We Have To Admit That

The Person Who Imagined That He Could Not Be The Victim Of Propaganda Because He Could Distinguish Truth From Falsehood, Is Extremely Susceptible To Propaganda, Because When Propaganda Does Tell The Truth, He Is Then Convinced That It Is No Longer Propaganda: Moreover, His Self-confidence Makes Him All The More Vulnerable To Attacks Of Which He Is Unaware.

According To The International Institute For Environment And Development, The Annual Amount Spent Globally On Advertising Aimed At Increasing Consumption Topped $430 Billion In 1998.consumer Capitalism Is Dedicated To The Proposition That Production Is Good In Itself, No Matter What Is Produced. The Net Effect Is The Massive Production Of Absurd, Empty And Useless Items Which Are Nevertheless Utterly Serious Since We Earn Our Living From Them, And Dedicate Our Leisure Time To Them.

If Man--if Each One Of Us--abdicates His Responsibilities With Regard To Values; If Each One Of Us Limits Himself To Leading A Trivial Existence In A Technological Civilization, With Greater Adaptation And Increasing Success As His Sole Objectives; If We Do Not Even Consider The Possibility Of Making A Stand Against These Determinants, Then Everything Will Happen As I Have Described It, And The Determinates Will Be Transformed Into Inevitabilities.

Technique Has Taken Over The Whole Of Civilization. Death, Procreation, Birth All Submit To Technical Efficiency And Systemization.

The Fact Of Knowing How To Read Is Nothing, The Whole Point Is Knowing What To Read.