"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
TED Talk Parody Shows How Easily The Public Is Brainwashed By Authoritative-Looking “Performance” And Formulas
To the average person, what’s presented as “news” on television, the radio, and even on the internet from “trusted” sources has to be either mostly or entirely true, especially when the majority of reporting sources are in agreement with one another about a particular topic. But what consumers of this information fail to realize is that much of what the public is told about the world, particularly from mainstream sources, is little more than crafty propaganda that’s been carefully packaged and delivered to appear authoritative.
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