I want to expand a little on what Magamud is saying. There is indeed social engineering actively going on, directed by the ruling sociopaths. It's purpose is to dull our feelings of empathy for others, which then makes us easier to manipulate into mistreating others. Not only do they desensitize us to feelings of empathy, but they distract us away from feeling empathy by substituting other enjoyable emotions that they control. This is why the entertainment industry is now so prevalent in our lives. Even violence becomes entertainment (via television, film, and video games), which also desensitizes us to violence, helping to diminish our feelings of empathy. It's all designed to make us compliant to the whims of the ruling sociopaths so that we will do their dirty-work without feelings of guilt, responsibility, and shame getting in the way. Note that those three emotions are all derivatives of empathy.

It's a scientific manipulation no doubt and from my pov, it is not human in origin. So yes we are in a matrix of our making, an alternate state of being, lost from who we are.
This is the essence of how they fool us.
And we will continue to destroy ourselves as a warning that we are off course.

I too have often suspected that it is not of human origin. The implications of that, if it is true, are astounding.

How do they fool us? Deception. Duh. Of course, they do everything they can to hide it. That's essential, and that plays right into the strength of the sociopath. They are masters of deception, and masters at hiding their deception.

Here's another small example of how they do it. Control the polls, and you control perception. And when it comes to deception, perception is everything.

I'm really starting to admire this Zen Gardner fellow. It feels like he's got a more accurate perspective of our everyday reality than most. What do you think?

This is a followup to this post.

One of the big advantages of the Internet is that it empowers the citizen reporter, providing a way to bypass the mainstream media propaganda machine that is brainwashing us all. We would be wise to pay little attention to the few mainstream media sources, and pay lots of attention to the many private individuals that truly seek to uncover the truth that is denied us.

In that vein, here is another perspective of Ahmadinejad and Iran by a sovereign individual who has experienced it directly. The boogie men, like Ahmadinejad, that are demonized in the mainstream media are not the enemy, and the glorified heroes, like Nobel Peace Prize "winner" Obama, are not our friends.

They hide the knowledge of the forbidden tree and stampede us....

They use time travel to direct us anyway imaginable.
It explains our current state, cover ups and circus behaviors.

And no one would ever know....

OK, for the time being this is what we know!

Our current state, cover-ups, and circus behaviors are sufficiently explained without resorting to time travel. Time travel would surely make things easier for the ruling elite, as would the traditional characteristics assigned to the traditional ruling entity, like omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. But don't you see that as trying to explain the unknown with the impossible?