Auto-SummaryThe "Student Manifesto" is a critical reflection on the current state of universities in the United States. The author argues that universities have been transformed into worker training facilities, focusing on specialized knowledge rather than broad-based understanding, and that this system perpetuates the status quo by instilling fear and hate in students. The manifesto calls for students to unite in pursuit of truth and love, challenging the corrupt system that seeks to maintain control through division and manipulation. The author also highlights historical examples of CIA-backed coups, such as the 1951 overthrow of Iran's Prime Minister, to illustrate how the "Beast" (a metaphor for the corrupt system) has influenced world events. The manifesto concludes by urging students to awaken to this reality, engage in an information war, and work towards a new age of Truth and Love.
The Student Manifesto 4/16/2007
I am disgusted by what I see around me. Universities are supposed to be the center of knowledge, learning, and progressive thought. Look at what we have become. Do we come together in unity to discuss the issues plaguing our world? Or are we purposely divided? I see two major problems with the current state of universities in this country. Corruption. Is today's massacre at Virginia Tech any surprise to you? Look at the state of our universities in this country. Drug and alcohol abuse are rampant. Actual learning is shoved aside in favor of last minute aderol induced 'study' sessions whose sole purpose is to shove enough information in one's brain to pass an exam, then promptly forget it. Walk through campus and look around you. What do you see? Are we coming together in unity to pursue knowledge? To pursue change in this world. We are the youth, the young people of this nation. If we are to effect change in our time, we must unite in the pursuit of truth and love. We must get beyond the fear that separates us, and use love to spread truth to the world. Universities have been and are being transformed from centers of knowledge exchange into massive worker training facilities. We are trained to work, to become an effective cog in the system. We are specialized to the point that we come out of university lacking the broad-based knowledge necessary for the proper understanding of world affairs. If people were able to truly understand what the system is, then they would not be training at universities to perpetuate it. We would be coming together using the power of truth and love to effect change in the world. What is this system? We are taught from the time we are little that humans are naturally sinful, that we need social institutions such as government, religion, and business to keep us in line. That without these institutions, the human race would degenerate into an orgy of ignorant violence. We think "thank god for the government, what would we do without it?" Is this really the case? Do you have that little faith in yourselves as intelligent human beings? We have a problem. The Beast is deeply ingrained within our current system. Think I am exaggerating when I call it the Beast? Learn more. Become symbolically literate to understand the language of the Beast. Know its methods. Divide and conquer. The Beast knows that if people were to come together in pursuit Love and Truth, we would forget the differences that separate us and realize that diversity is beauty. The Beast perpetuates fear and hate. If it can keep humans divided against one another, it can keep the population in a state of servitude. Problem Reaction Solution. The Beast knows that in order to create change, the population must be either willing, or too divided and dumb to resist. We are not yet too divided and dumb, so the Beast must fool us into backing its designs. First, the Beast creates a problem. I will use the example of Iran. In 1951 Mohammed Mossadeq was Prime Minister of Iran. He was a very progressive leader, and would have done much to further the development of Iranian industry and culture. In that year, he attempted to nationalize Iran's oil production in order to give some of the wealth generated by Iran's oil back to Iran. This did not please the British and American overlords. They decided that Iran had no business deciding the fate of its oil, and so replaced the secular Mossadeq with a non-secular shah. First, they assasinated Mossadeq's character. They made him appear as a demon in the British and Western press. Second, they sent CIA operatives into Iran to spread mis- and dis-information. Finally, operatives worked with Iranian radicals to oust Mossadeq and install a puppet dictator. In case one is unfamiliar with this subject, CIA backed coups are the norm for many countries in this world. Iraq is a very similar situation, Hussein having been trained as a CIA operative while in Egypt in his youth. The current situations we find ourselves dealing with in Iraq and Iran were planned long before the media told us about it. Second, the public reacts to the created situation. The media, of course, does not tell us about Mossadeq or Hussein's CIA links. They spin us a picture designed to evoke fear and hate, while purposley concealing the truth. Some of the population is only too happy to play along with the act. They cry out for action, that something must be done. The current puppet dictator is compared to a modern day Hitler, and outrageous claims are made against him. We do not bother to ask how he got into power in the first place, we just know that he must be ousted now. If the majority of the American