Dear citizen, please SHUT UP!

"Work makes us submit to power. The person in charge doesn’t have to care about our feelings. We have exchanged our right to communicate our pain for a monthly paycheck."

http://thephilosophersmail.com/capitalism/why-youre-probably-not-enjoying-your-job-very-much/

Oops!

During an interview on PBS Newshour, on September 18, 2007, to the question by Jim Lehrer: “What is the proper relationship, what should be the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and a president of the United States?”

Alan Greenspan declared: “Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don't, frankly, matter.”

Transcript available here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-july-dec07-greenspan_09-18/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2vMHx46ww

Sufferable evils

“all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

US Declaration of Independence.

To learn who rules over you

Freedom is to have real thoughts

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If  that is granted, all else follows.

(George Orwell, 1984).

The aim of modern propaganda

Very frequently propaganda is described as a manipulation for the purpose of changing idea or opinions of making individuals 'believe' some idea or fact, and finally of making them adhere to some doctrine—all matters of the mind. It tries to convince, to bring about a decision, to create a firm adherence to some truth. This is a completely wrong line of thinking: to view propaganda as still being what it was in 1850 is to cling to an obsolete concept of man and of the means to influence him; it is to condemn oneself to understand nothing about propaganda. The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. It is no longer to change adherence to a doctrine, but to make the individual cling irrationally to a process of action. It is no longer to transform an opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

(Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s, 1973).