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Creativity and Conformity
Written by Michael Iva. Original article HERE
. . . . . . . "YOUTH and Creativity"-in I.Q. tests given to children between the ages of 2 - 4 years, 95% of the children were found to be highly creative with curious, questioning minds and an ability for abstract thinking.
When the same children were tested again at age 7, only 5% still demonstrated high levels of creativity. In the ensuing years, they had learned to conform; "If you want to get along, you had better go along," is what these children had discovered.
The DANGERS of CONFORMITY: They had learned to color between the lines, to sit in neat little rows, to do and say what the other kids did and said, and to do as they were told by, the elite, by their parents, by their school, by their religion, and by other in their peer group; who had bought into the same bullshit, that was on their diet. Over time, they lost the wonderful fearless spontaneity of youth and learned to suppress ideas and insights that were unusual or different.
"Through the control and manipulation of children using a vast assortment of tools, the elite are therefore able to maintain power, seemingly able to do as they wish while the masses linger in complacency and pacific lethargy.
Retaining the loyalty and the blind trust of the masses is critical in order to maintain the status quo, and this the Establishment does extremely well.
The illusion presented, the fantasy espoused and the manipulated behaviors controlled must be pervasive and omnipotent, conditioned into the citizenry from cradle to grave the benefits of the elite, hiding truths and reality, espousing fictions and lies in order to maintain balance, power and the indispensable yet ever-threatening blind loyalty of the people.
Based on faith in the system, brainwashed into the mind from an early age, the citizens of a nation become ardent supporters of the same system designed to exploit and control their lives.
Welcome to America, our nation-state, at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
The conditioning and manipulation of minds begins seemingly from birth as the idea of the nation-state is planted into the young, still-developing human brain.
Like organized religion, the system knows that in order to maintain lifelong loyalty and dependence of its subjects, it must begin brainwashing from the earliest moments of life.
It must begin eroding the naturally inquisitive human mind from the beginning, instead implanting the seeds of lifelong loyalty and subservience.
It must bombard the still-innocent, naïve mind to its dictates, lest the mind begin questioning its tenets as it matures and reaches the age of reason.
And so, blitzkrieged with the cocktails of nationalism, children are transformed from little primates into loyal servants of the nation, abusing the innocence of youth so as to not confront the wisdom and experience that comes with age.
The system knows that in order to achieve its army of worker bees and soldier ants it must use the recipe used to conquer souls, perfected for nearly 2,000 years, of breaking the human mind early, implanting ideas and beliefs that in adulthood will be nearly impossible to erode.
Hereditary conditioning of minds, personalities and behaviors works best in youth, when the mind is still fragile and innocent, when the brain is growing and susceptible to believe almost anything if it is manipulated long enough, pervasively enough.
Thus, the process by which youngsters are indoctrinated and made loyal to the state commences in schools as children embark on a journey of education that will span at least a decade and a half through a purposefully corrosive, under funded and manipulative state education system whose curriculum caters to the interests of the nation and the elite that run it.
From the beginning young children are subjected to countless hours of indoctrination to the state, becoming obedient citizens submissive to authority, taught to never question the very fabric and foundations of the nation and those that lead it.
They are molded into becoming one more cog in the system by a classroom environment and teaching structure pilfering individual thought and expression, making youngsters conformist creatures of habit taught always to trust in the system, in those governing and leading.
Forced to listen, learn and read what the Establishment wants taught, children begin incorporating what they see and hear as fact, in their young innocence believing in the altruism of their nation's government.
The idea of the nation they reside in, and of the undying loyalty to it, is firmly ingrained by curricula, teachers and textbooks.
Dozens of songs espousing nationalism, patriotism and the historical fictions of the nation are taught, forever remaining entrenched in one's mind.
Books whitewashing, glossing over or altogether erasing the reality of a nation's troubled past, with its incessant crimes against humanity, its evil deeds, its wars, its invasions, mass murders, genocide, ethnic cleansing, forms of market colonialism, wars of economic depravity and continued exploitation of peoples are disseminated throughout the nation, revising the history its future citizens learn.
Instead, romanticized stories of myth and fable are inculcated, making ordinary men seem god-like, bigger than life beings never capable of wrong.
Elite exploiters of human flesh become Founding Fathers; criminals and murderers become Presidents; racists become Supreme Court justices; members of the Establishment become Secretaries and legions of traveling salesmen turned political prostitutes become Congressmen.
