{"id":224,"date":"2010-08-15T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/?p=224"},"modified":"2010-08-15T23:28:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:28:52","slug":"brainwashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/brainwashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainwashed."},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably agree that lying to others is sometimes forgivable. But how do you explain lying to yourself?\u00a0 You see a country bleeding like a gut-shot deer. You see a country that has abandoned its historic virtues. And whom do you blame? Why, who else? You blame the millions of citizens who allow themselves to be brainwashed by television and Hollywood — the gang that systematically hypnotizes Americans to act like the good little sheep in Far From The Madding Crowd.<\/em> There they were, mingling and bleating happily, when a deranged sheep dog stampeded them to their deaths over a nearby cliff. Well, you\u2019re no sheep, not you. Oh, no, nobody\u2019s herding you anywhere because you\u2019re too savvy. Ingeniously, you saw the brainwashing start a long time ago. It was a gradual thing, like moss growing on a rock. You were never fooled by innocent, clever and sometimes hilarious sitcoms that taught you life\u2019s important lessons. Promiscuity is preferable to sexual abstinence. The more partners the better. Better still if they include both sexes. Career women are divas; housewives are drones. Good English is dull; dumb is cool. Christians are recidivist morons; atheists are intellectual giants. You were among the first to notice the advent of social engineering in TV dramas and movies. All authority figures\u00a0 \u2013 police chiefs, judges, department heads, etc. — were (and are) black or female. Clint Eastwood or Harrison Ford seldom have white bosses; and if either does, they are always as corrupt as a white Charles B. Rangel. Big business? Evil. Wealthy white industrialists exist only to rape the environment and pillage the poor. You were quick to learn that movie scripts without the F word deserve little, if any, respect. In fact, the true excellence of any script is in direct proportion to the frequency and diverse use of a word that apparently merits the admiration of the truly cool among us. Any movie that doesn\u2019t play the race or gay card has not a whit of redeeming value.\u00a0 And, unlike many of your enlightened peers, you never fell for the avant-garde<\/em> practice of piercing your tongue or nipples or tattooing your skin to improve on God\u2019s design. Nonetheless, like the incessant tide, mass media continues to knock at your door. Drum. Drum. Drum. \u201cC\u2019mon, join the rest of us. Dumb it down, baby. You won\u2019t feel a thing. Be happy. Just give Rap a chance. Rap is cool. It really isn\u2019t as monotonous or juvenile or brainless as it seems.\u201d But you resist, right? You simply won\u2019t take one ounce of credit for the rule of insanity. You didn\u2019t contribute one iota to the corrosion of the American Miracle.\u00a0 If anyone\u2019s been brainwashed, it certainly hasn\u2019t been you. Right? Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably agree that lying to others is sometimes forgivable. But how do you explain lying to yourself?\u00a0 You see a country bleeding like a gut-shot deer. You see a country that has abandoned its historic virtues. And whom do you blame? Why, who else? You blame the millions of citizens who allow themselves to … Continue reading Brainwashed.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steammarketing.com\/fodder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}