CONDITIONING BY MUSIC
CONDITIONING BY MUSIC
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
July 13, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
[NOTE: On the back of the cover page of my The Road to Socialism and the New World Order,,
I have a picture of the famous Fabian Socialist window with its
inscription "Remould it nearer to the heart's desire." So is it any
wonder that President Obama's policies are moving us toward Socialism
when at a townhall meeting in Arnold, Missouri, on April 29, 2009, he
said "We're working to remake America"? He will remake (remould) America
(it) nearer to his heart's desire, and that is as an increasingly
Socialist nation. If you doubt Obama is doing this, look at his
appointment of Carol Browner as Assistant to the President for Energy
and Climate Change. She's been a member of Socialist International (SI)
Commission for a Sustainable World Society, and there is a photo of her
addressing SI's XXIII Congress in Athens, Greece on June 30, 2008. She
is a strong supporter of "cap-and-trade" carbon emission controls, which
will send many more American jobs overseas.
According to Fabian Socialist George
Bernard Shaw, they (Fabian Socialists) set out to "Educate, Agitate,
Organize." Relevant to "Organize," Obama was a community "organizer"
following the model of Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals
(1971), which had an acknowledgement to Lucifer at the front. Relevant
to "Educate," John Lloyd (former executive director of the Kansas
National Education Association) said that this Alinsky book has been the
"bible" of the National Education Association (NEA). And relevant to
"Agitate," Alinsky wrote that the radical organizer "dedicated to
changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the
resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities
of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search
out controversy and issues.... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction
and discontent...." Obama has been a radical organizer "dedicated to
changing" America, which is now headed down the path toward Socialism as
desired by the Fabians.
Lastly,
one way to recognize a Socialist Nation is to look at the relation of
government to private business (e.g., government takeover of General
Motors), and relevant to that is the fact that the corporate tax rate in
the U.S. is even higher than that in Sweden, which is recognized as a
very Socialist nation.]
We know that music can have a profound
effect on people. Certain type of music can have a calming or soothing
effect. However, according to Oliver Sacks (Professor of Neurology and
Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center), "music of a
particular sort can actually trigger seizures." [See here]
In Plato's Republic, he stated that "the
introduction of a new kind of music can alter the character of a
nation." The modern assault upon traditional American moral values began
with the permissiveness of the Roaring ‘20s (e.g., look at the lyrics
of the popular 1921 song "Sheik of Araby"). In previous columns, I have
quoted from Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey, and Edward Bernays concerning
their roles in altering societies and values, and in this column I'll
focus on the role of music in this regard.
After the Roaring ‘20s, in 1934, the
bisexual Cole Porter introduced a popular musical and song by the title
"Anything Goes," which was about a shift away from restrictive codes of
conduct. And in 1936, Irving Berlin composed the music and lyrics for
the motion picture "Follow the Fleet" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers, in which she sang "Let Yourself Go." In that same movie, Harriet
Hilliard (later to be Harriet Nelson of "Ozzie and Harriet"22 The
message is clear - resistance to temptation is futile TV fame) sang a
song with the following lyrics: "Get thee behind me, Satan... but the
moon is low and I can't say ‘no.'... Get thee behind me, Satan, but the
moon is low and I may let go. Get thee behind me. Someone I'm mad about
is waiting in the night for me, someone that I mustn't see. Satan, get
thee behind me. He promised to wait, but I won't appear, and he may come
here. Satan, he's at my gate. Get thee behind me. Stay where you are.
It's too late.% (also look at the lyrics of the popular 1942 song "That
Old Black Magic").
Two
years after "Follow the Fleet," in February 1938, Theodor Adorno
(formerly of the Frankfurt School in Germany) was made chief of the
music division of Princeton University's Radio Project, which was funded
by the Rockefeller Foundation. Adorno believed that repetition in music
and other areas could create popularity, and that one could change the
culture away from "the authoritarian personality" (belief in traditional
authority) toward the "revolutionary," liberating individuals from
traditional values. He also believed that the mass media could be used
for "opinion management."
In 1941, Adorno left the Radio Project
and moved to the University of California in Los Angeles where he taught
for seven years, teaming with Max Horkheimer in 1947 to author
Dialectic of Enlightenment. Horkheimer was director of the Frankfurt
School during the 1930s and believed that authority within the family
structure was a serious problem to be eliminated. In 1947, he also
authored Eclipse of Reason, and in 1950 Adorno authored The
Authoritarian Personality indicating that those who emphasized their
family, nation, or race, actually had a psychiatric disorder. Adorno
also theorized that an emphasis on fractious music could help
destabilize society.
