Wednesday, October 2, 2013

PERCEPTION AND PROPAGANDA part 1 OF LET'S MAKE A DEAL

What a deal. 
We are a country noted for its form of government, by the people, for the people.  Our President takes a vow to protect our constitution, protect our country and to lead.  Our Congress and our Senate members are elected by the adult (???) population to represent our positions on matters affecting us (the people) as individuals and for our society.  So how is it that ideology has supplanted the original concept.  How is it that perception, so manipulated by the politician and the press is in control?  Why is it that we are so easily pulled along a path that most likely will lead to the destruction of one of the greatest experiments in the history of governance?  The answer lies within our society’s apathy and unwillingness to do our part.  It is our responsibility as individuals to make sure we are able to make good decisions, to ferret out the truth, and to demand honesty from our educators, our press and our politicians.  We, as a society, have failed our country and our descendants who were supposed to inherit a “brave new world”. 
The fault does not lie at the feet of our educators or our politicians.  The fault lies at the feet of each and every one of us who rely on someone else’s common sense, someone else’s opinion.  We are too easily miss-led by those who use the power of perception to confuse the rest of us with partial truths, and some outright lies.  Our decisions no longer fueled with fact.  This technique is age old,  a practice used to supplant one ideology over another.  The transformation taking place in our country is as insidious as the process of rot and decay of a fine old building infested with termites and a lack of proper maintenance.  We have allowed wolves to take over the position of guarding the sheep.  We can no longer trust the media, as a whole, to inform us with objective truth.  The press has evolved from its position of supplying information to one of creating power through the creation of perception.  The politicians are using this vehicle as force to blast out their own semi-permanent positions of power. 
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.”
It’s time for each of us to make the decision to protect myself, to not, tricked, or non-factually manipulated.  It is the responsibility of each individual to get involved enough, to care enough, to find truths.  We can no longer rely on the other guy to be honest in fact, only in what he or she believes the end purpose should be.  The pendulum of ethics has gone past that bench mark of relying on fact.
Truth is a fundamental element needed for fighting through the fog of propaganda.
 Propaganda has been the primary means of creating a manageable society, far surpassing the fear of bodily harm management systems of centuries past.  Perceptions that give the power to those that use it for their own gain rather than the good of the people.  The effective use of perception has been a critical instrument of political administrations in the past, and with an increase in the effectiveness with each changing of the guard.  We the people have abdicated our control, our part in the continuation of The United States of America.  We have done this because of a misplaced trust in the words that form our perception of truth.  The political class is able to use words and repeated slogans to form public attitudes that are based on the “me” rather than the “we”.  Those attitudes evolve into belief systems.  This is a slow form of indoctrination creating beliefs that can relate to the masses for the purpose of control. This control system disregards positive results for the society as a whole in favor of individual or party power.  Once these belief systems are in place they tend to spread exponentially, effectively eliminating what stood in place previously, and the society is fundamentally changed. Feat accomplished, generally without an excess of bodily harm, but with a giant loss in reality.



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