>>>And the people in power are controlled by the people who vote.
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>>That's a good one. :)
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>>And the people who vote are controlled by the mass media that presents them the candidates.
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>>And the mass media is controlled by those who are in power.
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>>LOOP
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>I'm not controlled by the mass media. So you're demonstrably wrong right off the bat.
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>If an individual is controlled by the media, then the individual has allowed that to happen, which is quite consistent with my overall theme in this thread.

They do not have to control you. It is enough to control the information you get.

Or, maybe you have your own sources of information on anything? CIA in a miniature? :)

You make your judgements on the information you can obtain. Clearly, nobody can have the first-hand information on everything. We all get most of the information from third-party sources. All those information sources cannot be controlled by you (unless you are already in power :)
Obviously, all information may be controlled, inverted, manipulated, hidden thousands of ways in somebody's best interests (not necessarily yours :)

Any information the person claims to have should have a prefix "as far as I know". Mine included. :)