>The most important thing to understand is that the masses of people do not have the ability for critical thought, and even if they know for a fact that something that is being promoted by the media is untrue, they will go along with it because the masses of other people are going along with it. >The ability for free thought is limited to a very small number of people. We are born with this ability hardwired into us, or we are born without it, and there is nothing anyone can do about that. >I need to go through and break this down in detail, with all of the examples. We were kind of approaching an understanding of this with the NPC meme, but I don’t think I did a good enough job explaining it. More than an explanation, we need data and examples.