The sad truth -we are unaware that we are all slaves.

It's not uncommon, these days, to hear people, especially teenagers affirm vehemently that they are the sole custodians of their decisions and principles. They tell now,  more than ever, self destructing lies like "I see all these things in the media,  I watch and read immoral things  but, they don't affect me."

My teenage friend, after levelling vicious, veiled insult and attack on me, for daring to criticise a writer's view on sex and teenage relationships,  finally said to me:

"I'm a teenager, I grew up reading a piled up collection of James Hadley Chase novels my dad had acquired over the years. Some teenagers have read worse, they haven't killed people or gone into prostitution. I just don't think the book and the concepts in it should be enough for someone with common sense to want to try out everything in it."

After thinking it over and looking critically into the comment,  I saw it clearly - people,  especially the new age kids, will never see it- that they are being manipulated by the people in charge of the media,  the custodians and makers of culture. And that's the tragedy. We are all but lost.

Brainwashed sheep,  time to wake up. 

Lost! Because, yes, we know that  human beings have freewill but, we fail or refuse to know that that will is heavily influenced by external ideologies and cultural changes. We refuse to acknowledge that  the human mind  is gullible,  more gullible than anything else and,  daily,  every minute, every second, the world around us alter our principles,  our perception of things, our souls. Most times  we, sadly, think that this does not happen; we think  we are in charge. But,  ultimately,  we are wrong. We are all slaves to the influence of the world around us.

Most people are confused and do not know where they are going. Most times, we  just go with whatever is in vogue, whatever the world around us tells  us is OK; and most times, we are unaware of this. Whatever  the rich,  the popular, the successful and powerful people do or say, reigns supreme in our hearts. We follow without knowing it that we are following. Like sheep.

The elites know this gullibility of ours,  this weakness of our spirits and so, they  exploit it in their bid to shepherd and control us; they publicise or create Ideologies and cultures that best serve their interests and, they find ways to imprint these ideologies and cultures in our souls.

Sometimes, these ideologies are good and designed to help organise the society at large, for good.  Yet,  other times,  they are designed to 'dumb down' the people, by encouraging them to self destruct,  weaken them, and then, make them easy to rule.

And most recently,  the aim has been to create a new population of humans who do whatever they want,  irreverent of tradition and culture or religion. This is aimed at wrestling from the tenets of conservatism and religion,  the souls of the people, who'd then, do the bidding of the puppet masters.

'Dumbing down' meaning: get the  people down  by clouding their thinking,  their principles; make them revel in their frailties. They'd become pliable, easy to control.

A myriad of methods have been used in the past to achieve this but, non has been as powerful and successful as the system being used today-media power.

Ever since Goldenberg invented the printing press, the society has been virtually in the hands of the  few who know how to use it. The invention of TV, Internet, etc, has further solidified this situation. And, in this era of blind 'worship' of super stars, they- the  supers stars, are heavily being used to propagate the favoured ideologies and cultures.

An illustration of how the big corporations and elites control the masses. 

They are now being used to hack into the minds of the people, to get them to follow like sheep, to do whatever the elites want. Our kids and teenagers now want to dress,  walk,  behave and live like Miley Cyrus,  Beyonce,  Niki minaj etc, without even knowing it.

Some ideologies are encouraged while others are not. It depends on what the elites want. Example,  Some western literature are banned in China because, China suffered a lot in the  hands of the West in the  past  and are now trying to avoid anything western, clouding the  minds of its people.

Religious teaching,  especially orthodox  religious teachings like that of the Catholic Church and belief in God are now being subtly discouraged in Western schools because, the elites do not really agree with such things these days because,  religion and belief in God takes the eyes and hearts of the people from the iron fists of the people who crave the power of government. There are myriad other examples.

Movies that encourage tolerance of gays, for example, are now being encouraged in Hollywood and every other outlet of information. This is so clear in the movie 'spartacus',  where Characters like  Agro,  Saka, and Nassier are so beautifully designed that, in spite of their sexuality, which many viewers frown at, they are so loved by same viewers because, they are designed as great characters with profound human souls. My favourite character is Agro,  by the way. Which one was yours? And please,  note,  I'm NOT against gays; I was just making an illustration.

Music and videos that encourage nudity and vanity are now,  more than ever, being promoted in the hip hop world. Those who are making and selling this culture know why, what they want to achieve with it. The more explicit your work is,  the  more endorsement you get; the more vain,  the more awards you get.

And the people are just lapping up everything because, these things are associated with rich, popular super stars whom they-the people, literally 'worship'. Some of us even try to imitate every bit of the lives of our superstars.  My own stars are Chimamanda and Lucky Dube; we all have our own stars.

And in the future,  people are going to be quoting and living the words from today's super stars, no matter whether these words are worth quoting or not, irrespective of whether these super stars are good role models or not. The kids will inevitably look up to them,  emulate them. Super stars like Kim Kandashan, Snoop Dog, Rihanna, super stars like Mily Cyrus,  etc.

Remember that popular Merylin Monroe quote that is on the lips of every female human being,  today?

