‘Life is a stage and people are actors’ is an often used Shakespearean quote but if we look deeper we realize that everything around us, everything we see, everything we hear; is staged, as if it is movie, a hoax, an illusion, a mere perception of vision, like the one in the popular flick Matrix. Things aren’t always what they seem. Look back and analyze carefully, see the history with more than a cursory textbook glance and you’ll see a series of staged events, fabrications, lies, covering up the hypocrisy and cruelty of the so-called civilized societies. HISTORY IS A LIE MOST COMMONLY AGREEED UPON-Voltaire.

When something has to be done which is in disagreement with the vox populi, the public opinion has to be changed. Here we shall see how the population is controlled, deceived and manipulated. The most commonly used technique is the DIVIDE AND CONQUER .The most effective one too. Create two fractions, create a conflict and then sit back and watch. Let the two sides fight, exhaust their resources and then they’ll come up to the so-called friends for help. The ‘friends’ being as generous as they are, will lend out the arms and ammunitions, money, give food and other bare essentials so that the two fractions eat, live, fight and then die.
After all everything is fair in love and war. The next technique is PROPAGANDA. We are so used to the rhetoric and fabrication and half-truths being fed to us that we have become immune to it. In general, people detest the news or they just skim through the newspaper and change the channel when the news is on. Truth is the first casualties of war .Our cathode ray dulled brains are subliminally being washed. The distinction between right and wrong is fading. The wrong becomes ‘ok’ and then it becomes secondary nature. The definitions are changed, twisted and distorted. A two year old is labeled a terrorist. Inhuman killings are simply dismissed as ethnic cleansing. Circumstantial evidence becomes enough to arrest and victimize. Everybody is innocent until proven guilty except for those less than equal.

CAUSE-EFFECT -the perfect recipe for doing something which the general public is vehemently against. It is a little known fact of history that before forcing on his anti-Jewish policies, Hitler first created a law and order situation, and then proposed such laws which would have been totally unacceptable under normal circumstances, which in turn led to anti-Semitism. And the public just played into his games.

FAULTY DILEMA- the offering of only two alternatives when more than two exists. Either there is a war or the evil has triumph over good. The other peaceful alternatives are conveniently ignored.

HIPOCRACY- Doing one thing in public eye and doing the exact opposite behind the curtain, perfect way to deceive the population. As Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State said, “Illegal we do immediately, unconstitutional takes a little time.”

Before us, in front of our very noses, the drama of the world unfolds and yet we turn a blind eye to it. The present is history in the making but aren’t even able to come out of our private hells, take off the mask, shed the skin, tune our brains. Cause we are also pawns in this game, designed either to accept things as they are or to adopt violent suicidal ways to show our protest.

In either case we loose.