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Weaponizing Mozart
How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control
In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music—where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have been turned into tools of state repression—marks a new low.
We’re already the kings of CCTV. An estimated 20 per cent of the world’s CCTV cameras are in the UK, a remarkable achievement for an island that occupies only 0.2 per cent of the world’s inhabitable landmass.
A few years ago some local authorities introduced the Mosquito, a gadget that emits a noise that sounds like a faint buzz to people over the age of 20 but which is so high-pitched, so piercing, and so unbearable to the delicate ear drums of anyone under 20 that they cannot remain in earshot. It’s designed to drive away unruly youth from public spaces, yet is so brutally indiscriminate that it also drives away good kids, terrifies toddlers, and wakes sleeping babes.
Police in the West of England recently started using super-bright halogen lights to temporarily blind misbehaving youngsters. From helicopters, the cops beam the spotlights at youths drinking or loitering in parks, in the hope that they will become so bamboozled that (when they recover their eyesight) they will stagger home.
And recently police in Liverpool boasted about making Britain’s first-ever arrest by unmanned flying drone. Inspired, it seems, by Britain and America’s robot planes in Afghanistan, the Liverpool cops used a remote-control helicopter fitted with CCTV (of course) to catch a car thief.
Britain might not make steel anymore, or cars, or pop music worth listening to, but, boy, are we world-beaters when it comes to tyranny. And now classical music, which was once taught to young people as a way of elevating their minds and tingling their souls, is being mined for its potential as a deterrent against bad behavior.
In January it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby in the midlands of England, was “subjecting” (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” the children are forced to endure two hours of classical music both as a relaxant (the headmaster claims it calms them down) and as a deterrent against future bad behavior (apparently the number of disruptive pupils has fallen by 60 per cent since the detentions were introduced.)
One news report says some of the children who have endured this Mozart authoritarianism now find classical music unbearable. As one critical commentator said, they will probably “go into adulthood associating great music—the most bewitchingly lovely sounds on Earth—with a punitive slap on the chops.” This is what passes for education in Britain today: teaching kids to think “Danger!” whenever they hear Mozart’s Requiem or some other piece of musical genius.
Read more: Reason
Adolf Hitler was an admirer of Wagner's music and saw in his operas an embodiment of his own vision of the German nation. There continues to be debate about the extent to which Wagner's views might have influenced Nazi thinking.
Originally posted by hawk123
Mozart the Freemason secret:
Mozart was member of the Asiatic Brethen
The Gematria he used for coding is:
A=1, B=2, C=3, I=J=9, U=V=20, Z=24
129 = zauberfloete (gematria)
129 = 24+1+20+2+5+17+6+11+14+5+19+5
See page 137 on:
books.google.com...
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Related Thread:The Mozart Effect.
According to that thread, its a positive effect though, not a negative one. Of Course, forcing it on people is another story.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
OOO classical music playing everywere that sounds awesome.
I personally cant get enough of it. I hope the U.S. adopts this program. Now all we need is a world full of musicians...
Originally posted by Sigismundus
Maybe someone should do a 3 year study of playing Mozart for 12 hours a day in the Los Angeles County Jails - but probably better off playing the Sinfonias rather than say some of the deeper material, such as La Clemenza di Tito, that some people have told me is a little over-dramatic at least to the un-trained ear, but there you are...the strays don't seem to mind Tito on bit !
Originally posted by FortAnthem
reply to post by hawk123
Cool stuff.
Seems like you can't go anywhere without seeing some masonic symbols.