conundrum.

"What if we have never known freedom and have been taught to embrace our bondage, to fight for it, even to worship it?

What if our minds have been soaked in the brine of television, the voice of the corporate state that speaks to us for an average of more than four hours every day from cradle to grave and converts us into the great amorphous glob called the American consumer?

What if we are taught in school the state religion called capitalism, a religion that condemns as heresy all that interferes with the monied class extracting yet more money from those least able to protect themselves? What if the state's religion is the religion of the dollar, a faith based on a sort of economic Darwinism?

What if a form of subtle slavery has been taught to us, made acceptable to us, made to appear even as freedom itself? What if we are not free, but instead are taught the faith of freedom?"

Gerry Spence
Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century