Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> I've known *some* Americans to deride the "propaganda" that goes on in
> more authoritarian regimes, but as far as I can tell they didn't notice
> the propaganda around them.  Insidious stuff.
Sure.  See Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent".  Since the U.S. government
cannot (very well) control what its citizens *do*, it can only maintain
control by regulating what they *think*.  Soviet propaganda was pathetic stuff:
anybody with a functioning brain could see it was self-serving lies.
U.S. propaganda, sharpened by the advertising culture, is really very
successful.

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