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We act according to what we believe. (Obviously a true statement.) We believe according to how we are taught. (Also true -- and the key to control of people.)

Imagine you have access to the computer of an airliner that flies from Seattle to Miami. You want to divert it to Boston. You could program the computer to fly almost to Miami, then make a sudden left turn; or make slight left turns throughout the flight so the people don't realize the diversion!.

Control a country? Just make slight changes to the text books every few years over many decades. Don't quote important people, but have tailored stories written about them. Just omit things that a person's parents and grandparents were taught (or experienced). Don't teach people now to read cursive writing because they would be able to read what famous people wrote decades ago! Make them think the school text books are "the truth" and anythin! g else is unimportant. Kill curiosity! Replace "free speech" with "politically correct speech!" Control what children are allowed to say, and you control their minds.

Teach the children that the thinking of parents and grandparents is "old fashion" and not in touch with modern technology! Instruct them that "teachers and text books are right," to argue with their parent's knowledge, and perhaps think their parents are senile! The internet is the source of all "truth", so remove well researched books that contradict the internet from the libraries! Old encyclopedias contain false information because they do not agree with modern text books.

It is more important to teach the oppression of certain ethnic minorities than to teach the words of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others. Consider that they are now essentially being removed from high school Advanced Placement history education classes.

To deliberately change the words of Mark Twain, if you don't read the text books then you are uneducated. If you read the text books, you have been taught the propaganda. Research the work done by Edward L. Bernays. His book titled "Propaganda" (1928) details how populations are controlled.

Thomas Fancher

Moses Lake