Swallow This

 If the goal is to change someone else's beliefs, opinion, position, or actions, what you are dealing isn't "facts" but brainwash, by definition (look it up).

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With that in mind, are you still surprised by their immediate knee-jerk rejection of the information you are so (not) helpfully providing?

question

if you remove all the fallacies from the news, if you remove the divisive rhetoric and the emotional triggers, and the attempts to tell people what to think, is there anything left?

propaganda 101

when it's about divisive rhetoric it's not about facts,
it's about emotional manipulation.
it's about creating an image of the bad guys
to scare us into joining the group to fight the evil.
it's about twisting the facts and presenting them in such a way
that truth and knowledge is no longer a part of the equation.
it's about stirring the shit and keeping us fighting each other
instead of working together to solve the problems.
don't call it facts.
if any of it were truly factual
they wouldn't be telling us what to think,
they wouldn't be hiding information
that might lead some to disagree
with what they want us to think.
if it were true, they wouldn't be so afraid
of anyone doing any thinking for themselves.

questions

why don't they just outlaw the manufacture of assault rifles?
does anybody really need a gun designed for war?
(our grease-palmed lawmakers are too afraid to go there)
why do we tolerate these cowards and murderous thugs?
did that lone shooter kill all those people with a semi-automatic?
with a fifteen-round clip? how many reloads would that mean?
or was he using something deadlier, something already illegal?
do the existing laws comfort the dead, dying, and grieving?
would it be insensitive to point out we've heard this song before?
is anybody listening? or just singing along with the crowd?
if you sing long enough and loud enough will you believe it too?

friday the thirteenth

fear. 
more security. 
less freedom. 
more fear. 
more security. 
less freedom. 
more fear. 
more security. 
less freedom. 
more fear. 
more security. 
less freedom. 
more fear. 
more security. 
less freedom. 
more fear...

more controls will never solve the problems 
caused by a profound lack of freedom. 
it never did work that way, never will.


making more war won't ever bring peace to this planet

i don't care who started it
it doesn't matter who did it
if they use the fear it created 
to sell us all more war


when the voice of authority talks about peace
what they mean is submission 
(we won't have to beat you up if you'd just do what we say)
which is why war is a game everybody loses

death cult, infinite 
self-destruct sequence, 
never gets to zero 
just starts back up again. 
revolution is just spin. 
we know since it had 
a definite beginning, 
it can end. just like that. 
that is what hope means. 
they want us to keep it inside 
the box where it doesn't fit.


they'd never know 
if peace could work 
if they never tried it. 
not an authorized option
so it's too scary. 
peace doesn't count 
so they can't try it. 
if they never try it, 
they can't know if it would work....


can't seem to put it in words how it feels

to live in a world where war rages on
the loss of some lives are mourned
young men trained to kill are heros
and all you people do about it is pray
as if the god of war cares about you
more than the ones you call enemy
because you have status and wealth
or the right color skin on your face

big brother's little sister

first shoe landed with a thud and
everyone will act so surprised
like we've never been played
this same way before
when the other shoe falls
...
we don't need a better candidate
a prettier shoe for jackbooted thugs
to stand on our necks with
and blame us for what they do
because the people voted
giving all their power away
along with the right to say no
no!  no fucking more!  no no no
you are only allowed an obedient
yes
yes we can
pick from the options
and call it a choice

revenge blames
calls for justice
demands punishment
creates more war
solves nothing

mind manipulations

manufacture fear
less freedom and
call it "security"
BE AFRAID
timeless battle
war rages on
point over there
not my fault
billions spent
broken machine
hungry people
without a home

random facebuk status dump

from inside the box it appears that we only have two options, to control or be controlled, pick your side, be the aggressor or play the victim. but outside the box is where the possibility is endless.  ...and the walls of the box are built of denial, once you notice them there, they don't exist anymore.

****

pretty rich boys
fighting over a girl
that doesn't want
either of them
one dead rich girl
equals 700 dead poor people
as far as they're concerned
deadly virus epidemic
man-eating bacteria
politicians and movie stars
nobody buys the paper
but they still call it news

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groupthink is bad for us
... consensus doesn't automatically make us wrong,
but can be a good reason to think a little harder,
just to make sure.