37 Tips for Navigating a Society That Is Full of Propaganda and Manipulation

37 Tips for Navigating a Society That Is Full of Propaganda and Manipulation

For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises together in such a way as to extract favors, concessions, votes and consent from other humans has made manipulation so common that…

The Power Elite Has Always Run America. The Super Rich Bundled into the “Deep State”

The Power Elite Has Always Run America. The Super Rich Bundled into the “Deep State”

Sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote a book in 1956 that (sadly) still resonates today. In his book ‘The Power Elite’ Mills focused on groups and individuals who help to control this Republic for countless generations: the “Metropolitan 400”: members of historically notable local families in the principal American cities, generally represented on the Social Register…