The universal Rebel and the psy-op to neuter him

If you want to track a civilization as it collapses, watch what happens to the concept of the rebel.
From the 1960s onward – starting with Lee Oswald and the assassination of JFK – the whole idea of ‘the rebel’ with power has been sequentially updated and repackaged. This is intentional.
The objective is to equate ‘rebel’ with a whole host of qualities – e.g., runaway self-serving paranoia; random destruction; out-of-control drug use; generalized hatred; the commission of crimes…
On a lesser, ‘commercialized’ level, the new rebel can define himself by merely showing up at a concert to scream and drink heavily and break something, having already dressed to make a dissident fashion statement. He can take an afternoon off from college classes and have his arms tattooed. All the while, of course, he functions as an avid consumer of mainstream corporate products.
You even have people who, considering themselves rebels of the first order, support a government that spies on its people 24/7, launches military attacks all over the world, and now funds a Manhattan Project to map every move of the 100 billion neurons of the brain, for the ultimate purpose of controlling it.
Even going back as far as the 1950s, the so-called decade of conformity, psyops professionals sculpted notions of The Rebel: He was the person who didn’t want to take part in the emerging bland corporate culture.

This post was published at Jon Rappoport on November 14, 2017.