Tuesday, February 10, 2009
What Lines Are You Buying?
It is strange the lines we swallow sometimes. Or, maybe I should say, it is amazing the lines today’s social engineers try to get us to swallow. I’ve noticed that we are most likely to fall for the concepts that are cleverly inserted into movies, books and newscasts. For some reason ideas presented in some formal media format, or by some well-known personality, are automatically given more credibility. With our knowledge of the great propaganda schemes of world history, you would think we would be a bit more discriminating, but, I guess human nature doesn’t change much; the same old tricks keep catching us by surprise.
Permit me to share one example of how a very easily proven lie can be carefully inserted into a movie script only to have many people unthinkingly accept it as truth. In 1998 a very politically-biased movie was released. The movie was emotionally powerful and well-made. The directing and acting was good enough that the film won the ASCAP Award and was nominated for six other awards including an Academy Award. At one point in the movie, the main character, a well-known actor who has won an Oscar as well as 43 other awards, made this statement: “In all God’s creation, only human beings kill their own species.”
Obviously the writer of that movie skipped their eighth-grade life science classes. Few statements can be more easily disproven. Anyone who has ever raised hamsters knows to remove the male from a cage with newborns, because, if he can get past the mother, he will often eat his own children. Books like Call of the Wild have accurately demonstrated why the phrase “dog eat dog” exists. Many of us have seen cats kill cats. We don’t even have to leave home to see that such a statement is foolish.
Furthermore, just a few minutes of research will reveal that animal life is often just as violent if not more violent than mankind. Some animals, such as chimpanzees and ring-tailed lemurs engage in the systematic extermination of another group of the same species. Leopards and killer whales have been observed hunting for amusement and then abandoning their prey. Herons, boobies, egrets, many eagles and falcons, hammerhead sharks and hyenas sometimes kill their own siblings. Many species, including rabbits, kill their own species in order to protect or enlarge their territory.
The truth is, someone connected with that movie was attempting to exalt animal life and diminish the dignity of human life, so they made up a “new truth.” They told a bold face lie, but they did it so blatantly that some people bought it. A quick online search of that statement will reveal that many people have picked up on that thought and repeated it as if it were true. The moral of the story: Don’t believe everything you hear in movies!
Now, it is true that humans are the only species that set up clinics to perform abortions. You will want to research that statement just to be sure, since you’re reading this in a formal media format. But, even if that statement is scientifically provable, I’m pretty sure you’ll never hear it repeated in a mainstream movie, because it doesn’t fit with the “new truths” that are being peddled nowadays.
A word to the wise: entire groups of people often buy into lies, because the lie fits their preferred view. Be careful as to what sources you trust. The more bad information I am exposed to, the more I appreciate time-proven, rock-solid, life-changing books like the Bible. Now, that is a Book full of lines that you can buy into – lines upon which you can bet your life!
Permit me to share one example of how a very easily proven lie can be carefully inserted into a movie script only to have many people unthinkingly accept it as truth. In 1998 a very politically-biased movie was released. The movie was emotionally powerful and well-made. The directing and acting was good enough that the film won the ASCAP Award and was nominated for six other awards including an Academy Award. At one point in the movie, the main character, a well-known actor who has won an Oscar as well as 43 other awards, made this statement: “In all God’s creation, only human beings kill their own species.”
Obviously the writer of that movie skipped their eighth-grade life science classes. Few statements can be more easily disproven. Anyone who has ever raised hamsters knows to remove the male from a cage with newborns, because, if he can get past the mother, he will often eat his own children. Books like Call of the Wild have accurately demonstrated why the phrase “dog eat dog” exists. Many of us have seen cats kill cats. We don’t even have to leave home to see that such a statement is foolish.
Furthermore, just a few minutes of research will reveal that animal life is often just as violent if not more violent than mankind. Some animals, such as chimpanzees and ring-tailed lemurs engage in the systematic extermination of another group of the same species. Leopards and killer whales have been observed hunting for amusement and then abandoning their prey. Herons, boobies, egrets, many eagles and falcons, hammerhead sharks and hyenas sometimes kill their own siblings. Many species, including rabbits, kill their own species in order to protect or enlarge their territory.
The truth is, someone connected with that movie was attempting to exalt animal life and diminish the dignity of human life, so they made up a “new truth.” They told a bold face lie, but they did it so blatantly that some people bought it. A quick online search of that statement will reveal that many people have picked up on that thought and repeated it as if it were true. The moral of the story: Don’t believe everything you hear in movies!
Now, it is true that humans are the only species that set up clinics to perform abortions. You will want to research that statement just to be sure, since you’re reading this in a formal media format. But, even if that statement is scientifically provable, I’m pretty sure you’ll never hear it repeated in a mainstream movie, because it doesn’t fit with the “new truths” that are being peddled nowadays.
A word to the wise: entire groups of people often buy into lies, because the lie fits their preferred view. Be careful as to what sources you trust. The more bad information I am exposed to, the more I appreciate time-proven, rock-solid, life-changing books like the Bible. Now, that is a Book full of lines that you can buy into – lines upon which you can bet your life!
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