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00:18 Welcome again to Digital Disconnect.
00:20 I'm your host Scott Ritsema for these 13 programs. 00:24 We are now in episode 8 of 13 00:26 and boy was episode 7 a "doozy. " Media Manipulation. 00:31 This is sort of a part 2 of that 00:33 as we take a look at how the powers that be 00:36 in the media establishment have sought to conform 00:39 the "group mind" as Edward Bernays called it 00:42 to shape the thoughts and beliefs and world view 00:44 and the habits and tastes and ideas of 00:48 the people of the last days. 00:50 Satan is using media as one of his critical avenues: 00:54 one of his most important methods or tools in his bag. 00:58 And we're going to expose that as it says in Ephesians 5:11. 01:02 "Have nothing to do with the fruitless works of darkness 01:05 but rather expose them and bring the light of truth 01:08 and the love of Jesus Christ. " So shall we begin with prayer? 01:12 Father, thank you so much for this privilege 01:15 of using media to Your glory. 01:17 Taking back these tools to be used to the ends 01:21 and goal of Your kingdom. 01:23 May the enemy's stronghold fall as we draw closer to 01:27 Jesus Christ. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 01:31 I want to begin with a quotation. 01:34 You're going to see a graphic on the screen 01:36 from one Bertrand Russell, a famed social engineer. 01:41 He said: 02:08 He goes on: 02:26 Pause right there! You might think: 02:28 "Well, are we dealing with secular entertainment in this 02:31 particular episode as we look at Hollywood 02:35 and the music industry and the manipulation that's taking place 02:38 in that? " Well, I'll tell you something: 02:41 It's called "secular" entertainment 02:44 but the very secular atheists like Bertrand Russell 02:47 who go back half a century or more 02:50 have said: "You know, the number one way that we use 02:53 propaganda is through the entertainment industry. 02:56 It creates a uniformity of thought... " 02:58 "conformed to this world" as the Bible calls it... 03:01 and he says: "These producers of Hollywood 03:04 are the high priests of a new religion. " 03:06 Let's take a look at the rest of the quote: 03:45 OK... let's just let that sink in right there. 03:48 He just alerted the power elite to that fact that if 03:51 people engage in serious thought and start thinking 03:54 for themselves... maybe we would say studying the Bible, 03:57 finding freedom from media addiction and worldly habits... 04:00 that could be a danger to the status quo... 04:03 the power structure holding the grip tightly on the minds 04:08 of the masses. He says this small group of people 04:10 who do things other than take in our amusements... 04:14 you remember what that word means? 04:16 Amusement means to not think; to passively receive 04:19 the Hollywood download and template 04:21 to subconsciously be programmed according to their ideology 04:25 and agenda. That is a danger. This small group, he says, 04:28 if people ever wake up and stop doing our amusement. 04:31 An amazing quotation from one Bertrand Russell 04:35 who spoke of the power of the high priests of a new religion. 04:39 That's the name of this particular episode: 04:41 The High Priests of a New Religion. 04:43 Now there are a number of other people who have spoken 04:46 to this issue of the power of Hollywood. 04:50 One of them was a screenwriter. His name was Paul Schrader. 04:52 And he actually came out and said to religious people, 04:55 he said: "We are there to thumb our nose at your values. " 04:58 "We don't care if you like us. We don't like you. " 05:01 I'm quoting now. He says: "People think Hollywood 05:04 has principles, morals, and values. It doesn't. " 05:08 Now that was quite a confrontational statement 05:10 from the screenwriter Paul Schrader 05:12 but he's saying what we all kind of knew: 05:15 Hollywood doesn't have principles, morals, and values. 05:17 Well they have counterfeit ones. They have distorted ones. 05:20 Their principles are principles of the kingdom of the enemy. 05:24 Another filmmaker named David Putnam 05:27 once said: "Movies are powerful. 05:30 They steal up on you in the darkness of the cinema 05:33 to form or conform social attitudes. 05:37 They tinker around inside your brain. " 05:39 The ideas of the media... that's end quote... 05:41 the ideas presented in Hollywood 05:44 are tinkering around inside our brain 05:46 conforming the social attitudes of the generation. 05:49 The Bible says: "Do not be conformed" in Romans 12:2. 