PROPAGANDA: American Happiness Peaked in the 1950s BEFORE Television Brainwashing Convinced Us That We Were Unhappy Unless We Bought Their Plastic Crap.

The Movie PROPAGANDA States that Television is used to Brainwash People into Becoming Mindless Consumers... and that the Main Technique is to Convince Viewers that they Would Become Happy if They Simply Bought The Product Being Advertised...

Ever Notice that People DANCE Wildly With The Product in TV Ads? Ecstasy! Wayfair = BLISS! Instant Joy Thru Consumption...

Propaganda
is a 2012 New Zealand mockumentary[2] film directed by Slavko Martinov. It takes the view of the North Korean government and describes western media and culture as purely forms of propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(2012_film)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2279306/


This Film Uses Humor to Reveal Truth... Well Worth Watching...
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/propaganda-2012/

How I Fight The Mind Control: I Mute the Sound Whenever a TV Commercial Starts... Then I Close my Eyes and Say a Prayer While Doing Deep Breathing. I Contact God Maybe 8 Times an Hour While Watching TV... and That's a Wonderful Thing to Do Instead of Absorbing Evil Messages Telling Me I'm Unhappy... and the Solution is to BUY! BUY! BUY!


https://youtu.be/nRnNDkHb0MU
"I Am the Slime From the Video" by Frank Zappa


and Even Weirder than Wayfair... The REAL REAL... Super Expensive "Designer" Merchandise 90% Off because it's Used... Because 90% of the Price of New Designer Merchandise is BOGUS!


Did You Know That There is an Entire Illegal Business Based on Using Stolen Credit Cards to buy Purses that Cost $600.00 and Reselling them Online...


The Worst Example of TV Advertising Brainwashing is PSYCH MEDS... because PSYCH MEDS Frequently Cause Mental Health Problems... That's More Customers for The Drug Companies... Try our Drug XYZ and if That Doesn't Help... Try our Drug EIEIO... Don't Worry, It's All Paid for by Insurance...


It Reminds me of "Soma" from the Book Brave New World...

Ever see an add for 1-800-GOT JUNK ??? That's a Business That Will Take Your Excess Plastic Crap Away... and the People That Use this Service Dance Wildly With Joy! We Consumed and it Failed to Make Us Happy but Now a Guy Will Haul Away all those Super Duper Excellent Purchases! WHEE!


I'm Angered by all the TV Ads for Prescription Medicine. Patients Pay for Those TV Ads in Higher Drug Prices... I Buy Doctor Drugs and Every time I See Some Crap being Promoted I Realize That They Took MY MONEY and Used it to Buy TV Ads.

and then there are the Endless Advertisements for Medicare Supplement Plans... That's Elder Abuse! When I Turned 65 I Had to Make Choices about My Medicare Insurance... I Could Not Understand the Cost vs Benefit of the Competing Insurance Companies... So I selected to Buy the Coverage Offered by the Labor Union I Belonged to When I was Working... I Figured that They Would Have Negotiated the best plan... SEIU is a Huge Union and Very Powerful... I find that My Sister In Law ALSO was Confused by Medicare Supplemental Plans... and She's been a Nurse for 40 Years... so she chose the plan offered by AARP because they are a Reputable Organization... However, Every time I see a TV AD Selling Medicare Supplemental Insurance I Have the Instinctive Emotion that I'm Getting Ripped OFF... and I Could Do Better... but I'm Afraid to Actually Call the 800 Number on My Screen because I Have the Gut Feeling That I'll be talking to a Hard Sell Telemarketer that'll try to Rip Me Off Even Worse!

also... Advertising and Mind Control is Used In ALL TV Shows... Especially TV NEWS... FOX uses the FEAR Reflex to Keep Viewers Watching... This Works Because a Million Years of Evolution Favored People That Were Afraid... and Vigilant... and Those People Had More Children that Survived to Adulthood... For Example: If a Member of the Tribe working as a Guard Said "DANGER DANGER" When a Sabre Toothed Tiger Approached People Sleeping... The People That WOKE UP and Got a Weapon to Defend Themselves Survived... and That Technique works Today... In Cave Man Days, Strangers Could Attack and Steal Food and Women...

