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THE PRIMARY AIM OF MODERN WARFARE

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“The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. (2.9.25, Goldstein’s Manifesto)”

“War is a necessary tool for the Party because it keeps the standard of living in check, maintaining the inequalities essential to a totalitarian state.”

— from “1984” by George Orwell (published in 1947)

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FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW

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Jacob Barnett is a boy genius who was diagnosed with Autism.  He has an IQ higher than Einstein.  However, it’s not the Autism or the Einstein that is really amazing…. It’s what he has to SAY about creative thinking that I think is important.
Read the article link below.  Watch Jacobs presentation on TED Talks.

STOP LEARNING.  START THINKING. CREATE!

Boy genius diagnosed with Autism has IQ higher than Einstein

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MIND-CONTROL PARASITES

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MIND-CONTROL PARASITES

An actual example from nature of a parasitic insect that uses “mind-control” to cause the host insect to change its normal behavior to the benefit of the parasite,  is described in the PDF article below.

ABSTRACT: On the evening that it will kill its host, the orb-weaving spider Plesiometa argyra, the larva of the Ichneumonid wasp induces the spider to perform highly stereotyped construction behavior and build a ‘‘cocoon web’’ that is particularly well designed to support the wasp larva’s cocoon.

Here is a PDF file of a recent article written by William G. Eberhard which describes this phenomenon in detail:  PARASITES CONTROL MIND