(Reprinted with kind permission)
The War On Individuality
Comes Home - Littleton
Shootings Predictable
James Neff
webmaster@sightings.com
4-23-99
When I was in high school... when we all were in high school...
there was a sick, twisted system long ago established by
which the gifted -- those who by nature do not meld with
the "Borg" of normative society -- were trampled,
humiliated and slowly beaten down psychologically, and
often times physically, until we fit the mold or
perished.
Some of you reading this were the instruments of that
torment, and you yourselves were guided and manipulated
by peer pressures to do so. Adapt or die. And some of you
reading this are still struggling with well disguised and
hidden scars from those years. Adapt or die. Others...
sloughed it off, burying it deep in the subconscious.
Adapt or die.
But some are not with us anymore. They dropped a load of sleeping
pills to escape it; they pulled the trigger on Dad's 12
gauge in the garage seeking that perfect sleep; they
wandered off in a fugue state never to be seen or heard
from again. All the while the conformers, the normals,
the happy-go-lucky cogs of the great Borg went on morally
blind to the incredible tragedy surrounding them and in
which they blindly -- or knowingly -- participated. No
body count.
For me, that horrible period of life was more than 20 years ago.
It was absolute hell then. It must be a sheer spiritual
apocalypse on the soul of teens today, as things have
distinctly gone from bad to worse. It has become hopeless
and depraved, sending a veritable few over the edge to
grasp hard steel and cock back shotguns to make it come
to an end. An end to the system of pain, and as we've
seen in Littleton, and end to themselves as well.
What we are seeing in Littleton, Colorado, and in the past 10
years in various other schools around the nation, is
literally war. The geeks, the weirdos, the nerds, the
outcast, the troubled-gifted, the challenged and the
general "breakfast club" is no longer comfortable with
crumbling into a million pieces and dissolving into the
background to appease the accepted and normative jocks,
'socies' and picture perfect all-American jackasses soon
to be our future political jackasses; afflicted of soul
and body for the rest of their lives, the outcasts are
fighting back. They have declared war on the normals and
it's a real war, with real blood and real guns. Its a
unique kink in the process of social evolution (or
de-evolution), in a sense. Just so many decades of this
can go on before the free radical stops bouncing around
and starts attacking and creating a cancer that
eventually kills the host.
The question is, is it deserved? That is not to say did any of
these young people in Littleton deserve to die, but
rather: Is this war, this 'rage against the machine'
deserved?
I say yes. It has been a long time coming. It is much deserved.
Not the deaths, not the tragedy. It's horrific that it
has come to this! I have nothing but pity and sorrow for
the victims and their families. But on a raw-truth level,
this sort of lashing out is utterly predictable and
sustained by a system even those parents participate in,
regarding it as "normal" and "good." We reap what we sow.
And I truly wonder how many of the people closely
involved with this debacle have any clue how much they
themselves feed the beast. They feed it when they hand
their kid a charge card and tell them to go forth and
reflect what the many varied cliques demand in clothing,
in music, in style. They feed it when they buy into this
disturbed system that creates a hierarchy of
acceptability and conformity, and in turn demonstrate to
their children that the 'way things are' is good...
right... the 'way it should be' because it has always
been that way.
I've heard it so many times it makes me want to puke.
"Well it was good enough for me," says the parent from
the previous generation, who sloughs off this issue
entirely, "and I turned out okay."
Okay?????
No. Wrong. You turned out completely screwed up! If this is your
perspective, you're part of the machine and have been.
You were 'absorbed.' You traded your soul for a piece of
the American pie, sold your birthright for a meal, chose
conformity for the sake of an easy glide, and now you
can't see, can't hear, can't think for yourself in the
slightest. Its an easy road this way. Count the costs.
And the same old excuses live on...
"It's my job."
"I was just following orders."
"Well, I survived it."
"What's wrong with the kids these days?"
What wrong with them is YOU.
It's all filtered for you and through you. Living outside of this
system requires daily fortitude and spiritual upkeep. It
is sacrificial. It is HARDER to live outside the system,
where truth can really be truth and lies are exposed, no
matter what the cost, ridicule, chastisement from the
"world" at large. And most don't want to sacrifice. So
they don't. They join up. It's very subtle. It's gradual.
But its all consuming. And then, you're gone. The great
dark-backward has had its way with you and what's left is
not a rock's throw from 'Stepford,' repackaged for a new
era so the seams don't show. And the beauty part is, you
don't recognize it. They took your ability to recognize
it ages ago. You gave it to them.
Wake up, sleeper.
