"To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle Dance, Bum rush the speaker that booms I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom"  - Vanilla Ice 

Threads like this are needed for people to understand why "Cool story bro" is an invaluable part of the internet subculture.
 

It feels like I'm reading a paraphrasing of 1984 or something.

"Some people drink Pepsi
Some people drink Coke
The wacky morning DJ 
Says democracy's a joke"
- John McCrea


"He is handling the money
He is serving the food
He is now accepting callers 
He is calling me "DUDE!"
Do you believe 
In the one big sign
The doublewide shine 
On the bootheels of your prime"     
- John McCrea

The world is better than ever.

"Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse, Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force." - John McCrea    

Hey look guys, we got our own George Orwell.

" We have finally come to a point that the middle class of the diamond structure is crushed.  The high class is reaping the benefits while the rest of us much larger in numbers won't do anything about it.  It's become the norm for a politician to sell out... to the corporations and it's not exaggerating to say that it's them who run the system now.  They have conditioned us since birth... using social-psychological processes such as  obedience to authority, conformity, rationalization, groupthink, deindividuation, stereotyping, and prejudice.  We have truly become mere pawns in the hands of those who have it all... Those who use their riches to make these pawns do whatever they want for them. We have truly become slaves without realizing it. I am truly in awe about what this society has become...  There was a flaw in the system of capitalism... and the evil in humanity's hearts exposed it.  With ignorance of what has been done to them the pawns keep working in the scheme hoping that they themselves might become a King.But this mentality just strengthens the system they made us run on. Like hamsters.   ... We have got used to this kind of life... conditioned for so long... to chase after money, sex and all the things in life that might bring us happiness (Maybe it's because we've been conditioned to feel that that's the lifestyle we should have?). And we do this all while not even realizing some of the things that affect us all...   And that's the thing that's affecting me most... We live in this sort of world but people don't even realize or do they even care. The truth is the government has been researching and perfecting their art of influencing people's attitudes for centuries but people don't think that they have their freedoms.... in a sense taken away from them.  It's quite interesting that we live in a world where there's so many that are disillusioned; in this whole clash of things to not see... the state of the world were in...  It feels like the calm before a storm... "

"  "All in the game yo, all in the game."~ Omar       "

" @mylifeforAiur said:

"  "All in the game yo, all in the game."~ Omar       "

I bleed red and you bleed green. - Avon Barksdale "

" @HS21 said:

" @mylifeforAiur said:

"  "All in the game yo, all in the game."~ Omar       "

I bleed red and you bleed green. - Avon Barksdale "

"Hey Kunta Kenta ...Yabba Dabba Doo...Motherfucker"~ William "Bunk" Moreland "

" @mylifeforAiur said:

" @HS21 said:

" @mylifeforAiur said:

"  "All in the game yo, all in the game."~ Omar       "

I bleed red and you bleed green. - Avon Barksdale "

"Hey Kunta Kenta ...Yabba Dabba Doo...Motherfucker"~ William "Bunk" Moreland "

 I'll do what I can to help y'all. But, the game's out there, and it's play or get played. That simple.  - Omar Little   "

" @HS21 said:

" @mylifeforAiur said:

" @HS21 said:

" @mylifeforAiur said:

"  "All in the game yo, all in the game."~ Omar       "

I bleed red and you bleed green. - Avon Barksdale "

"Hey Kunta Kenta ...Yabba Dabba Doo...Motherfucker"~ William "Bunk" Moreland "

 I'll do what I can to help y'all. But, the game's out there, and it's play or get played. That simple.  - Omar Little   "

"Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet"~ Clay Davis.   "

" @thefreed said:

