Re: Perhaps you could give us some examples of this and how we've become vulnerable to easy manipulation.
This woman is a very powerful example.
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Is everyone buying into the media brainwashing, the manipulation? Even perfectly wonderful people are turning into the Nazi youth. My heart cries all day at the things to come that are usually caused by such willful arrogance, conceit and complacency.
The worst aspects in human nature were awakened, and now mean people feel justified. When psychologically we legitimize our lowest instincts, it is very hard to revert back. I notice right wing rhetoric pervades everywhere; it's unbelievable how it has influenced minds.
I love these people. I hadn't realized the harm Bush is doing. It is an insult to humanity. Ignorance is the destroyer; that is what Maya means in Sanskrit. It is not the devil like in the west; it is ignorance. Still, the right wing rhetoric is like a little devil in our head, trying to convince us to change for the worst. It's brainwashing.
Yesterday I met a woman, seemingly liberal, wearing a flag. So I commented, "You are a flag lady?" She said, oh yes, and then she looked at me with eyes brimming with joyful emotion and asked, "Did you see the news yesterday?" Referring to the toppling of Saddam's statue. How could I miss it?
I knew what she meant, but I didn't make it easy for her, so I asked, "What do you mean?" She said something about the incredible victory. I was stunned, so we started talking and I briefly listed some of the fallacies of this victory: Bush started justifying the war by connecting it with terrorism and September 11. Then he stopped that and went into the weapons of mass destruction reasoning. Then stopped totally that and went into "liberating Iraq".
There was no connection with bin Laden. No weapons of mass destruction, and now there's no liberation either. When you kill thousands, destroy all their government buildings, wreck their communications centers, blast their hospitals, ruin their sources of food and water and destabilize the region you pay the costs one way or another. We the common Americans will pay the costs. Meanwhile, Bush and friends will benefit from the oil.
She looked at me, understood these facts, and even agreed. Then she went on like a robot, and repeated what she said before, concluding with something to the effect of "Wasn't it wonderful?" It's like the Stepford wives thing. Unbelievable!
This woman is a very powerful example. "
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