It’s so difficult to collect much less form our thoughts in today’s instant everything Information Age. Until recently, I was unable to fully realize how bad it had become. Our minds are literally being assaulted everyday from every angle. The obvious culprit is television and in no particular order followed closely by movies, magazines, video games, radio, and so on.
Television for the most part leads us down a premeditated path. Our minds are temporarily hijacked and taken for a ride that rarely leads to a positive outcome (At least I feel that way living here in America). Radio and films do the same as well as exposure to the information found in your common abundantly available periodicals. It’s possible my blog may ultimately effect your perception of the world as well. 
It amazes me how the majority of people never seem to sense the media pushing its capitalistic advertising campaign, that in my opinion is morally void, on them. The media tycoons ignore the marketing/psychoanalytical reports that indicate the majority of people are influenced by what they see on television and read in the press, but because they are concerned with profits and political agendas they can afford to overlook those pesky reports. (Maybe they’re not ignoring them? Perhaps it’s meant to be that way.)
Right now I see people rushing out to buy the sugar laced chemical candies, the expensive (feed a village for a year) SUVs and imports, while financing their life away, voting for whitewashed candidates, buying their vain body enhancing plastic surgery and augmentations. Why? Could it be because of what we are watching on the screen, hearing on the radio, and reading in the papers? Have you ever notice that people usually become that which they choose to occupy their mind with? If we’re somehow convinced or persuaded to believe that it’s perfectly normal to live like the Jones’ then that’s what a lot of us will do, or at least try.
The problem is people are not hearing their inner voice telling them they are beautiful, smart, capable, necessary, and loved. We as humans must think for ourselves and listen to our hearts, our conscience. Once awoken on the inside we become aware of the destruction and attacks occurring all around us on the outside.
This post is my gift to those who have become incredibly lost in the shallow materialistic world driven by the greedy corporations & mass media. As well as those who are utterly confused by their role or place in this human race. Reawaken to the forgotten notion that the entire universe can be found and understood through the eyes of a child. It’s imperative that we recognize the war that’s waging for our minds and our morality. Together out of love, we will defend ourselves against this relentless and evolving assault on our minds.
If the people of the world could still their minds for just one minute they would see how foolish they can be.
- William McGill
I just posted a short blog today that was only wise words given to me by a young friend (with an obviously clearer head than many) I don’t know if you still read my blogs so I am going to post those words here as well.. I hope they may enlighten one of your readers who may be suffering from the media madness or other ailments that do fogg your brain..
“Age is nothing but experience….look at “knowledge”….Knowledge is fixed in time, whereas knowing is continual. Knowledge comes from a source, from an accumulation, from a conclusion, while knowing is a movement”
William you also are one of the few who have reached a level of “knowing” that many today will fail to achieve.
I always enjoy reading your blogs my friend
Amy
We all must be on the same page here, I just wrote something pertaining to this as well a few days ago and I hope you don’t mind William that I post it here for others to view.
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If I could have just one wish, it would be to have the opportunity in my lifetime to reach out to all so they may hear my voice,
and to express the positivity in our world we share together rather than all the negative media we are all to mediated and prone to in our everyday lives’s, all tho sometimes not by our own choices or decisions.
I sometimes to find myself running out of hiding places from all the negative energy that shock waves through our communities, thought’s, emotion’s, and our well being.
I don’t watch the news on tv or read the newspaper anymore because it feeds negativity energy like a cancer and I have come to realize this isn’t a healthy alternative I want to live by in my life.
We make People get rich off of this negative energy from tv shows and the like, yet we are all over come by it’s meaningless of life and chose to ignore it rather than realize the negative impact it brings in our world. We need to help pull our society together, not pick it apart!
Lets not get involved in negative ventures because these will only set us back and away from our real goals and purpose in life and to move forward, reach out, and express ourselves through positive directions not negative ones!
Remember,”We Are Not Born With Direction, We Are Taught By It”
So Please Choose Wisely.
I am not saying this as just another person, I am saying this to all of you as a true being with a true heart for life.
Please Join Me And Help Me Reach Out To The World.
All My Best!
Shawn Plaugher
i so needed to hear to still myself today. thank you so much.
Hey William…
I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the last several years, and then especially also in the last week as well! I think I’m on the same “wave” as you… ha
I’ve been watching things around me and seeing how people’s attitudes about general things seem to be shifting. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m in California or just that things have come to such an all time *high* of “me focus.” Sometimes it keeps feeling like everyone’s conversation just comes back to it being “about me” (meaning them). And it’s been really driving me crazy! And not only that, but no one seems to want to talk about anything with any substance or care about something that might be seriously wrong going or that we as Americans are allowing things without even so much as a question mark. Like how so many have resorted to filling up the void with something that only enhances it.
