The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Independent Media Center

ehavior can ever glean the bigger picture towards which they work so diligently to respectively
earn their Ph.D. and research funding! Those few who do comprehend are invariably engaged
with empire in the largely unhidden orchestration of social engineering. Or, are quickly
recruited as agents and assets of the Mighty Wurlitzer.
The Mighty Wurlitzer has no limit for its territory. The newsmedia, entertainment, academe,
political parties, religious institutions, think-tanks, private foundations, government-funded
organizations, and non-governmental organization (NGOs) alike, all house its agents and
assets. And they each play their own tunes on their own specialized instruments under the
supreme conduction of the Mighty Wurlitzer. The most notable among these is religion.
Although the layman does not normally associate the pastor, rabbi, alim, mullah, swami, etc.,
with propaganda organs of state, but religion is in fact the most affected by the Mighty
Wurlitzer – all throughout history. If we just reflect on the fact that more than three quarters of
the world's people espouse some faith, the easiest cognitive infiltration and behavior control is
directly through faith. The report: Islam and Knowledge vs. Socialization (
http://tinyurl.com/Islam-Socialization ), and the following challenge to a pious Muslim cleric who
issued a 600-page Fatwa on Terrorism in the Service of Empire ( http://tinyurl.com/Fatwa-
Terrorism-Qadri ), indubitably illustrate this universal fact.
Today, fact and fiction have been merged to such an alarming degree with adept perception
control that to be able to rationally separate them, to tell what is mere imagery of the Mighty
Wurlitzer vs. the actual interconnected causal reality (cause and effect) of statecraft, can be as
uncongenial to the cognitive mind as depicted by Plato for the prisoners bred in the
underground cave since birth. The fact that the most brilliant minds remain unable to tell that
9/11 was an 'Operation Canned Goods' even ten years into its vile enactment while America
descends into a police-state in presumed reaction to it, demonstrates that it is not the brain
hardware which is malfunctioning, but the brain software!
The inculcation of belief in authority figures and “experts” has reached pandemic proportions in
the West. Indoctrination is today perhaps the greatest public plague afflicting the mightiest
superpower on earth, a direct consequence of “dumbing down” the public in the name of
higher education to craft self-obsessed economic widgets, narrow specialists, and superficial
generalists for the Technetronic Era. The continued success of the Mighty Wurlitzer in
“persuading” the public to accept absurdities to get them 'United We Stand' singularly relies
on, and feeds off, this aspect of modernity. See The Ivy League Morons Syndrome. Also see
the deconstruction of Bernard de Mandeville's “fable of the bees” in Response to 'Why I'm
The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity 53 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim