Hey @cmplxty .. thanks for stopping by, hope you're looking forward to a lovely Christmas with the family! In terms of the talks shows, yes they can be a powerful tool of propaganda and manipulation .. the laughter derides anyone that sits outside of the hive mind, and of course nobody likes to feel ostracised.

As you highlight, the ostracisation aspect is used (to great effect) within the school classroom .. where increasingly you're not allowed an opinion that sists outside of a manipulated general consensus. The flu vaccine aspect is particularly insidious, especially when you ponder how in most years it's clearly been shown to be pretty much ineffective, people are being turned into big pharma cash cows .. alas, most appear to be completely oblivious.

And yes it's the same groups that are into literally everything, every social movement and every aspect of the direction we're moving in .. it's like a web of control (that irrelevant of political changes) grows ever tighter. Thanks again my friend .. all th best and I look forward to catching up with you in 2020!! :)