Statism has always been a cult. Borders are just arbitrary lines drawn on a map by those who run the human farms that now cover the world. Pray to the God of Democracy at the voting booth every few years if you like, but it won't have any more effect than praying to the gods of any of the other religions/cults out there.

They should have called it Livestockholm Syndrome

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To be fair, Christianity is a cult also.

Everything that involves 2 or more people is a cult.

The protocol and 'accepted' rules are called culture.

Teacher, student

Husband, wife

Doctor, patient

In the loosest of uses yes. Typically a cult involves a set of rules (dogma) and a single "charismatic" leader. Jim Jones, Koresh, Jesus, Bhudda, Allah...and so on.

Listen to System and ...Meltdown by Enter Shikari. Pretty much describes perfectly what's going on right now.

Makes me think of when I was young and ABC news decided to begin a late-night news program: NIGHTLINE. The purpose was to update Americans on the U.S. Hostage Situation in Iran. Every day the news media counted off how many days the situation had gone on: DAY 100...DAY 200...DAY 300...DAY 400...the number was on the Front Page of the newspaper and included in every newscast--the nation was at a fever pitch.

But NOT ONCE do I remember any newspaper or news program mentioning that the Hostage Situation was BLOWBACK for what the U.S. did in 1953 when the CIA helped to Overthrow Iran's government.

I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't used as a template for study within the Pentagon-CIA...How easy it is to get an entire nation to HATE.

We know the Pentagon-CIA work with Hollywood and the "news" media--what if CNN and Fox "news" were actually created from the very beginning with input from the CIA-Pentagon? If they do it with movies--why not extend the reach and do it with cable news?

Whats disgraceful about the Iran hostage situation is that so many years later its made public that the Reagan/Bush team worked behind the scenes to delay the freeing of the hostages until the election of Reagan. What mainstream media source has mentioned this? I certainly don't remember Fox News mentioning that Saint Reagan was as corrupt as the rest. Not even MSNBC has mentioned it (to my knowledge). Poor Jimmy Carter, who has cured actual diseases with his humanitarian work, is stuck with the disastrous reputation that came from that crisis.

wow thats evil using lives of citizens to win election

I posted up one of Robert Parry's articles on Iran-Contra in r/politics one time--just as you said the user comments by claiming its a loony conspiracy, then the user bashed consortium.com (even though Robert Parry worked for the AP)...I'm just glad that we are finally seeing quite a few journalists walking from the MSM--but still, as Chossudovsky said: "WE NEED TO BE WAGING WAR AGAINST THE MSM"

Otherwise, the masses will just continue consuming--and the U.S. will continue with the Endless Wars for Profit.

Just watched this interview Michel Chossudovsky did with James Corbett--he made some comments on the media:

"We are dealing with a media apparatus which turns realities upside-down...presents the western quest and military adventure as a peace making undertaking...which lies in regards to the casualties of war...which presents the war criminals as protagonists of human rights...and that in itself is the pinnacle of this system.

Without the Main Stream Media and war propaganda this New World Order agenda doesn't have a leg to stand on. In other words, without these media lies the military agenda, the economic agenda would collapse like a deck of cards. And that is why it is absolutely fundamental that--within the realm of independent media and alternative media--we wage a war against the main stream media."

--Michel Chossudovsky (appx. 18min 20sec...emphasis mine)

Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

Beautiful writing. We need more articles like this.

I agree, America is a cult. The cult of cash. We have been conditioned to worship money. Relationships are ruined, lives are taken and populations devastated-all in the name of the Almighty Dollar.

I don't know if you're right, or if you're wrong, but I understand why you'd say that.

Try talking about issues, mostly people just parrot what they saw on TV.

Most people just parrot, full stop.

I've experienced it countless times, you tell someone something, then you hear them tell that same thing to someone else but wrong. I can only imagine how diluted it gets further along the whisper circle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_ordo_seclorum

America has been a cult from the very start.

America is a tax payer farm to fund the elites domination of the planet.

i dont see why the global rulers need cash. just ppl to do their bidding. seems like money was just a way to control

The money we see is only ever that which is lent as interest on a debt and debts are bonds, hence bondage. So no they don't need cash to do their evil deeds but to control us it's paramount.

It's clear as day when you start questioning the meaning of words.

We ourselves are produce to be birthed (birth canal) and just as with any produce/product we start from debt which we will then struggle with for years to come.

"Culture."

I would argue the followers have been being indoctrinated since long before Nixon.

That's from the longer piece.

Um, cult and culture are both derived from the latin word, cultus. Literally cut from the same cloth. But yeah I guess you could make the connection that culture has cult in it...

Yes, this is an important point and in some sense, languages are the ultimate cult tool. They litteraly bore concepts, words, patterns of thought into your brain. The English language and the US culture are parts of the closed system of the cult.

mm truth in that, language can be a prison of limited conceptualization and expression. english is language built for barter but not for intrinsic coding of deeper concepts.

There is/was no organization called the " anti-cult Cult Awareness Network" - it was the "Cult Awareness Network", an organization that operated a kickback scheme involving deprogrammers (kidnappers for hire) and maintaining lists of organizations they described as cults (without having any sort of scientific basis to their claims)

A better way to describe a Nation would to look at theories of tribalism.

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For all the bad mainstream press it gets, I sort of wonder if Scientology is legit. If it weren't so damn expensive I might check it out.

(What if it turns out Scientology is totally free? And the $XXXX for each level rumors are totally disinformation intended to discourage investigation. What a mindfuck that'd be haha..)

Hey, Tom! Welcome! Looking forward to the new M:I movie!

I think Tom would write ALL CAPS AND BOLD

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