05:53 Another filmmaker named Kevin Smith also said: 05:56 "I always like to think of it as like I've got 'em sittin' there. 05:59 Whip a little message at 'em. 06:00 Whip a little moral at 'em. 06:02 Whip a little of what my view of the world is 06:04 because that's what every good filmmaker does. " 06:07 End of quote. 06:08 Kevin Smith was saying what we probably would assume: 06:11 they've got a soapbox... They've got a platform; 06:13 they're going to present their world view 06:15 which is derived from the enemy of souls: 06:18 false, counterfeit, deception... you name it. Immorality, 06:23 destruction of the family. We're going to get into all 06:25 of that. But the founder of MTV 06:27 stated it even more bluntly. 06:29 His name was Robert Pittman and he came out and said: 06:32 "The goal is to get people's emotions going, 06:35 make them forget their logic, 06:37 and at that point you've got 'em. " 06:39 Yeah, but how is that possible? 06:40 It's in Walt Mueller's book Youth Culture 101. 06:43 By the way, if you want all these quotes 06:45 you can look at that on Media on the Brain. 06:46 I'm not going to be giving you all the sources. 06:49 We're going to try and get through it more quickly. 06:50 Or send me an e-mail: scottritsema@gmail.com 06:53 I will send you the quotes and the references 06:56 so that you can compile and collect this information 06:59 'cause it is voluminous, eye- opening and ultra-crystal clear. 07:03 scottritsema@gmail.com 07:05 Another thing that Robert Pittman, the founder of MTV said 07:10 was... He says: "At MTV 07:13 we don't shoot for the 14-year-olds... we own them. " 07:17 So this is a form of modern mental and spiritual 07:21 slavery. We are getting owned by Hollywood 07:23 to the extent that we open up our souls to their influence 07:27 and that of our children. 07:28 Another quotation that is particularly helpful is 07:31 an advertising executive who gave the credit 07:34 to where the credit would be due 07:36 if you're serving the kingdoms of darkness. 07:39 And she stated in a back-room conversation with the author 07:45 of that book Youth Culture 101 07:47 she said: "We've taken a page from Satan's book. 07:50 Find a point of weakness & lust in every man, woman, and child 07:54 and target that weakness to make them want to buy the product. " 07:58 Now that is important because it's very eye-opening. 08:01 But also it pins the target 08:06 on the correct enemy. Is our battle against flesh and blood? 08:10 As Christians we can quote these Hollywood people 08:12 and so on but they are flesh and blood. 08:14 They are not the enemy so much as Satan is the enemy. 08:18 So this advertising executive said: "We've taken a page 08:21 from Satan's book. " I appreciate the clarification 08:24 there that our battle is not against these people 08:26 who themselves are victims in Satan's hands 08:29 and then are used as agents for the destruction of souls. 08:31 Like the founder and CEO of HBO. 08:35 He actually admitted they were trying to get people addicted 08:38 to their programming 'cause he was asked: 08:41 "Are you aware that people are stealing your movies 08:43 basically by sharing passwords and logging in online 08:46 and the person didn't buy the movies? " 08:48 He said: "Oh yeah... we want them to become exposed 08:50 to it and addicted to it because 'that is what we are in 08:54 the business of doing: building video addicts. ' " 08:57 End quote! So they get very blunt and honest at times. 09:00 And remember in the previous episode we saw how many 09:04 big tech executives and Silicon Valley engineers 09:07 were protecting their own chil- dren from the harmful effects 09:09 of interactive screen time in early childhood particularly. 09:13 Well there are also Hollywood people... I want you to see 09:16 some of the faces and names. Music industry insiders, 09:19 actors, film makers. You probably know these. 09:22 These are household names who protect their own children 09:25 and they came out in interviews. Two were men; two were women 09:28 there and admitted: "We don't allow actually this 09:31 same material that they are producing to be shown 09:35 and listened to in their homes. " 09:37 In fact, even to the point of one of the people on that screen 09:40 was not having her children looking at Disney films. 09:45 And you might say: "Disney? Well that's child's entertainment. 09:47 That's not as big of a deal as some of these other things 09:50 we're discussing. " But I found it very interesting. 