posted on Oct, 23 2004 @ 09:48 PM
As i get older I am slowly becomming more aware and less tolerant of the gullibility of people in society believing what is shown to be fiction on TV
and thinking its real.
Two examples come to mind, particulaly from here, Stargate and The matrix. These 2 fictional movies seem to have spawned an entire genre of people
who are prepared to accept them as true.
Personally I blame schools, in holding a liberal philosophy that allows people to express their views and hold their views without challange in case
it hurts their egos. This is coupled with a loss of scientific thinking in schools.
Although we probably always had a dreamy disconnected part of our population who always believed in fairies etc regardless of the truth in the past,
now it is more than just idle wishing. There are people who seem to be basing their lives on fictional creations, sort of like treckies on steroids.
Its a reflection of the power of the medium to control individuals and modify their beliefs.
Its also a reflection of a society where its better to believe in a fantasy instead of in reality either because reality is hard to bare, or fantasy
is just more interesting. Its probably also a reflection on the adolescent male mind that they are more open to such belief structures.
I wonder if by coldly analysing our own belief structures what we all are accept as truth, is infact "programmed" into us via the media.
I am drawn to consider most of the Iraq situation as a form of programming. From seeing interviews with the ordinary iraqi's in falluga, currently
under siege by the Americans in search of the terrorist, THEY don't see this as being directed at the terrorist bases, they see it as a direct
attack on them, as ordinay people. So the propaganda that we are given is not reflected in the lives of the ordinary people.
There must be many other "givens" in society that we all accept as truth which are instead created fictions....
[edit on 23-10-2004 by Netchicken]