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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2522358" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>People eat up the Kardashians. People eat up the network evening news. People eat up Sunday NFL football.</p><p></p><p>Noam Chomsky is correct about the manufacturing of consent in this country. People have always been swayed by fairy stories that appeal to their current state of consciousness. From religion to politics and all things in between, we create our own Plato's Cave and then filter the images on the cave wall to our liking and we crush all other opinions.</p><p></p><p>Facebook is not new, just the mechanism itself that is new. When I see a news item that stands outside the norm, I look across the entire spectrum of news, rightwing/libertarian/leftwing/socialist/communist and see what is said. If I find a common thread among them all, I start paying attention. One problem we humans have is the need for instant gratification but drilling down to the core facts often takes time and vesting your own time to get to any real facts. Sometimes one just has to sit back and let time itself noodle out said facts. This can take weeks, months and more often than not, years and most people don't like that. Thus another reason most people don't like history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2522358, member: 2189"] People eat up the Kardashians. People eat up the network evening news. People eat up Sunday NFL football. Noam Chomsky is correct about the manufacturing of consent in this country. People have always been swayed by fairy stories that appeal to their current state of consciousness. From religion to politics and all things in between, we create our own Plato's Cave and then filter the images on the cave wall to our liking and we crush all other opinions. Facebook is not new, just the mechanism itself that is new. When I see a news item that stands outside the norm, I look across the entire spectrum of news, rightwing/libertarian/leftwing/socialist/communist and see what is said. If I find a common thread among them all, I start paying attention. One problem we humans have is the need for instant gratification but drilling down to the core facts often takes time and vesting your own time to get to any real facts. Sometimes one just has to sit back and let time itself noodle out said facts. This can take weeks, months and more often than not, years and most people don't like that. Thus another reason most people don't like history. [/QUOTE]
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