RE: "most of the American people are either asleep or apparently agree with what's going on"
IMO, it goes a bit deeper than that. We start school at age 5, and for the following 13 years are taught that the United States is a free country, with a free press, and that elected representatives represent the citizens of the country. I much doubt things are significantly different in any other country. The practice of teaching children that their particular culture, clan, tribe or nation is the best of the best is pretty much standard fare throughout the world. The atrocities are glossed over, or eliminated altogether, and everything else is slanted into a picture of a perfect society. The effect is then enhanced with the notion of loyalty to one's clan or tribe, with the ultimate threat being to be cast out of one's culture. The unwritten rule is that nonconformity is the ultimate crime.
With that as a starting point, the addition of an utterly corrupt media, with the most sophisticated technology ever developed to influence mainstream views, the ability to form uncorrupted opinions of the real world ceases to exist.
That eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, is considered to be the original sin, is hardly an American invention. |
