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Were The Beatles Unwitting Soldiers in Cultural Warfare?

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In this episode of PTPOP: A Mind Revolution, based off of an article written by David A. Noelbel titled: Communism, Hypnotism and The Beatles, Peter explores the intriguing connection between pop culture, politics, and mind control through the lens of history. He delves into the fascinating theory of how communism, hypnotism, and even the Beatles may have played a role in shaping societal beliefs and consciousness. Was there an intentional effort to influence the masses through media and culture? Join us as we unravel the potential connections between these powerful forces and their impact on the human mind.

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Speaker 1:

Hey there, everybody. Pt Pop here with all four lobes of my brain securely bound behind my back, and welcome to another episode of A Mind Revolution, where I lead you out of the rabbit hole one grain of truth at a time. Today, I've got a great show, an awesome show. I'm very excited about this. This is all about communism, hypnotism and the Beatles. We've got a great show. It should be exciting, doesn't that sound like an exciting show? So buckle up everyone. Alert the dog, call the cat, tell the media we got a great show for you here on A Mind Revolution.

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Before we get to the main topic, I'd like to invite each and every one of you to check out my YouTube channel. Just go to youtubecom, forward slash ampersand PT pop and if you want to support my channel and my endeavors, go to my Patreon channel. If you have some extra money on hand and want to support the endeavors of this channel and all of my creative activities, please go to that. I'll leave a link to my Patreon channel in the description. All right, all of you, fellow internet dwellers, buckle up here, because today I'm diving deep into something some of you might consider pretty strange Communism, hypnotism and the Beatles. And you might be thinking what? Yeah? Yeah, I know, but stick with me here because it's going to be a really interesting topic and I'm going to be looking at this publication from 1965 written by Reverend David A Noble, called, well, communism, hypnotism and the Beatles.

Speaker 1:

And you know, keep in mind, that when this article was written, america was at the peak of the Cold War. Okay, we were at odds with communist Russia and people were, well, a little on edge about communist influence. And it was a time when people were really worried about like ideological subversion, especially when it came to young people. They were worried about young people being influenced by the communist party. And this author, mr noble, his little paper here, um, really played into that fear it was. It was actually feeding off of that fear. And if you look at it from a historical perspective, he was basically saying the communists were using this totally unexpected weapon music, pop music and the Beatles to brainwash the youth of Western culture and music. I know what you're saying, you're like, hold on. He was basically saying rock and roll was like a communist plot. And I know you're thinking that's a bit much to take on, you know, and I know it sounds pretty wild, but I'll give you that it does sound wild, but Nobel was serious and what he titled this was he called it Mental Side and it was basically mental suicide. And he thought, based off of this article now you can find this article of this article right on Google and it shows the cover, it shows the picture of the author, the whole thing but he basically thought this was basically like the musicals being used to induce mental suicide in the youth, induce mental suicide in the youth. He thought they were trying to weaken the minds of young Americans and make them easier to sway towards communist ideology. And if you think about it at the time, the Communist Manifesto part of their goal was to undermine the integrity of the American family and to eat away and chip away at the foundation of the American family.

Speaker 1:

Now, if you think about a post-American times, you had the basic family you had the father was the breadwinner, the father went out to work, the mother stayed home to take care of the kids. The father went out to work, the mother stayed home to take care of the kids, and most of these guys were post-war veterans that had moved into the suburbs, built a house, a cozy little bungalow with a pickaway fence, 2.5 kids and a dog. They had one car in the garage, they had money, they had nice, nice things and it was portrayed as being really stable, great time. Mom was just there with a dad's martini when he walked in the door and rub his feet and have dinner on the table. The woman was very submissive to the man. But as I know from personal experience in my own family, things weren't quite as beautiful as it was portrayed. Now my family might be the ordinary because both my parents ended up becoming severe alcoholics and you know my dad was beating my mom and stuff and a lot of men were beating their wives. Back then it was commonplace so but anyway, I'm not certain how strong this version of the family really was. But the Communist Manifesto was trying to undermine and weaken the American family, to disintegrate the ideologies of the American structure internally. So he thought this author thought that they were using scientific techniques based on the work of a gentleman.

