Greetings Earthlings, my name is Skews Me. Surely you’ve heard of me by now having been mentioned in countless movies and television programs over the past several decades.…
After I was adopted, I was given the name Kevin J. Crosby, but I don’t know if my biological parents ever gave me a name.
I’ve been a proponent of human rights for as long as I can remember, and have had countless adventures relating to this over the course of my life.
While maturing into a conglomeration of all the old cool 1970s and early 80s children’s programs, adventure movies, and the advent of video games, I was most always on honor roll, and I seemed to have a knack for knowing how people should be led by being a vigilant follower.
Kaiserslautern American High School in Germany graduated me in 1988 with an award for Government in addition to the Presidential Academic Fitness Award. The University of Washington in Seattle demanded I study political science, but I wanted to work with computers, help musicians, and play with the dormies.
I majored in Music Technology interested in neural networks and psychology toward cybernetics. After my sophomore year, the UW also gave me a Residence Hall Student Leadership Award.
Before I finished my degree, I started working full time for a music software company creating cutting edge technology during the crossover from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.0 with Multimedia to Windows 3.1.
During my prime I decided to be a hero again – and after ratting out specific vermin in 1996 – began researching the obscure topics I needed to know to explain the world I learned about growing up. Presentations of my research to government agencies have changed public policies, making the world safer for children, but not for me.
I just like to help.
If there’s only one page of mine you read, please make it Dumbing Down.
In the meantime, I’m always open to suggestions. Especially from anonymous folks who ask me tough questions so I figure out their solutions.
Sheeple – Those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research.
Introduction – Kids may rationalize, peer pressure, beg, bribe, bully, guilt, or resort to any number of other tactics.
Conspiracy Theory – The members need not know each other or the part played by others.
Information Control – “The War of the Worlds” led thousands of listeners to believe that the planet earth had been invaded by Martians!
Obedience to Authority – Ultimately 65% of all of the “teachers” punished the “learners” to the maximum 450 volts.
Herd Mentality – Researchers discovered that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction.
Connectivity – It’s just expected that we all have a mobile phone on us at all times.
Cloud – There is no form of digital communication that the government cannot and does not monitor – phone calls, emails, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts, Internet video chats, etc.
Boob Tube – Television may be likened to an addictive activity, producing ‘momentary pleasure but long-term misery and regret.’
Marketing – A firm’s marketing department is often seen as of prime importance within the functional level of an organization.
Cradle-to-Grave – Disney reps are offering new moms, within hours of giving birth, a free Disney Cuddly Bodysuit for their babies.
What’s in a Name? – That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet
Brand Identity – The beers you started drinking when you were a young adult often become the beverage of choice later in life.
Meme – A meme is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person.
Perceived Value – The higher the price the more likely customers are to perceive it has being higher quality.
PSAs – Old ads like “this is your brain on drugs,” may have encouraged teens to try drugs.
Repetition – Repetition is fundamental to the success of any advertising program.
Immersion – Concentrating on one course of instruction, subject, or project to the exclusion of all others for several days or weeks; intensive.
Gameplay – Learning the basic procedure of the scientific method.
Gaming Addiction – Players of violent video games have significantly higher feelings of aggression.
EEG – A future where brain sensors are used to let thoughts manipulate computers as fluidly as a mouse.
Subliminal Affect – Aggression can be increased by the presence of weapons in the environment.
Smell Effect – Gamers who received peppermint scent showed significant improvements in their video game play.
Gorgeous Grub – Imagining sucking a lemon…can produce a pH-level change in the mouth and a recognizable brain signal.
Fast Food – How much do we really know about food?
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Big Lie – A lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”
False Advertising – Disney induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.
Tell Lie Vision – A far greater percentage of voters hear the original lie in a campaign ad than ever read about the fact-checked version.
Faux News – FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy”.
Voting – Mob ties, bribery, felony convictions, and threats of coercion are visible in the public record.
Brains – Conservatives showed much stronger skin responses to negative images, compared with the positive ones. Liberals showed the opposite.
Propaganda – You got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
Greed – There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi
Manchurian Candidates – The perfect deep-cover agent…is the one who doesn’t know he or she is an agent.
Dumbing Down – Dumbed-down texts too easy, too simple, too boring.
Conditioning – I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select.
Thought Reform – Unbeknownst to Orwell, China was subjecting students to this “reeducation” process to adopt Communism.
Brainwashing – Cut off from friends, relatives, previous relationships, abusive groups surround the recruits and hammer rigid ideologies into their consciousnesses.
Hypnotism – A synthetic hypnotic spy with a dual personality is extremely hard to detect.
Spy – Called ‘the most addictive thing on TV at the moment’ by The Daily Telegraph.
