I emphasise it now; I had little-to-nothing in common with other people. Their values I did not comprehend, their ideals were to me a living horror. Call it ostentatious but I even sought to provide tangible proof of my withdrawal from the world. I posted a sign in the entrance to the building wherein I dwelt; a sign that indicated I had no wish to be disturbed by anyone, for any purpose whatsoever.

As these convictions took hold of me and, as I denied, nay even repudiated, the hold that the current society of men possesses over its ranks, as I retreated into a hermitage of the imagination, disentangling my own concerns from those paramount to the age in which I happened to be born, an age with no claim to be more enlightened, significant or progressive than any other, I tried to make a stand for the spirit. Tyranny, in this land, I was told, was dead. But I contend that the replacement of one form of tyranny with another is still tyranny. The secret police now operate not via the use of brute force in dark underground cells; they operate instead by a process of open brainwashing that is impossible to avoid altogether. The torture cells are not secret; they are everywhere, and so ubiquitous that they are no longer seen for what they are.

One may abandon television; one may abandon all forms of broadcast media, even the Internet, but the advertising hoardings in every street, on vehicles, inside transport centres, are still there. And they contain the same messages.

Only the very rich can avoid their clutches utterly. Those who have obtained sufficient wealth may choose their own surroundings, free from the propaganda of a decayed futurity. And yet, and yet, in order to obtain such a position of freedom it is first necessary to have served the ideals of the tyranny slavishly, thereby validating it.

("The Tower")

Mark Samuels

Mots clés rich wealth society media television advertisements ads wealthy brainwashing tyrrany



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Audio of interview - Valerie Sinason

Mots clés society law police survivors uk psychotherapist child-abuse occult ritual-abuse sexual-abuse crowley satanism therapist psychoanalyst satanic-ritual-abuse sra paedophile child-sex-abuse society-problem ritualistic-abuse jimmy-savile paedophile-ring pedophiles savile



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Audio of interview - Valerie Sinason

Mots clés society change law police survivors uk psychotherapist child-abuse victims ritual-abuse sexual-abuse satanism therapist psychoanalyst satanic-ritual-abuse sra paedophile child-sex-abuse society-problem ritualistic-abuse jimmy-savile paedophile-ring pedophiles savile



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Audio of interview - Valerie Sinason

Mots clés society law police survivors uk psychotherapist child-abuse ritual-abuse sexual-abuse satanism private-eye therapist psychoanalyst satanic-ritual-abuse sra paedophile child-sex-abuse society-problem ritualistic-abuse jimmy-savile paedophile-ring pedophiles savile



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Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

Rafael Sabatini

Mots clés life society judgment



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In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés society poet everyday eternal



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I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind!

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Mots clés women society age-inspirational male-dominated



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People make the rules of society, not God.

V.C. Andrews

Mots clés society god



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What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. It does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment. In America, we are never denied the opportunity to entertain ourselves.

Neil Postman

Mots clés politics society america television huxley 1984 george-orwell orwell brave-new-world aldous-huxley



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Toujours et partout on peut résumer la situation initiale en termes d'une crise qui fait peser sur la communauté et son système culturel une menace de destruction totale. Cette crise est presque toujours résolue par la violence.

René Girard

Mots clés society crisis violence destruction



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