Jan. 14, 2009 Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: "Emotion Over Reason, Akin to Treason" *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 14, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Emotion Over Reason, Akin to Treason: "Who'd Have Thought that What You Bought Was Chosen by Manipulated Thought, Items Around You, Chosen by Emotion, You Care and Clean with Regular Devotion, Until Fashion Declares They're Out of Vogue, You Pull Out Your Credit Card Like a Rogue, And to Cathedral of Goods Rush, Bowed, To Buy All the Goodies of the Now-In Crowd, Psychological Marketing is the New Saviour, Their Techniques Proven to Alter Behaviour, Such Techniques Used Within the School Produce Conformity, New Golden Rule, We Must All be One, No Independence, Say Bernays et al Without Repentance" © Alan Watt }-- Mammals Look to Parents for Signs of Danger - Educational System - Psychology, Psychiatry, Individual Blamed for Wars - Freud, Psychoanalysis, Bernays, Persuasion. John Dee, "Calling Down Spirits", Induced Hysteria - Group Mind, Mass Manipulation, Propaganda - Soviet Union - American Culture - War for "World Peace" (Absence of Opposition). Change, Rebellion - Club of Rome, Battling Groups - Freud's "Science" - Sea of Unconscious - Tavistock Institute Experiments, Aldous Huxley, Taming Humans. Cyber "Clones", Predictability - Bio-Control, Brain Electrodes - Distrust of Man - TV Watchers, Soap Operas, Serials - Positive Thinking, Auto-Suggestion. Marketing, Consumers, Building Confidence - Economists, Bad News is "Heresy" - Financial Crash, New Economy - Men's Fashion, Advertising Aimed at Women. School Security, Surveillance, No Privacy - Supermarket Cameras - Virtual Worlds. (Book: "The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard.) (Article: "2020: dawn of the 'intelligent' classroom" by Irena Barker (tes.co.uk) - June 8, 2007.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 14, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)