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What does it mean to be able to defend yourself intellectually? Of course, we have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called a course in intellectual self-defense, and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to manufacture consent and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate. Bear in mind that we did not devise the terms manufacture of consent and engineering of consent. We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship. As we discuss there and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of manufacturing consent has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies. -- Noam Chomsky
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 02:01:49 +0000

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