To greater and lesser degrees, we are all Jason Bourne.
Welcome to the Great Awakening.
A Psychological DEBRIEFING for the entire Human Race.
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About 25 years ago, I indirectly learned a valuable lesson. This was related to me by a friend who was in the meeting were it occurred.
The upper management of the company I worked for was in a presentation by an advertising company. The president asked the question, "why should the company spend that much money on this advertising campaign?"
The response: "The largest companies in the world spend 100's of millions on advertising every year. They have whole divisions that do market research focused on were to spend their advertising dollars, and the results of those ad campaigns. Do you know why?"
The President "You tell me"
The response: "Because it works"
The lesson:
Advertising changes your mind. Once you understand that, everything becomes an ad for something. Doesn't matter if it's the news, an ad, a magazine, a newspaper, word of mouth.
Some ads are good, many are not.
Every magazine ever produced, with very few exceptions, is a vehicle for advertising. Every article ever written and published is advertising something.
There were a number of classes I took in college/grad school that woke me up. One was a psych class that focused on research studies.. One was a logic class. And two others focused on... statistics. Eye opening to say the least. And people wonder why I take nothing at face value.
I had classes in liberal arts, and engineering. I noticed a big difference in the approach. Engineering taught "how to think". They had to, it was about understanding and solving problems. The liberal arts taught "what to think". Where parroting the prof was rewarded.
And now they can track your web history to send you ads.
Soon they will track your eye gaze as well.