New Year’s Resolve
by Not Sure
5 January 2025
The title of
this January 2, 2013 talk from Alan Watt is “Entertainment Zoo is Destroying
You.” Succinct.
It’s easy
enough to see that programming shapes outcomes and predicts behavior because…monkey
see, monkey do. But when Alan reads from
an article entitled “Crypto-Eugenic Media Group: Population Control
Brainwashing A ‘Smash Hit’”, we understand just how literal the destruction
is. We learn that the mission of an ‘entertainment
organization’ called Population Media Center is to spread the message of
population reduction through works of fiction.
The long-time president of this organization, Bill Ryerson, explains how
successful fiction is as a carrier of the ‘crypto-eugenic’ message. “…the use of long-running serialized dramas,
melodramas like soap operas, in which characters gradually evolve from the
middle of the road in that society into positive role models for daughter
education, delaying marriage and childbearing until adulthood, spacing of
children, limiting of family size, and various other health and social goals of
each country. And we have now done such
programs in forty-five countries.”
Ryerson
founded PMC in 1998 to address population and reproductive health issues using
the Sabido method. This is where the
story really got interesting to me.
Miguel Sabido trained as a theater director. He describes his excitement in discovering
that actors could change not only the delivery of dialogue and their body
language, but they could change the entire tone the audience perceived by
subtle changes in their energy. He
called this discovery “Theory of the Tone.” Sabido’s Entertainment-Education method would
spread around the world, but the idea of educational entertainment may go back
as far as Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack with its puzzles
and rules of conduct. Walt Disney is
sometimes credited with the portmanteau ‘edutainment.’
According to
Wikipedia, “Nowadays, many practitioners in Entertainment-Education come
from a background of public health, health communication and behavior change
communication.” Social and behavior
change communication (SBCC) is any communication strategy used to promote ‘positive’
behavior. Cass Sunstein’s 2008 book, Nudge,
and nudge theory simply popularized techniques that have been in use for many
decades.
Entertainment Zoo is Destroying You:
"The Most Effective War You'll
Ever Find
Is the Scientific War Declared On the Mind,
It's All-Pervasive, Even in Novels
Read in the Third World by People in
Hovels,
Designed by Academicians, Cerebral
Vultures,
Weaponized to Destroy All Strong
Cultures,
In First World Nations it's Left
Devastation,
More Effective than A-Bombs Dropped
on a Nation,
Leaving Abortion Factories, Debt,
Welfare State,
Turned Stable Families to Dysfunction
and Hate,
Behaviourists Work to Bring this Derangement,
Be Alert When Watching or Ignore
Entertainment"
© Alan Watt Jan. 2, 2013
***
In a 2021, the UK’s Population Matters (formerly known as Optimum
Population Trust), interviewed Bill Ryerson of Population Media Group. Here is a brief exchange from that interview:
FB: In the film 8 Billion Angels,
you suggested that it would be much easier and quicker to reduce fertility
rates than emissions. Can you explain this? And shouldn’t we do both?
BR: There are numerous examples of countries rapidly lowering
their fertility rates through campaigns promoting small family norms and use of
family planning. This is true of many Asian countries, Mexico, and Iran. Mexico
benefited from five family-planning telenovelas created by Miguel Sabido on the
largest network, Televisa, in the 1970s and 80s.
Using his strategy, Population Media Center has seen similar decreases in many
of the 51 countries where we have worked. For example, the fertility rate in
Ethiopia fell by a full child in the two years of our first radio novella
there. About half the population were listening to that programme,
and declines in fertility were significantly pronounced among listeners.
***
As our study
deepens, we see how far back this ancient agenda goes. This can have a paralyzing effect if we give
in to defeatist thinking. In this talk,
Alan read from an article entitled, “How to Win the War for Your Mind.” In a
subsection entitled “Do Not Fear Hypothetical Situations” the author wrote, “When
becoming an activist against a criminal establishment, it is very common to be
the target of fear campaigns. Today, those of us in the liberty movement hear
warnings from “random” concerned parties constantly telling us that our efforts
are “all for nothing,” that we are “making ourselves targets.” That the
globalist system is far too strong and far too advanced to be defeated.
That they have predator drones and NSA databases and soldiers without empathy etc, etc.”
I’ve heard
Alan say that it doesn’t matter if we’re fighting a losing battle, the
important thing is that we enter the war and stay in there. Just coming to understand that there is a war
is a victory. Staying in the war no
matter the cost or sacrifice is a huge victory.
We cannot see the future but neither can our adversary. To take a line from the movie Galaxy Quest,
“Never give up! Never surrender!”
© Not Sure
Additional reading:
Transcript - Alan Watt on RBN
"Entertainment Zoo is Destroying You" - Jan. 2, 2013
Bill Ryerson: We can bring birth rates down fast
https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/06/bill-ryerson-we-can-bring-birth-rates-down-fast/
How to Win the War for Your Mind