The world has entered a new time

The world has entered a new time

The Arcturian Group

Channel: Marilyn Raffaele

Posted on April 28, 2025

Dear Readers welcome to our message.

The world has entered a new time, one in which present forms of business, religion, government, science, entertainment, tradition, and anything created from and supported by obsolete concepts are starting to crumble in order that new, better, and higher versions of them  can manifest. What you are seeing at this time are not new and higher versions of these things.

You are only at the beginning of much to come. What is taking place today will not be permanent but is helping  to awaken those who believe everything they see, hear, and are told by others.  Increasingly more are starting  to actually look at and question aspects of government, law, health, education, organized religion, and the world's current belief system.

Mankind has reached a place of spiritual readiness to evolve beyond the well established but increasingly obsolete belief system that has governed every aspect of life on earth for eons.  Allow the process for it has indeed begun and there is no need to wait for a sign or event to confirm it.   Observe the process from the strong foundation that you are building as you learn to  accept, integrate, and live your knowledge of absolute truth.

Absolute truth is the fullness of spiritual reality and the foundation from which human consciousness evolves.  Serious seekers of truth often get waylaid and confused by absolute truth because they expect that once you read a book, take a class, or start meditating, the spiritual truth they learn will automatically manifest.  They may throw away their medicine, quit their jobs, etc. while shouting; "God is all!"  and when they find themselves in trouble begin to doubt that what they have learned.

Consciousness is creative.  Mind is the interpreter of consciousness and thus truth must be an attained state of consciousness before it can express. It is like learning to drive.  You memorize the steps, practice, (intellectual level) and soon driving becomes automatic (state of consciousness). Honesty is another example.  You don't even consider stealing because honesty is your state of consciousness.  Evolution is nothing more than every person's  journey toward awakening into the reality of who and what they are.

Evolution on earth in three dimensional  energy has always consisted of experiences of good, bad, and horrible over the course of many lifetimes until  finally they learn everything needing to be learned from three dimensional experiences and are ready to start looking within rather than without.  After earth becomes a higher resonating planet, those at the very beginning of their evolutionary journey will evolve on planets able to meet the needs of their energy levels.

Living an authentic spiritual life is not about acting out concepts of how being spiritual looks, but rather consists of being in the world, doing what needs to be done while not being of it.  It means assigning power only to God and all that God is regardless of appearances. It means going within before making big decisions and trusting intuition be your guide and shield.  It means being aware of the absolute truth that God is all there is, but not pretending a state of consciousness not yet attained. It means  translating outer appearances to the spiritual reality underlying them while taking the human footsteps you may be required  to take at your present level of consciousness.

Gradually the truth you learn, hold in your heart, and live  as best you can,  becomes your attained state of consciousness where the practice of truth is no longer needed because you are it.  Life  becomes easier and more harmonious and when issues arise they are more easily and quickly resolved because you hear and trust your intuition and your consciousness is manifesting outwardly. There is peace in your heart which is the only way permanent true peace will ever come to the world.

Earth is a spiritual universe peopled with sons and daughters of God and governed by love. What  you are seeing, have been seeing, and have been  programmed to see for centuries are mind formed interpretations of spiritual reality.  In earth's dense three dimensional energy states of consciousness conditioned lifetime after lifetime with beliefs of duality, separation and many powers are only able to see, experience, and  manifest God's perfect creations as material form.

No one person is better or more loved by God than any other.  All, whether on earth or some other planet are of the same one and only life.  When you observe  lives lived in less than an ideal way, it  is important to remember that before incarnating every person chooses the life lessons they feel they will need while on earth.

The homeless man or woman may have specifically chosen that experience for their learning.   The alcoholic may have incarnated with the intention of once and for all re-experiencing, moving beyond,  and then finally clearing lifetimes of addiction. The choice of race, skin color, or gender is often made for the purpose of experiencing the prejudice that he/she may have supported and been a part of in a previous life.  Not everyone completes their chosen life lessons  but will be much closer to doing it in their next life.

