Mind Control

Interesting title eh? Bet you are wondering what this post could possibly be about-a conspiracy theory perhaps? But no, and yet what would you say if I told you that your actions, your health, your whole life even is being and always has been affected by the things that others have told you?

Sure you might admit that on a superficial level you are persuaded to buy that certain car, house, clothes, gadget or whatever but some of you are probably thinking to yourself that you have never been a conformist and you do your own thinking. Hmmm, got bad news for you; we ALL have our fair share of programming, of mind control, of mental viruses.

What is a mental virus you say? Why, its a belief or attitude planted in your mind by someone else. We all have them but we do not all realize that we have them. I was reminded of this today when I was talking to someone about Botox. She said that she had read a book by a woman that said that all efforts to fight off an aging appearance led to a person living an inauthentic life. When I heard that I remembered a friend (that apparently read the same book) telling me that coloring your hair to get rid of grey hair is inauthentic. She did not say if she planned to never color her hair but I believe that if she did the authors words would echo in her head every time she looked in a mirror.

To me the interesting thing about this is that someone postulates an argument or theory and explains their reasoning and some people adopt that belief without thorough examination of that argument or theory. What both women said was that fighting the appearance of aging was not only fighting nature but leads to a person feeling not good enough to be themselves. Really? Well, like most arguments there is a certain logic there but is it more than superficial? I have no idea because I did not, and likely will not, read her book. And I am not here to knock her, I am just using this as an example of how a person can be and is affected by what others say. For me, if one chooses to use Botox, color their hair or any number of other things to look better, then I say why not? I don’t see those things as any different than wearing makeup, jewelry, dressing well, exercising to maintain health and figure or having your hair styled, just to name a few.  How you look on the outside is reflective of how you feel about yourself on the inside. A good example of that would be Michael Jackson and Phyllis Diller. What was on the inside of each showed best when ‘enhancements’ were made.

So have I explained mental viruses well enough yet? NO. So I will continue this on my next post.