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"

Now, I don't necessarily hate Merylin Monroe but,  I wouldn't want my daughter or my wife or girlfriend to be making that quote. It reeks of selfishness,  self-centeredness and an inability to consider other people's feelings. I mean we have flaws  but,  we should try to curb our flaws or at least feel sorry for them,  instead of glorifying them.

That's a classical illustration of the power of super stars in shaping the people's lives. Women and girls now quote and believe and live that Merylin Monroe quote,  today, because it was made by a very big super star. And the sad thing is that most of these women and girls do not even know who Merylin Monroe was, what she stood for, what she believed in,  what  that quote implies.

The end result is this: the people end up being just what their puppet masters-the elites, want them to be. And they-the people,  the  masses, all of us, will even be ready to fight whoever  tries to interfere. Or criticize.

I recently had an ugly experience on Facebook when some of my guys, ganged up against me,  called me the worst names in the  world,  just  because  I tried to criticise Tiwa Savage's 'wanted' video. Lolz! It was my fault; I criticised their goddess.  I know I would defend Lucky Dube fiercely, too..

Picture of Tiwa Savage's wanted video. 

We get so absorbed into what is shown to us,  thrown to our faces,  fed to us in the books and news pages, the Internet, until it's becomes part of us and we are ready to die for  it.

We have become,  are gradually becoming, what people like Allister Crowley wanted us to become years ago- a people who no longer possess souls,  only doing what their cravings and desires require. "Do what thou Willeth"  was the law he created. And through the media,  that law has been perfected in this new age.

Remember  the Germans? After  being  indoctrinated with Nazi ideologies, they were all ready to  die for  it. And die for it, they did. Likewise, the Japanese soldiers were so deeped in the  samurai teachings,  during the second world war, that many of them killed themselves rather than surrender.

The Japanese militarist government, during the war began disseminating propaganda that romanticized suicide attack, using one of the virtues of Bushido as the basis for the campaign. The Japanese government presented war as purifying, with death defined as a duty. "Tenno Heika Banzai" (天皇陛下萬歲 ? , "Long live the Emperor"), the unsuspecting soldiers would shout before charging, with empty guns and bayonet, against American machine guns,  only to be cut down like grass.

Think  about what happened during the sexual revolution when it was reported that some motherless and fatherless children were raised in secret kindergartens where they were made to fondle adult sex organs, etc.  Reason? They wanted to remove any scepticism or fear the children might have had about sex and morality.

They wanted to make the  children into adults, free to explore their sexuality without restrictions.

These children, reportedly, finally grew up to help in exploding the pornography industry and spreading the message that "sex is NOT  IMMORAL, outside marriage". This is still subject to serious verification, though.

In the same vein, the apartheid government, to an extent, successfully dumbed down the  blacks by flooding the  ghettos with drugs and alcohol and by encouraging sexual decadence  in the ghettos.

This is similar to the opium trade which the  British  perpetrated in China. It was documented that the  British flooded China with opium in a bid to get the  people too drugged and confused to ask questions. There are  other  countless examples.

However, I have to say  that the people's freewill is not entirely lost. There are millions of cases where the  people,  by luck or by chance, have been able to say  "No" to exploitation and manipulation and the  likes. But,  at least, we can  be sure that the freewill; thus the society, is still heavily altered by what  is fed into the people.

So, when things go wrong, as they sure have, in this age of teen pregnancy,  STI, divorce, rebellious children, single parenting etc, we shouldn't talk about the people's freewill ALONE, and say " Oh, the people are to be blamed because, they have their freewill to choose good over evil." We shouldn't start looking at the  misleading statistics all over the  media. We shouldn't start looking up to theories that certainly do not apply in reality.

We should rather, also talk about the ideologies and cultures that alter the people's freewill because, the peoples' freewill is shaped by the ideologies and cultures they are exposed to,  just as The  Egyptian,  Roman,  Persian and, Greek cultures ruled the lives of the people of the world  during the various  times of reign of those countries.

Those people were the 'happening' people at those various times and everyone wanted to be like them. likewise, the dominant cultures of today,  mainly American and European cultures are completely dictating our lives today.

In my opinion, in order to get our wayward,  sheeple  selves,  and, society of today back to our senses, in order to combat HIV, Rape, teenage pregnancy,  family breakdown etc, we have to root out the wrong  individualistic, vain, and other wrong ideologies and ways of life that rule our lives now and, replace them,  we must, with the ones that will return us to the right path. And,  I mean,  replace them all over the world : in the  schools,  in religion, institutions, media(Movie,  music,  books  etc) and other  outlets of information and knowledge,  the world over.

Remember what Mao did once he got in power? He brought about a cultural revolution that completely destroyed the low,  slave mentality of the  Chinese, ushering  them into an era of self belief and glory. Foreign cultures,  literature and literally every form of Western entertainment were all banned,  allowing the Chinese to build their society the Chinese way.

No one is ever free until he is completely emancipated from mental slavery. Join  me,  let's single with Bob marley.

The legendary Bob marley sang to educate the masses about the way the elites tries to enslave th masses mentally 

Emmancipate yourself from mental slavery
Non but ourselves can free our minds
I have no fear for atomic energy
Cos non of them can stop the  time.
How  long shall they kill our brothers