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This is achieved by:

(1) disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity.

(2) engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:

     (a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers. (Isn't it what we can observe now?)
     (b) giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" - and depriving them of what they really need.

(3) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.

These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology.

The general rule is that there is a profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions.

DIVERSION SUMMARY

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.
Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level.
Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.

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...are we all just brainless sheeps gladly consuming things which mass media feed us?

Do you think there's a bit of reality in the acticle concerning the existence and effect of the silent weapon?

Grammar Geek

I think Americans in particular are lazy as a whole and would rather take the easy way out in terms of their entertainment than have to work for it. And therefore, the public media reflects those tastes. I think it's astonishing that the U.S. Congress is putting any thought at all into steroids in baseball when there are real problems in the world that affect people other than millionaires. I think it's horrifying that the news of Brittney Spears's sister's pregnancy makes more news than real social issues. But for the people who do seek out real information on real issues, there are channels for that.

Yes, Barb, I agree with you. I myself noticed that news about pop-starts and about other things of really little importance have filled almost all mass media. It's not only in the USA but in Russia as well. A lot of times after switching on the TV, surfing through channels, I end up with the thought that there's really nothing worth watching, and I switch the TV off. During several last years I watch the TV about 15 minutes a day on the average, just for news. But also remembering that even news are not real facts but interpretations.  

I wonder whether the situation with television is the same in European countries, and other countries such as China, Japan, India, Brazil, Canada, etc.

But I'm afraid of the other thing stated in the article as well. They say this imperfection of people (being lazy, looking for easy ways of entertainment, etc) has been noticed by the people "above" (or people behind the certain?), taken into consideration, and used in a "proper" way now. In other words, it has probably become a vicious circle: the "general public" is imperfect; some smart people "above" have noticed that and now are using it, making the "general public" more and more imperfect (otherwise you wouldn't have had this feeling of "dumbing down" mass media). 

Quote from the article again:

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The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight upon the face of the earth.

They do not care enough about economic science to learn why they have not been able to avoid war despite religious morality, and their religious or self-gratifying refusal to deal with earthly problems renders the solution of the earthly problem un reachable to them.

It is left to those few who are truly willing to think and survive as the fittest to survive, to solve the problem for themselves as the few who really care.

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To solve the problem for themselves? According to their own aims? But what if those aims are creating wars and crisis, because of which we, mere people, suffer? Because of which our sons, sisters, brothers, parents die? Do we really need it? Is it our aim?..

What if tomorrow the government releases a directive saying that mass media are obliged to show only developing programs, and if they don't comply with if, they will lose their licenses? On whom in this case are dependant the mass media companies? 

By the way, I'm not wholly content with the education in my county, either.

Lawyee

I don't believe that I am manipulated by the government and feel that it is only my decision to turn off the TV and the radio if I am strong enough.

If it concerns such "small" things as turning off the TV, then, of course, it's a decision of everyone what to do with it. But in my opinion, "manipulation" covers a larger field of actions... For example, I need to purchase something online, and online buying is the only way I can get a thing I want. To make the purchase, I need a credit or debit card. I prefer the last one since I don't want to get into debts. I go to a bank and... guess what. They say that if I have a little amount of money on my deposit (which is supposed to be since I want to use this card for small online purchases), I'll have to pay about 10$ per month just for the fact that I keep the card! Isn't it direct extortion? Or a kind of manipulation... It's a real situation, by the way. Now I'm thinking whether to have a card anyway or to give up the idea of the online purchase. (Conclusion: if I don't want to be manipulated and extorted this way, I've got to overcome my weakness and to refuse my need to buy it. But I want to buy it, lol!)

People are becoming dumb just for their own ignorance, of course. Those who claim that the "guitly one" is the One Government (or as you wish to call it) are just trying to lump the blame on anyone but just not on themselves. However, this all doesn't mean there're no such characters as "people above" who use ordinary people's weaknesses. (To be fair, this doesn't mean either that there are such people, though their existence is quite likely).

I have absolutely no doubt that in the past the Media was completely regulated by government. However, things have changed. Certain media players, Rupert Murdoch for example, have now become so powerful that governments are only too happy, in many cases, to comply with their wishes. Their (The politician's) alternative is to disobey, and thus get no media coverage, which is politically the same as being 'sent to Coventry'. The American media's ignoring of Ron Paul in the current elections is a prime example.

Of course whilst certain members might be, 'Governments' and 'Media' are certainly not at the top of the food chain (or pyramid). Banks are without doubt on a higher rung. And above the banks...