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Watch the video below
with Chris Hedges
RT America on Nov 12, 2017
Stuart Ewen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Film & Media at Hunter College and author of Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture joins Chris Hedges for a conversation on the power of mass propaganda. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the influence of the public relations industry.
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Brilliant episode.
The corporate takeover was systematic: conflate democracy and Capitalism through indoctrination. Wealthy executives have purchased almost the entirety of our media to be able to frame all political and social discussions. They cleverly manipulate language to manipulate minds to manipulate actions and complete the control over the population. And by turning “consumption into compulsion” they’ve been able to capture the masses more effectively than by putting us in prison.
In a steel and concrete prison cell you fight to the death. Instead, they convince us to willingly imprison ourselves in comfortable cells lined with possessions, comforts and other peoples’ opinions. Few even understand they are trapped in a world of make believe in which we’re not much different than the proverbial rat in a maze. They tell us what to do and do it in such a cleverly disingenuous way we think we thought of it ourselves.
Sorry to ramble. Provocative discussions have a way of affecting me like that. 😀
Thanks for a great post. I wish millions of people would read and watch people like Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky and many other brilliant people who show the insidious deception we swallow every day. I guess it’s difficult for most people to admit they’ve been fooled their entire lives. I believe that might be the biggest hurdle we face in ending the sick system we have.
I so agree. It is difficult to reach people who have been propagandized their entire lives. However, like you mentioned, watching interviews like this does help.
Another good post from the archives: https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/corporate-demons-possess-our-nations-soul/
Brilliant essay.
I have often called Capitalism our state religion. Then one day a few years ago, as I was reading a book about extremist offshoot religions, it occurred to me that it is more a demonology than a religion. It’s an appropriate term for a belief system based on fear, hate, greed and justifying violence to others to collect more possessions. It makes you wonder: who are the possessors and who is possessed?
Glad you enjoyed it. Capitalism is demonology!
That was very well put and I couldn’t agree more.