These times offer tremendous opportunities for everyone to awaken to new and higher states of consciousness should they choose.  Those opening to that which is  new and higher are often not fully aware of what has taken place within.  Many do not express or are even consciously aware of spiritual knowledge  but rather find themselves  living with more  patience, compassion, understanding, and actions of oneness expressed in seemingly ordinary ways.

You will or are already  experiencing individuals coming to you with questions or for your opinion regarding what is going on. This is because your energy is attracting those of similar energy who are ready for more. This will increase.  Never proselytize or randomly spout truth where it is not welcome but be prepared to guide, assist, and teach those drawn to you.  This is light-work.

Light work has always been thought of as forms of table work- healing, channeling,  etc. but in reality Light work is simply silently and secretly being  Light.   It  is opening the door for someone, petting a lonely dog, or simply saying hello while never forgetting to silently acknowledge their true Divine nature. Everyone becomes a light worker when without ego involvement or desire for recognition they live life from a place of love, service, kindness, patience etc.

It is natural to feel some trepidation and confusion or even be tempted  to go into full blown fear at this time.  Don't resist for this simply adds energy to appearances but rather  recognize these things for what they are.  As you live each moment with truth in your heart and mind you begin to experience levels where fear does not exist and find that you are no longer so deeply affected by appearances.

You chose to be on earth for these present times.  You knew that evolved states of  consciousness  imbued with love and  truth would be desperately needed for earth's ascension process but there is no need to do, do, do.                                        Just BE.

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Compassion and Love Are Rising

Compassion and Love Are Rising

By Kenneth Schmitt

Posted on August 27, 2023

credits: frasesdelavida.com

The consciousness of humanity is becoming more positive, more compassionate and loving, while also realizing the great evil that we are subjected to. Wide-spread distrust of the government is growing, and people are banding together to improve life apart from corporate tyranny. The fires in Lahaina are a good example of a tremendous amount of compassion and love that is arising. The nearly -complete destruction symbolizes the dissolution of an old way of life, and invites the arising of a new culture and civilization based on love. 

The act of war against humanity resulted is great tragedy for those who lost their homes, businesses, loved ones and pets, and their way of life. but the tragedy is ending, and the survivors, who have nothing, not even a car and probably not a job, need us to act in unity with them, and we are. They are not victims; they are survivors. More than 11,000 of them are being housed and fed in the resort hotels. Transportation is being provided, and money is being distributed. Every service they could want is being made available. These are the physical manifestations of compassion and love.

More importantly, the energy of compassion and support has risen world-wide. People everywhere have been praying, and some are imagining something wonderful arising from this event. The something wonderful is a new culture of creativity and love, manifesting in a beautiful masterpiece of a town. Maui is too wealthy and enlightened for this opportunity of transformation and renewal to be missed.  The only significant things remaining in Lahaina are some coral-stone brick walls and the giant banyan tree. The town has been reduced back to nature with a potentially beautiful and amazing future. 

It's not just the physical things that are happening, but they are the manifestation of the energy that we are creating and radiating. This is the beginning of the era of gratitude, love, compassion and joy. The survivors know that they are being cared-for out of love and compassion. This elicits a conscious background of gratitude and a rising amount of joy as the grief lessens. Most of the support is given without expectation of anything other than knowing that they are supporting those in need. And it’s not just temporary. This is a long-term process. Everyone involved knows this.

On a more expanded level of consciousness, we can know that all of these things are having an effect on the consciousness of humanity, as well as on the individuals involved. The feeling of all being in the same family is rising into awareness. As we continue to align with compassion and love, we become aware of our true inner knowing, because we are not distracted by any personal needs or fears. All of those get magically covered. To the ego, this is impossible, but it happens, because its’ a logical energetic result of how we modulate energetic patterns with our mental and emotional processes. In this case those are symbolized by compassion and love in the essence of Divine Consciousness. 