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You may all have heard of Ivan Pavlov and you've heard of Pavlov's dog. You know he's the bell guy. When they'd ring a bell the dog would salivate. And I'm like you're thinking well, what does that have to do with rock and roll? You know Pavlov's experiments right. They showed how powerful conditioned reflexes can be. This is what Pavlov's studies did. He. They showed how powerful condition reflexes can be. This is what Pavlov's studies did. He showed how powerful condition reflexes can be. So he trained these dogs by, like, always ringing your bell at the right time before feeding them so they would drool. And of course I'm giving you a 50,000 foot overview of Pavlov. But after a while these dogs would start drooling, and just at the sound of the bell, even though there was no food around.

Speaker 1:

So the author, noble, thought music could work the same way. So he's basically saying music could be a trigger, like make you react to a certain way without you even realizing it, subconsciously triggering things in your mind. And he thought being exposed to certain types of music over and over, especially with stuff strong, with strong rhythms, certain metal melodies and and the like, could program you almost like a computer. And it's kind of like, I guess you'd say it's how advertising jingles get stuck in your head. And even though, um, even the thought of this, this manipulation, was targeted at different age groups, you know, you think to yourself wow, this is pretty wild. I mean, you never really thought about rock music as being this way and this is. I think this is pretty interesting because I never really thought about this. You think about how music you hear it all the time. Everywhere we go today, there's music. Today I was in the men's locker room at the gym and there was classic rock playing in the gym while I'm taking a leak. I'm like why do I need to hear classic rock while I'm in the locker room? And it's out where I'm working out, it's out in the parking lot, it's in the malls, it's in the parking lot of the malls, it's everywhere.

Speaker 1:

What kind of musical weapons did the author think they were using? Something you've got to ask yourself. Well, he started with the youngest believe it or not, babies and toddlers, and he's not saying lullabies or propaganda, or is he? So this gets really interesting because there's a type of music that was imported into the US, strictly targeting young kids to help them go to sleep, and Noble claimed that even the most innocent little tunes could be used for, you know, creating those conditioned reflexes. And he pointed to companies like Children's Record Guild and the Young People Records, and it was said that their music was designed to get specific reactions out of little, teeny, tiny kids. So basically he's saying they're coming for our babies through lullabies as communist mind control.

Speaker 1:

Now I know that sounds crazy but if you look at the details of this study might make you think it's not so crazy. But you know, you've got to remember this was like the peak of the Cold War paranoia. But was it really paranoia? You know, a lot of things happened back then. And look at our country now.

Speaker 1:

Look at, as I said, the foundation of the American culture was based on the father working. One income could buy a house, get a car, have a couple kids, a wife at home. Everybody had new clothes, they had a nice yard, they could go on vacation and nobody questioned anything. Nobody questioned authority. Everything was kind of just running right real smooth. We had the post-industrial, post-war industrial buildup in America new highways, new buildings, new houses, new malls. People had money. It was going well.

Speaker 1:

And then the 1960s hit and all these kids had it in their mind they got to rebel Rebel against what I say and people at the time were definitely afraid of the communist infiltration and parents especially were worried about it. Well, I mean, everything influences kids Because, as I said in another episode, the human brain, male and female doesn't develop well into the 20s. So Nobel really tapped into this, or did he? Is it paranoia or is it reality? Look at our country pre-1960s stable, strong, going forward After about 1965, it starts to completely fall apart. You know, were lullabies for babies, were what? Were they communist anthems in elementary school music class? Not really, not quite. They weren't anthems.

