ARE YOU
BRAINWASHED?

TEST RESULTS INTERPRETATION

by William B. Fox
Last updated 10 Dec 2007

IDEOLOGICAL UNIVERSE MAP

The map below was reproduced from the Introduction to my Resolving Opposing Political and Economic Ideologies series. It should help most people get oriented within the ideological universe.

Please see my commentary pages for each question of this quiz, with links provided below. Also, for a longer continuous narrative explanation, please see my Resolving Opposing Political and Economic Ideologies series. Among other things, I discuss the trade-offs between the different perspectives.

I believe it is not only important for a person to understand where they are on the ideological map, but more importantly the tradeoffs involved in their viewpoint vs. other ideological viewpoints. Furthermore, people's ideological views are typically constrained by various factors, such as national media brainwashing, peer pressure, and job pressures. Constraints are a huge issue. Ultimately a person not only needs to understand the relationship between these ideological perspectives, but the political and economic constraints that people undergo in carrying out their ideological agendas.

I deliberately constructed this test so that the underlying nature of the questions and its scoring methodology and are all very self-evident and transparent. In other words, it is very easy to manipulate the results of this test by marking it to yield a certain intended result rather than simply marking each question according to how one really feels at the moment. The real value of this test is as a self-diagnostic tool to help people start thinking more analytically about various issues.

My guess is that most Americans who take this test on a quick response basis without trying to second guess the questions will score within the environmental top down category. This is because we live in an era of leftist multi-racial, multicultural empire run by Big Government and Big Media. Although all of this has been changing recently due to the decentralizatizing effects of the Internet, the changes have still not been fast enough to counteract the very deeply rooted subliminal brainwashing that has been poured on white Americans, hot and heavy, for many, many decades.

The brainwashing has come in many different strains over many historical periods, and has only grown in intensity with the addition of new strains over time. We can back at least as far as the founding of this country. For example, some anti-Republican (or "anti-anti-Federalist") "brainwashing" started in American newspapers following the so-called "Conspiracy in Philadelphia" of 1787 when Federalists subsequently took power under the George Washington and John Adams administrations. Alexander Hamilton, George Washington's right hand man, sought to create an "American" version of the centralized British government and mercantilist system. Hamilton's New York banker pals cleaned up by buying Revolutionary War debt at a small fraction of face value shortly before his Federalist buddies got the U.S. government to step in and redeem this debt at full value. The Federalists created a central bank and also passed the anti-First Amendment Alien and Sedition Acts. They tried to throw down the memory hole the fact that most of the states were actually pretty happy when they functioned like de facto independent countries during a century and a half of colonial history. The problem was serious enough that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison penned the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, legitimizing secession as a last resort when the federal government became too centrist or oppressive towards the states. Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin and editor of the most important radical newspaper Philadelphia Aurora, publicly excoriated George Washington as having resemblances to the dictatorial side of Oliver Cromwell. Thomas Paine also became very disillusioned with the Federalists and wrote a letter in 1795 bitterly attacking President George Washington. While Jefferson commented that he would rather have newspapers without a government rather than a government without newspapers, he was also frequently very critical of abuse of freedom of the press, stating in 1807, ""Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."

Even more serious pro-Big Government national media brainwashing started under the King Lincoln dictatorship during the War of Northern Aggression Against Southern Independence (1861-1865) and the ensuing so-called "Reconstruction" era in the occupied South (1865-1876). And then to add more insult to injury, during the "Progressive" era we see the rise of Marxist-socialist agitation. We also see "Social Darwinist" apologists for leviathan corporate exploitation during the "Robber Baron" age.

