i went on the ave today and there was some thing in this old closed down clothing store. someone had rented it out and put on this exhibit, with posterboards and videos. the whole thing was like, “psychiatry is institutionalized murder” and junk.
well, i thought it was a little strange… i mean… who would do this? i must say, at first i thought they were funded by some hokey organization. when i first got the flyer off the street, i was like, thinking… “wow! this is printed on really good paper. i wonder how a hokey organization like this one can afford it!” particularly because their posterboards and shit outside and in the window looked pretty ghetto. anyway, i was walking by the first time to go to the post office and when i came back, i decided to stop in. i only had, say, 10 minutes to spare because i had to go to german kurasu.
upon first entering, they had a bunch of tv’s on the right wall that i could see. the old, balding guy who handed me the flyer initially told me to sit down at the first television. i asked him how long. he said like, five minutes, so i sat down. it started off with a montage of news clips. nothing impressive. then it went into some quotes from various college professors and things… NO FACTS. JUST OPINIONS. they also have a few quotes from psychiatrists which were cut and pasted to make it sound like the psychiatrists didn’t know what they were doing or knew anything about “mental health.” blahblah.
it seemed quite propaganda-esque. anyway, i got bored after the first video, so i didn’t move onto the second one, as i had been told to do. i instead looked at this little posterboard which described torture techniques previously used by oldskool psychiatrists. i read it for a while while the people in my former group watched the second video, and then i continued to look around. for something about this organization. or SOMETHING. i wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but i went to this table that was layered with a bunch of food — croissants and things — and next to it were some pamphlets. the pamphlets hadcatchy subject titles on it, similar to the kind of thing you’d find on a drug pamphlet that says “ECSTASY” and the next one would be “METHAMPHETAMINES” etc. etc. instead this one had titles like “RACISM” (there was a word before that but i forget what)… crap, i forget the other ones. they all had to do with social causes or social wrongs or something, though. anyway, i picked up the racism one and leafed through it but there was nothing worth looking at i didn’t think (i should have taken one, in actuality). on the back, though, it said that this entire exhibit was held by scientologists for something something. and then it all began to make sense. i never knew they were so godamn sneaky, but it made PERFECT sense. that’s why these people have money to make these flyers and put up these flatscreen tvs. that’s why these people can rent out this old store. no crappy little non-profit group would be doing that. this is who’s behind it. AH. *light shines down from the heavens*.
i imagine that if you watch all of those videos in sequential order, as they encourage you to do, you’ll be brainwashed. no diz.
some asian guy in my original group was like, lapping the shit up, though. wonder what his deal was. they also had some people sitting against the frontside of their room, with their backs facing the entrance side… and they looked like they were counseling people or something. i didn’t get a good look, but they were getting individual sessions with people who i assume were people who had watched those videos.
i’m quite interested in going back and checking this thing out some more, actually. perhaps i shall tomorrow. if i come back brainwashed, well, you’ll know why.