Speaker 1:

But he did say in this article and you've got to read this article, it's a fascinating article and if you're of the mindset where you believe everything you heard about the propaganda towards the communists and you think it was all just hogwash, you're not going to buy into this article. But if you can look into it objectively, you're going to go. Whoa, this has some merit to it. But he did say that even the music played in schools you know, sometimes even slipped and educational stuff could be used for this conditioning. So he's basically saying the kids are being bombarded with these subliminal messages like from the cradle all the way through school and that's like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it does have a bit of a dystopian vibe. But there's some truth to it and you'd have to study these songs, these children's songs. Many of these songs were written and produced by Russians and communists in communist Russia and they were presented with certain tones and certain frequencies within the music and certain words and phrases and the presentation of the music. The production music was designed to get into the mind of the child and have it go to sleep. Your mind goes into a different mindset when you go into the sleep world. Now, I'm not a brain surgeon or a brain expert, but you're more susceptible to things when you're asleep.

Speaker 1:

Were people buying this? Did anyone take him seriously? This article? Yeah, yeah, his book. It's not really a book, it's just an article written. It's just it's a small book, it's only about 25, 30 pages long. But his book got a lot of attention.

Speaker 1:

I mean, a lot of people thought it was he was onto something and it really sparked a debate like the power of music and how it affects especially people's young minds, and I think that's fascinating. But did he actually have any evidence about this? Well, I mean it was like he was making stuff up completely and that's how I, when I read him, like how does he know this? Does he really know this? Is this reality? But he was in, he was tapping to, like, the real anxieties of the people at the time. You know, and they even have these today. They're still pushing the Russian agenda right, russia gate, and how they affected our elections with all of these presidential candidates.

Speaker 1:

But think about how music gets used, like in advertising, jingles, movie soundtracks. They totally mess with your emotions. I mean, think about it. I mean, the other day I was again. I'm in the locker room again and this song from Journey comes on by the band Journey and it's a sad love song. I can't remember the song, but it was a song from my high school days that always made me sad because it made me think of a girl that I wanted to date, that we had broken up and she didn't want to go out with me anymore. She went out with some baseball player and I was like, oh listen, I heard the song come on. I started feeling sad and I wasn't hearing the song consciously. I heard music in the back, but I started feeling really down. I'm standing there in the locker. I'm like, why do I feel so sad? I'm like, oh my God, is this song by Journey? Is it full on mind control? I mean, that's a different story, right?

Speaker 1:

So what were some of the genres that this author Nobel was really worried about, and he was worried about a lot actually, but most of it was about the Beatles and he was really pointing out how the Beatles came onto the scene and pretty much punched a hole into our culture and into the culture of our youth. I mean especially the kind of music that was popular with the college kids too. I mean the Beatles initially were attractive and intriguing to the younger kids, the teenagers. But he pointed to groups like People's Songs, incorporated, and singers like Pete Seeger. They were known for being pretty left-leaning. Pete Seeger was a communist and Nobel saw that like as a direct threat.

Speaker 1:

I mean, like folk music often has like messages about social justice and protest. So he does discuss folk music, pete Seeger, and how that initiated or took part or played a part in the protests and the protest mindset of the 1960s and the protest mindset of the 1960s. So I guess in a way you could say in the Cold War times that it makes sense that some people would be suspicious and Nobel thought they were using folk music to romanticize communism, make it sound appealing to the young. You know intellectuals trying to, like you know, sneak in those subversive ideas through folk music, like planting the seeds for, you know, future communist leaders or something. It seems like he was seeing communist boogeymen everywhere.

Speaker 1:

But I have a feeling he saved his best material for, like I said, the Beatles, because back then the older generation saw the Beatles as if they were public enemy number one, you know, the ultimate weapon in this whole. I guess you'd call it communist musical plot. But why the Beatles? I mean they weren't exactly singing about revolution or anything, at least not until 1968 when they had the song Revolution. But for Nobel, it seems it wasn't about the words, it was about the music itself, like the way it sounded and the way it made you feel.

