Cognitive Biases: What They Are, Why They're Important

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_biases
1 Decision-making, belief and behavioral biases
2 Social biases
3 Memory errors and biases
4 Common theoretical causes of some cognitive biases
5 Methods for dealing with cognitive biases

These are really excellent videos, that do a fine job of explaining what I typical refer to as framing theory or framing techniques or vectoring. These are all techniques employed to weaponize normal human brain functioning, by deceiving human pattern matching processes.

Do this enogh, over and over again, to the human brain, starting at a young age, and the human brain develop synapse networks based upon the deceptive patterns. This is how so many can be so deceived, and not see what is obviously in front of them. To see new patterns, one almost has to grow new neural networks in their brain that will recognize the different/unseen patterns. So, what we have now is a physical problem that is nationwide, perhaps global in scope.

So, people who can not see are not stupid, they merely lack the physical neural connectivity to see patterns that they are not familiar with, or patterns that they have not been "programmed" with throughout their lives.