How to improve your critical thinking
In today’s world, it’s very difficult to find a reliable source of information. The paradox is that today we have so many information sources, that it’s very hard to distinguish what is real and whatnot.
And because of that, many governments of the world are manipulating people into doing and accepting things that they would normally never accept.
The most insidious way they use manipulation is by pretending that they hold the absolute truth and that everyone else is producing fake news.
For the people that start asking questions, they are a major problem that they try to solve by manipulating one side against the other, by categorizing them as fascists, Nazis, communists, right extremists, or any other label that will be used daily in the subordinated press in order to discredit the opposition and to implement their hidden agenda.
How can you avoid this?
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Never watch the official TV news! The official press is paid by the government and they say anything their owner asked them to.
They have no interest in finding or sharing the truth and they work only for money.
Instead, try to search for an alternative source of information and compare both versions of the same story.
2. Never share or read the official social media accounts of the officials in power. They are just a reflection of what was said on public TV and they never contradict the establishment. It’s their source of income.
3. Don’t believe that something is real, just because you saw a movie about it on some social platform. Today it’s very easy for anyone to produce “real news” with a “Greenscreen”.
4. Never take for granted some information just because is shared through the “official channels”. On YouTube, you will find hundreds of videos showing major network TV stations saying EXACTLY the same thing, over and over again. Repetition is one of the most used tools of manipulation.
Take time to do your own research about what you hear. Also, if you search the web, try to stay away from well-known giants like Google, Bing, Facebook, and all the other platforms that belong to the same entities.
They are anything else but objectives. Besides their own interest in just making money, they are also slaves of the governments because they need them. These platforms are well-known for censoring anything that doesn’t match the “official guidelines”.
5. Don’t accept the labels given to others just because they have different opinions. One of the methods used by the official propaganda is to label the opposition as “Conspiracy-theorists”, “Lateral-thinkers”, or “Right-extremists”.
They label the people thinking clearly with exactly the defects they have, keeping the manipulated people busy hating others.
6. Don’t accept to become “one side” against “the others”. The most dangerous and effective method of manipulation is to create two sides: “the good ones” and the “bad ones”, “us” and “them” and so on.
“Divide et Impera” it’s one of the oldest tricks in the art of war. And many governments are at war with anyone opposing them.
Today the definition of “democracy” has become very blurred.
Just check what happened in this world in the last two years, and you will have a very good understanding of what I mean.
7. Always use your common sense to judge things and when you have doubts, always check what read, hear or see.
Try to see what’s behind the scene, what financial interests the politicians making, or other decisions, and remember that “lobby” is just a nice word for “bribery”.
At the end of the day, politicians are there not for you, but for themselves and they live for only one thing: making money.
Don’t think that just because you voted for one or other parties, they will really do something for you.
Remember what Mark Twain said: “If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it”.
