Tao Te Ching
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By Noam Chomsky
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
A brilliant uncovering and exposé of mass media as propaganda for governments and big business; this pioneering book describes the insidious influence against freedom that constantly bombard our consciousness. Because mass media organizations depends on profit, they can’t exist without the financial support of business and government. And because of this dependence, the content of the news they report and the opinions they promote are manipulated and controlled—often by the same people and organizations they’re reporting on. This message was so clear and powerful, reactions against this book were often extreme. The Turkish government prosecuted a translator and 2 editors for "denigrating the national identity.”
Themes
Quotes from Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
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67. Three Treasures
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“entertainment has the merit not only of being better suited to helping sell goods; it is an effective vehicle for hidden ideological messages… the contemporary equivalent of the Roman ‘games of the circus’ that diverts the public from politics and generates a political apathy that preserves the status quo inequality”
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“Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.”
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18. The Sick Society
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“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths, the driving force being individual material gain... a principle that will destroy itself in time by pretending that the world is an infinite garbage can.”
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“Seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, challenge them, and unless a justification… dismantle to increase the scope of human freedom.”
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38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“Sports are another example of the indoctrination system because it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance, that keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives, that might give them some idea of doing something about.”
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“The mass media [systematic propaganda] serves as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace… to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society.”
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“The Pentagon and the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy is a subsidy at the taxpayers' expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”
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