Column #302     June 18, 2021Programming the Mind

Our minds are programable. If we do not program our minds on a daily basis, then someone else will program them for us and it might not be in our best interests. This column deals with mind control on a couple of levels—freedom and health.1

There are influencers and influencing factors during our lives that have programed our minds and set the stage for how we program our minds going forward. Here’s a typical list:
●    Parents, siblings, and other relatives.
●    Church and religious beliefs.
●    Friends and neighbors.
●    Schools, summer camps, and teachers.
●    Sports, coaches, and leisure time activities.
●    Hobbies
●    Our communities.
●    Negative events.
●    Positive events.
●    Our attentiveness to current events and world history.
●    The jobs we have done.

That is a list of obvious influencers—there’s more and they’re mostly people. There are marketers, politicians, bureaucrats, police, doctors, newscasters, commentators, bosses, and so many more. These people are often rather subtle while still being highly manipulative. Naturally, some of them are inspiring and have a positive impact on everyone they reach. On the other hand, some characters are downright evil. Psychopaths deliberately engage in antisocial acts such as lying, manipulation, aggression, and cruelty in order to get their way. Unfortunately, psychopaths are found in all professions and, in spite of being only 4% of the population, they have an outsized impact.2 3

The question then is, “How do you make sure your mind is programed in your best interests?” You have to be honest with yourself here. How centered are you and where is your center? In other words, do you have a moral foundation? Is your foundation relative, or is it based on sound footing such as faith in God and the Ten Commandments? Without a time-tested moral compass a brain is missing important filters that leave it open to every suggestion. Without proper filters humans easily become tools of the devil. That’s why the time-tested strength of our moral foundation is very important in keeping our programed minds free from hackers.4

Just like dogs can be trained to be very evil, it’s the same with people. The greatest atrocities of all time were carried out by useful fools who were programed to do evil things. Within the past 100 years alone it happened time and time again. Millions of Jews were not murdered by Hitler himself, but by regular citizens that Hitler had persuaded! It was the same with the killing of millions of citizens in Russia when ordinary citizens carried out the orders of Vladimir Lenin and, after he died, Joseph Stalin. And leading the all-time killers were the Chinese mobs that Mao Zedong inspired. Keep in mind that all of these despots were dictators, either fascist or communist.5 6

Beyond being persuasive orators, despots weld incredible power such as imprisonment, money, fame, banishment, torture, and death. They saturate the media, schools, and businesses with their views and cancel all countervailing views by imprisoning or killing off those who persist in spreading “unpatriotic” falsehoods. For those citizens who see the evils of communism, here are their choices.
●    Quickly restore order and be more proactive than the socialists in persuading the masses.
●    Join the mob and try to move up in the ranks in the socialist movement.
●    Continue to resist politely until imprisoned or killed.
●    Move to another country.

Today, the corruption of the minds of many Americans is well advanced. Even though socialists reside all over the country, they are still a mob and mobs don’t think as individuals. They’ve heard appealing siren songs with utopian claims. For instance, “Socialism will bring widespread prosperity to the underprivileged. Minorities have been abused and society owes them.” Those who vote for socialism have been conditioned to feel threatened by the never-ending pandemic, police brutality, white men, border walls, global warming, racism, alternate viewpoints, taxes, below average incomes, and Russia, Russia, Russia. Socialists believe the central government is there to protect them and provide for them because the socialist leaders and their bureaucrats know best how to solve their individual problems.

Liberal thinking has saturated the federal bureaucracy (including the FBI and CIA), schools at all levels, over half of all politicians, and even some key military leaders have been swayed. There’s a ruling class of internet oligarchs that control social media on a worldwide scale. The television and print-media industries are almost totally on board with the communist agenda. The influential entertainment industry spouts socialist views. And, many big-business leaders want to be woke in order to keep the easy money flowing, the stock market soaring, and China as their go to place for cheap goods. On top of that, the political party in charge has a divisive message that motivates people on a national scale with its horror stories of new COVID varieties, global warming, shutdowns, divisive social dictates, right wingers, and the prospect of international conflicts.7

Not to be discounted is the leadership that’s behind the scenes guiding this communist movement. Who will it be that surfaces as the leading dictator over all the others? For an absolute certainty it’s not any of the current blokes; Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and other useful idiots who currently think they are in charge.

A lot of mind programming today is conducted in our schools with children not being taught to be independently thinking individuals. Instead they are taught how to be good drones who can be employed by huge, multinational businesses, the military, and the bureaucracy. Sixty years ago the Federal Government started influencing our youngest children by partially funding the school programs in all 50 states. The generous funding quickly became addictive and the Federal Government has used that addiction as leverage to dictate what is taught.

Here’s how Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College explains it. He said:

“Too many American colleges and universities are failing to equip their students with the knowledge and character required for a good and happy life—much less for useful citizenship. And they are failing to do these things while receiving billions of your tax dollars in the process!

