{"id":212817,"date":"2025-10-25T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=212817"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:42:05","slug":"the-public-is-being-psychologically-prepared-for-a-great-and-terrible-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-public-is-being-psychologically-prepared-for-a-great-and-terrible-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The public is being psychologically prepared for a great and terrible war"},"content":{"rendered":"

The older I get, the more suspiciously I look at the causes of war. This is natural. Most young people \u2013 especially young men \u2013 are incapable of properly evaluating risk. Though they are rebellious, they also follow orders from authority figures. There is a reason why eighteen-year-olds are sent over embankments to cross open fields on the frontlines: They can be convinced to pursue success and ignore mortality. These young men look right past danger. Only years later do they ask themselves, \u201cWhy did I do that?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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There is no question that we are being psychologically prepped for a great and terrible war. Whether you are a civilian, veteran, or active service member, you surely have heard over the last ten years at least one commanding officer publicly describes the likelihood of World War III in the near future.<\/p>\n

European politicians have been instructing their citizens to prepare for a full-on military conflict with Russian forces since the current war in Ukraine began. Such civilian war preparations have not been limited to the Baltic states, Finland or Poland. France and the United Kingdom have spent the last several years conditioning citizens to expect bloodshed with the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

During the half-century Cold War, violence operated mainly in the shadows and through proxies so that the United States and the Soviet Union could at least pretend they were not directly fighting one another. Such was the shared fear of nuclear weapons \u2013 and of mutually assured destruction \u2013 that even bitter enemies did what they could to limit runaway escalation. The Moscow-Washington hotline \u2013 or what Hollywood mythologised as the doom-averting \u201cred phone\u201d \u2013 was established because both sides understood the stakes of WWIII.<\/p>\n

Cold War warriors generally considered a quote attributed to Albert Einstein: \u201cI know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones<\/em>.\u201d With this warning lingering in the consciousness of those who could unleash global annihilation with the pressing of a few buttons, humanity has somehow avoided destroying itself in the eighty years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

In my estimation, the mood has radically changed over the last fifteen years. A more sinister attitude toward the use of nuclear weapons has replaced decades-long angst and circumspection. Senators, generals and even diplomats publicly make the case for the use of terrible weapons that could easily lead to mass slaughter on a scale never before witnessed. Gone are the days of worrying about the end of life as we know it. In their place, a new generation of military and political leaders seems to be not so quietly echoing a spine-chilling refrain: \u201cHow will nuclear weapons deter our enemies if we are habitually afraid to use them?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Five years after mass hysteria concerning covid convinced much of the world to shut down for no good reason, more people are familiar with the concept of \u201cmass formation psychosis<\/em>.\u201d Simply stated, this phenomenon exists when large numbers of people believe in something detached from reality. I put covid in the same category as man-made \u201cclimate change<\/em>.\u201d I believe that a large percentage of the global population has been manipulated to believe that both are much more dangerous than they really are.<\/p>\n

For hundreds of years, academic studies have shown how political leaders exploit the \u201cmadness of crowds<\/em>\u201d to their advantage. In the early twentieth century, propaganda even had a so-called \u201cgood<\/em>\u201d connotation, as the elites of the day argued that \u201ceducated<\/em>\u201d people have a moral duty to corral the masses. In Public Opinion<\/a><\/em>, writer Walter Lippmann argues explicitly that \u201cexperts<\/em>\u201d should use a combination of propaganda and censorship to \u201cmanufacture<\/em>\u201d the consent of the \u201cbewildered herd<\/em>.\u201d If the \u201ceducated<\/em>\u201d class finds it useful to scare the dickens out of humanity about coronaviruses and carbon dioxide, it will do so.<\/p>\n

Considering this, it is entirely possible that I am serving as a useful idiot when it comes to worries over WWIII. Perhaps I am doing exactly what Lippmann\u2019s disciples wish me to do by professing my genuine concerns regarding the devastating global conflict heading our way. It still feels like yesterday, however, when I was reading about the likelihood of Islamic terror attacks on U.S. soil years before the murder of 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Now I read and hear similar predictions for a great war ahead, and I cannot help but be filled with terrible dread.<\/p>\n

As with all matters involving mass communication and public opinion, the whole situation devolves into a \u2018chicken or the egg\u2019 quandary rather fast. Am I writing about WWIII because so many signs indicate that it will arrive within the decade? Or am I inadvertently pushing what I wish to avoid by helping to convince society that it is imminent? Putting the dilemma of causality aside, I will say that I learned long ago that the war machine first prepares the public for conflict in the information space before officially firing weapons on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

As distasteful as it sounds, the military considers civilian consciousness part of the overall battlespace during war. Before every conflict begins, the social consciousness is shaped to accept, expect and engage in battle. It feels as if we are being directed toward global war today.<\/p>\n

Such an assertion might appear strange coming in the same time that President Trump is pursuing to broker peace in the Middle East. Even casual students of war would expect that region of the world to be fully enflamed during any true global conflict. Yet there are over 50 other conflicts raging around the world today, and over 90 countries are involved in battles beyond their territorial borders.<\/p>\n

Although some Western societies can be hypnotised into believing that the world is enjoying relative peace, war is spreading<\/a> faster today than it has since WWII. Even with so much bloodshed, though, we have seen nothing that approaches the level of violence that will unfold should the Russia-Ukraine war transform into a US-Russia war or simmering tensions between China and Taiwan transform into a direct showdown between the US and China.<\/p>\n

For the last decade, military academics have been predicting a global war by 2030. Suspiciously, that is the date that the World Economic Forum, United Nations and other globalist institutions have been highlighting as a universal \u201cpivot<\/em>\u201d for humanity. Artificial intelligence is evolving quickly. Plans for mandatory digital identification are taking hold across Europe. Central banks are designing government-controlled digital currencies. The European Union wants access to all private communications. As president, Joe Biden constructed a \u201cdisinformation board<\/em>\u201d to filter public information and censor dissent. The walls of a grand surveillance prison are being built all around us, while the same powers that be are preparing the public for economic hardship and prolonged war.<\/p>\n

We may not like it. We may not want it. But it appears the \u2018elites\u2019 expect us to take it in stride.<\/p>\n

There is another option. It is at least possible that billions of humans on this planet learn to push back. Rather than permitting a handful of \u2018elites\u2019 to dictate \u201cpublic opinion<\/em>,\u201d the public might discover that it has some control over its opinions, too. If enough people refuse to engage in senseless slaughter, perhaps the globalists who wish to lead us to war will discover that no one is much interested in following. Nothing so perfectly epitomises the \u201cmadness of crowds<\/em>,\u201d after all, than millions of young people rushing carelessly into the madness of war.<\/p>\n

For the sake of those who will otherwise lose their lives in the coming fights, I pray that wiser stewards of peace chart the course ahead.<\/p>\n

Author: J.B. Shurk (conservative American political commentator and author known for his writings on liberty, free speech, government overreach, and cultural issues)<\/em><\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nOctober 25, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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