The media is completely "Stalinist". When the talking heads on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS use EXACTLY the same words and phrases to propagandize and fool the American people, it is no different than Pravda. Good advice for the Obama Century: trust no one.
I really enjoy the montages of talking heads all using the exact same words and phrasing. You'd think they would realize that people are on to them and at least change timing or phrasing around a little. Maybe they are too arrogant. Or stupid.
"... The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten."
Interesting you should use that Niven quote. It had never occurred to me to link my somewhat libertarian world view with my early fondness for Heinlein's work. But, looking back...
I still have, three quarters of a century later, most of those books.
The media is completely "Stalinist". When the talking heads on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS use EXACTLY the same words and phrases to propagandize and fool the American people, it is no different than Pravda. Good advice for the Obama Century: trust no one.
I really enjoy the montages of talking heads all using the exact same words and phrasing. You'd think they would realize that people are on to them and at least change timing or phrasing around a little. Maybe they are too arrogant. Or stupid.
The fact that they don’t think of it gives us a small measure of hope. A bit slow.
The price of arrogance is foolishness.
I think the reason is "too arrogant". They have absolute confidence in their control of the mass media and in the power that control gives them.
Yes, they are arrogant; but they are also very stupid.
"... The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten."
Interesting you should use that Niven quote. It had never occurred to me to link my somewhat libertarian world view with my early fondness for Heinlein's work. But, looking back...
I still have, three quarters of a century later, most of those books.
Same with me. That’s why I included it.
Thanks for the restock!