The real reason for the rise of Vampires, Werewolves, Witches and Wizards

From Harry Potter to Twilight, from the Discworld series to Blair Witch the last twenty years has seen a move of what was previously the domain of adolescent boys in darkened rooms and pubescent girls desperate for boyfriends into the mainstream. For many years stories of Vampires and Werewolves, witches and wizards have done the rounds of horror films, books, radio plays and the like, appealing to specific audiences, primarily wannabes and the disaffected, the Goths and Emos, a part of the music scene and the alternative lifestyle. The reasons behind this are interesting to say the least, and give yet more insight into the way in which the means of controlling the population are changing. The background to this is the rapid increase in scientific progress through the 20^th Century. The implication of this technological development is that an understanding of genetics, geology, psychology, chemistry and physics has led to an increase in the number of people questioning the validity of religious belief, particularly in the Western World.

This questioning, and the inability for mainstream faiths has led to a decline in church attendance and religious faith. This is a crucial factor because since the 5^th Century AD the church and the fear of divine retribution has been a crucial part of controlling the masses, and with its decline, new control methods are required. It has become clear to those in control that simply replacing a global religion such as Christianity is not only impractical but would be fraught with the same issues that Christianity is suffering from. The alternative is to take an idea which is already popular in the alternative community and to take it into the mainstream. This has led to the widespread adoption of tattoos, the increase in androgeny and metrosexual lifestyles, the move towards consumerist hedonism and the shift from monotheism to the worship of magic and the esoteric. But why is this proving so successful? In spite of the developments in science there has been a concomitant decrease in the level of education being provided meaning that the science is not fully understood. This has left a gap which is being bridged by pseudo-science and particularly with pseudo-history and pseudo-archaeology.

Let us take the Harry Potter novels as an example. These are primarily supposed to be aimed at children but are equally widely read by adults and although they profess to be fictional accounts of child wizards there are numerous occasions when “mysteries” that many people ponder are explained in magical terms. Many of the spells are given technical sounding “Latin” names aiding this process. A similar story is found in modern vampire stories where technology is conflated with mysticism and romance to create a very appealing mix. But how is this used to create the control that has been lost through the move away from Christianity? This alternative exerts control through a far more subtle mechanism. The books and films are specifically produced to engage the mind in focusing on fitting in with a larger social group. If you look at the “fanfic” phenomenon where fans of a particular series produce stories based around the characters you see something quite interesting. The apparent freedom of being able to create your own stories within an imaginary world is curtailed by the need to stick to canon, in other words to keep the new stories in line with the old. Add to this the pressure to dress alike, act alike, even talk alike all adds to creating a new form of control, constantly self reinforced and externally driven by media imagery.

So the next time you are drawn to one of these books or films and you don't really know why, ask yourself “What is really going on here?”

Social engineering conspiracy

From a former special advisor to the Foreign and Commonwealth office :

Throughout the 20^th Century there has been ongoing research in many countries into ways of controlling large populations both overtly, through force of arms and covertly, through techniques such as information management and psychological control. The first of these methods has been used since the earliest beginnings of humanities transition to societal and communal living, and it has been, and still is limited in its effectiveness because it relies solely on the dominant group being able to physically suppress the often numerically larger subservient group. This, as has been shown in numerous revolutions to rely on an implicit acceptance by the subservient group to be dominated. As soon as this acceptance is removed, the dominant group tends to be overthrown and replaced. It has been the desire of the dominant to achieve a state within which the overt controls are no longer required for almost as long, because control by covert means suffers less from the acceptance problem, given that it can only be challenged if it has been revealed.

The earliest, and still most common form of covert control is religion. There is often debate amongst theologians and students of comparative religion regarding the similarities between geographically disparate belief systems, and the explanation often presented is that many belief systems developed from a single root source and were modified as groups of early civilisations became more diverse and faced more varied challenges, but the remnants of the original beliefs was retained to a greater or lesser extent in stories such as creation myths, global floods, stories of giants and so on. This is unlikely to be the case given the number of assumptions that it relies upon, principle amongst these being the assumption that there is a core of truth to these beliefs which has lent them strength to retain their broad shape over multiple thousands of years. In reality the story is rather different, and relies on no assumptions other than the idea that in any society there is a need to control a large proportion of the population, if one regards this as an assumption rather than a simple statement of fact.

Using this need for control as a start point it becomes clear that religion is a potentially powerful tool of control if it is harnessed in the right way. People are instinctively ware of their own mortality and are habitually wary of situations of uncertain safety. As a consequence an idea that offers security, and also offers the hope that death is not the end has a tremendous appeal. If you analyse the similarities between World religion you see that they tend to relate to highly uncertain and highly dangerous situations. Examples are cataclysms, floods, fires, earthquakes, monsters, demons and so on. The point of similarity is that these disasters are caused by behaviours that tend towards individual freedom rather than group thinking. One of the best examples is that most religions proscribe sexual freedom, and most commonly homosexuality. Sexual freedom is common amongst almost all higher mammals, with the caveat that sexual freedom is repressed whilst raising offspring, but returns once offspring are grown. Sexual diversity encourages genetic drift and increases hybrid vigour within a species. Homosexuality plays a role in this, sexual activity both homo and hetero sexual encouraging cooperation between individuals, strengthening communities.

The proscription of sexual practices is key to understanding the way in which social control works since the principle is to curtail individual freedom by making certain natural behaviours unacceptable thereby creating mental disharmony and lack of balance. Once an individual is challenged in this way they become easier to control, and the more freedoms you proscribe, the easier the control becomes. That is the history, and it has been highly effective. The 20^th Century has seen a step change in the use of covert control techniques. Technology development has increased the ability to disseminate information on a scale that has not been possible before. Alongside this, the understanding of the details of the way in which the brain works has developed. It is interesting to note that many religions are wary of psychology, and more specifically psychotropic drugs. The reason for this is again clear. Psychology presents an opportunity for a shift in those who have power away from religious leaders and towards governments. It is worth noting that the rise of technology and understanding has occurred alongside a decline in religious belief, but that there has been no concomitant shift in individual freedoms. The bulk of the population is still just as controlled but in a different way and by a different group.

The aim is to reach a point that there is a fully two tier global population, a small global elite serviced by and provided for by a vast slave population. The 1% is only the start......