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11/01/2007: "Why Americans will believe anything"

We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. Who cares, right?

It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day. In an effort to save time, I would like to provide just a little background on the handling of information in this country. Once the basic principles are illustrated about how our current system of media control arose historically, the reader might be more apt to question any given story in today's news.

[ Old methods of control: get the guns. New method: tell people they have "freedom," and only limit them when they do something challenging your power, at which point you buy up their new viewpoint and coopt it to your own. That's why we have two political parties who other than non-issues like abortion and gay marriage, have the same platform. ]

http://www.rense.com/general78/believe.htm