Emotional Memories and Governmental Influence

March 3, 2012

New ideas evolve by linking the known with the possible within a vessel made of memory.

There are two kinds of memory: cognitive and emotional. Cognitive memories are what we know and emotional memories are how we feel about knowing. Healthy emotional memories give us hope and courage about using what we know. Unhealthy, negative emotional memories give us pessimism and fear about using what we know. Emotional memories always trump cognitive memories. Minds poisoned by negative emotional memories will believe things that are not true, correct, adaptive or healthy. When too many people become afflicted with negative emotional memories hope turns to despair and courage is overcome by fear.

Over the past one hundred years, former leaders of deposed foreign governments learned about this as they were being overwhelmed, struggling for survival against the onslaught of negative emotional memories being implanted and nurtured in their own people by outsiders. In both the foreign “target” country and in the domestic population, these outsiders go about implanting negative emotional memories to coerce the population to embrace changes that are not adaptive or healthy but which meet the needs of the outsider.

Large portions of both the foreign and domestic populations come to embrace the take-over because its necessity is confirmed by the negative emotional memories that have been implanted and nurtured in them. The last straw in the overthrow of foreign governments is the replacement of the former leaders by outsiders. That is how the government of Hawaii was overthrown in the 1800’s. It is also how the covert actions of US corporate-intelligence operatives have led to the overthrow of other foreign governments in the twentieth century, as documented by Stephen Kinzer in Overthrow (Henry Holt & Co., 2006). John Perkins gave us an insider’s view of the process in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Plume, 2004).

Twentieth century corporate-intelligence leaders have learned from and expanded upon the tactics of their forebears leading them to almost a “script”. They utilize modern technology, especially press and news media, to implant negative emotional memories that further their ends and conceal their machinations. Greed and fear make the machine work.

If pictures are worth a thousand words then motion pictures are a thousand times more powerful. Modern architects of governmental overthrow recognize this and utilize them to implant unhealthy emotional memories. Outrage over and opposition to any motion pictures that compete by creating alterative, healthy emotional memories is as predictable as it is virulent. Hilter and Goebbels understood this better than most and applied their understanding with devastating effect on the people of Germany and elsewhere, preparing their minds for the “final solution” long before its implementation was obvious and undeniable. Emotional memories trumped cognitive memories then, as they always do.

Titans of industry, committed architects of governmental restructuring based on the acquisition, preservation and controlled exploitation of other peoples’ resources have been thriving in the US since the late 1800’s. Their need to create strong, enduring negative emotional memories to further their ends has never diminished. They have always used the tools available to them and the learning curve has persisted as it always does: with new tools being brought into service as soon as they become available.

Kermit Roosevelt, son of the Rough Rider himself, spoke softly, carried a big economic stick, and used it with great success for American oil interests in the Middle East in the 1940’s. The ranks of unprincipled liars, cheats and scoundrels (so-called “Economic Hit Men”) have been swelling ever since fertilized increasingly by government intelligence agencies operating their own war machines and underground economies with the tacit, if not overt, approval of elected officials. Greed and fear continue to make the world go ‘round.

In 1963, the inevitable happened: the US government lost control over its plotters of change in foreign governments. They turned their tactics against our own leaders and people. It worked for nearly fifty years and the manipulators of unhealthy emotional memories including the following:

• Nobody can ever really know the truth
• Nobody can really be trusted because everybody is out only for themselves
• A bad end awaits anyone who causes trouble
• The future could be much worse
• You have nothing to fear from monitoring if you have nothing to hide

The manipulators mean to keep it that way. Michael Schweitzer has done superb work in summarizing who those people are. Visit http://mikiestar.com/qa-about-the-assassination-of-president-kennedy-2 for his illuminating essay and notice how many researchers have endorsed and embellished his work.

In the last fifty years, as the threads of the Kennedy assassination cover-up started to unravel, renewed efforts were made to create reinforcing emotional memories to sustain the old ones. New books and motion pictures emerged, filling the people’s collective consciousness with new unhealthy memories. They pandered to the same dismal, pathetic, pessimistic views of future and of ourselves by saying things like: “it could be so much worse”. How we responded to this has determined the path of our country, just as it determined the future of every other overthrown government for the past one hundred years. That path has been a downhill one.

