Technocracy is failed mind controlJon Rappoport The spirit isnt some vague ghost or apparition. Its front and center, even in this blind world. It animates action. It has great power. It defies reduction. The spirit proliferates thought and vision. It doesnt settle for simplistic harmonies that short-circuit its inventions. It isnt a happy-happy rainbow. It isnt a childs fairy tale. In articles about my collection, The Matrix Revealed, Ive stressed, over and over, that human thought originates in a non-material sphere. A sphere outside conventional energy and space and time. That means the brain isnt thinking. Its performing calculations directed by ideas that are far more than chemical/biological reflexes. Technocracy and its utopian fantasies provide a perfect negative example. Addled researchers look forward to the day when your brain, connected to a massive computer that is a super brain, will have instant access to so much information it will ascend to a new level of knowledge and powerand then Greater Reality will emerge. But on what assumptions is this fantasy based? First, you can download information from the super brain. You can perceive it all and somehow incorporate it. Translation: the super brain will impose itself on you. This is called mind control, plain and simple. The super brain is like a very, very wise parent who gives you best information and best conclusions. You will obey, because the parent is right, correct, and is looking out for your best interests. As if that isnt enough, youll also be able gain new insights, because your brain and the super brain (computer) are in sync. But none of this really involves active thought, because what the two brains are doing is automatic. So insights, whatever they may consist of, are programmed into you. If that sounds like freedom, Pavlov was Thomas Paine. Brain activity on any level, whether biological or chemical or machine, isnt about freedom. Its about carrying out directives that originate in free choice. Actual thought is based in freedom. You think, which is to say, you make inquiries and decisions and conclusions outside the automatic venue of chemical and biological activity. You do that. You arent your brain. Therefore, no super brain computer is going to supply you with freedom. Its going to enforce automatic reflexes based on somebodys algorithms. How did we get into this mess? The answer is simple. We forgot about what freedom is. For decades, weve taken it for granted. Weve overlooked the study of freedom and its implications. If you develop a vision about the future you want, thats thought taking place in a sphere outside the automatic chemical/ biological reflexes and processes of the brain. Thats you thinking, freely. Technocracy is all about best answer. Its a fairy tale in which all humans go along with a master plan. And as for the nuts and boltsdo you really believe that if you have access to a program that teaches a foreign language, youll instantly be able to speak in that language? If the super brain gives you a one-second blast of information about automotive repair, do you really think youll be able to open the hood of your car and fix it? Do you really believe youll be able to plug into a reservoir of data about playing the piano and immediately sit down and roll out Chopin and Beethoven? Take chess. Weve already seen that big computers can defeat human chess champions. Does that mean you can plug into the computers programs and become Bobby Fisher? Having access and actually doing something with that access are two very different things. Doing something means you are making choices and decisions, freely. It doesnt mean youre submitting to a mechanical pattern. Technocracy is the latest piece of insanity derived from the notion that you can have everything you want handed to you on a silver platter. I have news. At bottom, people dont want that silver platter. They want the fruits of their own efforts. They want the joy that comes from those efforts and freely made choices. Technocracy is the latest effort to explain the genius mystery. It offers the lunatic notion that genius is a mere program that can be loaded into a brain. Thats called a metaphor, but its being taken seriously as a literal explanation. Talent, achievement, and creative imagination are far more interesting and marvelous than programs. They originate in non-material spaces where the individual invents thought and energy. The Matrix is the sum total of efforts to deny and bury that fact. This is why I do the work I do. Back in the late 1980s, when I met a brilliant hypnotherapist named Jack True, I changed my focus. Jack told me a simple thing: I stopped doing hypnosis because I realized new patients who were walking into my office were already hypnotized. He didnt mean they were in a zombie-like trance. He meant that their ceaseless activity covered a core place in their consciousness that was asleep. In this core, people are submitting to a program about how to perceive reality. This complex program is devised to hide their basic non-material power to change reality, to invent new reality on a radical scale. Because that is how the projection of mass reality is achieved: by spreading amnesia about the capacity of every individual human to create without limit. Technocracy is a mirror of that amnesia. Technocracy is a surrender to that amnesia. Its a blockbuster movie loaded with special effects that hide its paucity of real ideas. Its lack of free thought parading as advanced thinking. Its simplistic plot operating like junk foodpleasant impact followed by vacuum and blank stare. Before you can figure out all the lies, well have you trapped in a new system. Thats the challenge hurled at us. How we respond will decide the future of life on planet Earth. Our response depends on our understanding and conviction about what we are. Free and intensely creative beings, or sub-machines connected to the Big Machine. Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. 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 emails at www.nomorefakenews.com 