5 Ways You Don’t Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-dont-realize-movies-are-controlling-your-brain/
For those of you who refuse to follow the link…
#5. No, You Can’t Separate Fact from Fiction
#4. Stories Were Invented to Control You
#3. The Writer of a Story Always Has an Agenda
#2. You Were Raised — and Educated — by Pop Culture
#1. Everything in Your Brain Is a Story
I think that each Cracked author is contractually required to have the word ‘dick’ in each article. Despite that, there are quite a few great ones there and I like this one a lot. We are all being led around by the myths we believe in (despite the best efforts of the Mythbusters) and what we believe in is a construct that has been built for us. Some of the construction is more obvious, but it is all due to our human nature to believe in stories we hear. We can try to deny our tendencies, but in many respects that makes us more vulnerable to exploitation. If you deny that you are capable of being trivially lead around by your biases, you can’t possibly recognize when it starts to happen thus making it impossible to choose to do something different.
The whole article has a lot of thought provoking stuff in it, I think it is really worth your time to read it…