" We have finally come to a point that the middle class of the diamond structure is crushed.  The high class is reaping the benefits while the rest of us much larger in numbers won't do anything about it.  It's become the norm for a politician to sell out... to the corporations and it's not exaggerating to say that it's them who run the system now.  They have conditioned us since birth... using social-psychological processes such as  obedience to authority, conformity, rationalization, groupthink, deindividuation, stereotyping, and prejudice.  We have truly become mere pawns in the hands of those who have it all... Those who use their riches to make these pawns do whatever they want for them. We have truly become slaves without realizing it. I am truly in awe about what this society has become...  There was a flaw in the system of capitalism... and the evil in humanity's hearts exposed it.  With ignorance of what has been done to them the pawns keep working in the scheme hoping that they themselves might become a King.But this mentality just strengthens the system they made us run on. Like hamsters.   ... We have got used to this kind of life... conditioned for so long... to chase after money, sex and all the things in life that might bring us happiness (Maybe it's because we've been conditioned to feel that that's the lifestyle we should have?). And we do this all while not even realizing some of the things that affect us all...   And that's the thing that's affecting me most... We live in this sort of world but people don't even realize or do they even care. The truth is the government has been researching and perfecting their art of influencing people's attitudes for centuries but people don't think that they have their freedoms.... in a sense taken away from them.  It's quite interesting that we live in a world where there's so many that are disillusioned; in this whole clash of things to not see... the state of the world were in...  It feels like the calm before a storm... "

Reads like a Metal Gear monologue. "

I don't get why it's so hard to explain to you guys... I think it's just too big of a subject to let someone else know all at once... 

Anyway go watch Capitalism: A love story... that has facts that prove my point of view. Or read this article by Thomas Paine 

http://mises.org/daily/2897     
Tyler Durden: An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy poo we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. 
 
"It does not matter if the war is not real. The war is not meant to be won but to be continuous. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance."

-George Orwell, 1984  
"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
Aldous Huxley 
 
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
Aldous Huxley  
 
"One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters."
Aldous Huxley 
 
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."
Aldous Huxley  
 
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  
 

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell  
 
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell 
 
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell  
 
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell  
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell  
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell  

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell  
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
Dresden James  
 
 
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister 
 
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” Adolf Hitler

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Lenin

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Albert Einstein

“An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought.” Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Secretary of War

“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.” Aldous Huxley

“Oh what a wicked web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” Adolf Hitler

“We allow the most atrocious lies uttered by political and moral prostitutes to go unchallenged. These lies are endlessly recycled in the commercial media until they become ingrained in the public conscience as truth. Worse than burying our heads in the sand, we bury them up our collective ass. How do you like the view?” Charles Sullivan

“The history of the race, and each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” Mark Twain

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” Mark Twain

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” Gustave Le Bon

“The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the ‘secrets’ which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.” E.P. Thompson, British historian  
 
Look you have probably heard things like this... and it should still be vague. 
 
All I am trying to do is make you aware... That the feeling you had "deep down" that the government is evil... because they sell out to these corporations for money... and with both of their power they have created an economic climate that is intrinsically unfair to the citizens. 
 
But the "trying to influence people's attitudes" has been going around since the dawn of the Government.... because at the start when the people don't feel allegiance toward your country... and they just go wherever is stable or has an interesting culture... they needed to use these techniques to stay strong and survive as a nation, I believe. 

 
Those who are intuitive enough will know what I am talking about.... 
 
I am trying to explain... but even if I do... I don't think you guys will be able to understand this if you don't already. You might be able to if you keep thirsting after it...

 It feels like the calm before a storm...    

" @Red12b: huh? The Tyler Durden quote is from the movie lol "

The Longest Journey FTW.

" @Jeust: hmmm that sounds curiously like shin megami tensei... I like that series too :P. "

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."
James Madison 
 
"There are truths which can kill a nation."
Jean Giraudoux     
 
What I really want you guys to understand is that... we've come to a time that the truth is stranger than fiction. 
There is only set amounts of money in the world... Most of them get bought by money. 
Who's pockets do you think that money's coming from? 
If you look at history... You can tell. Those people that tryed to tell the truth. 
But people didn't understand... They laughed at it, were against it... 
Simply because it wasn't "familiar" to them. 
And as they say men trusts most the conclusions they have found for themselves. 
 
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.- Dresden James 

 What I am saying is... Just be mindful of the world around you. Try to look at what's happening in the world.
I know we have our own "worlds" but we sometimes have to get out from it and look at the world that's affecting us all.
Where are we going? What have we arrived to?  
 What is the truth? 
 
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer 
 
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” Niccolo Machiavelli 
 
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell 
 
 
I am fighting against the top 1% that we 99% have been enslaved by. 
We've been led aside by all the soothing theatrics, games and fun in this world that we have forgotten that were living in a corrupted world. 
 
The corruption in men's hearts... Is this truly the face of the world?