Remind me again how we win this war
I ran across an interesting article today from The Huffington Post titled “I’m Plotting to blow up LAX”. The content is OK, I guess, but what struck me as odd was my own reaction. Just going by the title, I wasn’t going to click on the link to read the article, because I didn’t want to be associated with any such idea. It occurs to me that this is how the brainwashing of normal people starts. “Someone” wants you to start thinking a certain way, and manipulates or manages your environment until you start thinking that way. I don’t know who that someone is, or even if they exist, but I do think it’s a shame that I would be afraid to click on a link on the Internet because of what it said. There are cases where I would be better off not clicking on a link, but certainly one mouse-click does not prove my ringing endorsement of any content that it points to. It’s important to remember this sometimes.