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45. Were it only possible for them to change their minds

It is easier to forgive somebody for being wrong than it is to forgive them for being right.

I keep wondering as to who is making the decisions in our media. Their are five people who effectively control much of media in the United States, and one wonders if there is not a shred of decency in any of them?

Personally, my hopes are not high for people to change their minds no matter how awful their personal situation becomes. One hundred and sixty years ago, very nearly the entire white male population of the South rose to fight to continue slavery - even though the vast majority of them were being slowly ground to crushing poverty by competition with the slavery they were fighting to perpetuate. Nearly half of them were killed, wounded, captured or missing by war's end, and so many of those that made it through lost everything.

Yet they were proud, fanatic even, to risk everything so that somebody else would continue to have things much worse off than they had it. Of those that survived, most, it seems, never regretted it, and they never took their leaders to task for it.

I think this the sort of thinking with which we are now dealing, and unless we can shift the media in some fashion, there will be no de-programming.