I think quite often about how we might be living in a time, or might have already “lived” in a time where we will only read about it in history books. One day kids might read about this place called “America” where people lived freely and prospered. It will almost be considered a tale or folklore or a “Lost City of Atlantis” type of story that no one is sure it really existed or not.
You’ve all heard this before. But once again, if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. If you put it into a pot of warm water and slowly turn up the heat one degree at a time, it will boil to death. The same thing is going on in America today. With each little tiny thing that is done over the years, the heat is getting turned up one degree at a time. The majority of people just don’t see the big picture and probably do not have the ability to do so. I was listening to people the other day call in on the radio talking about how undecided they are about which presidential candidate they are going to vote for. Has it ever occurred to any of them that there are only two choices, and why? And if you don’t like any of those two choices, then don’t vote for either of them. The big picture that most people fail to see is that you are actually choosing between two people (Obama or Mccain) that have been chosen for you by the money powers and the media outlets that they own. This is the very thing our founding fathers warned us against: a government, industrial, media complex that is actually disconnected from the people. Even if I were to appear every day on a national broadcasting station as a candidate for president, people would probably vote for me depending on how the media portrayed me. It’s marketing and branding. You can take two people that just came off the streets and stick their face on TV as a presidential candidate, and before you know it, you have people calling into radio shows talking about how undecided they are. People seem to think that the media is this independent entity that just “reports the news”. They create the news and they have the power through imagery and national exposure to create and have people believe in situations that might not actually exist. Such as global warming for instance.
With the media alone, you can get people to believe in a situation that doesn’t exist. With that, since you now have the hearts and minds of the people, it can then pave the way for political leaders to implement laws, acts, or regulations based on those false situations. The next thing you know, the national treasury is being exploited once again or laws are being put into place to force people to buy certain products based on a law that will allow for some very nice profits of the corporations involved. This is able to happen, because people think what they saw on TV was true. If I wanted to force people to buy one different type of light bulb over another, I would start one big long media campaign on global warming about how regular light bulbs are creating an energy crisis and contribute to global warming. Once people see and hear this enough on TV, I would then get congress to pass a law that says you cannot buy any more regular light bulbs. As a result, you have to go buy another kind of bulb that XYZ corporation is going to manufacture. In roll the profits into the corporate elite’s pockets and into the politician’s pockets. It took a government, media, industrial complex to make you buy a product that you would care not to and to accept the fact without questioning it that you are forbidden by law to own a light bulb. If the media can do that, then it shouldn’t be too hard to convince people who they should vote in as a president.