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Enemies at the GateThe mental faculties we do not use become weaker and overshadowed by those we do use. This behavior is particularly relevant in context of the media saturated culture of today. Of the many forms of media at play in the modern world, television is probably the worst offender, especially considering how our children grow up watching. We sit and we watch like a one-way receiver tuned to the channel of our chosen broadcast, and putting aside for a moment the content of what we watch, the critical issue is that the thinking part has already been done for us. The time we spend absorbing pre-designed information robs us of the time we could spend designing our own. A substantial proportion of mass media in effect trains us not to THINK at all, or at least not about anything worth thinking about. What kind of a brain does Neuroplasticity build in response to engaging in this mindless activity? Neuroplasticity always responds by optimizing the brain’s ability to support whatever activity the mind engages in. Activities like watching television optimizes the brain’s capability to enter a passive vegetative state to assimilate information as it’s presented. The information is presented complete and pre-formatted deliberately to unburden the mind from any need of active participation. Approximately one third of broadcast content consists of advertisements, which are reinforced by the barrage of passive advertising that literally fills our world. Experts in content creation, working from decades of extensive research into human psychology, are paid billions of dollars to influence, manipulate, and outright control our thinking behaviors, and all to serve a corporate agenda that satisfies their best interests, not ours. We are led to believe that advertising is a necessary evil to finance delivery of entertainment. But let’s never forget that corporate dollars drive the whole system. Never think for a moment that the remaining two thirds are not leveraged to compliment their corporate agenda. Like a cruel joke told at our expense, all media broadcast industries openly refer to their output signal as “Programming”.Remember that Neuroplasticity does not know the difference between fantasy and reality. The quality of our critical thinking and decision making depends on the information stored in the brain’s memory. If this information was absorbed while the mind was asleep or otherwise engaged, then what forms the basis of our thoughts, opinions, and decisions? Shouldn’t we be actually living and learning for ourselves instead of blindly adopting a corporate skewed vision of life? Imagine a world populated by billions of people, never realizing their minds are not totally their own, and all under control of a dominating few with a diabolical agenda born of corporate self interest. No doubt the stuff of some great science fiction. But wait a minute – We don’t have to imagine this fantastic scenario – We are in fact already living it.Is human stupidity responsible for bringing about this state of affairs? Our initial question is starting to take on a frightening new dimension. But we’re not finished yet.It Starts at the BeginningNo exploration of human stupidity would be compete without a moment of contemplation about our systems of education. We spend our significant formative years participating in this system which shapes our minds in preparation for the rigors of life beyond. Presumably the intent of education is to transform us from a state of stupidity to a state of intelligence. Or is it from a state of ignorance to a state of knowledge? Either way, the most valuable attribute of WISDOM has become an elusive byproduct, acquired more by accident rather than a deliberate outcome of educational training.All systems are designed to accept some kind of input and process that input with the aim of producing some kind of output. The utopian system is one that accepts the widest range of input, and produces the highest quality output, within a process optimized for maximum efficiency. Formal education has been conceived as a system producing uniform parts to be integrated into the massive collective of human machines that make up the mechanics of civilization. If an individual part goes bad for some reason there is always another to seamlessly takes its place. Creativity could be seen as a disadvantage, for how can one conceive a functional machine were the individual parts had creative minds of their own? The performance of a single part could not be relied upon if one cannot predict with certainty how that part will function. Production of machine parts may be the ultimate in mechanical efficiency, but is it consistent with our true human nature which embodies the rigid disciplines of logic and the imaginative freedom of creativity in equal measure? Wouldn’t we be much better off if the education system concentrated its efforts on producing genius? If genius represents the very best we can be, then formal education must be a miserable failure, considering how genius is such a rare commodity. If the individual parts were imbued with genius, we could envision a system were reliable machines designed themselves organically in a balanced response to fulfilling societies true needs.The Truth of StupidityTruth is a universal constant of nature that could never be construed as a manifestation of stupidity. Truth is simply the conscience realization of authentic reality. The pursuit of truth is the most noble endeavor of mankind and AWARENESS is the key that opens the doorway to truth. Awareness of our own ego opens our perception of reality far beyond the limits imposed by the prejudice of our personal preferences, and keeps our penchant for assumption at bay with a new  preference for seeking the truth.Awareness of the brain’s Neuroplastic behavior gives us the tools to raise our mental faculties to Olympian levels. Awareness of the full potential of our gift of creativity allows us to utilize our imagination for purposes far beyond that of simple fantasy.Awareness of the true intent of media advertising nullifies its effect on the psyche. Awareness reveals the intentions of anyone or anything that penetrates our sphere of perception. Awareness also empowers us to exert our own influence over our world to battle all forms of evil that seek domination, and help raise the awareness of others in the process.Awareness that we are the Supreme Being of our inner universe leads us to realize the true nature of our existence. Imagine a world with billions of people working together in seamless harmonized freewheeling synergy, just like the very forces of nature itself. This is the true nature of our destiny.Awareness of our seemingly natural aptitude and propensity to recognize the most universally acknowledged attribute of mankind offers us the greatest opportunity to expose the truth. The perception of stupidity can only take place in contrast against the background of a more profound reality. Recognizing stupidity is therefore a golden opportunity to nurture our awareness of our own perceptions. Simply by contemplating our shallow perceptions of stupidity we can begin to see beyond and reveal the elusive depths of true reality.