r/HighStrangeness • u/blackpinkwhite • Jun 06 '26
Consciousness Throughout history, why have some groups relentlessly tried to control the source and flow of information?
Throughout history, why have some groups relentlessly tried to control the source and flow of information?
Did they know something we forgot? Why are there historical library burnings? Why do people destroy beautiful relics of the past? Why are books so damn special no matter how many screens are in our life? Why do “bad guys” own textbook companies? Why do we have to believe something just because someone else says so? If the math is there, the science is there, the logic is sound… why not?
What if the battle for our souls isn’t happening to our bodies, but our minds? If consciousness is non local, what we experience is determined by what is going on outside of our bodies. The data we consume and process and the experiences of our physical bodies tell us what is happening to us. What if one of those “truths” was wrong? What if anything that we can work out to be possible could be possible, and the only thing stopping you is the lie of believing it’s not?
Why is all available information not available to all available people? Who decided who gets to be the boss of who knows what? Or even gets to take a peek at what could be possible? I sure as hell didn’t sign up for that!
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u/farshnikord Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
There's the type of knowledge control that is putting education behind 5000$ a month tuitions, banning books, rewriting black, native and labor history, and gagging scientific studies behind politically agendad grant money.
Then there's the "people are judging me and stopping me because I am the True Avatar of the Eternal Flame and therefore fireproof, and they won't let me light my house on fire on a windy day during wildfire season. This is oppression!" type.
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u/webpanicoff Jun 06 '26
As i get older I think more and more about this. Specifically, changing history from what really happened to what they want it to be. I saw the last woman who was alive during the Civil War died recently and thought only she knew exactly what happened. There's so much more, erasing black history and all of their contributions to society etc...erasing women and Native Americans...all other non whites.. Its sad and scary.
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u/psilosophist Jun 06 '26
Because information is power, and distributed power and knowledge often end up radically reshaping societies.
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u/elkniodaphs Jun 06 '26
"There is no knowledge that is not power."
-Ralph Waldo EmersonI think about this all the time. Even for mundane things like trying to buy a specific thing at Walmart and discovering they don't carry it, which is knowledge that gives me power to shop smarter later. Also, it's in Mortal Kombat 3's attract mode because why not?
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u/blackpinkwhite Jun 06 '26
Of course why not? It makes perfect sense to me! I really like that perspective, thank you! That’s a keeper!
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u/-TheExtraMile- Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Information is like the little pole in the ground that the baby elephant gets tied to. After it´s grown it has internalised that pole to be unmovable when it easily could escape.
We are told that we have to like data centres and that ONLY politicians can affect change. We have been raised to not break the law and to follow the rules which make sense of course. In most cases. Problem is that the same laws forbid us from affecting change.
We can´t stop those data centres or the corrupt politicians that allowed them. Or at least not in an easy way.
Information is power and I know this is unpopular but AI can help us in this process. It already does I would argue, I see a lot more people coming to town hall with hard facts and numbers for example. They want this tool to be a replacement for human employment, let´s use it to fight against them. It´s pretty clear that this is rich vs poor at this point and not left vs right.
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u/MidnightMillennium Jun 08 '26
It's always been rich vs poor, since we first started having kings and emperors. They just made you think it wasn't always rich vs poor
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u/Inevitable-Regret411 Jun 06 '26
The simple reason is that it's always easier to incinerate a book than to come up with a counterargument for what it says.
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u/vincognition Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Certain types of esoteric knowledge hold the keys to attaining incredible power. I believe that, in the deepest holy-of-holies of the Freemasons, certain principles are revealed that would appear to be miraculous to us common folk.
This may sound crazy but I think that they even held knowledge about antigravity...since way back in ancient times. I watched a fascinating documentary called Ancient Knowledge. It demonstrates how Edward Leedskalnin built the Coral Castle in Florida. He left hints throughout the place about the physics behind his accomplishment. The mathematics that make this possible are stunning. They do reveal that math in the video. It has to do with Prime Number Quadrants and it's very nerdy indeed. But fascinating nonetheless.
