In the Mel Gibson movie ‘Conspiracy theory’ Jerry buys the same book, J.D. Salinger's, The Catcher in the Rye, every day. He has hundreds of copies of this book at his apartment that he’s never read yet he still buys one a day and he struggles to explain why.
Initially I questioned the probability that someone would be so brainwashed that they would continue to buy something so useless, surely their common sense, and the waste of money and time would encourage them to seriously question and resist it. Then I realized my daily purchase of cigarettes was just as bizarre. I’d been conditioned just as jerry was and I hadn’t questioned it for over twenty years, I didn’t need to quit smoking I just had to stop buying them.
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