willow
11-01-2003, 01:59 AM
When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking."
John Wooden
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
William Blum - Rogue State, on how governments control their citizenS
" The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic."
John Dewey, American philosopher and educator, 1859-1952
"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense."
David Edwards, author of Burning All Illusions
" To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think. "
C. Wright Mills - from the book The Power Elite
*****
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..."
US General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
*****
" The U.S. President has been largely refashioned as a high-level trade representative for the transnationals."
The Nation magazine
"If you want to know about the world and understand and educate yourself, you have to dig;
dig up books and articles, read and find out for yourself."
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author
John Wooden
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
William Blum - Rogue State, on how governments control their citizenS
" The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic."
John Dewey, American philosopher and educator, 1859-1952
"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense."
David Edwards, author of Burning All Illusions
" To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think. "
C. Wright Mills - from the book The Power Elite
*****
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..."
US General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
*****
" The U.S. President has been largely refashioned as a high-level trade representative for the transnationals."
The Nation magazine
"If you want to know about the world and understand and educate yourself, you have to dig;
dig up books and articles, read and find out for yourself."
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author