Today there is new hope because we have digital technology and the internet, which we didn’t have before. Knowledge isn’t enough though; it takes strong, healthy emotional memories to pursue and achieve the healthy changes that we need. Healthy emotional memories are created by the presentation of simple observations that are emotionally compelling and healthy. Some examples include:

• We can take the action necessary to fix our situation without compromising our Constitution.
• We can honor it by restoring power to those we elected and stop allowing secretive abuses of that power.
• We can strive to honor and practice truth and justice.
• If we have gone astray in the past we can correct our course and move forward confidently not secretively.
• We cannot encourage hypocrisy, deceit and greed by rewarding it.

 

The corporate-intelligence community that persists in creating unhealthy emotional memories has to be smashed into a thousand pieces as President Kennedy threatened to do after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He was seduced by the allure of secret intelligence, and even James Bond, but he bristled at being cast in the role of puppet. Puppet is the only role elected officials were permitted to play by the corporate-intelligence community. He wanted to rule and thought he could. Regrettably, he told his opponents “I’m going to knock you out in the tenth round” and they knocked him out in the seventh.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty but moving forward we have to open our eyes. The evidence is indisputable. The Zapruder film has been unequivocally unmasked as an edited record of the events in Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was killed in 1963. You can find some of the scientific proof of these edits, more is coming to light as new researchers study the film’s frames at: http://assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro. 

No “lone nut” could do the editing that was finally discovered forty-eight years later when technology finally caught up with the perpetrators. Only the intelligence community and those responsible for President Kennedy’s security could have done this editing in order to conceal their involvement in the crime and prevent the smashing of the organization into a thousand pieces. Recently released recordings of in-flight conversations aboard Air Force One as it returned to Washington document more holes in the scheme to murder the President that has been successful only by the thinnest of margins and that margin in constantly eroding. Kennedy’s assassination and the doctoring of the evidence was much more than a “mafia hit”. The edits of the Zapruder film prove it unequivocally. Those who play the “mafia hit” card are missing the fact that the deck is stacked.

We desperately need leaders who have the courage to take government funding away from the occult corporate-intelligence war making machine; it cannot be allowed to run toward goals that violate our Constitution.  We have to rein in and sever the tentacles that have spread out for the past 100 years that are threatening our own nation’s vitality and survival.  The roots of the CIA were created to help the President get untainted information during a World War and those roots should have been cut down drastically at the end of the war as President Truman ashamedly admitted after Kennedy was assassinated.

Instead, they have grown, spread and metastasized into the most pervasive, intrusive and perverted thing imaginable in the body of the world.  This cult of corporate-intelligence blinds us to the unscrupulous profiteers of foreign and domestic strife in our midst until their misdeeds require such enormous “bail-outs” that future generations are maimed and kept in a state of fear that is ever more paralyzing and from which no escape seems possible but in which greater sacrifices, harder work and closer monitoring is required.  Only a tiny portion of the population is insulated from such deprivations by their connections to the perpetrators.  Eventually even they will fall, because a system so selfish and exploitive inevitably feeds on itself, but that is certainly no consolation for the prey today.

We need to recognize that intelligence agencies and their corporate collaborators in the United States have rationalized, justified and perpetrated the assassination of elected foreign leaders for over one hundred years and that domestic leaders have been their targets too.  We have to recognize the harm that their predatory covert homicidal practices has done to America’s reputation in the world.

If our leaders continue to shrink away from the abyss of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath our fate is sealed.  They will continue to fertilize an unspeakable cult of corporate coercion, subversion and perversion of our constitutional republic’s ideals.  The members of that cult are “the outsiders” who are living among us in splendid seclusion.  They believe that sitting in perpetual grammar school is the vision of the future best suited for the rest of us.

For the past one hundred years schools in America have been primarily responsible for manufacturing citizens who are incapable of weighing costs and benefits, unable to make thoughtful decisions after deliberating facts and who seek only the most superficial means of showing their adequacy:  getting the right answers on tests and moving on to the next grade every year.  John Taylor Gatto’s books, especially The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2006) document the devastation wrought by the corporate-intelligence interests that have insinuated themselves into the school business and effectively hijacked the future of the American people.

So what can we do?  Well, we can learn.  The 50 years of US history since 1963, when America lost its soul, can show us the way out.

First and foremost, we must learn not to run to a fight.  We rushed to judgment in 1964 under the pretense of avoiding a global nuclear holocaust, preventing World War III, and other such imagined catastrophes and concluded that a “lone nut” killed the President of the United States.  Good, honest people were terrified and willingly assisted in the cover-up of the crime because they were rushed to the conclusion that, to do anything else would be too dangerous for the country or to themselves.  They were threatened with court martial, exposure of their indiscretions by a corrupt and malevolent FBI whose director called his office “the seat of government,” or killed outright as so many have been.

