I have been using a persuasion skill set for most of my adult life to help people see the world more clearly. And I know from experience that doing so isn’t a task the untrained can do. Your smart friends don’t have the right tools and techniques to get out of their mental prisons, and there’s a good chance that describes you as well. The business models of the press and social media act in concert to keep you in your mental prison, like some sort of indentured servant working on a click farm. As long as you are clicking on the media’s content, that’s all they need from you. And they know
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