Kenneth Schmitt 

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Government is People’s Greatest Enemy

Government is People’s Greatest Enemy

Posted by EraOfLight 

on 07/10/2023

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If humans do not realise this, and that government oppression has been happening for centuries, we will not be able to realise the liberation of planet Earth. Wake up and take matters into your own hands by showing that freedom on planet Earth is a right that Father/Mother GOD has given us to every citizen on Earth.

Remember; the government is the problem, not the solution. After more than 20 years of lingering and deepening recession, it is now time to change course. In a democracy, governments are elected by the people to serve them, but not to play authoritarian dictator, as has always been the case. Governments use all power and resources to negatively affect your way of life.

They have the power to tax, detain, imprison, torture and use young men and women to fight wars in other countries that pose no threat to their own. They regulate and impede businesses, distribute money, make trade more difficult through embargoes and sanctions, and control everything that comes to mind. Governments clearly do not serve the people, worse, they are the enemy of the people.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolute. The type of person attracted to a government likes to control and oppress other people. Contrary to popular belief, this is why the worst qualified people – not the capable ones – get into government. So it is certainly not the most knowledgeable or brightest minds that are in government.

Enforcing security checks at airports without real protection is nothing but creating business for government faithful. As a result, people wonder who will protect them from theft and violence, from their own government terrorising them, robbing them and destroying their own country.

People entrust justice to an institution that is obscenely corrupt and shady. People are raised to stay under surveillance and give their freedoms and abilities to their government; they dare not do otherwise because they will be arrested.

The power of modern representative government is that it misleads the masses by making them believe that they too are insiders. They are encouraged to vote and believe that their vote really counts. Practice proves otherwise.

Moreover, voters have no idea where or for whom they are voting. They often get the opposite of what they thought they voted for. Governing is a phenomenon, not a system.

If we humans, allow those few (less than 1%) Elite to impose their evil on the rest of us, then “life” will no longer be human, nor would it be anything that could be considered “life”.

The world of Agenda 2030

People will only exist, not live, crammed into high-rise small boxes in megacities within human settlement zones of megaregions as set out in Agenda 2030. The 

population will be a fraction in number of what it is today, while being denied access to 95 per cent of the earth’s surface. Everyone will be microchipped and connected to a computer system that can dictate their thoughts, emotions and health, or more precisely lack thereof.

Surveillance will be 24/7 through microchips, wireless systems like smart Grids, in every building, location and form of transport within and between megacities.

Every thought will be accessed and recorded in real time. People will be watched in their own ‘home box’ by cameras through compulsory television – or ‘Orwellian Tele-screens’.

The change from analogue to digital television is the precursor to this, why this transition happened so quickly. This includes it all aspects of broadcasting – even car radios and phones at extra cost to the target audience. It also covers smart phones, televisions, etc. HAARP and other communication networks, when the overall network system is ready, they are capable of transmitting the same messages to everyone in an entire country at once, until eventually the entire planet is captured under the push of a button.

This is best understood as a battle between outsiders and insiders. The insiders are the government and use their power to control the outsiders. Why do they do this? The usual reasons are Wealth, Power and Status.

Dancing to the beat of the music

In a nutshell, government is an institution where ‘insiders’ steal the wealth, power and status of ‘outsiders’.

For most politicians, there are no boundaries or moral dilemmas about little things like integrity and personal data protection laws. The more secrets people have and leave behind in government that can destroy them if revealed, the more useful and attractive these people are to hold key positions. If they ever try to go against the official line, there is always the database.

The upper echelons of politics are full of people who dance to the beat of the music for fear of public disclosure on everything from financial fraud to paedophilia. These kinds of politicians are near or at the top of the government power system.

Total regime change is the goal; but so far there is still the threat of the Deep State bloodlines to introduce their fascist New World Order in order to take over planet Earth to make their own world of it.

This is already the world of Agenda 2030; People can exist, not live, in cash-less poverty under their rules, while the few who control them and live in unimaginable high-tech luxury on, say, cheaply obtained Greek islands.

Children will then be owned by the state and raised in the manner foreseen by Aldous Huxley back in the 1930s; because of his prescience described in his book Brave New World.

