Sigmund Fraud – You don’t believe everything you see or hear in the media, do you? Good, because if you did believe it all you’d most likely end up on psychiatric meds.
You see, we live in a hyper-communicative environment, and we’re bombarded by an exceptional amount of messages and mediums practically every moment of every day. There is an insane amount of information coming at you, and most of it is intended to influence your thoughts or beliefs in ways profitable to the messenger.
This is the essence of mind control: influence someone’s thoughts, and you influence their behavior.
Every bit of media that you allow to enter your consciousness influences your thoughts and/or beliefs in very real ways. If you let it, that is. But most of us consume media in a very passive state of consciousness. Either in the background while doing something else, or after a long day when the brain is exhausted and your willpower has been sapped. Continue reading