Fat, Dumb, and Happy
May 19, 2011, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
You’ve likely heard the phrase before, Got to keep the masses “fat, dumb, and happy”. That way we’re all easier to control. Right?
The quote comes from a Modern Survival Blog reader email who hits the nail on the head. In order to successfully keep the crooked and perhaps criminal ‘game’ going, the majority of the public must be kept in ‘check’. That is, fed well, and distracted and busy so that there is not enough time for the reality of the situation to take root. A reality that may be troublesome for the powers-that-be.
Who am I referring to? I’ll let you figure that out…
Lets face it. The typical life of the ‘working’ American is so busy, pressured, and all-time-consuming, that there really is very little time (none if you let it) to really examine what is going on in the world around you – locally, nationally, and worldwide. Additionally, and unfortunately many people just plain aren’t interested to know anyway.
The system is plainly rigged to keep us fat, dumb, and happy. Not that the combination of afflictions is such a terrible thing, being happy of course is quite a good thing. It’s all about the definitions.
Fat
Thick, Large, Puffed up, Yielding plenty, Having an abundance or amplitude.
Being overly fat is of course, not too healthy. However, the powers-that-be wish to keep you plenty full, both with food and the metaphorical. This will keep the complaints to a minimum and lower the likelihood of challenge.
Dumb
Lacking the power of speech, Lacking intellectual acuity, Not expressed.
Ignorance and the absence of the learned process of thinking for one’s self will lead towards a noticeable lack of speech. More specifically, speech that may be considered powerful or listened to by those with power.
Happy
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.
The happier the people are, the less likely they will demand change. Unfortunately, the PTB have re-defined happiness for many people by way of clever marketing and advertising. Most have fallen for it.
The ‘trick’ has been to draw the majority into debt, which in turn slaves them to the system – forever ‘working’, paying into the system, and at the mercy of their employers – who themselves know it, and often take full advantage of it.
When you owe someone money, or, when someone is giving you money, you are instinctively beholden to them to a degree. Most people know not to bite the hand that feeds them. The PTB knows this too, and therein lies much of their power.
If most people were not debt laden, I would speculate that we would be living in a different country, with different politics.
The first and most important step for anyone while attempting to free themselves, is to get out of debt. Don’t accept the notion of fat, dumb, and happy… instead, fight back and free yourself from the system that enslaves you!
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Fat, dumb, and happy, you just described what MSG (monosodium glutamate) does to a person’s psyche. MSG is a poison that resembles cocaine in appearance and acts much like it. MSG goes by other names; hydrolyzed vegetable protein, carrigean, autolyzed yeast, natural flavorings, and many others ‘hidden sources’. MSG is put into food to enhance the flavor of food that is not fit to be called garbage. People eat this MSG poisoned food that lacks proper nutrients and because of this people crave even more and get fatter and fatter. People crave the addictive taste but are lacking the good vitamin and mineral count of wholesome healthy food. You end up eating more and more and gaining weight. If someone has to eat MSG food I would recommend at least getting a good bottle of trace minerals and a decent daily vitamin so you will not become deficient in what your body needs.
The food industry knows full well what it is doing, processing bad food from sick animals and sick sub par plants and disguising it with MSG, and lots of MSG. They not only save money on serving trash, they get people to buy even more of this crap. There are many consequences that go beyond being fat from eating this. Neurological diseases result from the over-simulation of the nervous system, overexcited, including the brain. I have heard that the mineral Magnesium is very important to relax the nerve endings from overuse of MSG. MSG naturally occurring in foods the body recognises, synthetic and artificially manufactured MSG is foreign to the body and so reacts to it in a negative way.
I was many years ago addicted to MSG and only after my throat started to close after eating some mega MSG potato chips did I finally start reading about how bad MSG is. After getting off the MSG kick I lost over 50 pounds and felt magnitudes better. I started to read lables of any food I consumed and was extremely careful. I personally believe that MSG actually inhibits the brain to think and reason to its full capacity also. I understand that the food industry does not have to list MSG unless it is pure MSG and is evidently hidden under friendlier names. There was a campaign for ‘the truth in labeling’ just for this reason.
Much research has been done about MSG, you can find just how MSG has ruined the American people over the past decades and been responsible for making people very fat, dumb, and happy ( a disillusioned happy ). Just search on the term ‘MSG’ and ‘MSG the hidden sources’ and find out how MSG has destroyed the well being of the American people through their simple eating styles and habits.
Thanks for that comment (be informed) Slowly but surely I’m waking up from a long dream.
I also wonder how I could have been so stupid all those years, thank god for the internet.
hear, hear!!!
Yeah, we need to turn off the tv’s and use our minds for better things.
Meditate, pray, and STAY CALM in the midst of all these “storms.”
Amen n amen! U r so right Brenda… Wow this is so true! Ever since I stopped eating out and eating healthier I feel alot better n I think more clearly!
Well what do you know, “The Matrix” really is working!
Life is but a dream!
My friend who raises pigs says they can be quite dangerous man eaters. Look at wild boars and javalina. He says the trick is to talk smooth, keep them happy in their muck cubicles,and of course, stuff them till they can barely wallow.
OP, you’re quite right about the effects of debt and how it drains the productivity of Americans. I discovered being debt free about 15 years ago and managed to achieve it about 6 years ago. You have a different outlook on life and what/who you’re beholden to. I have 22 acres with a paid for house, 2 retirements, money in the bank (just not really in the bank) and I don’t owe anyone any money. I decide what I do every day. I will say though that most people join into the debt cycle with their eyes wide open and do so willingly. It is only when your priorities change that it occurs to people that they are going down the path of financial (and social) destruction. Confused as to how the subject turned into a treatise on MSG, though. I like it, it tastes good. It occurs naturally in many foods and so isn’t labeled, but many people eat them and have no complaints and don’t realize that the compound is there. The concern reached such a level that Australia and New Zealand performed many studies on the compound and found in double blind studies that there was no statistically significant increase in any complaints compared to a placebo! I just retired from the military, I am 60 yo and passed my last PT test with a 93 out of a 100! MMM, mmm, good.