This would explain a lot...........................

      Examination of the mind structure shows that its function is comparable to the hardware of a computer and the software represents the programming by society as well as by inherited influences.  The fundamental innocence of mankind is based on the reality that the human mind is incapable of discerning truth from falsehood.  It has no innate defense against the utilization of its hardware to play any introduced software program without prior approval, discernment, or options of the will (e. g., the impact of the media).

-David Hawkins,  Discovery of the Presence of God:  Devotional Nonduality