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Perspectives on Harper
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 @ 9:30 pm
A regular military presence in cities = not scary?
Interesting how far I seem to be from a “mainstream” perspective…
Though, as Noam Chomsky points out:
“…there’s only one party in the United States. It’s the business party, it has two factions. And the two factions are different: The Bush faction is much more extreme and much more dangerous. I mean, they’re a real danger — to the country and the world. The Democrats are not that different. The same polls . . . [showed] that in just about every major issue that you could think of, the two parties are far to the right of the general population. And that’s across the board.”
“For a democratic society, there can’t be anything more important than knowing what public opinion is. You don’t report it, then everybody thinks, ‘I’m crazy, I’m the only person in the world who thinks this.’ And there’s no possibility to get together and do anything.”
When the mainstream media is the only voice we hear, we tend to subconsciously assume that their opinions are the general opinions.
That’s something we all do automatically, and it’s vital that we all be aware of it and consciously resist it at all times.
