RE: Subjective Reality… Are You A Brain In A Vat?
the demon is the creature controlling what the brain has access too, and I am suggesting there are people in the real world limiting our access to and feeding us false information that essentially reduces us to brains in a vat
I can see that metaphorically, yes.
if you see a commertial and you buy something you have no need for, is this not controlling someone else actions? politicians studing words and phrases to convince people to agree with them is this not controlling peoples thoughts and actions?
yes, I was thinking of something like this in my first reply. we are on the same page here.
I would be careful if I was you ignoring the reality all around you and getting lost in your psychology and sociology articles.
ha! I'm pretty far outside the box! as in, no academic future for someone who thinks like me! I learned from journal articles, but i see a combination of self-imposed limitations and funding realities that stifle some kinds of research or discussion that is against the state or against prevailing culture... similar to what you are saying, but perhaps with a different slant to it.
It goes much much deeper than mere commercial and polls, that is just the most obviously true and easy to demonstrate. It goes much much much deeper. Religions are a huge example. If your religious imagine people of a different religion and keep in mind the believe it just as strongly. They grew up in that system, so their reality is limited to this religion. But it goes deeper still. History is nothing but lies for the most part. the news is mostly lies and disinformation. The movies are loaded with messages that repeat over and over in a sublte fashion and have measurable changes over time. Music is the same. Culture is created from the top, the celeberties are picked for reasons and promoted to put out certain message they want people to follow. I could go on and on, we are kept busy and feed endless amounts of entertainment so we never have time to learn to think. the average person is fully under control of those at the top setting these agendas. (and if you don't believe there is an agenda how do you explain the same messages being put out across different platforms all at the same time, that is an agenda and where does it come from... the top)