2450: Social Engineering and the Uglification of Society: The CIA and The Communist Strategy of Degradation

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Good day, empowered investors, and welcome to episode 2450. Today we're going to get ugly. Well, why are we getting ugly? Because it is a 10th show today and we've got a great guest on an interesting topic that I think is actually quite accurate. Something I have noticed for a couple of decades, but it has reached an ugly fever's pitch. We're not going to talk a lot about real estate or anything like that today, although it does kind of relate to real estate. But it is the concept, and our guest will be here in a few minutes today, the concept of how the left especially wants to make everything ugly. In fact, this is becoming so recognized that there is even a term for it, enshittification. Yes, that is new slang, enshittification. It is amazing to me that we look around in the world and we all appreciate beautifully designed cars, beautifully designed electronics, and beautifully designed architecture. Yet it is amazing how there is this movement to make everything ugly. Now, there's some examples of it throughout history for sure. You know, there's this Brutalist concept of architecture, which I think started in the late '60s, early '70s. So there, there have been some spells with this ugliness epidemic before. It's, it's not the first time. But just look at the people. I mean, how is it that we got to this stage where people are trying to make themselves look uglier on purpose. I don't get it. I mean, you know, you've heard me say it a lot that the peak of civilization was 1990, or really the early '90s. And why did it change? The music changed. That was the rise of hip-hop and rap and Seattle grunge. All three of those music styles promulgated the idea of ugliness. And when Sumner Redstone was running Viacom that owned MTV, he just, he just proliferated that trash around the planet. It was amazing to me traveling in the early '90s. I remember I was on a trip in Europe, went to several countries, maybe it was circa 1993, and these styles that were popular on MTV you would see young people wearing them everywhere. I mean, other countries that you'd think would be isolated from this, they just, they just went around the world. It was amazing, amazingly terrible actually. So we'll get into this. It's a really interesting topic. I think it's a very important topic because the visual sense either uplifts us or it downregulates us. And it is important. I mean, listen, the idea of beauty is an important concept. It's not shallow. You know, just ask Michelangelo or, you know, any of these designers who painted these beautiful things or built these beautiful buildings throughout history. It's important. This matters. And it's something that most people don't think much about. They just think Oh, you know, I went to the store today and I saw this person with graffiti all over their body and piercings in all the wrong places— their nose, their lips, you know, their forehead, whatever. They're massively obese. They're wearing the ugliest possible clothes. They're wearing their pajamas out in public, on the airplane, whatever. It's just awful, folks. Throughout history, The pendulum of trends and finances and everything, it's always swung back and forth, right? But whenever it swings back and forth, it never completely swings in the other direction, right? It always leaves some residue of the former time, right? That, that's just how history works, at least in the vast majority of cases. So This is an important thing. Please share it, make people aware of it. If you like the fact that we talked about this concept, comment below if you're watching on YouTube or one of the video platforms, share the episode, leave a comment, whatever. 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I came across him because I saw a great video that he made that really resonated with my thinking about how and why, why is the world in so many ways as we get more and more advanced The world is just getting uglier. Is uglification a real thing? And I've been thinking this for a good dozen years or so, and someone else is thinking it too. So Jason, welcome. And also we have the same name, so I guess this would be an easy interview to remember the interviewer's name.

Yeah, well, thank you for having me, Jason. I really appreciate it. I do think it's an important topic. That a lot of people might be afraid to talk about. So sometimes it's good to, as I said, put some sugar on it and bring some people's attention to it and understand that it is a thing. And there's books and movies already made about this topic.

Yeah, there definitely is. And, you know, I'll just, just to give you something to maybe comment on to start with, I remember, I don't know, maybe it was 15, 16 years ago, I was in Cuba. And one of my favorite art forms, I think I, I say it's the most important art form, is architecture. I think music is number 2 and fashion is number 3, and I can tell you why I rate them in that order. But in Cuba, it's really particularly interesting because of course everybody knows since 1959 it has been under communist control, which is tragic. But before that, Cuba was really quite the place. It was a playground for Frank Sinatra and all kinds of famous people, and it was a really cool place. So it has all of these old beautiful buildings with just gorgeous architecture. And some of those buildings needed to be replaced over the years, or they needed to add a new building where there was a vacant lot. And so you'll see these gorgeous buildings with really nice architecture that are inspiring to the soul. And then next to it, you'll see a gray concrete block that is the building they installed under communism, obviously. And it's just amazing how that makes you feel differently, one versus the other. And you were commenting on this in, in your video.

So I think the easiest way to unpack it, Jason, is just so people are aware there's greater descriptions of this, but it's important that the people start feeling the differences as they go into buildings or view something beautiful, or, you know, go into a beautiful church or another beautiful building like in Europe I was not aware of this at all. I grew up in Canada, in Ontario, Canada, and I didn't travel much to Europe. But one day my new wife said, why don't we go to Vienna?