In the world of make-believe, where truth is turned upside down and falsity becomes reality, it is children who absorb legend best, and it is they who become targets of fictional stories masquerading as history textbooks.
For years children are indoctrinated that the nation is the supreme manifestation of good and its principles, no matter how detrimental they may be, are to remain unsurpassed and unquestioned.
All citizens must conform, obey and follow its policies, always remaining loyal and faithful to its actions.
Throughout the course of a child's passage through the education system, the sacredness of the red, white and blue, along with that of the national anthem is conditioned into minds, becoming sacrosanct relics, to be preserved and cherished.
The idea of government as wise and beyond reproach is taught, making faith in the system a sought-after virtue in all citizens.
And so, for years the same process is repeated again and again, year after year, grade after grade, each semester that passes brainwashing a new piece of information into developing minds.
Love of country is bombarded and slowly but surely, through methodical and systemic manipulation of minds, the young primate brain succumbs to the barrage of patriotism-filled teachings, becoming, over time, the obedient, unthinking, unquestioning and complacent loyal citizen of the nation.
With a decade and a half advantage over the now maturing and reasoning adult mind, the system has laced our thoughts with its tools of loyalty, succeeding in quieting our questions, controlling our energies and implanting the pacific acceptance of the system into our being.
As adults we have not a chance, really, as the apparatus of brainwashing has achieved its mission long before we have had an opportunity to think for ourselves.
Before we know it, the programming of our youth is resurrected when we least expect it, attacking our adult life whenever the nation needs our subservience most.
Suddenly all that has ever been imparted onto us rushes our minds, making us blind as bats and as obtuse as earthworms. Creativity, what was that notion again?
The elite, nationalism, politics, and religion continue to devastate our potential and creativity."
BOTTOMLINE-- The greatest threat facing creativity is humanity. The greatest threat facing humanity is humanity. The greatest threat facing nature is humanity.
. . . . . . . "YOUTH and Creativity"-in I.Q. tests given to children between the ages of 2 - 4 years, 95% of the children were found to be highly creative with curious, questioning minds and an ability for abstract thinking.
When the same children were tested again at age 7, only 5% still demonstrated high levels of creativity. In the ensuing years, they had learned to conform; "If you want to get along, you had better go along," is what these children had discovered.
The DANGERS of CONFORMITY: They had learned to color between the lines, to sit in neat little rows, to do and say what the other kids did and said, and to do as they were told by, the elite, by their parents, by their school, by their religion, and by other in their peer group; who had bought into the same bullshit, that was on their diet. Over time, they lost the wonderful fearless spontaneity of youth and learned to suppress ideas and insights that were unusual or different.
"Through the control and manipulation of children using a vast assortment of tools, the elite are therefore able to maintain power, seemingly able to do as they wish while the masses linger in complacency and pacific lethargy.
Retaining the loyalty and the blind trust of the masses is critical in order to maintain the status quo, and this the Establishment does extremely well.
The illusion presented, the fantasy espoused and the manipulated behaviors controlled must be pervasive and omnipotent, conditioned into the citizenry from cradle to grave the benefits of the elite, hiding truths and reality, espousing fictions and lies in order to maintain balance, power and the indispensable yet ever-threatening blind loyalty of the people.
Based on faith in the system, brainwashed into the mind from an early age, the citizens of a nation become ardent supporters of the same system designed to exploit and control their lives.
Welcome to America, our nation-state, at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
The conditioning and manipulation of minds begins seemingly from birth as the idea of the nation-state is planted into the young, still-developing human brain.
Like organized religion, the system knows that in order to maintain lifelong loyalty and dependence of its subjects, it must begin brainwashing from the earliest moments of life.
It must begin eroding the naturally inquisitive human mind from the beginning, instead implanting the seeds of lifelong loyalty and subservience.
It must bombard the still-innocent, naïve mind to its dictates, lest the mind begin questioning its tenets as it matures and reaches the age of reason.
And so, blitzkrieged with the cocktails of nationalism, children are transformed from little primates into loyal servants of the nation, abusing the innocence of youth so as to not confront the wisdom and experience that comes with age.
The system knows that in order to achieve its army of worker bees and soldier ants it must use the recipe used to conquer souls, perfected for nearly 2,000 years, of breaking the human mind early, implanting ideas and beliefs that in adulthood will be nearly impossible to erode.
Hereditary conditioning of minds, personalities and behaviors works best in youth, when the mind is still fragile and innocent, when the brain is growing and susceptible to believe almost anything if it is manipulated long enough, pervasively enough.
