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The Lab Rat That Survives Is The One Who Escapes
To prosper, break free of society’s efforts to control you.
If you’re feeling like a lab rat in a science experiment, manipulated by shadowy forces for unknown purposes, that’s because you’re waking up to the reality of the situation.
We are a nation of lab rats.
Tough news to hear, I know. But it’s true, nonetheless.
We’re subjected to daily doses of propaganda and social conditioning, reinforced by technology, designed to:
- distract and burden us by keeping us consuming as much as possible, preferably while taking on debt to do so
- keep us isolated and socially fractured, to prevent any effective organization against the existing system of power and control
- block information that might make awaken us to the various manipulations in play
I’ve written consistently about these forces over the years seeking to help you see the structure of the cultural walls that contain us all. I’ve been doing this because achieving success, as well as finding deeper meaning and purpose in life, rests upon increasing our awareness of the forces shaping our beliefs and actions.
This includes being aware of the propaganda, the sophisticated marketing ploys, and the controlling nature of our dominant cultural belief system. Once you can recognize them for what they are, you free yourself from their influence over you.
These systems of diversion and distraction have gotten orders of magnitude more potent over the recent years, pacing with advances in technology. Our brains’ biological wiring is so well-understood now that it’s routinely used against us.
For example, at one particular video gaming company, as part of their orientation, newly-hired developers are required to attend a “dopamine boot camp” in which they learn the best ways to deliver paced rushes of “brain pleasure” chemicals to video game players.
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