In United States politics every four years we hold debates against the blue and red candidates. Basically, your choice is Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Same product, minor taste difference. Over the years, the government gained more control over what we value and how we should act. The result was a new belief system that anything the mainstream presents is the truth. When this happened our society stopped questioning the narrative. Our debates went from important issues to only bringing up gossip on the other candidate. The media will present an issue that has no relevance to anything and that will be the big issue for a couple of weeks until the people forget about it.
Does it matter?
The Media has candidates' debate nonsense for a year, but the same group of people pulls the strings behind the scenes. We're taught to memorize information, not question it. It's a deep form of programming that has been well documented. This is why whenever someone breaks from the majority, they are seen as an outsider and crazy. People are not able to interpret new ideas and they don't handle change very well.
Family gathering.
If you've ever been involved in debating politics with family or friends, it's a touchy subject and tends to lead into an argument. I've noticed that debates go nowhere, people will go on for hours back and forth and still believe what they believe in the end. The problem is, no one wants to listen to each other. We always want to be right, and if someone proves us wrong we take it personally. We don't need to always be right because when we are wrong is when we learn. I know from my own experience, if someone presents information to me that proves me wrong, I won't take it well. After taking a second to breathe, I'll accept being wrong and change my opinion.
Questions are healthy for learning.
We need to teach people to be more open to questioning things. This is how we move forward if we don't question what we know, how do we know we are right? Especially when most of the information is given to us. If you took something you learned in school, besides math and language, you can find holes in the plot. Science and history have been completely manipulated and changed.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell
No censorship
I think if we allowed outside opinions to be a part of the discussions people would automatically start questioning what they were taught. In 2008, when Ron Paul went mainstream he did bring a lot of these great topics to the debates. No one even knew what The Federal Reserve was before Ron Paul exposed it. The "crazy" ideas are the ones that allow us to learn. When a company is failing, they will bring in an outside perspective to see where it can be fixed. Sometimes it takes two pairs of eyes to make sense of something. That's why the internet has been so powerful, we are able to share ideas freely and teach each other knowledge. I used to dislike school, it wasn't until I graduated that I realized I enjoyed learning. I believe there is a lot of truth in the statement "knowledge is power." The more knowledge you have about how the system functions, the more you are able to maneuver around it. The information is out there, it is up to you to find it. The secret of the elite is knowledge.