Thus, the process by which youngsters are indoctrinated and made loyal to the state commences in schools as children embark on a journey of education that will span at least a decade and a half through a purposefully corrosive, under funded and manipulative state education system whose curriculum caters to the interests of the nation and the elite that run it.
From the beginning young children are subjected to countless hours of indoctrination to the state, becoming obedient citizens submissive to authority, taught to never question the very fabric and foundations of the nation and those that lead it.
They are molded into becoming one more cog in the system by a classroom environment and teaching structure pilfering individual thought and expression, making youngsters conformist creatures of habit taught always to trust in the system, in those governing and leading.
Forced to listen, learn and read what the Establishment wants taught, children begin incorporating what they see and hear as fact, in their young innocence believing in the altruism of their nation's government.
The idea of the nation they reside in, and of the undying loyalty to it, is firmly ingrained by curricula, teachers and textbooks.
Dozens of songs espousing nationalism, patriotism and the historical fictions of the nation are taught, forever remaining entrenched in one's mind.
Books whitewashing, glossing over or altogether erasing the reality of a nation's troubled past, with its incessant crimes against humanity, its evil deeds, its wars, its invasions, mass murders, genocide, ethnic cleansing, forms of market colonialism, wars of economic depravity and continued exploitation of peoples are disseminated throughout the nation, revising the history its future citizens learn.
Instead, romanticized stories of myth and fable are inculcated, making ordinary men seem god-like, bigger than life beings never capable of wrong.
Elite exploiters of human flesh become Founding Fathers; criminals and murderers become Presidents; racists become Supreme Court justices; members of the Establishment become Secretaries and legions of traveling salesmen turned political prostitutes become Congressmen.
In the world of make-believe, where truth is turned upside down and falsity becomes reality, it is children who absorb legend best, and it is they who become targets of fictional stories masquerading as history textbooks.
For years children are indoctrinated that the nation is the supreme manifestation of good and its principles, no matter how detrimental they may be, are to remain unsurpassed and unquestioned.
All citizens must conform, obey and follow its policies, always remaining loyal and faithful to its actions.
Throughout the course of a child's passage through the education system, the sacredness of the red, white and blue, along with that of the national anthem is conditioned into minds, becoming sacrosanct relics, to be preserved and cherished.
The idea of government as wise and beyond reproach is taught, making faith in the system a sought-after virtue in all citizens.
And so, for years the same process is repeated again and again, year after year, grade after grade, each semester that passes brainwashing a new piece of information into developing minds.
Love of country is bombarded and slowly but surely, through methodical and systemic manipulation of minds, the young primate brain succumbs to the barrage of patriotism-filled teachings, becoming, over time, the obedient, unthinking, unquestioning and complacent loyal citizen of the nation.
With a decade and a half advantage over the now maturing and reasoning adult mind, the system has laced our thoughts with its tools of loyalty, succeeding in quieting our questions, controlling our energies and implanting the pacific acceptance of the system into our being.
As adults we have not a chance, really, as the apparatus of brainwashing has achieved its mission long before we have had an opportunity to think for ourselves.
Before we know it, the programming of our youth is resurrected when we least expect it, attacking our adult life whenever the nation needs our subservience most.
Suddenly all that has ever been imparted onto us rushes our minds, making us blind as bats and as obtuse as earthworms. Creativity, what was that notion again?
The elite, nationalism, politics, and religion continue to devastate our potential and creativity."
BOTTOMLINE-- The greatest threat facing creativity is humanity. The greatest threat facing humanity is humanity. The greatest threat facing nature is humanity.
A few words on creativity
cre·a·tiv·i·ty noun[kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-] - the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination:
What is creativity? Some would say a mental process in which we formulate new ideas based on prior knowledge. . . But doesn't it seem like sometimes that creativity just comes from nowhere and gives you an AMAZING idea that you "never would have thought of."
Isn't there something DIVINE about those creative thoughts that seem to jump into your mind at just the right time or sometimes even the worst time possible. I believe that creativity is an external phenomena that waits around to help us out when we need it. But how often do we really have time to exert our creativity. We get so caught up in our world, that many people don't even have HOBBYS for their creative energy to be channeled into. If you were to imagine your creativity as a helpful spirit, that was just waiting around for it's time to shine and help you come up with something new and extraordinary, can you imagine how BORED that spirit would be as you participated daily in the cattle-call and went to SCHOOL, and went to WORK and remained BORED and unhappy? This question isn't for the artists, singers, or poets, but this question is for YOU working (or planning on working) the 9-5 desk job at something that you aren't really interested in doing but it promises a paycheck.
