Welcome to Digital Disconnect.
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This is episode 7:
Media Manipulation.
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This will be eye opening. I've
been very much looking forward
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to this particular session.
My name is Scott Ritsema.
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It's a privilege to be your
host to take you through this
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information that will challenge
us, that will stretch us,
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that will inspire us.
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And, in fact, for inspiration we
want to seek the Most High God.
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Would you pray
with me as we begin?
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Father in heaven,
we thank you so much
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for the privilege of
serving You and seeking You.
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We want to know You,
and we know we will know You
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when we search for
You with all our hearts.
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So we pray that You'd
remove the media from our lives
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that is distracting our
quest for more of Jesus.
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And may we have Your Holy
Spirit speak to our hearts
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during this episode.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
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I want to begin with a
couple of the big names -
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the biggest names - in big tech.
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The inventor of the
iPhone, the iPad: Steve Jobs
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and the guy who gave
us Microsoft: Bill Gates.
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Now something very interesting
came out a number of years ago
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when an interviewer
inquired about how they do tech
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in their home with
their young people.
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When they had young people.
Steve Jobs, of course, has...
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has since passed away, but
what came out of that interview
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was particularly interesting
to those who are questioning
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"What should we do with
our media in our home? "
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Well, first of all
Steve Jobs was asked
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"What do your
kids think of the iPad?
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Oh it's the new device every-
body's getting so excited about
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doing the games on there! "
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He says: "Well
actually my young people haven't
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touched one. " It was
about to hit the store shelves.
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The Jobs family
definitely had access to them.
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And they asked him: "What
do your kids think of it? "
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He says: "My kids don't use it.
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They use very
little media in the home. "
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And the journalist was
like: "I thought the Jobs family
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would have touch screen walls!
" I mean this is the founder
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and CEO of Apple. So... not so.
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Largely tech
free for those kids.
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Bill Gates: their children
were limited to 45 minutes
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of Internet use per day
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and that was meant for
productive edifying purposes
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not for entertainment
purposes. Very interesting!
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The current CEO as
of this taping of Apple
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his name is Tim Cook
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and he was asked
about social media.
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Now he doesn't have children
but he does have a nephew
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he said that he cares about.
He said: "Really, I'd love to
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see my nephew totally off
of social media altogether. "
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Then you go to other
people like Alex Constantinople.
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Not a name you probably
know but she's the CEO of a
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Silicon Valley company
called the Outcast Agency...
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a tech firm there.
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And she's got
little children in the home
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and her little
children have zero screen time
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for up to age 5.
For her older children
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she caps it at 30 minutes a
day and tries to keep a handle
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on that. I know even that
can be hard if we're addicted
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to a low dose of video games.
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But she's got strong
standards in that home.
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There was an author of a
book called Irresistible.
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His name was Adam
Alter, and he interviewed
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a number of video
game industry insiders
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and video game designers.
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These guys were saying:
"You know what? I won't even
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use the video games myself
'cause I know they're designed
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to be addictive and
I make them that way.
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And that game and
that game I won't touch it
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'cause I know
I'll get addicted. "
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Very interesting how the
insiders have a different
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perspective on this
than the rest of us.
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Maybe... What do they
know that we don't know?
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Well a lot of them know it...
it's not just these few names.
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There was a New
York Times exposé
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and another one out of the UK
Telegraph where they looked into
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how about the mid-level
engineers and the people who are
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making the apps and the devices.
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You know, the people
working at Google and Yahoo!
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and Facebook and all of
these Silicon Valley tech firms.
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And what they found when they
interviewed a number of these
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families - these parents
- is they had super strict
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and strong standards for their
little children's media use.
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Kind of like the Alex
Constantinople I mentioned
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of Outcast Agency.
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It's, you know: "No screen
time for our toddlers at all. "
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In fact, they have nannies
that have to sign a contract
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that: "You will not be on
your phone. You will not give
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a device to my children.
They'll be in the sandbox.
