One of the media's dirty trick is to plant horrific images into our heads, to scare us into accepting a lie. The image of the crumbling Twin Tower was linked to Saddam Hussein despite there being no direct relation whatsoever did the trick. Facts don't matter. Perceptions are king.
During the 20s, one of the first successful documented propaganda was to get women to smoke. Prior to that, smoking was deemed unbecoming for women, and should they choose to smoke, it would be best done behind closed doors. The media got a group of women, who epitomizes the zeitgeist of the emancipated women of that time, modern and strong, to parade down the main street while smoking. Proudly. And it worked. Later after that, smoking became the symbol of liberated women. Pretty clever scheme huh?
While watching the report, I was thinking, "How stupid can we all be?"
To not be able to separate the truths from the lies. To not be able to question.
Don't we have a mind of our own anymore?
Maybe our generation, growing up spoiled with the latest technology, has gotten lazy over time. The time we had managed to save thanks to all these technology, we don't know what to do with it. Except to provide us more time to laze around more. We have became such lazy bums. Searching for the highs of pure entertainment after entertainment to pass the time.
We have gotten lazy to do the thinking for ourselves. We let other people do it for us. It can be the media, the peers, the parents, the sibling we look up to, the boyfriend, etc. Most people might disagree with what I'm going to say but I'm going to say it anyway; we like having people telling us what to do. We really do. We are lost without. We can't decide what's good for ourselves, for our mind, for our life. Which is not half as bad. Easier for us, easier for them to control us.
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