Tag: mind games

Suggestive Wordplay – Psychological Mind Control

by lostinanalienworld, posted in Psychological Mind Control

Photo by George Becker from Pexels

How many times have we heard or read words in the mainstream media, the news, the newspapers, such as ‘seems’, ‘may’, ‘maybe’, ‘appears’, ‘possible’, ‘could be’, ‘perhaps’, ‘probable’, ‘probably’, ‘suggest’, ‘if’, as just several examples that appear?

Just think about those words for a minute. What do they actually mean? Do you think they mean, ‘does’, ‘will’, ‘has’, ‘proven’, ‘prove’, ‘definite’, ‘definitely’, ‘certain’, ‘certainly’, ‘evidential’?

No, they do not, but they don’t want you to know that. You see, when you learn that fundamental truth, you’ve broken through their façade, their charade. Of course, once you truly understand that truth, the objective is to inform others. To let them know this is all just a psychological operation to undermine our intelligence, to blind us to the truth that we are all just pawns in a twisted chess game played by the Freemasons and Rockerfellers pulling wool over our eyes. You see, they’re laughing at us… They want us to turn against each other, they want to increase tension between us. They also want us to be very afraid. These psychopathic, whatever they are, have learnt how to sway public opinion to their own favour. They know how to manipulate us. They know we can’t stand to see people suffering and dying, they know we can’t stand to see prejudice, they know we all fear the loss of our loved ones, our homes, our jobs, our money. They create their own fake news, to turn our humanity, our morality, our values, against us. Then, they accuse others of fake news, ‘me thinks thou do protest too much’, eh? They are masters of deception, they know how you think, they know how you feel. The Freemasons and Rockerfellers are not new to us, they have been here for centuries. In all that time, they’ve treated us all as lab rats, as fodder, as sheep. They’ve been analysing what makes us ‘tick’, what breaks us, how they can sway and control us. Tavistock Institute which was established back in 1921 is just one example of their wish to twist and manipulate the human mind, to turn us all into mindless slaves. The more we comply, the more control they have over us, the more we’ll lose our own analytical powers, the more we’ll become their pawns. This is not about your political leanings, it’s not about religion, it’s not about racism, it’s not about sexism, these are psychological operations which are aimed to cause us all to turn against one other. You see, if we were all to stop and think, we’d be able to see through their lies.

I know it’s frightening to come to terms with the fact that the world as you thought you knew it was all a lie. Denial is a feeling many of us out there experience, because we don’t want to believe our governments, our countries, our world could be as evil as it is. We are all living in one of the most trying times in our lives. If this doesn’t prove to you how vulnerable the human psyche truly is, how people can be manipulated and turned against one another, I don’t know what will. Personally, during my childhood, I was once hoping I would be shown compassion and understanding by others, but I quickly discovered that the darkness residing in people out there is all too evident. I quickly discovered from my peer group, that the world considered the twisted aspects of abusers who’d learn your weakness, whether it be psychological, physical and/or emotional, and use it against you, is considered the norm. The more I pieced together, the quicker I grew up. I was aware of so much by the age of 7, because I was ridiculed, alienated, used, segregated, betrayed and traumatised by both my peer group and teachers. This grew in intensity the older I became. I became more and more cynical of the world around me, that by the time I saw 9/11, the Trade Centers collapsing, it was the beginning of my analysis of the wider world around me. That’s when I discovered we live in a truly corrupt and evil world. It’s only when you come to terms with that fact, that you wish to seek the genuine, real people who truly care, who understand the true meaning of love and compassion. We need to learn that these Freemasons and Rockerfellers hate the meaning of those two words ‘love’ and ‘compassion’. They wish to twist both of their meanings. They wish to cancel them both out, to turn them into their own warped image. We need to show each other what love and compassion truly means, that it’s not some warped interpretation, that it’s not a weakness, that it’s our strength, that it’s our humanity. That we are human.