09:53 I was viewing a fantastic documentary 09:55 about Disney. It was called Magic Kingdom 09:57 by a fantastic group called Little Light Ministry. 10:00 And in that documentary they take on the film Aladdin. 10:04 And in Aladdin the theme is you've got the lady 10:09 and the man, and it's this love story. 10:11 The man Aladdin is this thief 10:15 and he's running around stealing. And he's the good guy 10:17 in the movie, and we start to like him because he's so fun 10:20 and cool and nice to children and monkeys and all. 10:23 I won't get into all the details. 10:25 Probably most people viewing this have seen this film. 10:28 But Jasmine is the young lady. 10:30 She's the daughter of the king. 10:32 Now interestingly when you think about the king 10:34 and the father you start think- ing spiritual analogies here, 10:37 don't you? Because Aladdin, who is a professional thief... 10:40 remember the devil comes only to steal and kill and destroy. 10:43 To steal. So we don't believe in stealing as Christians. 10:45 We believe the Ten Commandments prohibit stealing. 10:48 Even if you're stealing because you are in need 10:51 stealing is wrong. 10:52 Well, he's trying to steal if you will the heart of young 10:55 Jasmine from the father who is the king 10:57 who is her authority. And he says: "No one to tell us no 11:01 or where to go. " Do you re- member hearing that in the song? 11:04 And it's like: "Wow! That's total rebellion 11:06 against parental authority. " 11:08 And beyond that it goes to the point where 11:10 he takes her up at a high elevation on this magic carpet 11:14 ride and he sings to her: "I can show you the world 11:17 and it's splendid. " Now wait a minute! 11:20 He goes above the clouds and he takes her up on a high elevation 11:24 and he shows her the world and it is splendid. 11:27 Now I remember reading in Matthew 4... 11:29 Have you read it? Jesus is taken up on a high elevation 11:32 by somebody, and this person shows Jesus the whole world 11:36 in its splendor. Word for word. Showed Him the world 11:39 and its splendor. And in the very song in Aladdin 11:42 he shows her the world and it's splendid. 11:45 Well who is that that took Jesus up on the mountain? 11:48 That was Satan. 11:49 And who was it that said: "I will ascend above the clouds" 11:52 in Isaiah 14? Is this all a coincidence? 11:54 This is pretty weird stuff that this all shows up 11:56 in this very same song in this one particular movie. 12:00 He also tells Jasmine to "follow your heart. " 12:03 "When is the last time you let your heart decide? " 12:05 And the Bible says clearly that the heart is deceitful 12:08 above all things and we should not let that decide 12:10 anything for us. We should let the Word of God 12:13 and truth and Jesus dictate... not our hearts. 12:18 Then one very eye-opening thing happens in the song 12:21 that really makes me go: "OK there is something going on. 12:23 I don't know what's going on but there's something 12:25 going on with this song. " 12:26 And it goes like this... he says: 12:29 "I'm like a shooting star. I've come so far. 12:33 I can't go back to where I used to be. " 12:35 Now that sounds familiar because a star in Biblical prophecy 12:39 represents an angel, and Lucifer is the son of 12:42 the dawn, the morning star which fell. 12:44 And here you have Aladdin saying: "I am like a shooting 12:47 star that can't go back to where I used to be. " 12:50 Satan was cast out of heaven. 12:52 Interesting. Well, it goes beyond that. 12:55 Here it is with Eve... I'm sorry, Jasmine. 12:59 I don't know why I always make that mistake. 13:01 Because Aladdin grabs a piece of fruit, 13:04 hands it to Jasmine, just like this is in the Garden of Eden. 13:08 She looks at the fruit: "Oh, how tempting! " 13:11 Isn't the symbolism here quite striking? 13:15 So you could draw conclusions and speculate about 13:17 the film makers of Aladdin and what they were thinking 13:19 and doing, and I don't know. But I CAN say the fruits 13:23 of that - no pun intended - are representing 13:26 rebellion and the very themes of the great controversy 13:29 putting Satan as the good guy. 13:31 And then you get Frozen. 13:33 And in Frozen the young lady sings, and I quote: 13:36 "There's no right and no wrong. No rules for me. I'm free. " 13:40 Now as Bible-believing Christians we don't believe 13:43 freedom is found in licentious- ness and license to do 13:46 whatever you want. Freedom is found in obedience 13:48 to Christ in the power that He gives us 13:51 to throw off the chains of sin and find the grace 13:54 and power of Jesus in our lives. 