--{ "I'll Tell You a Story of Reality Makers,
First-Class Con-Men, Magicians, Fakirs,
Combining Behaviourism, Psychology, the Soul,
Hollywood Producers Weave Spells, Reach Their Goal,
Spun from the Top, Where Sick Minds Meet,
Conveyed by Media Middlemen to the Man in the Street,
For the Few Thinkers Out There, Keep Guarding Your Mind,
And Hold On to Truth, We're the Last of Our Kind" © Alan Watt }--
Laboratory Rats - Media - Created Reality, Plato's Cave - Peacetime Troops, Mercenaries, Mercury.
Presidential Advisors - 100 Years War, Middle East, Iraq Invasion - Scheherazade, Tantalizing Stories - Pentagon and Hollywood, Production, Stage Management, Images.
The Matrix, Adaptation - "Wag the Dog" movie, Bosnian War - George Orwell's "1984", the "Memory Hole", "Updated" Articles on Internet.
Prince Charles and Royals' Public Relations, Staged Events - Con Games - Pay-for Websites, Addiction to Data, Downloading.
Francis Galton, Chinese Re-Colonization of Africa - Mandela, United Africa.
Up and Down Gas Prices - "Rubber Road" - Destruction of Humaneness and Cohesiveness - Confidence Tricks and Tricksters.
(Articles: ["Scheherazade in the White House" Christian Salmon, Le Monde diplomatique (at mindfully.org) - Jan. 1, 2008.]
["How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried" (thisislondon.co.uk) - July 18, 2008.]
["Africa For The Chinese - Francis Galton, letter to the Editor of The Times, June 5, 1873" (galton.org).])
*Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 23, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)