Reply #71: YES, you're very close to what I'm driving at

[Ufomammut]

Now, from that point, extend that theory beyond each person living within a family, peers, co-workers, etc, and realize that ...well, if you imagine stepping out of your world, your environment, and looking at it objectively like an ant colony, you'd begin to see all of these definable patterns emerging. Some of this "just happens" randomly, or, through enough people all choosing to believe and value in a similar way. However, that's only a part of it; there is another encompassing process at work, that is, how societies are organized and controlled, because there are people who control the country, right, and they're not about to let things move in a direction that is unbefitting to their primary methods of organization and control - which, in America, is based around militaristic goals and aims, and economy, which traditionally, rests with deceiving the public into subsidizing high end military technology through an allure of superficial consumption.

This is why people are so encouraged at this point in time to poo-poo "conspiracy theories;" because as our society crumbles, as everything slips out of control, that means more people are waking up to the true reality of what they think of and believe when they mentally envision "America."

So it's become highly necessary for the power structure and its many apologists and vehement defenders of all stripes to (hopefully) buy some more time with the continual promotion of "institutional analysis" as crazy "conspiracy theory." And it still works to an extent, because most people, in their timidity and perpetuation of conformity since being introduced into the "educational" system, have come to rely on appearances over substance, and are quite fearful of being thought of as "different." Fear is very effective for motivating people, second only to shame and guilt. See: organized religion.

Another way of seeing it is that there is virtually ZERO difference between what constitutes "education" or "entertainment" in America, and indoctrination. As you yourself have alluded to ...it's just that many people can't move from that point to seeing a cleaer picture of how brainwashing and thought control under freedom works; they refuse to see how everything, including some of their most personal beliefs and views, are controlled and managed, at least tinted and influenced, as those beliefs and values come from a strategically offered pool of beliefs and values that are tailored and framed by their socieites Establishment structure.