Songs|sgnoS – and their hidden words

by lostinanalienworld, posted in Reverse words/phrases in songs

There has been something bugging me for a long time, and it’s something I doubt many people are aware of. What I’m referring to is quite unusual, but when you hear what I’m talking about for yourself, and can hear what I can, then maybe you’ll understand me more when I refer to subliminal messages… This is not science fiction, I have many examples I can show you from YouTube videos that other people have discovered, and so have I.

I’m referring to music, and I don’t just mean the lyrics you hear with your own ears, especially without editing software. This is all about music flipped into reverse. Believe me, there are many songs out there that sound completely different played backwards than when they were played forwards. I’d be especially careful with modern music, if I were you. Technology advances all the time, and so does their ability to use it. That can mean it can, and from own perspective, already is being, turned against us all too, remember that! What shocked me the most, is that the words sung backwards actually make sense in English. It’s no joke, this is real.

‘mind games through manipulation, is a real threat to all of us‘

I don’t know if they all have malicious intent in mind, some of them may just be experimenting with sound in innocence. Although, the question needs to be asked, why do they even feel a need to do it? I don’t believe the average Joe would mess around with something like this. So, ultimately, I’d watch out, because, in the world we live in today, mind games through manipulation, is a real threat to all of us. When it comes to the experimentation with music, to what extent do they need to use this experimentation? I get the feeling, it’s far too dangerous to mess around with, but it doesn’t prevent people from putting it into practice all the same. Does it? Once something has been discovered, it is rarely put back on the shelf. They keep using it, twisting and manipulating it into their own ideals and wishes. As long as there is corruption in this world, every discovery will end up being twisted to be used against us all, one way or another.

In fact, listening to some of these songs backwards, I’m wondering if some of these reverse words were meant to have a psychological effect on the brain, and with certain others, whether there are secret coded messages being spoken from behind closed doors. Anything’s possible. See? This is what mean. The world isn’t straightforward. There are darker forces at work here… There is always so much to question out there. A very important question we all need to ask here is, do we really need to experiment with songs in this way? What are we REALLY trying to achieve by doing so? I fear it’s far too dangerous, and shouldn’t be used within songs, you never know what effects they are having on us. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised that many of us are already under the influence, or manipulated, because of it. I wonder what’s happened to some of the people I’ve written to in the past. Have they been affected by it themselves? Please, for everyone listening, be very careful what songs and music you listen to? If there are words sung in reverse, then I hope you’re able to ask yourself, will it be safe to continue listening to this song further? I wouldn’t want to see more people sucked into the world of brainwashing… I feel none of us do, but I fear, it’s far too common nowadays than people may understand…

A Japanese Example

I’ll present you with one Japanese example, of a singer I’ve listened to, her name is Utada Hikaru. Now, I find it very interesting, because the words she sings backwards, when spun around, like this YouTube video uploader has done, you can hear words in clear English. The song is titled ‘Passion’, and I have to say, the words sung in reverse are very apt to the name of the song.

Song ‘Passion’ by Utada Hikaru

Can you hear it? She sings, ‘I need more affection than you know’. I’ve heard this myself on my MP3 file format of her song, when I reversed it using a software called Audacity. This uploaded YouTube video is proving I’m not the only one who has discovered it either. The first comment under the video states exactly her words she says in English. This is not sung on the front side of her song, but distorted, almost like it’s spoken in tongues…

Song ‘Passion’ by Utada Hikaru

You can hear it for yourself in the link above, the words ‘I need more affection than you know’ are sung differently. She doesn’t sing the words normally, but they are clearly electronically reversed in order for her words to say something different when mirror imaged.

In fact, I have my own thoughts for the visual creative expression shown of the Chemtrails (not something to think fondly about…) in the music video above (which I may add a blog post about in the future), and the combination of the colours purple and green (which could be more ominous than you might think, if my theory is accurate. Watch out for anything with a combination of purple and green colours, I get the horrible feeling they may be some kind of a warning of mind games). To me, to mix backwards words, with these two elements, makes me wonder what’s really going on here… Maybe it’s not as innocent as I first thought. Who knows?

