A very small percent of the adult population can convince the rest of the population to disbelieve the fantastic truths. This is the phenomenon that we ask you to consider in this module. 

Please consider the following contentions of fact: 

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• It only requires a few detached souls to define what society thinks of itself. 

• The few peddle the harmful lies and propaganda which is consumed by the many, and which separates us. 

• Closed-minded people operate with just as much passion to fulfill a purpose, no matter how negative or destructive.

• Those who detach from natural law, become consumed with their own rights and privileges.

• They often overestimate their own importance and are the loudest in the room. Thinking they know more than they actually do, they talk the most, when they should be listening. 

• Someone who believes in a conspiracy theory today is very unlikely to stop believing tomorrow. 

(All together)  The few, who have sadly lost sight of their gifts, have an oversized influence on society.

(Suggested Exercise: Play the song  “We The People”, by Kid Rock here. Also find an equally disgraceful and vile song from a known politically progressive liberal entertainer, to balance out the instruction, as Kid Rock is a known political conservative.) 

The Kid Rock lyrics tells our President to Go F#@! himself and makes other outrageous comments that play on our most devious and darkest instincts as people. The lesson: We tend to stay in these low places, we have trouble elevating our society above our lowest moments. 

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• Our entertainers and comedians hide behind the first amendment and call it their artform. 

• Not realizing, or caring, that they don't have to be so extreme to sell tickets. 

• Just because they can say these things (under our first amendment)  does not mean that they should.  

• Each of us at times in our lives think it's funny, our friends, our comedians, our entertainers who want to sell their stuff show us how low we can go. 

• These all too common emotional outbursts, and temporary time outs, even jokes - where people know they are crossing the line, these moments come to define our society. 

• Most often our worst moments are from the “brain stem” without any deep thinking- and so we become a society defined by our lowest moments. (refer to Letters To Mikey Pages___ to explain this terminology)

• We chase our freedoms right down into the American toilet bowl. We never stop to think about it and because it's not cool to moderate and lack of virtue sells. 

• We often unknowingly and casually contribute to the negative attitudes about government and other people, given it's what everyone else seems to be doing. 

• The truth is made up of our perceptions, attitudes, boundaries, and behaviors of those around us. 

• It's just a part of being human - we get swept away into the negativity funnel without even realizing it. 

• Without being more aware of our inclinations to slip into lower gears of thought, which include carelessness, forgetfulness, excessive pride, and arrogance. 

• We individually fail to maintain the temperament needed to do the complicated work of self-government! We slowly, over time, tend to forget about or even resent the duties and obligations of citizenship.

• Slipping into these modes, detached from nature's laws, we normalize our worst traits rather than our best. 

(all Together Please)

The result is a society where the few keep the many locked in a distorted reality century after century.  

Quotations to discuss: 

“Hurt People, Hurt People”

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man … who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from such individuals that all human failures spring.” Alfred Adler 

Resources: 

Letters To Mikey pages …. About how we tend to shrink and all slowly become like “Bob”.