When was the last time you had a original thought? Listen to your thoughts, are all of your personal desires to achieve things like money, house, car or women. You weren't born with desires to get all those things, they were installed in you. And have you wondered what happens when you don't get what you want? You start getting negative thoughts, and this circle continues until you die. Do you want to change? Ask yourself "Do I REALLY want the truth?" The truth is out there, it is put in movies, and religion. But people have manipulated this truth to control the mind. Stop watching tv, listening to radio and all other subliminal messages put through media to control your mind. Most signals put out beta waves, beta is the state your mind is in if you were to take a walk from point A to point B. The movement from point A to B is electrical brain waves sent from your sense of seeing and feeling. You FEEL that you are moving and you SEE that you are moving from one place to another. People can manipulate these waves to put other messages into your super subconsciousness and subconsciousness. You might wonder why someone would do that. Let me explain.
The mind is like a universe, it is there for YOU and ONLY you to explore. And things like hatred, greed, envy, jealousy are installed in you. It is like a black hole. The more you pay attention to it, and give it your internal energy the bigger it grows and soon it takes over your whole mind. Your thoughts are no longer yours, it is the black hole manipulating your soul. A good example of that black hole is Agent Smith from the Matrix. It will consume everything in your world, until you learn to use your mind. You start to learn how every emotion effects you. The term "me against the world" is both true and false. It is how you perceive it. It is not YOU against other human being, it is YOU against the world inside of you. You HAVE to meditate. It is the only way to feel that cosmic energy through out your body. As you do it for a while, you start to notice gut instincts and seeing past the illusion the mind has created for you. Then you learn to use your own mind, you start to have your own thoughts and your own ambitions. Soon with enough meditation all the signals in your brain are only positive ones. And you learn that selfish actions only give you pleasure for a moment and that they will be gone. Meditation allows you to connect to a higher force, you may call it (God) or (The Creator) and the only emotion that is going through your body is the love for yourself. You start noticing that you DON'T need a cell phone to survive and be happy, you learn you don't need a T.V. to keep you occupied, you don't have to crush the hearts of others and manipulate them, because that only adds more anger and hatred into your own black hole. What is the black hole? there are many things I can use to describe it. Your EGO. It only wants more. No matter how much money you have. It always wants more..... Please pass this message to many people as possible. It is the universal truth.

Some stuff you said make sense,but i dont totally agree with you.
The tv and movies,does not manipulate everything,we are just born with these "instincts",the "media" just "boosts" it,or something like that.
You dont need to watch TV to want to be rich,or have a nice car.
And each person is different.
I didnt get the point of your thread,are you talking about religion or something?

I am talking about Ultimate Self-Confidence.