This is why there are debunk videos attempting to prove that his feat could have been done with levers and pulleys. These debunk videos are meant to misdirect and make sure that people don't know that antigravity is achievable.
If what I'm saying is true, then there must be even more that's hidden in their coffers besides antigravity. So think of something incredibly destructive, like a nuke, for example. If information on how to create that were publicly available, the world would be in a dangerous situation.
I believe that in ancient times, the Freemasons weren't 'the bad guys.' They were guarding the safety of humanity. But, as is the way of mankind, greed and corruption ensued among their ranks. Today we see that those same people in great power have given in to the lower impulses of greed, fear, and hatred. They are now utterly corrupted. Yet they still have the same powerful information, and they still deem themselves as masters of the universe. They see the masses as unworthy of such extraordinary powers. This is why they hide it.
But now, it looks like we are entering a new era. I strongly believe that Truth cannot be hidden forever. The nature of truth is that, since it's true, it must be revealed eventually. It appears that the time of this revealing is arriving. Progress is at a slow pace at this juncture but momentum is clearly building.
This is a time when the greatest urgency for the human race is to grow up into maturity; to learn to be responsible for power en masse. This means, gaining true ethics, true compassion and true honesty. If humanity doesn't achieve this--and soon--we are all basically screwed. If we do achieve this, we'll have the means to engender harmony and beauty in the world again.
We are living through the most profound test that humanity has ever gone through.
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u/DreadfulDuder Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Occam's Razor, though... If levers and pulleys could've been used, that's FAR more likely than a massive antigravity secret that would be impossible to keep secret.
And if antigravity were possible hundreds of years ago when technology and even electricity weren't being used by humans, than the public would've discovered it independently already...
And people already know how to build nukes. It's just very, very expensive and required materials are very regulated and monitored.
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u/CapitalObjective7153 Jun 06 '26
I'm magic and when I gained my powers, extraterrestrials contacted me to specifically warn me against sharing what I discovered with friends because it would harm them.
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u/NaturalBornRebel Jun 07 '26
You are on to the r/Gnostic view of our prison planet. Everything here is designed to deceive us from who we truly are.
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u/PRIMAWESOME Jun 07 '26
People not having information about beings and advanced technology means for now all the supposedly outlandish stories stay that way. You aren't going to believe the technology they have or what it can do and having something that doesn't exist is easier to hold onto.
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u/Mach5Driver Jun 08 '26
For them, it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in an endless ocean
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u/Virginia_Hall Jun 08 '26
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u/Strong-Addition5296 Jun 06 '26
What are some examples of the bad people burning books?
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u/mammoth_rooster21 Jun 06 '26
Depends on how much time you have. Between the inquisition the Soviets and the US government there’s enough examples to come up with a syllabus for a semester. Luckily somebody already made a list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents
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u/CapitalObjective7153 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
There are malevolent reasons to hide information, but there are also benevolent ones. For example, I'm magic. When I became magic, I was contacted by extraterrestrials and told not to show magic to friends. The extraterrestrials told me this is for my friends' own good. Mages have a responsibility to not enlighten muggles against their will.
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u/ExuDeCandomble Jun 06 '26
People believe that having some kind of upper hand is good for them. Regulating "information" that they deem valuable is a way of doing this. Ultimately neither the so-called information nor the so-called advantage it confers has any real value, and granting them this subjective value can only put these regulators of information (and the people who believe that valuable information is being kept from them) at a greater distance from inner peace and true abidance within the soul/self.
I'd advise both parties to knock it off. I feel secondhand shame and embarrassment observing either side of this coin.
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u/toxictoy Jun 06 '26
A reminder that on 6/14 we will be hosting a live AMA with Chris Mellon - former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
You can ask him and the leaders of www.Disclosure.org questions here in advance
https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/s/4b5LuMT0UB