This is the hideous, sinking, perpetuating gearworks of the
system, designed to keep the sparks of imaginative,
creative, unique life-force to an absolute minimum and
populate the great gorge of culture with a vast throng of
media-manipulated, perfectly possessed and
automatonically controlled 'bots' who guarantee the
survival of THE SYSTEM into the next generation! It
trashes people who are going to create new people to
trash, a cyclic, patterned process. Where and when will
it end? It ended in Littleton, in a blaze of blood and
bombs when two (possibly more, this story is far from
over!) young boys decided "that was it... no more pain",
no more being crushed and ground down to a pulp. Time for
the crushing and grinding to reverse. Is anyone really
shocked? Yes. The normals are stunned and shaking in
their boots. They can't rationalize it because they gave
up real rationalization many, many years ago.
Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols in my time was singing, "Anger
is an energy!" and "I am an Anarchist, I am an
Antichrist!" as a powerful downbeat on a podium for
change, a throbbing mantra echoing out to all the
disenfranchised, neglected, trampled kids. The gleam in
his eyes across that broken, tormented face was intense,
hypnotic and resonating. Generation X now has the blood
of Nirvana's Kurt Kobain for a psychic ritual baptism,
and the rites of passage are piercings, scarifications
and tattoos declaring their divorce from the system. Hurt
yourself before THEY hurt you.. and it won't hurt
anymore. Control the hurt. Control pain. This is the
solution when you're out numbered and know you cannot
control the system. Sadly, they simply joined the 'other'
well-crafted, perfectly controlled and manipulated hand
of a multi-armed cultural diety. They have escaped
nothing. When the wiles of youth wear off, the scars and
holes and markings will be there to forever remind them
of what happened. A stigmata of the machine. We have yet
to see the end result of this particular schism in
society. Brace yourselves for this one to explode.
In Littleton, that control took another course, however. It
didn't parcel itself into thrashing guitars and strobes
and acid house and now well established alternative-scene
self-therapy (I hope everyone reading this realizes that
that is precisely what we're seeing in the X generation
and the music world now... ad-hoc, self-generated therapy
for dealing with the madness of this culture and society.
When you look at it, realize this fact. They are having
to do it themselves, because no one else is going to do
it for them. No one gives a damn. And it beats killing
people, no?). It broke out with gritted teeth; with
Network's prophetic "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going
to take it anymore!" into the hard reality we now hardly
make contact with today, thanks to the glitz and glimmer
of cathode-ray visions and videodrome-like fantasy worlds
which we've adopted into our lifestyles without any
thought to its power over us. For the mature and
rational, these things are not a danger. They can be
simple entertainment. For the rest of the populace...
they are simply elements of mind control. The New World
Order is succeeding in its design to twist us and shape
us as it sees fit. And if that sounds like paranoid
madness to you, then you're already dead. Another one for
the pile.
They don't train police officers and airline pilots using
simulators for nothing! The idea is to wrap that virtual
reality around the subjects' skull until he or she is
perfectly programmed to respond to the situation given.
Taking the abnormal situation and making it normative, as
though fully experienced and logged to the memory; this
is the very design. These kids in Littleton have grown up
with their sensory mechanism entirely dominated by a
programmable emotional matrix. From the music to the
movies to the video games, they have been slowly
"implanted" with very powerful, ultra-realistic impulse
driven scenarios. Substitute jocks and socies for zombies
and enemy space craft. Plastic reality. Plastic morality.
Bang bang.. zap... kill 'em all an let God sort 'em out.
Training ground for the mentally ill.
And heightening this mind control is a diet of absolute
trash, speeding up the system with Jolt and Surge cola
caffeine bombs, maltodextrins and complex sugars and God
only knows what else, from habit forming molecular
stimulants like excitotoxins to appetite triggers and
flavor enhancers as well-crafted in the laboratory as any
pharmaceutical dispensed by a physician. A multi-million
dollar industry thrives on the casual addictions of our
mouthes.. our ears... our minds. A society completely
drugged, bugged and programmed.
It's going to happen again, folks. Again and again. The blood is
going to flow as high as a horses bridle eventually. Are
we going to wake up from this catatonic nightmare and put
a stop to it? Or will we simply nod, fold our hands and
submit to the NWO and everything it has designed for us?
Its not just the kids in school, this effects EVERYTHING.
Will we keep believing that NATO is stepping in to stop
'ethnic cleansing' like a knight on a white horse, while
it bombs the hell out of northern Serbia, and Belgrade,
all the while the REAL battle is 150 miles south where
the KLA is desperately trying to fend off Milsovic's
Serbian-nazi forces? Not a single bomb has been dropped
to aid the rebels. Not one. Will we continue to listen to
psychotics in government, backed by billionaires and
corporations, propping up one cloned leader after
another?
Recently a massively popular hit song was spawned from a
newspaper columnists' "good" advice, beginning with
sunscreen and roaming through a dozen other categories.
It's the first thing I've seen in alternative culture
media that had any merit whatsoever. But it didn't go far
enough.
