Programmed For
Poverty
So why might you not be accepting all the abundance that is
meant for you? Because you’ve been programmed for poverty.
You think that money is bad, rich people are evil, and it
is spiritual to be poor. And this programming started when
you were an infant.
I grew up watching TV shows
like “Gilligan’s Island,” “MASH,”
and “The Beverly Hillbillies.” All pretty silly,
innocuous shows, right? Well let’s analyze them from
a prosperity standpoint.
Remember the millionaire on
Gilligan’s show? He had a pretentious name, and was
always portrayed as a goofy rich person. Think how the banker
and people with money were portrayed in the “Hillbillies.”
The Hillbillies were always presented as sensible, down-to-earth
people, who were amused and bemused by the crazy way rich
people acted.
MASH centered around the two
good guys, and then there was always a bad guy, usually a
rich guy who listened to Opera, and also had a pretentious
name. I could go on, but you get the picture. I look back
on it now, and I realize that I was probably programmed against
rich people before I was ten years old!
What about you? Are you programmed
for poverty? If you grew up in a different time frame than
me, think about the shows you watched. How were rich people
portrayed? (Think about J.R. on “Dallas,” all
the conniving rich people on “Dynasty,” and the
way the media slants the stories about the ultra-rich people
like Bill Gates, Ross Perot and Ted Turner.)
Do you realize that the average
person watches 6 hours of TV per day? That equals 42 hours
a week and 168 hours a month. So that means in one month,
they watched approximately 6,720 commercials and has accumulated
seven full 24-hour days worth of mostly useless and often
lack-centered information.
For every hour you were listening
to the radio, you put even more commercials and useless information
into your brain. If you just listened to the radio in your
car, you might be subjected to 5 to 10 hours of status quo
information per week, or 20 to 40 hours per month.
Newspapers and magazines add
even more redundant information and advertising into your
mind. Newspapers are full of information written by people
who are not at all educated about the things they are reporting.
They rely heavily upon slanting their articles in a way to
draw out your emotional response to sell more newspapers.
It’s certainly not getting
better today. In fact, you can make the case that it is getting
much worse.
Last year I made a prediction about a soon to be released
book titled, “The Nanny Diaries.” I guaranteed
that it would be a monster hit. Which it was. How did I know
it would be?
Because I read an advance
review in the USA Today, and it was obvious that the book
pandered to the basest lack and limitation programming of
the masses. The very first sentence of the review stated,
“Quite simply there is nothing more delectable than
evidence that being very rich and very thin does not mean
that one is happy.”
That one sentence tells you
everything you need to know about the role of the media in
shaping your perception of success, happiness, and money.
But there is plenty more. The review and story are simply
saturated with statements to promote poverty consciousness.
Here’s a sampling:
“...perfectly captures
the strange and pampered life of New York’s elite as
they skillfully evade raising their own offspring.”
“...wonderfully sets
up the world of very rich women who devote enormous energy
to monitoring what their children eat but who never actually
sit down with them.”
“Just how does an intelligent,
adult woman become someone whose whole sterile kingdom has
been reduced to alphabetized lingerie drawers and imported
French dairy substitutes? Where is the child in this home?”
“A perfect size 2, Mrs.
X devotes herself to maintaining her good looks, the pristine
elegance of her lavish apartment (there’s a full-time
housekeeper of course) and making sure Grayer does not muss
up her PRADA togs.”
“Mr. X is always at
the office, generating the millions...”
“Both parents see their
children as a prestige accessory, not as a little boy with
enormous unmet emotional needs.”
“Mr. X is too busy with
his thong-sporting mistress.”
So what does all this tell
us?
1) You may get rich, but that
doesn’t mean you’ll be happy.
2) Rich people don’t raise their own kids.
3) Rich women are too busy socializing to actually spend time
with their children.
4) Thin people are egotistical.
5) Rich women are vain, vapid and superficial.
6) Rich men are workaholics who don’t care about their
family, only making money.
7) Rich people are adulterers.
Now notice that neither the
book author nor the reporter actually say any of these things.
They simply present “evidence” to let you come
to these conclusions. Which leads us to the question of, why
would anyone want to believe all these things about thin,
rich, or successful people?
Because it validates their
life of quiet desperation.
If you are overweight and
out of shape, it’s good to know that those who are very
thin aren’t necessarily happy. Because let’s face
it, that would really be too much. If we knew that they were
thin and happy – that might be more than we can bear.
If we know that rich people
are poor parents – we can feel noble for being broke.
If we learn that wealthy people are vain, stupid and cheat
on their spouses – then we can justify why we never
opened that business, went after that promotion, or acted
on our dream.
Most people spend all day
parroting useless information they were programmed from gossip
and the various media outlets. As much as we love them, some
of our best friends can unwittingly be our worst enemies just
by being themselves. They'll talk about how bad the economy
is, the latest train wreck they heard about on the news, someone's
heart attack, or who's cheating on whom. You need to make
sure that people do not sabotage your philosophy of abundance.
If you have ever heard me
present my “Conquer Self-Doubt, Create Destiny”
keynote speech, then you’ve heard me talk about the
movie “Titanic.” This is probably the most evil
movie ever made; programming you on level after level that
money is bad, rich people are evil, and it is spiritual to
be poor. So of course it became the most popular movie of
all time.
Why?
It panders to your poverty
programming.
The big hit last year was
“Spiderman.” It was such a success in big part,
because it was filled with insidious poverty and limitation
messages. If this didn’t jump out at you from the screen
while you watched it, you’ve got a ways to go in your
consciousness in this area.
Here are just some of the
subliminal messages this movie foists on you:
Poverty is noble. We have
the poor relatives who bring up Peter, the poor orphan. (By
the way, have you ever noticed how many orphans there are
in popular literature? Not just Spiderman, but Batman is an
orphan, Superman is, Harry Potter is, and plenty more. This
is to evoke emotional support from you.) There even is a part
in the movie, where Peter’s uncle speaks the most poverty-centered
words that have ever been spoken.
“We may be poor, but
at least we are honest!”
Translation to your subconscious
mind: Rich people are crooks.
Which is subliminal message
number two. The evil villain in the movie, is of course, the
billionaire industrialist. He is wealth and ambition personified;
the devil incarnate!
These messages were repeated
over and over...
Remember the scene where Peter
finally gets up the nerve to talk to the neighbor girl. She
seems like she cares for him, then the rich kid shows up with
his new car (that daddy bought him for his birthday). She
drops Peter like a piece of radioactive camel dung and jumps
in the new car and speeds off.
Is it any wonder that you
grow up hating rich people and subconsciously not wanting
to be like them? Once this is ingrained in you, the guilt
starts. And it is that guilt that can stop you from accepting
the abundance you are meant to have!
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