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Originally Posted by jorgelito
...Another was convinced that her doggie was depressed and needed zoloft. My favorite, the lady who was telling me her doggie had ADD because he had trouble paying attention to anything except food and sniffing around.*sigh*
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"...while Rome burned." Crazy.
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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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