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Here is a fact, whether you like this fact or not won’t change that it is indeed a fact.  The American people have been systematically programmed to be unable to make rational and logical decisions over many generations.

Here are the key tenets that contributed to this…

• The State/Education System – Children are taught to learn a thing, repeat a thing and defend a thing, but never to determine a thing.  Every concept in our education system is based on a single correct answer, the student never determines anything.
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• Industry/Media – Marketing itself is telling a story and not much more.  But modern marketing has become the epitome of dichotomy.  Everything is boiled down to an A vs B choice.  This is done in direct marketing, online, in entertainment, etc.
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This puts us at a very dangerous time in history, one where it is difficult to know what to believe.  How do we in a time where all mainstream media is a form or propaganda, even the parts that are true, know what to believe?  In an age of AI where even the untrained can make very realistic images and videos how do we even know what is authentic?

There are no easy answers to those questions.  There is however good news.  The technology necessary to really ferret out the truth and what we should be doing is as ancient as the human mind.  We must rely on logic and reason and we can best do that with one of the oldest education methods known to modern man, the trivium.  This is built on three components…

• Grammar – the ability to read and write, to understand both the symbols and symbology of langage
• Rhetoric – the ability to communicate and inform others effectively usually verbally
• Logic – the ability to think and analyze to answer unknowns though analysis of what is known
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Join Me Today to Discuss…

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• How and why modern people were taught not to think
• What is a dichotomy vs. a false dichotomy
• Questions to ask about any problem or issue….
  • Is this really important to me, if so why
  • How did this even come to my attention
  • Can I actually take any meaningful action as to this issue, if so what
  • What is the source of my knowledge on this issue
    • What is this sources agenda
    • What is their track record
    • What do other sources say
  • Is this something I want or that I need in my life/business, etc.
  • If this has never been an issue for me before does it really matter now
  • On “problems”, “needs” and “wants”
    • What happens if we do nothing
    • Do we already have something to deal with this
    • Is it really a problem
    • Is it a need or a want, and how bad do I want it
    • How much of my bias is at play here
  • On knowledge vs. belief
    • Do I know the truth or do I believe I know the truth
    • What if anything would change my mind on this thing
    • Is this something I was trained to believe or a decision I made
  • Final thoughts
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