You are being lied to.....pt.1

from a college professor smarter than all of us...

I just want to get through to some people who seem like they might be capable of comprehending the degree to which 'the political reality' , as we know and learn it, is a total facade (e.x. people who might have 'Noam Chomsky' somewhere on their FB profile). that it has been developed, and is continuously developed, to distract passionate and decent people, capable of critical thinking, from understanding what is actually happening and trying to do something about it. (its the media!)

I can back all of this up if you'd like, and so rather than send links that i don't think anybody ever really watches unless i sit them down and watch it with them, I'll just explain how the media operates. there's really 1. two major forces, 2. one subsidiary force, 3. and a firewall.

1. the two primary forces; the pendulum of the American (and UK/Western European) propaganda system are 1. intentional regulation and manipulation of public opinion through a. distortion b. concision (i.e. controlling, restraining debate into such a format that full intellectual discourse is impossible [I don't know if you saw it, but the FOXNEWS interview of Ron Paul last January, where they asked him for 'one word responses' to things like Iraq, Main Stream Media, etc. is an extreme example]) c. asserting the opposite (e.x. the 'liberal media' myth, which is just an assertion of the exact opposite of what decades of academic research has demonstrated; demonstrating the power of the media)

d. promoting incomplete/distorted argumentative paradigms, whereby alternative perspectives, and the broader political reality, are mitigated (think of crossfire. or, in a much larger sense, the concept of 'liberal' and 'conservative' that have emerged not from academic discourse but from the media echo-chamber. liberal actually means someone who supports total free-market Smithsonian 'government', while conservative is a minimalist sort of protestant/environmentalist world-view where the growth of capitalism and economic expansion is seen as subordinate to some larger, natural/spiritual/clandestine process. the media has redefined these terms as conservative meaning blindly religious people who kowtow to authority and tradition, are incapable or afraid of critical thinking, and, as Steven Colbert lampoons, 'think with their gut'; (George Orwell would, no doubt, be proud) . liberal has been redefined anti-American, anti-religious, moral relativist, weak, effeminate, incompetent, loud/orderless, and [somehow] 'elitist.' this was developed through the fascistic paradigm from Italy, Germany, Spain, and the South American Cone, and brought to the US; whereby one side is seen as nationalistic strong, and typical (white, christian, 'archetypal physical form,' heterosexual, strong, subordinate, etc.), the other side seen as the quintessential 'other' (weak, anti-state/country, effeminate, gayish, minority, anti-religious, open-minded). children are taught to fear this side so most become 'conservative' (between 35 and 50% of Americans consider themselves 'conservative'), while the smart people eventually come to their senses and support this marginally better group, but are restrained by the brainwashed folks on the other side and their own fear of going too far (i'll get to that part later). this was really developed for the US in the 70''s and beyond, as it was necessary to redefine the political spectrum so that the anti-war movement, this powerful revolutionary force, would be behind a political party rather than against Johnson and the democrats and without a clear (and controllable) alternative; they obviously weren't going for Goldwater the heartless, Wallace the racist, or Nixon the 'Nixon')

PART 2:
http://current.com/items/89441824_your_being_lied_to_pt_2