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Matt Taibbi
“We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.”
Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

Matt Taibbi
“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.”
Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

J.D. Salinger
“You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.”
J.D. Salinger

Matt Taibbi
“As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.”
Matt Taibbi, Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season

Matt Taibbi
“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?”
Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

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