Sodium Pentothal – Large doses of Ritalin and Sodium Pentothal have been used in narcoanalysis.
Mickey Finn – Surreptitiously altered to induce diarrhea or stupefy, render unconscious or otherwise incapacitate the person who drinks it.
Fight Club – Concern that the film would incite copycat behavior.
Prison – One in every 142 U.S. residents was in prison or jail in 2002.
Cults – Teaching children to hate inundates them from all directions.
Stalking – Psychological Harassment is not a new phenomenon but it is one that is on the rise.
Gangstalking – Gang stalking involves the use of multiple individuals to stalk, harass and taunt a victim, as well as to vandalize personal property.
Voice to Skull (V2K) – The Voice of God weapon – a device that projects voices into your head to make you think God is speaking to you.
Torture – Confessions elicited through beatings are notoriously unreliable.
Tinfoil Hats – MIT: The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the [United States] government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz.
Booby Traps – The booby traps could have been overlooked by everyone except a military-trained officer.
Conspiracy – The members need not know each other or the part played by others.
Station S – When Tokyo talked, Bainbridge Naval Radio Station listened.
Paperclip – Operation Paperclip immigrated at least 1,600 Nazi personnel along with patents and industrial processes worth billions.
Disney – Disney is one of the best deceptions of the Illuminati.
Illuminati – The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society. – U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Battered – The average age of remembering childhood incest is between 29 and 49.
Bullies – Power makes people feel like they’re better than another person.
Domestic Abuse – Domesic violence goes by many names, including intimate partner violence (IPV), spousal abuse, domestic abuse, and child abuse.
Parental Alienation Syndrome – Children caught in the middle of such conflicts suffer severe losses of love, respect and peace during their formative years.
Child Sexual Abuse – One in three girls and one in five boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 16 years old.
Traumagenic Dynamics – Researchers have identified a host of medical and psychological symptoms that are associated with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
Sheeple (a portmanteau of “sheep” and “people”) is a term of disparagement in which people are likened to sheep, a herd animal. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research. By doing so, they undermine their own individuality and may willingly give up their rights. — Wikipedia
Introduction – Kids may rationalize, peer pressure, beg, bribe, bully, guilt, or resort to any number of other tactics.
Conspiracy Theory – The members need not know each other or the part played by others.
Information Control – “The War of the Worlds” led thousands of listeners to believe that the planet earth had been invaded by Martians!
Obedience to Authority – Ultimately 65% of all of the “teachers” punished the “learners” to the maximum 450 volts.
Herd Mentality – Researchers discovered that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction.
Connectivity – It’s just expected that we all have a mobile phone on us at all times.
Cloud – There is no form of digital communication that the government cannot and does not monitor – phone calls, emails, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts, Internet video chats, etc.
Reading through email spam or the classified advertisements in a progressive newspaper, one may find offers for everything from assertiveness training1 to sexual domination hypnosis2 to computer software designed to flash brief messages on the screen with the goal of quitting smoking or losing weight.3 These are just a few of the many household Mind Control products marketed today promising that their simple tricks will allow anyone to be the master of their domain. While the efficacy of these programs is debatable, the science behind them is quite sound.
The basics of Mind Control are as ancient as mankind itself. Convincing someone to adopt an idea or perform a task is commonplace in every family. Children begin learning how to rationalize, peer pressure, beg, bribe, bully, guilt, or resort to any number of other tactics including blackmail and all out violent assault in order to get their way. As author Eric Schlosser notes in Fast Food Nation, James U. McNeal, a leading authority in marketing to children, “classifies juvenile nagging tactics into seven major categories” in his 1992 book Kids As Consumers:
A pleading nag is one accompanied by repetitions of words like “please” or “mom, mom, mom.” A persistent nag involves constant requests for the coveted product and may include the phrase “I’m gonna ask just one more time.” Forceful nags are extremely pushy and may include subtle threats, like “Well, then, I’ll go and ask Dad.” Demonstrative nags are the most high-risk, often characterized by full-blown tantrums in public places, breath-holding, tears, a refusal to leave the store. Sugar-coated nags promise affection in return for a purchase and my rely on seemingly heartfelt declarations like “You’re the best dad in the world.” Threatening nags are youth forms of blackmail, vows of eternal hatred and of running away if something isn’t bought. Pity nags claim the child will be heartbroken, teased, or socially stunted if the parent refuses to buy a certain item.4
An increasing number of teens and young adults are beginning to hone these skills in order to control family, friends and coworkers. As behaviorist B.F. Skinner explains in his book Walden Two:
We make continual efforts to control each other – teachers to control their students, students to control their teachers; parents to control their children, children to control their parents; friends and lovers, governments and citizens, all are engaged in this enterprise – but we do it poorly, haphazardly, because we don’t understand what we’re doing and even refuse to acknowledge the truth of our behavior.5
“Flicking through some of the saner sections of neuro-linguistic programming texts (minus the new age content) brings up the subtle use of language and body-language to influence other people,” states United Kingdom Defense Contractor “Mom” in personal correspondence. One method of this technique is through “mirroring” 6 the actions and words of the other person, which Mom explains:
Mirroring fosters a sense of ease or trust. Courting couples tend to do this intuitively (watch dating couples and see how they mirror things like sipping coffee, taking a bite of food, etc.) but it can be used as a way of making the mirrored party susceptible to persuasion. By doing the opposite to mirroring, the other party can be made ill-at-ease and be less amenable to persuasion (basically it rubs them up the wrong way).
