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Originally posted by spinningfetus
The point that I was trying to make is in the culture of mass media one now has the tools to lie to millions of people at a time.
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Still, there's nothing *new* about that:...
"Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind. To get inside in order to manipulate, exploit, control is the object now. And to generate heat not light is the intention..." Marshall McLuhan in <i>The Mechanical Bride</i>
That paragraph was written <i>fifty-one years ago</i>...does that count as "back in the day"? :-)
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[two people could give differect answers about a shared event and still both be answering truthfully
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Sure they could, and it's a relativistic universe.
But that's a nearly Clintonian quibble. When a tobacco company runs magazine ads depicting doctors telling you how *safe* Brand X smokes are, it's not because of the Heisenberg Principle or because the company is operating in an accelerated frame of reference, or even because they just see things differently from how I do.
They're *lying*...*they* don't actually belive what they're saying.