Okay, I saw someone suggest a book--Children of the Matrix, by David Icke. I read a quick excerpt at Amazon, and was just absolutely floored--I have to order a copy of this book immediately and I strongly suggest that you all do too. Here's an excerpt:
When a few people wish to control and direct a mass of humanity, there are certain key structures that have to be in place. These are the same whether you are seeking to manipulate an individual, family, tribe, town, country, continent, or planet.
First, you have to set the “norms,” what is considered right and wrong, possible or impossible, sane or insane, good and bad. Most of the people will follow those norms without question because of the baa-baa mentality, which has prevailed within the collective human mind for at least thousands of years. Second, you have to make life very unpleasant for those few who challenge your imposed “norms.” The most effective way to do this is to make it, in effect, a crime to be different. So those who beat to a different drum, or voice a different view, version of “truth” and lifestyle, stand out like a black sheep in the human herd. You have already conditioned that herd to accept your norms as reality and so, in their arrogance and ignorance, they then ridicule or condemn those with a different spin on life. This pressurizes them to conform and serves as a warning for those others in the herd who are also thinking of breaking away. There is a Japanese saying that goes: Don’t be a nail that stands out above the rest because that’s the first one to get hit.”
This creates a situation fundamental to the few controlling the many, in which the masses police themselves and keep each other in line. The sheep become the sheepdog for the rest of the herd. It is like a prisoner trying to escape while the rest of his cellmates rush to stop him. If that happened, we would say the prisoners were crazy—how could they do that? But humans are doing precisely this to each other every day by demanding that everyone conform to the norms to which they blindly conform. This is nothing less than psychological fascism—the thought police with agents in every home, everywhere. Agents so deeply conditioned that most have no idea they are unpaid mind controllers.
Okay people--sound like anyone we know??? I know one thing's for sure: David Icke has been reading the Monk message board!
