"An independent observer looking at the world today might well conclude that it is being run by the fossil fuel and military industries, or by lunatics. Or both." -Chomsky

Actually, it's being run by organized crime. I'm still eagerly awaiting my copy of Whitney Webb's book examining the merging of organized crime and national intelligence in WWII and ever since. These are the people actually in charge. They decide what is acceptable for our media to print, thus what's acceptable for people to think. But the goals of organized crime have always and forever been the same: to make money for those connected to "the family". They know no other way of thinking. Everything they say is a lie - whether or not it tells you something that actually happened. By that I mean if they tell you only the things they think will help them make money while leaving out the things they find not helpful to them, then they are lying. And they have been doing this successfully for the entirety of the lives of most people alive today. When events get particularly troublesome - 9/11 for example - they will outright lie about what happened, but most of the time, they don't need to actually manufacture; they can just filter. Is it any surprise that when our information is being screened by organized crime, our civilization is about to be driven extinct?