Who is pulling your strings?

"In an emergency our psychological template is different. We are anxious and fearful. We accept the authority of a leader; we do as we are told."*

Wouldn't it be very beneficial for those in authority to create pseudo-emergencies to accomplish their goals? Maybe people should view the claims of potential threats in a different way and ask a few questions before bowing to the authorities that have the most to gain from their submission.

(1) What is the potential threat?

(2) Who is threatening us?

(3) Who is the one proclaiming that there is an emergency?

(4) What do they want us to do?

(5) If we do what they want, who will financially benefit from it?

(6) What benefits will those in authority receive?

(7) Who will be harmed?

(8) Who will pay the money that others will receive?

Puppets react when someone pulls their strings. The spin-doctors are master puppeteers who maintain their power by pulling the strings of the uninformed. The next time someone pulls one of your strings, find out who is pulling, why, what they will gain, and who will be harmed -- especially if it is your political, economic, educational or religious strings. Get the facts and cut the strings!

* (The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby; p. 79)

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