Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything

Edit [Moderator]: Moved from General to Philosophy & Debate.

THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION:
WHY AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING
- Tim O'Shea

Aldous Huxley's inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand - in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched infinite rawness.

Those bonds are much harder to break today, half a century later. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. Who cares, right?

It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day. In an effort to save time, I would like to provide just a little background on the handling of information in this country. Once the basic principles are illustrated about how our current system of media control arose historically, the reader might be more apt to question any given story in today's news.

CONTENT LIST:

If everybody believes something, it's probably wrong. We call that
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: In America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance is usually contrived: somebody paid for it.

PROGRAMMING THE VIEWER
deceit
dissimulation
DISTRACTION
Oil
Pharmaceuticals
War gear
Security systems
PUT-UP-JOB
WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW
HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED
THE FATHER OF SPIN
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
HERE COMES THE MONEY
THE PLAYERS
LESSON #1
CANNED NEWS RELEASES
THE LANGUAGE OF SPIN
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD PROPAGANDA
SCIENCE FOR HIRE
JUNK SCIENCE
THE REAL JUNK SCIENCE
THE TWO MAIN TARGETS OF "SOUND SCIENCE"
THE LANGUAGE OF ATTACK
THE MIRAGE OF PEER REVIEW
KILL YOUR TV
PLANET OF THE APES?
TEA IN THE CAFETERIA

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