Speaker 1:

And, as I've mentioned in this, I've often wondered why the Beatles music had such an effect on me as a kid. Now, I didn't discover the Beatles music until I was eight years old and their music consumed me. I was completely obsessed with this band, their personalities, their lifestyles, their philosophies. I lived, ate, slept, dreamt, shit. The Beatles, that's all I thought about and they shaped how I looked at the world, how I looked at what I wanted to do for a living. I wanted to become an artist the whole nine yards.

Speaker 1:

But he called their music primitive. He insisted that it was designed to overload teenagers' nervous system, making them, you know, lose control, act impulsively, which they did, myself included. I was very impulsive once I heard the Beatles music. Think about all those screaming girls from back then that would go to their concert and just lose their absolute minds. You know, I've read articles where these girls, teenage girls, would go in, scream and get so excited, so turned on, that they'd wet themselves, they'd bring themselves to orgasm, they'd pass out, they'd faint, they'd go absolutely mad. I know, as I said in other episodes, sinatra, frank Sinatra and Elvis had similar effects on girls, but not to the effect that the Beatles did. Now, why did this band of four average-looking guys of average music skills have this kind of effect, this mass hysteria and all these people, worldwide Insanity.

Speaker 1:

And the author actually tied it back to Pavlov, as I mentioned earlier, pavlov's dog. You know, the dog guy, the conditioned reflex, and it's a thing called artificial neurosis. So artificial neurosis it reminds me of what is, you know. Okay, basically, pavlov found that, if you like, create these flipping condition reflexes in dogs, it can cause a kind of like mental breakdown.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so teenagers, right, they have like natural inhibitions against doing crazy stuff. So they're very reserved. When I was a teenager I was very like oh my God, I don't want to dance. Oh my God, don't call on me. In class You're very kind of like self-conscious, you're awkward, you don't want anybody to look at you. A lot of kids have a hard time when they're that age. Look at you. A lot of kids have a hard time when they're that age. So they learn that from you. Know, parents, society, developing a sense of morals, so just basic rules.

Speaker 1:

But Nobel thought that the Beatles music, with all of its driving rhythms and suggestive lyrics, it could overpower those inhibitions, like short circuit their brains, you know, turn off their common sense, make them do stuff they normally wouldn't do. So it's like you thought the Beatles were some kind of musical pied piper leading all these kids astray with hypnotic rhythms. It's a good way to put it really, when you think about it. I mean you thought their music was like a tool for social control, turn teenagers against their own country, you know, bam, communist takeover Subversively. I mean, think about it. Russia and America were at odds with one another and still are. But we're a massive country surrounded by water on three sides and we have all different kind of climates. We have desert, we have winter climates, we have all kinds of things.

Speaker 1:

And would you think that the Communist Party would want to invade America Even 50 years ago? Would they really want to put their ships onshore, offshore and put landing craft and go up on our beaches like they did in World War II and face an armed environment like today especially? But back then even everyone had guns and guns weren't restricted. Back then Anybody and everybody had guns. So it would be almost an impossible war to win because you'd be attacking, you'd have to attack from multiple sides, you'd be up against armed militia of private citizens. Um, it would be a very hostile environment to take over. So why not try to take over the country without having to fire a shot, by infiltrating its people, its culture and their minds? It seems to make perfectly logical sense to me. It seems to be a better way to take over a country than with bombs and bullets.

Speaker 1:

I think you know he looked at it as the music was a way to take over the minds of the youth, because the youth is the future of the country. And the music created mass hysteria, which it did, and Nobel points out things like the riots of Beatle concerts you know just the general chaos of Beatlemania and said it was proof that music could manipulate people and turn them into, you know, hysterical freaks, which is what it did. He even said in this article that the Beatles themselves were being used like they were pawns in this whole communist scheme. And I know what you're thinking. Oh come on, the Beatles, those cute little mop top lads from Liverpool, as like secret communist agents. I know it sounds a bit hard to believe and it does seem pretty far-fetched now. But yeah, remember this was a different time, this was Cold War. Cold War between us and Russia was huge.

