Yes of course. Buying up all the major newspapers to control information around the turn of the century and then all media is just coincidence. And that goes for public education too! As is the central banking system. And of course "non-profit" organizations and NGOs, etc. Silly Reece Commission.
Who said it was coincidence? There's a huge jump between saying that titans of industry work within and manipulate the rule of law to their benefit, and claiming that there is an overarching cabal, monitoring all industries and pulling strings in each of them like a puppeteer.
There is no big lie. There are, on the other hand, billions of small ones that every individual engages in while striving to fulfill his conscious and sub-conscious desires. To check those small lies -lies that are a consequence of our human nature- people have created traditions, religion, morality, distractions and laws. Some people (and maybe every Ron Paul supporter) have seen beyond most or all of those trivialities that society has foisted upon us to keep us on the straight and narrow. We understand a greater morality and don't need all or most of those things to behave appropriately. That does not mean, however, that anyone who has not or does not want to brush aside all or most of those things is stupid or ignorant, and it does not mean that anyone who knows the game and takes advantage of it is evil. They're all just people doing what they need to do to make it through a day, and an overwhelming majority of them are kind at heart and would never knowingly harm anyone else.
You know, before the stock market crash a culture of materialism and consumerism was growing in America. People were being pushed into purchasing things that they really didn't need. Were the ad men who offered corporations a way to emotionally connect a product to an individual evil, or were they just giving people with disposable income a manner to fulfill subconscious desires? This, I think, is one of the reasons that a series like Mad Men is so amazing. It shows how ad men operated in the post-war era, when Americans had oodles of disposable income to spend on things they didn't need. Corporations competed for those dollars that American families found superfluous, and they turned to ad men like Bernays or David Ogilvy for help. They weren't the masterminds of some big lie. They were individuals, selling other individuals a way to connect a product to a third group of people. All of their interests intersected at that point. It wasn't a secret cabal that produced a phallic car for Joe Average to buy, it was an automotive company created, staffed and managed by individuals acting in their own self-interest. It wasn't a secret cabal that convinced Joe Average that the automobile would allow him to express himself in a certain way or that it would make him happier. It was an advertising agency, created, staffed and managed by individuals acting in their own self-interest.
I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.
Sometimes people will cheat, and steal, and hurt others to get ahead. Sometimes they will work with others to get ahead. Sometimes that work will be in secret, sometimes it will be open to the public. It's just the way people operate.
It's convenient to view the world in a completely non-nuanced fashion and to believe that a family of bankers struck it rich during the Napoleonic Wars and has been guiding the world since then, or that the Vatican has been calling the shots in secret for 1500 years, or that everything you see on television was funded by George Soros. ...but real life is much scarier than that. There is no one at the helm. No hand is guiding us. We're at the whims of conscious and sub-conscious desires and luck. THAT'S how indifferent the universe is.
