Chapters 1-3

Chapters 1-3

It seems that there is an underlying theme about all of the deception strategies listed in chapers 1 through 3 of Unspun: all of these techniques work because the general public is basically incompetent and incapable of coming to their own conclusions. Whether this is true or not is arguable, but in a way, irrelevant. What matters more is how we came to be this way. We were once a race of people who evolved from neanderthals to create vast empires and complex schools of thought, and now, now we buy snake oil because we beleive it will cure aging. It seems that there is a massive campaign of distraction underway to dumb down society and make them into mindless consumers. I dont want to come off as some conspiracy theorist, but we did not do this too ourselves. There has to be an agenda being perpetrated by someone somewhere to make us this submissive mass that eats whatever is fed to us.