I'm sure that you have heard of the phrase “nothing in this world is free” I'm sure that you have born whiteness to the exhibition of this notion both theoretically and practically. But hold on one second now! What about that time that I went to the train station? Excuse me? A man gave me a free newspaper! Oh my apologies, I do seem to stand corrected, in this instance, a large group of individuals seem to have placed a high volume of energy, cash and assets just to deliver me with information that will benefit me. I cant think of any other reason that high ranking individuals within society, or military agencies, might be interested in pummelling my brain with more information than the Akashic records can even store. So to what end are these individuals so invested with the delivering of information to the population? Social-engineering has to be considered when we speculate about the power that these resources can hold. Certain newspapers are for certain classes, tailoring the objective relative to the mind of the consumer feasting upon it. I find it difficult to harmonize this notion whilst also trying to find what could be considered a more objective truth, although as time goes on I have to acknowledge the sheer impossibility of that statement. 

Knowing some things about history, in The Century of the Self” by Adam Curtis, we are introduced to one of my personal favourite top ranking despised members of society, Edward Bernays. Bernay's was the cousin of Sigmund Freud and employed the understanding of psychology towards socio-engineering. He did this in many forms and was employed by a wide range of clients, from politicians to celebrities and obviously more. In the fifties, the idea of women smoking was considered somewhat taboo, and the cigarette company Lucky Strike felt although they were losing fifty percent of their potential market. So they did the right thing, they hired Bernay's, who hired a psychologist, who told Bernay's that cigarettes are penis's. So then Bernay's initiated a women rights protest, during which, the women “protesting” would all ignite cigarettes on Bernay's cue and refer to them as “Torches of Freedom”. Linking the notion of American freedom with the act of women smoking, he would even of given Lady Liberty herself a snout if he could have. By linking these two concepts together, he was successfully able to integrate the act of women smoking into society.

All this was way before the notion of fake news, personally, I've more or less given up, navigating the complexities of the most basic of human connections that I experience is more than enough information than I am designed to handle. My life is more important to me than the believe that following the latest headline is going to provide my life with anything. As I said, too much time is spent on the delivering of this information for there to not arouse some level of suspicion. For your own benefit. Out of all of this though, there is one philosophy that might actually be kinda alright, maybe? Adolf Hitler has been re-animated by an alien race to bear birth to the biggest production of Hello Kitty merchandise that we have seen yet in an attempt to reconcile his holocaust karma? No. That maybe even though Bernays used the front of women's rights as a way to achieve his objective, maybe it did actually push the empowerment of women in the right direction on the broader perspective of society? If that's the case it may have achieved more good than it didn't. Based on how much I enjoy a good cigarette with a good black coffee I'd say it was worth sharing.

Ultimately I am going to leave you, in death, but before I do that, I will leave you, in this article, with this sentiment. Just be a bit mindful of that information your being pummelled with mate. Too often have I seen the unharmonised behaviours of my friends reflecting on their daily news ingest, the emotional reactions, the missed opportunity, the dare I say it?! The triggering! The more mindful you are of it, the less it has control over you. So go, free your mind from the shackles of its tormentors! In loving awareness.

Yours truly,

The Mirror Man