I would say that we are all here for a reason on a particular path but so many of us have been strayed away from our passions that we don't even know what were really GOOD at and what were really capable of. When we were young we had so many dreams for what we wanted to be in the future that we traded in for a career path that promised MONEY at the end of boring, pre-paved road.
I know SO MANY people who have natural talent and skill that everybody else in the world can see and if they were to acknowledge it, they would surely be on the way to their destiny, but instead they are studying BUSINESS so that they can work on Wall Street and "make the big bucks." (just an example)
Isn't creativity necessary for INNOVATION? Isn't innovation necessary for PROGRESS? Aren't we in a state right now in the world where we are starting to realize that a lot of the GREAT ideas of the past are a little outdated and are starting to take a toll on the world we live in?
Don't the school systems that we currently abide by STIFLE the creativity of children?
Think about little Suzie that just can't stay still and she always gets up and dances in the middle of her 3rd grade teacher talking, or Damien who just can't stop talking and disrupting the class because he gets everyone's attention. Isn't Suzie a natural dancer who is destined to be on Broadway? Isn't Damien a future PR rep or lobbyist, leader or maybe even the President of the United States (if they would get their shit together). What about Jose, he's an artist. . he's not so interested in Geography but the pictures that he draws tell stories . . . . Everybody is different, but the education system that were currently in wants everybody to be the SAME, and if you're different you have A.D.D. and you need suppressive drugs.
The students that do exactly what the teacher says and play by the rules are the ones that become A students. Yes Johnny, stay inside the BOX and you win!
But when you get older. . they'll be asking you to think outside the box, asking you to reconnect with a spirit of creativity that you've LONG lost.
What is creativity? Some would say a mental process in which we formulate new ideas based on prior knowledge. . . But doesn't it seem like sometimes that creativity just comes from nowhere and gives you an AMAZING idea that you "never would have thought of."
Isn't there something DIVINE about those creative thoughts that seem to jump into your mind at just the right time or sometimes even the worst time possible. I believe that creativity is an external phenomena that waits around to help us out when we need it. But how often do we really have time to exert our creativity. We get so caught up in our world, that many people don't even have HOBBYS for their creative energy to be channeled into. If you were to imagine your creativity as a helpful spirit, that was just waiting around for it's time to shine and help you come up with something new and extraordinary, can you imagine how BORED that spirit would be as you participated daily in the cattle-call and went to SCHOOL, and went to WORK and remained BORED and unhappy? This question isn't for the artists, singers, or poets, but this question is for YOU working (or planning on working) the 9-5 desk job at something that you aren't really interested in doing but it promises a paycheck.
I would say that we are all here for a reason on a particular path but so many of us have been strayed away from our passions that we don't even know what were really GOOD at and what were really capable of. When we were young we had so many dreams for what we wanted to be in the future that we traded in for a career path that promised MONEY at the end of boring, pre-paved road.
I know SO MANY people who have natural talent and skill that everybody else in the world can see and if they were to acknowledge it, they would surely be on the way to their destiny, but instead they are studying BUSINESS so that they can work on Wall Street and "make the big bucks." (just an example)
Isn't creativity necessary for INNOVATION? Isn't innovation necessary for PROGRESS? Aren't we in a state right now in the world where we are starting to realize that a lot of the GREAT ideas of the past are a little outdated and are starting to take a toll on the world we live in?
Don't the school systems that we currently abide by STIFLE the creativity of children?
Think about little Suzie that just can't stay still and she always gets up and dances in the middle of her 3rd grade teacher talking, or Damien who just can't stop talking and disrupting the class because he gets everyone's attention. Isn't Suzie a natural dancer who is destined to be on Broadway? Isn't Damien a future PR rep or lobbyist, leader or maybe even the President of the United States (if they would get their shit together). What about Jose, he's an artist. . he's not so interested in Geography but the pictures that he draws tell stories . . . . Everybody is different, but the education system that were currently in wants everybody to be the SAME, and if you're different you have A.D.D. and you need suppressive drugs.
The students that do exactly what the teacher says and play by the rules are the ones that become A students. Yes Johnny, stay inside the BOX and you win!
But when you get older. . they'll be asking you to think outside the box, asking you to reconnect with a spirit of creativity that you've LONG lost.
