Ruling Group Mind

Dr. John McMurtry was one of the first academics to analyze 9/11 and the aftermath of wars for world dominance. Follows are highlights from a panoptic address for the International Citizens Inquiry into 9/11, May 30, 2004, Toronto, Canada. See Dr. John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Refer audio presentation, Why the Facts of 9/11 Must Be Suppressed: Understanding the Ruling Group Mind Behind the War Without End, Guns and Butter, Berkley, California USA.

There’s something at work within and across people’s consciousness, as citizens and consumers, which has not yet penetrated. The problem of denial runs deep into USA collective psyché. Those who believe the administration’s in-group running the USA national security state could not possibly have been involved in 9/11 are by self admission no longer connected to the issue of fact or truth.

In the 9/11 term, one stigma phrase has held the group mind in a set point of compliance that asks no questions: conspiracy theory, the term of art for the silencing operation—fear of ridicule does the rest.

This is the dead silence operation of the ruling group mind that locks out all thought and evidence, which do not fit its baseline presupposition: that 9/11 was an attack from the outside, and that Earth and its creatures are not sacred.

Their program is being played out in Iraq against heroic resistance, while elsewhere in the empire the regulating group mind demands complicity. This is the ordering framework of consciousness in terms of which coherence and meaning are found in whatever is selected for attack, however false the justifications or defenseless the victims might be. Even the doomsday bombing of innocent poor peoples on a constructed pretext is perceived, through the prism of the ruling group mind, as a war for goodness and freedom.

In short, we confront here the primeval world group mind, which harnesses the global market juggernaut of a bottomless consumer maw that only desires more.

Consumerism the musical | duration 5:00

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