Do you believe that we live in manipulated and controlled reality or are all events random?

[Doug]

No. I honestly believe that the people who run things are simply not intelligent enough to manipulate the world on such a grand scale. If they were, they wouldn't be so paranoid. Lifestyles are the way they are because we've accepted it, we can't blame anyone else. The education system fails to do anything more than make the stats look good. Computers are hailed as some form of infallible supergod, when they are nothing more than tools which allow most people to a) stop thinking, and b) divert responsibility away from themselves. We're a primitive species with delusions of grandeur and a serious superiority complex. The sooner we all wake up and accept actual reality, the better. Though I feel we're going to be forced into it rather than do it voluntarily.