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I think you mean the quotation (a fantastic opportunity), not the post? My point was to treat both with equal cynicism. I don't find it easy to do to someone or something I love or agree with, but it helps reveal patterns in myself and whatever I'm studying.
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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
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