I've long ago concluded that the American public is subjected to the most sophisticated system of mass propaganda the world has ever known (or suffered), bar none. And, I've concluded that ALL social dysfunction can be traced back to the effects corporate-owned media propaganda has on the population.

I have come to see the system of propaganda in the United States as a very sophisticated PsyOps tool (cognitive malware) that has been deployed throughout the entire society. Google, Facebook, Twitter, countless of other apps and social media sites, all operating based on sophisticated algorithms that constantly analyze our behavior (as individuals, and as groups), end up controlling us, even if in a very tenuous, just below the surface (of consciousness) manner.

The New York Times, WaPo, SF Chronicle, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, San Diego Union Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, PBS, HuffPo, Salon, Daily Kos, CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, FoxNews, CBS, CNBC, and the entire universe of corporate-owned media and news outlets most Americans are exposed to have an incredible amount of influence over the way we think and behave, on a daily basis.

What is it that they hide? The current system--some call it Neoliberalism, market fundamentalism, or capitalism--has totally failed; it is taking its last breath, thrashing about. It can't be saved, reformed, rebuilt. It's done. From its ruins, something new is emerging (even if people are not conscious about it yet), as people seek to create a better society, having realized that the depraved nature of the current system can't meet people's yearning for justice, safety, common decency.

At some level, this awakening is spreading across the world, in Athens, and New York, San Francisco, Barcelona, Rome, San Juan, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, and it is manifesting itself in several "convulsions," whether Occupy Wall Street, Los Indignados, or Barcelona en Comú, Syriza, Zapatistas.

The reason for this is the same: the brutal and depraved supra-national regime of Neoliberalism (imposed by financial and corporate cartels, and their tools, like the IMF, World Bank, fake NGOs) are extremely organized, wreaking havoc in country after country, pillaging, looting, exploiting human and natural resources to satisfy their unquenchable greed.

This supra-national "system" still remains somewhat hidden from the consciousness of most people, but as social justice activists continue their struggle, it is slowly beginning to be revealed, little by little.

There will come a time--it could be any time, any day--when the understanding about exactly how this system (international Neoliberalism) is structured, and operates, will be fully revealed and understood by a significant segment of the populations being affected by it. And when that day comes, the system will fall in such a cataclysmic manner that it will catch everybody by surprise. People will say they didn't see it coming; that they never thought a system that looked almost omnipotent in its brutal control and oppression, could actually come and end so swiftly.

But future historians will write that the process that led to its demise took several decades...

At the end, that's what the massive propaganda we're being exposed to, 24/7, is trying to prevent, or delay. Add to that massive surveillance, infiltration of ALL social justice groups by government and corporate goons.

But these depraved fucks, the ruling elite, won't be able to stop the tsunami of righteousness that will sweep the world once people wake up to the true nature of the system.

So now, here's the (temporary) challenge... When I talk to you, I can tell within 30 seconds if you're being distracted, manipulated, controlled, by these propaganda systems. I can tell if you listen to PBS's war propaganda, or to MSNBC's "analysis," or God-forbid, CNN, NYT, or FoxNews. And so I'll know that if you think those outlets are legit, or if you post stuff on Facebook, or Twitter all the time, and think their psychographical algorithms don't affect you, then I'll know it may take you a little bit longer to free your mind from the corporate state control. But if you are a truth-seeker, you'll eventually come to realize the true nature of those "tools" of the corporate state, and you will find a way to free yourself from them. And at that point, you and others thus awakened, will bring the entire system down, in favor of a new era.

In my opinion, the following quote attributed to John Swinton (1829–1901), perfectly summarizes the role of the corporate-owned media:

There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

My suggestion? The sooner you come to terms with the true nature and purpose of the corporate media landscape in the U.S., the sooner you'll free yourself from the control of the depraved ruling elite. And at that point, you'll be on your way to real freedom.