Annie Finnigan reports on body language for Women’s Day magazine:
“Up to 80% of what we communicate is nonverbal,” says Joe Navarro, a former FBI agent turned nonverbal communication expert and author of What Every Body Is Saying. That means every gesture, look, mouth twitch, eyebrow raise, even the way we stand sends a message.… We relate to people in three ways: verbally (with words), vocally (tone of voice), and visually (body language), says Albert Mehrabian, PhD, emeritus professor of psychology at UCLA and author of Silent Messages. But the three V’s don’t always line up.… “If there’s an inconsistency between the verbal, vocal and visual, our words give off the least information,” he says. “Our facial expressions play the greatest role.”…
“Poker players are good at hiding nonverbal cues,” [says poker champion Annie Duke]. “But I always watch them very closely, and if I see them blinking fast, licking their lips or flashing a quick grimace before they smile, chances are they’re bluffing.” 7
Mom points out entertainer Derren Brown8 whose website reveals that he “can seemingly predict and control human behavior. He doesn’t claim to be a mind-reader, instead he describes his craft as a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship.” Brown “primes” his audience members using subtle clues to respond in predetermined ways. The effect is dramatic.
Mom also notes a Mind Control game that primes players based upon their personality: conformists will end up visualizing one image (e.g., an elephant in Denmark) while nonconformists will see another (e.g., an emu in Dubai). This phenomenon may be found in simpler form per a circulating email that has the reader calculate the number six several times then asks for a vegetable. It claims 98% of readers will choose carrot.
From its application in the classroom to its use in the workplace, psychology has become a hot topic. The discipline is even finding its way into homes. Television programs like “Nanny 911″ and “Supernanny” demonstrate what the power of a little Mind Control can do. The children on these shows would surely be required by schools to take a “chemical straightjacket” 9 such as Ritalin, but in a week’s time the behavior modification programs transform these tiny terrors into little angels.
Brain implant expert José Delgado wrote in Physical Control of the Mind:
The contrast between the fast pace of technological evolution and our limited advances in the understanding and control of human behavior is creating a growing danger. We are facing a situation in which vast amounts of accumulated destructive power are at the disposal of brains which have not yet learned to be wise enough to solve economic conflicts and ideological antagonisms intelligently. The “balance of terror” existing in the present world reflects the discrepancy between the awesome technology and the underdeveloped wisdom of man.10
And in the introduction to Delgado’s book, Ruth Nanda Anshen notes that:
Man has entered a new era of evolutionary history, one in which rapid change is a dominant consequence.… He must now better appreciate this fact and then develop the wisdom to direct the process toward his fulfillment rather than toward his destruction.… By intelligent intervention in the evolutionary process man has greatly accelerated and greatly expanded the range of his possibilities. But he has not changed the basic fact that it remains a trial and error process, with the danger of taking paths that lead to sterility of mind and heart, moral apathy and intellectual inertia; and even producing social dinosaurs unfit to live in an evolving world.11
A documentary at the YouTube.com website, “The CFR Controlled Media Cabal (Part 3),” reports:
The human mind is like a computer no matter how efficient it may be. It’s reliability is only as great as the information fed into it. If it is possible to control the input of the human mind, then no matter how intelligent a person may be, it’s entirely possible to program what he will think; and yes, it’s even possible to program people to laugh at the mere mention of the word “conspiracy.” 11
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1 Assertiveness Training Websites, SelfGrowth.com: The Online Self Improvement Community, at http://www.selfgrowth.com/assert.html (retrieved: 3 January 2011).
9 Hutchens, A. L., & Hynd, G. W. (1987). Medications and the school age child and adolescent: A review. School Psychology Bulletin, 16, 527 542; in David Sue, Derald Sue, & Stanley Sue, Understanding Abnormal Behavior, 4th ed. (Mass: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994), p. 512.
10 José Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969), p. 14.
11 Ruth Nanda Anshen, “World Perspectives: What This Series Means,” in Ibidem, pp. xi-xii.
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