I can tell you something else as well. If you think it’s just restricted to Japan, then you may be surprised to know, I’ve discovered the same thing in even earlier British songs, even dating back to The Beatles, well, the latter stages of the 1960s anyway. This is not something new, there are people out there who have recognised what I’m referring to for themselves, it’s not just me. It’s been around for many, many years, it’s just not many people know about it. If you do, you’ll look at music in a whole new way. There’s more, I’ve heard all sorts of different songs by different artists, especially between the 1980s and 1990s, and there have been certain key songs which have certain words spoken, or sung, within them, played backwards, which also sing words in English. I wonder if you can spot the same words I do when I listen to them. I’m going to add a few links in my future blog posts to see what you think.

Reply to Adelaide Dupont’s comment

by lostinanalienworld, posted in Longer replies to readers

I wrote this as a reply to Adelaide Dupont in my previous blog post, ‘Being Genuine, Honest and Dedicated can lead you to trauma’, https://bit.ly/2Ufv9S5. I decided, instead of replying to it directly, I would include it as a separate blog post in itself.

Relating the previous blog post to current events

When it comes to platitudes and sayings, I feel that people tend to read and acknowledge them in different ways, if at all. It all depends on what people really think about what they may or may not mean to them. I feel they are all in the eyes of the beholder, but at the same time, as I said, they have a danger to mean something completely contradictory as well. Also, as I said, psychological mind games could also have something to do with certain sayings as well. The world out there is not as straightforward as some people might choose to believe. There is too much corruption out there, and there are too many ways that words can be used, and indeed, twisted because of it. When you think about it, we’re all in danger one way or another. For example, take this recent Coronavirus. People can be a lot more vulnerable to the chosen word or two, especially when it comes from more official circles, such as, from parliamentary circles, the television news networks, newspapers, even by word of mouth. All it can take is a few misplaced words, and there is a danger that many people may not look passed those words, to the truth behind them. I feel, there’s too much corruption in the world to think that, this Coronavirus is the only thing to worry about. In my opinion, I feel there’s likely to be something underlying this virus which is what we’re being led to against our will, and awareness. I feel, if you look deep enough, there are too many factors which can, and probably already has, led to manipulation. Take for example, the need to purchase toilet rolls, where did that idea come from, did someone put that into people’s minds through subliminal messages? This is what I’m talking about. People may not even be aware of what is being done to them…

Pictorial expression

I feel the image I used at the top of this blog post (https://bit.ly/2TVmmGc) is apt, in so many ways, to how I feel. I don’t simply look to the immediate, I tend to look several steps ahead, and that’s where I often feel like the black sheep. I don’t mind questioning the world around me. I feel it’s healthy, after all, the world has proven, time and time again, over it’s history, that there are darker forces at work out there, and it can often take a keen eye to take notice of them. There are times when it can take us longer than others to come to terms with what is truly happening out there. There are times when people are unable to understand. Sometimes I wonder, about that saying, ‘Ignorance is bliss’. To be quite honest with you, there are times I’m wondering about sayings like that. I mean, feeling alone, lonely, isolated and trapped as I do, I can’t become ignorant. Once you learn the truth, there’s no way you can hide it away, you’re always going to be aware of it, no matter where you go, or what you do. If something hostile were masked before you, but you knew it was hostile, but the person beside you didn’t, what do you do if they defend the hostility, without knowing? I find, that in itself is the biggest question of them all… I fear there are too many people who are unaware of the dangers out there, and willingly fall from metaphorical cliffs without acknowledging they’re there…

Being myself, and exhaustion

I am myself, I stay true to myself, but too often I’ve noticed people feel they need to ‘mask’ and ‘pass’. Well, my situation is more complicated than that. You see, I’ve been through my own form of emotional trauma, and as a result, I ended up with churned emotions deep down inside. They began rising to the surface in expressive writing. I write exactly how I feel, exactly how I am. Everything I write is true to who I am, and my feelings. That can be a mixed blessing, depending on who you’re writing to of course. I have always had difficulty writing to multiple people at once. I’m not able to condense my writing, but it takes a lot of energy all the same. I always end up with writer’s block before too long, and I have to build up to the next feat in writing. My drive for writing doesn’t come all at once.