Children are technologically bred into genetic caste systems and the concept of biological parents is symbolically seen as a page from the past, meaning true history is erased.

Parents, were the father and mother. That is an unpleasant fact. Then most historical facts are also unpleasant. Because in the past, children were raised by their parents and not in state care centres. As Huxley described;

He described how these state conditioning centres programme children to accept whatever the state prescribes and anyone who does not conform will be electrocuted until he does.

He described how babies crawled to pictures of flowers and birds only to be shocked because the state does not want them to love nature. Children in Brave New World are also brainwashed even as they sleep with subliminal messages. Huxley said the child’s mind eventually, through psychological suggestions, becomes the mind of the state, or, “Suggestions” of the “state”.

How many people are already like this today? The continued erosion of parents’ rights to make decisions about their children are the stepping stones to the world that Huxley describes and that Agenda 2030 requires. As a transition to children being technologically produced by the state, parents will need state permission to have children according to strictly genetic criteria.

There will be no more cars in this new Deep State Archon world, the only transport will be local rail transport systems connecting homes and workplaces, and high-speed trains between mega-regions. People need permission to travel on these means of transport.

The carriages are equipped with units for the purpose of wireless mind control fields where passengers are watched by uniformed thugs of the State.

People have to work where they are told to work, without any choice. The word ‘choice’ is dropped from the vocabulary, in other words like freedom, exactly as Orwell envisaged from his prescience.

Transhumanisme paradise of technology

All this is called transhumanisme, the ‘paradise of technology’ better translated as ‘love your servitude’, or abolitionism. This term was used to abolish slavery and here it is used to describe a much greater slavery – the slavery of mind and emotion within technologically manipulated reality.

Other desires of Archon trans-humanism include designer babies; introducing the DNA of other species to create a trans-genetically or genetically modified ‘GMO’ 

human being; with brain-computer interface – already developed – in which the human mind can be connected to the internet to surf -‘serve’, download, upload and merge into a hive mind – social networking – with the global web of all minds connected.

Genetic engineering and the transhumanism agenda are very important to the Archons. The attempt to fundamentally alter human nature and the merging of man and machine has long been in the making.

Actually severing the link with our humanity by short-circuiting human creation is an obvious next step for these would-be controllers.

They have made this a carefully well-crafted acceptance, but it will die on the rubbish heap of temporal existence. It cannot endure, let alone survive, in our creative force field.

Technologies like Google Glass, an Internet-connected computer that can be worn like a pair of glasses, are a stepping stone to direct inter-connection via microchips.

As is widely known, this device is already available today. Google is the key player in the trans-humanist agenda. This is promoted as awesome smart gadgets, such as the brain tumour-inducing smartphones in widespread use, which recognise your voice patterns, which are expressions of your unique vibrational signature, or the low-frequency smart electricity meters specifically chosen to track and influence people in their own homes, systematically leading people down a dark and dangerous path to Archon system integration.

Transition and Defeat of the Deep State Cabal

Don’t expect others, more influential powers, to prevent this future for us. If a large powerful group takes the initiative, there is a danger that they will oppress us again later.

If we start for ourselves, we have the initiative and can ask powerful groups for help, without giving away our control as initiators.

If you still believe in the power of your nation, now is the time to do something now. Later is too late. Be serious, we can still win this battle, but swift action is prerequisite.

If you do nothing, you deserve what you are going to get

There is no excuse for ‘not taking action’ a first step is to learn more about

Agenda 2030, and share this knowledge with others. Therefore, create a team of like-minded people to work together to convince others of the seriousness that great participation requires reciprocal action.

Inspire them to action as well. Again, this totalitarian evil is happening all around us, most people have joined social networks, watch digital television, use a smart phone and have installed a smart electricity meter, but they don’t connect the dots, only to realise that they are under surveillance 24/7 and have already lost much of their freedom, while what is left of personal privacy is diminishing day by day.

Today, you live in the most exciting and challenging period in earth’s history. You have the opportunity to make a wonderful contribution. It is clear that humanity is facing psychopathic guided agenda dictated by other worlds.

