Imagine a mother telling her child (who has a sweet tooth) not to eat any cookies before dinner. The child succumbs to the cookie temptation, but knows mom will be very mad. If mom were to ask if the child ate a cookie, is there motivation to lie? Of course there is. Having learned this game early on, the child grows up to become a powerful politician; facing cookie jars, risks, and potential rewards where much more is at stake than mom's wrath. Is the politician more or less likely to lie? It is logical that if we lie about little things, it is even more likely that we will lie about big things. We lie to ourselves and to each other all the time...so why do we tend to believe what ever our government tells us without evaluating their motivations and the facts?
"Don't believe everything you read"... heard that before? "History" as it is written, is a mixture of fact and fiction. It is up to us to evaluate what we are TOLD. If we weren't there to experience something first-hand, then we were TOLD about it...and like mom warned us: "don't believe everything you are told".
It is very easy to fake images, sounds and messages; and certain people and agencies have very strong motivations to do so. How many times do we have to be taken advantage of before we learn to evaluate what we are told before believing it? How many more scams, Watergates or Enrons do we need to experience before we get it? Even a KGB agent once admitted that the US propagandists were the true masters of the art of deception - as Americans have been trained since birth to believe anything their governments tells them without question. I seriously doubt one can find another country in the world so blindly trusting of their government.
We realize we lie to ourselves and others. We realize others lie to themselves and us. We realize our government is made of people. But somehow we don't think our government is capable of lying... as if being an "American" somehow makes us trustworthy. America is called the "melting pot" - we are an amalgamation of peoples from all over the world, yet we see ourselves as "different" from the rest of the world. We've got blind spots - if we refuse to look for them, we will not see them! If we take the labels off (only "people", no more "Americans", "Russians", "us" or "them"), and realize that we as a people are no different from everyone else, it becomes easier to see the truth.
There are many topics these days that have the potential to be major paradigm busters: the moon landings, Roswell, 9/11, the Secret Government, chemtrails, the list is long, and people get emotionally charged - for good reason. The biggest barrier to seeing things as they are, is our emotional attachment to how we want them to be. Are you emotionally biased? Ask yourself these questions: Do you refuse to discuss these topics? Do you get angry when someone asks you to discuss them? Do you refuse to look at evidence on its own merits? My advice: first examine the evidence as if you didn't care what the conclusion is. Then if the conclusion causes you to get angry, be sure to direct that anger in the right direction.
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