Emotional shock

Over years, I was not always open about my feelings, there was a time when I bottled my pain up inside. Bullying is what caused my feelings to be bottled up, but one of the biggest events of my early teen years, was an experience of total shock, well, there were several moments of shock I experienced back then. However; one of the key points of shock arrived as a result of the person I was mentioning in my comment on Quincy’s blog post. There was one girl, through her friends, who admitted to me she had a crush on me. Now, for me at the time, as a teenage boy, who always felt alienated, isolated, trapped, alone and lonely, you’d think it would be a Godsend, wouldn’t you? Well, it may well have done, if I’d not been hurt a few years earlier due to bullying, of the emotional kind. Taking advantage of my earlier vulnerability and innocence. I didn’t think girls wanted to get to know me at all, until years later, when I went through an additional shock, but there was nothing I could do, I was under too much anxiety at the time.

Chain reaction and conviction

What I experienced in my life has been a chain reaction, one relating to the another, relating to another, and so on… It can really brutalise your inner psyche, to such a degree that you don’t know where the genuine are from the false… I feel, I’m only likely to find the true, if I remain true to myself too. Who wishes to find false people? I know I certainly don’t. Personally, I feel we all deserve our true selves. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed the outside world doesn’t tend to agree with me… I can’t change who I am, I am who I am, and I only wish others would accept me for who I am… Since writing is my strength, and due to my immense anxiety, even to the point of agoraphobia, due to my traumas, to the outside world, it drove me to the internet to communicate.

The internet world can be chaotic

The internet can be a world of it’s own, I’ve written to all sorts of people on the internet, it’s not been a pleasant experience. There have also been some people on the autistic spectrum who have caused me traumas as well… We live in a very mixed up world, in more ways than one, I’ve written to people on the autistic spectrum who have tried to manipulate, and organisations who are supposed to support individuals on the autistic spectrum who have also tried to manipulate… One chain reaction after another. It can really open your eyes to what’s really going on out there… Abuse can come from many different sources, even from those on the autistic spectrum too… Life has an unfortunate way of kicking you when you’re suffering the most, I’ve witnessed that for myself. Just when you didn’t think it could get much worse, oh no, you’re mistaken, it just has…

Compassion and clashing

Yes, well, when it comes to dedication. I always thought, if I put enough effort into a social experience, that in the end, it could grow into something greater, but I’ve witnessed for myself, that it isn’t always the case. There are some people who just will not acknowledge that dedication. Unfortunately, there are times when affection, care and time, just cannot penetrate into the heart of those you care about, then you find yourself stabbed in the back, and left to fend for yourself, alone… That has been my experiences. There are times I’ve said to myself, why did it have to be this person I spend all my time, dedication and affection to? Why couldn’t it have been this person, or that, why did it have to be someone who has no emotional feeling? What did I spend all those years caring for? A robot? Was I considered to be a robot? What am I, a worn out shoe to be discarded on the scrap heap when they’re finished with you? These are some of feelings circling around my mind. Including, why is it that there are some people out there who just fail to understand the value of companionship and love? What would life be if love didn’t exist in the world? What is love? People have different opinions on what the word means, but from my own experience, it can be salvation. Compassion, care, love, understanding, the ability to relate to another, these are some of the traits I feel many people out there have lost. The basic makeup of consciousness that make us who we are. They give us all a conscience.

