Belief -- Manipulated

This is little bit continuation of my previous post "Belief". If we change belief considering it has some fundamental flaw that's fine such as some of superstitious activities. What generally we are not aware that  our thought process get manipulated. Be it's religious/social leaders, state machinery or TV programs.

I believed, if anybody has good agenda, it will  automatically propagate to masses like Buddha taught thousands of year back.  But this is not case anymore since people-people passing of knowledge is history. Now there are technological powerful mediums which can affect mass psyche instantly and that's what happening for last 70-80 years (after invention of radio).

State machineries are always powerful to propagate its belief. Be its socialistic approach in 50-90 or current open market approach.  Example in my previous post is best example of manipulation by two state machineries.

With rise of media especially private TV channels, war of manipulating belief intensified. Now each channel tries to manipulate. Kid's channels are trying to manipulate their habits especially eating habits so that they can potential loyal customers for long term. Same is true for different programs and different group of audience. 

News is becoming more sensational as well as becoming paid one. So even news is arranged program.

This market driven approach is not helping individuals to understands what's their basic/family/social needs and start running after hyped beliefs.  One need to sit quietly, go with what mind says without any medium polluting his/her thought.

Belief

Did you ever notice we trend to change our belief over the time? Most of the time, we become more cynical. Is it age, just we get wiser or adopt to realistic world?
I had some very definitive idea about how we should live life .. although it was center around middle class/socialistic  living -- not to disturb other, respect elderly, spend money if required, seek infinite knowledge, faith in God/Nature (or was it just goodness?).

As you become more urban most of these beliefs start shattering with day-day struggle. Most of belief was shattered by USA -- consumable society -- almost destroyed most of it (except good deeds). Consumption by US society is beyond my imagination.. be it food, cloths etc. When I first saw US production and consequently its consumption and later destroying it. After looking poverty in India, US sounded like ultimate answer to everything to eradicate poverty. So I also started following US dream, work fanatically, consume and create lots of garbage.

I always liked to keep little foot print about garbage in India but in US automatically I started creating garbage, even though I was aware of environmental burden. See change in belief.

I think we should be flexible to most of our beliefs, we never know which situation can demolish it!