[mistermann]

Indeed there is most likely some foreign influence in Western beliefs, but in the process perhaps we shouldn't overlook the broader reality of things which is that domestic organizations of various flavors allegedly have a long track record of actively persuading us to believe certain things. And then on top of that there's the complex nature of the human mind's perception of reality, how it forms beliefs based on a torrent of conflicting information, etc, and then the tricky problem that these phenomena are near-impossible to detect by the person who owns the mind.