About a decade ago now, I honestly went on my front porch, sat in my rocker and wept real tears, quite hard, when I was finally convinced, without a doubt, that everything I thought I ever knew was wrong as far as our "history" and that those in power now are so deeply embedded that they control everything that we read, see and hear and have basically done so for a very, very long time.
Yes it started as children as we were taught the history they wanted us to believe and we stood "proudly" everyday swearing our allegiance to the country.
Pure propaganda and while many refuse to admit it as it really is paradigm shifting, the U.S. is as bad if not worse then most of the third world countries we think are in such horrible shape. Yes we have a better lifestyle, but that is only because they need good consumers to keep their profits rolling in.
As an adult we are bombarded by propaganda from the moment we wake up until we return to sleep. Most think they are well informed because they may catch some news while preparing for work, listening to Fox, MSNBC or CNN then they get in their car and listen to whatever talk show they agree with on their way to work. They repeat this at the end of the day and then feel they are well informed citizens.
Of course they only listen to the "news" and talk radio hosts that they agree with and think the other channels are pure b.s., not realizing that it is irrelevant what you listen to or watch because it is all propaganda.
By the 4-6 large corporations owning over 96% of all the media, they are the ones who control the debate and set the agenda. As blind sheep, the populace goes along with too busy trying to maintain their lifestyle to even question things let alone do the research needed to find the real truth.
It really is like they have used 1984 and Joseph Goebbels principles of propaganda. One can just take a cursory look at Goebbels principles and pretty much easily just put a check mark beside every one.
Everything most know is a lie.
One can just look at Iran and Iraq and even with only a half hearted open mind will see that those countries may not be very nice, but we are the ones who put them where they are, all in the quest to dominate the world's oil market. Mention Iran and even those who have woken up a bit will think of nothing but terrorists who only wish us dead. But if one looks at the real history, i have no doubt that if they lived in Iran they would feel at least the same about us if not worst. No need to go into that history here, but if you do not know about Kermit Roosevelt guiding the overthrow of the elected parliament of Iran just because they dare nationalize their oil, i urge you to do some real fact checking.
Or Hussein where you can read the transcript of the conversation he had with April Glaspie where he basically asked for U.S. permission to attack Kuwait and she gave it to him.
Or Bush sr using fake satellite photos to show the Iraqi army poised on the Saudi border ready to attack it which was our excuse for going to war the 1st time. And what happens when it is eventually disclosed that it turned out other countries happened to have their satellites taking pictures there also and it showed we made the photos up, they were not even close to the Saudi border ? Nothing. By then the propaganda machine had done it's job so well all the average American wanted was the blood of Iraqi's. It literally did not make a difference that the President, the former head of the CIA, knew they were faked photos as he just wanted the populace to not get too hot and bothered when we attacked iraq - which in my opinion was because Hussein was subverting the oil quatas agreed to as he was trying to raise money and this was lowering the price of oil...a big no-no when our military is basically the oil companies private army.
The point is, though the propaganda starts as children, as adults most are too busy buying into the consumer propaganda that they really do not care who we attack, raope their resources etc as long as they can maintain their lifestyle as if it is their god given right to try and control the planet.
Children do not know any better, but if someone was abused as a child, at some point you would hope that they could maybe put it behind them and go on and live a happy life. At somne point, even though everything we have been taught is propaganda, one would hope that most would eveentually open their eyes, even if just a little bit, and start to see the real world around them