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/

I Read Banned Books! The Reason Republicans Hate Books is: THEY CAN'T READ! Books are SCARY! What Do They Say??? They Don't Know! Danger! Danger! #RUNAWAY

Great Books that Everyone Should Read - 

Insight & Wisdom - Free at the Library!

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Ed Abbey
The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz
Remember, Be Here Now - Ram Dass

Start with these Five Books... They Explain a Lot... Then Continue With These Classics!

LINK to Buy I Read Banned Books 

Hats and Buttons! - Click Here!

Banned Books T-Shirt

Other Great Books!

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Silent Spring - Rachael Carson

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

Alice in Wonderland

Thru the Looking Glass

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The Whole Earth Catalog

Treasure Island

The Old Man and the Sea

Moby Dick

Robinson Crusoe

The Count of Monte Cristo

Don Quixote

Steal this Book

Revolution for the Hell of It

I, Robot

Foundation

Caves of Steel

Grapes of Wrath

Tortilla Flat

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

The Man in the High Castle

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Harry Potter

Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit

Still Here

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Around the World in 80 Days

Stranger in a Strange Land

Slaughterhouse Five

Cat's Cradle

Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge

America's Bogus Wars

The Violet Overgrow (an Eco-Warriors's Journey)

The Great Gadsby

The Armies of the Night

Trout Fishing in America

Island

The Psychedelic Experience

Fahrenheit 451

The Doors of Perception

Ender's Game

The Cult of Cthulhu

Dune

Chariots of the Gods?

Autobiography of a Yogi

Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

All Quiet on the Western Front

Catch 22

Everything By Edgar Allen Poe... Steven King... 

and... 

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds... 

Just for FUN... Write Your Own List and Post it on Your Own Blog... or FaceBorg... It's a worthy Exercise in Self Introspection!

If there are any Classics I Forgot, Email Me at gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)Com

Bookshelf of Great Books - Classics Library

LINK to All My "I Read Banned Books" Merch

LINK to My Main Page at Zazzle Gregvan

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and Now for Something Completely Different!

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What Did I Learn from My Near Death Experience? I've Always Had a Feeling that I Had Some Important Goal to Accomplish. Then I realized...

It wasn't so much of a BIG Goal that was Needed 

to Be Done but Helping People Daily Thru My 

Entire Life. Simply Making the World a Better 

Place To Live. That Was The Lesson.

Since I Did Not Die at Age 19... READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/my-near-death-experience.html

Trump Received Money From a Russian for His 2016 Campaign. GOP operative Jesse Benton was convicted of funneling Russian donations. Why Hasn't Trump Been Arrested and Convicted for This Crime?

The "Russia Hoax" was Not a Hoax After All. Trump Actually Got Rubles to Help Him Campaign!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/11/trump-got-russian-money-2016.html

Fox “News” Fined $787.5 Million for Intentionally Lying... Further Proof that we are Moving Towards a World Where Truth Matters, Honesty Matters, Justice Matters and...

DOING EVIL GETS PUNISHED!

Many More Lawsuits Coming: Smartmatic is Suing Fox, OANN, Rude Julie Anna, Sidney Powell and the My Pillow Guy...

Will Fox “Learn its Lesson? or Will They Keep on Lying Because That’s All They Have? Time Will Tell!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/03/woke.html


Rainbow Gathering 2024 - July 1-7 in California.

READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/12/rainbow-gathering-2023.html

Stay Away from Florida! Civil Rights Group Issues Warning Against Travel to Florida... They Have GUNS, Floods, The Giant Stinky Seaweed Blob and The Red Tide.

It's A Horrible Place to Take a Vacation!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/no-travel-to-florida.html

Forcing Women to Give Birth to Unwanted Babies is the GOP "Solution" to the Death of Children by Guns. Just Breed some SPARES!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/forced-breeding.html

Rick Scott: Republican Criminal - He Oversaw the Largest Medicare Fraud in History - Why Isn't He in Prison? DOJ: Do Your Job - OUTLAW CRIME
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/03/republican-criminal.html

Fire Tending Meditation: A Way to Focus Attention. When at the Rainbow Gathering in Utah 2014 I was given the opportunity. Here is what happened... READ MORE:

While at the Welcome Home Kitchen, the Fire Tender wanted to go to another kitchen and trade a cooler filled with coffee for pizza. He asked if someone would watch the fire while he was gone. SOMEONE had to be there... I volunteered. I Said "I'll be here. I'll be the responsible adult. I can do that, I have done that."

he said "Great" and Left with the cooler filled with coffee.

