People identify with what they have been immersed in from infancy to adulthood, and essentially the communications within that environment. Unfortunately religion, ethnicity, race, nationalism, political affiliation are not only used as points of affinity but developed as walls and division and are grounds of exploitation. Those within a household to the political offices of a nation learn well and communicate these “differences” to their own advantage.
The collective mind (if I can use this term), our synchronicity that creates culture and civilization, unfortunately unbeknown to many, is influenced and terribly enslaved from the cradle to the grave. What is it that makes us march forward to our own collective detriment? Who wields this power of influence – why is it exerted – and what can we do to stop this exploitation? It is imperative that we grasp what is going on that influences us to think and act in predictable ways – to the benefit of the few.
We are subject to use and knowledge of science in an experimental petri dish called society, where all the tools of human knowledge are being used to mold us to a conformity – by those “who know what’s best for us.” It is an artificial construction of “reality.” We spend most of our time not as individual’s, but communicating with each other – we are the subjects of mass communication. This is turn effects what we “see” and “hear” in a collective sense.
Social experience and environment shapes both details of brain psychology and chemistry, the infants brain is made to fit into the culture in which it was born. Six month old’s can hear and make every sound in virtually every human language, the very physical existence of neurons to the tune of 50% are naturally forced to commit pre-programmed cell suicide to fit into the larger framework of the cultural pattern. Babies, one or two years old that see another infant hurt, or hear it crying, do not merely ape the child’s distress, they share it empathetically.
Children cram their powers of perception into a conformist mold, connecting their attention to what others see. Perceptions become the slaves of social commands – it has been proven that children will come to accept and like food that they have disliked previously by putting them into a situation of peer pressure with other children for a period of time, as an example.
Words are the ultimate repository of the herd influence. What we perceive with words is influenced through generations of men, women, families, tribes, and nations – insights, value judgments, ignorance and beliefs are communicated through words. Word’s literally carry the impact of either life or death in many instances.
So what am I saying with all of this? Actually this discussion on the post only goes so deep, we are not merely dealing with some set of personal political preferences that are innocuously dangled before us as some objective choice. Now, there are both harmless manifestations of of cultural inculcation and those which are collectively influenced in order to drive a mass of humanity under the direction and control of the few. People need to make these distinctions, rather than thinking they are at some smorgasbord where they objectively make their own “choices.”
