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“As I mentioned earlier, they don't want decision-makers and participants; they want a passive, obedient population of consumers and political spectators—a community of people who are so atomized and isolated that they can't put together their limited resources and become an independent, powerful force that will chip away at concentrated power.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“By the way, that propaganda system includes not just how issues are framed in news stories but also how they're presented in entertainment programming— that huge area of the media that's simply devoted to diverting people and making them more stupid and passive.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“That's a dramatic example of the efficiency with which business controls US ideology, of how effective its propaganda and indoctrination have been in depriving people of any awareness of their own rights and history.
You have to wait for poor Latino and Chinese workers to celebrate an international holiday of solidarity with American workers.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
You have to wait for poor Latino and Chinese workers to celebrate an international holiday of solidarity with American workers.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“For example, one of the effects of the so-called free trade agreement with Canada was to stimulate a big flow of jobs from Canada to the southeast US, because that's an essentially nonunion area. Wages are lower; you don't have to worry about benefits; workers can barely organize. So that's an attack against Canadian workers.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“The causes are the increasing polarization of the society that's been going on for the past twenty-five years, and the marginalization of large sectors of the population. Since they're superfluous for wealth production (meaning profit production), and since the basic ideology is that a person's human rights depend on what they can get for themselves in the market system, they have no human value.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
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