posted on Nov, 16 2008 @ 06:20 PM
For goodness sake don't let her get her hands on David Rockefeller's Memoirs, or Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective by Helmut Schmidt.
Seriously though I actually had a similar problem with my mother reading "The Secret," and coming out of it with the impression that the universe
was a giant karma based vending machine.
I can totally understand your concerns, my mom will buy a book and I can show her page after page of information proving that what she just read was
garbage, but to her it's "the holy gospel" because it was published in a book.
The saddest part is my own brother get's her reading half of this crap, and he seems to buy it all "hook, line, and sinker" like she does.
It's
scary because they both seem to be fairly intelligent people, but if it's published in a book, or on the evening news they seem to lose their ability
to discern reality.
They also both view the internet as a universal compendium of hoaxes and garbage, show them a copy of operation northwoods and you get a response like
"oh that's nonsense if that was real you would see it on the news" I can even show them the proof that 4 or 5 major corporations own almost all
mainstream media, and also get government defense contracts, or show them the opposing side of a story from a media source outside of the U.S. and
it's like trying to teach string theory to a dog, they just stare at me with a blank look on their face.
I'm in the same boat as you, I feel your pain.
And sorry to hear about your grandmother
I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope to hear about a miraculous recovery.