded to a fault, is both a strength and weakness for liberals, progressive and Democrats. They can't really be liberal if they exclude other views, because that would mean they are being unjust to others.

I've found Democrats, despite hissing and spitting on occasion, to have a strong sense of humility in dealing with others conservatives generally do not have. Democrats seem to be the givers and not the takers, they are doing the hard work of society for little pay in many instances and see many things.

Because they are secularists, they don't wear the blinders of fundamentalist religion, although they are many faiths or agnostics or atheists, too. The virtue of true secularism is by its nature, to not dehumanize others because they don't believe the same things about the nature of reality, mankind and the purpose of life, even if not deity is believed. That is a sacred thing to all people in their journey and should not be disrespected.

Democrats are the best keepers of spiritual freedom in that respect. They don't want a theocracy for that very reason, not because they hate life, god, or any of that. They have boundaries. I believe there are energetic states in the parties that attract different people.

I sensed, despite the avalanche of very provocative data presented by Alex Jones, a clear bias. The bias would show and be denied in the same breath. I paid attention to how it made me feel. Then I read some serious analysis of the program on that exact subject, which is not usually brought up by debunkers who argue data.

The analysis was from another 'conspiracy' figure who said the Prison Planet program was an addiction because it was daily fix of fear that people wanted to organize their days around. Which sounded strange until he explained. The writer said the adrenaline high of fear, followed by the feeling of safety (and part of a group) by following whatever solutions the man dished out to be secure, was not only seductive, but chemically pleasurable.

This writer claimed that as the adrenaline is burned off, the need for the fix begins again. Thus the constant reinforcement, like most right wing radio. So that the person starts to feel, as with any drug, that their life is boring, unimportant, empty without it. They are not part of the cause without that daily terror, so to speak.

He said more that helped me understand the contradictions of the show an its host. Oftentimes there are call-in segments, and like Rush and others programs, it has its flock of young men who call in and fawn over Jones, almost in a state of puppy love. If they don't say just the right words, he slaps them in the face. The writer said this is because Jones is a fractured soul, projecting his own lack of self-respect when he abuses people. Like any serial abuser, he excuses it by saying the stress of his mighty work for humankind makes him short and impatient. In other words, he's entitled.

And the warning the writer gave was this: those who continue to indulge themselves in this mental masturbation will literally find themselves living in the Prison Planet. Their energy being sent into those realms of imagination have a real impact on the world. Rather being open, reflective, hopeful, willing to accept the world is changing and can't go back to what it was, they are literally bringing their dreaded New World Order they learned from the program to pass.

I can't think of a better example than the Prison Planet program pushing Ron Paul and the Tea Party as we watch what they are doing to us now. Just because they give themselves a catchy name and talk about liberty and freedom, they are still bringing about that same NWO they screamed about, but not by government.

I tuned in the other day to see 'how high's the water in the swamp' and heard him applauding restricting abortion rights as good thing that the Tea Party is doing. This is from a guy that yells about microchipping the population being an invasion of the human body and the state getting into family lives and kidnapping kids. And screaming about the police state that's going to kill us all.

I guess the women now being forced the state laws passed by the GOP and Tea Party legislature, to endure mandated transvaginal ultrasounds in Texas don't feel their family lives and their bodies are being invaded, huh?