Propaganda: Mind Manipulation & Manufacturing Consent

Propaganda, known today euphemistically as ‘public relations’, is the manufacturing of consent.  It’s the distortion of information to suit a particular agenda.  Along with it’s ‘proper’ use comes the ability to control the masses, to mold the collective mind. Propaganda is all pervasive in our society and culture.  We have trouble discerning what information is real and what is not.  It’s become increasingly difficult to tell the truth from the lies, even with the power of the internet. Time has given these mind manipulators lots of practice to hone their skills.  It’s important to realize the magnitude of manipulation that is being perpetrated against mankind.  Things are not what they seem. The facts have been twisted and used against us and for private interests.  What we think we know is engineered by these shadow figures, this invisible government that hovers over us, controlling our every seemingly…

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Epistemologically What Do We ‘Know’?

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What we know as truth is largely determined by the opinions of our peers, and not actual scientific evidence like you would think. We so desperately strive to fit in and feel loved in a society that we surrender common sense and intuition; we bandwagon the group mind. We give up common sense for reassurance.  We trust the experts.  We see what we’ve been taught to see.  We know what we’re taught to know. A cultural hypnosis dissuades us from finding the Universal Truth.  We believe things because everyone else believes them, not because we know them to be true personally. What do we really know? What is the truth? How do we separate what we truly know and what we think we truly know? Can we rely on the supposed facts purported by the experts – whose factual volatility is proven time after time- or should…

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Placebo, Nocebo, You Know?

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We’ve all heard of the placebo effect, but many are completely ignorant of it’s polar opposite, the nocebo effect. Instead of getting better from a sugar pill as in the placebo, the nocebo is the exact opposite.  Your health deteriorates because you were told it would. For example a witch doctor might cast a spell on somebody and because of this, they die.  Their death would not be a result of any bodily impairment or black magic,  but is due to the nocebo.  Your mind convinces your body of something, and your body believes it and acts accordingly. “The body cannot live without the mind” – Morpheus Nocebo comes from the Latin word nocere which means ‘to harm’. Placebo is Latin for placere “to please”. “The medical establishment has been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years. We call it “the placebo effect,” and…

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