Written be Frederica

 

The past 12 months have been witness to the most appalling – yet remarkable – subjugation of the Nation.  Not by any ‘foreign power’ but by our own sitting Government!

The means utilised in this undertaking was a new strain of a coronavirus.  Like many viruses before it, this COVID-19 was to prove extremely virulent to a particular section of society ie the old, infirm and those with existing health conditions that would predispose them to contracting damaging infection.  99.9% of all others contracting the virus would recover fully – as they would from a bad case of influenza.

Yet the Nation permitted government to place them under virtual house arrest and keep them there on-and-off for the past twelve months – at the expense of unmitigated damage to the Nation’s mental health; physical health and the economy. The full ramifications of which are yet to be discovered. That same government took for itself extreme powers in the form of new legislation, nodded through by an absentee, supine Parliament.

One year later, those supra-powers still exist and hold much of the Nation in a vice-like grip of fear.  How and why has this occurred?  How has it so easily and so completely overpowered the minds and free will instincts of so many people?  

The key element appears to have been psychology.  In fact we have been openly informed that the government has been guided (via the medium of their medical and epidemiological ‘advisors’) by psychologists who have created the atmosphere of uncertainty and fear that has brought us to this pass!

Some would say that we have been faced with ‘fearful’ situations before – such as WWII, the Cold War, The Cuban missile crisis etc., and that this situation is much the same.  That would be a reasonable hypothesis.  However, the ‘fear’ to which I allude is another dimension of fear.  A chimera that, like the mythical beast it represents has grown and been magnified in the minds of so many people, until it has become an all-encompassing wave.  It has drowned out the capacity for logical reasoning.  This ‘fear’ is fear of the unseen.  The supposition that in every breath that we take we could be ingesting a bacteria so mighty and so deadly that only complete isolation, away from all other people will be effective.  Shut away from the open air (lest that mighty and supernatural germ should reach us and cause us to die a most terrible death!).  Shut away from any form of our normal everyday lives.

The means by which this intimidation and subjugation has been brought about is undoubtedly the Media.

There are still many of us who remember the inception of television in the home.  Before television, radio was the medium by which most people were kept informed and entertained.  How many of us remember listening in our youth to Radio Luxembourg with its often oscillating frequency that made listening to the latest pop song both a pleasure and a trial?  I certainly remember doing my homework with one ear glued to the radio every evening!

Then came domestic television. At first with only the lucky homes, who had the money and inclination to buy a set, being identified by the ‘H’ aerial perched upon the roof next to the chimney!  Many refused to allow the ‘monster’ into their home.  My father was, initially, one of these – much to our childish disgust!  However, the day came when his boss who – in the nature of all things consumable – acquired a newer and more up to date model and donated his old set to my father. I remember evenings when the picture would ‘roll’ over uncontrollably.  This could only be resolved by giving the set a thump on the casing!

In a relatively short time came the advent of ‘commercial television’. Prior to that the BBC had reigned supreme.  Of course, in those days, the BBC had not the become the biased and politically motivated behemoth that it represents today.

‘Rediffusion’ cables began to appear across property roof lines.  ‘Wayleave’ permission and small one-off payments were being made to property owners.  My father initially refused his permission but was finally ‘cowed’ by the pressure of ‘what the neighbours would say’, should he continue to stand in the way of ‘progress’.  Thus, ‘cable tv’ came into being.  It was of course, rental-only, so initially, only a trickle took up the option.  Father refused to pay.  He had heard about the advertising breaks in programmes and was absolutely  against the idea.  My Mother wanted this new marvel.  By then I had a Saturday job paying the princely sum of 18/- for the day (90p in todays money!).  The rental was 8/- per week.  So I paid 4/- and Mother paid the same and so (I am now ashamed to say) we ‘did the deed’!

Looking back, ‘commercial television’ was the advent of ‘subliminal conditioning’.  The products being advertised usually coming with catchy slogans spouted by well known ‘celebrities’ such as the Norman Vaughan- “Roses grow on you” slogan for a well known brand of variety chocolates which used to be made in Britain but now I believe bought-out by a foreign company and relocated to Poland!

So it has moved on over the years.  Our slavish addiction to politically aligned newspapers. Television with all its ‘bread and circuses’ soap opera; game shows; ‘reality’ programmes; competitive and interactive series, breaking into all our lives and carrying the pollution of advertising into every aspect of our existence.  

Thus, the scene was set for the mass conditioning of large segments of the population that has taken place in recent years.  The advent of multi-ethnicity familial groups; the ‘charity’ advertisers (more akin to the ‘chuggers’ that were prevalent on our High Streets not so long ago) and now  government ‘big bucks’ spending on advertising of a much more insidious kind.

The ‘advertising’ and ‘daily briefings’ from government (to which we have all been subjected according to our degrees of susceptibility) have taken on the sinister aspects of the indoctrination scenes portrayed in the film ‘The Ipcress File’.  

How long will it take for the Nation to recover its senses and break free from the shackles with which it has been bound?  Only time will tell.  But it seems safe to predict that the road to freedom will not be traversed without pain.  Many are waking up to the reality of what has been inflicted upon the Nation (and indeed the World). But realisation needs more.  It will need courage and determination to break free from the ‘system’ that has implanted windmills into so many minds!

 

Photo by PangolinOne

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