Syed Farook and the new world of emotional triggersBy Jon Rappoport Conceive of it this way. Far up in the sky you have people, individuals, who are inventing the fulfillment of their most profound desires, making them fact in the world, no matter whatand way down below, miles under the earth, you have other individuals who could be doing what the sky dwellers are, but theyve bamboozled themselves into thinking they cant. Instead, they think theyre trapped in every little response they might have to any old stimulus that comes along. Both groups of people are creative, but theyve channeled their imaginations and creativity in vastly different ways. Waking up may be hard to do, but you either do or you dont. (Notes for Exit From The Matrix, Jon Rappoport) Some brilliant media pundits are now suggesting that the accused San Bernardino shooter, Syed Farook, may have been triggered by the Xmas party at the building he later attacked. You know, the existence of Xmas contributed to setting him off because his religious faith was of a different type. Xmas was a grave insult. There will be people, believe it or not, who think this analysis has merit. Well, sure, I can see that. Given the nature of his faith, its understandable that he would have left the party in a disturbed state, gone home, put on military gear, picked up a few auto weapons, a ton of ammo, and pipe bombs, waited for his wife to do the same, and then, on the spur of the moment, returned to the buildinghe was triggered. Triggered is the new reality. Its mainly for the young and nave, especially those who are looking for a way to become known at colleges. Wow, I can get a few minutes of attention if I say I was triggered. Ill go for it. Its easy. I dont have to do anything. I dont have to achieve anything. This is all about not achieving anything. Its a perfect excuse. Im paralyzed. And the reason is, lets see, I wasnt warned by my professor that he was going to discuss a subject that had triggers in it. Yeah, I like it. Apparently, there is no bottom for idiocy. You think youve seen the worst, but no. Yesterday, I included this quote from a New Yorker article. Its worth re-reading: Individual [Harvard law] students often ask teachers not to include the law of rape on exams for fear that the material would cause them to perform less well. One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word violate in classas in Does this conduct violate the law?because the word was triggering. Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress. (Jeannie Suk, The New Yorker, 12/15/14) There are several underlying principles at work here. One is: If you give people an out, an excuse for not doing anything, a way to become a victim, a significant number who arent genuinely disabled in any way will reach for it and grab it. And theyll invent a back-story full of grievances. And traumas. And whatever it takes. This is a form of art. Theater. It may be bad art and bad theater, but there it is. I wish I could write a play, a novel. Mostly, I wish I could create the future I really want. But it doesnt look like I can. So Ill do something different. Ill cast myself in a play thats already gaining steam. Ill take on the role of victim. Ill be the person who is in danger of being triggered every time I get out of bed in the morning. If I put everything I have into that role, I might garner a few good reviews. There is a larger point here. The whole business of promoting triggering is a propaganda operation. Its goal is to convince people that they live in a stimulus-response worldand that means a locked-up world. Stimuli appearand inevitable responses follow. Period. End of story. Freedom? A myth. Individual choice? Impossible. The human being? Merely a biological machine programmed to deliver x, y, or z, depending on the external provocations of the moment. Individual power? No such thing. This is the Pavlovian wet dream. Since the dawn of time, leaders and the men behind and above the leaders have tried to install stimulus-response as the only form of human activity, and for obvious reasons. Stimulus-response is the essence of mind control. The perversely clever thing about promoting triggering as a valid and universal concern is: you will get people to program themselves. Theyll reach out for, and invent, any excuse to pretend theyre being negatively stimulatedand theyll demand protection, which in the long run amounts to a fantasy about safe spaces they can inhabitvacuums where no adverse content can set off little emotional time-bombs. Another underlying principle at work: never consider raising up people so they can express and fulfill their deepest desires; no, instead take everyone to the bottom, where the incurably injured live. Thats the goal. And if you cant see the consequences of that program, you need a stirring wake-up call. The Individual is endlessly creative. If, for whatever reason, he decides and believes he cant consciously express that power in a way that meshes with his deep desires, hell invent his reality in a different directionand that is his problem, its not someone elses. The proof of the pudding? No one else can invent his desired reality for him. Its his job. And its also, if he would see it, his joy. This is not a matter of whats fair or unfair, just or unjust. Its a matter