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They'll have their hands in
Play-Doh. They're going to be
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doing real things and
we're not going to be engaging
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in that sort of
tech-based babysitting. "
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There's a school called Waldorf
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in Silicon Valley: the
Waldorf School of the Peninsula.
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And they have a
policy of zero ed tech...
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educational technology...
zero media until middle school.
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It's kind of like the one that
was quoted in a previous session
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where they said: "We
eliminate it till high school
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to give them the moral foun-
dation of freedom of choice
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so they don't become so
dependent on and addicted to
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technology... to the media. "
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Well guess what? This school
- the Waldorf School of the
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Peninsula - is the most
sought after private school
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among these
Silicon Valley insiders.
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So they want their
kids at the tech-free school
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while the tech is being
made and delivered to our kids.
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And we are the consumers of and
funders of this big industry.
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You might call it the Silicon
Valley disconnected childhood.
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What do they know
that we don't know?
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They know about
the digital disconnect.
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They know very well about it.
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Sherry Turkle on the East
Coast has seen the same thing
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among the Massachusetts
technology insiders.
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Here's a quote
from her. She says:
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So the article that was
put out in the New York Times
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was called:
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In fact, if you've been with
us through the first sessions
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of Digital Disconnect
you know that the risks
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for maldevelopment and addiction
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don't just seem
high but they are certain
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and they are verified and
validated by the research.
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One Silicon Valley mother inter-
viewed in that particular piece
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came out and she was
asked: "How do you do media
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with your children? "
"Well, we've eliminated it
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entirely for
the 5 and 3-year-old
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and for the children in the
family we will gather together
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to watch a program every
once in a while together. "
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And that's a
good thing, you know.
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The interactive
screen time as we've seen...
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You remember when we were in
the earlier sessions and we were
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talking about the child brain.
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How video games and
interactive screen time
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and then playing on the iPads:
that is more hyper stimulating
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than watching a nature-paced
informational, spiritual
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good video
together as a family. Maybe
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there's children
watching this right now,
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although maybe I need to
slow down. Maybe I'm not nature
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paced. Sometimes I
get a little excited.
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You get the idea,
though, when these mothers are
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like: "We'll
watch something together
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but we're not giving the kid the
iPad. " And they go in this room
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and the 11-year-old has a Smart-
phone & a social media account
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and the 13-year-old plays
5 hrs. of video games a day.
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And the 5-year-old is addicted
to the iPad and doesn't know
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a magazine works. Because
they know how to use the iPad
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but not the paper. That's
not the world of the techies
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in our society that are
building these platforms.
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Now I want to quote again
a former Facebook executive.
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When it comes to the agenda
here, he came out and said it:
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This session is
called Media Manipulation
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and his quote
right there sums it up.
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That could be the subtitle of
this session, of this episode.
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You don't realize it, but if
you were exposed to all of this
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wordly media and the
machinations and manipulations
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of big tech to the greater
extent that we expose ourselves
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to that we are
being manipulated.
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There was a man named
James Williams. He created
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one of the most
important advertising metrics
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in the history of the Internet.
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And one day he was working
at Google and he was looking at
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the charts and graphs
of all of the web activity
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and how they were re-directing
people this way and that
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and he said: "See that
data point right there?
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That represents a million people
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that in the last 24
hours we caused to do something
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that they wouldn't have
otherwise done. And it wasn't
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actually in
their best interest. "
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He started to have
pangs of conscience
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like some of the other
people I was sharing with you
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in the session about
This is your Brain on Media
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when we talked about addiction.
And they said: "We're getting
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people addicted to these
things. " Well others in the
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inside of... the
insiders in this community
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are having conscience
about not just addiction
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but about manipulation.
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He said... James Williams said:
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"We've created the
largest and most centralized
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and most standardized form of
attention control in history. "
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Think about that from
a prophetic standpoint.
