Apple Computer and the 1984 commercial

In 1984 Apple computer ran an advertisement for a revolutionary new computer they called the Mac. It depicted a room full of completely docile and subservient people being led in to hear the daily dose of propaganda from the supreme leader. A woman came running in and smashed the screen which awakened the people from their slumber. The commercial was inspired by the Orwell novel by the same name.

You can view the 1984 commercial here. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-715862862672743260#]

And a more modern rendition here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo]

What has this to do with smoking bans, regressive taxation and the lies of second hand smoke?

Read on and it will all become clear. Second hand smoke requires three components to become what they call a significant health risk, without which it posses essentially no risk. You need very large volumes, extremely long exposures per daily dose and a lifetime persistence of those exposures, to create even a slight risk, that there is a risk to non smokers. So if we reduce; the volume, the duration or the frequency of exposures, the risk is eliminated. Reducing the number of smokers by half over the past fifty years apparently had no effect. The experts will tell you today the evidence is irrefutable, that second hand smoke is much more dangerous than diesel exhaust, the chemicals in our genetically modified foods and pretty much any other factor in our environment. But does the evidence measure up to the propaganda? Common sense, if there is any left, will tell you to be cautious of your information sources, because following the money consistently leads back to the sources of major advocacy and the true nature of those investments.

In 2006 the American Surgeon General confirmed that the exposure frequency mentioned above had been reduced by 75%. His relenting claims of risk to non smokers were not substantiated by the report he offered. His claims seemed to confirm the opposite, because all the minor research he chose to include in his report was already reliant on worst case measures, which promoted the extremely rare to a possible outcome in the real world. His report was so grossly over stated in the ad promo leading up to it’s release, even the extremists lobbies promoting anti-smoker denormalization, distanced themselves from the media for months, for fear of being connected with a stance that would surely expose them all to a new reefer madness style of ridicule, if they were not extremely careful. Today they have gained confidence and actually cite his report in the promotion of anti-smoker bigotry, because the media remained onside and didn’t question the propaganda piece that was “the Surgeon General’s report on second hand smoke”. Since that time many supporting reports and made for media research studies have been produced, to hide the questionable science found in that report, however next to the reefer madness campaigns in the 60s, Second hand smoke is likely one of the largest lies ever promoted by the American Government and there have been many lies before and since that fall into that competition.

What do the extreme left find favourable with the anti smoking ruse? Well the same forward going personalities and the powers that be are consumed by something they call “productivity” which limits the number of sins we can allow in society, in order to maintain a work force, that matches the demands in the market for production and trade. If we allow, as many of them would prefer, that pot smoking were decriminalized and in light of the recent silent repeal of gambling prohibitions, with State and medical charity lotteries producing a much needed boost to tax revenues. Permitting more sins to come into the market, needs close scrutiny, lest the workforce is disrupted by the addictive nature of gambling and pot smoking, without maintenance of “the ethics of hard work as a virtue” the work force could slip into the “welfare reliant” posture, of all the other Marxist democracies found in the third world. The answer to the, too many sins at one time, dilemma is found in the elimination of smoking and tighter restriction of alcohol, although few in the political game would favor eliminating one of their largest cash cows, correcting the mistake of eliminating pot from the market, augmented by new gambling revenues, could well re-stack the deck and allow that elimination to happen.

I referred to the anti-pot campaign as a political mistake, for a demonstrable reason. When people smoke pot they become docile and if they are stressed out they rely on pot to keep them de-stressed. Smoking cigarettes has an effect of awakening the senses and making thoughts clear. The preference, for those who seek dominance by the state, should be obvious. The plan is simple yet complex; top down grass roots ad campaigns through health information ministries sell a state mandate, in obsessively “protecting the population”, in place of serving the population. Like the docile foot daggers in the 1984 commercial a population of pot smokers, in place of the number who smoke cigarettes, would be preferable in order to maintain control with minimal effort and expense.

You see, it was always about the money. By now it should be obvious, who is in control, by simply acknowledging who are actually being controlled. Democracy in its current rendition is just another cruel scam being played on all of us.