How the Media Keep You Enslaved
And how to free your mind
Freethinkers have always been a threat to the powers that be. Throughout history, the ruling class coerced people by hijacking their minds. The rulers of the 21st century are no different. With the help of technology, they fragment, pollute and saturate our minds more than ever.
To be clear, their actions usually do not arise from pure evil. They are the biggest gears in a complex machine designed to generate profit. Once they decide to turn, they subordinate the myriad of smaller gears to their motion.
This article is about three enormous gears influencing billions of minds: the News Media, Social Networks and the Entertainment Industry.
The News Media or Merchants of Hate
“We’ve discovered we can sell hate and the more vituperative the rhetoric the better. This also serves larger political purposes. So long as the public is busy hating each other and not aiming its ire at the more complex financial and political processes going off camera, there is very little danger of anything like a popular uprising. […] It boggles my mind that people think they are practicing real political advocacy by watching major corporate TV; be it Fox or MSNBC or CNN. Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly…