I know there were multiple readings but in this post I’m going to focus on the first reading by Eland. This article captured my attention because this is something I had to sadly learn by my own critical thinking and personal research. Mostly everything in this world we know has been manipulated by the “filters” of the government we live in today. A cop clearly wrongfully shoots a kid and kills him, what do we see that as? Cold blooded murder right? But unfortunately it won’t take long for a news corp to dig up all the negative facts and exaggerated truth about the kid so it can give us a “filter” that shooting the kid was the justified thing to do. This is an extreme case as to which these filters are used but sadly it’s not even close to the extent of these filters. Ads and propaganda make us believe that one brand is better than the other when in reality both brands are the same essentially. An example of this is Ralph Lauren polo and U.S. polo, people (I can’t lie including myself) through word of mouth have justified that Ralph Lauren polo is of superior quality to the U.S. polo and that U.S. polo is fake polo. But if some simple research is conducted, you will learn that U.S. polo is a branch off of Ralph Lauren, it just costs less. Due to the world we live in we automatically assume that if it costs less it must be of low quality. This is the assumption that marketing companies want to put in our heads so they can take our money. A brand new monster hdmi cable was $59.99 plus tax claiming to be superior and stuff, I had bought a similar hdmi cable which was non name brand for $0.87 plus tax and shipping (total of about $3.14). The cable was the same as the monster cable and after almost 6 ½ years is still standing strong and providing HD picture to my TV. This is just to show you how these automatic assumptions are used to blind us from the reality of things.