The media and advertisements have major illusions within themselves. The media gives the illusion that there is constant danger and that no one is safe by only focusing on the stories about murder and theft. Everyone locks their doors at night, puts alarms on their cars, watches their children carefully, has security cameras, because the media has shown that 1 in a million chance of it happening and made it seem like an every day occurrence. They tell us that the numbers of crimes and murders have risen which scares us but do we take in the consideration of our Population rise? Society's desensitization to violence? Both families working to survive and the child raising themselves? With how much the population has risen in the past 50 years, 20 years, it only makes sense that crime rises with it. So it’s not much different then it was 30 years ago, its not that the population stays the same and crime keeps rising, it changes with the population. But their focus is not to make you feel better. Illusions within Advertisement is that everyone looks this certain way except you and that you will only be liked if you have and wear their products. They pull you in by having Famous stars that are beautiful and tall and thin and tell you that you should look like them because ... well ... who wouldn’t want to? And the guys in the commercials who get the girl just because they smell good but might have no personality and they are nicely built but that means they have to spend most of their relationships in the gym to obtain that beaut of a bod. They fail to mention how many shots it might have taken to get the star to look that way, the right lighting, how long it takes to put on the make-up, digitally playing with the lighting after the shot, making sure all the colours match.
Manipulation is all over the world. It’s how we are ruled and how we are controlled. The government has to have a way to get us all to follow and do what they say and be scared into trusting them so that they don't have to worry about we the people wanting them gone and enabling them to rule. They give the illusion that what they do is right because they control a fair amount so that we see the good and not the bad in their choices. And make us think we don't have to worry about it by manipulating us and getting us to see what the government wants us to see and that means that we will not question what they do because that's how we are brought up and we are supposed to trust this authority figure so we follow along. We have grown up following these rules of illusions and now they are normal to us, we no longer think about the many possibilities that can go along with everything within the world and we only think about what it is that we see just as it is and not a bigger picture of it and what we see is controlled. We don't question things anymore. Take 9/11 for example. Ask around and you will find that a lot of people, American and Canadian, do not know about the third tower that fell and they will not have heard the creator of the buildings say that they were not supposed to fall like that. Ask around and the majority of people will agree it was a terrorist attack. Ask the few people that were able to look past what the government showed us and told us to believe, and they will say that it does not add up. Fear of other Countries and fear of each other is what keeps a population trusting the Government to keep us safe and keeps us easier to rule. There’s nothing to fear but fear itself unless its a Muslim, Jew, or Christian, because ones got bombs and the ones got something bigger then us that we cant understand and that’s scary, Right?. There’s this massive illusion of fear that is in our every day lives and we don’t know how it would be to live without fear because we never have. We may think its not there and we might not notice it but do you lock your car door? Do you lock you house doors? Do you lock your windows? Do you cross the road when certain people are walking towards you? A Nation confident in them, wealthy and peaceful is harder to rule. Why? Because what’s there to stop them from having an up rise when the Government turns around and says pass a law or do something they said they weren’t going to.
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