The atheists are as suspecting to government programming as Christians are to religion. Exactly the same

My soul has a million parts to it and no one is the boss of me. Can not speak of the majority, yet a few others are the king of their own domain.

There are people that actually think truisms are fonts of wisdom. This word salad doesn't even rise to the level of a truism though, some 13 year old's idea of what wisdom sounds like I guess.

Religion, governments and media are tools which can be used for either good or ill. Most often however, they are used for ill purposes.

Religion, should if used for good, be no more than a life philosophy. Buddhism was originally a life philosophy, but after the originator died, they added in supernatural stories and mysticism from religions and myths that predated the founder of the Buddhist philosophy. Ambitions of the religious leaders who followed currupted the original intent of the founder, which is pretty much common to all religions. I tends to agree with the unattributed quote "Once it is organized it becomes a lie", when applied to religion.

In governments, there have been good and well intentioned rulers. However, as soon as the good and well intentioned rulers pass, the void is filled with the ambitious and selfish.

Media has dispersed information to the masses. When TV was first invented, it was envisioned as a tool for education, not entertainment. However, there is more demand and thus more profit in entertainment, and those who run media do not see the need to disperse accurate information in their entertainment programming.

We often hear the misquote "Money is the root of all evil". However the full quote is "The love of money is the root of all evil". Meaning that to love money and the pursuit of money to the extent that you are willing to do harm to attain it, results in acts of evil.

Don't mistake the tools as evil, when it is how the tools are being used that is in fact the true evil. Sadly, in many cases most people can't remember a time or event when some tools had positive uses.

If I assume that statement is true there is still the fact that you cannot avoid them in our world today. A hermit might avoid but we know he could not before he became a hermit.