Mind control

I was watching an interview with Noam Chomsky where he explains why he is not invited to night talk-shows. In the words of the producer of one of them this is because he is not concise. As a matter of fact this is true, I have watched several interviews with him and he is quite prone to argument for a long time any point he is trying to make. In the same interview he justifies himself with the following argument: you can state anything that goes inline with the current power structures and it will be immediately accepted - Samdam Hussein's was a terrorist that used chemical weapons against his own population - But what happens if instead I use the following sentence, - Samdam Hussein's was a terrorist that used chemical weapons against his own population and was widely supported by the government of G. Bush (father) -

Noam Chomsky argument is that meanwhile both sentences are probably truth, the first one won't require any argumentation to be believed meanwhile the second one will require to show a long list of facts supporting it before it gets even partially accepted.

I guess it does not scape to anybody that there is a always a big effort from the different power centers to create mainstream opinion; newspapers, think-tanks, lobbies, "intellectuals"... all shouting with a single voice and trying to gear our thoughts in the same direction. Propaganda creates those streams of thought that are useful to the power centers to steer people's opinion in their own interest. If this was not bad by itself, as I think it is a coercion of the freedom of thinking, it may get even worse when used by people with obscure intentions.

You may have receive a very popular viral email that shows pictures of massive weddings in Gaza, if you do a search in Google (link) you will find some examples. The bottom line of the email was that girls as young as 11 years were forced to get married with Jihadist and that Hamas was sponsoring the marries with $500. All normal right? The Muslims are these horrible people that when are not killing are raping girls, right?
That is the mainstream thinking, right?

It happens that the pictures are true and the wedding in question took place, but the girls in the pcitures are the daughters of Palestinian death citizens ( soldiers / fighters?, I don't know...) that were killed during the latest Israely invasion of the Palestinian territories. The brides were the mothers of the girls in many cases marrying the brother of their death husbands as it is the tradition in the Muslim word.

The "power" created the main line of thinking so Occident would engage in an obscure war, now it is used by wrecked people like the neocon Dr. Paul L. Williams that has no problem in twisting the truth or showing us the partial bits of his interest and then we may receive one of these emails and we may even forward it, with the best of intentions to all our acquaintances. And then a lie told 1000 times becomes the truth.

As you can see if you reached up to here, if your argument in not the main stream, it is difficult to be concise.