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History is what happened. It cannot be changed. But it can be interpreted. For all but a tiny percentage of people they believe the versions they have been told. Facts are malleable. Data more so. Politicians lard their speeches with slogans and tropes and memes that reenforce in the public’s minds’ narratives which are almost impossible to countervail.

No matter with whom one is conversing, any attempt whatsoever to suggest there maybe an entirely different narrative, than the one collectively received, is met with the universally accepted narrative shared by more than 99% of society. People have lost the ability to reflect and ask questions.

There are there are no openings in closed minds. That is exactly what is intended by ruling elites. When has it not been so?

Every means of controlling what people accept — without question — as the ingrained narrative, is so deeply imbedded and entangled in every facet of their daily lives anything which does not fit their presumptions may as well not exist.

The state has a monopoly over the means of controlling the public’s every perception.

This begins with their parents whom already present a fabricated reality. Trusting one’s parents is not an active or a conscious decision made by one’s children. They have no defences at all. They are exposed every moment to a reality which is reenforced by the society which has birthed them. The masses is not a meme without consequences.

As naturally as breathing we survive by acknowledging the reality as given. Surprisingly this is a universal impulse and important to our survival. But it is a very primitive instinct. Not only do we believe things which are not in our best interests to believe but we want to believe them. Indeed even when it should be our main conscious effort to question whether there is a snake in the grass or not — which our distant antecedents ignored to their peril — we no longer accept this need to be alert; we have been brainwashed to accept there are no such thing as snakes. Worse even! …We have come to believe there is no grass either. Mass society is a dangerous jungle.

The state is the grass! The grass is full of snakes!

And to survive we are forced by custom to comply with the diktats as conceived by those with the power, money, and motivation to deceive us. Make no mistake though, our automatism and theirs is done, so to say,

mechanically. There is no overall mind controlling the entire ball of wax. But there are interests. We all have interests. Clearly we are easily seduced by the extant narrative.

For instance politicians naturally serve their own interests — first! Their success is your compliance. Their compliance is naturally expected by those pay them. Without their compliance they would never be preselected to represent a particular constituency where we vote.

What is worse, we so badly want to believe we are calculatingly seduced by methods applied by time tested methodologies. We believe the simplest drivel. When a politician says “Americans understand…” or “Canadians know…” followed by whatever trope is imbedded in the minds of the electorate they know mouthing these tropes before announcing the big lie always works.

“Canadians understand that the Liberal party have you backs, and that protecting society from those dastardly (people in trucks) whom are are a threat to democracy, must be muscled out of the way because they are threatening to overturn the government.”

Meanwhile the general public are led to believe that without the state flexing its muscles Canadians are in danger of losing their freedoms. Justin Trudeau is a bare faced liar. Yet the Liberals are no longer held to account by the fourth estate. The fourth estate has been bought by the state. The media is controlled by interests that conceal rather than expose. And politicians enabled foreign interests to own both Post Media and the Globe & Mail. The governing elites fund the CBC. Media serves oligarchic interests.

But try telling your neighbour that this media concentration is dangerous to their health. They have no idea that this is even a bad and dangerous threat to their family and their livelihood. Media is not your friend. Government is not your friend. But people obviously believe otherwise. Why? Because media simply reenforces the messaging their parents and grandparents represented to them. And the schools and advertising and movies and network news continue, without respite to endlessly echo.

Who wants their beliefs undermined? But if we do not work to defeat the tendency to concede our autonomy to the state we are doomed. And even when you stop believing you will be in the minority. We are easily seduced. We want to believe. We want our enemies to save us. How ignorant is that?

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Four Wheeler's avatar

My sister thinks Trudeau is handsome and wonderful, people love him. She is more dangerous that a nuclear bomb.

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