How Many Of You Associate Your Income With Your Self Worth?

"Lower class" was certainly an oversimplification for an abbreviated post, but yes, in a nutshell, we teach our kids that people who are swayed emotionally by mass media to consume based on typical brand positioning do not make financial decisions based on rational thought process.

The ability to control one's emotions long enough to take pause before making a purchase, and defining the basis of need vs. want, and then further exercising self control over want, demonstrates a mastery of one's self.

My understanding comes from working with multi-million dollar marketing research firms (like Burke) for many years. I understand the lengths that major consumer product firms go to in order to manipulate behavioral psychology. I also understand how the entire media industry has deconstructed society, and re-synthesized it based on the consumer behavior models that have been tested and proven. I'm talking about social engineering on a widespread scale that it borders on "The Matrix".

When someone lives at that eschelon for the length of time that I have, you realize how much of a facade the present social construct really is, and the purpose of its existence - a fundamental basis of our refusing to consume broadcast media.

We teach our children that to be able to transcend beyond the Wizard's Curtain, one must exercise emotional self-control, and disengage from the vectors of exposure. We replace these with time-tested knowledge that took thousands of years of civilization and human development to compile and evaluate.

You tell me who is stupid and who isn't.