Speaker 1:

But as I read it and I think about it, this would be the perfect way to take over a country, undermine the mental stability of the countryine the mental stability of the country, undermine the mental stability of the youth, disintegrate the family unit and the country begins to fall apart. Now think about that, 1964. Think about now, 2024. 60 years later, and look where our country is. Our families are all disintegrated.

Speaker 1:

Kids are angry and they started getting angry years ago, angry and they wanted to rebel. They hated their families, they didn't want to work, they don't want to go to school, they didn't want to listen to authority. Everything in rock and roll music was about defying authority. And one thing I do know from personal experience from living in that era is that in Russia you weren't allowed to listen to rock and roll. You weren't allowed to watch American TV. You weren't allowed to see any of that stuff. And I wonder why. Maybe because they were afraid that their people would start to rebel against the communist regime, who knows? So people back then were afraid. So Nobel was feeding off of that fear.

Speaker 1:

But I don't think he did it to push like a Christian agenda. He did it to bring light to people, to try to wake them up to how much impact this band actually was having on our culture. And a lot of people, especially those who were already kind of freaked out about rock and roll, they bought into it. And I think, as I look back on it, those people that bought into it looked at it as freaks and what would have been called back then, if the word existed conspiracy theorists. And it's amazing back then how much cultural anxiety got tied up into something as simple as pop music. But was it really? Is it a conspiracy theory or is it fact?

Speaker 1:

I mean whether it's lullabies or folk songs, rock and roll, the Beatles music really stirs up some serious emotions. I'm thinking about what it does to you. In some ways it can bring people together. In other ways it tears people apart. It can make you cry, it can make you laugh, it can make you feel melancholy. I mean music really messes with your head. It can make you laugh, it can make you feel melancholy. I mean music really messes with your head. It really does, and I'm a prime example of it. I mean, I'm sitting here, I'm surrounded by five guitars. I've got a mandolin and a guitar banjo. For years I thought I was going to be a rock star and you know I don't have any delusions about that anymore. But how many people do we know were so affected by music? They just had to play music. It creates a delusional environment where people think more of themselves than maybe they, perhaps they should. I think it, you know. I think it makes you think a lot about the role of music in society and how people see it, how people get used to it and how it can become like a battleground for all sorts of big old cultural issues. I mean there's always music involved with political campaigns, rock stars, country artists that support the current candidates. You know they've always got some song that's part of their campaign.

Speaker 1:

For me, this article was eye-opening because my next episode is going to be with Mike Williams and in a previous episode I discussed frequencies in music and how they can affect the mind. We've discussed frequencies in music and how they can affect the mind. Mike's going to talk about hypnotism, because Mike Williams of Sage Equay Radio is a licensed hypnotherapist and we're going to talk about how music can put you in a trance. But to get back to the article here, you know I don't know how people reacted to this article. I mean, did his book, did his article have a lasting impact? It definitely got people talking. Now, this is an old article but from what I read it was like a lightning rod to some people. Some people especially those who are already on the edge of communism, and how culture was changing and they were paranoid about it. It really spoke to them.

Speaker 1:

And I had a friend, my friend's father in high school, didn't like rock music. He was a born-again Christian. He would say you know, the devil is in that music. And we all laughed at him, we made fun of him and stuff. But now, as a grown man, look back on it, I I don't know how I think of the devil. I don't think of the devil as a, you know, a red-skinned guy with a forked tail and horns on his head. But the devil may be something that undermines and destroys cultural aspects or divides you or takes you away from peace, and I think the Beatles did that and rock and roll did.

Speaker 1:

But a lot of the people back then thought the Beatles and rock music were like a real danger to America and others. They just thought, you know all those people were being ridiculous, like total overreaction, you know, just a bunch of fear-mongering about this new kind of music. That was, you know, shaking things up a bit. So it was a pretty big controversy. I mean to stand back and try to talk about the Beatles now. It's hard to, it's impossible to really encapsulate the emotional and the overwhelming experience of Beatlemania, because they really overtook culture. They just shattered. It's like the four band members walked into the world of music with shotguns and just blew music. At the very least they blew music just out of the water. They blew it to pieces Because after the Beatles and the other British invasion bands hit the shores of America, music in this country and around the world completely changed forever. It was actually obliterated and completely sent in a different course.

