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In reply to the discussion: That's a cheap shot. [View all]freshwest
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People walk around in a dream state and raise hell when you try to wake them to think about the words coming out of their mouths. Which are usually not their own thoughts, but what was fed them. Or in this case, typed online.
It makes them feel clever to say what they have heard, even though they don't the people that fed it to them and why. They imagine teveryone agrees with them on their not-so-original idea and believe they have also been great!
Repetition is more powerful to the human mind than facts or reason. When they hear it enough times, it is TheTruth©! If you don't agree with each verse of the song, they will beat you up, one way or the other.
And this is why unlimited money for the propaganda fed daily, and focuses on politics as a way to make even more money for the owners of media, small and large, since brainwashing gets the votes to turn the government over to them. It's an investment that pays like nothing else.
So it won't end, and it's the worst threat imaginable. Jefferson and others never anticipated the modern media empires, they saw print, which does not give the full psychological effect of our current media. There is no method of manipulation they will not use.