[See DVD "They Sold Their Souls for Rock-N-Roll"]
In 1951, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed
invented the phrase "rock & roll," which had sexual connotations.
"Rock & roll" placed a heavy emphasis upon the beat and rhythm, and
famous composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin would later judge that
"the big beat is deliberately aimed at exciting the listener. There is
actually very little melody, only rhythm.... We seem to be reverting to
savagery.... Youngsters who listen constantly to this sort of sound are
thrust into turmoil. They are no longer relaxed, normal kids." Tiomkin's
analysis was supported by Aldous Huxley's statement in his The Devils
of Loudun (1952): "If exposed long enough to the tomtoms and the
singing, every one of our philosophers would end by capering and howling
with the savages.... Assemble a mob of men and women previously
conditioned by a daily reading of newspapers; treat them to amplified
band music, bright lights... and in next to no time you can reduce them
to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been
in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many." In 1933
in The Shape of Things to Come, H.G. Wells had foretold of growing
criminally infected areas after WWII (he said the war would begin in
about seven years).
Scientifically supporting what Tiomkin
and Huxley said, in 1957 Dr. William Sargent, former president of the
Section of Psychiatry in the Royal Society of Medicine (London) authored
Battle for the Mind: The Mechanics of Indoctrination, Brainwashing, and
Thought Control revealing "that electrical recordings of the human
brain show that it is particularly sensitive to rhythmic stimulation by
percussion and bright lights.... Certain rates of rhythm can build up
reportable abnormalities of brain function and explosive states.
Furthermore, it is easier to disorganize the normal function of the
brain by attacking it simultaneously with several strong rhythms played
in different tempos." Sargent then stated: "Belief can be implanted in
people after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by
accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement. Of the
results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily
impaired judgment and heightened suggestability."
Three years later, The Beatles formed in
1960 in a transition from "rock & roll" to "rock" music, and by
1967 their "Sgt. Pepper's" album had definite drug implications (even
the U.N. Bulletin on Narcotics warned about it). In 1962, "The Rolling
Stones" formed and are even popular today, despite producing such songs
as "Sympathy for the Devil" and albums such as "Their Satanic Majesties
Request."
The mid-1960s became a period of
increasing revolution against traditional values. In 1964, "The Who"
formed, and one of its members has proclaimed: "What we dish out is the
musical equivalent of war - war upon quiet, war upon dullness, war upon
certainty and stability." That same year, "Mothers of Invention" formed,
and its leaders Frank Zappa said, "The loud sounds and bright lights of
today are tremendous indoctrination tools." The next year (1965),
"Jefferson Airplane" formed, and member Paul Cantor revealed: "The new
rock music is intended to broaden the generation gap, alienate parents
from their children, and prepare young people for revolution." The next
year (1966), Crosby, Stills and Nash met (formally forming in 1968), and
David Crosby in Rolling Stone (Vol. 1) remarked: "I figured the only
thing to do was to steal their kids. I still think it's the only thing
to do. By saying that, I'm not talking about kidnapping. I'm just
talking about changing young people's value systems which removes them
from their parents' world effectively."
One important area of American values
under attack in the 1960s was religion. Traditional Biblical values were
undermined and replaced by those of the religions of Secular Humanism
and the New Age. Songs expressing the situation ethics attitudes of "do
your own thing" and "if it feels good, do it" promoted the religion of
Secular Humanism. And in 1967, the musical "Hair" opened and included
the popular song, "Aquarius," which promoted the New Age religion. It
contained the following lyrics:
When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars.
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding,
Sympathy and trust abounding,
No more falsehoods or derision,
Golden living dreams of visions,
Mystic crystal revelation,
And the mind's true liberation.
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In 1969, the singing group "The Fifth
Dimension" released this song as a single. And in the 1996
Theosophical/New Age book The Light Shall Set You Free (Theosphists
believe Lucifer, "The Light-Bearer," sets one free as opposed to the
Biblical statement "the Truth (Jesus) will make you free") by Norma
Milanovich and Shirley McCune, one reads: "The date for entry into the
Fifth Dimension [when the Piscean or Christian Age will end and the Age
of Aquarius will begin] is scheduled for the year 2012."
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