Friday, November 11, 2011

Kanye had a song in 2007 called "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" with a distinctly robotic sounding audio.



Translation: Transhumans are good. In fact they're better than regular old natural-style humans.

When I first heard Kanye's song on the radio, I assumed the lyrics referred to the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius" , which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger". It never occurred to me that there could be a connection to transhumanism until I saw the video.

In fact the video for Kanye West's "Stronger" looks like an updated and longer version of the "Six Million Dollar" man intro. Both involve a man on an operating table being made "stronger" by being turned into a transhuman. The transhuman element in the "Stronger" video includes robot surgeons. At one point the robot surgeon makes the obligatory OK-666-Horus-eye sign. This Kanye video could be the subject of a post of its own.

Hurry, hurry! Transhuman upgrade special - today only!

There is a similarity between "The Six Million Dollar Man" and Avatar. In both cases the person who was "upgraded" was damaged. The Elite wouldn't just depict upgrading a perfectly healthy normal human being, because this would create a moral dilemma for the audience. So instead they take someone who is crippled or in danger of dying and "fix" him with a transhuman enhancement. And the audience cheers and applauds.

It's part of their art of deception. Find a special case where the unthinkable becomes thinkable. And then expand that special case until it becomes the norm. Bingo! Societal norms and attitudes are changed. There's no more need for propaganda because the society has been changed from within.

That's the ultimate end goal of advertising or public relations. To get the public to believe that it was their idea all along. It's done through subtle manipulations and associations, slowly breaking down any internal resistance through preconditioning and desensitizing. Until in the end the mind welcomes and even desires that which it once rejected.

It's not called a publicity or ad "campaign" for nothing. It's part of a war. It's a battle. And the battle is going on in our minds. It's a battle for control of territory consisting of ideas and concepts - and yes, symbols.

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