For most of my life, now 7 decades long, I've been an activist, doing all I could when I could to do my part to make the world a little better than it was before I came along. To be sure, there were times when I got sidetracked, like when, at the age of 14, I was lured into Christian Neo Fundamentalism or, in my later 20s and 30s, I had other things to do, like, raising my 4 children. But even then I did what I could whenever it became clear to me there were some serious problems with most of the major institutions that influence our lives--religion, government, education, policing, HOAs and so on. Just as my father taught me from my earliest childhood, there were a LOT of people in this world in general and in our society in particular who are out to take advantage of others, to control them, to use them and make fools of them, often, without their even knowing about it!

Once I set myself free from religious control, I then set about to study, first in university and then doing my own research, to find out what is making these fool-makers tick. How do they use speech, advertising and all sorts of propaganda methods to side-step our rational minds and pierce into human emotions where most people make most of their most important decisions, from whom they're going to form a long term sexual relationship to which dish soap to buy!

As a result, I've learned a few things along the way, and on this website and the videos I'll be posting here from time to time, I hope to share what I've learned and continue learning so we can, together, figure out how to avoid being fooled. With effort, I still believe what today may seem like an impossible task (given how so many, probably most, people are being manipulated by a small group of others who do not have their best interest in mind), this tide may yet be turned.

So, to any and all who are reading my words or listening to what I have to say, please consider joining me in this effort to obstruct and stop the foolery that, currently, abounds all around us.

--Rick Lannoye