Last night, I watched Howie Mandel's "How We Do It" and the power of suggestion was very strong. He pulled a prank on 2 different people one with tanning lotion that ended up burning someone's skin (but it didn't really) and another where a new shampoo tested on 3 men ended up causing them to lose hair and their scalps burned red etc (again, it didn't actually happen). In both of those situations, those people started to get burning skin, panicked and started to really freak out (but had absolutely nothing wrong with them).
This makes me look at the news media in our country. When the news says something enough it becomes an epidemic, a wave of fear. This just bugs the crap out of me.
I get very annoyed with people who say they think for themselves but only repeat what they obviously read on the landing page of Yahoo! or CNN. People are too easily manipulated and instead of asking why or how, just take it and run. I'm working in technology and if I want to learn a new software or anything new, I have to read 5-10 different books that sometimes say different things and figure out on my own, which I think is best.
Are people blind or dumb? I don't know. But they sure as hell are gullible.
And the true irony is if you take what I preach here, I've technically told you not to believe me. Boy, I'm in a pickle.
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