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Are We Being Manipulated?

We are back to violence. I’ve lived through an era like this in my life, where monstrous violence exceeds the inherent ability for mankind to harm itself. It was the worst of times. I would postulate that at least one of those happens per hundred years, possibly more as humans make an effort to destroy humanity.

I have a theory that we’ve done this before, not just once before, but many times. Everybody knows that major excavations in certain regions uncover literal cities. Those cities had to have been covered over eons ago. But the thing is, everyone stops digging once they find THAT city. I believe there is evidence of other societies beneath even those.

We have a guide called the Bible and I haven’t known it to be wrong. It says that the human heart is wicked. It says that in many ways, not the least of which is use of the word ‘sin’. Call it what you want to. I don’t really care. But leave your children untrained, undisciplined and what happens? Someone once told me that you don’t have to teach a child to lie (I didn’t do it!); you have to teach them to be strong enough to tell the truth. The effort to undermine truth is now called ‘my truth’. That, my friends is what is known as ‘my opinion’. Truth is truth.

I believe generations of children are being brainwashed in institutions where learning is the goal. Learning about mathematics, writing, history (so we don’t repeat it), literature, art, psychology, medicine, grammar (yes, it matters). If I hear one more person say ‘julery’ instead of jewelry, or reality instead of realty, I’m going to explode. You have no concept of root words, like jewel, leading to the word ‘jewel-ry’ if you have not studied or ever read the words. And if you say real-i-ty to me, you will NEVER be my REALTOR. You may go to the DOC-I-TOR, but I go to the doctor. You get my point. Anyway I went down a rabbit hole. Children don’t need to be talking about their genitals; that’s the job of parents to answer those questions. Children don’t need to be swayed in one direction of another politically. They need to learn to speak correctly, write well, cope with stress, understand the value of study, and realize that not everyone is Einstein.

I think now more than ever it is important to know when you are being tricked into having certain ‘beliefs’ or feelings, whether your ‘teacher’ has an agenda other than actual education; and it is important to view everything with skepticism until you get facts. There used to be a bumper stick that said, “Question Authority”. And there was one that said, “Question Everything”. Both are profound statements. And they don’t mean CHALLENGE authority; they mean question. Like…find out if that teacher has fact based teaching. And remember you have a mind of your own.

Please use it.

Learn to use BRAIN.

You’ll notice in this image that there are no cords, no batteries. This is the instrument that requires some thought to be in place before keys are struck. It is a typewriter. Purely mechanical, purely reliant upon ideas to come from the mind of operator, or someone plagiarized, which has become all too frequent. Once upon a time…relax, it’s not Snow White…people used these to produce written text: Letters, memos, books, reports, even tests for school. Remember tests? You know, before merit was killed off and education became indoctrination, before actual education was eliminated. There was a brief moment when it was ‘dumbed down’; but then it was snuffed out. This is why people at Harvard can’t do math, that statement I’ve been making for a long time now.

Once upon a time, people had to rely upon “The Big Three” (ABC, NBC, CBS) for news. Anchors on these networks were greatly respected, even revered. Why? Well you could never tell what their own opinions were. Why did that matter? Because we didn’t tune in to hear an editorial rant; we tuned in to watch news, not their OPINION of the news, and we got the truth. How we processed that was up to us; we had to think about it.

These days, all we get from Main Stream Media is garbage attempts to disrupt and indoctrinate. Main Stream is a misnomer now anyway. Main Stream is actually YouTube now. Now, there are thousands and thousands of places to get info about any single news story. So for thinking people (aka people with the ability to think), this is paradise. For thinking people, we are in our element.

The world is full of scared, lazy, time-out everybody gets a trophy for showing up generations. How do you like it, lazy parents? It’s a mess! I’ll tell you, I’m so tired of people in media saying julery instead if jewelry, saying ‘real-i-tor’ instead of REALTOR, and they are in the anchor chair!! In my opinion, if you cannot pronounce the name of your career, you should be kicked out of it. In any case, you advertise your lack of education when you cannot pronounce everyday words. You want to say it that way? Okay, just stay off of my radio and TV. Bottom line is that we are seeing the ‘I showed up’ crowd now in charge. No WONDER we have global issues.

On top of rewarding ignorance, we have allowed rampant violent aggression to become the norm. Whatever emotion pops up first is okay to act out, and more and more often, it is hate and anger. What is the solution? Who can say. I do think it would be a good idea for schools to teach logic, beginning right from the start. Teach teamwork, right from the start, and punish hateful aggression. We have to cure the cancer that has infected our world.

Not everything is a crisis.

Speaking of crisis (you know I have to talk about real estate), sometimes people need a realtor BECAUSE of a crisis. Okay I’m talking about divorce. I’m shaking my head. Now, most marriages end that way. Sad. But know, if you are heading that way, there are RULES in real estate. Better get an experienced agent…and one who will understand what you are going through. That’s me.

I’m Brenda, with Premier Advantage Realty. Call me at 919-210-6113