Beginning with a brief overview of the origins of propaganda in America, Chomsky examines the varieties of mind control and behaviour modification that result when government and businesses use image manipulation and disinformation to influence events. Now in a newly expaned edition, with his January 2002 comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and US foreign policy in the post-September 11 world. "The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self imposed totaliarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world..."
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