I agree with everything he said. The manner in which he said it struck me as humorous at first, but this really is a serious issue, and if more people realized how well the government has succeeded in turning them into brainwashed zombies, they wouldn't be calm about it either.
I have been fed up with the media in America for a long time. The selection of the stories they continually choose to cover is BS. Nowdays when I turn on the news expecting to see, well, you know, NEWS, I might find a story about Britney Spears or a celebrity getting a divorce. It is more sinister than that, though. At least most people can recognize that those kind of stories aren't real news. The truly evil thing that is occuring now is that false stories, exaggerations, and propaganda are being portrayed as news, and no one can tell the difference anymore. It is my opinion that Bush had previous knowledge about the September 11th attacks, yet did nothing to stop them, thus allowing him to use them as his own "Reichstag fire", just like Hitler did with the Jews, and go to Iraq to start a vague "War on Terrorism," which, just like Hitler's war on Jews, can carry on indefinitely. The media allowed him to do this. The media has scared us into believing that there are enemies all around. People in America are afraid of everything, including each other, and I think one of the main reasons for this is because the media chooses to cover the scariest and most violent stories it can find. Has anyone read "Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner, or seen "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore? Anyway, TV has such an enormous impact on our lives. We grow up with it. It tells us how to act, what to buy, what to believe. It controls how we see the world. I don't watch the news anymore, and I try to limit my TV intake to a few hours a week.
Exactly. most people do live in the matrix, and unfortunately, don't want to see that they are...I don't know what can be done about it. I don't think the media in other countries is quite as bad as it is here in the US...we definitely need a change here.