““My guess is that you would find that the intellectual elite is the most heavily indoctrinated sector [of society], for good reasons. Its their role as a secular priesthood to really believe the nonsense that they put forth. Other people can repeat it, but its not that crucial that they really believe it. But for the intellectual elite themselves, its crucial that they believe it because, after all, they are the guardians of the faith. Except for a very rare person whos an outright liar, its hard to be a convincing exponent of the faith unless youve internalized it and come to believe it.” ― Noam Chomsky “Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.” ― Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies “State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.” ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda “The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.” ― Noam Chomsky “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” ― Noam Chomsky “Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.” ― Noam Chomsky “
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