Trauma can come from many different sources, and it can come from the differences between people as well. I’ve witnessed how two people’s ideals can totally and utterly clash with one another’s, and can led to further trauma. Everyone has a breaking point, everyone has a topic or notion in their lives where something can just snap inside them, and they can’t take it anymore, they breakdown and spiral into endless despair. That’s where the healing hand of compassion can make the world of a difference. There have been one or two times where I was almost there, and it was cruelly robbed from under me, never to return again. There was nothing I could do to stop it; they were out of my hands.

The gentle knife strike

Even if it takes a long time to get to know someone, through dedication, attentiveness, care and understanding. A female in my case. When I start to become more open, not only about my feelings towards them themselves, but towards the world around me, then I’ve been through experiences where the written, or spoken, word can be more brutal than you might think. Unfortunately, I’ve written to several people in the past who have the uncanny ability to metaphorically stab you in the back, and do it with a smile on their faces. Experiences like that are unforgettable. It’s called betrayal, and I know A LOT about that feeling, over and over again, in many different ways.

More sayings with multiple meanings

About ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’, well, when you think about it, if you look at the words closely, even voice them to yourself, how many different meanings could you come up with for what they may mean? There are many words, phrases and platitudes which can have multiple meanings, if you begin to analyse them. You may be surprised to find that the meaning you may think at first, may not be the same meaning that someone else is secretly trying to put across to you. Corruption is dangerous, and there are too many people in high places out there who’d choose their words VERY carefully, but direct them in an entirely different way than first thought.

Think about the words, ‘I’m only thinking of what’s BEST for you’, those words really mean, ‘I’m only thinking what I THINK IS BEST for you’, or, to put it more accurately, ‘You’re going to do as I say, whether you like it or not’. Do you see what I mean? People don’t always have affection and care behind the words they say out loud, in their minds’, they may very well have malicious intent in mind. There are too many ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ out there, especially when you’re taken off guard. That is what a psychopath, con artist or abuser is waiting for, and the moment they catch you vulnerable, they attack. It’s why this world is as chaotic as it is, it’s because there are certain forces out there who are only out to attack us at a moment’s notice, if it’s to support their ultimate agenda, no matter how heinous it may be.

Another saying, it is for the ‘greater good’, who’s ‘greater good’ are we talking about here? What are their ideologies? Whose to say their own ‘greater good’ is just, what if it’s something you feel deep down inside is immoral? How would you know, if you don’t question it first? Knowledge is the difference between following blindly, and acknowledging the truth to be several steps ahead. In a world like this, I feel you need to be able to think several steps ahead, because I find it has a nasty way of biting you in the back when you least expect it. Mind you, I’ve still had awareness, and still been stabbed in the back, but is it better to be aware of the knife coming towards you to have a chance of diverting it away, or do you just choose to let it penetrate? That’s the question.

Being Genuine, Honest and Dedicated can lead you to trauma

by lostinanalienworld, posted in false hope

Above image from the website – www.justoutsidetheboxcartoon.com

Taking a break from the previous blog post about Japan and it’s coping strategies for loneliness (of which I’m suffering with myself), I thought I’d include a small synopsis into my reasons for creating this blog site in the first place. Well, technically, there’s a torrent of reasons, but this particular case is boarding on unbearable…

You see, in all these 28 years of living, I have seen a lot in my life, from my own perspective, and I can tell you, trying to live as a genuine, honest and dedicated human being can be one of the hardest lifestyles to live. Do you know why? Well, I’ll tell you, from my experiences. You hear so many twisted words, phrases and platitudes in this life. Everything from, ‘Be yourself’, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’, ‘Do unto others as you want others to do unto you’, ‘God helps those who help themselves’, and one of the worst, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’. I have heard so many of them growing up, but from my point of view, my observations of them are that this world, either twists the meaning of them all, or they are blatant lies to cover up the real truth. I could list you each one and give you an example, either from personal experiences, or from my perspective of the world.