population paid attention to the past 30 years, we would have known that as recently as the mid 1980s Saddam Hussein was our 'ally'. It is the public's ignorance which enables The Beast to get away with this trick over and over. The Beast is by no means an innovator. It has relied on the same methods for thousands of years, and relies on our lack of knowledge and motivation, rather than its own ingenuity. This is its weakness, and how it will be defeated. Third, solution. A problem is manufactured, the population then demands the action (the same action the Beast desired in the first place), and the Beast is only too happy to oblige. We just keep playing along. War, bigger government, taxes, it does not matter. The results are always the same. The solution always benefits the Beast. It is time to stop. A Great Awakening is coming upon the human race. We are living in special times. Deny this if you wish, but if you choose not to open your eyes to that which is all around you, you might miss out on a very special event for us as humans. We have reached a point of no turning back. The collective consciousness of humanity is beginning to awaken. The Beast relies on ignorance, fear and hate. These are the tools it uses to manipulate us into serving it. NO LONGER! Truth and Love are the answer, TRUTH AND LOVE! We are now in the process of coming together. Most do not yet even realize it, as it is a hard thing to see. Notice the little things. We are being sent a message of Truth and Love, so listen to it. The first battle we must fight is within ourselves. This is a constant struggle, human nature if you will. But it is winnable. Again, I cannot overstate the importance of Truth and Love. Always seek truth. Do not say it, do not think it, if you know it to be false. Truth in all things. Love. Love all human beings, even those that hate you. It is the message that Christ figures have been trying to deliver to us for thousands of years. Do not rely on the controlled media to tell you what truth is. Do not rely on government, do not rely on teachers, do not rely on friends and family. If you wish to know Truth, seek it out within yourself. Study the world around you. Think! Make your own decisions. Fear and hate should not exist. They are corruption, they are poison to the human mind. Why fear, why hate? Because we do not understand? But this is our condition as humans. We enter this world with a lack of understanding, and our ultimate goal here is to achieve understanding. Fear and hate prevent understanding. Through pursuit of Truth and Love, we can make fear and hate things of the past. The second battle we must fight is an information war. People are ignorant. They have been purposely dumbed down for years by the media, religion, and other social constructs. They are not dumb, they simply lack information. After we awaken the universities (hopefully we'll be ready by the end of summer 2007), we must engage in an information war the likes of which the world has never seen. Universities are the key in our struggle, because information is our weaponry. The media, the government, and law enforcement have always been obstacles to our pursuit of truth and justice, and the coming years will prove to be no different. However, with our system of universities we have a network which has already been set up to facilitate the spread of information. We need only use what we have been provided with, and we can evoke great change. Americans are beginning to realize that corporate media is a joke, and more importantly that government by nature is corrupt. This will be a confusing time. Great Awakenings are often preceded by periods of great upheaval. The human consciousness is realizing the absurdity of our situation. We are coming into the realization that we have the power to determine our circumstances, the power to change the world. No longer will we live in blissful ignorance, letting world leaders determine our fate. It is time to come together and cast down those who would hold us in bondage. We must realize that they hold no real power. Theirs are the dark arts. They manipulate humanity into thinking that they hold the power and we hold none. This is precicely how they gain their power, tricking us into thinking the Beast has power and we do not. In believing that the Beast has power over us, we give it power over us. Do you now see how simple it is? The only power the Beast has is the power that we give it. That is why the personal battle comes first. If you can get beyond hate, fear, and ignorance, then the Beast no longer has power over you. Truth and Love. It is our duty as the last generation of this age to awaken the world. We will right the wrongs of our fathers. Where they have failed, we will succeed. It is our duty, it is our destiny. We will come together in unity, humans throughout the world standing together in brotherhood, preaching a message of Truth and Love. No longer will we allow ourselves to be manipulated into perpetual servitude, willingly giving away our human nature in exchange for fear and ignorance. We now stand united as brothers and sisters. We will learn from the past, live in the present, and work toward a better future. The road ahead may be confusing and it may be difficult, but we have already won. A new age of Truth and Love is dawning, the scope of which is beyond our present understanding. But it is there, below the surface of perception, waiting for you and I to release it to the world. Truth and Love.
-------------------- TAO
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