“Stop and consider if whatever you buy, see, listen to, or do is popular. If it is, it is programmed, and like it or not, so are you.”

Consider social #media. I find it ironic that some members of the Net believe themselves to be more enlightened than the mundane masses. They look down at their opponents with terms like #sheeple. Yet it is all a matter of social programming. The differences are: "by whom". So long as we cling to our favored silos of 'truth', we are being programmed by it. No one is immune.