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Re: Noam Chomsky: U.S. used to have people killed...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, December 14 2013, 1:53:06 (UTC)
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Marcello wrote:
>I think there are two different versions of Jesus here, the one of the Gospels and early Christians who were massacred by the followers of the Jesus of Constantine, the Jesus who is white, and advocates for the interests of the rich and powerful.
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>On the democratic issue, you're absolutely right, this is what I was talking about when I posted Marcuse's quote about the "second-nature" induced by careful methods of mass psychology, brought to us by Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda, who's book, "Propaganda" was one of Joseph Goebbels' favorites. Noam Chomsky says it best in this paragraph on propaganda:
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>"The logic is clear -- propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state and that's wise and good because again the common interests elude the bewildered herd, they cant figure them out. The public relations industry not only took this ideology on very explicitly but also acted on it, that's a huge industry, spending hundreds of..by now probably on the order of a billion dollars a year on it or something and its committment all along was to controlling the public mind."
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>In the model T days, we knew where we stood, were we with the Reds, or the Blackshirts? Today, the Reds have been co-opted through the system of exchange, so revolutionary Che, is now sold as an empty shell image by capitalists, the way the revolutionary gospels of early Christians had to be crushed and refashioned and applied as a means of propaganda, control and domination. I argue that the Soviets did the same thing with the works of Marx. But I'm sure someone here disagrees with me.

...H. Rap Brown put it simply..."the Man will co-opt dog shit if he can make a buck on it." And we'll buy it.



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