Artificial intelligence that can tap into our thoughts. It may be a long way off or it may exist now and you'd never know it.
It exists for centuries. It's called ideology.
You may not even really understand why you're fan of some brand which really doesnt differ from the others much and doesn't really helps you to become rich/famous or successful, You may not understand why you're watching that TV series or movie that you like so much, but it actually burns your lifetime and provides you with fake info, teaching you nothing new, You may never understand why you don't like Russians, most probably you never met one, but still you don't like them because ideology in your part of the society is aimed to have an enemy. You may not understand that brave and shiny people who came with bombs, rockets and guns to another country are the real terrorists, but not those bearded scary looking opponents who defend their land, because your ideology calls them terrorists.
There are 2 main powers in this world. 1) Public opinion 2) Weapons. And You know... Guns won't fire if the one who holds the gun is not willing to shoot. That's why you have to control public opinion with ideology. And this is the sequence of base knowledge supported by media and public relations through the lifetime of each individual located under influence of one or another ideology.
Idology has flag, anthem, education, lifestyle as methods of control. Lets have a look at example of USA? Flag with stars... it reminds a rigle stock or a plane where pilot draws new star after hitting new opponent. New leader may want to add a new star to the flag.
What about anthem? Majority of countries are singing about their people, their beauty and glory... USA has bombs and rockets and foes in their anthem.
Ideology is the 4th out of 5 directions of the power. Usually people think that the power is separated in 3 directions. 1) Executive 2) Judicial 3) Legislative, and any university will teach you that it's so. 3 branches of power and nothing else, but it's a lie. There are 5 branches of power, and Ideology is one of the main directions. Ideology is not different from Artificial Intellegence that can tap and control our thoughts. You might become a billionaire and be one of the most educated persons in the world, but your idology wants you to be a consumer, wants you to be stupid, wants you to watch StarWars, IronMan, Game Of Thrones, SuperBowl and rest of the timewasting things that will ead you to the road of stupidity and consumation. And during this time, when ideology has your attention - it writes necessary code of conduct inside your brain. That makes those who fall for this trick a victim and a product of ideology.
How to fight against such and create your personal ideology? Just ask yoursefl a simple question before doing anything. "How this knowledge or action will improve my life?" What is better - to spend 40 hours for watching TV series that last 40 hours, or to spend 40 hours on 40hour long programming course and learn a programming language that will give you new options in your future? Life isn't a neverending process, spend it wise, cause 90-97% of information around us is someones
bluff designed to create profit using fools who will fall for such bluff. Don't call me some conspiracy theory freak, cause I'm not one of them, i do know that conspiracy theories are not theories, they are reality and someones business, Santa Claus is a conspiracy theory, do you still believe in Santa or you're a grown up now? What about the rest of the world around you? Do you, the one who reads this, see signs of job well done by some con artists in 90% of things around you? Doesn;t matter if it's a object or a process...
Take care.