The Deep State Archon powers have the ultimate tools of power at their disposal, so we are increasingly forced to go along with them on a daily basis, and we are thus heading straight for their totalitarian fascist nightmare.

If we do not rise up ourselves to end this oppression, this nightmare will become fact. We have now incarnated on planet Earth to put an end to this. We can count on the help of our Extraterrestrial brothers and sisters. But the initiative must come from ourselves.

Planet Earth is the most beautiful and richest planet in the Universe, given to man on Earth by Father/Mother GOD. We can all live here in peace and well-being as sovereigns.

Now or Never

All of us together are in the majority and no match for the cabal, as they themselves realise! Together, we can easily win this final battle,

Wake up, get up, turn off your TV-set, take to the streets, unite and protest to defend your lives and rights and reclaim your freedom!!!!

Let this article go viral by sending it all your acquaintances and friends. Encourage them to do the same and join operation “total liberation of planet Earth!”

A State of Never-Ending Crisis: The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria

A State of Never-Ending Crisis:

The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria

By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead

Posted on March 30, 2023

“This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don’t think fear is a very effective way of dealing with things—of responding to reality. Fear is just another word for ignorance.”—Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist

We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.

This is mind-control in its most sinister form.

With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a spate of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.

Take this latest shooting in Nashville, Tenn.

The 28-year-old shooter (a clearly troubled transgender individual in possession of several military-style weapons) opened fire in a Christian elementary school, killing three children and three adults.

Already, fingers are being pointed and battle lines are being drawn.

Those who want safety at all costs are clamoring for more gun control measures (if not at an outright ban on assault weapons for non-military, non-police personnel), widespread mental health screening of the general population, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more CCTV cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more “See Something, Say Something” programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do random bag searches, more fusion centers to centralize and disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, and more surveillance of what Americans say and do, where they go, what they buy and how they spend their time.

This is all part of the Deep State’s master plan.

Ask yourselves: why are we being bombarded with crises, distractions, fake news and reality TV politics? We’re being conditioned like lab mice to subsist on a steady diet of bread-and-circus politics and an endless spate of crises.

Caught up in this “crisis of the now,” the average person has a hard time keeping up with and remembering all of the “events,” manufactured or otherwise, which occur like clockwork in order to keep us distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from reality.

As investigative journalist Mike Adams points out:

“This psychological bombardment is waged primarily via the mainstream media which assaults the viewer by the hour with images of violence, war, emotions and conflict. Because the human nervous system is hard wired to focus on immediate threats accompanied by depictions of violence, mainstream media viewers have their attention and mental resources funneled into the never-ending ‘crisis of the NOW’ from which they can never have the mental breathing room to apply logic, reason or historical context.”

Professor Jacques Ellul studied this phenomenon of overwhelming news, short memories and the use of propaganda to advance hidden agendas. “One thought drives away another; old facts are chased by new ones,” wrote Ellul.

All the while, the government continues to amass more power and authority over the citizenry.

When we’re being bombarded with wall-to-wall news coverage and news cycles that change every few days, it’s difficult to stay focused on one thing—namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law—and the powers-that-be understand this.

Yet as John Lennon reminds us, “nothing is real,” especially not in the world of politics.

In other words, it’s all fake, i.e., manufactured, i.e., manipulated to distort reality.

Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population.

This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.

As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.

The more that is beamed at us, the more inclined we are to settle back in our comfy recliners and become passive viewers rather than active participants as unsettling, frightening events unfold.

Reality and fiction merge as everything around us becomes entertainment fodder.

We don’t even have to change the channel when the subject matter becomes too monotonous. That’s taken care of for us by the programmers (the corporate media).

“Living is easy with eyes closed,” says Lennon, and that’s exactly what reality TV that masquerades as American politics programs the citizenry to do: navigate the world with their eyes shut.

As long as we’re viewers, we’ll never be doers.

Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch—and I would posit that it’s all reality TV, entertainment news included—the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.

“We the people” are watching a lot of TV.

