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HN user rramadass in 50451133 this morning:

« Most people just look at the surface level of what is presented to them and don't really think about anything (unless forced by circumstances). In spite of the fact that we know everything is Propaganda and Deception (of one sort or another) managed by vested interests (not always to one's detriment though) people want to believe they are "free to act as they please". Given what we know today about the world, human psychology and the power of technology, this belief is so naive that i find it hard to understand how one can maintain it. People are consciously maneuvered into a "mental box" and they seem to be unaware of it. »

He then also recommends books by Ellul and one Edward Jay Epstein (a Usanian journalist who apparently doubted the "lone gunmen LHO killed JFK" claim, hence must be labeled a "conspiracy theorist" by the honest and righteous adherents of bienpensance).

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