It has been apparent for some time, though many have tried to argue differently, that we are deeply entrenched in a war here at home. This isn’t the war on terror (my sympathies go out to all the victims of last night's Manchester Arena bombing); this war is much more subtle and perhaps even more difficult to combat. This is the war for your mind.

Before we continue, I need to make one thing abundantly clear: ‘Journalism’ in America is dead. More than that, it has been co-opted into a weapon to be used against the American people. U.S. mainstream journalism is patient zero of a zombie outbreak and its trusting readers are the victims on who's brains it feeds. Dramatic? Maybe, but it is important to point out that outlets like The New York Times, the Washington Post, and TV stations CNN, MSNBC and FOX News all have agendas that they push in hopes of guiding the actions of the population. They manufacture consent, outrage, anxieties, and hopes. More and more they dictate truth rather than seek it out.

Mainstream media is such played out terminology that I hesitate to use it in this piece, as I don’t want you, dear reader, to shut down at its utterance. It is a fitting term, but perhaps it would be better if I used a different phrase, perhaps 'corporate media' would be a better description? It is all semantics, but the important thing to note is that in America, you don’t have a choice in your news coverage, only the illusion of choice. This has been repeated so often I don’t wish to spend much more time on it, but I will say this: If you don’t want to believe that major corporations and private billionaires would use their media platforms to control narratives (and in turn the population), that does not mean others are conspiracy theorists, it suggests you are a coward and a fool... but ignorance is bliss, so I wish you well.