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<< QUESTION: When we talk about manufacturing of consent, whose consent is being manufactured?
CHOMSKY: To start with, there are two different groups, we can get into more detail, but at the first level
of approximation, there's two targets for propaganda. One is what's sometimes called the political class.
There's maybe twenty percent of the population which is relatively educated, more or less articulate, plays
some kind of role in decision-making. They're supposed to sort of participate in social life -- either as
managers, or cultural managers like teachers and writers and so on. They're supposed to vote, they're
supposed to play some role in the way economic and political and cultural life goes on. Now their consent is
crucial. So that's one group that has to be deeply indoctrinated. Then there's maybe eighty percent of the
population whose main function is to follow orders and not think, and not to pay attention to anything --
and they're the ones who usually pay the costs. >>
Manufacturing Consent.
Noam was almost thrown in jail by the Reagan Administration for this....Freedom of Speech and the voice of dissent will always spur change.
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