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Originally Posted by ajpresto
Does anybody care that there doesn't seem to be any impact on the rate of purchases, etc, from this type of activity? They keep hitting record after record...
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No problem. It's a personal thing. For me these causes are less about making measured change in the system than they are about reminding people of what's important. If the crusades provide some moral support, fine.
Which pill would you swallow? 
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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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