Shopping for toys

I was shopping for toys today for my two nieces, I decided to go into a popular toy store in Rundle Mall (the big one). It's been a while since I've been in a toy store, but the types of toys are still the same as they were when I was a kid. What has changed is my ability to perceive things, how certain aspects of our society perform functions to mould us into what is needed by society. I have observed how experiences had by a person will effect their being, how experiences had by a child will affect their character.

Kids are perfectly pliable, learning machines, with eager minds waiting to be filled so they can grow up to be adults. So the question I am going to ask is: What do we teach these eager young minds? How do we condition them to grow up to be happy, healthy, well balanced and productive members of our society?

In our country we condition our children to be violent, hateful, vengeful and greedy. All of this is commonly thought to be normal and concerns are generally brushed off as minor without a second thought.

By the age of 5 most of our young boys have been taught that guns are fun, the US army is awesome and that they are "the good guys", that killing the bad guys will make you a hero and that violence is exciting and cool.

For the girls, they're taught that it's all about how you look, that consumerism will make you happy, everyone loves greedy brats and your job is to just sit there, make babies and look pretty like Barbie.

In our western capitalist system, the conditioning starts at a very early. Boys are taught to love violence, to embrace guns and fight the enemy at all times, because to do so goes against our human instincts. It is not natural for a person to want to kill another person, it is deeply disturbing to do so and goes against our fundamental human nature. Only through conditioning is this overcome, through play and games in childhood, then eventually professional training of some description at a military school or some other institution. Why do we shape our children to be future soldiers instead of future doctors? Why train the killer instinct when we could teach kids that social interaction and cooperation is the best way?

The reason is that the system requires this of it's people, is so that the system can perpetuate itself. This is nothing new, it's the same here today with our "modern capitalist economy" as it was in the Stalinist USSR, Nazi Germany, or for example back in the middle ages, when archery and sword fighting were the games that the kids were taught to play. It is no mere coincidence that the Holy Roman Empire was sadistically violent and would enjoy watching other people get ripped apart at the colosseum, that nearly all boys would spend their entire childhoods fighting with wooden swords, spears and shields. The violent conditioning of a populous is if not directly controlled by government decree, encouraged and guided by policies aimed to facilitating such outcomes.

This is not a conspiracy theory, where by a few shady people are pulling the strings behind closed government doors. It's simply a systemic necessity of imperialism, which is encouraged and facilitated by the state. Techniques aimed at controlling the populous have been known and written about by intellectuals and rulers since the birth of civilisation. Niccolò Machiavelli is perhaps the best known social engineer, he wrote the classic manuscript "The Prince" in 1513, which outlines techniques that rulers can employ to control and manipulate the people, making famous concepts such as divide and conquer. Machiavelli would be in awe at the modern techniques used on our citizenry to keep them in line and defending a system which works against their best interests.


Here are some pictures I took while I was wondering around the store:

I wonder if the US army funds toy manufacturers? There seems to be a heck of a lot of US army toys in the toy store, more propaganda for the kids. Our society is truly sick, we are far from free when we are conditioned from ages 3 and up that we are on the side of the US, to love violence and for us to kill our enemies in tanks.

Having kids pretend to kill each other and love doing this, is really quite sick when you think about it, but it's so ingrained, we're so desensitised to violence and conditioning that we don't really think about it. Our society requires us to be desensitised to the violence required to maintain it.

The lesson of this toy is that war is fun, bombing people is fun, that you are western and that you must destroy your enemies.

The US military are the heroes in this toy set, the message is that violence is fun. The play set is acually called heroes...

The US military are over represented in boys toys. Dodgy

We teach future generations of girls to be mindless, bratty, "mall chick" consumers with our toys. These dolls are called "Bratz".

Barbie. This toy speaks for itself

and last but not least:

I couldn't believe how obviously wrong this toy was. What the Mc fuck is going on here? When did it become Mc normal in our society for a dodgy corporation to Mc manipulate our kids?