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The largest and most central-
ized and most standardized
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form of attention
control in history
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has been created by the
Googles and by the Facebooks
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and the social media
platforms of this world.
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So if the devil can co-opt that
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and control that
according to his agenda
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and direct that into the
deceptions he seeks to direct
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you get a "whole world wonders
after the beast" scenario
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in short time, don't you?
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There was another whistle-
blower like James Williams.
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His name was Tristan Harris,
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and he was working for one
of these big tech companies
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and also felt horrible
about what he was doing.
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Now when he came out and
made this sort of whistleblower
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moment he said:
"You know, I learned that
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the "persuasive technology
laboratory" at Stanford -
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those are the people that
are churning out the media
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manipulators of our time
- he said: "We were taught
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how to covertly
affect people's choices
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in ways that they
are not cognizant of.
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So we're not appealing to
the reason. It's not persuasion.
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It's called the
"persuasive technology lab"
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but it's covert methods.
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That reminds me of the serpent.
"He was more subtle than
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any of the
beasts of the field. "
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He used trickery; he
used manipulative methods
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to capture Eve into the
sin. And she made the choice.
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But there are hypnotic things
happening that we'll talk about
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in a second. There
are manipulative things
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that we're not even aware
of. "Covert methods" he said
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"we're taught. " And that
was what they openly taught
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at the "persuasive... "
Now we believe in persuasion.
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I'm doing some persuasion.
I hope people will find
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the happiest most
joyful Christian life
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by finding the most balanced
use of good quality media
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and a whole abundance of
non- media real how-to-be-human-
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again type of stuff
in our relationships
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and in our lives as led by God.
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So we want to
persuade. We do evangelism.
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We share the gospel;
we share Bible truth.
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Evidence from the Word of
God of the validity of prophecy
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and of Jesus
Christ as the Messiah.
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Persuasion is good.
Manipulation and covert methods
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you cross a line there somewhere
and he felt terrible about it.
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He says: "All of us are
jacked into this system.
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Our minds can be
hijacked. We are not in control
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of our own thoughts. " And
he says: "There are a handful
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of designers working
at a handful of companies
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that are steering the choices
of a billion people in our world
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today. " Just one
little silly example
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he points out is something that
you might not have even realized
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was messing with you,
and it's a color scheme.
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He says: "Facebook used to
have blue-themed everything
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in their early days. And their
engineers and their designers
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and their people who are
watching our engagement on it
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were saying: 'We're not
getting enough engagement.
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How do we up the ante?
What's the next level here? ' "
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Well, what they said was:
"We need to add the color red
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to the notifications.
Where 'you've got messages'
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where 'you've got notifications'
it needs to be red. "
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Tristan Harris explained...
He studied this at Stanford
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in the "persuasion technology
laboratory. " He says: "Red
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is used as a trigger
color as an alarm signal like
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stop signs, like fire alarms
and red light at the stoplight
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and it gives people a little
anxiety alarm in the amygdala
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of their brain like
'I've got to solve this, '
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'I've got messages; I've
gotta get that taken care of. "
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Just a little thing you might
think. It's not a big deal.
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But how many more
things are being used?
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Beyond our
comprehension and awareness
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the more we immerse ourselves
in the digital world that is run
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in the digital
creation run by this big tech
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behind-the
shadows type of group.
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By the way, when I
say "behind-the-shadows"
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this goes back 100
years. I want to take you to
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before there ever was a
YouTube, Facebook, Google
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monolith there
was something called
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the early advertising industry
in the 1920s and Hollywood.
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1920's... we're going
back over 100 years now...
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there was a man
called Edward Bernays.
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He's the founder
of modern propaganda.
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He was a nephew of Sigmund
Freud so they were experts on
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the human psyche. He was
interested in the mass mind
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or what he called in
this quote you're about to see
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he called it "the group mind. "
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Now listen to
what he says. He says:
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Well that's a chilling
statement right there, isn't it?
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A hundred years ago you had
psychological social engineering
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experts who had crafted
a science of controlling
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the group mind
already in the 1920's.
