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InterestedParticipant
08-13-2009, 12:26 PM
"Dumbed down people are no longer merely ignorant. Now they are indoctrinated,
their minds conditioned with substantial doses of commercially prepared
disinformation dispensed for tranquilizing purposes.

Jacques Ellul, whose book Propaganda is a reflection on the phenomenon,
warned us that prosperous children are more susceptible than others to
the effects of schooling because they are promised more lifelong comfort
and security for yielding wholly:"


"Critical judgment disappears altogether, for in no
way can there ever be collective critical
judgment....The individual can no longer judge for
himself because he inescapably relates his thoughts
to the entire complex of values and prejudices
established by propaganda. With regard to political
situations, he is given ready-made value judgments
invested with the power of the truth by...the word of
experts." - Jacques Ellul

John Taylor Gatto

FSP-Rebel
08-13-2009, 12:49 PM
John Taylor Gatto is the man.

InterestedParticipant
08-13-2009, 12:55 PM
Full Spectrum Simulacrum!

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