I've just been to a popular supermarket chain to buy some supplies as I have my daughter this weekend & I wouldn't want her thinking I survive on cheese on toast & beer. No, I can't tell you the name of the place....let's just say it begins with 'M' & ends in 'orrisons'.
Let me just say that the programming of the masses is working well. 10.30am on a Friday morning (normally a quiet time to shop) & the supermarket is crazy! People parking everyone, frenzy in the air. What were they all doing there? What was so interesting? It's all just tat, like the blue glittery polyester bathrobes for 'only £10' that I passed as I went in.
Christmas shopping fever always confuses me. How much food do people need? Surely there's just one or two big 'feasts' over the Christmas period... why is there a feeding frenzy for weeks & weeks?
And then the flip side of 'go on, treat yourself' is all the guilt & crash diet nonsense we'll get in January.
It just goes to show that, even when I think the mass media are losing their hypnotic power over the people, this is true only for relatively small numbers. For the rest it's just like Gurjieff said, most are walking around like unconscious robots most of their lives.