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I can tell you all the
history of how they did that
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and how standardization
crept in and swept over society
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and how the fashion industry
and Hollywood and popular
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culture emerged out of the
Edward Bernays mind manipulation
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genius... Evil
genius if you ask me.
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Here's the next
quote he shares. He says:
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I want to just pause
right there. Hold on... hold on.
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Did he just say "in
a democratic society
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it is important to
manipulate the masses?
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Their habits and
their opinions? "
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Huh... interesting.
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Again, a very chilling
statement from his book
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Propaganda... aptly titled.
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He said it is a: "
feature of a free society
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to have a power elite manipulat-
ing the minds of the masses. "
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Now that's not my idea
of freedom. I believe in
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a God who says: "Where
the Spirit of the Lord is
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there is freedom. "
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And He says: "Choose ye
this day whom you shall serve. "
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And: "Come now let
us reason together. "
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But power-hungry
elites throughout history
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as motivated by
Satan's principles of coercion
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and of control rather
than freedom and choice
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which God is about...
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That's why we're in this mess
in the great controversy, right?
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Because you had free will
in the universe and you had
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a holy angel
choose and invent evil
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and that created this destruc-
tion and darkness that we see
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all around us, that's going
to be ending soon by God's grace
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and by our action,
frankly, as inspired by God
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if we will finish the
work. But Satan's principles
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are always to
control and manipulate.
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And so tyrants throughout
history usually use coercive
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boot-in-the-face
types of violent domination.
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In a democratic society
though Edward Bernays says:
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"You can't necessarily
use those. We've gotta use
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the manipulation of their mind.
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We're going to form their
habits, form their tastes,
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suggest their ideas. And
thus so doing we are the ones
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that pull the wires that
control the public mind. "
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That's another quote of
his that's not on the graphics.
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But in his book Propaganda
he said: "We are the ones
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that pull the wires that
control the public mind. "
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Now this gets to a
hypnotic level as I mentioned.
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I have a quote here from Signs
of the Times, a publication
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from 1884. And it says...
it's making a prediction:
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"Through the channel
of mesmerism Satan comes
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more directly to the
people of this generation" -
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19th century -
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"and works with that
power... " mesmerism -
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"which is to
characterize his efforts
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near the close of time."
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Here we are right
now in the last days.
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Satan's predicted to
be engaged in some sort of
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use of mesmerism, hypnotism,
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to captivate the
minds of the masses.
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So you think Edward Bernays and
his ilk would've loved to use
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techniques like
total mind manipulation
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through hypnotic
control? You can count on that!
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In fact, I have
another quotation here
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on how modern hypnosis
takes place. 'Cause you know
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you've got the flinging of the
watch and the old-style hypnosis
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but if we're
looking at the digital age
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in the last days how
will hypnosis take place?
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Well Dr. Steven Freitag, who's
a certified neuro technical
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specialist and psychologist
and a hypnotic specialist,
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he understands these things
from the field of hypnosis.
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This is supposedly a science.
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Spiritualism as we just read.
But he says that "light and
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sound do the work for deep
relaxation in a fraction of time
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of traditional methods by
using specific frequencies
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of audio and visual
input. So you get a frequency
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of flashing of
light, maybe a repetitive
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image - type of image -
on the screen appearing in a
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rapid frequency could actually
alter the brain wave function
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of the human mind. In
fact, this has been studied.
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This has been known for
some time by the way. What I'm
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telling you about here
from Dr. Steven Freitag
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and how theatrical-style
TV can actually produce
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a hypnotic state in the brain
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is not a new and novel theory.
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But it has been known for
quite some time that the brain
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functions in waves.
Beta waves are the ones
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that are engaged right now.
Your frontal lobe is thinking.
00:19:10.11\00:19:12.41
High frequency Beta
waves are what are a signal of
00:19:12.61\00:19:15.82
a critically thinking mind.
