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Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege (Original Post)
limpyhobbler
Jan 2013
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But what is interesting is that a whole industry - Public Relations, advertisement
fasttense
Jan 2013
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reeds2012
(91 posts)1. Thank you for posting that!
The whole thing is about privilege in one way or another.
From 20:00-25:00 it is about a certain type of privilege: Plato's "Noble Lie."
Interesting also that toward the end he throws the American public under the bus as uninformed voters. #NoDoubt
fasttense
(17,301 posts)2. But what is interesting is that a whole industry - Public Relations, advertisement
and media consultants - are devoted to creating uninformed people making emotional and irrational decisions.
Stay away from advertisement and propaganda. They will kill you.
Beware of want and ignorance.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)3. K&R. He tells it like it is.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)4. Good 'Ol Noam!
84 and STILL telling it like it is!
Thanks for posting this.
This is one of the real reasons why Al Jazeera is not on in the US!