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“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.”
― Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
― Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
“In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy.
We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.”
― Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.”
― Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
“Why use the most advanced communications technology in history to teach people basic geography, or how World Bank structural adjustment lending works, when we can instead show people idiots drinking donkey semen for money?”
― Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
― Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
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