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

" There's no denying television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented ." Jim Fowler: zoologist and TV host ("Wild Kingdom") Imagine you come home one day and you discover a couple of "missionaries" in your living room teaching your children.  No, they are not, for instance, Mormons sharing a religious message but instead represent a liberal organization that wants your children to question their parent's faith, values, morality and even tells them their very heritage is corrupt and evil. What would your reaction be? Get them refreshments, ignore or toss them out? This is not really all that hypothetical a situation because you likely invite them in every day and place them in the center of the living room. That's right, the reference is to television. Look over a typical neighborhood anywhere in the western world. What is the common feature in almost every home? That's right, a television. And the ...

"There is a club and you ain’t in it." George Carlin Many a young child of the working class has had a parent say, “I want you to grow up and have more than your parents had.” We all want a better life for our offspring; part of the American dream is that our offspring will have more than us, live better and enjoy more leisure time.   Yet in recent years people have become frustrated that everything from “globalization” to “automation” may make that dream far harder to achieve.   And this is the reality that underlies the growing division between the haves and have-nots, or the red states v. the blue ones, or even certain professions feeling superior to others not in their position. Class division has existed since humans started building cities and having a division of labor.  Has this existed since we developed division of labor?   Probably. If we look at Sumer, Egypt and (fast forward) the various Asian and European monarchies lasting u...