"Education is a system of imposed ignorance." “The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behaviour that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.” “The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda. “Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.” “Concentrate on the victims of enemy powers and forget about the victims of friends.” huh? “The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to ‘lifestyle’ themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken any sense of community helpful to civic life.” [Instrumental development featuring expressive guitar and female phonetic melody.] “The institutional bias of the private mass media "does not merely protect the corporate system. It robs the public of a chance to understand the real world.”
