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The press, the media. The "media"? You mean those networks that are owned by some of the largest corporations in the world, corporations that would have taken a nosedive if another panic hit the stock market? That media?
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But do they openly avow their purpose? Most assuredly not, for they know that powerful though they are they would be swept away by a wave of popular opposition. Therefore, through their newspapers and innumerable other propaganda agencies, they proceed to cover up their nefarious schemes of exploitation and oppression with hypocritical cloaks of patriotism, religion, benevolence, and the like.
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It is the superstition, myth, pretense, evasions, and subservience which support authority and institutional domination. It is the reverence for these institutions instilled in the school, the church and the home in order that man may believe and obey without protest. Such a process of devitalizing and distorting personalities of the individual and of whole communities may have been a part of historical evolution; but it should be strenuously combated by every honest and independent mind in an age which has any pretense to enlightenment.
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The press has, at present, a great influence over public questions; and by far the greater and more influential part of it is engaged on the side of the capitalist.
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Every utterance from the moderate camp claiming that the 'Reds' constituted as grave a menace as the...[the enemy]... was seized upon as a warning of what to expect.
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Expanding markets in conditions of material abundance depend upon men's dissatisfaction with their lot being perpetually renewed. Whether individual campaigns are successful or not, the institution of commercial advertising accentuates the materialistic tendencies in society and promotes the view that the things that matter most are the things money will buy -- a view to which the young, who have plenty of need of the wherewithal, if they are to avail themselves of the widely advertised opportunities for fast living and cool extravagance, are peculiarly vulnerable, and which explains much of their vociferous impatience and increasing violence.
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..."democratic"....we often read, at least in American books, that the term in the 1790's became an epithet or smear-word, by which persons were designated against their will, and usually falsely, like persons falsely called communists at a later day.
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It is certain that what he [the consumer] does know he didn't learn from the purveyors of goods, because they lie to him.
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : Capitalism -- Added.
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