On average, Americans spend five hours a day watching television. By the time we reach age 65, we’re watching more than 50 hours of television a week, and that number increases as we get older. And reality TV programming consistently captures the largest percentage of TV watchers every season by an almost 2-1 ratio.

This doesn’t bode well for a citizenry able to sift through masterfully-produced propaganda in order to think critically about the issues of the day, whether it’s fake news peddled by government agencies or foreign entities.

Those who watch reality shows tend to view what they see as the “norm.” Thus, those who watch shows characterized by lying, aggression and meanness not only come to see such behavior as acceptable and entertaining but also mimic the medium.

This holds true whether the reality programming is about the antics of celebrities in the White House, in the board room, or in the bedroom.

It’s a phenomenon called “humilitainment.”

A term coined by media scholars Brad Waite and Sara Booker, “humilitainment” refers to the tendency for viewers to take pleasure in someone else’s humiliation, suffering and pain.

“Humilitainment” largely explains not only why American TV watchers are so fixated on reality TV programming but how American citizens, largely insulated from what is really happening in the world around them by layers of technology, entertainment, and other distractions, are being programmed to accept the brutality, surveillance and dehumanizing treatment of the American police state as things happening to other people.

The ramifications for the future of civic engagement, political discourse and self-government are incredibly depressing and demoralizing.

This is what happens when an entire nation—bombarded by reality TV programming, government propaganda and entertainment news—becomes systematically desensitized and acclimated to the trappings of a government that operates by fiat and speaks in a language of force.

Ultimately, the reality shows, the entertainment news, the surveillance society, the militarized police, and the political spectacles have one common objective: to keep us divided, distracted, imprisoned, and incapable of taking an active role in the business of self-government.

Look behind the political spectacles, the reality TV theatrics, the sleight-of-hand distractions and diversions, and the stomach-churning, nail-biting drama, and you will find there is a method to the madness.

How do you change the way people think? You start by changing the words they use.

In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a. police states—where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used.

In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind.

Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred—inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination, infantilism, the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite.

Labelling something as “fake news” is a masterful way of dismissing truth that may run counter to the ruling power’s own narrative.

As George Orwell recognized, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Orwell understood only too well the power of language to manipulate the masses. In Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother does away with all undesirable and unnecessary words and meanings, even going so far as to routinely rewrite history and punish “thoughtcrimes.”

In this dystopian vision of the future, the Thought Police serve as the eyes and ears of Big Brother, while the Ministry of Peace deals with war and defense, the Ministry of Plenty deals with economic affairs (rationing and starvation), the Ministry of Love deals with law and order (torture and brainwashing), and the Ministry of Truth deals with news, entertainment, education and art (propaganda). The mottos of Oceania: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Orwell’s Big Brother relied on Newspeak to eliminate undesirable words, strip such words as remained of unorthodox meanings and make independent, non-government-approved thought altogether unnecessary.

Where we stand now is at the juncture of Oldspeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is “safe” and “accepted” by the majority is permitted).

Truth is often lost when we fail to distinguish between opinion and fact, and that is the danger we now face as a society. Anyone who relies exclusively on television/cable news hosts and political commentators for actual knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

Unfortunately, since Americans have by and large become non-readers, television has become their prime source of so-called “news.” This reliance on TV news has given rise to such popular news personalities who draw in vast audiences that virtually hang on their every word.

In our media age, these are the new powers-that-be.

Yet while these personalities often dispense the news like preachers used to dispense religion, with power and certainty, they are little more than conduits for propaganda and advertisements delivered in the guise of entertainment and news.

Given the preponderance of news-as-entertainment programming, it’s no wonder that viewers have largely lost the ability to think critically and analytically and differentiate between truth and propaganda, especially when delivered by way of fake news criers and politicians.

The bottom line is simply this: Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them.

A populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s time to change the channel, tune out the reality TV show, and push back against the real menace of the police state.

If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows more absurd by the minute.

John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/03/a-state-of-never-ending-crisis-the-government-is-fomenting-mass-hysteria.html