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

  " Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the  Lord  thy God giveth thee."   Exodus 20:12 "The most effective way to  destroy  people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history"                                                                                                                                                                 George Orwell "To destroy a people you must first sever their roots."   Alexander Solzhenitsyn What do you suppose the first three insights have in...

“...films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell, " 1984 " I have to admit, I am totally into people turning off professional football. Sure, I do not like it when players use a pre-game platform to kneel during the National Anthem as a form of protest.   However, my hopes would be that we could return sports to something less corporate in nature, and if the public’s reaction against this new controversy helps in that process then all the better.  Today professional sports have turned into something bigger than life for many people, and it is not just Americans and football – just look to people across the pond and their obsession with soccer. And this is nothing new really: look at how the gladiator games captivated audiences and were used by the ruling Roman elite not just to unify the population but also distract them from what was taking place in the empir...

“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell " There is no law that forces one to tell the truth in entertainment." Meshara: " The Destiny of Our Past " Have you ever heard of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave ?  Chances are you haven’t. Perhaps the warnings of a Greek philosopher from antiquity may not be seen as pertinent to our modern technological age. Yet one may be surprised at the idea that his allegory speaks directly to the here-and-now. We should pay attention to Plato’s analysis of how our perceptions are governed by biases such as our upbringing, what media we are exposed to and our peer group.  In psychology we call this schema. Plato’s lesson goes like this. A group of people, let’s say five women have been raised from birth chained to each other in a cave in such a way that they can only see directly in front of each other.  It is not a torturous existence as they are provided food and wat...