In a time of such obvious deceit and aggressive manipulation, not only by those who once sought our votes or our subservience, but today even by each other,

unwittingly doing the bidding of those who seek to control our every purchase, every click,

view, and action, one would think that every plan and decision put forth by these known liars

of our recent past and present political elite would be immediately scrutinized and deconstructed

for motivation and corruption. Yet that's not exactly the case, at least not where it matters.

How did this come about? How did they create a culture in which we are now doing the deceiving for them?

One in which we are no longer skeptical, but accepting, willing, pleading for their

solution. This happened as it always has by allowing us to think that it's of our own creation,

creating a problem for which they have already been planning a solution for years, waiting for us

to react accordingly and then giving the slightest of resistance,

lest we feel that we did not have to fight for what we have been programmed to think that we want,

and finally they put into effect what they wanted all along, allowing us to think we won the day.

What we are seeing today with the proposed regulation of the currently trending social media outlets is no different. And here with me

once again to discuss this long con and its possible repercussions and solutions is James Corbett.

Welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me on. It's a pleasure to be here again.

Absolutely. You recently did an absolutely outstanding video entitled Problem Reaction

Solution, Internet Censorship Edition.

And I obviously was a great, fantastic, and concise outline of what's going on today,

but the thing that stood out to me is we rarely see, we rarely see you get so intense about a topic.

And I agree, as you say in the video, it's astonishing how few are

recognizing the pattern here for manufactured consent, even from those in the independent media

who are usually the most resistant to these types of government actions. So to begin, for those

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