De-Programming from the Toons we watched as children

Cartoon World

Do we really need to watch cartoons on the TV when we live in a cartoon world?

To de-program from the mind-control and brainwashing, we have to look at how we got to those beliefs, or to accept certain principles as true, when we were children.

Outside of the societal and parental beliefs systems, I started thinking about the “cartoons” I used to watch as a child and wondered what messed up messages they were trying to instill in my subconscious.

Thankfully, I somehow missed the memo on the group-think and compliance protocols but I certainly fell into plenty of other traps.

There is no doubt that cartoons, like comedy, are powerful tools for shaping cultural beliefs and implanting ideas into children. The first 7 years of a child’s life is when the brain is most influential to outside influence and greatly impacts the trajectory of adult life, so as innocent as it all can seem…it’s usually not.

Let’s look at some wacky cartoons that show insight into the modern-day revelations playing out in real time and perhaps why many are volunteering and signing up for some harmful things that we know without the propaganda of fear, would likely not produce the same decision.

INSPECTOR GADGET

Well look at that, a character who has “built in” technology and is portrayed as a bumbling idiot…Mmmmh? I wonder who they are talking about?

Wikipedia describes Inspector Gadget from the 1983 cartoon series as a “ cyborg (part man, part machine) with thousands of high-tech gadgets installed in his body, which he activates with the phrase "go-go gadget" before naming the device. The franchise follows the adventures of a sympathetic but dimwitted cyborg police inspector named Gadget as he investigates the criminal schemes of Dr. Claw and his organization, M.A.D., and fruitlessly attempts to stop him. However, neither side is aware that it is Gadget's niece, Penny, and her dog, Brain, who are truly responsible for thwarting M.A.D. Dr. Claw is the main antagonist of the franchise. He is the leader of an evil crime syndicate called M.A.D.”

Gadget and his gadgets are a bumbling mess, his attention on using technology as a “tool” to help him solve the case always backfires and never gets him anywhere, kind of like humanity and these phones, the GPS’s that can’t direct you to your destination, and the obsession with always pressing an easy button or consulting chat GPT instead of using your greater power, natural intelligence.

I think M.A.D. stands for Malevolent Agency of Destruction, which sounds like the technocratic corporations of our current reality. And the cyborg theme with the installed gadgets makes me wonder if this was Elon Musk’s (and his cartoon-like-disposition) inspiration as a boy.

The underpinnings of transhumanism made to seem comical and nonchalant is certainly ever present from this cartoon and the early days of Tell-Lie-Vision hypnosis that cannot be overlooked.

What also can’t be overlooked is that the niece, Penny, who is not a borg, nor wrapped up in the technological overhaul always finds a way and solves the puzzle. She uses her brainpower, not a “chip”….Penny would be with many of us in the parallel society…beyond the wall…when the Steampunk times roll around, when the grid goes kaput, Penny is sure to bring luck to the community and leave the inspector behind.

THE PINK PANTHER

The pink panther is interesting as there, mostly, is no talking, just music and sound effects. Without the dialogue you are forced to pay close attention in order to know what is happening. It’s not a cartoon you can listen to while doing other things like throwing food at your brother or jumping on the sofa. Maybe I’m paranoid about subliminals, but the focus required to watch this feels a bit too alluring, or rather, LURING, to get kids hooked on every move.

The first episode in the compilation link in the title seems innocent enough at first. The Pink Panther as a “mail delivery character” solves the problem of getting past the dog to deliver a package. While that can teach perseverance, it also instills the ideology of “just doing your job” at any cost.

The second episode in the compilation (starting at 7 min) speaks to a colorless future where there is idol worship, large screens everywhere, exhausted and numbed out people on moving walkways, drones…and, of course, an egoic overlord. The Pink Panther starts helping people bring the “color” back into their life and remember there is more to life than the gray concrete jungle they’ve been seduced into that supports an illusion, while they give their energy away. The powers-at-be suck (or loosh, literally) the energy out of people keeping them in a catatonic state. It turns out to be just a bad “dream” and he wakes up to the Superhero posters on the wall and his fantasy intact.

Could it be a positive cartoon….or do the rainbow colors and penis shaped buildings implant another thought behind the scenes? Is the Pink Panther a cool cat here to teach children valuable lessons or a predator wrapped up in pretty packaging?

THE JETSONS

Similar to Inspector Gadget, The Jetsons paint a picture of robots and technology being a helpful companion to our daily woes.

In the episode in the link, the frustrations faced by the Jetson’s are all due to technological glitches. Instead of doing things for themselves, they spend time trying to figure out how to pay for the new technology. Instead of making a coffee, they get angry that the “machine” is glitching and giving them tea when they clearly clicked the coffee button.

