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Sunday Scripture – Media Manipulation…Don’t Believe Everything You See Or Read

January 24, 2010

Here is a pretty powerful example of the way the media can manipulate our viewpoint.  Don’t believe everything you see…or read…or hear…or otherwise.

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  1. Tara Ericson permalink
    January 30, 2010 9:44 pm

    Yeah. Create your own thoughts.

    • January 30, 2010 10:24 pm

      I’m reading a fascinating book right now that you should check out. It’s called Virus Of The Mind by Richard Brodie. It’s about memes, units of information in a mind whose existence influences events such that more copies of itself get created in other minds (to paraphrase Brodie’s definition). Basically we get programmed, and have to learn to unprogram.

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