13:57 Contrary to Frozen and Elsa who sings: 14:00 "There's no right; no wrong... no rules for me. " 14:02 And that's how she finds so-called freedom. 14:05 We know that's bondage. The Bible says 14:07 we will either be slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness. 14:10 Now when we speak about the targeting of the children 14:13 in Aladdin, I have a quotation from the person 14:16 who was sort of the pioneer of marketing to children. 14:20 His name is James U. McNeal. So this is not on Disney. 14:23 It's just the concept of target- children with your advertising 14:27 which they didn't used to be allowed to do. 14:28 But James U. McNeal in the 1970's was pioneering 14:32 this new field of advertising to children. 14:35 And he said: "The consumer embryo 14:37 begins to develop during the first year of existence. 14:40 Children begin their consumer journey in infancy 14:43 and they certainly deserve consideration as consumers 14:47 at that time. " In the first year of existence 14:50 the baby is considered a consumer by this industry 14:53 And one of these industry execu- tives was confronted about this. 14:57 Her name is Lucy Hughes. 14:59 And she was asked in a docu- mentary called Consuming Kids 15:02 about this concept of targeting children 15:05 to try to nag the parents to try to get the parents 15:08 to buy all the goodies and the unhealthy food 15:10 and the video games, etc. And that was the strategy 15:12 in board rooms in corporate America 15:14 They asked her to comment on this, and she says: 15:18 "Well somebody asked me: 'Lucy, is that ethical? ' 15:21 You're essentially manipulating these children. " 15:23 And her answer is: "Well, is it ethical? I don't know. " 15:27 So she poses herself the softball question 15:30 "Is this ethical even what you are doing? " 15:32 And the answer is: "If I'm honest, I don't really 15:35 know if what we are doing is even ethical. " 15:38 So in their honest moments they tell you what they're doing 15:41 and they've had much success. 15:43 Since 1984 when they began advertising directly to children 15:47 children's spending increased 35% per year 15:51 over the next 30 years. 15:53 Thirty-five percent per year outpaces economic growth 15:56 tenfold. I mean, we're happy to have 3.5% 15:59 economic growth in the whole economy. 16:03 Thirty-five percent increase per year is a vastly higher rate. 16:06 Children now spend 40 billion dollars per year 16:09 and influence their parents to spend 700 billion dollars. 16:13 The family I grew up in my parents made the decisions. 16:16 It wasn't the children nagging the parents 16:18 and getting the things that they want in that way. 16:21 That is a dangerous reversal of the position of authority. 16:25 And of course we want to give good gifts to our children. 16:27 The Bible says: "The Father in heaven will 16:29 give good gifts to His children just like if a child 16:33 comes and asks bread of his father 16:35 he will not give him a scorpion or a poisonous snake. " 16:38 So we can know that we have good things coming our way 16:41 so I don't want children to feel deprived 16:43 if you don't get everything you want. 16:44 Sometimes not getting what you want is a great gift 16:47 in itself 'cause it teaches us self-denial. 16:50 And then, of course, Jesus loves to pour out His blessings 16:53 in creation and the presence of your parents. 16:55 And that's the number one gift we can give to our children, 16:57 isn't it? Our own presence; our own time; 17:01 our investment in them. 17:03 Now I want to share with you some things about the real 17:05 targeting of the children in this high priest of a new 17:08 religion media manipulation segment. 17:11 Because the number one tool in Satan's arsenal 17:14 to target the minds of the masses, particularly 17:16 from early ages, is through the media. 17:18 But he's got two. The second is the worldly schooling system. 17:23 And that has been in place for over 100 years. 17:26 One of the founders of American public schooling's 17:29 name was John Dewey. I want you to hear his quotation. 17:38 Now you might think they're supposed to be learning 17:40 reading, writing, and arithmetic. No! 17:48 Well that sounds like not what I thought school was for. 17:52 But these founders of American schooling 17:56 their methods and ideology were very similar to that 17:59 of the media heads that we're reading about. 