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Originally Posted by Dupa_z_Zasady
Nice. Comrades Stalin and Lenin would be proud of you. 
I really do think that we do not need political threads on this forum, even in The Inn section |
I think its the best thread I've yet seen on the forums.
+1 Vy for starting it (for what its worth I lean pretty far to the left also)
I dont think of it as a political thread even, its a concern for his fellow
beings; no matter their political affiliation.
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To start with, there are two different groups, we can get into more detail, but at the first level of approximation, there's two targets for propaganda. One is what's sometimes called the political class. There's maybe twenty percent of the population which is relatively educated, more or less articulate, plays some kind of role in decision-making. They're supposed to sort of participate in social life -- either as managers, or cultural managers like teachers and writers and so on. They're supposed to vote, they're supposed to play some role in the way economic and political and cultural life goes on. Now their consent is crucial. So that's one group that has to be deeply indoctrinated. Then there's maybe eighty percent of the population whose main function is to follow orders and not think, and not to pay attention to anything -- and they're the ones who usually pay the costs. ~ Noam Chomsky
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To expand on this I think what Chomsky says is a truism and if the 80ish percent ever wake up
thats when revolution happens.