"An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information........

[marmar]

....... 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. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

-- Bill Moyers


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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

-- Malcolm X

[Atticus]

1. More to consider in those two short quotations than in many much longer posts. Thanks. nt

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Beautiful summaries of what is happening in America today.

Sad too. Tragic, in fact.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Recommended. (nt)

[mmonk]

4. Perfect quotes for these times. Defines the fight we are up against.

[Curmudgeoness]

5. Whoa. The Malcolm X quote is powerful. nt

[Usrename]

8. Israel/Palestine in a nutshell. nt

[Beartracks]

6. And each group defined by any such bias...

... naturally thinks that THEY themselves are the only such group outside of, or immune to, the phenomenon Moyers describes. :(

[midnight]

7. True. I was wondering why there is so little tolerance for

different religions. I studied Asian religions in College. I was raised Catholic. I spent several summers going to Baptist Bible camp with friends in the neighborhood. We had Jewish neighbors. A friend was Mormon-she and I had two of the largest families in the school. I cannot remember such a slide back wards toward intolerance.