I don't care if "Sheeple" is seen a passe term, its the most suitable.
Tell me this scenario hasn't happened to(or is) you: A friend will watch Zeitgeist,
or Fahrenheit 911, or some other well researched or convincing expose of the
establishment and experience ”Neo” like mini awakening for a few days but won’t
go as far as drying off the goo or ripping the cable out of their heads. What I
mean by this is: Usually, such people will then proceed to warn everyone that media
offers a distorted, most likely malevolently crafted version of reality crafted
by their corporate/government masters, then go on to defend precisely that exact
position a few weeks later, the one they warned you about so passionately just a short while before?
I can only imagine that most peoples only source of
knowledge is that same media, very people actually go as far as to independently
research. There is no interest because
the sterile version of the news and much of history for that matter is not
especially interesting. So, we get bored and go back to the comfort of our
consumer culture opiates so well serving of the interests that facilitate the
unchallenging society we inhabit. Soon
afterwards a warm and soapy picture that re-enforces our identity as civilised
westerner, capitalist defender of the free and liberator of the worlds
oppressed peoples by their tyrannical governments.
We don’t like thinking of ourselves as implicated in the
crime of the corporate vultures that pollute the environment, exploit the poor,
drive the trees and animal species to extinction, fatten the mega rich and
influence the media who in turn influence our perception of reality.
These are the same people that are compelled to present the
questioner, someone who does not accept the given media reason, as a conspiracy
theorist.
Let’s think about that for a second. In reality the questioner cannot be a theorist
unless he has a theory, certainly not if one is just asking why conventional
wisdom in news media it does not ring true.
When did questioning become seen as crackpot, and when did
being gullible become noble?
There are conspiracy nuts out there. They go on about lizard people, illuminati of
every variety and secret aliens that rule the earth with their freemason
brothers.
How the hell did someone who asks questions about control
over the media, a very nefarious and likely prospect, ever get lumped in with a
“lizard-people” crowd like that?
I’m not entirely sure to honest, but some genius Spin
Doctors out there are doing a hell of a good job to get things to this point,
you kinda gotta give it to them….