Choose your illusion. Choose your poison. Choose your programming. No major argument with you. You get my angle on this
I get your angle. I don't mean anything derogatory in my comments. I wonder though, do you get it? That is, when you state "You all are just programming yourselves. Like Pavlov's dogs. Stimulus and response", do you understand that you too are a cog in the same machine? The difference being that your illusion, or poison, or programming, or what-have-you would seem to exclude the purchase of iPods.
You can use your illusion -
Let it take you where it may
We live and learn and then sometimes it's best to walk away
Me I'm just here hangin' on
It's my only place to stay
At least for now anyway
I've worked too hard for my illusions
Just to throw them all away
From those great poets of our time, Guns n' Roses.....