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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: IC720 who wrote (1577943)12/17/2025 12:24:11 PM
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I agree with you on one important point first: power influences people. Governments, corporations, media, education systems, all of them shape behavior and beliefs. That’s not controversial, and history backs it up. Advertising works. Politics uses symbolism. Institutions protect themselves. No argument there.

Where I think things start to go off the rails is when influence gets turned into a single, perfectly coordinated plan that’s supposedly been running flawlessly for over a century. History just doesn’t look like that. What it actually shows is chaos, competition, mistakes, rival elites fighting each other, and constant unintended consequences.

Rockefeller money absolutely influenced early education and medicine, that’s documented. But influence isn’t ownership, and it isn’t mind control. Universities, scientists, doctors, and governments have never moved in lockstep. If indoctrination were total, you wouldn’t see labor movements, civil rights, anti-war protests, whistleblowers, or mass distrust of institutions, yet those keep appearing generation after generation.

Early medicine made serious mistakes, no question. Some treatments caused harm before standards improved. But with vaccines like polio, cases collapsed across the world, including in countries that were hostile to the U.S. If this were purely a pharmaceutical lie, rival nations wouldn’t have adopted the same tools and seen the same results.

The Rothschilds were powerful bankers, that’s real history. But the idea that one family simultaneously owns medicine, media, banks, insurance, governments, and global narratives turns history into mythology. Power has always been fragmented and competitive, not centralized and silent.

Tesla was a brilliant inventor, but brilliance doesn’t equal business success. Many of his failures are well explained by poor financial management, bad partnerships, and unrealistic timelines. Not every tragedy requires a hidden hand, incompetence and conflict usually do the job on their own.

Television absolutely changed culture and behavior. But if it were effective mass brainwashing, trust in institutions would have increased, instead it collapsed. Media fragmented society rather than unified belief, which is the opposite of successful mind control.

Health problems today are real, but they’re better explained by economics, stress, urban design, convenience food, and overwork, not a single coordinated effort to make people lazy and dependent. Most damage comes from incentives and profit chasing, not grand strategy.

Cycles exist, solar, economic, historical, but once we start assigning precise population collapse numbers or destiny-level outcomes, we’ve crossed from science into speculation. History shows cycles don’t force outcomes; human decisions still matter.

Here’s the part I think is most important: when one explanation seems to account for everything, medicine, food, media, money, war, climate, culture, that’s usually a sign the explanation is too simple, not too deep. Real systems are messy, decentralized, and full of failure. Not cinematic. Not coordinated.

Questioning power is healthy. But believing that almost everyone is unaware while a small group sees the full truth is how people get trapped, not awakened. The world is broken in very human ways, greed, fear, short-term thinking, incompetence, not by a flawless century-long master plan.

I’m not saying institutions are good. I’m saying reality is more chaotic, more boring, and more human than the story you’re telling.
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