The most frequently used words on televisionJon Rappoport One of the profound and simple tricks of propaganda is selling people what they already have. However, if they dont know they already have it, if they dont realize the sale is unnecessary, they wont recognize the sleight-of-hand operation. And the payoff is, theyll accept a synthetic substitute for the real thing. If a person really doesnt understand he has freedom, he may, for example, buy the idea that freedom means serving others. No. Freedom and serving others are two different things. And there are all sorts of ways freedom can be packaged and sold that add up to slavery. In the only study Ive been able to find, Wictionary surveys the scripts of all television shows in the year 2006, to analyze the words most frequently broadcast to viewers in America. Out of 29,713,800 words, including the massively used a, an, the, you, me, and the like, the word home ranks 179 from the top. Mom is 218. Together is 222. Family is 250. If you think this is hardly surprising, thats because youve been relentlessly bombarded with propaganda about family for years. Well, take a step back. Newsflash: Everyone is born into a family. It may be wonderful, it may be terrible, it may be just okay, it may be whole or broken, but its a family. For nearly all of human history, people have managed to deal with their families without needing to raise flags and pennants and banners elevating the concept to the highest peak of the highest mountain. In the same way that protecting a baby with a stroller that looks like a Patton tank is excessive, the ideal of family has been pushed beyond any rational boundary. And there is a reason for this. If you want to embed and entangle an individual in a group or collective, and train him to think its inevitable, what better way than to start with the family. Its operant conditioning. Television promotes family as a monitor on the independence of the individual. Fathers and mothers operate as cautionary and commanding figures in the landscape. Dont do that. Dont go over there. Be careful. Dont move away from town. Dont take a chance. Stop dreaming. Why cant you be like everybody else? Take the safe path. Think as the family thinks. Government has become a surrogate parent. It gives and it takes. It dispenses gifts, but it also makes arbitrary rules. Remind you of anybody? We love you and need you and we have freebies for you, but dont go against the family. Only an utter dolt would fail to recognize the warning signs in that sort of arrangement. If you survey the range of broadcast television, youll find endless examples of family as infernal concerned meddler in the decisions of its members. Its goo a mile wide and deep. Artificial empathy as a cover for control. We care about you. We dont want you to go down a dangerous road. We want to protect you. Who were you talking to on the phone? What emerges is a portrait of family members as people eternally mired in problems, struggling to operate under a very low ceiling of achievement and power. If America is a family of 300 million people, then naturally the parents will need to keep track of all the children. Its called the Surveillance State. Were just looking out for you. Its for your own good. Edward Snowden becomes the wayward child who wandered from hearth and home. Daddy and Mommy will teach him a lesson. When a shooter goes off in an Aurora theater or a Sandy Hook school, the television audience watches the event on television as if its a gruesome episode in a soap opera aboutfamily. James Holmes and Adam Lanza are outcast sons of America who became sick and twisted. Youre either part of the family or youre a killer. If you think Im exaggerating or rejecting the very human emotions of sympathy, grief, and shock, Im just describing how these events are presented by media. Im pointing out the subliminal messages, which are all gross distortions and exaggerations. America is not one family. It never was. Were not all in this together. Thats a myth and a fairy tale. The myth is promoted miles beyond any truth, for a reason: To elevate the collective and demean the free and independent individual. I grew up in a family. I grew up with friends. I know what its like to feel close to people. And Im old enough to have seen the shift take place, when these experiences of mine and yours were parlayed into a universal togetherness. The myth. The legend. Its a construct. Its a psyop. It was a synthetic piece of friendly fascism laid over the truly authentic experiences of living. Most people never discover what theyre capable of or what they really want, because they remain in the constricted bosom of the group. Spinning this as a Great Unity is cruel. It isnt spiritual. It sells well, because it panders to people whove sacrificed their freedom many times over. If you believe our recent presidents have been dispensing some new and elevated philosophyClinton (I feel your pain), Bush (no child left behind), Obama (were all in this together)you need a mental laxative. And Hillary (it takes a village) in 2016? More of the same. These hustlers care about populations as much as the CIA MKULTRA chiefs cared about mental health. The presidents won office and acclaim because millions of minds had been seeded with engineered brain-dead propaganda about Universality. Hope does not reside with the group. The group, if it has any genuine worth, exists to force leaders to reinstate individual freedom. When the people have lost contact with what individual freedom means and what it is for, puppet dictators arise and take the reins. They delight in committing crimes. Now theres a family. The crime family. Theft, extortion, murder. Under the flag of love. Contrary to experts, people dont need to be taught what love is. They know. They know it in the womb. In tribes, societies, and civilizationspeople settling their differences? Learning to cooperate on basic values? Of course. But for that, no high-flying psyop-prophets are needed. The prophets have an age-old strategy. Sell back to people what they already have, dressed up in high-flying sentiments. Suckers, fools gold, hollow intimacy. A movie about reality in which the free and independent individual is sacrificed. 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. 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