A village, surrounded by monsters.

 

Did you ever see M. Night Shyamalan's movie “The Village”? That is the story of the village. These people believed. The monstrous creatures surrounded it. In the final part of the movie. The main character realizes that the “monster” was a scarecrow. The fact is that the village has been isolated for maybe hundreds of years. Because. Villagers didn’t have any contact. To the outside world, they thought that the car engine sound was the monster’s roar. 

This thing introduces a situation. That. The limited information allows people to do. That thing is one of the key elements in societies that are under totalitarian control. The Village from that movie exists. The macro version of that village. Are Russia and North Korea, where the controller tells people that they are surrounded by hostile characters, who. Want to destroy their paradise. So those people must stand strong in command. The micro version of those villages is in the sects. Those leaders say that people laugh. To the real believers. And that means, they use similar methods. That keeps the fictional village under control. 

The fact is that M. Night Shyamalan didn’t create that isolated society. Those isolated societies existed long before M. Night Shyamalan was even born. Medieval castles and monasteries were also isolated. In medieval cities, people believed that the forests around their city walls. Were. Full of monsters. Those stories were told so that people would not escape. The thing that separated medieval monks from other people was that they spoke Latin. With each other. Another thing was that people almost never visit castles. That thing is guaranteed. That medieval noblemen would stay loyal to the king. There was no ability to grow food in most of the castles. That made it possible to control those castles in the case that the lord of the castle refuses to follow orders. 

The internet is full of stories about how bad the smell was in those castles. The fact is that. The people who lived and worked in the castle were used to that smell, which formed when spices were burned in the fire. The purpose of that smell. Was. To keep outsiders away from those places. And that was one of the things that isolated those people. The medieval segregation. It is one of the things. That can reflect on modern days. We can say that maybe all of us live in M. Night Shyamalan’s village. Rich people hire security guards because they are afraid that some gangs rob their homes. Medieval lords of the castle believed similar things. That’s why those people had soldiers and cannons to protect them. 

We can believe that we cannot go to that isolated village. We have internet, cell phones, and many other things. But. The fact is that the information that we get. And. How. Do. We get. That information. Determines. Do we believe it? Or not. It’s possible. That somebody stuns us. When we visit the shop. Then that person keeps us in a narcosis for a while. After we wake up, our host tells us that. The Earth is badly polluted, and then orders us to check the data. From the net. The host uses the fake information to confess that this person is not a liar. In that case, we have no choice but to check that information. And do we dare to test things that person tells us?

 Do we dare to start traveling to the nearest village? Especially if we were in the middle of the icy stream. That person can take us to the Alps. Or somewhere. Where we just cannot see other houses. That person can tell stories that. We are in the middle of Antarctica. There is a possibility. That prisoners are in regular houses. And all the information that prisoners get. Comes from the screens that are in the windows. This is the idea of North Korea. People get only the information that they are allowed to get. 

Are anti-science, religious movements, and unemployment connected to each other?

When preachers speak to their audience. They tell. What people want to hear. And that makes them dangerous. “Why must people educate, when they can gain joy and piety?” This is how cult leaders market their cult. They offer joy and happiness, and of course, they carry the heaviest of the weight. They think for their society. Education gives the ability to resist 

There are used chemicals. Those cults sometimes prohibit doctors who are not accepted by their leaders. This means their members are not warned about things like drugs. 

This is why some medieval religious leaders. Once said. That “education brings responsibility and takes joy from life”.  And then that leader said. “Stupid people are happy people; they don’t rebel, they don’t ask, and they believe everything that this leader said.“ This attitude supported the absolute power of the King. 

The king ruled because. God wanted that. And that’s why resisting or excusing the kind was a crime against heaven. And the god himself. That allowed the Inquisition to burn people: Who? Dare to excuse the king in a bonfire. The reason for anti-education attitudes was simple: people cannot demand change. If they don’t know any other models than those they see. Or, the models that their leaders want to introduce. 

When an unemployed, poor, and uneducated person hangs around, there is a strong possibility. Those people will attract. Into some sects that take advantage of them. So, can we consider that the reason for modern anti-science attitudes is the situation where unemployed people are attracted to some “right-wing religious movement”? The attraction happens by promising food to those people. If those people get free food. They might go to those meetings. That saves. Their social security money is to be used for something other than food. Those religious movements are very sharp. For their members ’ morale. 

That means they collect smartphones away, and offer basic phones. To replace those smartphones. The reason. Why that is done, is that done? The internet is full of sin. Then they will go to sell those phones. And of course, things like social media are always prohibited. There, people can get things. Like warnings about those cults.  