18:01 I want you to hear from a statement 18:03 from the Rockefeller Education Board 18:05 where they came out and said exactly what their ideas were 18:08 with forming and funding this thing called American 18:12 public schooling. And most teachers don't know this 18:14 and aren't a part of this, but this is the founding principle. 19:00 So you might say: "They actually said that? " 19:02 Yes. You thought that these were the things we're trying to 19:05 help our children become. But the devil has his target 19:08 on the children as he did in the time of Pharaoh: 19:11 throwing them in the river, and at the time of Herod. 19:13 Here he is in the last days with his final assault 19:15 upon the children. I want you to hear another quotation 19:18 from one of the founders of modern public education. 19:20 His name was William Torrey Harris and he said: 19:46 What does that mean? 19:47 To subsume one's individuality 19:50 is to take the little piece of dough that is its own unique 19:54 texture and flavor and to mass it into the great 19:58 beige sameness that is the social lump of dough 20:03 that the child is being subsumed into 20:05 and losing their individual character. 20:08 I have a series called Schools: the Deliberate Agenda: 20:11 to destroy individuality, reduce intelligence, 20:15 and re-engineer society. That's exactly what these 20:18 founders of American public schooling in concert with the 20:20 media agenda have been up to for over a century. 20:24 Ninety-nine students have been turned into automatons 20:27 out of 100. And this dates back to the Dark Ages. 20:29 At the time of the Dark Ages the power that be 20:33 wanted to keep people ignorant. "If we can keep people 20:36 illiterate then they can't come to a knowledge of truth 20:38 in the Bible for themselves. " 20:40 Well, then something happened called the printing press. 20:43 We'll talk about that in a subsequent episode. 20:46 At that time people got the Bible in their own language, 20:49 became enlightened, and reformation began. 20:52 The Protestant Reformation it's been called 20:54 and it's one of the greatest epochs in human history. 20:57 Well, it got the concern of the established power 21:01 structure. The priest class of Europe 21:03 were very worried that the people were rising up 21:06 and establishing their own understanding of truth and now 21:08 no longer under the grip and control of papal Rome. 21:12 And so the Jesuit Order was formed. 21:14 And here's what Bertrand Russell tells us. Interestingly 21:17 as a historian he points out that 21:19 the Jesuits formed an education system that: 21:41 Contented with whatever lot you may be delivered 21:44 as an autonomation and a cog in this great system 21:47 of control. He said: "We want them to be thoughtless. 21:49 We want them to be under the caste system. 21:54 One type of education for the people who will be 21:56 brought into the power structure 21:58 and mass 'education' for the masses. " 22:01 The definition of schooling and education is 22:04 to subsume the individual. In fact, the founder of 22:07 Prussian-style school... You may have never heard of Prussia, 22:10 Germany, the German states uniting 22:13 under Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century. Prior to that 22:16 you had the Prussian state wanting to be the strongest 22:19 imperial power on the continent of Europe. 22:22 And so they said: "We're going to do that by 22:24 starting young with our children. We're going to have 22:26 state education - public education - 22:28 and here's what they said in their statement. 22:30 This is from Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He said: 22:50 So you can see the agenda going on there 22:53 in 19th century Prussia. 22:54 It was interesting, too, because there was a founder 22:57 of American public schooling way back in the early 19th century 23:00 advocating for compulsory schooling. Where kind of 23:03 right now we get every child involved with the media 23:06 every child was to be in the public schooling system 23:09 under the indoctrination, and that began 23:12 under Horace Mann, who may have had good intentions also, 23:15 but interestingly it was a prophetic year - 1844- 23:19 that was the birth of modern public schooling in America. 23:22 1844 we saw in the first episode of Digital Disconnect 23:25 was when the birth of modern media took place 23:28 with the telegraph. God can use media 23:30 as we're using it now. Satan says: "We're going to 23:32 co-opt it and we're going to destroy people using media. " 23:35 And interestingly, the same thing is true about education. 23:38 You can have godly, true education, 23:40 Christian education, home education, 23:43 awesome academies and church schools. 