But the lower brain waves are
00:19:16.02\00:19:20.99
for sleep and deep sleep
and then there's an intermediary
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phase called
alpha. The alpha waves
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when those are taking over
either you're just heading into
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sleep and falling asleep
or somebody is engaged in
00:19:30.67\00:19:32.57
New Age meditation and
they're trying to self-hypnotize
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into an alpha trance.
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And so that would be
indicative of a hypnotic state.
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Somebody in a hypnotic
state has high alpha indications
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in their brain wave signature.
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So I want to share a
quote with you about what
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Dr. Thomas Mulholland
found about this. He found that:
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Now this is theatrical-
style entertainment TV again.
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This is not your viewing
and informational program.
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The type of programming
is producing alpha waves.
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He goes on and says:
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So that's a serious eye opener
that this has been manipulating
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the masses to a great degree.
And that kind of explains
00:20:37.77\00:20:41.24
things you know like: "Well
why have people gone so crazy
00:20:41.44\00:20:44.01
in the last few decades in
the generation when we started
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to get Hollywood
taking over our society
00:20:47.78\00:20:49.94
and our social norms?
" Is it just the messages
00:20:50.15\00:20:52.68
or are there methods
embedded in the messages
00:20:52.88\00:20:56.08
that really sink
the messages deeper
00:20:56.28\00:20:59.02
into the subconscious
perceptions of society?
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Are we having a puppet
master thing like Edward Bernays
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bragged they were
doing back in the '20s
00:21:05.69\00:21:07.50
with modern high-tech overlays?
00:21:07.73\00:21:10.67
Well, if you ask Mark J. Ryan:
00:21:10.87\00:21:12.43
he's another professional hypno-
tist and this guy is up there.
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I mean, he knows the
methods that are being used
00:21:16.40\00:21:18.44
and has a
hypnotist practice, OK?
00:21:18.84\00:21:21.84
So I don't endorse Mark J.
Ryan. I look to him as a...
00:21:22.04\00:21:25.38
a source to tell us
what's going on, though,
00:21:25.58\00:21:28.42
with Hollywood and hypnosis.
00:21:28.62\00:21:30.42
He put out a video and you can
see this on Media on the Brain.
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I'm not going to show the
whole clip of Mark J. Ryan
00:21:34.09\00:21:36.22
explaining for 8 minutes
you know what's going on in the
00:21:36.42\00:21:38.79
Hollywood industry. But in Media
on the Brain, it's in disc 2,
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you'll see Mark J. Ryan.
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But I'll give
you the skinny, OK?
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He comes on: "I just got back
from watching the best movie
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I've ever seen.
It's called Inception. "
00:21:49.97\00:21:52.14
This is a movie that
came out many years ago.
00:21:52.34\00:21:54.01
And he says: "The reason
this movie was so good is
00:21:54.21\00:21:56.75
because they did a really good
job of hypnotizing all of the
00:21:56.95\00:21:59.55
viewers. " And you've got
my attention now Mark J. Ryan.
00:21:59.75\00:22:01.85
You're telling me that the
film makers of this like put
00:22:02.05\00:22:04.65
hypnotic methods
into movie making?
00:22:04.85\00:22:07.22
He says: "Yeah, in fact
all Hollywood studios are doing
00:22:07.42\00:22:10.03
this same thing but
most of it is nefarious
00:22:10.23\00:22:12.76
but I really liked this
movie because it was healing
00:22:12.96\00:22:15.33
your inner child and all of
this hypnotherapy mumbo jumbo. "
00:22:15.53\00:22:18.73
Not to be critical of
the man. He's a child of God
00:22:19.23\00:22:22.47
and we want to win that soul.
But these are Satan's methods
00:22:22.67\00:22:25.71
we know and people
may be well intentioned.
00:22:25.91\00:22:28.34
And I'm thankful to Mark
J. Ryan that he's exposing it
00:22:28.54\00:22:31.21
'cause he's like: "most of
it out there is nefarious. "
00:22:31.41\00:22:34.05
He says: "I don't
even watch TV and movies.