‘Be yourself’

It’s meaning seems to change from person to person…

Now, what do you normally figure the words ‘Be yourself’ to mean? To me, they mean sticking true to your values no matter what the world and its immorality have thrown at you. That is my own observation. Personally, I’m glad I stuck by this principle, but what if someone else misinterprets these words, what could it mean to someone who has difficulty speaking in person, face-to-face for example? Say they have difficulty talking to someone straight away. What happens if they need to read some passages they’d prepared for themselves in advance, to help them to explain and express the topics they’d find too difficult to say on the spot, under pressure and anxiety? What then? That’s when the term ‘Be yourself’ is taken to a completely different level. If you are uncomfortable talking to someone new for the first time, isn’t it natural to be nervous? It can take some of us a long time to build the courage to talk to another in fluent conversation. It can take time, trust, understanding and care, for you to truly, ‘Be yourself’, in the way that some people perceive those words.

‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’

Now we get to the nitty-gritty of the phrases

For me personally, this phrase has got to be one of the most painful phrases of them all. It isn’t the worst, but it’s getting there. Why? It’s because this is exactly what I have been doing for around 18 years of my life, well, technically, 23 years, but I’m rounding down due to a more focused trauma…

One particular case springs to mind, of an experience I went through for over six years. In fact, it brings several of these quotes together, since they all relate in one way or another. There was a female I was in contact with through those years, she was two years younger than me, but if anyone proved to me that this quote is meaningless, it would be her, W.I.T.H.O.U.T a doubt. That no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you care, no matter how much you put into it, you only end up buried head first deep into the ground…

Now, since this is more of a fractioned blog post, I’m going to refrain from talking about it too much because it’s a subject that deserves a blog post, or several, of it’s own. Let’s just say, over those six plus years, I grew feelings for her, I cared for her deeply, but due to the traumas I was going through, it took me a long time to open up about them. I was always honest with her, I was always genuine, I always gave it my all, but despite my best efforts, it all came crashing down. I sent her many personal and handmade gifts on her birthdays and at Christmas. I wrote caring, encouraging, thoughtful, and at times, even loving words to her, all of which she loved to read, and hear me say, when I met her for the first and very last time back in 2018. I poured my heart and soul out to her, I did my utmost, I kept trying and trying, to express my feelings in the best way I could, gradually building up the courage to tell her more openly as I was working through my trauma. In the end, I did, and do you know what? You’d think that with all those affectionate and caring words, through all those personal and handmade gifts I’d sent her, that I must have meant something special to her… No… Instead, she throws me away like I’m a piece of rubbish, like I’m nothing but a mere grain of sand, like the shadowed ghost I’d always remained since the day I first entered into the hell of a system called ‘school’. Life never changes, at least not in a good way, huh? ‘School’, ha, what a joke! That’s a blog post there in itself, ‘school’, ‘prison’, ‘life’, can YOU tell the difference!?

Anyway, my point being, I did ‘try and try again’, not just with her either, I’ve tried many times, all over the internet, in so many different ways, but to no avail… Nothing ever worked, in all these years.

‘Do unto others as you want others to do unto you’

A quote twisted to within an inch of it’s life

Now, I can imagine a lot of you saying, “Oh, surely not!” However; you may be surprised to know how this quote was twisted back in the school system as I was growing up. I witnessed how this quote became something darker, simply because the words were taken too literally. I have witnessed bully victims who must have taken those words and twisted them into something like, ‘Bully unto others as they’d want to bully unto you’. Why do I say that? It’s because one of these bully victims did just that, took that abusive nature and projected it upon others, and I know this, because I was one of the victims of that reflected bullying. I can also tell you something else as well. I later discovered this same bullied bully on Facebook a long time later, only his way of thinking and ideology clearly backfired, because his social life was clearly twisted because of it. I feel he tied himself up in knots so he didn’t know whether he was coming or going. So, this is what can happen when you start taking phrases like this too literally, which I feel is all too common, because let’s think about this for a second. How many people do you REALLY think care about their fellow man and woman? If you think about that for yourself, then it draws you to the conclusion that there are far too many out there who’d stab you in the back without a second thought… I should know, I’ve witnessed enough of them in my lifetime!