23:45 You have Satan's counterfeit. 23:47 And I know there's a lot of good people in the public school 23:49 system. There's frankly good people in the worldly media 23:51 who are just part of... they're not necessarily serving 23:55 in an evil aim. They don't even understand 23:56 what they're a part of. They're a technician or whatever. 23:58 BUT I was a public school teacher so I can say that 24:02 with some credibility that there are lots of wonderful 24:04 people trying to do the best they can buy these children. 24:07 But the system was designed to subsume the individuality, 24:11 to actually reduce intelligence. I don't have time 24:13 to give you the 3- hour seminar called Schooled. 24:16 But I will sum up with this: 24:18 I want to think about the social control aspect of this. 24:21 There was a guy who wrote a book called Social Control. 24:24 His name was Edward Alsworth Ross and he said 24:26 the goal of the social engineers is to: 24:37 There was another one similar to Ross 24:40 who I'll quote here from The Social History of the 24:42 American Family. This is Arthur Calhoun speaking 24:45 in the early 20th century also. 24:47 He says: "The child passes more and more into the custody 24:50 of community experts who are qualified to perform 24:53 the 'complexer' functions of parenthood. " 24:57 So the state will become the parent. 24:58 Now that raises my alarm bells as a parent. 25:01 You see the assault on the family going on 25:03 through many of these sessions: through media, 25:05 through this social engineering system 25:08 to the point where you can look at 25:10 not just Arthur Calhoun's quotation 25:12 but also Ellwood Cubberley. Listen to this one 25:15 on the graphic. He says: 25:35 Then you might say: "Well that's impossible! 25:38 How are they actually going to make that claim? " 25:40 Well there was a judicial pro- clamation in the Ninth Circuit 25:44 Court of Appeals that actually came out and said: 25:47 "Through the public school sys- tem we're... " indoctrinating... 25:49 Well, that's my word... "indoctrinating children 25:51 with a certain ideology about sexuality for example. " 25:55 And they said: "There is no... " This is the judicial 25:58 system in America stated: "There is no 26:00 fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider 26:04 of information regarding sexual matters to their children. " 26:06 I beg to differ. 26:08 But they said: "Parents have no due process or privacy 26:10 rights to override the determinations 26:13 of public schools as to the information to which 26:15 their children will be exposed while enrolled as students. " 26:18 That's a good call to not be enrolled as students 26:20 in those particular schools. We've gotta support 26:22 our godly Christian schools. 26:24 So the United Nations has also discussed this. 26:28 And as the Media on the Brain guy like this one just 26:31 blew my mind when they actually came out: 26:33 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 26:36 I won't quote it for the sake of time, 26:39 but they basically say in that Convention in that statement 26:42 of rights - Declaration of Children's Rights - that 26:44 children have the right to watch whatever media they want 26:47 and to consume whatever media they desire 26:49 and the parents have no authority over that. 26:51 So ooh... is that God's idea or Satan's? 26:54 You know, God created the family structure. 26:57 And so when I see the literal Baphomet statues 27:00 being erected in Detroit, MI 27:03 where they've got the image of the horned deity 27:05 and they're like "We're Satan worshipers" 27:07 what is the key part of that? 27:09 See if you can take a look at the graphic here. 27:11 It's children looking up in awe 27:14 at the disgusting deity there of Baphomet. 27:20 So you know a Satanic agenda is on 27:23 as the high priests of a new religion 27:25 which we thought was secular entertainment 27:27 and secular schooling... there is something deeper 27:29 and darker and I have some good news: 27:32 we say in Child Guidance - a wonderful book - 27:34 it says: "The only true light is in Jesus Christ. " 27:37 It says: "Have nothing to do with the things that are 27:39 bewitching our children. " So we turn to Jesus with joy. 27:43 We gather our children unto us like they did at 27:45 the Exodus and we walk together to raise our children 27:48 to be the light to this dark world 27:50 to win souls from this system of control. |
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