The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the r…

Noam Chomsky
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. ✨ Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, The New Press
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. ✨ Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, The New Press

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