‘God helps those who help themselves’

Here’s an interesting quote which I’ve never quite understood

Now, this quote makes us think that if we were to carry out a task for ourselves, then God will assist us through our efforts. However; in modern times, words and phrases can develop into multiple meanings. Let’s take these two words, ‘help themselves’. What do you think that can mean?

On the one hand it can mean when you do something to help yourself, but there are two very important points that need to be mentioned here. One is, how can you ‘help yourself’ if you’re impaired in some way, are unable to function as easily as someone abler? Are you able to ‘help yourself’ then? So, are we saying, God may not help us at all simply because we are unable to ‘help ourselves’? So, where is the benevolence in that? I don’t really understand quotes like that…

There is another important point which I feel the words, ‘help themselves’, can be interpreted into as well. The words, ‘help yourself’, has an unfortunate way of sounding like a term for greed or gluttony, two of the seven deadly sins mentioned within the Bible. Take for example, ‘Excuse me, but I’ll just HELP MYSELF to that’. You see what I mean? So, are we saying that if we, ‘help ourselves’, to something, God will help us?

Personally I feel there are too many quotes like these that have a dangerous way of having too many multiple, and contradictory, meanings. They can be easily misinterpreted.

‘Keep Calm and Carry On’

Here is one of Britain’s most iconic, ironic, and in my opinion, insensitive quotes of all time

Personally, why these words should ever be associated with the United Kingdom makes me sick… What do YOU really think these words truly mean? Do you think they mean, ‘calm down and think things through’? No, in my eyes, I see, ‘Now, calm down! Put up with it, or shut up!’ To me, it is an insult.

The fact that it’s become a quote used and modified to fit fashion and icon trends leads me to suspect what this quote was originally intended to do. This is psychological mind games if ever I’ve seen one. It’s one of the most blatantly obvious and in your face, if you’re willing to recognise it. If you’re just one of the masses, who accept these quotes as just a part of life, and move on, then it proves to me the effects it’s already having on the public.

When exactly did this quote come into existence we should all ask ourselves? Did it just creep into existence and become a sudden fashion statement? Why? Why should a quote like this become so famous? What is it truly about that makes people think about it? Is it because it’s shoved into our faces within shop windows, on internet advertisements, on television? Mass corporations and businesses are pushing this forward. Do you think they’re doing this simply for profit, or for something much worse?

For one, yes, the trends are what companies and businesses follow in order to make a profit, it’s true. Take for example, if you were to take a franchise in a particular bag, they may want to add a certain statement or slogan recognised as a way to advertise their product. However; what happens when it’s psychologically based, say it’s something they want the public to look at to take their attention away from something important. Like for example, the morality of the company selling the product. Are they a genuinely honest company, do they treat their employees fairly, where do they source their materials and workforce, is it truly fair trade, or slave labour? Do you see what I mean? The words ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’, would mean, ‘Oh, don’t worry about the corruption of the company, just let it go and keep going’. See, the world isn’t so straightforward then, is it?

Conclusion

Sometimes I wonder whether these quotes and platitudes are more designed for the purposes of psychological mind tricks than to actually provide anyone any real advice or support. I have always been sick to death of platitudes. I can remember the empty words I used to hear all too many times in my early school years growing up, and the painted on grins plastered on the school officials faces every time inspectors came to visit. You knew, as soon as the reports would be filed for the school, it was going to get a beaming sheen…that is a beaming sheen of LIES, nothing more! They can put on an act as much as they like, but the reality is always in the eyes of the poor students who have to suffer through each day, especially those who felt alone, trapped and isolated, in a system, be it school or life in general, which understands you about as much as a mammoth understands the perspective of the world through the eyes of a mouse…