Article by Gary D. Barnett.

He starts it off with a quote from Edward Bernays‘ 1928 book ‘Propaganda‘, in which he writes:

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.“

(Bernays, by the way, was a nephew of Sigmund Freud.)

Then, in his own article, Barnett writes:

For most, it is a struggle to just get up and face the day, or at least that is the case for a majority of the population. Because of that, most choose to hide from reality in order to satisfy a dream-state, instead of facing the truth. It is as if the entirety of this population is in a mind-control experiment, and are being hypnotized to accept their own slavery as the best option. AI, if allowed to take over society, can accomplish that designed outcome, just as is sought by the oligarchs.

He ends his article with these words:

This reality is not accidental, it has been purposely created in order to capture the psyche of the majority. Something is greatly amiss here, as so many of this population have effectively given up on actual life in favor of a State-structured life based on fraudulent perception as a way of escaping what is real. This is terribly disturbing, as the last thing needed at this time is a country full of obedient zombies. This makes me wonder if the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” was simply a prescient preview of things to come.

“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”