People Will Do Just About Anything...

Nobody Wins---There are many people like me tonight, sitting around wondering just how this country got so beyond hope and recognition? How did it happen in our lifetime? The last two decades were scary enough, but to end up as a socialist nation, with a Marxist coming into the White House? How in the world?

Well, I’ve been thinking about this, and I think that one of the reasons is, is that people will just about do anything you tell them to. It’s true.

Take for instance The Holocaust. For years, very few people dared bring up the question which everyone has thought of, but I guess thought was to delicate to ask: How could the Jews, who are the smartest people on the face of the earth, with the highest recorded IQ’s of any race, according to scientists that have measured them against all other races…

How could these brilliant people just walk into the ovens? Why did millions of them stand in line, to be shot into their own graves? Why did they stand the horrible humiliations that came at them with every turn? After all, “turn the other cheek” is a famous philosophy of Christians, not Jews.

I believe it’s for the same reason (it’s only part, of course) that a vast majority of people voted in a Marxist to be President.

I.Q. has nothing to do with it. People will do just about anything you tell them to, because people are mostly by nature…good natured and trusting, and hopeful.

While witnessing the unprecedented crowds turning out to hail Obama, I couldn’t help but think back on my first rock concert years ago: Led Zeppelin, was playing, and it’s where I first thought of this phenomenon.

My seat was high up over the main floor. Thousands were gathered together below me. I remember getting quite a revelation at a certain moment in time…the band had the whole auditorium throwing their fists into the air in a Nazi salute.

My mouth dropped open. There was not a single kid in that auditorium that did not put his fist and pump it into the air. My mind of course flashed back to Hitler’s famous speeches where everyone saluted him in the exact same frenzy.

Didn’t these kids know they were doing the very same salute that honored the man that killed millions in gas ovens?

Nope.

Later on, when I became a performer myself, I was always completely amazed just how easy it was to get a crowd to do anything:

“Okay…everybody form a line and jump up and down! And go back into the kitchen, then take the line outside, and come back!” I’d play some upbeat song, and sure enough, every adult in the room, would get up and do exactly that.

Did I feel powerful? No, frankly, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to get people to do things I would never dream of doing.

Of course it helps if they’re drunk or stoned.

All leaders know this simple fact. Tell people what they have to do, and they will do it.
Tell them they have to be “patriotic” and they will hand over all their money.
Tell people they will have to sacrifice: and they will do so to their own death.

Tell people they are prejudice, and must give their money to the less fortunate …and they will.

Tell them to stand while you shoot them in the back, and they fall into their graves, and they will.

I’m sure there’s a psychological name for this, but please, don’t tell me what’s it’s called.

They start training this “crowd” obedience lesson in the very first day of school. You’d better not get out of line, or you are forever demeaned on the planet earth.

Most importantly, tell a people they need their government and should never fight them, and they won’t.

Thomas Edison once said “The trouble with our way of education as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning and it lays more stress on memory than on observation.”

There are very few original thinkers anymore…people haven’t changed. You could say, it’s in our nature to always hope for the best. We are so trusting that we cannot believe that our very own demise in right in front of our eyes.

While everyone is putting their trust in Obama to save us, I think I’ll put my trust in God.

I’m not ready to salute.