Lets say you just watched a McDonalds commercial unveiling this new burger, you are so excited to try the new burger that you drive to McDonalds and get it. You open up the box and see that it looks nothing like you saw on TV. That little example goes to show what perception can do to the human mind. For many years we as humans have been deceived by what we see and hear on TV, radio, build boards, newspapers, and the news. Nothing is exactly what it seems to be especially if the government is in control of what you see or hear.
Perception is something that could be could be true but probably isn’t. In the text it talks about how things can be one thing but its actually another thing and this is know as subliminal messaging .This can be seen everywhere whether its on television, billboards, radio, the news or even on stupid things like Tinder. I say tinder because you think you found this very attractive boy/girl and you show up and that person is definitely not like their profile picture. They even have a whole show surrounding this called “Catfish”. But its not just dating you need to watch, its also what you read.
The news is another one that likes to use perception a lot. They like to twist the truth as much as they can either to make a country, family, or person look bad. Say someone said something about how guns are great or how guns are bad, the media will try to twist that and make that person look like a terrorist or a insane person(depending on the station) even though that is not true. In North Korea they are forced to listen to propaganda of how North Korea is like Heaven to live in and the other countries are evil and will kill you. That’s how North Korea Proceeds themselves as and other countries, there is a story that is told within the country on how the United States is a evil country who liked to kill women and children during the Korean War(I’m not lying look it up). The media is sick tool to make innocent people look bad even though they did nothing wrong.
At the end of the day we can’t do anything about it. Whether its in the news, TV, or even on things like Tinder, perception will always be a tool that will manipulate how we live in society.