We Are Being Manipulated. We Should Not Be Surprised

Evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2 Tim 3:13

There has been much talk recently about “mass formation psychosis” having taken place during the two-year pandemic response. Arguments have been made for and against this aggregate diagnosis.  But bypassing this new and mysterious term along with the palpable bias of the “for” and “against” debaters, we can take a look at something simpler – just plain ol’ fashioned “brain washing”.  “Brain washing”, “mind control”, or “thought reform” are easier to wrap our little plebeian minds around.  

These methods of mind manipulation are well known to psychologists and are continually being honed by advertisers, social media & technology developers, corporations, and government advisors in order to reach their goals of getting you to do what they want you to do.  This is not a new or particularly covert practice. It has been in development since the first Holodomor. 

In October 1919, Lenin paid a secret visit to the laboratory of the great physiologist I. P. Pavlov, a Russian physiologist known chiefly for the concept of the conditioned reflex. Lenin wanted to find out if his work on the conditional reflexes of the brain might help the Bolsheviks control European behaviour. “I want the masses of Russia to follow a Communistic pattern of thinking and reacting,” Lenin explained.  Pavlov was astounded. It seemed that Lenin wanted him to do for humans what he had already done for dogs. “Do you mean that you would like to standardise the population of Russia? Make them all behave in the same way?” he asked. “Exactly” replied Lenin. “Man can be corrected. Man can be made what we want him to be.”

Excerpt From A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution, Orlando Figes

According to clinical psychologist Margaret Singer, there are six conditions under which a person must be subjected, where mind control happens. These are (Singer, 2003):

1. Keep the target in the dark, unaware that he/she is being changed. Victims of this type of manipulation are psychologically led to change their behaviors in order to meet the agenda of the leader. The end goal is for the target to do the bidding of the leader. 
2. Control the person’s physical and social environment. Leaders of mind-control provide ample structure, rules, and assignments to keep targets constantly on task.
3. Create a sense of powerlessness in the target. Leaders ensure that the target is away from his/her social support system (isolated) and puts him/her in an environment with those already entrenched in the group. This helps targets of mind control lose personal autonomy, power, and confidence. This erodes the target’s intuition. As the target’s sense of powerlessness increases, his/her sense of good judgment and understanding of the world decreases (view of reality is destabilized.) As the other members of the group attack the victim’s worldview, cognitive dissonance results. No talking about this is allowed. In the case of parental alienation the empathic or “normal” parent is villianized.
4. Incorporate a system of rewards and punishments in the person’s life;ones that promote the manipulator’s agenda, and undermine the target’s autonomy and individuality. Members get positive feedback for conforming to the leader’s beliefs and behaviors and negative feedback for old beliefs and behavior.
5. Create a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning the group’s ideology or belief system and group-approved behaviors.Good behavior, demonstrating an understanding and acceptance of the group’s beliefs, and compliance are rewarded, while questioning, expressing doubts or criticizing are met with disapproval, redress and possible rejection.If one expresses a question, he or she is made to feel that there is something inherently wrong with them doing so.
6. The system is closed, with an authoritarian structure that allows no feedback and refuses input not approved of by leadership approval. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure.The leader never loses.

Have you or your loved ones been subject to these tactics over the last 2 years?  Unless you are Amish or in a similarly exclusive community, the answer is likely YES.  

Since we can’t really point to evidence for #1 until we get through the others, let’s start with #2.  This is beyond OBVIOUS.  Every physical environment was strictly controlled – from limits on purchases, to where you could stand, what hours you could shop, which direction you could walk down the grocery aisle (!!!), how many masks you had to wear, how to wear them, and when – it was an endless game of “do-what-I-say and don’t take your eyes off of me because the instructions may change at any minute.” This is key to “keep targets constantly on task.”

#3. Everyone living in a country that enforced lockdowns (i.e. anywhere but Sweden), was forced into isolation of one form or another. Working and schooling from home – no water coolers to chat around, no competing influences or people to help you weigh the rationality of your thoughts. Not even church gatherings.

#4. Did you feel powerless while these orders were rolled out?  While the daily case numbers and death counts were constantly recited across almost every media outlet – while you were sent into hiding and could do nothing to help anyone?  Did you feel powerless as your social constructs and the livelihoods of those around you were wiped away?  I bet you did!

The US intelligence agencies have been studying mind control techniques since AT LEAST the 1950s, after the end of the Korean war.  Do you think the people in power were unaware that they were following these manipulative mind control techniques?  Was it all just a coincidence?  Were we really “all in this together”?  Or were we played like pawns in a dangerous game that led to the creation of a whole new group of billionaires and trillionaires? Many of whom are from China, the epicenter of politically motivated mind control, and originator of the term “brain-wash,” and quite possibly the location where the virus that led to the pandemic which enabled the making of billions of dollars for certain involved individuals leaked from a lab.

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. 1 Corinthians 4:5