Well, in light of recent events, I have my own:
Trust me on this... Homeschool your kids. It's worth making less
money for one of you to stay home and deal with it.
Sacrifice the commercialized lifestyle you think you
should be living for honor and dignity and truth. That's
really living. You don't need that new DVD system, you
need to spend time with your kid and show them that you
love them. Teach them. Discipline them. He or she doesn't
need to see what's on the DVD disc anyway. Throw it away.
Stop eating crap. Stop eating it with your eyes, your
ears, your mouth and your soul. Stop listening to the
system, from either side... it's all lies and deceit.
Read 1984 again. It's time. Pay attention to the lyrics
of the songs your kids are listening to. Watch the movies
they watch. Turn off. Tune out. Drop In. Get Real. Stop
lying to yourself that you went through it too and it's
just a phase. It's not a phase, it's a phaser, and it is
set to stun first and kill second. Don't believe
everything you read, but read more. Read what THEY tell
you not to read. Instead of TV, watch reality. It might
surprise you what goes on out there. Watch your kids.
Closely. But most of all, trust me on this... homeschool
your children. Don't give them over to the machine.
They're too precious.
Addendum
U.S. President Bill Clinton used his weekly radio address today to talk
about the Littleton killings. Clinton said Americans should use the tragedy
to end the "culture of violence" and he asked Congress to pass two pieces of
legislation that will tighten guns laws.
(excerpt from http://www.sightings.com/politics2/viscious.htm )
-- What? Tighten GUN LAWS? Guns are not the problem here, and
Clinton knows it. How many people in school who did not
fit the mold did Mr. Bill crush and gring under his
ultra-achiever ladder climbing boots? Culture of
Violence?? That culture is merely a reflection of
emotions deeply rooted in the true problem.
A nauseating attempt by the President to whitewash the
situation ---
On the day following this piece, the email is running squarely in
support of this viewpoint with dozens and dozens of
comments from people who relate to the pressures, abuse
and torment these two boys experienced, having
experienced it themselves, bringing the situation in
Littleton to this tragic end. Only one dissenting email
has arrived, thus far. In several IRC (Internet Relay
Chat) channels on US.UNDERNET last night, I noticed the
general sentiments of IRCers was also dramatically
focused on the blame being shared by the students who
pushed these two kids to this extreme. You can just beat
a dog so many times before it bites back. This is NOT the
sentiment or viewpoint one will find reflected in the
slightest in the national media, and especially in the
grotesque round-the-clock coverage provided by cable news
channels like MSNBC.
A few emails have suggested that government mind control
is involved. It is certainly not beyond my scope of
belief to exclude that distinct possibility. When I say
"New World Order" that of course includes the blackest,
darkest possible scenarios and conspiracies. There are
those that simply refuse to look squarely at the evidence
regarding government conspiracy down through history, and
for these people, who refuse to enlighten themselves to
the facts and will not take the time to unmask the
bellowing wizard to know the truth about the man behind
the curtain... there is no hope. But for those who have
been enlightened, who have forced a hand through the veil
and discovered there is more here than meets the eye,
kudos! You're on the road, you're aware, awake and that
puts the great and powerful "them" in a position to work
some serious overtime to construct a new mask fashioned
just for you. And it will likely fail. You will see with
new eyes, hear with new ears. You will digest everything
that comes down the pike through a BS filter and survive
this idiotic game.
Thanks to all the non-sleepers out there that took the
time to email support. You're the only reason the NWO
isn't flying a flag of complete victory!
- Neff
(often & erroneously called "Jeff".. but that's ok :) )
UPDATE
Now the unique -- and predictable -- emails start to come in! The
ones from the people who are more than likely psychotic
bullies themsevles. And, of course, the blind of society
who say "Who me? I'm at fault?" And, the ones from those
who think I am labeling the two trenchcoat killers as
"heroes."
But the hundreds of emails in support of the views herein
expressed, even in part, are clearly written by people
who know better, who know what I'm saying. They know I'm
not blaming movies, or TV or Jolt Cola... they see the
big picture. It's not a question of nature over nurture,
nurture over nature... it's bigger than this. And we know
it. Having experienced the power of the force of society
against us, we know of what we speak.
I will continue to post these incredible emails that
always seems to reflect a very personal understanding of
the kind of crushing power the "normal" society has
inflicted upon them. These are the voices of the
survivors of the FIRST crime, the crime being ignored by
the media by and large, that resulted in another crime in
Littleton. And again, I thank all of them who have
written with personal experiences! We cannot forget who
the FIRST victims were. The two boys... and everyone who
has shared the affliction of being outcast, for whatever
reason.
-Neff
(End of main article, with a big "Thank you" for
permission to post this wonderful article. -Steve.)
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