Mind Control In America

The most successful propaganda uses the arts as a delivery system. Art is a way of seeing and what we see in art defines what we understand to be "reality". Thus reality and perception can be altered by manipulating people's minds through entertainment. The arts are ideal instruments of social engineering because they influence people without their conscious awareness. It is no accident that television networks have "programming departments" and the shows are called "programming". Story-telling is the oldest means of transmitting information about how society works and what's right and wrong. In Orwell's "1984", every room contains a television screen that floods people's minds with a constant flow of information and messages. According to Homer Simpson, the answers to life's problems are on TV. And like the cartoon character, the American people have been programmed to look to the media for their answers as well. The problem is that the media is controlled by corporations that are controlled by the super-rich who have a vested interest in keeping the public bemused and befuddled. →