Speaker 1:

While I don't think everyone really believes in the whole brainwashing thing anymore, it did get people thinking about it. I think that's something we talk about today and that's why I bring it up, because I think music has really taken up a huge part of everything in our lives. I mean, it's in advertising, it's in campaigns, it's on TV, it's on the internet, it's everywhere you can't escape music. It's in all the restaurants, it's in the gas stations. Music it's in all the restaurants, it's in the gas stations.

Speaker 1:

And what if there's a subliminal message that they're trying to keep all of our brains in some type of retractor being locked in so we're like zombies? Can a song actually make you do something you don't want to do? I don't know. It's been speculated a lot. These kids that are going around shooting up schools and stuff are influenced by music. So Nobel definitely thought music could overpower your free will, you know, turn you into a communist zombie. As I said, what does a communist zombie look like? Do they have a sickle and a hammer and they're bleeding from the mouth or something I don't know, but that's a little extreme, I mean. But if you know you don't believe in like mind control. You can't deny that the music is persuasive.

Speaker 1:

I think about how a certain song can, you know, bring back a memory. It's very influential. I think about how a certain song can, you know, bring back a memory. It's very influential. And you know, catchy jingles. All that stuff influences us. It, you know, makes us want to buy products. It catches our attention in advertising. It makes us want to buy a car. Look at a girl, fall in love, hate someone, hate a group of people. It's used as a weapon. I think Music is a very powerful weapon.

Speaker 1:

So where does this leave us? What's the big takeaway from all this? Well, I think the thing I take away from it is it's how I see music and even art. Art is tied up in all of this stuff with what's going on in society and politics of the time. And we're right in the middle of a political campaign here with Trump and Harris, and they're both, as I said, they're utilizing art, they're utilizing music, they're trying to get endorsements from artists, actors, musicians, entertainers, because the general public looks up to these artists and entertainers as icons. They hang on their every word. So if XYZ person says vote for Trump, they're going to vote for Trump, and certain artists and actors lean certain ways politically, so they have a certain following that mirrors that candidate's beliefs and political attitudes.

Speaker 1:

So you know, back then this has been labeled as a product of the Cold War. You know, all that fear and suspicion shaped how he saw the Beatles, this author Nobel, and how we saw rock and roll. It reminds us of something that seems, you know, harmless. Like pop, music can become this flashpoint or like triggering social anxieties. It makes you wonder how people in the future will see music we listen to now. You know, even if the music doesn't affect people on purpose, it makes you wonder. It does make you wonder. It makes you wonder why did these four guys from Liverpool have such power, have such influence? I was wrapped up in Beatlemania and I divorced myself from it. I grew tired of it and now that I've stepped away from it, I look at it.

Speaker 1:

Here's how I summarize the Beatles. He were four average looking guys at best, with average musical skills, that somehow, who at first were just a cover band schlepping around dingy bars in the Reeperbahn district in Germany and around England were just playing cover tunes by Chuck Berry and the like. Crappy Instruments had never really written many songs or didn't play original songs. They were only doing cover tunes. All of a sudden they became genius songwriters. They were on the BBC radio station long before they were famous and all of a sudden they had a number one album and a number one songs in England and in America. It makes you wonder how did these four average guys of average abilities all of a sudden get coined as being genius songwriters, sink the top of all the charts? So I'll leave you with that. I mean, I don't know. You know I'm theorizing based off this guy's article.

Speaker 1:

But as I have pursued this topic about the Beatles, were they really the band we think they were? Was there an agenda behind their music? Did they write their own music? Was their music written with a specific purpose in mind, to affect culture directly? Or was the band strictly just out there to make a record company money? But where did these songs come from? How did they write them so quickly? But where did these songs come from? How did they write them so quickly? And were they produced in such a way as to put the human mind into some type of trance. Are there hidden tones, frequencies in the music? Is it structured and produced in such a way that would captivate the human mind? That's what I wonder. What is the genius behind this? There's something more to it, because when I hear some of this Beatle music now, when I'm an older man, I think this song is not very good.

