What is wrong?

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55. Does anyone else keep notes of their recent activity?

From> Noam Chomsky: Media Control

“The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.”
The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
http://tinyurl.com/mmzjubq

The specialized Class:
Elections; Your choice > One from column A, or One from column B

Now > Time to sit back and become spectators instead of participants.

How > The media, the schools, and popular culture have to be divided.

Must > Provide some ‘tolerable’ sense of reality; And > Instill the proper beliefs.

Maintain authority > By serving people with real power, those who own society.

Propaganda > Is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Strike breaking > Mohawk Valley formula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Valley_formula

Deprive organization > Organization causes problems.

Sit in front of the TV > Have the message drilled into you. The only value in life is to have more commodities or live like the rich middle class family you are watching.

Without organization > You assume you are the one who is crazy.

Business run society > US the only industrial state-capitalist society without a normal social contract, not even national health care. No general commitment to even minimal standards of survival.

The media are a monopoly > There are no parties.

Most people don’t vote > it looks meaningless; Marginalized and distracted; Engineering consent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Business people > Are the ones with the power and resources. That’s who you work for.

Public > must be frightened and whipped up for foreign “adventures.”

History > History must be falsified so we are not the aggressors. Easy enough to do when you have control of the media and educational system and scholarship is conformist.

Operation Mongoose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Project

“It’s whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, or with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home.”

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Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V. : I’m quite sure they will say so.

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Breaking New: Vladimir Putin has asked the United States to not attend the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia.

Putin stated that he “could not in good conscious host a team from a nation with the world’s highest incarceration rate, that uses the death penalty, that deprives women of birth control, that demonizes the hungry, poor, and unemployed, and actively engages in domestic spying.”