Watching an episode of Parks and Recreation tonight was just one more reminder of how the media is slowly, imperceptibly brainwashing the population. I know that brainwashing is a strong term, but that is, in reality, what is happening. I laugh every time I hear of the Left's accusations of brainwashing and indoctrination by religions and small communities (who cling to their guns and religion), while they relentlessly churn out their agendas on the media propaganda machine that is network television, cable television and movies.
The way slow brainwashing takes place is perfectly illustrated in the following quote. Despite my dislike of his economic philosphy, and the damage done to countries that have followed his policies, John Maynard Keynes explained the slow brainwash perfectly when he said:
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
The slow brainwash that the Left is pumping through the media is seen all around us. We should be constantly vigilent of what we allow in our homes and our minds. For that which we have allowed in, we should recognize them for what they are.
Even though they may seem sweet and innocent (reference the WALL-E explanation below), and the main theme may not be anti-capitalist, anti-freedom Leftist rhetoric, the reality is that each attack on property rights, the free market and conservative ideals is the slow brainwash that the Left so desparately wants. See the references below and please add one or more of the many others through your comments:
- Parks and Recreation celebrates everything government-run, beurocratic and wasteful while unceasingly mocking private enterprise and the "greedy scum" who choose to work for the proift motive.
- Wall-E is a heart warming robot love story that even touched me. But after I saw it a second time, and thought about it for a while, I realized that one of the major themes is that Wal-Mart, along with its "greedy", "polluting" profit motive, DESTROYS THE WORLD!
- Glee is so overbearing about pushing their agenda (which is painfully obvious) that anyone who dares have the "bigotry" of a different opinion cannot bare to watch it.
- And the list goes on...
The examples can be seen endlessly. Please add to them in your comments. Thanks!
Totally agree. I also saw the movie Up and found that it was a contrast. I wrote a review as follows: We are each taught in school of a hero named Charles Darwin who traveled in his ship the HMS Beagle to South America and conducted wonderful experiments to help explain the origins of mankind. High schoolers listen with rapt attention to public school biology professors chronicle his theories from these daring journeys to discover missing species. As we grow older and we understand that the "missing link" Darwin was looking for was often confused with minority races. When Darwin came across the Indians of Tierra del Fuego, Darwin described them as evidence: "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped." Darwin, the quintessential racist wrote his book formerly called: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Further, we become disgusted by his ideas used to perpetuate slavery, borrowed by Hitler and Stalin in their massacres, and we look back at the lives of our own friends who have detrimentally abandoned religion in the wake of becoming "enlightened" by Darwin in High School.
ReplyDeleteThis movie is about young Carl who idolizes a different Charles in South America, and has an uplifting experience (a house flies with balloons) and in his old age longs for his deceased wife with whom he could have no children, but Carl's travel companion Russell embraces the most American traditional values as a member of the Boy Scouts. They soon realizes that their idealization of Charles was misguided as not only has Charles fabricated much of his evidence, he is a horrible man who has has destructive habits! Whether you choose to read too much into the movie or not, you'll have an "uplifting" experience.