of fact. The individual has freedom and power. The range of these capacities is endless. What Im writing about here is in no way a prescription for allowing public corruption to flourish and then blaming the individual for the circumstances in which he finds himself. Quite the contrary. All those students who are currently programming themselves to be triggered? They could be creating an entirely different atmosphere at their colleges. They could be investigating, for example, where all the grant monies come from. Im talking about grants for research on highly toxic medical drugs. Im talking about pharma influencing the content of science courses and medical training. Im talking about government money for research on toxic pesticides and genetic meddling. Im talking about money for research on brain mapping, which is really a prelude to efforts to re-program brains and thus control them. Im talking about money for research on better methods of mass surveillance. And so forth and so on. Create that drama. Create the drama of discovering the truth about what colleges are really doing, and expose it, and put the sold-out researchers in the glare of the spotlight for the right reasons. Or, dilly dally about triggering and have that party instead. There certain incontrovertible facts. They have nothing to with what already exists or what did exist or what will exist. They have to do with the individual and his power to imagine and create reality. He can fathom and access this power and consciously use it to achieve his own purposes, or he can subvert those purposes and instead invent himself into a dead-end, where the substance of his life appears to be entirely under the control of external forces, with no hope available. Those are the immortal cards and that is the immortal hand dealt on the table. Play them as you will. The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here. Note also that there is a war on Christmas. Christmas manger scenes now banned in public, only the giant menorah allowed on the White House lawn. Zio Media brainwashing, who is behind it? It is sickening Gee, I wonder. To find out who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. 1965 immigration act, genocide against the white race, see Dr. Kevin MacDonald on youtube. Not true! The Rothschild mafia allows a Holiday Tree on the White House lawn. ACLU started with that years ago Ya just cant fix stupid..especially in a contrived inculcated Nanny State mind set of daily meme implanted faux cradle to grave bubble wrapits called RESPONSE-ABILITYnot sticking your head in a hole in the ground hoping no one else can see the rest of your body..so patheticonce more, people are being subliminally programmed with PC speech that makes people think theyre thinking..when in fact theyre simply rearranging their own prejudices inherent grocery list of unconscious bigotry.with the full range IQ of a fence post.be RESPONSE-ABLE. you can start by turning off the TV doing your own research for the truth of things . heaven forbiddevelop your very own critical thinking. Thank you for using this canard in a sarcastic manner because that is all it should be used for. Oh no, I got triggered by the thought of triggering! Where do I apply for my compensation? at the trigger office, stupid! #Triggered@#Jesuislavictim. When you say secede you have my undivided attention and support. It may be the only way to break the grip. If Texas creates its own banks and secedes then dozens of states will follow. But NY wont give Texas its gold that it requested. So then.those drills in Texas happened. That was the fed threatening Texas. Well they hate him so naturally they will hate everything associated with Jesus. Every season you can expect the Grinches to come out against it. Excellent article, very well written. Why do 90% of the comments lead me to believe very few understood it? Is there any way to get rid of the annoying popup on the left so we can actually read the article? The net is becoming worse than cable-tv Does ANYONE have any proof that this couple committed this act? Proof as in evidence. Dont you mean triggered by the cia? Are you really all this stupid? More bullshit diverting your gaze from the truth. I think the cia call it muddying the water. Ivan Pavlov was a vivisectionist. He worked for the Czar and for Stalin. No scientific knowledge can be gained from the practice of torturing animals to death. Science is not a means of enslaving people. Pavlov was not a scientist. Monsters are not scientists. Vivisection is not science. This crap is sold to Americans in their universities under the brand name of behavioral science psychology. Psychology is not a science. It is an attempt to enslave people using intellectual domination misrepresented as science and expertise. Very few would believe that its actually true that violence is energized by Christmas, because Christmas (i.e. the winter solstice ritual) is a pagan ritual in honor of Saturn, which is the spirit of antichrist (Old Testament Baal). The spirit of antichrist is also the spirit of idolatry. There are numerous verses of scripture that reveal that wherever idolatry is practiced that there will be violence in the streets. Christmas is pagan to the core. Jesus was born in September. There are several YouTube videos that reveal it. 