Great to have you back Fintan! One of the best shows on the net is back!



I have some constructive criticisms, and some points to debate:



Psywar=black magic?



I have to take issue with giving psychological operations, like the one you've analyzed so well here, too much power. By saying "the best thing you can do is avoid them. Even if you intellectually know what's going on, you are still being fed traumatic imagery". By saying that you are treating these things like black magic. No matter what you do, you are cursed by even looking at it. It's like the Monty Python killer German joke! Listen to it, and your dead.



A little about my own experience: I've been on this forum for a while, but my political awakening is pretty recent. I'm embarrassed to say that it was Loose Change 2 that started me investigating 9/11 (oh, how far I've come!). I had to keep an open mind, in a sense disconnect myself from mainstream culture...so I had no narrative to contextualize information, no mythology to orient me, in a manner of speaking. When you are keeping an open mind like you can be vulnerable. You can be susceptible to others feeding you nasty mythologies. That's where the CIA fakes come in. They have an alternate history of the Satanic Illuminati and reptiles ready for you. For about 3 months I got sucked into that. I was on edge all the time, freaked out. I was getting really freaked out about biological warfare at one point. Should I spend hundreds of pounds on hazmat suits? I couldn't think straight. That's when I found Breakfornews. As soon as you explained the game to me, Fintan, the fear went away. Well, maybe not entirely away, but with a new healthy narrative to support me, I was no longer overwhelmed. The CIA fake material lost it's magic.



So I have to criticize this latest audio for perhaps giving CIA fake material too much power. It's clever manipulation, but it's not black magic.



I'm not even saying we should not be afraid. AVOIDING fear makes us afraid of being afraid...in a sense it represses our natural ability to feel a normal amount of fear that has a protective role. I'm concerned, Fintan, that by making us afraid of CIA fake material, you are promoting another fear agenda. We should neither repress nor let our fears overwhelm us. This has been a journey, for me, of separating overblown fears (panic) from healthy fear (self-protection).



When that Harvey Keitel 9/11 movie came out on TV, some people on this forum were saying "please, for god sake, don't watch it!". Well, I watched most of it. I knew it was utter bullshit. I watched it as entertainment, and I watched it curiously at to how they would portray it and spin it. It was silly, and it didn't effect me...it was a joke!



The CIA writes Hollywood scripts



I want people to be rigorous in implicating Hollywood in psywar. It's one thing to say a Hollywood movie has a message that is in line with a NWO agenda, it's another to say that is carefully constructed propaganda. Sometimes artists simply reflect the culture. Sometimes artists are victims of NWO memes, and that ends up in their work. I would like to see some harder evidence of claims like this, that cop dramas are designed to mold our attitudes towards the police, for example.



Anytime someone claims "Hollywood is in on it", your talking about a vast conspiracy, and vast conspiracies are tinfoil, small conspiracies are real. It would be nice if someone could dig up some real insider information, and not just conjecture. I mean, you hear all sorts of critiques of popular culture....feminists say its all a conspiracy of the patriarchy, but there's never any direct evidence of conscious manipulation of film and TV, like the CEO of NBC being caught saying "we need to keep women down". We sound pretty tinfoil if we yell "Operation Mockingbird! Operation Mockingbird!" with every movie and TV show that comes out.



conformity=bad, non-conformity=good?



What Fintan is saying about individuation is correct, but it's not a simple dualism of conformity=bad, non-conformity=good. If you study Maslow, you know that we have a hierarchy of needs. One of those needs is belongingness, or conformity, or being part of a community. This is totally healthy at a certain stage....it's particularly important to have these needs fulfilled in the childhood and early teenage years. You're fucked up psychologically if you don't have a feeling of being part of a family at some point. But hopefully, if that need is met, you can mature and move on, to a higher need, of individuation and self-actualization.



So I wanted to through that important distinction into the mix. If we think conformity is bad, we might be denying people their need to belong, and they will resist that violently. It's tricky, but it's more effective to move people through that stage more quickly somehow, so that they are feel done with conformity and will want to individuate naturally. Conformity isn't bad, it's just arrested development if you've got grown adults starving to conform all the time. That's what I'd identify as the problem...not that conformity is a force of evil, but that the PTB want to keep us as dependent children, keep us at an early stage of development, where belongingness needs are kept artificially at the number 1 spot.



My bias here is that I don't believe in "pure evil". I believe in moral immaturity. Conformity is not bad, but immature in adults. Encouraging individuation is not done by demonizing conformity, but by encouraging growth toward self actualization. Not to say you were doing that Fintain, but I think it's an important distinction, one that avoids getting stuck in the "good vs. evil" dualism. I just want to remind people the goal isn't to "wipe out conformity", but that there is a time and place for it.