TimmyBoy
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Here is a quote from Chomsky from his book "Media Control"
"The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask what kind of a world and what kind of a society we want to live in, and in particular what sense of democracy do we want this to be democratic society? Let me begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free. If you look up democracy in the dictionary you'll get a definition something like that.
An alternative conception of democracy is that the public must be barred from managing their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled. That may sound like an odd conception of democracy but it's important to understand that it is the prevailing conception."
It seems to me what Chomsky is saying in this writing of his is that the media and the control of information controls the thoughts and perceptions of people like ourselves. And because the media controls our thoughts and perceptions, our thoughts and perceptions might be incorrect and serving powerful interests and people of the country. Powerful people and powerful interests use the media to get everybody else in support of their agenda by controlling our thoughts through information control.
"The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask what kind of a world and what kind of a society we want to live in, and in particular what sense of democracy do we want this to be democratic society? Let me begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free. If you look up democracy in the dictionary you'll get a definition something like that.
An alternative conception of democracy is that the public must be barred from managing their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled. That may sound like an odd conception of democracy but it's important to understand that it is the prevailing conception."
It seems to me what Chomsky is saying in this writing of his is that the media and the control of information controls the thoughts and perceptions of people like ourselves. And because the media controls our thoughts and perceptions, our thoughts and perceptions might be incorrect and serving powerful interests and people of the country. Powerful people and powerful interests use the media to get everybody else in support of their agenda by controlling our thoughts through information control.