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.
