The battle is in and about people's hearts and minds.
It is not even possible to comprehend the extent of brainwashing, except to the degree you have been delivered from it. I am more delivered than the most, so I also see more than the most. And I don't like what I see, it makes me sad and angry. Feels like young Moses
The battle has always been about people's hearts and minds though hasn't it?
I think the sad thing for me is noticing, or perhaps realizing, that most people in the USA are so positive that they are "free" and they are completely clueless to the fact that this country has it's own propaganda. It is tragic really. And then if we say something against the norm we are laughed at and ridiculed and looked at as crazy.
Oh come on mods, deleting my posts when calling out nonsense like this? There is a reason "normal" people associate Bitcoin with "whackjobs" when conspiracy theory absurdism gets to be posted freely on these forums.
Once again:
The political scientist Michael Barkun, discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture, holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.[1][2] According to Barkun, the appeal of conspiracism is threefold:
First, conspiracy theories claim to explain what institutional analysis cannot. They appear to make sense out of a world that is otherwise confusing.
Second, they do so in an appealingly simple way, by dividing the world sharply between the forces of light, and the forces of darkness. They trace all evil back to a single source, the conspirators and their agents.
Third, conspiracy theories are often presented as special, secret knowledge unknown or unappreciated by others. For conspiracy theorists, the masses are a brainwashed herd, while the conspiracy theorists in the know can congratulate themselves on penetrating the plotters' deceptions.[2]