So I took over and made sure we didn't burn down the forest. I also collected wood, placed it carefully on the fire arranging the logs so that they would burn without causing a lot of smoke AND I invited arriving people to help themselves to a cup of coffee or clean drinking water... and to take a break and relax around the fire.

This is a classic way to focus attention as the placement of logs on the fire is very similar to Zen Gardening with sand...

So, during this time... I asked for a Really Big Idea... I had attended Rainbow Gatherings before and I wanted each visit to be different. It's pointless and boring to keep on repeating experiences... so, this time I wanted to get a really big Idea...

and here it is: A Solar Fire powered Desalinization Machine. Use a driftwood fire to power a steam engine. Use the force from the steam engine to drive a water pump. Pump seawater thru a pipe in the fire and into a long black pipe with a reflector that focuses sunlight on the pipe. When the water boils, it expands in volume... at the end of the pipe, steam will be billowing out with a great deal of force. Use that force to drive an electricity generating turbine. Collect the steam and let it turn back into a liquid... The result is Pure H20, NaCl and Electricity... all valuable and sell able.

Clean safe drinking water is a big problem. We could use the collected steam for drinking, bathing, livestock, gardens... AND making Ice for a really great Scotch on the Rocks.

To make this practical, the location of the machine would need to be near a big pile of driftwood. On Agate Beach in California, I have seen a pile of driftwood that covers the entire beach for about a half a mile... In other locations, use whatever resource is available. For Example: In Saudi Arabia it would make more sense to burn oil or gas...

So, during my meditation I Got my really big idea... Or So I Thought... However... Just By Magical Action of the Universe... It Turns Out The THIS WAS NOT THE REALLY BIG IDEA... It Just So Happened that I MET A WOMAN who was teaching a Spiritual Healing Guided Meditation Class... and I Did It... and I Liked It... and I Took Her Business Card... and I've Been Attending Her Online Seminars For Years! Sonya Sophia... https://www.worldtappingcircle.com/



Later, the fire tender returned and his mission to get pizza was successful.

Much later I was sitting by the fire and another Rainbow Gatherer approached... He said mockingly: "Have you been sitting in that same spot for two days?" Which was true, I did spend a couple of days at the Welcome Home Tent.

I replied: "No, I also worked as the fire tender... That gave me an opportunity to Focus My Attention... [said slowly] Focus... My... Attention... "

The fire tender was listening and he nodded with understanding... Later we ended up hanging out together and he was a fine fellow... He was also very interested in being in the Cleanup Crew... I assume he got paid a lot in valuable stuff left behind.

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Long ago I was playing the drums with some Buddhists at an anti-war protest march... I asked them why we were playing such an odd rhythm... They said that it requires that you Focus Your Attention... It's true... That experience was quite different than bang out a 4/4 on the big bass drum... I also did that at the same protest, our goal was to get George Bush the Father to remember that we didn't LIKE his war... and there were people playing the drums 24 hours a day in Lafayette Park to remind him... His only choices were to listen or flee...

July 4th OM Chant at California
Rainbow Gathering in Modoc County 2004
Near the Town of Likely...

Alternative Healing EFT-Rainbow 2010 Sonya Sophia Illig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2r0I8VoxJY&t=145s

Alternative Healing EFT-2-Rainbow 2010 Sonya Sophia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkzErLQfHLI&t=148s

My Brother Recommends the Book: "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris. An Introspective Study of Humans and Our Place in The Cosmos...

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Age-Milky-Way/dp/B009BUHSNC

A space alien returns to his home base to report on the Earthlings.  He is asked, “Do they know where they are  and  how  they  got  there?”   Earthling  knowledge  of  cosmology,  time,  and evolution are then discussed.