[Peace-discuss] What Carl's highly AWARE average American will be watching at the movie theater this weekend...

[C. G. Estabrook]

The American ruling class is as alive to the danger that democracy poses as 
their ancestors who drafted the anti-democratic constitution of 1787 were. 
(See, e.g., the famous 1975 Trilateral Commission study, The Crisis of Democracy 
-- the crisis being that there was too much democracy around, growing out of the 
'60s.)

And it's no accident that the media (including film) are as asinine and 
stupefying as they are.  (See, e.g., Frances Stonor Saunders' wonderful book 
about how the CIA spent a great deal of money to dumb down culture -- The 
Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters.) 	

But if one wanted to disparage democracy, one of the best ways to do it would be 
to convince people that all around them were fools and poltroons. --CGE


n.dahlheim at mchsi.com wrote:
> John,
>    I just cannot help but think that the masses really are asses... Doesn't 
> the entertainment just become more asanine and stupeifying?  The culture just 
> continues its inexorable and continued decline....
> 
>      Best,
>      Nick
> 
> 
> ----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
> From:    "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
> To:      Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] What Carl's highly AWARE average American will be watching at the movie theater this weekend...
> Date:    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:01:26 +0000
> 
>> Ooops....it's that damned conspiracy of the media to manufacture consent
>> again!!!  :-(
>>
>>
>>
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