TV NEWS Marketing Sells Hate of Strangers... and The Entire Republican Party Sells "Stranger Danger" - Look at Trump's Border Wall... Designed to Keep Brown Skinned People OUT of the USA...
and When Black People from Haiti Tried to Get In... We Bought 'em a One Way Airplane Ticket Right Back Where they Came From. That was a Democratic Party Action...

and it's Not Just FOX... All TV Shows Sell Fear... That way People will buy More GUNS... and More Burglar Alarm Systems... Look at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC... Endless Stories of Danger-Danger... and Stranger Danger...


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I took an Online Survey about Childhood Trauma and Recovery... and Had this to say: I don't know much about childhood trauma because I Had a Happy Childhood and everyone in my family did... Basically... we are good people and live our lives doing good... we are opposed to evil... and it's obvious to tell the difference... I believe we ought to arrest many more evil people and keep them incarcerated... that way they won't breed and their defective genes will not be passed on to the next generation...


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Favorite Grateful Dead Concerts: I think that the Live Performances at Football Stadiums were Wonderful Experiences - It was Truly Amazing to be in a Huge Crowd High on LSD... I started in 1972 and Loved Every Era...


Stopped Going after the Fare Ye Well concerts... Attended Stadium Shows at JFK Philadelphia, RFK Washington DC, Three Rivers Pittsburgh and Levi Santa Clara... Of Course, My Favorite Show was Winterland 1974 when they filmed the movie... wall of sound...

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2022/12/02/great-movie-propaganda/

The Sun Appears to be About the Size of a Quarter Held at Arm's Length. -ALSO- The Moon Appears to be About the Size of a Quarter Held at Arm's Length. -AND- The Shadow of the Earth Cast onto the Moon is The Same Exact Size...

Just Coincidence? Or is the Cosmos Trying to Tell us Something?

Only on Earth do the Three Most Important Objects In the Universe appear to be the same size... Remind me of the Celestine Prophecy... Watch for Amazing Co-incidences...

I started thinking about this while watching the Movie TRON Legacy... and the Digital Woman from inside the computer asked the Man from Earth... "What Does the Sun Look Like?" ...and He Replied... "I'm Not Exactly Sure... Because You Can't Just LOOK AT IT... That Would cause Blindness..."

OK... That's not an Exact Transcription of the Movie... but To Me... That was the Meaning...

and at the end of the Movie he Takes her to Earth and shows her a Sunrise While Riding a Motorcycle...

The Math: 

The Sun's diameter is about 865,370 miles. The Distance from Earth to the Sun is 93,000,000 miles.

(but it changes - Earth's orbit is NOT a Circle)

The Moon's diameter of 2,159.1 miles. The Distance from Earth to The Moon is an average of 238,900 miles. (but it also changes - The Moon's orbit is NOT a Circle) 

865,370/2,159.1=400.8 
93,000,000/238,900=389.2 

400 is pretty damn close to 389...
Remember: an Object that is 400 Time Larger but
is 389 times farther away would appear to be
about the same size... and this is not just theoretical - I have seen BOTH a Solar and a Lunar Eclipse myself...

Nicolaus Copernicus formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.[7] Before Copernicus "Everyone" Believed the Earth was the Center of the Universe...

According to Edwin Hubble: It appears that Everything is Moving away from US... One model that fits this data has the Earth at the Center of the Universe... another Model supposes that no matter where you observe the universe from, everything is always moving away from everything else...

"The Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding.[11] A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was strongly red-shifted, indicative of high recession velocities."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble

Another Strange Coincidence... It Could Be that The Earth is at the Center of the Universe after all... or at least the SUN... 

There is an apparent correlation between the plane of the Solar System and aspects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It gives the plane of the Solar System and hence the location of Earth a greater significance than might be expected by chance – a result which has been claimed to be evidence of a departure from the Copernican principle as assumed in the concordance model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)


What do you think about all this Strangeness???
gregvan [at] yahoo [dot] com

The MEANING of the Barbie Movie DEMONSTRATED... Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie=NO Oscar Nomination. Ryan Gosling=YES Oscar Nomination. GET IT? The patriarchy is still with us.

At the Oscars, What if the person opening the Envelope Just Says Greta Gerwig? No Matter Whose Name is Printed on the Card...

Although the film was nominated for best picture, Greta Gerwig was snubbed as director and Margot Robbie left out of the best actress category, omissions that caused a flood of outrage on the internet and from their colleagues. The Associated Press called Gerwig's snub "one of the biggest shocks in recent memory". Some fans took it out on Ken. As USA Today pointed out, quoting a user on X, Ryan Gosling being nominated for supporting actor while Gerwig and Robbie were left out "kind of proves the point of the movie", that the patriarchy is still with us. Gosling, Ken himself, said in a statement: "There is no Ken without Barbie and There is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film".

