Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

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[MrRazorblade999]

They should show this in every school.

[zEr0bertinho]

Too bad for Noam, he's constantly had to fight the useful idiots.

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2:16:55 "You have to develop an independent mind and work on it. Now thats extremely hard to do alone....The way to do it is through organization. So courses in intellectual self-defense will have to be in the context of political and other organization."

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READ A BOOK!!! -Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare- There are free pdf versions online, you will become more aware..

[Alimantado91]

In Manufacturing Consent Chomsky compares two atrocities in 1975 - the communist genocide under Pol Pot and the US and western backed genocide in East Timor occurring at the same time and carried out by Indonesia's General Suharto. One received front page headlines the other virtual silence.

[Alimantado91]

Two would be characterised in the western media as examples of both communist barbarism and black african savagery. The standard view of US genocide up until the 1960s and amongst elite groups today could be summed up by Israeli historian Benny Morris when he stated -

"Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history."

[ZarathustrasCrown]

To be fair, not that I agree with the OP necessarily, but how is the genocide whites have committed or attempted to commit any better than the genocide we've seen enacted or attempted by Rwandan's, or Cambodians?

[Snake Plissken]

You shouldn't condemn a whole race by the actions of its murderous "leaders".

[bobshenix]

@ 0:28:00 - 00:28:16

"I'm rather against the whole notion of developing public personalities -- who are treated as stars of one kind or another -- where aspects of their personal life are supposed to have some significance, and so on."

Noam said that a long time ago. One can only imagine what his feelings are regarding the absolutely INSANE level of celebrity worship that has been normalized in society today!!

The culture of celebrity worship keeps the general population dumb and distracted.