Exposing the Mechanisms Used to Manipulate Your Thoughts, Actions and Beliefs.

Socialism is great, right? Everyone should have equal access to goods and services and there should be equality around the board.  Sounds wonderful...except we need to answer one foundational question: Why do people work? You see, there really is not a thing that comes for free, except maybe air.  Someone has to sacrifice their time and efforts to make everything, be it a cookie to the smart phone that a person at a "democratic socialist" rally uses to take a selfie.  Yet what is my point, an anxious student might ask before running off to sociology 101?  Well here it is: Work is defined as "activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result." according to Dictionary.com.  And what gets people to work?  Simple, love, force or money. It really is that simple, and something most people espousing socialism have not considered. Marxism assumes that love is enough to get people to work, and love can relate to the dev...

Guilt: “ A bad feeling caused by knowing or thinking that you have done something bad or wrong. ” “ You are an educator and educators are the most guilt-ridden people on earth.   It is time for you to break your life pattern…demand from the cosmos what you deserve…” William Livingston, “ The Destiny of Our Past ”  Well, the former quote is Webster’s definition of guilt.  I believe most people think guilt hurts, but serves a higher purpose; even Freud said that guilt is what kept society together as it caused people to feel bad if they did something contrary to the established norms of society. However, while it may be that it does serve as a “policeman in the head” of the average person; it can be taken to pathological levels and used to control society beyond just maintaining the notion of not hurting others. As the latter quote from my novel, (Amazon link here: http://amzn.to/2nrU3Ng ) is meant to illustrate, in most people’s lives guilt stifles us, chains...