Orwellian fault shifts only accelerated with the 20th century. Some early landmarks included President William McKinley's highly imperialistic Spanish-American War, Teddy Roosevelt's authoritarian cult of personality, and the globalist Woodrow Wilson Administration. As some examples of the latter, we might consider Wilson's approval of the creation of the personal income tax and the privately owned Federal Reserve central bank by Morgan, Rockefeller, and other Rothschild agents, America's WWI intervention in Europe inspired by the pro-Zionist Balfour Declaration and fictitious sinking of the S.S. Sussex, the massive WWI-era domestic suppression of anti-war dissent and civil liberties, Wilson's support for the disastrous Versailles Treaty that led to WWII, the Jewish supremacist takeover of major national media documented in Henry Ford's classic The International Jew, the support by Wilson's close Jewish advisors of the rise of Bolshevism in Russia, Wilson's attempt to subordinate American sovereignty under a League of Nations' World Government scheme, the federal social reengineering scheme under Prohibition to eliminate Americans' right to enjoy a sip of wine in the privacy of their own homes...it's quite a long and depressing list.

Next, we must deal with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and WWII Administration. This, like the Woodrow Wilson Administration, is a whole topic area unto itself. It too was a major disaster from a traditional American conservative viewpoint which encompasses both libertarian and white racial nationalist viewpoints.

Rather than go into depth regarding FDR and associates, suffice to say for the purposes of this essay that it was not until the "Great Society" programs of the hopelessly corrupt Lyndon Baines Johnson Administration immediately following JFK's assassination that the white middle class underwent a full blown attack on all levels. Leftists called it "the Counter Culture" and rightists called it "Cultural Communism." Whatever you choose to call it, it only got worse and worse over time. Included in the package came the Holocaustianity-white guilt indoctrination, the outrageous pro-Zionist propaganda promoting unconditional support for the Jewish state, the pro-drug Hippie culture, the pro-radical feminism that joyously marginalizes breadwinning males and sacrifices children for careers, the popularization of "lifestyle" abortions, the open tolerance and even promotion of massive illegal immigration...and on and on relentlessly... no wonder this country is such a mess!

As I point in my Introduction to the Reconciling Opposing Ideologies series, early American classical liberalism (and classical conservatism) and anti-Federalist ideology started out in the "genetic bottom up" philosophical category. Over the last two centuries, America has drifted diagonally to the upward left of the chart, and the national media discourse has become increasingly more Orwellian over time.

Conservative columnist Joseph Sobran has observed that on many key issues, such as government size and foreign interventionism, so-called "modern" liberals and "conservatives" are the diagonal opposite of both of their 19th century classical liberal and classical conservative counterparts. Worse yet, they are hardly conscious of the trade-offs between the opposing perspectives.

Worst of all, most modern liberals don't understand what we are missing

COMMENTS ON ETHICS-RELATED ISSUES:

I believe that while most Americans might instinctively feel deep down inside like they are "Mutualists," my guess is that most Americans who take this test on a naive, quick response basis will score at least two or three clicks in the direction of "Parasitism" compared to their American counterparts of one or two centuries ago. A major reason is that most Americans today function without a cultural milieu of a high fraud, high greed, punk "wise guy" society. The book American Values Decline documents this trend of moral rot in America. I provide the following extract in my Mutualism vs. Parasitism article:

Arianna Huffington asks: "How can there be talk of a shared destiny in a nation where, between 1990 and 2000, average CEO pay rose 571 percent while average worker pay rose 37 percent? . . . Where, since 1980, real income for the bottom fifth of families fell by $800 while for the top fifth, it rose $56,800?” ["Capital Crimes, Capitol Cronies," U.S. News and World Report, January 20, 2003, page 30]

And this wasn't the last increase. According to a pay survey by the Corporate Library in 2004, the median compensation for CEOs of S&P 500 companies rose 11.4 percent in 2002, and another 27 percent in 2003. In 1982, the typical CEO made 42 times what the typical employee got — by 2004, it had increased to 301 times! [Reported by Daren Fonda and Daniel Kadlec, "The Rumble Over Executive Pay," Time, May 31, 2004.]

