The lunatic 'ohhh man, the man is brainwashing you man! Here is your tin foil hat man! Make sure you know everything they say is a lie!'
Turns out that no. It's not a conspiracy. The general population is not a bunch of plebs. You do not have any special insight into the world. The world is not entering a new dark age.
Oh so you threw it into a different perspective.
Well,
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/10-11The "private corporate owners" I was referencing do no meet hooded in black robes and underground dungeons and such but are merely interested in personal profit, the organizations then work with each other for their profits calling up each other simply to "raise prices" so us common folk pay more for our commodities and eventually the people owning those companies realize just how much power they have.
If you have the power to take someone's house, their car, deny petrol by high costs, or buy political figures to pass bills then you sir, have power indeed!
The brainwashing was simply reference to our interest in frivolous things, blaming jews for stuff, racism, fascism in general just being fuelled by parties wishing to "support family traditions!"
If just strongly worded by calling it brainwashing.
You already expressed examples of general ignorance in the population by quoting that "because we don't need a jew in the government" as an actual vote reason for bush, and yet we do not receive improvements in education to try and weed out the hicks which have that mentality.
http://waketheherd.blogspot.com/2009/07/international-banking-cartel-is-new.htmlThe only reasons I can think that prejudice is still so massively prevalent in "civilized" countries is because it's been hammered in as traditional, as trendy, and as the acceptable thing to do.
Shit, you can see examples starting from
page 1, and where do all of these trends originate from? "Terrorists shall be brought to swift justice; says Generic McPresident", where terrorists could pretty much be anyone or anything, followed by pictures of someone in a turban and taliban spattered in the news report, and the best part is the
majority cares so little for politics that they accept it as truth, after all it's more convenient to hate some random individual for setting off a bomb somewhere without extensive proof than it is to research it and miss out on that next episode of American Idol.