Are You Mind Controlled?
I think most people would say not…
But, the number of people I talked to/argued with this weekend, convinces me a lot more of us are a lot more mind-controlled than we think. I had endless people express opinions or argue “facts,” that I knew were not their own. Inevitably, I would ask, “Where did you get this information from? What show did you watch? What movie is that from? Is this something you have actually researched.”
Then, I come across this interesting video which correlates closely to my last blog on the subject:
A mild example that comes to mind is a conversation that took place at a gathering I attended. A storm brewed on the horizon. One of the guests said the storm was moving away from us because of the time between thunderclaps. Another, countered, no I think it’s moving toward us. I asked, “Is this something you guys know, or is this something you saw in a movie?” Someone figured out that movie was Poltergeist. There you go. No scientific basis or study of knowledge. A group of people having a discussion based on some silly little scene in a film, and not even bothering to question if frequency of thunderclaps has anything to do factually with which way a storm is moving.
Now, I’m not saying I am completely immune to this. We’re all guilty of it. How many times do we add to a conversation about the stock market, current events or celebrity life-styles, based solely on something we heard some idiot on a television newscast say? Every day I try to consciously purge “information” stored in my brain that I know was planted there by my own past passive reception and, sometimes, I even catch myself letting it slip out sometimes….
Ask yourself: Where do your opinions come from? Better yet, where does the information you base those opinions on come from? Where do your tastes come from?
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*Note: While I believe the above video to accurately and intelligently reflect a lot of the problems with television viewing and opinion-shaping, I can not completely endorse the viewpoints of the site in the end credits. But, if you’re “waking up,” you should know better than to blindly follow anyone, myself included.