It all comes back to the crap that is being pumped so heavily into the media. For example, yesterday I was watching a music video in my hotel room with a friend and she said that she thought she saw an old child dance student she had had in the video. “I that so in so?” she said. And that’s when it hit us how weird things have become with allowing young children to dance in sexually explicit videos, acting like they are adults when really they’re maybe 5. How bizarre.. Why put that image into people’s minds? Why also fill an entire video with emptiness? Boring. Also the video games.. how can video games with people getting shot for fun and then *bleeding* be allowed.. like that’s the goal of the video game? How on earth is this affecting the subconscious of the people playing the video game. There’s something seriously wrong about that. Shouldn’t be ok by law. Shouldn’t be in the hands of children either. And why don’t people care at all?? Why so many excuses to allow so much crap? And like you said, much because of capitalism, present the idea that people need things or need to be a certain way, that they don’t.
I hope people will start to stand up and question things again. Question the choices we are making and the things we are putting our approval stamp on by being so apathetic. Unfortunately the brunt of it all is going to lie on the young generation who doesn’t know any better or anything more worth while~
Ahh. thanks for the post. Thank you for thinking about something important and asking some questions~
Wonderful and thought provoking post Will. Many kudos to you…
Billy, you should consider a career in writing. Every issue that you’ve addressed in this blog is exactly what I have been studying at South, as well as totally being in sync with my own personal beliefs.
Write on!
Love ya,
Me
I’m sorry if I wrote a lot William.
I am just so glad that people like you are out there who think about things that matter.
I find it interesting the topics we’ve conversed about…
in light of what happened today
Keep on caring
What would you do if you
Knew all of the things we knew
Would you stand up for truth
Or would you turn away too
And then what if you saw
All of the things thats wrong
Would you stand tall and strong
Or would you turn and walk away
http://www.congresscheck.com
Here (below graph), on google trends ( http://www.google.com/trends ), I typed in “Peace” and “War”…
The top graph (above the years) represents all the internet searches and website “Peace” and “War” results people have made at the exact same time as both “Peace” and “War” were mention in the TV media (graph below the years).
Amazing isn’t it? As the media reports peak with the reporting of war…so does the searches and websites also peek. Not many tv media stories regarding peace…therefore not many people search for it.
I guess internet searches and websites are one thing, but what’s happening outside in the real world is the biggest test.
So… just how are things in the real world today?
Can our thoughts have such an affect on our world?
It has already been discovered and proven in the scientific community that “consciousness” (thoughts) creates “matter”, contrary to our first beliefs and teachings, that “matter” created “consciousness” (thoughts). Look this up for yourself. Google: “Quantum physics”, “New discoveries of consciousness and matter”, or “Law of attraction”.
As the media continues to report “War”, it seems that most people will continue to also think, imagine and fear “War”…and with so many viewers reflecting the thoughts of “War”, the real need to protect yourself and your family has also become a real world “WAR” reality.
Do we lend a blind eye to our readiness? Do we bury our head in the sand?
I don’t suggest that at all. For I see what it has done for the Ostrich !
No…
Maybe we should ask ourselves how can we change this current…”REALITY” .
I suggest we use all that which God has given us…including our mind…and our thoughts.
One of the most powerful tools we have on earth is the human mind.
Let’s think and focus our thoughts on what we want (PEACE) and not about what we don’t want!
Example scenario:
Lets say you want ice cream…
Then, you are watching TV and the media tells you that you don’t want chocolate cake.
Really think about this with me….
What’s in your mind right now? Is it chocolate cake? Despite the fact you don’t want it…
Would it surprise you to know that people in power understand how this works…and use the media as a tool to infiltrate the minds of the masses to do their bidding?
Is it any wonder… that throughout history, Wars have been financed and profited from? Google: “Who profits from war?” and “Who owns the media”
I want to see this chart flip flop..how about you?
Once it was taught by a simple carpenter long ago…
That the faith of a tiny mustard seed can move the most majestic mountains…
Likewise, I would like to reiterate for those who put their faith in today’s media propaganda…
That all mankind… have already accomplished…ALL of that which they focus their thoughts upon.
We have a power… a gift, unlike anything else in this world.
Take back your mind and your thoughts…from those who seek to use them for their gain.
Your thoughts are your own, and how you use them are up to you…
I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!