George Talarico
Prof. Siewers
Foun098
9/27/21
Erroneous Perceptions
If man is no longer able to perceive the world for how it really is, they no longer have the free will to judge things as they really are. If this is so, is the man who is so easily gulled by the false information they read in the news day by day, considered a man at all, or are they to be looked at like sheep who blindly follow their shepherd. The conditioned mind of the educated is to believe without question. The educated find themselves too curious and cannot resist reading into the information presented before them.
The way people think and observe information is split into two systems, system one would have the people take in information and accept it for how it is given to them. System two would have the people question the information they receive. Those who are uneducated follow system two, questioning everything, for they believe that any information released to them cannot be rightfully accepted as concrete; yet they find themselves too preoccupied with the simplicities in life than to care about the news that may change their everyday lives. The easily manipulated minds of the educated follow system one because it requires less cognitive analysis, nevertheless, stimulating their minds by instituting new information, thereby enabling themselves to be continuously deceived.
Mark Studdock, a young exuberant sociologist, who works in sociology at Bracton. Mark finds himself being drawn towards N.I.C.E(National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments). Naively, Mark joins N.I.C.E, unable to see past their appealing inquiries and into their insidious plans. Failing to fit into the inner circle at N.I.C.E, Mark becomes a journalist for the cooperation. During his time as a journalist, N.I.C.E tells Mark to feed lies to the public about what goes on there. Mark agrees to do what they say, failing to think for himself.
Although Mark disagrees with the idea that the educated will believe the news Mark releases, he is quickly corrected by Miss Hardcastle(the head of N.I.C.E police). She explains to Mark that the uneducated do not find themselves reading into the stories N.I.C.E puts out, for they are too concerned with more simple information, such as how their favorite sports team has been playing. As Miss Hardcastle explains this to him, Mark begins to understand that the educated minds have already been conditioned to take in information as facts due to their previous experiences as apprentices and students. They have been conditioned to act as sponges of information and to impose that information on those who want to learn, therefore implementing their conditioned mind onto those who listen to them.