I was mulling over in my mind about how people in general could be conditioned to respond in expected ways. For example, take a group of 100 people that had the same basic viewpoints about life, politics, etc. Due to their commonalities they would pretty much get along with each other.
Now let's say we split the group up with 50 in each group and put them in two separate rooms with a TV over a period of say 30 days. Now for the 30 day period, we only play news programs from CNN in one room and in the other, FOX News. What do you think will happen after the end of 30 days and both groups come together? If you answer this correctly then you will know the power of the media and why it's used to control public opinion.
We all say we have free will and can think for ourselves but is that really true if we expose our mind to the constant bombardment of TV programs? Why do you think they call it "programming" in the first place!
I saw this first hand in an "accidental" experiment while I was on a layover at the Dallas airport. There is a tram that runs the full circle of the various gates starting with Gate A and progressing to Gate B, to Gate C, etc. As with most airports with tram trains, there is a voice that announces when you are approaching a certain gate before stopping and letting people out after the tram's doors open. On this particular day the tram's messaging computer was malfunctioning and, though it said the tram was "Out of Service" on the overhead digital display, the attendee said it was fine to ride and they were aware of the problem. This was at Gate A and I needed to stop at Gate C. After the doors closed, the tram proceeded towards Gate B but before it arrived, it was announcing that we were approaching Gate A. There were only a few folks on the tram from Gate A so I didn't notice any unusual behavior as more people started boarding the tram from Gate B. Once again, the tram took off heading towards Gate C, the one I needed to get off from. As it approached Gate C, the tram's computer voice announced we were approaching Gate B. Of course, I had a bunch of people standing on the tram between me and the door and I could tell that the greater majority of people were confused by the voice. As we stopped and the doors opened up, the people in front of me could not make up their mind if they should believe the voice telling them that they were at Gate B or the very large sign in clear view of everyone that said "GATE C" just inside the tram station. "People, this is Gate C!" as I tried to get to the door through the crowd before it closed.
What's the point I'm making about this experience? It demonstrated to me that the majority of people are very susceptible to verbal suggestion and will listen to a voice instead of using their own sense of reasoning to figure out which was the truth. Is this Gate B or Gate C? Should I take the red pill or the blue one? Get the picture?
A big part of this stems from how we have been mentally conditioned over a lifetime to accept anything that an authority figure (in the previous example, the airport's computer) says as truth and fact when in reality, with a little bit of mental reasoning, we can determine for ourselves what the truth is. A cold hard truth is most of us have been bred to be mentally lazy and not to think for ourselves. I personally experienced being mentally controlled in a cult for over 35 years of my life that discouraged any real independent thought. One of their church elders, right before I quit, said "Independent thinking was the sin of pride." I am thankful every day that I was able to break away because I was a prisoner of my own mind being conditioned to believe a certain way.
My own spiritual awakening began after this life long experience and it has made me very wary of any kind of control whether by religion, our educational system and especially what we watch and listen to on the radio, TV and internet. By shutting out external forms of input and meditating on getting answers from within, I been able to inoculate myself from being infected by all the mind control "viruses". Whenever I see or hear anything from the media, I can immediately discern if it's the truth or not and if it's not, it gets turned off. I have satellite TV and it stays off an awful lot lately!
Of course, just as I witnessed at the airport, it's only a smaller minority that seem to have enough conscious awareness to exercise true free will. We can only hope that more will awaken to the fact that they have been victims of the most insidious form of mind control perpetuated on the human race and will finally understand the seriousness of "taking the red pill instead of the blue".
Peace,
Samantha Ritchie