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240124-oscars-2024-the-real-reason-barbies-greta-gerwig-and-margot-robbie-were-snubbed-by-the-oscars

Barbie is a Great Movie! Much More Insightful Than I Expected. I Understand Why Republican Men are Terrified... Of the New World that is Awakening!

Gloria's full monologue from Barbie (2023):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqlDWHkdHk

It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.

You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining. You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood.

But always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful.

You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line. It's too hard! It's too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then I don't even know.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/

Link to the Main Page at IMDB Barbie...

Makes me admire the author Greta Gerwig... 

Sacramento Native... and "local girl made good!"
Famous for the Movie Lady Bird...

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1950086/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

Link to All About Greta Gerig...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4925292/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk

Link to all about the Movie Lady Bird...

and when I saw on a Late Night Talk Show that Kate McKinnon (a Ghost Buster) played "Weird Barbie" I had to See it for myself...

Ryan Gosling reacted to his Academy Award nomination for his supporting role as Ken by expressing his disappointment that the Academy snubbed Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie in their respective categories. In a statement, he explained:

"I am extremely honored to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists in a year of so many great films. And I never thought I’d being saying this, but I’m also incredibly honored and proud that it’s for portraying a plastic doll named Ken. But there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film.

“No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius. To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement. Against all odds with nothing but a couple of soulless, scantily clad, and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture and they made history. Their work should be recognized along with the other very deserving nominees.”

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(Inhale) God... (Exhale)

(Inhale) Thank You... (Exhale)

(Inhale) for Good Health... (Exhale)

(Inhale) for Good Food... (Exhale)

(Inhale) for Clean Water... (Exhale)

Repeat... 

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I've heard this same message often before... 

"Every Day in Every Way I'm Getting Better and Better." 

and then...

There's the Song: "You've got to accentuate the Positive, eliminate the Negative, Latch on to the Affirmative, Don't Mess With Mister In- Between..." Johnny Mercer... 

and then There is "The Balance" by the Moody Blues... It's the Answer to the Question of Balance on that Classic Sixties Record... 

After he had journeyed
And his feet were sore, he was tired
He came upon an orange grove
And he rested
And he lay in the cool
And while he rested, he took to himself an orange and tasted it
And it was good
And he felt the Earth to his spine and he asked
And he saw the tree above him
And the stars
And the veins in the leaf
And the light
And the balance
And he saw magnificent perfection
Whereon he thought of himself in balance
And he knew he was.
Just open your eyes and realize the way it's always been
Just open your mind and you will find the way it's always been.
Just open your heart and that's a start
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And he thought of those he hurt
For he was not a cruel man
And he thought of those he frightened
For he was not an evil man
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Upon this he saw that when he was of anger or knew hurt or felt fear
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And with his eye of compassion
He saw his enemies like unto himself
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Then he was answered
Just open your eyes and realize the way it's always been
Just open your mind and you will find the way it's always been.
Just open your heart and that's a start
Do you, do you, do you, do you realize?
Just open your eyes and realize the way it's always been
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Just open your mind and you will find the way it's always been.
Just open your heart
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LONG STRANGE TRIP is an Excellent Movie about the Grateful Dead. Four Hours Long, it Traces their History from the Very Beginning thru Jerry Garcia's Death.

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Trip-Season-1/dp/B086HXZFL2

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Strange_Trip

Personnel

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, percussion, vocals
• Tom Constanten – keyboards
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made by Ron Boise was used by Ken Kesey at 

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Grateful Dead... My Story... American History... 
and Original Deadhead ART... 

My Sugar Cube Painting...

like the cover of 

"The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" 

by Tom Wolfe.

I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in 

English class at junior high school. Our teacher 

had put up posters on the wall of the classroom

and we wrote essays about them. He was 

attempting to stimulate creative WRITING 

but more importantly, creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of 

swastikas and another was a solarized/

negative photo of 5 hairy men 

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Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. 

Pictures and Tall Tales. Many thanks to all that 

made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... 

Just remember, if our lives together were 

written as a fiction story, everyone would 

dismiss it as being unbelievable... 

Yet it all really happened! ART, Poetry and 

MyStory... I'm Gr8ful 

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The wonderful Winterland Arena in San 

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tweak it to perfection... 

The Movie with the cartoon at the 

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People With Movie Cameras... 

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