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At the dark heart of corporate consumer culture lie the social programs that mass-produce conformity, obedience, acquiescence and consent for the Matrix.
The cult of celebrity is the royal monarch of these schemes, the ace in the hole for mass mind control and the disempowerment of the individual. This is the anointed paradigm of idol worship and idol sacrifice, a vampire’s feast on our individual and collective dreams. Who do you love? Who do you hate? Who do want to be like?
Combine this paradigm with the technology of social media, and the individual is flung into oblivion, never fully understanding the importance and value of their own life, instead always comparing themselves to phony ideals and well-designed, well-funded marketing campaigns.
"The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge – broadband tipping the Web from text to image; social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider – the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves – by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity." ~William Deresiewicz
Marketeers and propagandists are skilled at leveraging human psychology to exploit human nature. They utilize the study of the psyche to gain inroads into your behavior, and they employ this science as a tool for stoking insecurities and triggering urges.
They may be selling an idea, a lifestyle, a product, or a war, but, the pitch is the same: a false idol rises from the wastelands of the American dream, and is presented to the hordes as a well-packaged product. The celebrity’s life is a projection of a niche fantasy, and a following is built up around this fantasy, and the cult followers are steered toward whatever point of purchase.
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And that’s what a cult is: “a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object.”
This kind of externalized validation serves as a power transfer. Your personal power is extracted and foisted onto a manufactured image in the matrix, and without realizing it, you’ve forfeited your power to influence the direction of your own life.
“The Fantasy of celebrity culture is not designed simply to entertain. It is designed to drain us emotionally, confuse us about our identity, make us blame ourselves for our predicament, condition us to chase illusions of fame and happiness, and keep us from fighting back.” ~Chris Hedges
This is about usurping individuality in order to foster groupthink and hive consciousness. It’s also about creating a barrier between what you believe is possible for yourself and what chances you are willing to take in order to manifest a unique vision for your life.
You see, human beings are energetic creations, partly made of matter and partly made of spirit, but wholly malleable to the direction of the mind. We are affected by subtle energies, body language, electromagnetic energy, frequencies of light that we cannot see, sounds that we cannot hear, and a thousand other hidden cues. We are beings of energy, and much like a battery, we can can give or receive energy.
But the mind is at the center of it all. Whatever the mind entertains, the being creates. When the mind fixes on an external idol, this innate power to form ourselves is transferred outside of our own locus of control, and where the mind could be centered on creating and expanding the self, it is instead focused on the fantasy of achieving an impossible ideal.
As journalist Jon Rappoport notes:
“If perception and thought can be channeled, directed, reduced, and weakened, then it doesn’t matter what humans do to resist other types of control. They will always go down the wrong path. They will always operate within limited and bounded territory. They will always ignore their own authentic power.”
The end game here is to keep us from accepting ourselves as worthy and perfect divine beings, and to disconnect us from our own potential. This is deep stuff, reaching far beyond the push to convert us into greedy, materialistic consumers. In a metaphysical sense it is a transfer of energy, and where once we were strong and full of promise, we are now helpless and content to observe as the world flits by.
What’s most dangerous to any system of control is for the individual to know their own strength and to speak their own language, as Chris Hedges puts it:
“That’s why I don’t own a television… and I work as hard as I can to distance myself from popular culture so that I can speak in my own language, no the one they give me.”
OneLoveRevolution
@ http://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/03/03/smashing-cult-celebrity/
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How Celebrity Culture Is Destroying Who We Are
by Chris Renzo
We no longer seek community as the most important, but rather that we, the self-proclaimed celebrity, as the most important.
We live in a world that celebrates image over substance and because of this we have lost sight of who we are. We are bombarded daily with images that celebrate vanity, debauchery, and acts of senselessness. Through the corporate mass media we are subliminally told what to think, how to interpret the way society operates, what is “right,” what is “cool,” and how to keep from looking old and unhip.
Since when did Kim Kardashian, the cast of the Jersey Shore, and the endless scandals we hear in the tabloids become more important than seeking truth and meaning? Why do these headlines garner more attention than the unrelenting destruction of the Earth by the fossil fuel industry, the brutality of war all over this planet, and the overwhelming poverty found everywhere.
Why did it become socially taboo to question events such as 9/11, the presence of American troops in the middle east, the possibility that the pillars of our society may be run by a corporate elite, or that our way of life may actually be destroying the vitality of the planet we depend on. I think it is because celebrity culture has us being afraid to step out and take a stand. Maybe celebrity culture has us so addicted to their “images” that things of meaning and substance become boring?
“The Fantasy of celebrity culture is not designed simply to entertain. It is designed to drain us emotionally, confuse us about our identity, make us blame ourselves for our predicament, condition us to chase illusions of fame and happiness, and keep us from fighting back.” ~Chris Hedges
I think it is that we care so much what the “other person” may think about us that we seek to adopt a way of being, prescribed by celebrity and mass media, that makes it easy for us to “fit in.” It is the easiest way. No longer do we need to think about our existence and how we should be. We have sought image over substance. And because of this we have lost touch with ourselves. No longer do I care about how I will be received in this blog or in person. I actually think it will bring me closer to my true identity.
Modern culture rationalizes existence through the piece meal filter it is fed by major media. Do you really think that we ever hear the full story? The full story of any story is never black or white. It is complex, dynamic, and involves an array of motives and emotions that cannot be summed up by one catchy headline. If you want to know the full story shut off the television and go outside. Gather information. Talk to your neighbors. Talk with a homeless person and seek to understand their story. Seek to understand the motives of the elite and politicians. Yet also don’t forget to nurture yourself for a while and listen to the birds, listen to children laughing, and to the wind as it rustles past your ears. You can learn more from within yourself than you can from any other source.
BreakTheChainsOfMentalBandage
@ http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/09/15/how-celebrity-culture-is-dest...