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Originally Posted by Members Only
This is usually the point where I try to apportion blame to one sect or another: is it the so called masses fault for being willfully ignorant? Is it the elite's fault for prescribing the masses a dose of ignorance through use of the media, the education system etc... Who knows, I'm sure I'll be having this back and forth argument in my head for many years to come.
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In my opinion, it is not ignorance that the media offers us, but outright propaganda designed to appeal to known aspects of our psychology and to change our behavior processes. I cannot recommend the series "Century of Self" enough, it shows how Freud's theories were and are still being used in this manner.
It is the general population's collective fault. When people give up their responsibility to criticial thinkers and want a big daddy to come in and make everything right, they open the door to manipulation and exploitation. Sometimes I even get this strange N idea that it's why were even here in this material world, trying to sort out the difference between individual freedom and love with others and along the way people get sidetracked into just play and distraction and lose both.
There are countless ways that the human imagination could go in and yet we allow those in control of our media and educational systems to dicatate what direction our imaginations will go in. We just want to be entertained and left alone.