Here's a good doco for starters "Manufacturing Consent", it will highlight why you are such an indoctrinated idiot who acts like a close minded fool when presented with alternate information. It will be a good test of your brainwashed mind to see if you can tolerate the content! I don't expect you to watch it though, as you want to remain in the Illusion of being "RIGHT" as opposed to KNOWING the TRUTH! - good luck with that!
"Lets now look at the doctrines that have been crafted to impose the modern forms of political democracy. They are expressed quite accurately in an important manual of the public relations industry by one of its leading figures, Edward Bernays. He opens by observing that the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. To carry out this essential task, the intelligent minorities must make use of propaganda continuously and systematically because they alone understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses and can pull the wires which control the public mind. Therefore our society has consented to permit free competition to be organized by leadership and propaganda another case of consent without consent. Propaganda provides leadership with a mechanism to mold the mind of the masses so that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. The leadership can regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its solders. This process of engineering consent is the very essence of the democratic process, Bernays wrote shortly before he was honored for his contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1949."
Profit over People - Noam Chomsky
I've read every single one of Chomsky's books, excluding the lectures in print form and books that only contain interviews.
1. Quoting the
assertions of a single man in the public relations industry does not constitute evidence for the theory of mass control being presented. The vision of the man who successfully marketed cigarettes and was instrumental in popularizing them, while interesting, bears little to no relation to the actuality of how elites (a vague term as is) operate. Chomsky gladly (and rightly) criticizes this standard of evidence when it is deployed to prop up views contrary to his own; further, the standards of reasoning he adheres to in philosophy (e.g., his critique of behaviorism) and linguistics (what he is famous for in the first place) are exceptional. This makes his use of such shoddy reasoning in politics all the more fascinating and it is is a marvel he does not see the log in his own eye in this regard. It is genuinely amazing that the human mind can be compartmentalized in this fashion.
2. I'm sure that you think I believe America is amazing and perfect, and that I automatically attack any contrary notions. I'm sure of this because you consistently misattribute views to anybody who disagrees with you, including assuming Onetimehard is an American (he isn't), assuming I am "brainwashed" (how could you possibly know this?), and so forth. This shows just superficial your thinking is. The great irony here is that I have already read all of the works under consideration and critically evaluated them, while you have clearly spent little to no time with the arguments (such as they are) in favor of American hegemony. This means that you are the sheep here, because you mindlessly mimic Chomsky like a devoted acolyte and fail to consider relevant alternatives. Shame on you for attacking others for doing exactly what you are doing.
3. In contrast to the "mythical me" that you are attacking, I recognize that business is extremely influential in American society, that in some instances the influence would be better curtailed, that American foreign policy has killed hundreds of thousands, that such policy is
not primarily (or even secondarily, oftentimes) geared towards promoting human rights and democracy, and so forth. All of this is readily understood from a pair of courses: economics and international relations. That you think all of this is somehow kept a secret is very revealing. Yes, some people are stupid and accept everything the government and business interests shove down their throat. The existence of these people does not entail some massive conspiracy, however.