Vienna is beautiful. Yeah.

Yeah. And I didn't know about this. And I, you know, I didn't know about it at the time when I was experiencing it as well. I went into these buildings. That were jaw-droppingly beautiful and also massive in volume. And I could feel immediately a change in my spirit, a change in my hope, a change in my perspective and my thinking. And it became so frequent, you know, the ups and downs. And it was— I was only in that high vibration zone when I was near the architecture or inside the architecture. And that's when I realized, a deep thinker, I've been self-employed paid since I've been 24 years old. So I have to think deeply to keep a roof above my head. And I noticed this trend. And then in Latvia, which is— I was under communist control, I think, from 1949 to 1983, potentially. I would stay at these ugly communist buildings that are notorious in the Baltic States. They're 5 stories tall, they're gray blocks.

They're all the same.

They're all the same. And this lady came out, this old lady, and, you know, I was in this ugly Airbnb, and it's depressing to be there. It's depressing to walk in. It's depressing to park there. And this lady said, the Russians put us in here on purpose because they know the architecture reduces our spirit and kills our spirit. And we refuse to let them use the ugly architecture. No, like you said, it's called brutalism if someone wants to look It off.

That's the name of it. Yeah. And we built some of that in the US, by the way, in the '70s and I think '80s even. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's, it's a trend. And if you look into brutalism or you look into how vibration affects reality, and I'll give a name here so people can understand that this has scientific foundations, that these beautiful structures do affect you in very geometric, coherent ways that can be measured heard. There is a researcher called Veda Austin, and she has mastered a technique of saying words to water or putting objects near water. And her research focuses on a very particular freezing and cooling method of the water by which the vibration can be captured in a picture. And she actually shows that just like another researcher out of Japan called Masaru Emoto, and he wrote the book Hidden Messages in Water, that these are like beautiful things create beautiful coherent geometric shapes inside of us, and ugly things have discoherent ugly shapes that manifest in sort of our water medium. And we're of course 70% water, so these things have a foundation and they do impact ourselves. Now, I sent you a beautiful picture of some cafes in Europe, but if someone just wants to go to YouTube or a picture, go to the New York Cafe in Budapest, Hungary, and compare that to your Dunkin' Donuts, your Starbucks, or your Tim Hortons in Canada.

Yeah.

And know that there is a measurable difference in what they call it is becoming activated. You become activated with a higher frequency, an expansion of your consciousness, of a hopefulness and a creative, like an inventive or innovative spirit. When you're bathing, it's like bathing in the architecture. It's like a sound bath. I hope that makes some sense.

I couldn't agree more. I— that architecture is the most important art form in my opinion because we live in it, we look at we can't help, we can't avoid it, you know. And it's just so important to have these uplifting buildings, you know. It, it matters. It really does matter. But Jason Hartman, why do you think the times we're living in now— and they were still building some beautiful modern architecture, and you know, that's got its own beauty, I think, uh, to it. Most, you know, most of it, not all of it. But why do you think there's like an intentional You know, it just seems so strange that we all appreciate like the design of these, these phones and, and the modern stuff that we have and the design of a company like Apple, for example. Yet you see people walking around in the US and they look awful. I mean, you know, it's, it seems like civilization really changed around 1990, the early '90s, where it used to be cool to dress well and present yourself as a winner. And now it became cool— or well, then it became cool to look like a gangbanger and a slob. You know, like, what happened?

I, I think where someone wants to start answering that question, or, you know, journey, go on a journey to answer that question, they would really have to dive into my documentary called Planet Mind Control, so they can really understand that what you're saying is correct, and that a lot of this behavior, this transformation, is not organic. It, it isn't being made consciously. It's being programmed subconsciously, and sort of the lower vibration, lower consciousness, lower drives, and primitive activation of the nervous system is the goal of, let's say, the ruling group. And that's something people have to grapple with, is understanding that if I want to dominate you in any way, the weaker you are, the easier it is for me. And there are people on this planet with us that like to dominate. So if you're sort of have a low vibration, which you can't see, but there's vibrations in the air all around you, we call it Wi-Fi. It doesn't mean it's not there and it doesn't affect you. You're aware that there's invisible frequencies all around us today. But, you know, physical weakness, spiritual weakness, this, this lower vibration that, of course, Veda Austin's work can prove to people that has a huge impact. And see, compare this. So this is the Budapest Cafe.

This is the most beautiful cafe in the world. That's what it's called. I've been there in Budapest, right?

Yeah, it's absolutely beautiful.

So it's easy to spend my mom to this place. Yeah.

