Predictive Programming

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The world we live in has evolved to believe that everything is not as it seems, believing that the government is against us and is hiding information from the world. Many people believe that the government has designed our media to desensitize us to the horrors of our world. It is believed that through media, such as films and television, the government is using the art of Predictive Programming, though it is all theory and speculation. Alan Watt, the man who developed the theory explains, “Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized …show more content…
For example, the vast numbers of 9/11 predictions in film and TV before the event. From depictions of the Twin Towers falling, to a particular Sesame Street promotional poster from 1976, in which a supersized version the famous character Cookie Monster is standing on multiple building surrounding the World Trade Center while he eats chunks of the Twin Towers.(Appendix 1) Of the many 9/11 predictions. Some depicted 9/11 as an external job, which would supposedly make it more likely for people to assume that to be the truth when 9/11 came to pass. Others depicted 9/11 as an internal job making it less likely to believe that 9/11 was an outside job. If this was truly the work of predictive programming, it would only be depicted one way. By showing 9/11 as both an external and internal job, it gives mixed signals, making individuals question which is the truth, and such outcomes would defeat the purpose of predictive programming. Also, with predictive programming being defined as a way to program our minds to accept and think little of bad events in the world, when it comes to 9/11, it did not work all too well, as there was much uproar from the fatal

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