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Money is said to be "the root of all evil." This is arguably the truest statement ever uttered. There is no doubt that money can bring out the worst in a person. In its smallest value it can turn friends into bitter enemies, break up marriages, and destroy lives. However, if you were to observe our society and its insatiable thirst for this so called evil resource the beginning statement would seem like a myth. In general we are all on a "paper chase." it costs money to live in this world and we Americans seem to do anything for a dollar. Of course it’s nice to be financially stable, and in this day in age we need at least enough money to maintain a peace of mind and support our families, but where do we draw the line? The reason money is a common denominator is because it keeps us in constant conflict with each other trying to obtain this resource that we can never get enough of. A resource so regulated that there literally isn't enough for everyone to break even. If you ask me the way the system is set up it seems as though it is built to fail. So many people are enslaved to the monetary system and don’t even understand its ironic outcome. They are blind to the fact that our country thrives off of debt and that there would be no upper class if there wasn't a lower class. The system is designed to keep the majority of the people in debt and slaves to their jobs. This can be illustrated in a simple application. Say the government barrows 750 million from the federal bank to stimulate the economy. it barrows this money at some interest rate to make all sort of loans to the American people, of course, with interest attached. Well, if the 750 million is the total amount of money we have in our economy how are we expected to acquire all of that money PLUS interest to pay back to the government if that was all we had from the jump? This is where the intangible money comes into play. This is formally known as credit which is used to help you climb further into the whole do to impulse and future buying behaviors.
The monetary system is structured and regulated by people at the tip top of the social chain. It’s almost like a game of musical chairs. There are never enough seats for everyone in the game. When the music stops people will push, shove, kick, and cut you to stay in the game and that’s the whole idea. There just isn't enough to go around and it causes the people at the bottom to stay in constant conflict and competition scuffling over the pennies left over in the economy just to rake in enough money to survive for one more month. The monetary system has one of the tightest grips on our society. It is truly the new form of slavery except it doesn't discriminate on color. The only thing about the new slavery is that you have to earn your own keeps. No longer does the master have to clothe and feed you. You are responsible to get out and make due for yourself and your family and if you don't nobody cares because we are too individualized and aren’t willing to help one another.

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"Don't sit too close to the TV. It will blind you." this is a phrase that has been used in every household at some point. And after a while we learned not to take this statement so literally, and that it was just a way parents kept us children from sitting to close to the tube, or was it?

if by blind you mean: sightless or having less than 1/10 of normal vision then
the above statement is faulty and there is no reason one cannot sit as close to
the TV as s/he wishes without any consequences. however, if by blind you mean:
unable or unwilling to discern or judge, the ability to know the facts and take
action accordingly, unable to see the propaganda and controlling elements
embedded in the messages, or lacking a directing or controlling consciousness,
then, the statement is absolutely true.

The corporate media has a strangle hold on our society. We know only what they want us to know because corporations own the media and grease the palms that flip the "on air" switches and edit the daily articles. instead of learning about what is really going on in our country and investigating the obvious lies that are dished out daily our reporters and journalist are out following celebs as if we are more interested in who's on drugs and who's having a new baby than the issues facing our lives, the health of our families, and the protection of our rights. The real news that America should be able to see never makes the air. More than 95% of the media is controlled by one group of people. With this much control over an extremely influential tool with a reach that, Rupert Murdoch says, is unmatched around the world it makes it so easy to make anyone look like an enemy or a terrorist. "We’re reaching people from the moment they wake up until they fall asleep" Murdoch says. It’s even easier to control head figures because of the ability to make someone look so bad to so many people in a short period of time. The media can even make protesters crying out for help seem like the antagonist. An example of this can be seen in the video corporate media vs. camcorders.
The reason the corporate media is on my list of denominators is because like the other denominators it promotes conflict and confusion in our society by way of deception and mind control. It has the ability to bring to life the chosen reality of its controller(s). There is no escaping its power because even if you seek truth they are always ready to throw misinformed curve balls in the game, and those who attempt to question the situation are frowned on as conspiracy theorist. This is simply a person who is willing to investigate and believe that the given cause for a particular situation may not be exactly true. How can you look negatively upon a person who checks the facts and has a difference in opinion, and is not naive enough to trust the word of mouth when the facts clearly say something different? Ultimately, all of this lack of information takes its toll on the society because a lot of people’s morals are built on the lies they have been taught to believe in form birth. Sometimes more than others it's not that a person doesn't believe what you are telling them, but the fact that they hope what you are saying isn't true. Think about it if you were 45 years old and you found out that the values and morals you and your family held near and dear are lies based on secrets made up in a private meeting as a part of a scheme to make money how would you feel? You would feel worthless and hope to GOD that somehow, even though the facts line up, this isn't true, and you didn't waste half of your life being deceived. In turn this causes jealousy, hatred, and more deception. So along as we are in tuned with the box we will grow further and further apart unwilling to help each other then we will surely fall.