Here’s a brilliant idea to transform the world

US Major Michael Aquino had a brilliant idea. What he proposed was more audacious than original, and more unscrupulous than smart. It was an idea whose time had come. An idea that would energize the military, lift a nation from its malaise and transform the world.

 The USA was profoundly humiliated by the Vietnam War. But perhaps more significant than losing the war was the cost of running it. When it entered the war, the US was the largest surplus economy in world history. It exited the war destined to be the largest debtor in history. Ultimately, this deficit forced President Nixon to abandon the gold-standard. That decision would shake the foundations of the capitalist world.

The despondent mood in the country was evident throughout the culture: books, documentaries, magazines and Hollywood blockbusters. The nation had been rocked by assassinations, civil riots, Nixon’s resignation, the Vietnam war, the Iran hostage crisis, and now the economy reeled.  

This was no way to win the cold war.

This is the backdrop to Major Michael Aquino’s brilliant idea: Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory. He believed the US must weaponize its Media. Not against a specific enemy at a specific time, but all the time against all possible enemies including its own citizens. The US media and its unchallenged global reach must serve military objectives. The global reach of the US media he called “Excalibur”. He advised that all that is required is the courage to wield it.

Mindwar: Never again lose a war

He promised that if we took up the challenge, we were assured to win all future wars with minimal, if any, casualties. Aquino was at pains to distinguish Mindwar from mere propaganda. Those Goebbels’ methods he believed were outdated. They served merely to stiffen enemy resolve in Vietnam. Mindwar, on the other hand, would be imperceptible because it is ubiquitous and omnipresent. You can’t see it coming because it is everywhere all the time.

Aquino would later publish an entire book with the same title (still available on Amazon at the time of writing)

Mindwar handed the military hierarchy the excuse it needed: The military didn’t really lose the war. At least not on the ground. The war was lost in the mind, and the mind was the real battlefield.

“Mindwar must reach out to friends, enemies and neutrals alike across the globe – neither through primitive, battlefield leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort… but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are, of course, the electronic media – television and radio. State-of-the-art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the world, such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like the sword Excalibur, we have but to reach out and seize this tool; and it can transform the world for us if we have the courage and the integrity to enhance civilization with it.”

MindWar – Michael Aquino | PDF | Business (scribd.com)

The question no one asked was what exactly will we transform the world into? What lie cannot be justified once you walk down this path? Haven’t we already surrendered the morality we hoped to defend before the conflict begins? Mindwar, taken to its logical possibilities, meant you could lose a war and your media may still claim victory.

“Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror,” said Colonel Kurtz from the Vietnam classic Apocalypse Now. Aquino had made friends.

“If we do not accept Excalibur, then we relinquish our ability to inspire foreign cultures with our morality. If they then desire moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level.”

Yes, we need to avoid brutal wars and casualties. The casualty now will be truth itself.

A war on everyone

“Mindwar must target all participants if it is to be effective. It must not only weaken the enemy; it must strengthen the United States. It strengthens the United States by denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining and emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national interest in a specific war.”   

We don’t know how influential Aquino’s document became. But we do know that Aquino’s central idea of weaponizing the media was deployed thoroughly.

What Aquino’s document offers us is a rare insight into the thinking behind this strategy and the world we now inhabit.

A world where secret intelligence agents create narratives to serve the national interest. Journalists become mere mouthpieces. What might be true and what might be false is classified. Even the National interest is classified. The truth is crafted by writers. Security concerns determine what perspectives are allowed. Censorship becomes necessary because free public scrutiny might provide comfort to the enemy, carry water for Putin (or whoever the enemy of the day might be). Free speech threatens national security, it would undermine our ultimate victory. This is the lesson of Vietnam. This power of compassion, you win wars without casualties.

The paralyzing power of compassion

We are so hopelessly susceptible to arguments that appeal to our compassion. In this case everything must be done to avoid casualties. When confronted with this argument our critical faculties become paralyzed. No matter how insincere or self-serving the speaker, we are struck dumb.

Today, the sanctioned narrative is incessantly re-echoed 24/7 across the ubiquitous global media landscape. The effect is that we involuntarily share the same message amongst friends, family, and work colleagues. No matter how dubious, illogical, or even crazy, the original idea, it becomes stuck in our heads: mask on/mask off, epidemic of the vaccinated, orange man racist, Putin bad/NATO good.

 To this day, reviewers of the Mindwar Book (on Amazon and other online sites) fall over each other lauding Aquino’s compassionate strategy to avoid war and casualties. As if there was ever a war launched without a speech appealing to our compassion. How did a supposedly skeptical secular society become this gullible?

Satan’s little helper

A last word on Major Michael Aquino. Before he joined the US military, Michael had long been a member of the church of Satan. He claimed to have direct communication with Satan, who apparently instructed him to establish a new church with corrected doctrines. In 1975, whilst still an officer in the US Military, he founded the Temple of Set.

Major Michael Aquino’s brilliant idea is unconstitutional and treasonous. Even worse, the application of the Mindwar strategy is has cast a diabolical spell on the western world. We are now increasingly incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction, right from wrong.

A world where “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air,” Macbeth