Vice Now Believes in Mind Control

One of my pieces that gets views long after I published it was my mockery of Vice's analysis of Monarch Mind Control theories. I wrote haphazardly then--I don't consider it a very clear piece. Mainly I was disgusted with the shallowness of the article; the writer seemed to have spent only an afternoon researching and brushed it all off because it didn't fit into her feminist perspective.

Vice returns with a more credulous piece, interviewing a German psychotherapist who has created a shelter for women she considers victims of mind control programming.

All the women who end up with us are victims of organised, sadistic and sexual violence, who have been subjected to mind control. There are also organisations practicing ritual abuse with a kind of spiritual superstructure, where certain ideologies come into play, such as neo-fascist mindsets or different pseudo-religious groups, like Scientology or satanic cults.

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Clients report that people from all different walks of life and from all occupation groups are part of the networks. They range from the police to the judiciary, people in public administration, university lecturers, medical workers, psychologists, hypnotists, politicians... Certain names come up repeatedly. In exchange with other clients and colleagues across Germany, we are able to cross-validate these names. Some are renowned, award-winning people.

Some discussion has been had on the right about John C. Wright's stages of progressive corruption. It begins with worldliness, a "sophisticated" understanding of the world, followed by ideology. Absent religion, the worldly find a cause to which to devote themselves. This is followed by spiritualism, a retreat from the realities that the worldly wish to incorporate and the ideologues reject. The final stage is nihilism, in which nothing is believed true and in which the only enemies are those which profess to hold a truth.

Most commentaries agree with Wright's contention that we have entered the nihilist stage. Certainly the higher echelons of debate have gotten there but I'm not sure we've seen the full flowering of spiritualism.

I prefer to look at the ground level when discussing these things. Ideology has come into full effect among the philosophical groundlings--take a look at the rantings of Tumblr activists. They have fully accepted a political perspective that encompasses every aspect of their lives. "Microaggressions" are a good example of this, turning tiny inter-personal communications into political statements.

The arguments are getting so ridiculous that the ideologues struggle at times. I mentioned before that the danger for ideology lies in cognitive dissonance. If the ideology is in conflict with reality, then the ideologue has to either abandon the ideology or become a fanatic--that is, believe in the ideology's mystical "truth." Thus we see grace-like conditions like "white privilege," states that cannot be precisely observed but are accepted as existing.

Wright discussed Nazi "blood-and-iron mysticism" and theosophy and New Age theory as evidence of spiritualism in the past. I don't think those were signs of the age of spiritualism as much as precursors. I think that beliefs like those of Gaby Breitenbach, who runs the shelter discussed above, are indications that our spiritualist age has not yet come.

It makes sense that the spiritualism should be influenced by the ideology. The mind control theories revolve around cabals of powerful individuals creating slaves of everyday people. This isn't much different than the class- and racial-warfare theories that underlie modern leftism. Progressivism, for all its utopian promises, centers around enemies like the wealthy or the racist. Its spiritualist extension will naturally be fixated on undetectable monsters lurking among us.

Note that Breitenbach classifies the cabals as "neo-fascist" as well as Scientologist and satanic. The spiritualism we'll see will be reflective of the principles of the Post-Enlightenment era. A techno-futurist version of this spiritualism is Ray Kurzweil's singularity.

The fact is, these kind of reports come from people that are very troubled. Usually, "memories" of ritual abuse arise in therapy, not spontaneously, and usually by therapists whose background is social work rather than medical. The patients and their therapists believe that they've found a single source to the patients' problems:  secret abuse by someone programming their minds.

The fact that this is taken at face value is a sign that we haven't seen the end of the spiritualist age just yet.