Those preachers offer simple reasons why their audience feels so bad. If people in the audience have alcohol problems. or drug problems, they search for outside reasons for their problems. And those preachers offer them those outside reasons. If they get. A little bit more money. Their lifestyle will be better. They offer things that those people want to hear. 

The anti-science can make those people seem strange. That isolates them from the rest of society. And this makes. Those people get support and acceptance from those events. And finally, all the people that those cult members know are other cult members. That allows those cults to tighten their grip. To its members. And of course. The person who invites those cults must be fully involved. That means there must not have. Any smartphones or computers. Or the internet. That allows the leaders to control information that is not meant for those people. 

Those people must not talk to other people, because other people, or outsiders, don’t understand what real believing is. When an outsider comes to talk with cult members, a real cult member just turns their back. The cult member. Must get only accepted information, and they must not know anything other than what their guides or leaders want. 

Far wing movements can offer things. Like food to make people come to their events. It’s possible that those movements can also put drugs in those foods. And then they can make sure. That people come to their events again. 

Three major hazards in modern society are anti-science, poverty, and unemployment. Poverty means that people leave their schools, because they want to earn money. Then, in later ages, the earnings of uneducated people were. Can earn. Are not. Very good. Actually, uneducated people. Earn low salaries. But. Those salaries might feel very high. If a person has not earned anything. And lived 5 €. Income per week. Before a person must pay for everything from their living, things like a cleaner or a hamburger clerk can feel very high-paid jobs. But in the later ages. Money from those works is not enough. 

Or, maybe. The workplace faces bankruptcy. There are billions of reasons why a person is fired. That thing brings unemployment and many other things into a person’s life. And maybe that thing explains anti-science attitudes. People who are working in the “religious right-wing movements” offer the reason for poverty and low social status, the educational and research institutes. Like universities.

And then... Remember Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. In that case, the cult leader stole the entire property of his followers. Then that charismatic cult leader murdered his followers. That is not only the case when a charismatic leader attracts followers to commit suicide in their order. Another case was Waco, Texas, when David Koresh, another cult leader, caused the so-called. The Waco incident, in which he and his followers committed suicide and killed other cult members. 

When the police (ATF, FBI) came to arrest them. The case began when ATF came. To conduct home research on that cult’s HQ ranch. That caused a firefight, there 4 federal officers died. Then the FBI came and surrounded the ranch, and that caused a siege that took 51 days. Then the FBI began an assault, and 82 cult members died, including 20 children. 76 of them, including children, and Koresh, died in the second assault. When the FBI. Started to use CS (Tear Gas).  In that assault, the Ranchians set their houses. To burn. It’s possible that the reason why those people made the decision to kill themselves was the earlier firefight against the ATF, where they killed four on-duty ATF agents. 

Earlier,  on April 19, 1993. 6 cult members killed on February 28,1993 in a firefight against ATF. Killing four federal officers causes the death penalty. The fact is that the Waco incident shows what a manipulative and cold-blooded mind can do. It also shows what fanaticism. And other things make in cases. Their religion and law are not in line. Another thing is that anti-science, or fashionably “science criticism,” causes a situation where vaccines that are effective against biological weapons are not delivered to people. This means that science criticism can be controlled. By forces that wish to use those bacteria or viruses against people. 

Those people say that universities and scientific institutes waste taxpayers' money on things like space flights, when they could use that money for social security. The thing is that. Poor people are packing into those religious events because at least some of those religious movements offer food to people who come to listen to the words about god. So, poor, unemployed, and uneducated people can use their social security for something other than money. When they visit in those meetings. 

This means people who think that things. That universities make are far from their own world. Who has. No will or ability  to challenge authorities. Or  people who tell simple things. To them. They might believe that scientific institutes just waste money, which the government can use for social security. The charismatic speakers offer some outsiders whom their audience can blame. 

A person who has bad self-esteem, is uncertain, and who might misuse drugs can feel that those preachers give them. Some outsiders to blame. Those outsiders are homosexuals, and of course, people who want to excuse things that preachers say. Some of those. People think that slips and suits are things that make those preachers wise. 

That makes those people easy to manipulate. This thing made it possible for people like the famous cult leader Jim Jones to order his followers to commit suicide. In the same way, anti-vaccine propaganda opens society to things like biological weapons. This means that in the wrong movement, a person can lose money, clothes, everything they own, and finally, they can give their lives for “wise men” who lead them. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege