gambit
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That is odd. To be 'gullible' is to be easily convinced. So how can the American public be 'gullible' when the American 'power elite' has to work so hard to manufacture consent? From my experience with communists, particularly American communists that I have associations with, the 'gullible' insult is casually thrown whenever the receiver refused to be convinced by communist arguments. I guess this is why communists would rather beat people into submission or kill dissenters outright than to work hard to convince people.Have you read Edward Bernay's book "Engineering of consent" it is really a fascinating book about how the power elite manipulate the gullible public in American.
Propaganda, American-style
So which society do YOU prefer to live in? The one where the 'power elite', as if China does not have such, had to work hard to convince the supposedly 'gullible' people, or in the society where YOU, as member of that 'power elite' structure', can simply raise the phone and have someone wield the club and beat the people into submission, whether they are gullible or not is irrelevant?In 1921, the famous American journalist Walter Lippmann said that the art of democracy requires what he called the "manufacture of consent." This phrase is an Orwellian euphemism for thought control. The idea is that in a state such as the U.S. where the government can't control the people by force, it had better control what they think.. The Soviet Union is at the opposite end of the spectrum from us in its domestic freedoms. It's essentially a country run by the bludgeon. It's very easy to determine what propaganda is in the USSR: what the state produces is propaganda.