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0zzymand0s
reply to post by mirageman
There is room enough for both of you to be right, but for many of us, the harmony and melody mean nothing without the lyrical content being extraordinary.
bigman88
I'm going to jump right an say it from the get go, then proceed with my ideas and criticisms. Here goes...
The Illuminati is this secret organization that takes it's directions from Lucifer. One of it's tools for psychological confusion and weakening of humanity is through the popular music industry. There, i got that out of the way. Now here are the reasons.
1) I always here that there only objective is to make money. Sex sells. Violence sells. Materialism sells. Senseless love sells. Inner emotional indulgence sells. That's why they have made this subject matter encompass the whole mainstream music industry. It's what the people want, and they are simply selling to them. I, and logic, and any thinking person says no. There are plenty of angles to the human psyche, all equally capable of becoming primary operative in our minds. There is no proof that human's will naturally acclimate towards violence and sex for enjoyment. That is something that is dependent on culture. We as humans can adapt to and enjoy anything; if you take the average entertainment medium to plenty of other parts of the world, it will horrify those inhabitants. There was a time were the sex and violence within our entertainment culture offended most of American society, while some were unsure of it's budding proliferation. Even men were put off by half naked women on billboards. Now today, it is the normal. Shocking no one at just how much shallow subject matter makes up entertainment, especially music.
They can sell us anything. Marketing and exposure is what will determine it's success. They can make the same amount of money selling us positivity, compassion, awareness, anything. If it has a million dollars, commercials and billboards behind it, it will sell. If something is advertised ta a society that hangs on the evrey word of the TV and radio, and they say this is the next big thing, it will sell. They want to sell us sex and violence.
2) So all of a sudden, out of nowhere, everybody likes the Illuminati? This shadowy secret organization that controls everything for it's own nefarious purposes? People are intrigued by the thought of there favorite rapper being a devil worshiper, and that's why ALL of the big name pop artists inundate all of their material with the symbols and lyrics? So why do all of these artists feel the need to make mess with their loyal fans heads by making them wonder if they worship the devil, or are apart of the Illuminati? For what reason? So you mean to tell me they are not able to market anything else that will catch a wider audience, instead of just Illuminati membership and devil worship?
"Iv'e made it! I got signed to a major record label! Now you know what would get everybody talking about me and wanting to buy my albums? Satan! Ha! They're so gullible..." < This x ALL of the mainstream pop artists. Does that makes sense?
Since when has devil worship and Illuminati become so cool and popular? So the kids of today are so rebellious and wild that they like Satan and the Illuminati, which has the entertainment industry putting these symbols and lyrics everywhere, having kids buy lil Wayne and Justin Beiber's album? Out of a million things to catch everyone's imagination with, they want us to imagine our favorite artists being into the devil?
Did we just start liking these symbols by ourselves? From childhood? Because these symbols are in children's media also.
So do the little children think these symbols cool? Or are adults putting them in there to get them to think that they are cool? The fact that these symbols are so prevalent in KIDS CARTOONS should make this whole thing suspicious from the start, but people will keep reasoning and downplaying.
3) And then we always here some bullcrap like "you can find whatever you want if you look hard enough. It means nothing." Or "There are all kinds if signs for all kinds of things already everywhere." Right. Let's examine this with an analogy.
If we see any number in TV programs, comics, books, movies, fashion or company logos, it will mean nothing. There numbers, and they are used all over for whatever. If i find the numbers 1-10 in all the above mediums, that would only show a bit of repetition, and lack of imagination on that particular company's part. So for that, they were just following the trend. There would be nothing to classify it as something to be observant of. Now if i find a specific set of numbers, arranged in the same consistent orders, say 39620/96203/62309/09236, in all the above mediums, everywhere, all the friggin time, then wouldn't that be a specific pattern there? Shouldn't that elicit some suspicion? The same goes for these occult symbols. Then let's add that all of the symbols have been in American mass media entertainment since not long after it's inception and that they are all part of the same overarching subjects (Satanism, Occultism, Illuminati). That makes it undeniably strange.
