So the American mind is indeed manufactured with a goal of milking, guiding and mesmerizing, obvious.

The fact that 33% or more Americans and 50% more Germans, for example, have come to doubt the official 911 conspiracy theory from the government, shows that the Internet’s effect of decentralizing research from the mainstream media is effective, and even if it took 10 years, the monopoly on the American and global mind ebbs back daily, to the point half of America and 90% of Germany believe the US government lied concerning 911.

The media mind control of the Truman Show has given glimpses of itself, by trying so hard to continue telling the same surreal and absurd lies, as if the more they trow it on the mental wall of an American, it will eventually stick, when in fact for some, it just further exposes the futility of lying period.

One lie leads to many more, now the US government is buried in them, to the point of being an international story of the blatantly ridiculous, actually tragically comical, sociopathic liars that they ARE.

Once you see through the Us Truman Show, it never works on you again, NEVER trust a liar, EVER. And LOL, never trust a banker with your money. Another new adage we can glean from this American “dream” turned into what it has been for everyone else in our victim pool, a nightmare of global proportions yet unraveling. (But NOT in Bill O’Reilly’s world)

Yet

For me, this can’t happen fast enough. Waste of bandwidth.

“hyperreality”

Now I get it.
Thanks very much for this.
Thanks also to Karmen for the “street reporting”. : )

I got learned up, but good. :)

There has been public (free) universities in Venezuela for the last 50 years, even more in the case of some of them. My mum’s family was poor during the 50s and 60s, yet out of 7 siblings, 4 went to college. On my dad’s side, a bit better off because my grand father was an office clerk, all three children went to public universities and became professionals. During the 80′s and 90s, my siblings, cousins and I also went to public universities -including the one considered to be the best of the country, Simon Bolivar University, in the case of some of them.

University towns and cities are littered with low-priced “student inns” and second-hand text book stores and stalls and, albeit with difficulty, even the poorest student, if she or he puts her/his mind to it and finds family/church/and government support, has always been able to attend college. Education has been the greatest social movilizer in Venezuela in the last 50 years, well before the arrival of Hugo Chavez.. In fact, public universities offer such a good education, that rich kids try to get in them too.

If there is a class proble in the situation, is that privately educated high-schoolers would have better chance at passing admisssion test; so there may be an unfair situation in that sense. That said, a great number of publically educated high-schoolers (myself included) have passed the test and have been admitted to public universities and a good number or privately educated kids have not cut it, and have been sent to private universities, which until recently, where viewed as a less desirable option, since many felt that education was compromised by the economical power parent could hold over the university.

While I would not dispute the number of new graduate produced by the government of Chavez, the quality of such education is patchy, to say the least. Many of them belong to what its called the “Third-Age University”, aimed to over 50s, many of whom, although grateful at the opportunity of learning and the scholarship that comes with it, have little or no interest of truly changing careers (It’s notoriously difficult to get a new job in Venezuela after the age of 40, let alone to get one in which you have no previous experience.)

Additionally, university education in Venezuela is a five-year commitment; Chavez’s graduates are getting a degree in half that time, and if you would explore “chavistas’” forums, you would find many of them complaining, because, once graduated, not even the government wants to employ them.