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With control over the West's mass media falling into the hands of a small group of multinationals (only 5 control just about all the US media), the potential for information flow to be spun by the interests of big business (and governments, which have a symbiotic relationship with big business) has never been greater. And reporters who do not tow the line with the media owner's opinions are likely to find themselves quickly out of a job!
First of all, we need to fully realize that whenever any group of people has a disproportionate influence over government policy, democracy has suffered a severe blow, period. There are no exceptions. If criticism of government activity is automatically labeled racist as in Obama or automatically labeled sexist as in Hillary, then the America that is being defended is decidedly not a democracy and therefore not worth defending.
Secondly, we need to understand exactly how the people are manipulated into doing the bidding of their leaders and the multinationals, so glaringly against their own interest.
How do Rupert Murdoch's vast media holdings fit your hypothesis?
When the media refused to report the truth about Obamacare it told me they were not to be believed. When they insisted that Bengahzi was because of a video again it told me they were not to be believed. So many lies told over and over.
Joseph Goebbels said: "Never admit a lie - simply keep repeating it." This works wonders for governments intent on misleading its citizens.
I can only imagine the media insanity if Wikileaks had released emails from Trump with the exact same content as Hillary's. Instead the left blames the messenger instead of the perpetrators. The media has demonstrated how unreliable they really are. CNN, MSNBC and the rest have reduced themselves to tabloid quality of journalism.
Like The NY Post, National Enquirer, News of the World and the Sun - all owned by the same conglomerate that runs Fox News?
Debt: A people in debt is far easier to manipulate than one that isn't because its members are so busy paying off their mortgages and rents that they don't have the time, the energy or the inclination to challenge the status quo. and so that he remains a slave to the system.
Drugs: The consumption of excessive alcohol, painkillers and anti-depressants has reached epidemic proportions. Some drugs, such as hallucinogens, can heighten our perception of what is going on in the world provided they are taken in the right context and not as an escape, but by far the majority of people are taking recreational drugs to cloud their perception of reality. A population that uses these sorts of escape valves is far less likely to challenge the status quo.
BREAKING FREE
Reducing our susceptibility to manipulation is actually relatively easy.
Stop Watching Television: Throw it out! There is no other medium that causes more distortion and manipulation than television.
Get Out Of Debt: It's easy to say and impossible for many, but if one can, even if sacrifices are needed to do so, it is better not to be in debt as the contract of a debt (mortgage, borrowing etc.) manipulates you into being a slave.
Free The Mind: This is the hardest and most profound of all the steps to stop manipulation, and comes from a combination of self-education, focus and self-belief.
We live in a society that is controlled by a tiny elite. Whilst such a statement would have been dismissed as "conspiracy theory" only a decade or two ago, information that would never make it to the general population through though the mainstream media is now getting through thanks to the internet, so that society is beginning to realise that much of conspiracy theory is actually conspiracy fact
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