Argyll
reply to post by Kitora
2 Words......"Supply & Demand"
mirageman
reply to post by Kitora
I don't quite go with all the symbolism thing in music videos to brainwash us all. I have watched many a TV show down the years with pictures of a Swastika and it still hasn't made me a Nazi. However maybe the weak minded are influenced by "Television, the drug of the nation, feeding ignorance and bleeding radiation" and all that. In fact that's video NOT music.
The modern music industry is faced with competition from 5 decades of it's golden past and the fact that most of the good melodies have already been created in the limited range of popular music. So I still think it's motive is financial survival rather than hypnotic influence. Feel free to disagree. The world is not always as it seems.
Argyll
reply to post by Kitora
2 Words......"Supply & Demand"
madmark
reply to post by Kitora
they are turning people into zombies with the same poop music all day. maybe thats the agenda.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Let me write the songs of a nation.
“For a long time now, I’ve been convinced that what happens in New York (finances), Hollywood (entertainment), Silicon Valley (technology), and Miami (fashion) has a far greater impact on how our culture thinks about reality than what happens in Washington D.C. (politics). It’s super important for us to understand that politics are reflective, not directive. That is, the political arena is the place where policies are made that reflect the values of our culture--the habits of heart and mind--that are being shaped by these other, more strategic arenas.
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As the Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher said, “Let me write the songs of a nation: I don’t care who writes its laws.” Tullian Tchividjian, Unfashionable, p. 95.
Think on the above.
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Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653 – September 1716) was a Scottish writer, politician and patriot. He was a Commissioner of the old Parliament of Scotland and opposed the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England.
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I said I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation, and we find that most of the ancient legislators thought that they could not well reform the manners of any city without the help of a lyric, and sometimes of a dramatic poet.
'An ACCOUNT of A CONVERSATION concerning A RIGHT REGULATION of GOVERNMENTS For the common Good of Mankind: In A LETTER to the Marquiss of Montrose , the Earls of Rothes, Roxburg and Haddington , From London the first of December, 1703'. Later variants express the sentiment in the first person, e.g.:
Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Give me the making of a people's songs, and I care not who makes its laws.
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21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
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23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
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24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
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25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
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26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
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40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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22. "In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. "An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
tothetenthpower
reply to post by Kitora
The deeper agenda is MONEY. It always has been.
I can't for the life of me believe that there's an entire industry of music, that's dedicated to masonic, satanic or any other kind of large scale attempt at 'programming people'. Beyond the obvious over sexualization of our youth and the pushing of consumerism.
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Spookybelle
The constant here is the change and there is nothing any deeper to read into it other than that. Remember the devil horns symbol the kids used to make with their closed fist in one hand and a raised lighter in the other?
Was nothing but a little trend.
Kitora
tothetenthpower
reply to post by Kitora
The deeper agenda is MONEY. It always has been.
I can't for the life of me believe that there's an entire industry of music, that's dedicated to masonic, satanic or any other kind of large scale attempt at 'programming people'. Beyond the obvious over sexualization of our youth and the pushing of consumerism.
~Tenth
This is probably exactly what the point of all of this is.
Conspiracies are juicy, and so they attract many people. I don't have the balls to outright say that there is a conspiracy, and that there is a supernatural force at work within the paradigm of society tugging at the strings of our friends and loved ones.
The amount of sexual imagery, undeniably ripples through our culture at a rate that isn't really matched by anything else. It transforms the youth of today, making them more promiscuous, more concerned with appearance, ego and money. Such a mechanism of deep psychological bombardment feels indicative of something larger, but this is all conjecture.
At the rate that this is seeding society I feel as though it's only a matter of time before the majority of the population is so superficial that they will be completely blind to the world, much more than they are today, which seems hard to top.
18. "No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation." David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations