911 and other events like it stink. But you weren't there when I was a kid. I was born in the country on 70 acres on farm land. No TV. Played in the mud, no propaganda, just family. Dad used to go down to uncle Walt's to watch the "Lone Ranger" because he was the only one who had a TV within a couple of miles.

They were all black and white back then, then around 1965 came the first color, but we didn't see color TV's until 1970. In the late 60's just before color TV's arrived, I remember this weird polarizing film we placed over our first TV set to give it "color". It was crappy by todays standards.

The psychological manipulation of Edward Bernays and Sigmund Freud took time to be used more effectively. Many decades in fact. Partly this is because the power structure wasn't as advanced and partly because the technology was more primitive.