If I would tell you right now that you are actually being manipulated almost every single
day.
You would think that I am dumb because there is no way that a smart, intelligent person
like you is manipulated without realising that.
I am not here undermining anyones intelligence, but thats the point of manipulation.
The moment you realize you are manipulated, its no longer a manipulation.
The problem is that, the foundation of media is based on manipulation and since we are
living in this advanced world of technology and social media.
We are all victims one way or another.
Let me just explain.
Whenever you watch the news or come across headlines when you are scrolling through your
newsfeed.
The news are always negative and dramatic as if we are living in the worst period of
human history.
The economy is about to collapse, the immigrants are talking over our jobs or the neighbouring
country is about to attack us.
And that really gives you the impression that the world is heading in the wrong direction.
But the truth is that, the world has never been better or safer as its today.
In the last 100 years, humanity has progressed so much that billions of people have been
lifted our of poverty, life expextancty has grown all around the world and violence has
been reduced significnaly.
In fact, This is how fast the economy has been growing.
Most of the growth has happened in the last few decades.
Over half of the worlds population has been living in extreme poverty 60 years ago, now
that number is below 10 percent.
But thats not the impression you are given when you watch the news.
The problem is that, in 19th century.
People in advertising and journalism realised that if they framed their stories and appealed
with FEAR, they could grab much more attentions.
Because the emotion of FEAR is so powerful that we find it difficult to control.
So they started shifting our attention from latest crime, financial crisis to the next
scandal.
Go to any news websites and you will find that 90 percent of their headlines are targeted
on your emotions of fear.
For example, these experts have been claiming that dollar is going to collapse in the next
few years.
Or the financial crisis that will happen next year is completely going to destroy US economy.
But that next year never seem to happen.
Of course these experts have a point to certain expend but the way its framed is absolutely
misleading just to grab your attention.
Or let's take an example of Trump.
Whether you like him or not.
He constantly uses this strategy to grab attention of the public.
After all, he has been on television for decades and thats how he got famous in the first place.
The only thing that we all remember from his presidential campaign is that he wanted to
build a wall to stop all of immigrants from taking over our jobs, which never happened.
In fact, he constantly talks about how the entire world wants to rip off US and take
advantage of it, especially this particular country (Chine).
Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to put him down if you are a trump supporter.
Thats how the media and politics has always been working.
The point of this video is to tell you that.
Don’t be driven by fear because there will always be someone who will take advantage
of it and you will always be mislead.
Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed this video, thanks for watching, and I will catch you
in the next one.