00:22:34.25\00:22:35.68
I maybe watched 2 or 3
hours the last 2 or 3 years
00:22:35.88\00:22:37.85
and the commercials
especially are specifically
00:22:38.05\00:22:42.12
technically designed
for hypnotic induction
00:22:42.32\00:22:45.13
and for
subconscious programming. "
00:22:45.33\00:22:46.90
Like wow! That was an
eye-opening statement.
00:22:47.10\00:22:49.56
He said all Hollywood
studios are doing the same thing
00:22:49.76\00:22:52.43
that they did in that movie
Inception that he loved so much.
00:22:52.63\00:22:55.34
And they are "indeed
nefarious" was his word.
00:22:55.54\00:22:59.51
So the Bible says: "See to
it that no one takes you captive
00:22:59.71\00:23:03.65
through hollow and
deceptive philosophy. "
00:23:03.85\00:23:06.41
Colossians 2 verse 8:
"Don't be taken captive. "
00:23:06.61\00:23:09.38
The devil's out there
seeking whom he may devour.
00:23:09.58\00:23:12.09
The Bible says
in II Corinthians 10
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.56
"Take every thought captive
and make it obedient to Jesus
00:23:14.76\00:23:17.56
Christ. " We want to be
masters of our own choices
00:23:17.76\00:23:21.03
by the power and
influence of the Holy Spirit
00:23:21.23\00:23:23.93
not allowing
ourselves to be taken captive
00:23:24.33\00:23:27.20
through these hypnotic manip-
ulative methods that Hollywood
00:23:27.40\00:23:29.54
is bringing to the
masses Edward Bernays style.
00:23:29.74\00:23:32.41
And the music industry
is doing the same thing.
00:23:32.61\00:23:34.24
I want to share a quote
with you from a top-notch
00:23:34.44\00:23:37.11
music therapy specialist,
Ph.D., from Phillips University.
00:23:37.31\00:23:41.65
She says that:
00:23:41.85\00:23:43.18
And she wasn't the first
one to say this actually.
00:23:55.13\00:23:57.50
She is saying it from
the clinical standpoint,
00:23:57.70\00:24:00.10
from the research standpoint,
from the scientific standpoint.
00:24:00.30\00:24:03.17
But somehow the
musicians themselves
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.24
when the rock music
industry was getting underway
00:24:06.44\00:24:08.54
were fully aware of
what they were doing.
00:24:08.74\00:24:11.18
Listen to what Jimi
Hendrix, the famous musician,
00:24:11.38\00:24:14.42
stated in an interview. He said:
00:24:14.62\00:24:16.55
Wow! That's pretty...
that's pretty eye-opening stuff!
00:24:27.00\00:24:30.00
He said at another time:
00:24:30.40\00:24:31.90
"We make our music so
loose and hard hitting
00:24:32.30\00:24:35.50
that it hits your soul
hard enough to make it open. "
00:24:35.70\00:24:39.17
So he says: "We make our music
so that it hypnotizes people
00:24:39.47\00:24:43.18
and opens their soul and we
can preach into the subconscious
00:24:43.38\00:24:46.95
what we want to say. " I
know this is pretty intense
00:24:47.15\00:24:49.32
information... hard to believe.
00:24:49.52\00:24:51.32
I wouldn't have concluded that
myself just by looking at it.
00:24:51.52\00:24:54.72
You might have had suspicions
but when they admit it
00:24:54.92\00:24:57.56
and frankly brag about it
00:24:57.76\00:24:59.09
I can't help but ask:
00:24:59.29\00:25:00.80
"What really is going on
here in the music industry? "
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.47
Well there's another
musicologist and neurologist,
00:25:03.67\00:25:07.04
a brain science expert,
named Dr. Richard Pelligrino.
