They see them everywhere so they are desensitized. "It's just a pyramid. It's just an eyeball. It's just a pyramid with an eyeball inside, it's on the dollar bill? What's the big deal?" You see. Could the the symbolism in a children's TV show be reinforcing a positive connotation? Like war scenes in today's most popular top charting music videos? Mix this concept with a lazy society where people want instant gratification (fast food, fast directions with GPS, fast service anywhere you go, hate lines, hate traffic, go go go!), and who don't question anything, and you have the prefect recipe for desensitizing/programming someone.

You need time to stop and smell the roses; to critical think and investigate. Today's programming is very corporate. Yet, people forget about the concept of investments, lobbying, and other deals that go on to bias or sway an opinion. We are desensitized and programmed and don't even know it. "Who made this cartoon? Who made this advertisement? Why did this corporation feature this article? Why did this corporation support this candidate?" These are questions people fail to investigate.

Clearly, VC readers are practicing critical thinking here.