For more than 60 years, American Seed had profitably distributed garden seeds to enterprising youngsters to sell in their neighborhoods. Then, between 1975 and 1981, some 400,000 young business people sent for the seeds — but pocketed all of the proceeds — rather than deduct their commission and remit the rest, claiming they had been "mugged." [Dividends, "Youth Gone To Seed," Time, October 12, 1981, page 86.]

I think the article "Who Rules America?" about America's corrupt national media overlords gives a pretty good sense about who the punk wise guys are who have played a key role in glamorizing what is essentially criminal-parasitic behavior and attitudes. (Please see other articles about national media consolidation and perversion listed under "controlled national media" in my site map). Or for that matter, please read Final Judgment, the High Priests of War, or Viper's Venom about the real power structure in America. The stench is practically unbearable.

Unfortunately, we are all to some degree or another "infected" by subliminal brainwashing. Worse yet, there is a severe shortage of explicit traditional American conservative sources that can help Americans think through their moral plight. Ironically, traditional American conservatives are often labeled as "extremists" by our our current national media masters, when in fact by historical standards, it is the conservatives who are normal, and the media masters who are the real extremists.

In the very long run I believe that white Americans will eventually cycle back towards historical norms regarding such traditional values as honor, patriotism, and racial and ethnic loyalty. It may require a lot of pain and suffering, such as what Tom Chittum addresses in Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America, or as William S. Lind satirically predicted in his 1995 Washington Post piece "Militant Musings: From Nightmare 1995 to My Utopian 2050," but eventually values will regress back towards historical norms.

Hopefully both you and I will live to see this day.


COMMENTARY PAGES

Editor's Note (by William B. Fox): Each question below links to a page with extended discussion of both sides of the issue as well as extended background commentary. This commentary tends to be slanted in a very frank traditional American conservative direction --the opposite philosophical direction of most of today's liberal national media. Although I cannot personally claim to have dominion on the truth, I can very legitimately claim to provide logical tools and alternative viewpoints that can significantly improve the ability of others to find truth on their own.

1. Should a country or large business err on the side of centralization or decentralization?
2. How strong is the genetic influence in shaping human behavior compared to environmental influences (or learning factors)?
3. As people rise in power how are they entitled to change the character of the morality that they practice?
4. What is the ultimate long term score card for measuring the worth of a society?
5. How much power should we give strong and charismatic political leaders?
6. How should we justify an increased use of deception in high-level business and political affairs?
7. What does it mean when a dominant ethnic group begins to decline as a percentage of the overall population?
8. If you feel that your place of work or even the government has become intolerably corrupt and oppressive, how should you handle this situation?
9. What is the proper role of the Federal Government (Feds) and central bank (the Federal Reserve or "the Fed") in managing the economy?
10. How have the core concepts behind republican government tended to evolve in history?
11. How well does the average person tend to grasp political realities and complex social phenomenon?
12. How desirable is decentralization in a military environment?
13. Does ethnic solidarity matter in the defense of liberty?
14. Why is it so important to address criminality at the highest levels of America's power structure?
15. What is the relationship between greatly increasing resources devoted towards a standing military and supporting the cause of individual liberty?
16. How is real wealth created in American society?
17. What is the proper role of legal institutions in American society?
18. Why is anti-Semitism a major problem that just never seems to go away?
19. Have different geographic evolutionary environments influenced the capacity of different races to develop civilizations?
20. Why should a society have the right to determine it's own destiny?
21. Should we incentivize public servants with the perquisites of expanded government, or be more concerned that they will abuse these things?
22. Why must Americans insist on completely honest public disclosure of everything that is counterproductive in their society?
23. What is the preferable function of religion in a society?
24. Can we justify secessionism?
25. Why should we prefer forms of protectionism to borderless free trade?
26. Why do civilizations tend to go through long historic boom-bust life cycles rather than steadily grow in wisdom and effectiveness?
27. Why have white conservatives been so ineffective in America?
28. Where should we locate "system risk" in the creation of money and credit?
29. Should covert operations require more rather than less civilian oversight?
30. Should we treat the U.S. Constitution like a secular state religion?

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