00:25:07.24\00:25:10.27
and he says the same
thing is going on. He says:
00:25:10.47\00:25:12.71
So this is a major
method that Satan can use.
00:25:32.49\00:25:35.06
Now music, of
course, is a gift of God!
00:25:35.26\00:25:36.93
Beautiful music
does uplift the emotions
00:25:37.33\00:25:40.07
and enhance the frontal lobe.
That's the great thing about
00:25:40.27\00:25:42.27
sacred music: it does
good things to the brain.
00:25:42.47\00:25:45.07
But this worldly rock music
00:25:45.27\00:25:47.11
bypasses the frontal
lobe and does those things
00:25:47.31\00:25:50.35
that these researchers
and musicians are saying.
00:25:50.55\00:25:52.55
In fact, they've looked at
Christian rock and worldly music
00:25:52.75\00:25:55.88
with Christian
lyrics to it just to show
00:25:56.08\00:25:58.59
is it the lyrics that are
actually causing these changes
00:25:58.79\00:26:01.32
in the brain. This is
Dr. Newberg and Waldman,
00:26:01.52\00:26:03.93
their studies at
University of Pennsylvania.
00:26:04.13\00:26:05.73
What they found was when
people are engaged in that
00:26:05.93\00:26:08.56
charismatic-style
worship with the rock music
00:26:08.76\00:26:11.07
blasting in the ears
and they're engaged in that
00:26:11.27\00:26:13.70
ecstatic feeling the
prefrontal cortex is shut down.
00:26:13.90\00:26:16.57
And that's not something
we want. We're wanting to be
00:26:16.97\00:26:19.24
"Come now let us
reason together. "
00:26:19.44\00:26:20.84
We're wanting to be in
the position of receiving
00:26:21.04\00:26:24.11
the seal of God.
00:26:24.31\00:26:25.71
There's another statement from
a musician that I found to be
00:26:26.21\00:26:28.78
particularly
helpful because people ask
00:26:28.98\00:26:31.05
"OK, what is this about rock
music? What is rock music? "
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.52
Well it's heavily
rhythmic. Rhythm is not bad
00:26:34.72\00:26:38.49
but what he says here:
00:26:38.69\00:26:40.03
So for eons... for
thousands of years...
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.47
in pagan tribal
settings all over the world
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.84
multiple rhythmic
elements - voodoo-style music -
00:26:55.04\00:26:58.11
has been altering people's minds
into a spiritual pagan worship.
00:26:58.31\00:27:02.08
And that's the basis of
modern rock music and hip hop.
00:27:02.28\00:27:04.82
And you know it when you hear
the heavily excessively rhythmic
00:27:05.02\00:27:08.16
music that's one pit.
00:27:08.36\00:27:09.72
On the balance beam is
beautiful sacred uplifting music
00:27:09.92\00:27:12.86
to God that has a rhythmic
element: harmony, melody,
00:27:13.06\00:27:16.26
and it's full and beautiful.
In the New Age community
00:27:16.46\00:27:19.33
you have rhythmless music. You
walk into that health food store
00:27:19.53\00:27:22.84
that's a little New Age
leaning. Very nice people but
00:27:23.04\00:27:25.01
the music is like bing-bong,
bing bong, whowwwww...
00:27:25.21\00:27:30.98
tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.
00:27:31.18\00:27:32.51
I'm like: "Honey, can
we grab the almond milk
00:27:32.68\00:27:34.02
and get out of here? "
It's a little creepy to me
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.02
but... you
know... self-hypnosis.
00:27:36.22\00:27:37.92
New Age, alpha trance... that's
the kind of music that's used.
00:27:38.12\00:27:40.82
Rhythmless. Do
you want to seek Jesus
00:27:41.02\00:27:42.89
and have the victory and
take every thought captive,
00:27:43.09\00:27:45.36
music, good media, avoiding
the Hollywood captive...
00:27:45.56\00:27:48.53
captive taking that is
taking this generation by storm?
00:27:48.73\00:27:52.27