I'm gonna add a reply here trying not to sound like an idiot, you'll have to excuse me if I do. Most of this was a wasted discussion with a very good friend.
How the hell do I begin this.. ok straight in with two feet i think.
Yes the world is brainwashed (if thats what you want to call it)
From the day we are born we are taken by the hand and shown the way to go.
Our parent raise us according to their beliefs of the best way to raise a child.
We are then sent to school, where we are taught the a country wide accepted syllabus.
If you are religious then you are taken to church and taught morality and a version of how the world was brought in to being.
We go through our education learning widely accepted facts and theories, and on this some will choose a profession.
We then begin our adult life, where we collect information and experiences.
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We do a job to maintain a way of life that we find suitable (or not as many unfortunate cases prove). The majority of the money we earn is filtered back into the country where we live through tax. Be it income tax, tax on sales, tax on accommodation etc..
The governments spend this money on stabilising the countries, providing us with life's essential commodities. They will also spend the money on the countries interests, expansion, development, war, whatever.
My thought train has been well and truely derailed at the moment, I had to go supervise a class. Damn work... 🙂
Right.. here we go again..
Throughout our adult life we collect a monumental amount of experience and information. Theories that are different to those we learned were correct or accepted at school, beliefs that are different to our own, etc.
Younger life conditioning begins to fade away, giving you your own identity.
Damn this post is going forever..
You create your own theories on what is real and what is not. thus you break the conditioning of youth. Not all do, but a large majority do. Just read the board and see how many different opinions you find.
Somethings are universally accepted tho.
Killing is bad, this is conditioning. The animal instinct that resides in everyone of us will attempt to over-ride this moral should you find yourself seriously threatened. Moral boundries are conditioning, the majority of which come from religion.
Now for anyone to say this kind of conditioning is a bad thing is insane. Without a system of laws and morals the civilised world would no longer exist.
I guess what i'm saying is everyone is conditioned, but is this a bad thing? Where do you draw the line? An intelligent person will make their own decisions based on ideas and facts that they see as correct. With that said, what can you do about it? sorry, more to come..
I'm actually really embaressed at the length of this.. I will stop soon. I promise! 😮
What can be done about this conditioning? What should be done about it? If the world really is completely controlled by the government what can you do? What is freedom?
Really the government does run your life. It sets the taxs, it builds the houses, it brings goods into the country that you want or need. Without it we'd be living on whatever is native to our land. Take it away, and we'd be doing the same. This is no conspiracy, this is the way it is..
Governments have their own agendas, no doubt, but to automatically assume they are evil is wrong. These people were brought up in the same conditioned atmosphere as we were remember.
I find conspiracy theories idiotic in the large part, overactive imaginations mostly. Then again, that is the best kind of freedom. In your own mind. If your happy in yourself, who cares, thats what counts.
Just dont shove it down everyones throats! 😄
David Icke is an idiot when it comes to a great many things (shape-changing lizards and etc), but he's largely right in this case. I've thought about this before, however, and there is one big problem: I can do anything I want, yes... But there are a number of things that would result in me going to jail or worse. Which I don't want. I disregard the law in some cases, but I'm not going to go kill anybody on impulse just because I physically can. I could stop going to work and do whatever I wanted all day, but that would result in me not being able to pay the bills, the rent, or my taxes.
So in short, I COULD do a lot of things, but I won't, because many of them wouldn't end well. I certainly won't limit my train of thought. But I'm not going to drop out of society because some guy says I'm a slave for not doing so.