“There are many reasons for the sorry state of American higher education today. Not the least of them is the financial entanglement of our colleges and universities with the federal government—an entanglement that goes back now over 60 years. By accepting tax dollars over these many decades, colleges and universities have also had to accept the corrupting and unconstitutional regulations attached to those dollars. It has proved a devil’s bargain.

“Hillsdale College has rejected this bargain: we refuse to accept ONE PENNY of federal or state government funding—not even indirectly in the form of federal or state student grants or loans. With your support, the College stands as a beacon of genuine independence in American higher education—free of regulations about what students to enroll, what professors to hire, and how or what to teach. This independence allows Hillsdale to remain true to its 177-year-old-mission: to provide ‘sound learning’ of the kind needed to preserve ‘the inestimable blessings of civil and religious liberty.’

“The resulting contrast between Hillsdale and the vast majority of other American colleges and universities could not be greater.
●    Hillsdale teaches that there is a right and a wrong way to live, while most other colleges and universities promote moral and cultural relativism.   
●    Hillsdale teaches that America has a great heritage of liberty, while other colleges and universities increasingly promote the false narrative of America as essentially unjust and irredeemable.  
●    Hillsdale upholds the American tradition of free and civil speech and debate, while too many other colleges and universities enforce the deadening dictates of political correctness.”8

When following the money trail, the most beaten path leads to healthcare. Eighteen cents of every dollar spent in the USA goes for healthcare in some form or another. Our US Department of Agriculture My Plate program markets all agricultural products—not the healthiest foods. The CDC/NIH and the FDA work hard to keep the healthcare industry in tip top shape. Spreading the word about the best methods for citizens getting and staying healthy without doctor visits, drugs, and operations is not their goal.

As most independently thinking Americans have realized, the bureaucrats and dictatorial politicians use fake science to fit their narratives. Rather than teach citizens how to be healthier and also protect against severe cases of COVID-19, they actually dictated living conditions that caused far more damage to humanity and the economy than the virus.

Grandfatherly Fauci was the leading propagandist for the CDC and he continues to program the minds of Americans with fear and policy flip-flops. He is still doubling down on his lies. He knows better but won’t admit that masks are talismans, distancing doesn’t work, the virus doesn’t spread effectively from surfaces, the PCR tests for COVID-19 were so sensitive they generated millions of false positives, previously infected people have immunity, that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are useful drugs in saving lives, and when the number of vaccinated people is added to those that have natural immunity the USA has reached herd immunity.

Like well-trained dogs, many people are still walking around outdoors, distancing from other people, and wearing masks because of the messaging from Fauci, dictatorial politicians, entrenched bureaucrats, the MSM, and social media oligarchs. These fear-based people have been programmed by evil people and they don’t realize it.

Individuals must do their homework and properly and repeatedly reprogram their minds in order to avoid being controlled by bureaucrats and their conspirators. If your goal is to live without sin (a violation of your moral code), be happy, be a positive force, and do no harm, then the first person on your list for mind programing must be yourself. When it comes to chronic diseases, usually diet plays the most important roll. So, once again, if the goal is to love, nurture, be honest, stay free, and do no harm to yourself, then eating improper foods has to be programmed in your mind as a sinful act that’s the same as robbing a bank or carrying out sinister acts for oligarchs, evil people, and dictators.9

There are many false gurus promoting diets, religions, governments, products, social norms, and more that are sinful (harmful). Their siren songs are sinful because what they offer is not in the best interests of individuals who want to be free from the clutches of the various controlling beasts such as the healthcare system.10

The establishment does not want people to eat meat. They want them to be vegetarians. They do not want them to focus on positive lifestyles and a caveman diet that many biologists, nutritionists, and anthropologists have shown to be very effective for subduing and preventing chronic diseases. In fact, they have laws against such teachings! This is why you must program your own mind and be diligent in properly updating the programing of your mind.

To your health.

Ted Slanker

Ted Slanker has been reporting on the fundamentals of nutritional research in publications, television and radio appearances, and at conferences since 1999. He condenses complex studies into the basics required for health and well-being. His eBook, The Real Diet of Man, is available online.

Don't miss these links for additional reading:

1. Jeremy R Hammond

2. What is an Influencer? – Social Media Influencers Defined by Werner Geyser from Influencer Marketing Hub

3. Psychopathy: Manipulation, Deception, and Evil by Pamela Kulbarsh from Officer.com

4. What is Moral Foundations Theory? from Conceptually.org

5. How Was Adolf Hitler So Persuasive? by Josh Wilmoth from Owlcation

6. Ten World Dictators Who Killed The Most People by Will from Eskify

7. Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left by José Niño from Mises Institute

8. Hillsdale College: Imprimis Is the Free Monthly Speech Digest of Hillsdale College

9. Food Analysis: EFA, Protein to Fat, Net Carbs, Sugar, and Nutrient Load by Ted Slanker

10. The FDA Is Failing the American People—The agency's recent decision to approve aducanumab offers more evidence of a broken system by Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH from MedPage Today