Scratching the Surface

Great video, always inspiring, books are helpful in changing the mindset, rightly shared by @russellstockley, knowledge is the key to be an effective orator thus influencing people to change their perspective.

There is definite Power in popular opinion, Advertisers have been using it for years and years :)
Synchronicity of thought in a community is quite commonplace because the context of the community often drive content.
Its like the Mexican wave at a Football match, one starts, then two, then 4, then 8, then the exponential growth just takes on a life of its own.
As a community starts to share information the rest of the community will start to be on the same path and when the context of the path ultimately has the same goal then all will start to expound the cause.

It is great that so many in a community can be on the same page, it is what conditions change.

Thanks for the post mention :)

This is what I call an amazing well built up argumentation my friend!

Some years ago newspapers and news agencies where actually employing journalists to report on stuff. The problem with reduced income from ads is that journalists are expensive and so newspapers have to let most of the journalists go. They probably keep just some reporters for the local news. For the national and international news, about 99% of the articles are bought from news agencies and when your read several newspapers you will see the same articles everywhere.

The problem with that is that the concept of independent media is a big joke. The articles and reports come all from the same big agencies. The people who control these agencies, control the message that the big majority of the people hear and that leads us to become all formated in the same way....

YES! This resonated for me so much (as I am sure you know ;) ). Critical thinking is SO important. Books can help with that in their own way, but also diving deeper into what we are being told, especially nowadays. We no longer can have the luxury of ignoring what is being pumped at us. MSM continues to pump lies & fear in a "seductive" way to get many to fall in line & not ask questions. This is very dangerous.

It is time we step out of that fear & ask the questions, do the research & take back our power that a lot of us so willingly give to the media & other influencing agencies.

The example of the liberarian was interesting because it shows that we can have the power to "influence" in either a positive way or negative way. Each of us can plant seeds for others to see or hear, but it's up to us what kind of impact we want to have ultimately. I know that I want to be different ;)

Thanks for an awesome video, Zoltan. You truly inspire me. 💖

Great video Zoltan, and yeah news agencies and online platforms are all manipulating what we see all the time, so critical thinking is very important, and also decentralized platforms, keep up your great work.

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I have both a B.A. in History and a Masters in Library and Information Science. The most important skill I have learned from all those years in school is critical thinking and not just taking things at face value. There is always, always, always more than one point of view. I also worked in a library in a very small town. I spent my hours behind the Circulation Desk listening to people whine about having to pay overdue fines for the materials they just forgot to bring back. I didn't stay in the Library field because there was way too much politics involved. That gets old real fast.

Critical thinking is super important

I sometime read 2-3 pages of google search results.

Still I feel more comfortable in reading a "paper' book instead of online pdfs . Paper book give a feeling of reading a book that I never get by reading pdfs.

This falls in line with the racial turmoil currently playing out in the United States. Like the saying goes, "history is written by the victors". The dominant people in power are the one's whose message is generally accepted. Now that public opinion is being re-evaluated, people are looking to change that history.

Take the pandemic, for instance. Are we getting the truth, or the message the government wants us to have?

Another issue is the cash shortage. We have never run out of cash before. Why are we now? Do you think this might be a ploy by the people driving for a cashless society?

It is as you said...we need to be bold enough to question the ones in power and think for ourselves. Thanks for posting this thought provoking message.

Books are so important. Helps us to create better. Nice Piece of writing

Great story about the librarian in your town

Great video, books are invaluable. They can do so much for us from entertainment to higher learning.

This was a great story and it makes me think of George Orwell's book 1984. In this book the government does away with real history and creates a fiction to make everyone conform. It was kind of like the news and media of today how they make up false truths about what is really going on in the World. It amazes me how so many people can be controlled so easily without questioning what is being said.

Centralized media have a lot of power to change the general view of something. You might disagree with that. It is because they do it in a such a way we don't realize that.

To get to the first page of Google, you cannot just write about anything and it magically appears on the first page of Google. You need to write about something that people are looking for and interested to know about that. Thank you @ph1102 for sharing your thoughts.

Come to think of it, I forgot to leave a comment here. LOL! Too sleepy last night that it slipped my mind. Anyway, I thank you for your suggestion that I stop watching the news and do a social media detox in terms of current events. My perspective has changed so much for the better once I did that. :)