Still, many have spoken out.  Their stories were unpublished and unreported, or vigorously discredited, by the mainstream media assets of the corporate-intelligence cult.

However, healthy emotional memories persist and continue to fuel the urge that almost all of have: to tell the truth.  There are more outlets for the truth now than ever before, as long as the internet remains freely accessible.  Imagine the power of a people who know the truth and have enough healthy emotional memories to put that knowledge to good use.

Whenever a governmental agency says “we must do this NOW because to think about it anymore, or to waste any more time would be courting disaster” we should fight the urge to comply.  The misguided “search for weapons of mass destruction” that occurred a decade or so ago would not have been launched if we had resisted the urge to run to a fight.  The misguided bailout of fabulously wealthy individuals whose fortunes were made by exploiting the naivety of others would not have been made if we had insisted upon taking the time necessary to weigh options, consider costs and benefits rationally and objectively, and made decisions as to where and how to intervene thoughtfully rather than on the basis of ignorant bliss as the problem was growing or manufactured fear as the evidence seemingly exploded into view.  Congress reacted to manufactured fear in 1964 in founding the Warren Commission to suppress independent investigations of the Kennedy assassination.  It happened again in 1990 to justify going to war in Iraq.  In 2008 when incredibly wealthy and comparably amoral thieves had failed to run their businesses responsibly for decades, taxpayers were hit with a bum’s rush and gave away $700 Billion dollars to save the US economy.  It won’t be nearly enough, of course, because the outsiders remain in charge here.

Prescient author Michael Crighton, in State of Fear (Harper Collins, 2004) argued for removing politics from science and used global warming and real-life historical examples in the appendices to make this argument.  In a 2003 speech at the California Institute of Technology he expressed his concern about what he considered the “emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science—namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy.”  By focusing on the controversy over global warming, his real message has been successfully obscured.  Children are no longer taught “the scientific method” in school and are rendered defenseless against false claims about virtually everything as a result, from the fields of nutrition and product safety, to the need for (and the effectiveness of) government intervention in education, economics or disaster relief.

It has become painfully obvious that modern schools exist primarily for the benefit of their union members and that the education of students is at best, an accident.  If children are not taught how to approach problem-solving effectively, and do not acquire the foundation skills of reading, coherent writing and arithmetic reasoning, they cannot teach others to do these things.  The outsiders remain protected.  That is why the foundering of public schooling in America has been progressing incessantly for the past one hundred years and why we have finally raised a generation that cannot expect to have a higher standard of living than its parents.  They understand that they need and deserve government assistance, that entrepreneurs are “workaholics,” and that their attention is supposed to be captured by things, not self-directed.

President Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address warned:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.  The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

Later in that same speech, Eisenhower said:

“Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time.  As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow.  We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.  We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”

That Congress has failed our children and mortgaged their financial future in a fast-buck bailout scheme of grotesque proportions is an incontrovertible fact.  They ran to a fight.

Finally, former President Truman warned us on December 22, 1963 in the Washington Post about the monster that the CIA had become through its covert operations capability that he had absolutely never intended it to have.  He wrote:

“I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA.  At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President. ….  But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.”

With the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination having passed, it is possible for us to learn more from history and do what is necessary to save our country, or we can ignore it as students of “Social Studies” in grammar school are supposed to.  We need get out of grammar school, and stay out, no matter how much other people want to keep us in.

The corporate-intelligence community is relentlessly consuming so many resources that every viable, independent, worthwhile living thing will eventually wither and succumb.  Without the opportunity to know what other people living in our time are thinking, we can only know what we are supposed to be thinking.

Reading the unabridged version of Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley (GSG Associates, 1975  ISBN #0-945001-10-X) or anything written by John Taylor Gatto (especially The Underground History of American Education, Oxford Village Press, 2006) will help immensely in acquiring a grasp of why, and how deeply, the roots of the corporate-intelligence community have penetrated.  It will take much wider distribution of knowledge to shrink them; recent exposures of the depth and breadth of  illicit data collection in the Land of the Free are a good start.  This means that, from now on, the protection of free access to information especially via the internet with its ability to share information widely and almost instantaneously, will be the most important political enterprise for the future of our species.

Steve Kossor