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excerpts from:
http://www.harborside.com/home/j/jollyroger/darkage.txt
OPINION POLLING -- MASS POLLUTION WITH AN AGENDA
Under Marxism, the term "politically correct" referred to
any large scale government injustice that had to be to be
whitewashed to look necessary. "Politically correct" was a way
to make excuses for being afraid of the rational search for
truth or the use of common sense. Modern political correctness
has been tamed somewhat, it is now merely a means for
brainwashing and indoctrination, a way to keep people from
saying "that's criminal!"
The single, most important organizational component of this
conspiracy was a Communist thinktank called the Institute for
Social Research (I.S.R.), but popularly known as the Frankfurt
School.
Here, then, were some potent theories of social control.
The great possibilities of this Frankfurt School media work were
probably the major contributing factor in the support given the
I.S.R. by the bastions of the Establishment, after the Institute
transferred its operations to America in 1934. In 1937, the
Rockefeller Foundation began funding research into the social
effects of new forms of mass media, particularly radio.
Despite the official gloss, the activities of the Radio
Project make it clear that its purpose was to test empirically
the Adorno-Benjamin thesis that the net effect of the mass media
could be to atomize and increase lability -- what people would
later call "brainwashing."
The efforts of the Radio Project conspirators to manipulate
the population, spawned the modern pseudoscience of PUBLIC
OPINION POLLING, in order to gain greater control over the
methods they were developing.
Today, PUBLIC OPINION POLLS, like the television news, have
been completely integrated into our society. A "scientific
survey" of what people are said to think about an issue can be
produced in less than twenty-four hours. Some campaigns for high
political office are completely shaped by polls; in fact, many
politicians try to create issues which are themselves
meaningless, but which they know will look good in the polls,
purely for the purpose of enhancing their image as "popular."
Important policy decisions are made, even before the actual vote
of the citizenry or the legislature, by poll results.
This snowball has not stopped rolling since. The entire
development of television and advertising in the 1950's and
1960's was pioneered by men and women who were trained in the
Frankfurt School's techniques of mass alienation. Frank Stanton
went directly from the Radio Project to become the single most-
important leader of modern television.
The idea of "PUBLIC OPINION" is not new, of course. Plato
spoke against it in his {Republic} over two millenia ago; Alexis
de Tocqueville wrote at length of its influence over America in
the early nineteenth century. But, nobody thought to {measure}
public opinion before the twentieth century, and nobody before
the 1930's thought to use those measurements for decision-making.
It is useful to pause and reflect on the whole concept.
The belief that public opinion can be a determinant of truth is
philosophically insane. It precludes the idea of the rational
individual mind. Every individual mind contains the divine spark
of reason, and is thus capable of scientific discovery, and
understanding the discoveries of others. The individual mind is
one of the few things that cannot, therefore, be "averaged."
Consider: at the moment of creative discovery, it is possible,
if not probable, that the scientist making the discovery is the
{only} person to hold that opinion about nature, whereas everyone
else has a different opinion, or no opinion. One can only
imagine what a "scientifically-conducted survey" on Kepler's
model of the solar system would have been, shortly after he
published the {Harmony of the World}: 2% for, 48% against,
50% no opinion.
These psychoanalytic survey techniques became standard, not
only for the Frankfurt School, but also throughout American
social science departments, particularly after the I.S.R. arrived
in the United States.
The key to the entire Frankfurt School program, from
originator Lukacs on, is the "liberation" of Aristotelian {eros},
to make individual 'feeling states' psychologically primary.
When the I.S.R. leaders arrived in the United States in the mid-
1930's, they exulted that here was a place which had no adequate
philosophical defenses against their brand of {Kulturpessimismus}
[cultural pessimism]. However, although the Frankfurt School
made major inroads in American intellectual life before World War
II, that influence was largely confined to academia and to radio;
and radio, although important, did not yet have the overwhelming
influence on social life that it would acquire during the war.
Students are being taught that language itself is, as Benjamin
said, merely a conglomeration of false "names" foisted upon
society by its oppressors, and are warned against "logocentrism,"
the bourgeois over-reliance on words.
If these campus antics appear "retarded" (in the words of
Adorno), that is because they are designed to be. The Frankfurt
School's most important breakthrough consists in the realization
that their monstrous theories could become dominant in the
culture, as a result of the changes in society brought about by
what Benjamin called "the age of mechanical reproduction of art."
One final image: American and European children daily
watch films like {Nightmare on Elm Street} and {Total Recall},
or television shows comparable to them. A typical scene in one
of these will have a figure emerge from a television set;
the skin of his face will realistically peel away to reveal
a hideously deformed man with razor-blade fingers, fingers which
start growing to several feet in length, and -- suddenly -- the
victim is slashed to bloody ribbons.
This is not entertainment. This is the deeply paranoid
hallucination of the LSD acid head. The worst of what happened
in the 1960's is now daily fare. Owing to the Frankfurt School
and its co-conspirators, the West is on a "bad trip" from which
it is not being allowed to come down.
The principles through which Western Judeo-Christian
civilization was built, are now no longer dominant in our
society; they exist only as a kind of underground resistance
movement. If that resistance is ultimately submerged, then the
civilization will not survive -- and, in our era of incurable
pandemic disease and nuclear weapons, the collapse of Western
civilization will very likely take the rest of the world with it
to Hell.
The way out is to create a Renaissance. If that sounds
grandiose, it is nonetheless what is needed. A renaissance
means, to start again; to discard the evil, the inhuman, and
the just plain stupid, and to go back, hundreds or thousands of
years, to the ideas which allow humanity to grow in freedom and
goodness. Once we have identified those core beliefs, we can
start to rebuild civilization.
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