…whether it was by a cult, by propaganda, by an algorithm, etc…

And did the person ever recover from it?

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    There are six companies that control a very large percentage of the media consumed by Americans. They are all mega corporations. The media Americans consume is mostly corporate propaganda, and it’s invisible to us. It’s the water we swim in.

    Whatever opinions the oligarchs want us to have are dictated to us.

    It is not a coincidence that all our national political races come down to a wire, that we are divided almost 50/50. We are being intentionally divided so that we don’t unite and challenge the oligarchy.

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      John Stewart did a great bit where station after station reads the exact same script over and over again. It’s unsettling.

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        It’s not just the news. It’s TV shows, movies, books, periodicals, commercials - even music. The oligarchs have massive influence over all of it and can manipulate the public at will.