Other people get it too...

The American Propaganda machine can be equated with The Matrix. The moment you wake up and see the system in action from the outside, you're flushed. That's alright, because we are starting to fight back.

From some other people who get it:

Manipulation is power

More important than profit is the mainstream media ownership's interest in preserving the dominance of the corporation over the individual. Starting in the 1950's, post World War II America entered into a period of mass consumption and consumerism. Over the last half century, we have moved into a dark period of unparalleled avarice driven by obsession with materialism.

The corporate owners of mass media utilize both mainstream news, and its accompanying advertising, to entice Americans to buy things they do not need and to create an image of what a "successful" person should be (i.e. thin, straight, tough, beautiful, young, wealthy). Through the medium of television, corporations have a captive audience to psychologically manipulate the American public into buying what they do not need. Think Saturday morning cartoons and toy commercials!

Reaching millions of receptive minds at once, the corporate puppeteers also perpetuate the dominant paradigm of white male patriarchy and blind patriotism. Television, print and advertising empower the elite to perpetually employ their propaganda tactics to persuade the masses to allow them to maintain their tenacious grip on wealth and power.

Meanwhile, the power of labor unions continues to wane, real wages decline, the wealth gap widens, the national debt skyrockets, social welfare programs are cut, taxes on the wealthy decline, and the military industrial complex reaps obscene profits as people bleed red to keep corporations out of the red.

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-The Oklahoma Hippy