The Conservative Right: How It All Began
This gives the real history of how the current Far Right began, beginning with Roger Aiiles back in the Nixon days, how Fox News came to be, how John Wayne was an example for catering to and propagandizing the very simple minds of Americans. It touches on Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton. This is really a great nugget of cultural, political and psychological history. None of the political development is happening by accident and some of it is a repeat. FOX really perfected the brainwashing and had a snowball effect on the whole media. It’s funny and sad. The documentary also talks about the psychology of brainwashing; how the mind only absorbs new information that doesn’t challenge our preexisting biases. We’re all puppets of material nature. The physical external environment is really the least of our problems.
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Frank, the elderly father in the documentary, may be regarded as a victim of circumstance, whereby he was under one influence and then was switched circumstantially to another. This is irrespective of if one of the influences may be proven to be good or bad for society.
There would be some other person somewhere, who was influenced in reverse, where that person hated Regan or Nixon and then because of circumstantial influences switch to the oponent of that politician.
There is mention of the addiction to anger, a tendency which the report highlights. I feel that it is an addiction/need for opposition. It is said that it takes two to tangle. What would happen if a prize fighter entered a boxing ring and the opponent did not show up. What a fight that would be? No excitement, nothing? Who would enjoy that? Who would start a movement to outlaw that?
In nature there is the right side and the left side. Both are required to operate a body. And we heard about ying and yang from China. But if you need ying and ying for harmony, how should those two factors interact?
The same nature which produced the right side, produced the left side. Why do they fight? Is nature wanting a clash?
Take capitalism and socialism!
Is one better than the other?Are both necessary?
If no one can eliminate the one or the other, why not use both constructively?
Should the right hand fight the left hand?Is the body capable of governing both hands for the interest of the body?
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This deserves a bigger title, and using words, I’d say something like: The Creation of Fox News Channel, the American propaganda machine.
I initially skipped through, but as I did, I realized that this documentary deserved to be watched fully in spite of being so lengthy for my availability.
It’s a very granular exposition on the times we are living in on the sociopolitical level, how it all germinated and now is grand as on steroids, especially considering the addition of social media (and as exploited by Trumpism).
Now even the Supreme Court is taken over! So effectively as was unraveling before our eyes, the institutions as the conscientiously crafted legacy of the forefathers were being woefully sabotaged, as with a baseball bat. So now one needs to factor in the phenomenon of homegrown terrorism and a rise of civil war (it won’t look like the last one though)
Chaos and anarchy seem on the trajectory as millions of Americans or around ¾ of the Republicans party, the only other major party in the nation, has joined ranks with alternative facts and conspiracy theories.
We are liable to brainwashing unless we unplug and believe in ascension through our own mental processes and derived life experiences with critical thinking. Otherwise, religiosity, cultism and most other isms are pitfalls.
Voltaire said: “If you can make them believe in absurdities, then you can make them do atrocities!” So this can and this is how one of the most advanced societies of its time, Germany turned into one of the cruelest ones, nearly overnight! You can see how such is possible by watching this documentary.
A powerful depiction of what is going on around us and also get an insight as to its beginnings. I believe that, from instinct, many are repeat lifetimes of the original settlers.
Ultimately, the mind is a sponge ready to absorb according to its environment and predisposition, but there is always great flexibility.
For a species to think that it deserves better than the primitive law of the survival of the fittest or more harmonious and civilized societies seems to be a pipe dream, when they are overwhelmingly ignorant of what they are, by essential definition.
It is really critical for evolution from human space to realize that we are not the mind or the conclusions of our intellectual girations! And, hopefully look for what we are as a core self, beyond the elements of the being that is swayed like leaves in the wind. Otherwise, anyone can one day make a switch from good to evil, both energies are ever present in living entities by definition.
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Well spoken, Surya. I’m glad you took the time to watch it. That switch from good to evil is an ever present possibility. The core self needs to isolate itself and see the material nature for what it is. Moment by moment we need to keep extricating ourselves from unwholesome influences. If not, what goes around comes around and we’ll get fair and just reactions based on our prior actions of body and mind.
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Absolutely! And, it is a great challenge to develop mindfulness, as you just said on a moment to moment basis.And, on a broader scale the message seems to be that we cannot take anything for granted. Things can easily and dramatically take unbelievable turns.
