thesubversivesound:

“The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask: What kind of a world and what kind of a society we want to live in, and in particular, in what sense of democracy do we want this to be a democratic society? The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalised, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world.”

- Noam Chomsky,

‘Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda’