The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What It Is Doing to Our Lives
A "collision course with reality" caused by our inability to grasp the complexities of the post-WW II world has created a fantasy industry designed to provide escape from domestic and global problems, according to this important, hard-hitting study by two professors of business administration at UCLA. This billion-dollar industry, they charge, injects entertainment into every aspect of life, blurring the boundaries between fact and fantasy.
Indicting TV as a major villain, Mitroff and Bennis argue that long-range thinking on vital ethical issues has been replaced with repetitious, comforting platitudes that erode society's moral fabric. A need for quick solutions, and a national belief in indefinite material progress, the authors maintain, lead people to confuse bigness with strength, quality for quantity, and celebrity for the leadership that is needed to restore a national vision.
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The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What It Is Doing to Our Lives
A "collision course with reality" caused by our inability to grasp the complexities of the post-WW II world has created a fantasy industry designed to provide escape from domestic and global problems, according to this important, hard-hitting study by two professors of business administration at UCLA. This billion-dollar industry, they charge, injects entertainment into every aspect of life, blurring the boundaries between fact and fantasy.
Indicting TV as a major villain, Mitroff and Bennis argue that long-range thinking on vital ethical issues has been replaced with repetitious, comforting platitudes that erode society's moral fabric. A need for quick solutions, and a national belief in indefinite material progress, the authors maintain, lead people to confuse bigness with strength, quality for quantity, and celebrity for the leadership that is needed to restore a national vision.
A "collision course with reality" caused by our inability to grasp the complexities of the post-WW II world has created a fantasy industry designed to provide escape from domestic and global problems, according to this important, hard-hitting study by two professors of business administration at UCLA. This billion-dollar industry, they charge, injects entertainment into every aspect of life, blurring the boundaries between fact and fantasy.
Indicting TV as a major villain, Mitroff and Bennis argue that long-range thinking on vital ethical issues has been replaced with repetitious, comforting platitudes that erode society's moral fabric. A need for quick solutions, and a national belief in indefinite material progress, the authors maintain, lead people to confuse bigness with strength, quality for quantity, and celebrity for the leadership that is needed to restore a national vision.
Although I agree with the above, I hardly think it's a revelation. The media has been designed to propagandize since the days of Edward Bernays and Rockefeller. The real problem is that people have been educated to "believe their master's voice" unquestioningly since Rockefeller, Carnegie and others took over and consolidated the medical and education industries at the turn of the last century. The rest falls right into place...
See Rockefeller Medicine Men (you can read it online here), and John Taylor Gatto's work if you haven't already.
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