7/28/2019 Types of Mass Manipulation
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Types of mass manipulation
Since God created us, we were gifted with reason and
intelligence, things that make the
difference between us and other creatures. Thanks to that, we
can try to distinguish the good
from the evil and we can make our own decisions,at our own risk.
This is what we call the free
will. But now, there is this question that comes in mind: How
can we know what is good and
what is bad for us? Because we are not always able to find out
the right answer to this
important question, sometimes we can be easily cheated by other
people, strong and decided
people who have great purposes and who want to achieve certain
things.
So, what happens when a weak person, with no confidence in her
beliefs, meets one with
strong beliefs and a winner attitude? Well, obviously, the weak
one will become at a certain
point the slave of the stronger one. Very soon, he will adopt
the opinions and the manners of
the most powerful, whether they are good or bad, and he will
start to believe them so much
that after a while hell be as confident as his mentor. Fighting
for their ideas brings them power,influence on the other people.
This is where begins a kind of contamination process which
leads to a mass attraction.
Nowadays, our society is in a permanent rush, we try to keep in
touch with people and things
we love but it becomes difficult when you have a lot of tasks to
accomplish every day. To
accomplish them effectively there is the need of being informed
at every minute of the day. At
this point of the equation the media has an exponential role
because it keeps us informed
through its multiple faces: television, newspapers,radio and
especially internet. Our way of
acting and thinking is based on what weve learned during our
studies and on our experience,
but very often we rely on the media to get the current news and
facts about what is important
and what we should be aware of. However, we dont actually
realize how dangerous this can
be. Weve got this strange behaviour of not questioning certain
things too much,maybe
because of our lack of time or just because of our crescent
indifference, and thats what can
make us fall. Trusting that much the media equals to a brainwash
in time. At a certain point we
become unable to judge facts from a cold perspective. Its like
saying you buy everything the
media gives you. Thats why we are frequently manipulated: weve
lost our habit of making
questions, of doubting of almost everything for preventing us to
get hurt. What Descartes used
to say about what makes us reasonable beings > I
think,therefore I am< starts to become an
invalid quote in our society.
We can constantly notice the big influence of mass media on
kids, teenagers and even on
grown-up people. This industry is so complexe and we should try
to start looking it differently,
to avoid that brainwash Ive mentioned. Thousands of images of
violence, advertising, sex
invade our space. No matter what youre looking at, youwill
always see some of that. It s
everywhere and you cant hide from it. Its like the Big Brothers
law.