Yeah, and I, and this is, this is not it though. This is in Vienna. This is actually from the second story of a cafe, not a standalone. This is only a cafe in a museum. Now, if you go to the next slide, you'll see a—

that's the most beautiful cafe in the world.

Yeah, that's the New York cafe. That is the gentleman. If you go back, that was the gentleman serving me my orange juice and salad. Look at the, at the, you know, the bus station he's at right there. And this is 3 stories tall. The volume is amazing. The architecture is second to none. And when you spend an hour in there having an orange juice, a tea, a nice salad with a friend, you will— and everybody feel different.

You feel different.

You will feel different. Now compare this to the Dunkin' Donuts and, you know, these— the, the architecture, the, you know, the cement jungle that most cities have become in North America with the Best Buy, the Eastside Marios, the McDonald's.

It's just a bunch of boxes. It's awful. Now this other picture you've got looks like the Library of Congress. Is that correct? This looks like—

that's the entrance to the cafe.

Oh, okay. So this is still in Vienna, right?

Yeah. And that's my beautiful wife on the staircase as well. So everything's very beautiful there. And again, it changes your frequency. Absolutely.

It does. It does. So what do we do about this? I mean, you know, a lot of people listening are saying, okay, so what? You know, I mean, beautiful architecture just costs a lot more money. You know, developers aren't going to build stuff like that. What's there hopefully will be preserved.. But, you know, we can't move Europe to North America. And Europe's a disaster in its own way with the immigration problems and so forth. And the crime is out of control in so many places, not in Latvia or Poland, but certainly in France and England and so forth, you know. Yeah.

Yeah. What they can do is just come to the understanding that this is a thing. There's a great BBC documentary when they were used to be a little bit more truthful called Why Beauty Matters, if they want to start there so they can understand it is worth the effort to bring some flowers home, to decorate your house with joyful, uplifting— even pictures of your own wedding or your own family, or, or make sure there's positive emotions ripping out as a vibration through the photography that you put in your home. Understand that Veda Austin's work will show you that organic, biodynamic food does align your cellular makeup in a more coherent and beautiful geometric patterns. So, you know, everything needs to have sort of a beauty angle to it. And then if you watch Planet Mind Control, you can see how the social engineers are trying to formulate a society of ugliness to decrease our invisible frequency. Like, it's an invisible weapon. Happen. Sort of like Post Malone at the Super Bowl 3 years ago, where I believe Post Malone, who's a famous American pop rock star, was brought on to cast a very physically ugly spell. And so does a lot of his music, and his videos have very dark, dark and sort of fatalistic imagery and blood imagery. And he's got all his teeth capped and his whole face is tattooed. And it's like the, the shell game in New York City. There's been a clever subversion of what beauty is and what we'll tolerate, and they just keep using what's called the Fabianistic approach to back us away one inch at a time. It's called death by a thousand cuts. We don't notice because it's— it happens so long over time, the duration of the attack is so long that the average person ends up in Walmart and everybody's wearing their pajamas and everybody's overweight and all the food you'll eat will make you physically ugly and physiologically ugly. And we just don't know how we got here because of the social engineering I talk about in the documentary.

It's, it's, it's, it's— and the documentary is great. I've, I watched the whole thing myself. I'd highly recommend it. And it's, it's just amazing to me that people intentionally make themselves look ugly. They put piercings in weird places in their, you know, like a— what do you need, a trailer hitch on your nose? They put graffiti all over their body. I mean, you know, they're, they're totally fat and overweight. I mean, like, disgustingly so. It's just mind-boggling. How did we come to this? And I tell you, one of my theories is I just go back to the early '90s because that's— I really sense that was a big change. And And what changed, you know, I say that architecture is the most important form of art. Number 2 is music. And because, you know, if you think of what Elvis and the Beatles did and how they changed the world and all the other music of the '60s changed the world and so forth. But then you had a new kind of music that got popular in the early '90s, rap and hip-hop and Seattle grunge music, those 3. Okay. They were ugly. All of them were ugly. Like, Seattle grunge music was depressive. It's the Kurt Cobain era, people dressing like slobs. Rap music, of course, is criminal basically, and, and hip-hop is some not too far off, you know. So all of this, like, ugliness just appeared after the '80s. I don't know if you've seen this, this is new. There are videos out there now that are talking about for the first time there have been no rap songs on the Billboard Top 100 for 2 years now, and talking about how the CIA funded rap. That's an interesting thing. I've seen a few videos on that just like a week ago, so it's interesting to look at. But what are your thoughts on, on the way the music came in? I think that's a big part of it.

