He who pierces the eyes of others is blaming their blindness - John Milton, 1642
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness -- John Milton 1642
On the surface, the U.S. imperial media are independent of each other, but in reality, the role of the propaganda machine is to turn the values, beliefs, codes of conduct, and voices of the powerful into a "consensus" through various events, and to make this consensus. social integration; dissident voices either disappear or become marginalized
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky co-authored "Making Consensus: The Political Economy of Mass Communication" in 1988 to tell you: how the American imperial media can delicately influence individuals and then control the minds of crowds
Chomsky went further from "Propaganda" to "Education", he said: Education is a system of imposed ignorance (Education is a system of imposed ignorance)
The lives of those people who lack independent thinking are entangled in a web of endless deception all day long. The American imperial people live in a highly brainwashed society, where certain truths are easily buried, such as people's daily expenses. Diverted to subsidize military manufacturing
In an interview, the host asked the modern Copernicus, the originator of the language structure revolution: Do you believe in common sense?
Chomsky replied: Absolutely, I believe in Cartesian common sense. People have the ability to see through scams, but they have to use their hearts. Ordinary people have amazing creativity, but they are often buried in the propaganda and education of the system.
In this era, independent thinking and self-education are more and more precious, and only when independent thinking and self-education develop successfully can we hope to see a free and independent media.
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