Anyone been following the piece on "Good Morning America" with Diane Sawyer reporting from North Korea? It's been some pretty powerful stuff, and it just goes to show you how human's absorb whatever information is thrown at them whether it is credible or not. Every single person she talked to on the streets said that the U.S and U.N were bad and responsible for all the ills in the world. They could not, however, tell her one single thing about the U.S or any other country for that matter.
So I sat there thinking what a shame it was for people to be so locked out of the outside world, that they believed everything their government stated. After thinking about it for awhile I wondered is your average person in the "free world" any better off? Sure we know that individuals like Osama and Kim Zong are "bad", but do we really know why? Their ideology, philosophy, and policies aren't exactly reported by mass media. The media simply portrays them as evil, and the average person believes it to be so because contray evidence is not available. Sure they have claimed lives in the name of their beliefs, but what thought process has brought them to this position?
Of course people in the free world have the ability to research these philosophies, but how many objective sources would we come across? It's just a bit scary how things constantly blasted to us via various forms of media can sneak up on us and become true without even realizing. So I pose the question are "we" any better off then the so called brain washed N. Korean's? Relatively.....I am sure, but don't we fall victim to some of the same mind shaping tactics???