You bring up some very good points, @jeff-kubitz. We grew up in a very different world but, in retrospect, the propaganda was even far reaching back then. Today our advanced tech allows for surveillance on an epic scale. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that all electronic communications are being monitored. This Presidential election cycle has shown how sophisticated the manipulation is. I'm going to really touch on this in the novel I'm working on now, Truth Is Stranger. In the book there's a group called, "SQ1" that is responsible for releasing a counter-story for every story released in the media...the result is a smokescreen so thick the public can't discern truth from fallacy.