It is human nature, I believe, to woefully underestimate the power and extent of the control over the information space in which our psychological, emotional, political being exists. As one of reasonable intelligence with extensive training in logic and critical thinking, with some knowledge of history, politics, and culture, and with enough leisure time to pursue many sources of information outside the mainstream, I am surprised, on an almost daily basis, to discover that the ocean of lies is even deeper than I had thought possible. Often in discussions with friends I discover that, although we are on the same page in many ways, there may be a topic on which they are falling for what I know to be obvious lies. Before responding I try to remember and be humbled by the fact that I am certainly falling for even more obvious lies that I will discover tomorrow or the next day.
Some of the best minds of our society are engaged in the very sophisticated science of propaganda and mind control in our intelligence agencies and in corporate media. In addition the government and the corporations are making a massive effort to control what information can be seen and what information must be suppressed. We are no longer chiding China for censoring Facebook. We are now attempting to ban Tik Tok. The U.S. is not content to brainwash its own population but also runs brainwashing programs in countries around the world via NGOs and other subversive organizations.
The decades long U.S. proxy war against Russia that has come to fruition in Ukraine, the global covid pandemic hysteria, climate change, the January 6th “insurrection”, transgenderism. These are just a few of the mind control ops currently being executed.