Well, the best person to follow there— and yes, the CIA is definitely behind most of your music acts This is absolutely proven and documented by some great researchers like Mark Devlin. So Mark Devlin out of the United Kingdom has definitely traced the genealogy of most of the big acts. They're all related by a blood lineage to each other, and a lot of the bands in the '60s, '70s, '80s came out of Laurel Canyon, which is a, um, I saw a video on it. Studio in California, you know. And if people knew the amount of social engineering that went into formulating their tastes for them while making the average person believe that their decisions are organic to them, they would be dumbfounded. And yeah, this music industry, the rap music and this gangster rap, were sort of invented in collusion with Bill Clinton's Three Strikes and You're Outlaw and, and their friends invested in the prisons. So they, they, through the modalities of mind control— I review my documentary— flooded the Black community with negative imagery. That negative imagery turned into crime. Three strikes and you're out, you go to prison for life. And it was all coordinated from the top down. So people really should start looking into people like Mark Devlin, uh, look into MKUltra, look into Planet Mind Control.

That's so interesting you say that, because the Black community, okay, before this happened, it's like they corrupted them. You know, they used to be religious, go to church, responsible. Certainly the families weren't fatherless until LBJ and his aid to families with dependent children just ruined Black families. What is the incentive from the powers that be to destroy that demographic? Like, why wouldn't you want them to be productive members of society like they used to be?

No, not, not whatsoever. It's like, let's just say I'm an abusive husband, or there's an abusive husband. The stronger his wife is, the less abuse I can put on her.

Yeah.

So I want— for me to satisfy my shallow requirements and my ego and my needs for control, I have to search out or even manufacture weak victims. So the crack-infused the neighborhood, the more single mothers, the more you can subsidize single mothers to not even be interested in bringing men into the home, the, the more control you're going to have over that community. And those things are again, uh, recounted slightly in my documentary.

Yeah, yeah, I agree with you that that is so true. So what's next for you? You've got this documentary out. Are you working on another? Are you, uh, what other projects are you working on?

I, I'm working on a couple new documentaries, but I mean, I do run a school where I teach some of these philosophies basically that are centered around making people's lives better. So mind control is not necessarily bad. It's the heart of the magician that casts the spell. So I could mind control you to smoke cigarettes and do crack cocaine, or I could mind control you to, uh, work out at the gym 4 days a week and start a new business and make a million dollars a year. It's the same method. So I use positive forms of mind control, white mind control, to, to change people's lives. If anybody wants any information like that, they can just email me at info@jkristoff.com. I do have one comment. If you go back to 1963 where they read the 45 characteristics of communism into the Congressional record that they said— number 22 out of the 45 is: Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substituting shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms. And number 23 was: Control art critics and directors of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless communist art. So please keep that, keep that in mind.

Here's one of the things that seems to conflict in my mind. I agree with everything we've talked about. However, you look at the former Soviet Union and they were very much into the arts. You know, their, their subways are beautiful. Obviously they built some beautiful buildings. I mean, Saint Petersburg is a beautiful city. You know, they were into ballet and, and the arts. Now, was that just for show on the international stage How do we reconcile these two opposing ideas?

We might have just a bit of historical timeline obfuscation that we might have in that case, where those buildings and those subways and all this grand architecture might be a little older than we've been told, and that there was a very high-end society at one time The Tartarians? Uh, you could call it Tartarian, but I mean, it was a very high-functioning, high-intellect society that has been slowly decimated and pulled down over time. You know, there's always someone in your schoolyard when you were a kid that would take a magnifying glass and burn an ant or a butterfly. Unfortunately, those are the type of people have taken control now, and they just sort of of don't like beautiful things.

Yeah, yeah, that's, that's too bad. Any more tips on how we can fight back? I mean, you talked about just being conscious of one's own surroundings, which I, of course, totally agree with. But how can we fight back against this uglification trend and all of the other ominous things going on?

Well, I think this uglification trend and solidifies the idea that vibration, sort of like that Nikola Tesla concept, that vibration rules the universe. Work on your own personal vibration. Your health determines the frequency of your vibration. And the best book on health I've ever read is by a man called Paul Chek, uh, C-H-E-K. His book is How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy. And I think once you vibrate or kind of consume higher energy food and drink and participate in higher energy generating health habits, that your mind will work in a different way and you'll sort of broadcast that beautiful frequency all around you. Through Veda Austin's work, you'll see that if you're vibrating higher frequency, you'll change everybody around you as well.

Yeah, yeah, good stuff. Any more resources you want to share or any closing thoughts?

I think that's quite a few for people to start with and just know that that it's going to be up to us to sort of change the world. So start in your own, your own territory, or your own country, your 2-foot by 2-foot country called yourself. Just try and change yourself and let that beautiful vibration transmit out to others.

The website is planetmindcontrol.com. You can watch the free documentary, just drop in your email like I did, and the documentary is totally free, no strings or anything there. Jason Kristoff, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me, Jason. Great talk.

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