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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Look at yourself in a mirror. Imagine the synapses of your brain being crowbarred into a more receptive configuration (a half-assed metaphor because, in reality it's usually altered brain biochemistry rather than any distinctly mechanical change). Your brain's been drowning in propaganda since you became linguistically competent in your first three years. If relevant, religious fables began that process, their danger being a sort of softening-up of any resistance to being lied to --- propagandized. Those early years of conditioning the propaganda-receptivity of your brain were followed by a tsunami of patriotic-rubbish brainwashing, as they pumped bogus US history into you, especially in secondary school. Then you get Western civilization (neglecting alternatives) and the primacy and un-questioning glorification of capitalism in a typical university curriculum. Followed by a lifetime of lies inserted into popular discourse by the media in cooperation with initiatives like Operation Mockingbird. And don't forget the advertising industry, whose job it is to propagandize us continually with lies and hyperbole. Based on a mind-brain drowning in this gold-plated fecal matter, they urge us to participate in "democracy" by casting meaningless votes for mediocrities that are presented to us as packages swathed in propaganda. Is it any wonder that living in such a society makes us either complete serfs or alternatively provokes us to question the entire American fairy tale?

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

I think this article is a "book-end" to yesterday's, "Humanity Is Sloppily, Awkwardly Lumbering Toward Consciousness". All of Humanity has been suffering from an abusive relationship with the Oligarchy. Like Al Capone, they once in a great while do "nice things" so that we love them even while they gaslight us into believing in those institutions that control and abuse us.

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