Tell Me What You Think Of That Paragraph

Another masterful post from Leg-Iron, ending with the exhortation

Don’t know what to think about? Let me give you a subject to start you off.

One of the main techniques in brainwashing is to overload your target with masses of conflicting and illogical information. Eventually they will crack under the strain of it all, stop analysing any information and simply accept everything they are told. At that point, anything you say is immediately accepted as truth, without question.

Get a cup of tea, sit down, and tell me what you think of that paragraph. Just let your mind work at its own pace, let the thoughts float at their own pace, with no external pressures at all.

Well, I sat down (with a bottle of merlot rather than a cup of tea) and I thought about it, and what I thought took up rather too many words for a comment so I decided to whip up a post of my own instead.

That is, I am sure, a method of brainwashing and mind control. There are other methods too, adequately discussed elsewhere and I’m not going to get into that now. The thing is, if you’re tied to a chair being fed conflicting information from a CIA ‘doctor’ or sitting in Charlie Manson’s living room whacked off your tits then you’ve not really got any choice in being brainwashed. Most people, luckily are not in those positions. We are being fed constantly contradicted information from the MSM designed to brainwash us but it only brainwashes us if we let it.

We have a choice. We can turn off the tv, we can choose not to buy that newspaper, or even -sharp intake of breath- simply not pay attention to all the nonsense that they tell us about our health. I watch the BBC every morning, which is usually the first way that these memes are born. I am no fan of the BBC and the reasons I watch are these:

1) Kate Silverton is sexy, but not overly so and I can just about cope with that first thing in the morning.
2) The colours are quite muted -not like the garish colours of GMTV- and I can just about cope with that first thing in the morning.
3) Sky News has VERY LOUD adverts.
4) The foreign news providers don’t have a clock.

So, I am fed all this conflicting information very early in the morning, daily, when I am -by my own admission- not thinking quite straight yet and theoretically quite susceptible, and yet I am not brainwashed. I eat too much fatty food, too much meat, I drink like a fish (and yet -gasp- I don’t drink before work, or turn up drunk, or any other life-destroying behaviour), I like a smoke and I really like a triple-hamburger-with-bacon-n-cheese and guess what? I feel healthier now than I have done at any time in my life. This is because I have a job that keeps me active all day, with intermittent periods of strenuous physical activity. That’s it. If I sat at a desk all day, I’d probably have to re-think my diet. The main thing, however is that I don’t give a damn about any of that nonsense they spew every morning. I don’t worry about it, in fact I don’t really pay it any attention at all, unless there’s a blog post in it.

So I don’t worry, I don’t stress, and above all I’m not brainswashed into doing so simply because I (and everybody else) have a choice about what I believe.

So if you’re worried about your ‘units’ or your ‘cholesterol’: Grow up. The media, and ‘experts’ and the ‘government’ aren’t your mummy, and you’re not four, and you don’t have to listen to them…

…’Cos if you do, Charlie Manson will come and get you…

This Is Just Ridiculous

The BBC is reporting that up to 40% of people no longer believe advice about healthy food, because they “believe” that “the advice given by scientists keeps changing.” So they tell us it doesn’t.

Maybe, as they say, the advice of eating more veg and less cigarettes might have been the same for ten years, but there IS a constant drip-drip-drip of “eat this-don’t eat that-don’t even think about those-drink more water-drink less water-drink your own pee” coming out of these people who fuss about like a maiden aunt, so it’s no wonder people aren’t listening anymore.

And just telling us you haven’t done it isn’t going to wash, we’ve been lied to too much already. If you widened the terms of your survey you may well find that up to 40% of people don’t believe anything they are told by anyone in any official capacity whatsoever. You have only yourselves to blame.

Now leave us alone.