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Propagand-o’s (Yummy Newsy Flavor)

If you’ve been around the internet for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Mark Joyner, the creator of Simpleology. Mark was formerly in military intelligence, so he has a unique perspective (some might say hard-nosed or cynical) on life in the United States and the rest of the world.

His Simpleology program is a type of time management and business planning program that’s very popular with people across the internet. I’ve dabbled with it on and off, and I’d probably be a multi-millionaire if I did everything according to the program, but I keep getting distracted by life.

I enjoy his cartoons, especially since they are so thought-provoking and usually ‘right on the money’, as well as being entertaining.

In this cartoon, I really appreciated “We think so you don’t have to” and “Just like the truth but without the bitter aftertaste” slogans. Unfortunately, this is pretty much the way we are being spoonfed information in the U.S.

As Mark Joyner says,

When the mainstream news media is allowed to exclude candidates from debates (both Kucinich and Paul were excluded when candidates with lower poll ratings were included - why?) …

When the mainstream news media can “predict” winners (and thus influence your vote) on statistically irrelevant information …

Has the news become propaganda? Or are there just some really irresponsible decisions being made?

Theories?

Perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves a few questions:

• Are we able to think things through for ourselves, or are we relying on what we are told in the media?

• What are we teaching our children to do?
• Could the media, including MTV and the rest, possibly be influencing the dropout rates and the ‘gangsta’ lifestyle we see increasing across the entire United States?
• Do we just want to follow like sheep, or lead the way?

Perhaps we need to be more concerned about teaching our youngsters how to think critically by choosing to do so ourselves.

Brennan

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