Zeitgeist Addendum on Image Therapy October 11, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in The List.Tags: deception, movies, Peter Joseph, zeitgeist
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Peter Joseph has produced a sequel to his smash documentary, which brings us face to face to modern day deceptions and manipulations: Central Banking, Economic Hitmen, and more.
The trailer is below:
Watch the documentary here.
Financial Crises on Image Therapy September 22, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Cognitive Dissonance.Tags: deception, financial crisis, international banking cartel, manipulation, monetary system
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It’s already nearing the end of the year and the financial crisis that started with the eruption of subprime mortgages in 2007 is showing no sign of abating. Major investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns are biting the dust and even the financial giant AIG had to be bailed out by the US government, in the same manner as mortgage institutions Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Indymac.
In this time of turmoil, it’s interesting to review alternative views on the state of the financial system. Two new videos added to Image Therapy shed some light on the possible roots of this, and the diabolical methods and intentions of the parties that manipulate events behind the curtain.
Check out: Money Masters, and Money as Debt.
Wagging The Dog And The Ossetia Conflict August 15, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Reflections.Tags: deception, economics, georgia, russia, south ossetia, war
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Great preamble by Ellen Brown on her article:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had just announced record losses, and so had most reporting corporations. Unemployment was mounting, the foreclosure crisis was deepening, state budgets were in shambles, and massive bailouts were everywhere. Investors had every reason to expect the dollar and the stock market to plummet, and gold and oil to shoot up. Strangely, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 300 points, the dollar strengthened, and gold and oil were crushed. What happened?
Ellen draws a web of deceit of how powers such as the US trigger world events to their own economic advantage. Wars are only about ideologies and politics on the surface. At the core, its business and profit.
Capitalism turned on its head.
Cognitive Dissonance – Part 8: The Ultimate Con June 18, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Cognitive Dissonance.Tags: 9/11, conspiracy, deception, lies, Terrorist, ultimate con
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Since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent investigations and War on Terror, many conspiracy theories have emerged on the events of those days and the possible intentions and motivations of the perpetrators.
A recent documentary was released on the internet, labeled “The Ultimate Con” which puts together news bits and interviews, cleverly edited and strung together without a narrative.
Exercise your creative minds and see the truth behind the documentary and the events they describe.
See the documentary under Image Therapy here.
The Myth of AIDS and HIV May 31, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Reflections.Tags: africa, aids, deception, documentary, drug abuse, epidemic, hiv, homosexual, monkey, movies
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You’ve heard of AIDS and HIV before, it’s almost a cliche as bad as hunger in Africa.
But do you really know about AIDS? Do you really know enough to protect yourself?
Do you know exactly what you are protecting yourself against?
In the same spirit as Zeitgeist and Esoteric Agenda, both of which I’ve posted in Image Therapy, Gary Null presents a film about the AIDS that people don’t know.
Check out the film under Image Therapy and learn more about the dreaded “epidemic of the modern times”.
Do you still believe any of the following statements?
- HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
- HIV was first contracted in Africa from monkeys.
- HIV is primarily transmitted through sexual contact with infected partners, secondarily from infected needles, tertiarily from infected mothers to their infants.
- Irresponsible homosexual males and intravenous drug abusers are at high risk from AIDS, but everyone is at risk from the disease.
If you do, it’s time to revisit what you know. Open your mind to the truth.
More Deception May 28, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Reflections.Tags: banking, deception, documentary, esoteric agenda, lies, movies, religion, terrorism, zeitgeist
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After seeing Zeitgeist, I came across another movie in a similar vein: Esoteric Agenda. I’ve posted this along with Zeitgeist in Image Therapy.
These movies make you think about daily life you take for granted: the religion you hear being preached around, the government you pay taxes to, the wars you read about on the newspapers.
You worry about your money, how to pay your bills, how to keep yourself healthy, when in reality bigger things are afoot.
Check these films out to get a second opinion on life.
Zeitgeist In The Pharmacy May 14, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Reflections.Tags: banking, deception, documentary, lies, movies, religion, terrorism, zeitgeist
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I’m a bit late in learning about this wonderful documentary, but once I saw it and its simple but powerful message, I had to make sure that it had a home here in the Pharmacy. The mother of all therapies!
It’s just also very apropo since I’m writing about cognitive dissonance nowadays, Zeitgeist describes the most prevalent dissonance experienced in our age: thoughts on religion, terrorism, and money.
Check out Zeitgeist under Image Therapy.
Everything you know is wrong.
Cognitive Dissonance – Part 2: Would You Lie To Yourself? May 14, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Cognitive Dissonance.Tags: aesop, deception, fables, festinger, fox, grapes, lies
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My conversation with Ricky was not a transcendental event in a sense, but it was a lot of fun. It’s rare that you get to talk to someone with about as open a mind as they come. More to the point, I finally realized how closed minded a lot of people are about things once you’ve spoken to someone of the opposite spectrum.
Open about what?
Ricky and I talked about religious topics, but in hindsight, I realized what we were talking about were not the particular nuances of a certain cult or sect. What we were talking about were lies. Deception, in many cases self-inflicted, and occasionally: deception on a mass scale.
Again I’m reminded of Gregory House: “people lie.”
I remember having an illustrated book of Aesop’s fables. Stories of colorful characters, and more importantly: a lesson or moral to be learned from each one of them.
The story of the fox and grapes is a classic amongst Aesop’s Fables. For those whose memories need refreshing, check out this link (the contemporary version of the story is a riot).
In the story, the fox, having tried in vain to obtain the grapes, rationalizes and changes his mind about them. The popular moral of the story is: “It is easy to despise what you cannot have” and taken from this standpoint, the actions of the fox seem very trivial, just a quirky decision.
Of course, what I never realized when I was a kid reading this story is that the fox in the story was glaringly showing symptoms of what is now described under an interesting theory in behavioural psychology.
This is the theory of cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance was first coined in 1957 by Leon Festinger. It describes the emotional and psychological difficulty when one entertains conflicting ideas or beliefs. This discomfort causes some sort of adaptation to help an individual bridge the gap between the ideas. Sometimes the adaptation is inappropriate, and serves to widen the gap further.
Our fox had two conflicting ideas: a) he wanted the grapes and b) he couldn’t get it. In the end he rationalizes by saying the grapes are probably sour (the root of the term: sour-graping), and thus is able to bridge the conflict. If the grapes are sour, then it makes sense not to get them.
You might suddenly thinK I’m making a big deal about a little thing. Poor fox, suddenly a psycho lab-rat for our analysis and entertainment.
Or is it really? Think about it a little and you will realize that the fox was in fact LYING to himself. The act of sour-graping however you decide to view it: whether as a psychological crutch, or bourne out of a whim, has still NOTHING to do with the reality. The fox’s actions do not tell us anything about the grapes, but in fact tell us more about the fox, and more importantly, how the fox viewed the results of his efforts (to get the grapes) which have failed miserably.
The fox is just a story. The grapes are just a story. But the story describes us. What conflicts are we nursing? What would make us change our behaviour?
Would we be foxes and lie to ourselves?
