A few years ago, the wife and I were deeply engrossed in a series called Breaking Bad. About mid-way through the 3rd season, I looked over at her and said, "You DO realize dear, that this show has us cheering on a drug-dealer?!?"
Now, years later, Netflix has managed to have us a actually feeling sorry for the Royal Family...
Strange how easily the mind is manipulated
One has to be very wary of being swayed by carefully constructed viewpoints that don't present an honest holistic view. My pet peeves along this regard have been in terms of copyright, encryption, and patents. For example, having a group of pundits assembled around a table proclaiming that government must have a "
backdoor" to break encryption to save us from terrorists and other bad guys. They seldom mention, if ever, that once a "
backdoor" is imposed, encryption will become meaningless, in a general context. Missing is the fact that third parties will then begin to develop and distribute "
unauthorized" encryption that will be unbreakable. Furthermore, there have been a lot of people, like Snowden and Manning, who for whatever reason, leak secrets. So once any government encryption keys are released, the "
backdoor", once again becomes useless.
On a lighter note, I wonder how many people actually fall for the spiel and buy the products advertised in the "
wait, order now and we will send you a second ..." commercials? Most of these commercial are over the top, but still it is "
Strange how easily the mind is manipulated."
