Global Hypnosis

It was back during the Japan trip when Pere and I talked about the globalisation aspect that influences human minds, where everyone eats, reads, watches, thinks, does, wants, ..., the same things. He then shared with me some of the Chomisy's materials on how a few control many in the post WWII world. Not unlike it was the case in ancient times when the most popular book was the medium, a desired mind-state for masses is still achieved through the control of the media. This time though, books got replaced by 'gloving rectangles'. The article cites 'imagines' the research by Stanford University which "suggests that Americans spend the vast majority of each day staring at, interacting with, and deriving satisfaction from glowing rectangles." And what seems like a staggering number, "Researchers were able to identify nearly 30 varieties of glowing rectangles that play some role throughout the course of each day."

With every new rectangle in our world Thinking outside of the box gets harder and harder.

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Credit: Image source.

UPDATED: not that it makes any difference to the point made in this post, it is worth 'knowing' that Onion is not a legitimate news site. Reading their interview with Neil Armstrong where he allegedly proclaimed: "I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind." prompted me to search for an explanation that justifies the popular belief. So just as the majority (under global hypnosis) I have 'no doubt' that BBC article is true, and Onion one false.