Mind scripts

It thumped me in the head, that whilst calling it propaganda and deriding Social studies in school, students still concur with its views. This is where it gets rather worrying, when people are full capable of identifying the devil but are still tempted by its charms.

Does the irony not resound that whilst students are taught in the course of Social Studies how to identify a biased source, they never for a minute actually stop to analyze the text which is propagating this “knowledge”?

It only goes on to show how easily we are side tracked from the main point. We think that it is the specific content which is propaganda, and we laugh it of, we ridicule it. Unknowingly, the manner in which we think and analyze perspectives or perhaps I might not be wrong in saying that even the manner in which we accept views have been altered, altered to suit the authors of the text.

Seeing how just about everybody else is affected in the same manner, perhaps the conformity, disguises the change. One would probably think “no, I’ve always been that way, ask my friends”. Seemingly it would appear so.

Amazing isn’t it, the powers of a well disguised intention? I’m pretty awed still by my realisation at what masters of espionage our local textbook authors are. The power of the written word.

Now, perhaps I’ve crafted an intrinsic mind altering message in this entry…