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This echoes a lot of things that Noam Chomsky talked about in Manufacturing Consent (both documentary film and book originally published in 1988) esp. the idea
by pmorici 14y ago
This echoes a lot of things that Noam Chomsky talked about in Manufacturing Consent (both documentary film and book originally published in 1988) esp. the idea that one of the ways the status quo is sustained in a democratic society is to encourage vigorous debate but only within a narrow scope of acceptable opinions.
- sedev 14y agoOh good, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who got about a third of the way through the article and said "well, yes, this is pretty obviously the way things work if you've read Manufacturing Consent or similar critiques." The differences of opinion between different critters inside the Washington DC alternate-reality bubble are greatly magnified by how hard they pretend to fight over them.