|
I see little wild-eyed paranoia or hate fostering, except perhaps between board members. Plenty of that to go around. I've noticed little tolerance around here lately, even with the reduced traffic & moderator messages. Alternate points of view can be annoying, painful, often a source of learning. Is forcing them underground really helpful?
Anyway...
Leadership of any form will manipulate people to its benefit using facts, lies, and everything in between. The post from UStwo shows some prize-winners from over there. A change in the professor's accent could make his quotations strangely familiar as items of ridicule on these shores.
I hope his intended listeners with minds are able to roll their eyes and keep their heads. I hope all listeners apply equal scrutiny to the messages and motivations of leadership, be it foreign or domestic.
__________________
There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
|