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MAG's avatar
May 21Edited

Pundits like your MIL, may she rest in peace, are now ubiquitous. Opinions are facts and this is further amplified because so very few know or read any history. We live in a world where: “Reality is negotiable.”

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EKB's avatar

Reality is only negotiable for the incomprehensibly stupid. The rest of us will function in the real world and deal with real world issues.

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MAG's avatar
May 21Edited

“The rest of us” is getting smaller and smaller. “Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid” John Wayne. Stupidity is ubiquitous.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Murray is one of the great public intellectuals of our time

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EKB's avatar

Yes he is.

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

How we got to the madness in this world: money. Business must go on and deals only have these criteria: making more money and benefits. Therefore the brokers will invest in lobbying to put pressure on governments.

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Nancy F's avatar

Once again, thank you for writing and sharing

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EKB's avatar

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my words and leaving a comment.

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

Since you posted the original article on December 26, 2016 I'm impressed by your clear view of what is and has been happening in the last decade(s). Thank you for writing and sharing your observations with us 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

Thank you for writing and sharing what I has made me feel highly uncomfortable and which I haven't been

able to express and formulate in coherent text.

This post truth era based on opinionated facts and narratives is indeed the result of mass manipulating.

It's a confusing world full of division and conflicts.

What puzzles me is how we - who consider ourselves as reasonable thinking human beings - got this far ... in being manipulated by both foreign and national powers.

For it's no longer a secret how our Western educational institutions became corrupt and complicit in generating bias. This manupilation has been going on for decades. Was it driven by the generous donations and funding of research by countries with opposite cultures and traditions ? Foreign authoritarian, non-democratic but extremely WEALTHY governments, buying their way into our Western democratic educational institutions to promote their own agenda ?

What were these Western educational institutions thinking ? Were our governments even involved in this change of programs in educational institutions ?

They have been manipulating generations by adapting their educational programs and integrating courses on anti-western opinionated views and narratives to please the donator's foreign agenda. Seemingly WITHOUT questioning the motivation of the sponsor's agenda. Nor it's long-term effects.

Then again, IF this was done on purpose - well then the evil really comes from within. Doesn't that remind us of something ?

Now in our current IA integrated world, people begin to wake up and some struggle against addiction to social media apps. What happened to mankind ?

Instead of inquiring ourselves about which questions to ask on specific subjects, people seem to parrot and repeat questions in order to obtain AI generated answers. Their goals merely seems to be getting confirmation about their own opinions and beliefs. To prove they're right and others are wrong.

Do they even REALIZE what they're doing?

Integrated AI is becoming the opium for the masses. It's not only 1984 and Big Brother, it's creepingly becoming the Matrix of the "modern mind". Dwelling forever in the golden cages of social media apps. ¹

We're manipulated To Stop Thinking for Ourselves.

To stop using our own innate moral compass and the intelligence which motivates us to inquire ourselves and the world around us. To ask thought full questions that occure after observing, listening, reading and inquiring ourselves about our interpretation of events, statements and information from the media and our environment.

Wake up and Think !!! 🙏🏽

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

¹ DON'T LEAVE THE APP : https://substack.com/@ciskaschenk/note/c-112114432?r=2zkwvr

credits to Karent Hunt

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Joy B's avatar

59 not home yet 🎗️

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EKB's avatar

😞

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

💔💔💔💔💔

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EKB's avatar

I find it so wrong to click Like for this post. But 💔

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

I was feeling exactly the same 💔.

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