Speaker 1:

As I've said in other podcasts, you could take the songs Love Me Do and Yellow Submarine and shoot them off into space. Take every copy of them that exists vinyl and shoot them off into space. Take every copy of them that exists vinyl, cassette, 8-track, mp3s, whatever it is. Shoot them off into space and if they were never on the planet again, the world would be a better place. These songs stink. Love Me Do is a horrible song. It's boring, it's dull, it's lifeless. It's a weak attempt at trying to write a pop love song, but for some reason we're told that's great. So because we're told it's great and the Beatles wrote it, oh, it must be great.

Speaker 1:

So what is this all about? How did these guys get to where they got? Why do they have so much influence? You know the song I saw her standing there is about an underage girl. Well, she was just 17. Okay, you know what I mean. What are you saying there? Paul, you like young girls? I mean, those lyrics wouldn't go today. And I know Chuck Berry had a song called Sweet Little 16. That's creepy. You got a've got a dirty old man singing about young girls. What are they trying to say there exactly, and what agenda are they trying to push? As a man, I don't have children, but I have several nieces and I definitely wouldn't want a dirty old man going after my young nieces. So you know what is the there.

Speaker 1:

What are the lyrics saying? What are the rhythms doing? What are they doing to your mind? I'm of the belief. I don't know if it was a communist plot, but I think there's far more to the music than our naive minds want to admit to. We want to.

Speaker 1:

Most people couldn't ever even fathom that there could be more to the music than just selling records. Most people would be so disturbed if they found out the music was manipulating their minds and their emotions intentionally. There was an intention behind it. Most people think there's absence of malice. They think there's no. Oh, come on, pete, it's just rock music. What are you talking about? Come on, pete, it's just rock music. What are you talking about? It's just Journey. It's just Bruce Springsteen. Come on, what could it possibly be doing to us?

Speaker 1:

But let me ask you this when was our country in 1960? And where is our country today? And what is one of the biggest factors in our culture that appeared? It was rock and roll. Factors in our culture that appeared. It was rock and roll and Chuck Berry and the like Elvis weren't doing too much. Beatles come on scene out of Europe and all of a sudden, our country just completely implodes Demonstrations, racial upheaval, sexual upheaval, tension between the sexes. It was complete chaos in the 60s. And what one thing happened?

Speaker 1:

Rock and roll exploded during this time, giving kids some reason to rebel, and I bet you most of them are like I got to go rebel. But what are they rebelling against? They had a strong father. They had a mother staying at home. They had money. They had a roof over their head, they had food on the table. Strong father, they had a mother staying at home. They had money. They had a roof over their head. They had food on the table. They had security. Their dads could work at the same company for 30, 40, 50 years with a pension.

Speaker 1:

Now none of us have jobs, nobody has pensions, both parents are working, the homes are destroyed, families are crushed, kids are sitting around without fathers. Doesn't matter your race, it doesn't matter the color of your skin. Most of us didn't have fathers growing up. Two of my friends didn't have fathers growing up and most of us are lost, confused, dazed. We're angry. We listen to this music. We get angry listening to music. We're like what are we angry about?

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Think about it. I mean, our country's a mess right now. Was rock and roll one of the biggest wedges that destroyed our culture? Could it have been in a communist agenda? I don't know. So think about it. Let's leave that out there for you. And thanks for joining me today on PT Papa Mind Revolution and my deep dive into communism, hypnotism and the Beatles, and it's been quite a journey, people. And if you like what I do here, tell people about my podcast To support my channel, go over to Patreon, make a donation, check out my YouTube channel, youtubecom. Forward slash at PT Pop. And with that I bid you all adieu and thank you for watching and hasta la vista, baby.

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