Do you believe everything you see? If so, you may want to reconsider. In 1999, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted a study on the phenomenon of ‘inattentional blindness,’ subsequently publishing a video which dramatically supports their finding that it is remarkably easy for people to miss details in visual information simply because one is not looking Read More…
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Donald Trump the Crisis Actor: A Conspiracy to End All Conspiracy Theories
(Op-Ed) With each passing day the 2016 presidential campaign looks more and more like an angry subreddit moderated by a genetically engineered “double-y chromosome” man-child constructed from the DNA of David Icke and Alex Jones. Although it’s easy to dismiss this long, strange electoral trip as a passing political malady rising from America’s fever swamps, there are plenty of Read More…
Warfare Propaganda Equals Propaganda Warefare
George Orwell—sardonic political commentator through disturbed, poetic metaphor—forever changed the landscape of modern propaganda by mirroring traditional geopolitical trends of propaganda and transposing it onto a horrific, futuristic dystopian society. In addition to “1984,” most of Orwell’s work was politically charged, if not always philosophically charged, as even “Animal Farm” is known to be a Read More…