Aldous Huxley perspicaciously presages a half century ago what will happen in America. How advertising is corrupting democracy. I am for getting money out of politics. But money isnt ultimately the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that money works so effectively. It shouldnt! Listen to this Mike Wallace interview clip. youtu.be/AzgqWTJkZlU?t=16m quote: a democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as high enlightened self interest in any given circumstance, but what these people are doing, both for their particular purposes of selling goods and the dictatorial propagandists are doing is to try to bypass the rational side of man and to appeal directly to these unconscious forces below the surface, so that you are in a way making nonsense of the whole democratic procedure, which is based on conscious choice on rational grounds. end quote. no comment necessary
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:09:20 +0000
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