It seems the network of entertainment as we see it, is part of a more complex structure that stretches back quite some time and covers many areas. For this angle, tracing its roots to a number of decades ago back to the 60’s, where music became a more serious tool in the shaping of society, so the importance of ‘who and when’ became paramount – not just for profit, but for steering the mentality of the young minds. And although it’s been touched upon in Do You Mind, There’s Something To Control regarding the Monarch project and overall brainwashing of subjects to deliver and perform as needed, there are deeper layers and infiltrators than maybe even I had imagined. It seems though, that some of the most popular of their time, all came from the same area, background and type of family. The Beach Boys, The Mamas and The Papas, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison and countless others who all interestingly had military serving fathers or connections. Quite prominent ones in some cases.

There seem to be many stories of artists meeting by chance, or just so happening upon their perfect counterpart to take the world by storm. Yet sometimes, the fairytale story of rags to riches which is designed to hook you in, often doesn’t quite hold up under scrutiny or being applied to a real life settings. Not to say that wonderful and marvellous things can’t happen to people, but on the whole it seems very few and far between. Just a good story to keep people thinking ‘It Could Be You’, and to waste their life dreaming and trying for something they were always going to be excluded from. Public Eye or Evil Eye? has already looked at the way the ‘stars’ are portrayed and packaged for us, to distract us from our lives, by dreaming about having theirs. Even though sometimes even they don’t have the life they are made out to have, it’s just all part of the marketing ploy.

And of late, another particular music scene is splitting open at the seams which i discussed in Getting A Bad Rap, following on from the swinging 60’s, the punk and rock 70’s and all the others scenes they saturated people with thereafter. Rap had its own hyper aggressive frequency, which was then inserted into the mainstream. Things you can’t quite hear or distinguish sometimes, but it’s there and triggers you. It’s what it’s designed to do, to calm, annoy, bring joy or sadness, fear, or aggression. Sounds and frequencies affect us greatly, and it seems that while we might not be privy to all their affects, others most certainly seem to be. Subliminal messages in music and TV are most definitely not new, just as the debate and ethics surrounding them isn’t, but what is perhaps new, is the reach they now have and different techniques and tricks to trigger people and crowds when required. With no real thought or awareness, just following the beat of the drum and being led by the pied piper as you are enticed down a dark, yet musical path…

(c) K Wicks

It seems certain parts of the music industry are falling under the scrutiny of the thinkers. Where it seems so many branches of the entertainment industry have been set up for more than just the purpose of letting you unwind and escape the banality of what we used to call ‘normal life’. I see the rap industry currently being discussed, as part of a well laid plot to destroy the black youth of America, to steer the minds of a certain generation towards the agreed upon result. Two of my articles are also relevant here – Consumerism and The Beautiful Mice, showing how they have used a great deal of time and resources to work out what motivates us, what drives us and ultimately what can distract and destroy us.

And they provide the means, just as we saw in recent riots over there, piles of bricks and things to use were dropped off before ‘protests’, lucky eh? Just as with the above, after encouraging and exposing the youth to concepts of drugs, guns and violence, suddenly those items started to become readily available. And maybe that is where there is a definite link between music, games and movies being more of an influence than we would like to realise. Where they don’t just tell you, and give you the means, they also show you, through well scripted and edited versions of what you may be unable to imagine or create yourself.

I have already wondered about ‘music scenes’ helping to push society along in certain ways. Realising that the whole thing is an intricate web, another article on this is also underway from a slightly different angle, but still music related. But in the UK we had various crazes that now seem like part of it, The Beatles and rock scene, the Punk movements, Garage and the Rave scene that followed and all the others that ‘made it’. Decided by huge corporations, as with writers and any creative artists, they are all handpicked and groomed for purpose, if they are indeed even ‘normal people’ to start with. We have had editors, censors and multiple middlemen in the process for quite some time, deciding whether they will be useful, loyal and part of the process to enthral the masses and give them something to idolise. Making vast amounts of money for said corporations in that process as well, but not just money, it gives you coverage, reach and a certain level of control over people’s mentality. The artists and the fans. As mentioned in One Big Pie, it’s a sinister business when you start looking at it and into it, with no shortage of said artists exposing the mechanisms of how it works. They are A Commodity just like the rest of us unfortunately, but with a higher price tag maybe of what they can generate for the corporations who thrive on other people’s time, life, creativity and talents.

And that’s where music has been a huge tool for social engineering. Knowing which frequencies inspire, which agitate or annoy, which ones calm you and make you feel relaxed. So, nothing is ever by accident, no-one ever makes it purely by chance and effort alone, the old saying of ‘it’s who you know, not what you know’ is still just as true as it was then. The gatekeepers and middlemen, editors, program schedulers and censors always being there to ensure that only ‘authorised’ personnel get through to that position of influence. To keep things as they are, and the wheels of industry and money keep turning and dragging people along with it, but it really does feel like change is coming…

(c) K Wicks