Had Luther been in a better position to have seen more precisely into it than he did, he would have been able to refine his famous and already remarkably accurate saying into something closer to this, "The wages of liars are ample, but the truthful go begging."
Propaganda turned into a gold mine in both the UK and the US roughly at about the same time, circa 1920, when the newly emerging public relations industry in both countries began yoking science to the task of manufacturing delusions increasingly well designed to maximize their appeal and acceptability to specific audiences, or to mass audiences, both.
Since then, the notion that 'reality is now for sale' is merely a poetic way of stating a key truth about how people in most societies so often understand and interpret so much of the world around them.
Crucially significant here, the public relations industry started out in World War I as a way for governments to manipulate public awareness and feelings in order to align people's behavior with their policies. It was established as a business industry by many of the same people who began their careers figuring how to best manipulate people to gin them up to demand and support war. More so in the US than in the UK, but certainly in both.
Governments are still a major source of income for the industry in every nation there is one. The concept that propaganda is an intrinsic part of what governments do, is long established as political commonsense worldwide.
To me, the video is exceptionally well packed with accurate comments and takes on the most likely ways Fox's decision to replace Lou Dobbs with two specific intellectuals is certainly meant to ramp up their effectiveness as a propaganda outlet for the network's politics, among other goals.
Both intellectuals have for decades been key players in providing false or misleading cover for the political decisions that have brought about both globalization along libertarian and neoliberal lines, and the two tier economy in the US today that stacks the various decks in order to favor the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
For example: Laffer's 'curve' is a bit of groundless speculation that always plays a vital role in undercutting opposition and providing cover for supporting tax cuts that are good for the rich, don't benefit most others, and actually work out as bad for most people's quality of life.
I'm getting to the point where I think it's almost morally necessary to remind anyone reading something relevant to the wealth gap in America (or to things like Brexit in the UK) that most people's ideas about it or about anything having to do with it closely conform with someone's propaganda about those things. While that is truer on the right, than on the left, neither side does enough thinking for itself these days for anyone to credibly believe they themselves are wholly free of being someone's fool.
In other words, please be careful about believing anything you are not certain you have good reasons for it to be true. We can only do our best, but so many of us aren't even aware this is an area where we would be best off trying harder. The way I got it figured, if I'm going to screw up my life, and help other people screw up theirs, by reading false maps, then passing them along to others, then I might as well draw up those maps myself. At least then, I might have a chance of limiting the damage.
Propaganda turned into a gold mine in both the UK and the US roughly at about the same time, circa 1920, when the newly emerging public relations industry in both countries began yoking science to the task of manufacturing delusions increasingly well designed to maximize their appeal and acceptability to specific audiences, or to mass audiences, both.
Since then, the notion that 'reality is now for sale' is merely a poetic way of stating a key truth about how people in most societies so often understand and interpret so much of the world around them.
Crucially significant here, the public relations industry started out in World War I as a way for governments to manipulate public awareness and feelings in order to align people's behavior with their policies. It was established as a business industry by many of the same people who began their careers figuring how to best manipulate people to gin them up to demand and support war. More so in the US than in the UK, but certainly in both.
Governments are still a major source of income for the industry in every nation there is one. The concept that propaganda is an intrinsic part of what governments do, is long established as political commonsense worldwide.
As an aside, it's my opinion that anyone who honestly wants to understand how well a representative democracy can work to the benefit of most people, rich and poor alike, must see that topic in light of how well such governments worked before the 1920s in America on both the state and Federal levels. The period of the New Deal in some key ways is only a valuable qualification on that theme, which it seems to me is best understood in light of what came before it.
To me, the video is exceptionally well packed with accurate comments and takes on the most likely ways Fox's decision to replace Lou Dobbs with two specific intellectuals is certainly meant to ramp up their effectiveness as a propaganda outlet for the network's politics, among other goals.
Both intellectuals have for decades been key players in providing false or misleading cover for the political decisions that have brought about both globalization along libertarian and neoliberal lines, and the two tier economy in the US today that stacks the various decks in order to favor the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
For example: Laffer's 'curve' is a bit of groundless speculation that always plays a vital role in undercutting opposition and providing cover for supporting tax cuts that are good for the rich, don't benefit most others, and actually work out as bad for most people's quality of life.
I'm getting to the point where I think it's almost morally necessary to remind anyone reading something relevant to the wealth gap in America (or to things like Brexit in the UK) that most people's ideas about it or about anything having to do with it closely conform with someone's propaganda about those things. While that is truer on the right, than on the left, neither side does enough thinking for itself these days for anyone to credibly believe they themselves are wholly free of being someone's fool.
In other words, please be careful about believing anything you are not certain you have good reasons for it to be true. We can only do our best, but so many of us aren't even aware this is an area where we would be best off trying harder. The way I got it figured, if I'm going to screw up my life, and help other people screw up theirs, by reading false maps, then passing them along to others, then I might as well draw up those maps myself. At least then, I might have a chance of limiting the damage.