{"id":5666,"date":"2012-10-23T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:17:23","slug":"at-what-price-do-we-pay-our-mortgages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/at-what-price-do-we-pay-our-mortgages\/","title":{"rendered":"At what price do we pay our mortgages?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Political content warning: This post will contain statements that may include political points of view and\/or be contrary to the narrative currently espoused by the corporate media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vladimir<\/a>
Vladimir Lenin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This election season, all the stops have been pulled out.\u00a0 Massive amounts of money have flowed into the accounts of political candidates for nearly every office though out the land.\u00a0 Over and over again, we hear political advertisements about this, that or the other candidate doing something unethical or just plain wrong.\u00a0 Is it true? Is it a lie?\u00a0 Does it matter?\u00a0 What effect does this have on the general population?\u00a0 If psychological studies are correct, hearing the same statement repeated several times, people will tend to believe it, even if they are not paying attention.\u00a0 As George W. Bush once said while he was President of the United States:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is the same mechanism used to brainwash<\/a> people into religious cults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we merely electing people because they have enough money to pay for the advertising required?\u00a0 Are they qualified to figure out how to fix and get the economy going again, or are they simply rich enough to buy the election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At what point do we look at our own employment and our roles at various media outlets and wonder what connection it has with the current political and economic conditions in the US?\u00a0 For myself, I almost never listen to the radio stations that I do work for, other than to evaluate technical quality.\u00a0 As far as the programming content, I honestly could not tell you whether station X plays polka or top forty.\u00a0 However, even with that limited listening and knowledge, it is impossible not to miss the political propaganda on the airwaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What role has the current media model played in the election of corrupt (or at least inept) public officials? What role is the current media model playing in the partisan, divide and conquer, keeping the masses distracted while they finish the looting scheme?\u00a0 When do we become concerned that, even in a small supporting role, we are enabling the brainwashing of the general public?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all have our own financial responsibilities, and that is true.\u00a0 However, perhaps it is time to step back and look at the big picture.\u00a0 There are many parallels in the history of humanity between the current situation in the US and other, long-gone governments like Rome, The Ottoman Empire, The Weimar Republic, and the former USSR.\u00a0 It’s time to ask, where are we going and what is going to happen when we get there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political content warning: This post will contain statements that may include political points of view and\/or be contrary to the narrative currently espoused by the corporate media outlets. This election season, all the stops have been pulled out.\u00a0 Massive amounts of money have flowed into the accounts of political candidates for nearly every office though … Continue reading At what price do we pay our mortgages?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}