Aside from the silliness of being in “outer space” that no doubt plants ideas for NASA’s fake endeavors for people to believe nonsense instead of what is right before them, the Jetson’s shows the madness of the same issues we face with technology today…it doesn’t work. Instead of resolving an issue in 2 minutes by phone, you spend 30 minutes on hold pressing buttons to reach a human that has been programmed like a robot who can’t actually help you with anything.

In this clip, Mrs. Jetson is basically putting on her “mask” of make up to be seen on the surveillance cam…zoom.

In this clip, Mr. Jetson can’t even put on his own pants or brush his teeth, obedience to the machine and its status quo has rendered him useless. The futurist world is not a utopia, but a loss of meaningfulness and depth as to what it is to be a human. The shiny objects and easy buttons of technological advancements do not progress us, but drive us further away from the natural, from Source, from our true purpose and an opportunity to experience the beauty of life in all its beautiful madness.

Are The Jetsons an innocent attempt at humor in a futuristic world or a program to stay tuned to the program? Is the robotic way of life where you don’t have to lift a finger showing us the best way NOT to live or reinforcing the Internet-of-Things that’s consuming the individual while they mindlessly think they are consuming it?

Which childhood cartoon looms in your memory of eating chemically toxic poptarts and fruit loops? Heathcliff, Popeye, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Fat Albert, She-Ra…. Why do so many GenX’ers find themselves in a no BS, figure shit out and make it happen mindset when we should probably be dead from all the crap we ate and watched.

There’s a lot of talk about the “predictions” in the Simpsons but I didn’t watch them…so I wanted to bring it back a bit more old school. There are also plenty of breakdown videos online to the “mushroom” popularity from the beloved cartoon, The Smurf’s, another one full of strange symbolism and peculiar themes.

From Car-TOONS to Looney-TOONS one thing is for sure when you TUNE in to the frequency on the television, you will be at risk of becoming the TOON in your reality.

So, tune in to your own frequency and de-program the garbage from the bygone days of childhood when these things seemed so entertaining…but were really entraining our minds to ideas someone else wanted for us instead of our own….and ask yourself, was I influenced by this and how is it showing up for me today?

Don’t-go-go-gadget into the cartoon world. Step outside into the hue of life and beyond the black screens and grey walls that paint a fantasy, pulling us from the truth, from life and from the beauty at hand…a reality that will never be perfect, nor easy, but is so much more magical than the mechanical fantasy and false utopia in a transhuman landscape that denies, distracts, destructs the frequency of Source, of Flow, of Sovereignty.

Inside all cartoons, film, media, one can find both esoteric symbolism and hints of propaganda because the creator, conscious of their deeper subconscious influences or not, imprints their creative expression and internal beliefs into their work. Even the well-intended can negatively influence another. Thus, whether it is children watching cartoons or adults watching the news, it is our responsibility as individuals to ensure that what we feed our minds is beneficial and worthy of our precious time. The subtleties of life and its shapes can plant seeds of inspiration or doubt and fear. It’s up to us to not only express our authentic self, but to recognize where we fall short

These cartoons speak to the fallibility and surface level of being human…the comical nature of the cosmic joke strikes a chord….but beneath that, Universal archetypes find their way into the psyche and paint pictures of how life is shaping up in the Grand Play….it’s when we don’t shape our own character and allow the outer world to shape it that we end up living a lie, a caricature waiting to be painted by a sidewalk artists who sees the humor in this experience. Are you able to see it yourself or are you like Inspector Gadget, goofily being led by the pied piper of Artificial Intelligence?

In deprogramming our own minds, we find the shadowy cartoon character we may have been letting out on display to please the world and transform into the archetype that represents our true nature.

Good or Bad, there is nostalgia in my childhood around watching some of these cartoons. Thankfully, for me, these were times when it was easy to turn off the TV and go outside. Saturday morning cartoons were an occasional pastime not an every week event because we were busy living, outside playing, participating in community events, unphased by the brief escape into the seemingly innocent fantasy of a cartoon….and yet I cannot help but wonder how this and so many other things I exposed my eyes too, my mind, were not so innocent after all but shaping my dreams in a way that took me from myself….until I could see it for what it was in its wholeness and like the Pink Panther episode mentioned above, move from a black and white lens to seeing in color.

Is it a coincidence that the behaviors we’ve watched in cartoons as children has turned into a parody of sorts in adulthood?

Turn from the carTOON world and TUNE into the plane of the living, a realm where the connection is turned on instead of tuned out…where quiet is accepted without the impulse to fill it up with white noise and animation.

From the land of make believe to the land of the living…

~ Angela

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