TOPIC: Do you believe there is a conspiracy to dumb down and control society?

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It keeps the fisherman and the deck-hand at sea through the winter; it holds the miner in his darkness, and nails the countryman to his log cabin and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. It keeps different social strata from mixing. Already at the age of twenty-five you see the professional mannerism settling down on the young commercial traveller, on the young doctor, on the young minister, on the young counsellor-at-law. You see the little lines of cleavage running through the character, the tricks of thought, the prejudices, the ways of the ‘shop,’ in a word, from which the man can by-and-by no more escape than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. On the whole, it is best he should not escape. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

My Initial thoughts were Conspiracy theories and the internet are dumbing down society.

What do low income hood folks that you speak to talk about?

Here the talk about the illuminati, via hip hop rap and some pop culture references to the subject is fairly well known amongst younger people in the lower economic spheres, it generally is used to reinforce anti political, anti-educational, anti-cooperational, lawless capitalist anarchist ideology.

Conspiracy theories do imo dumb down people's analysis of the forces at work in history and current events, they dismiss the main forces imo and say "it's the rothschild's that did that, we just need to get the Rothies and the Luminati and things can go back to normal again

Yesterday i had an hour long talk with a well educated 26 year old black American Muslim man about Ramadan fasting, war, the media & entertainment industry, Jews, Farrakhan, the banking system, M.I.C, Eating Pork, Girls in Muslim Countries getting executed in the street while crowds cheer because they wan't education, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman NOT being white, The statistics of urban crime and how 95% of black people in the US that get shot do so by other African Americans, rap music, Obama, drones, solutions, conspiracy theories ect....

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Then he managed to get away muttering what the fuck is that guy on...