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> They are actually manipulating our consciousness for the long term
Ah, and like Jedi mind tricks, they only work on minds that don’t have the tools, skills, or knowledge to recognize it and filter it. Here’s where we have truely failed ourselves: our schools haven’t taught meaningful critical thinking skills in decades. IMHO, THAT is what is harmful to a peaceful life here on earth.
NLP is a fabulous clarifier for this sort of thing: it presents codified methods for taking and assessing perspectives. For example, by asking a few questions about any statement or story, you can readily disarm it of any manipulations.
Who is speaking?
What is their relationship to the subject?
Why are they speaking? What is their purpose?
What do they really know about it? (How are they qualified to speak?)
Which statements are assessments, and which are assertions? (opinion vs. accepted fact?)
If they are declaring something, what authority do they have to uphold the declaration?
If we trained our children to ask these questions as a habit, not only would it become so second-nature as to happen in a splite-second (no overhead cost to speak of), but the journalists would change their writing radically because people would see their stories very differently. They’d be back to reporting facts rather than coloring drama and interpreting for us.
Teach a child you know some great qualifying questions today!
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