tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post6958287400703993269..comments2023-09-11T19:56:03.229-07:00Comments on Think Or Be Eaten: RealitylandAnghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-38640728919090674772009-08-04T21:50:22.450-07:002009-08-04T21:50:22.450-07:00Thomas,
Thanks. It's just what I think. I&#...Thomas,<br /><br />Thanks. It's just what I think. I'm glad you found something in it you could use. I don't know how great of a writer I am, it doesn't seem to me I've got anything to brag about. But I appreciate the vote of confidence. Thank you for your comment.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-27013091387922382732009-08-04T21:18:50.143-07:002009-08-04T21:18:50.143-07:00Hi, Angie. Without qualification, your article, &q...Hi, Angie. Without qualification, your article, "Realityland," is THE BEST summation of our current circumstances in the United States that I have every real. Anywhere. Bar none -- no exaggeration, no flattery whatsoever. Beyond the simple fact that you are an enormously gifted writer, your thinking is fearless -- additionally, it possesses an even more important virtue in these times: it is also right. Please do NOT stop righting. Please do NOT think for a moment that your voice isn't having an impact. And please continue to be everything you already are -- as a writer, and as a thinker.<br /><br />-- ThomasThomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-33068365821310033542009-05-10T18:34:00.000-07:002009-05-10T18:34:00.000-07:00Rolf,
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I agre...Rolf,<br /><br />Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I agree with you across the board. I believe people need help understanding there is more than one way to see things, more than one "reality" for lack of a better word. It sometimes takes dragging people out of the phony world and into a place where they can see it and realize they're standing outside of it and that it's really a big gameshow that is the worst possible place to get anything valid or real from. Some people are open to that, others would refuse to go. I doubt this is anything new, but the technology and the saturation of brainwashing today is really scary business. No laws against any of it, no constraints. It's very telling of the value system of our dearly elected. They don't have one.<br /><br />Are you in Germany by any chance?<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-10162389882892824162009-05-10T18:25:00.000-07:002009-05-10T18:25:00.000-07:00The fake world you are describing has been anticip...The fake world you are describing has been anticipated by Aldous Huxley in his novel “Brave Neue World” and in a more sinister way in “1984” by George Orwell. <br />I agree with your point that what the propaganda is penetrating is “the most precious, most private, most personal part of the body: the mind”. People are being brainwashed. <br /><br />You are asking “what on earth is wrong with peoples’ head” and part of the answer is - as you say - “the nonstop barrage of saturating mind pollution.” However, its not the whole story. While reading your post I was worrying for a while you would create a new myth or rather excuse for why so many Americans are braindead: Just blame it all on the corporate propaganda machine. But thats only a small part of it.<br /><br />The real reason I think is a lack of interest, laziness, inability or unwillingness to find out the truth or as you say – “... using our own heads. Doing our own thinking.”<br /><br />How could people overcome their inertia ? Well, the first step is very simple and it is available to every single U.S. citizen, every minute of the day, at no cost at all: Its pushing the off button on the TV set. That would free up a lot of time to get some real information, some background, some alternative opinion. Everyone can get that information by – you guessed it – reading. For instance, a book. Or a newspaper. Or Google News, Huffington Post, Thruthout, or hundreds of other sites on the Internet. Millions of people outside America do that every day. I do it although I am some 5,000 miles away from the U.S. So why don’t Americans do it ?<br /><br />For every Sean Hannity, every Rush Limbaugh, there is a Noam Chomsky or a Michael Moore. Once people read both sides of the story they could arrive at a more balanced view. But it does take an effort.<br /><br />I loved your last paragraph: “The truth is - you have to find it for yourself. <br />To stay in control of our own minds we simply need to stay in control of our own minds.”Rolf Brandtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-33194223151650313712009-05-09T06:17:00.000-07:002009-05-09T06:17:00.000-07:00Waow! what a great article. So true.
Television h...Waow! what a great article. So true. <br />Television has a way of making me physically sick. And not just the advertising. <br /><br />I always enjoy reading you. Please keep it up...sukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861924878627897851noreply@blogger.com