Reality is a variable.

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Like other products, our beliefs are constructed and/or selected by people. "All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth" – Friedrich Nietzsche 

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how thoroughly and quickly modern control systems could manufacture consensus and enforce compliance. ( more here )

So how dependable is the mind and conciousness in separating "reality" from "illusion"? Even physics isn't certain. (Click here for more) Asylums house people with extreme beliefs of percieved reality.

“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.” - Demosthenes c.383-322 BC

“the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”
- Niccolo Machiavelli

“A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.” - Christian Nevell Bore

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." - George Orwell

"shaping how we perceive reality is more powerful than controlling reality itself" (click here for more)

It goes without saying that politics is about mass mobilization and power; narratives and oversimplification are the tools of the trade. (click here for more) Political Narrative is about influencing political behaviors and beliefs.

“Words are magic.” – Zufa Cenva/Dune

“Thoughts become weapons. Philosophies are distinct reasons for war. Good intentions are the most destructive arsenal of all.” – Cogitor Kwyna/Dune

"Power is controlling what happens; absolute power is controlling what people think about what happens." (click here for more)

We, the People, have differences about the world we live in. So we behave differently. How we think can be influenced and changed based on conditions, experiences, schooling, data, falsified data, etc. put before us, or witheld from us. All these, and more, shape perceptions, beliefs and actions. How we react to what we see, or fail to see, makes us what we are. This power to influence is now being automated. (see much more here)

How do you know that what has come to shape your convictions, your beliefs, your fears really belong to you, and were not placed there by another?...Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy... (click here for more)

In summary, the public is largely unthinking, compliant and docile and can be made to go along with just about anything so long as they’re bombarded with the right propaganda. (click here for more)

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