"An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a
people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a
people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda,
is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. That kind
of orthodoxy can kill a democracy - or worse." - -Bill Moyers
"If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction
of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and
bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they
do". -John Pilger(13/11/2005)
"The major western democracies are moving towards
corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every
human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary
parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich,
capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless
war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food." John
Pilger (05/11/2009)
"This is the fundamental debate in our society: Are we a nation of citizens or a nation of consumers? Are we a democracy run by citizens, or are we a corporatocracy that holds consumers locked in dependency by virtue of their consumption?" Thom Hartmann
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