Tag Archive for: Mass media

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Karl Rove | We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality

"People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Karl Rove

Yuval Noah Harari | flooding people with irrelevant information

"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. [...] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore."

Yuval Noah Harari

Alexander Solschenizyn | We know they are lying. They know they are lying

"We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie."

Alexander Solschenizyn

David McGowan | The Moon Landing is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

"[The Moon Landing] is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. What primarily motivates them is fear. But it is not the lie itself that scares people; it is what that lie says about the world around us and how it really functions. For if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous hoax before the entire world, and then keep that lie in place for four decades, what does that say about the control of the information we receive? What does that say about the media, and the scientific community, and the educational community, and all the other institutions we depend on to tell us the truth? What does that say about the very nature of the world we live in?"

David McGowan

Howard Beale | Listen to me! Television is not the truth

So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night -- all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know! You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here! You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you -- You dress like the tube. You eat like the tube. You raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now."

Howard Beale

Albert Camus | The welfare of the people

"The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."

Albert Camus

Robert Higgs | politicians will create an emergency so they can break the law.

"If we let politicians break the law in an emergency, politicians will create an emergency so they can break the law."

Robert Higgs

Graham Hancock | I believe we are a species with amnesia

"I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions."

Graham Hancock

Aldous Huxley | People will come to love their oppression

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."

Aldous Huxley

Stefan Zweig | The tales of gouged-out eyes

"The tales of gouged-out eyes and severed hands which appear on the third or fourth day of every war filled the newspapers. They did not know, those innocents who spread such lies, that the accusation of every possible cruelty against the enemy is as much war materiel as are munitions and planes, and that they are systematically taken out of storage at the beginning of every war. War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. [...] Shakespeare was banned from the German stage, Mozart and Wagner from the French and English concert halls, German professors declared that Dante had been Germanic, the French that Beethoven had been a Belgian, intellectual culture was requisitioned without scruple from the enemy countries like grain and ore. [...] After a few weeks, determined to escape this dangerous mass psychosis, I moved to a rural suburb to commence my personal war in the midst of war, the struggle against the betrayal of Reason by the current mass passion."

Stefan Zweig

Jordan Maxwell | Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does

"Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters."

Jordan Maxwell

Frank Zappa | The illusion of freedom

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

Frank Zappa

Noam Chomsky | governments will use whatever technology

"Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population"

Noam Chomsky

Jonathan Swift | When a great genius appears in the world

"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) irischer Schriftsteller

"Das Auftauchen eines wahrhaft genialen Geistes können Sie untrüglich daran erkennen, dass sich sofort alle Nieten gegen ihn verbünden."

George Farquhar | Those who know the least obey the best

"Those who know the least obey the best."

George Farquhar

Herbert George Wells | race between education and catastrophe

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Herbert George Wells

Fred Hoyle | Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.“

Fred Hoyle

Willy Brandt | Whoever should once play with the state of emergency

"Whoever should once play with the state of emergency to limit freedom will find my friends and me on the barricades in defense of democracy, and this is meant quite literally."

Willy Brandt

Michael Jackson | Sadly, sadly, we live in a state of fear

“Sadly, sadly, we live in a state of fear. Everyday we hear of war on the news, on the radio and television and the newspapers, always of war. We hear of nations hurting each other, of neighbours hurting each other, of families hurting each other and the children killing each other. We must learn to live and love each other before its too late. We have to stop! We have to stop the prejudice, we have to stop the hating, we have to stop living in fear of our own neighbours. [...] Together … together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. Its our only hope, without hope we are lost.”

Michael Jackson

Roland Baader | The word ‘democracy’ is a heavy intoxicant

"The word 'democracy' is a heavy intoxicant. It prevents learning, clouds the mind, confuses thinking, creates delusions - and eventually makes you sleepy and apathetic. Today's democracy junkies would murder Socrates again."

Roland Baader

Daniel Neun | One need only translate the terms “conspiracy theorists” as “heretics”

"One need only translate the terms "conspiracy theorists" as "heretics" to know the tradition in which these terms stand and those who use them. Ultimately, it is about the accusation of apostasy from the ruling faith, which is determined by the ruling authorities and majorities. (Faith in this respect can also be translated as ruling doctrine, ideology, etc.). Thus, contrary to the subjective view of many of its users, the terms are themselves expressions of clerical and authoritarian thought structures based on subjugation as a basic psychological pattern. It is denunciatory, inquisitorial. It is directed against classical skepticism. Thus, the main purpose of these terms can only be to discredit "serious conjectures", hypotheses and facts, and thereby prevent real causal research."

Daniel Neun

Mark Dice | You can’t trust anything the liberal media industrial complex says

"You can’t trust anything the liberal media industrial complex says about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in any conflict when they reported Black Lives Matter is a peaceful civil rights movement as they burned down hundreds of businesses across America"

Mark Dice

Bill Hicks | The problem isn’t a lack of money food water or land

"The problem isn't a lack of money food water or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind"

Bill Hicks

Ernest Holmes | Practically the whole human race is hypnotized

"Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think."

Ernest Holmes

George Orwell | Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

George Orwell

Richard Dreyfuss | Television is hypnotic, and it hides among

"Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn't reveal itself, but it distorts everything."

Richard Dreyfuss

Henry Ford | a revolution before tomorrow morning

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

Henry Ford

Denzel Washington | Anything you practice you’ll get good at — including BS

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed [...] One of the effects is the need to be first, not even to be true anymore. So what a responsibility you all have; to tell the truth, not to just be first, but to tell the truth. We live in a society now where it’s just first. Who cares? Get it out there. We don’t care who it hurts, we don’t care who we destroy, we don’t care if it’s true. Just say it, sell it. Just say it, sell it. Anything you practice you'll get good at — including BS."

Denzel Washington

Matthias Lubos | Democracy is the method of implementing the will of the financial aristocracy

"Democracy is the method of implementing the will of the financial aristocracy in such a way that the people believe that humanity wanted it that way."

Matthias Lubos

Joseph Stalin | Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism

"Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.... These organisations (i.e. Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins."

Joseph Stalin