Deliberately placed in the dawn’s early light, it’s there, flapping proudly overhead. Standing to worship it’s existence is how the average child in the USA typically begins their day.

What so mindlessly we praise, raised high upon a staff from morning until the twilight’s last gleaming-- that red, white and blue flag-- it might be one of the best mind-control devices ever conceived.

Before They Can Read, Give Them Some Symbology

Here in the USA, the most war-hungry nation on Earth, we adults build indoctrination camps for our youth so that the next generations will be thoroughly conditioned to accept a life of armed conflict, so that they will inherit our vile business of war without a flinch.

The whole point of public school in the USA is to train the children to accept war and violence as being normal and good, and to condition them to submit to the authority of their commanders.

An Army of Enchanted Babies

The first thing the children do at school is salute a flag, so that their young minds will see the symbol as a god-- far more potent than their own parents or teachers-- and that god wants YOU to join the armed forces.

Before classes can even begin, the flag must be hoisted before the children, it’s dire importance popping in the morning breezes as the little cadets march into their cubicles.

Daily Chanting of Spells

The children are properly seated, but only so that they can then ritualistically stand again, and once again the colorful flag is the focus, it’s symbols designed specifically to penetrate the fertile young psyche that cowers before it.

Religiously they chant together, reciting the spell that will bind them to the starry pentagrams above, pledging their allegiance to an entity that then hides it’s darkness in their innocent spirit and their youthful glow.

You keep using that word, ‘allegiance’...

What does that flag really mean to a child? It seems to be running with spilled blood, and the device is riddled with pentagrams, symbology and numbers that are absorbed deep into a child’s subconscious mind.

By such stealth the idea of war enters the American children’s mind. We shan’t call it sorcery though, we will call that feeling of anxiety patriotism, and we shall name any child who pledges their allegiance to this symbol of death and war as a ‘good’ citizen.

We Don’t Call It ‘Sorcery’

The very word is forbidden, and any inquiry into the idea of sorcery is discouraged, so that the flag and it’s symbolic meanings can remain in the shadows of the subconscious mind, a peaceful place where Old Glory can go about the business of making the dreams of our future’s wars come true without being disturbed.

Walt Disney and Dr. Wernher von Braun

Let Disney Take Over

Take those poor children out of that wicked schoolhouse then, and plop them down in front of the TV so that Disney’s Imagineers can continue with the cultural conditioning; these little warriors won’t fight without some daily programming.

Disney programming will ensure that the children will notice that the hero of the movie is an orphan who must choose a flag, a flag which will represent their missing parents, and the orphan must then become a warrior for that flag in order to become knighted as the beloved hero.

Those children who are too girly for such violence will be comforted in knowing that while they too are orphans, that they also secretly possess royal blood, and will one day inherit the whole kingdom anyway.

These gentler souls can easily believe that they are princesses disguised as peasants, waiting for the valiant warrior to come and recognize their royalty when he’s finished his day’s killing.

Some Say Guns are Bad

Many will insist that guns should be removed from society forever, but how confusing that must be for the average child in the USA, who has daily been reminded that a flag is to be fought for if it is to mean anything at all, and every kid is taught that the best way to fight for a flag is with a good old gun.

What is a modern warrior without a gun? Was that mighty flag there on the wall not made by the light of gunfire, sewn by riflemen with three-cornered hats? ’Guns are bad...’ they say, but try telling that to an American schoolboy, who has been thoroughly conditioned and expertly programmed to produce some good gunfire at some point in their lives.

The children may know and agree that killing is wrong, but dare not say so in front of the US flag.

Management and Maintenance of Groupthink in the USA

So that groupthink and newspeak will seem like fictional ideas from a forgotten world, here in the USA we pretend to force our most rebellious teenagers to read George Orwell’s novel ’1984’, knowing that they’ll refuse to read it, and will thereby not recognize the psychology that is being used upon them.

It’s handy, it’s reverse psychology for herds of humans, and of course by the time they figure out that groupthink is what they have been part of their whole lives, their spirit of rebellion is spent, and they are too old and beat to admit that they were so easily led to war by something as simple as a piece of cloth like a flag.

An Orwellian thing like groupthink-- where a society polices one another’s thoughts, words and actions according to a collective belief system’s ever-changing morals and unwritten laws of obedience-- can never be unseen once seen, so we put it in a place where we knew that our youth would never find it; on the high-school’s ’required reading’ list.

’If the grown-ups say that something is required, it must be horrible.’

If you have ever told a young person that they were required to do something, then you’ll understand why we offered our youth such important sociological and psychological knowledge in this way. There’s war to be made, and we can’t have individual thought gumming up the war machine’s gears, we need daily focus here, and it takes a lot of work.

If for just a few days we were to let our next generation do as they pleased without our constant mental tampering, there would be no wars for us to fight anymore.

We Could Have Peace if We’re Not Careful Here

Without our wars, the flag can flap all it wants, but without an enchanted youth to empower it daily, the flag would quickly begin to droop, and our children might realize where the cloth’s power was really coming from-- they might figure out that they are actually creating their own futures, and that they have no real use for such a mass mind-control device like an ever-flapping flag.

Without our constant wars going on, who can imagine what these young people would do with the planet!

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