January 13, 2026

Bernays Obtained Consent Because Evil Requires the Sanction of the Victim

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ~ Ayn Rand

There was a time when entertainment had redeeming value at some level. This is no longer the case. I submit that the cinematic downfall is intentional and part of social engineering while facilitating a separation from reality and the dumbing-down of society. I further submit that old films depicting aspects of a better world than we currently experience will be removed or replaced as time goes on. I suspect this is one of the reasons we see so many films using titles from older films. Quite often, newer films reuse an older title and then the entire plot is changed. Oddly, character names and other elements may remain in place…

The power of entertainment, specifically film, should be obvious on the face of it. Human beings emulate. We learn and copy what we see others doing. Film is one way to provide the example. Take films like Robinhood and Dracula, as examples. These films are constantly remade, and quite often using the same characters and elements in the story-line. Clearly these stories are remembering something that is important to those who control what gets made. These stories are not important to “We the People”. And yet, they now remain as a part of culture due to the constant remaking and publishing of such tales.

The vast majority of modern film has lost its creative magic and is bereft of nearly all redeeming quality. It is increasingly artificial, and detached from reality. The look and feel no longer holds the charm that was once projected on the silver screen. Film is increasingly ugly, violent and without any redeeming quality en masse. Cleaver meaning and wholesome ideas are nearly extinct in modern film. It was not always this way, nor does it have to remain as such.

The example film dialogue that follows is not meant to seek your agreement. It is meant to provide an example of what film once was, and it is a very limited example at that. It is meant to demonstrate that film can, and was, used to put forward ideas that matter. The film is drawn from a book written by Ayn Rand called “The Fountainhead”.

I first came across this book in Okinawa Japan on a 12-hour radio watch in a com unit. I had informed my father about the long shifts I would be on for the next weeks and he sent me three books by Ayn Rand, one of which was “Fountainhead”. What follows is the courtroom dialogue that ends the film. It is a feel-good ending and may feel out of place compared to what we endure now from film. But, when all is said and done the film was made with care, and puts forward ideas worth thinking about. To cue it up, the main character Roark is on trial for blowing up a new building complex which he admits to doing. The building was built under contract with the agreement the plans would not be altered. The plans were then altered without his consent and he dynamited the entire complex while openly admitting as much.

Judge: The defense may proceed.

Roark: Your Honor, I shall call no witnesses. This will be my testimony and my summation.

Judge: Take the oath.

Court Clerk: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Roark: I do.

Architect Howard Roark (Gary Cooper) made a closing summation (of author-screenwriter Ayn Rand’s treatise on Objectivism) to a jury, defending his destruction of housing project buildings that had perverted his original design plans – his words were so powerful that the jury found him not-guilty:

Howard Roark’s closing Speech to the jury and courtroom observers.

Howard Roark’s Monologue: Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness off the earth. Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid, but they won. No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers. His brothers hated the gift he offered. His truth was his only motive. His work was his only goal. His work, not those who used it. His creation, not the benefits others derived from it. The creation which gave form to his truth. He held his truth above all things and against all men. He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not, with his integrity as his only banner. He served nothing and no one. He lived for himself. And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement.

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. The man who thinks must think and act on his own. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be subordinated to the needs, opinions, or wishes of others. It is not an object of sacrifice. The creator stands on his own judgment – the parasite follows the opinions of others. The creator thinks – the parasite copies. The creator produces – the parasite loots. The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature the parasite’s concern is the conquest of men. The creator requires independence. He neither serves nor rules. He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice. The parasite seeks power. He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery. He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others, that he must think as they think, act as they act, and live in selfless, joyless servitude to any need but his own.

Look at history. Everything we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind. Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots, without personal rights, without person ambition, without will, hope, or dignity. It is an ancient conflict. It has another name – ‘The individual against the collective.’ Our country, the noblest country in the history of men, was based on the principle of individualism, the principle of man’s ‘inalienable rights.’ It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness, to gain and produce, not to give up and renounce. To prosper, not to starve. To achieve, not to plunder. To hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value, and as his highest virtue his self-respect. Look at the results. That is what the collectivists are now asking you to destroy, as much of the earth has been destroyed.

I am an architect. I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built. We are approaching a world in which I cannot permit myself to live. My ideas are my property. They were taken from me by force, by breach of contract. No appeal was left to me. It was believed that my work belonged to others, to do with as they pleased. They had a claim upon me without my consent, that it was my duty to serve them without choice or reward. Now you know why I dynamited Courtland. I designed Courtland. I made it possible. I destroyed it. I agreed to design it for the purpose of seeing it built as I wished. That was the price I set for my work. I was not paid. My building was disfigured at the whim of others who took all the benefits of my work and gave me nothing in return.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life, nor to any part of my energy, nor to any achievement of mine, no matter who makes the claim! It had to be said – The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. I came here to be heard in the name of every man of independence still left in the world. I wanted to state my terms. I do not care to work or live on any others. My terms are – A man’s right to exist for his own sake.

The jury was then sent to deliberate and was tasked with the very ideas put forward as important by Roark – they find him not guilty.

Film ends

I submit that films like this have a value that goes beyond entertainment. As a bonus they deliver a look and feel often referred to as magic. By the way there are shadows in this film, which seem to be missing from most modern movies… but shadows are not missing in Nature where all truth resides. Is there any reason we should continue to tolerate the artificial, soulless tripe currently being peddled to the world as cinema while openly delivering social engineering, and the dumbing down of all who participate? For my part the answer is no thank you. I will no longer take part in modern film unless pleasant anomalies emerge. The same goes for social media content.

It is my point of view, based on everything I have researched and covered, that this year will see an all-time high in AI produced content. From video to images to chat interactions – all of it. As I have said so many times: AI is stealing the entirety of human creations and thought to train in order to replace us. And in doing so it is building dossiers on all who participate in order to “imperceptibly” socially engineer society and culture to facilitate “their” ends. And their ends do not include your best interest, or even your rights and freedom.

Yes, there are two paths you can go down, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on – to close with yet another line from the dark-side well programmed into the world mind. Just ignore the title of the song from which this line was lifted… as with nearly all modern entertainment and media, it isn’t true.

I would like to wish you all a happy, healthy and higher-minded new era.