The Man with Red Eyes

Mind Control and the Internet

Yesterday I was listening to a podcast discussing the unfortunate situation of some Catholic School kids who were targeted for destruction by the mainstream media. Hearing how they chanted their school chants to drown out the sound of those cussing and yelling insults at them, I was reminded of a scene from the book A Wrinkle in Time.

_{Cover artwork, A Wrinkle In Time}

The way I remembered it, the children were in the presence of a powerful being. To avoid its mind control, they held hands and recited the Pledge of Alleigance to stop its voice from speaking in their heads. I wondered if I was remembering correctly, and if anyone else had made the connection. I can't imagine the people pushing this narrative would like the scene very much. I decided to Google it, to see.

Knowing this book was recently made into a movie, I went with a highly specific search:

scene from a wrinkle in time book kids say pledge of allegiance to stop mind control

Nothing. A bunch of stuff about the movie. A few pieces about how the Pledge is bad.

A few pages in and no mention of a scene about mind control, and no direct references to the book. Understandable, I guess. The movie was pretty recent and got a lot of press. Also, I'm not even sure it was the Pledge. I revised the search.

scene from a wrinkle in Time book kids avoid mind control by reciting pledge

Similar results. Nothing. I started questioning my memory. I was only ten when I read the book. Maybe that isn't even the right book.

But just in case, I tried Duck Duck Go. I figured lack of advertising/corporate interests might give me a better chance of results related to the book appearing first.

Well, look what I found!

Not only did I remember the scene pretty closely, it is far more relevant to our current predicament than I imagined.

Chapter 7: The Man With Red Eyes details the children's encounter with CENTRAL Central Intelligence, a nightmare of dystopian conformity in which the children are told "don't fight, it will go much easier for you," are served synthetic food that tastes like sand (but would taste good, if only they'd open their minds to IT), and at several points struggle so hard to shut out the pulsing rhythm of conformity that they recite nursery rhymes, the Gettysburg address, irrational square roots, and...
The Declaration of Independence.

How can the same search term yield such different results? And why?

This is a popular children's book that was turned into a movie. There must be plenty of references to it. Google must be smart enough to recognize that a search including the title, "book" and "mind control" was looking for this scene. Obviously, it is smart enough. Duck Duck Go was.

I am very disturbed by this result. It feels as though Google was trying to erase a part of my childhood. It was a very poignant scene that I recalled from nearly three decades ago, and I had started to question my own memory.

This Shit Has Gone Too Far.

Of course, now that I have located and read the chapter summary linked above, it now comes up on a Google search, too. Perhaps, if you've already clicked the link, it will come up for you, too. The algorithms might float lots of B.S. to the top, but they still favor results that you've already viewed once. For now.

Read the damn book. Get your kids to read it. Get real, hard copies of this and other books that you might want later, if we find we can no longer trust our "information superhighway". Ponder the words of that Declaration of Independence the kids used as a mental shield, and those of the Bill of Rights. Ask why so few people are learning about this.

And for God's sake:

Let's Be the Blockchain that Decentralizes the Internet!

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