No shift of paradigm happens in somebody's brain without a critical event

Wake them up? Lol... no shift of paradigm happens in somebody's brain without a critical event, most of the times a painfull one, that wakes them up to protect themselves from a perceived danger.

Sometimes it happens from an "aha" moment in which they come to ralize in an instant things they knew from ages but ignored them because... educayshun... works.

For the same reason they did not perceive most dangers and ignore their existance, educayshun... works perfectly.

So it is either a solid smack on the head from life that wakes you up, or an inner dream that catches roots and them roots grow big enough to crack the asphalt and cement casted on them by decades of systematic indoctriantion in family, schools and at the workplace.

And the system is well oiled and engineered so that you intepret wrongly either situation, no smack over your head that cannot be numbed down to a small headache with some Prozac, no dream strong enough that cannot be fadded out with some other Prozac...

But when it happens the machine has other means to put you back in place;

- instant gratification,

- debt and fear of losing your workplace, house, achievements, social status,

- respect from the others,

- peers appreciation for being... another uniformed nothing like them,

- and finaly, fear of jailtime or sudden death by "suicide" in a car "accident" thou you don't drive or own a car anyway.

And if you do wake up, and decide to stay up and thinking things straight and right, dig for information, analize it logically, reach straight forward conclusions based not on speculations, propaganda or slogans but on reality, than the shit showering machine is unleashed upon you, to silence you up and if not possible, at least to make anybody else disregard your sayings as comming from a nutter, a conspiracy theorist, one gone bannanas with self sustainment, indoctrinated with growing his own food and preserving it because... doomsday is coming... and other slogans, well prepared and that worked in the past well and with some small adjustments work well today too.

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." said Plato, long before humans had a propaganda machine of the magnitude we have today, and maybe such ultraperfected propaganda machine today is most needed exactly because more and more individuals realize what the truth is and wake up, and that is absolutelly undesired by the slave owners that rule this planet for now.