Propaganda:
The organized attempt through communication to affect belief or action to inculcate attitudes in a large audience in ways that circumvent or suppress an individuals adequately informed, rational, reflective judgement.
—Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940
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“…sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It’s unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what’s happening in the world. In fact, it’s undesirable — if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.”- Noam Chomsky, ‘What Uncle Sam Really Wants’, 1993
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