In 1989, I read my first Noam Chomsky book, "Necessary Illusions:Thought Control In Democratic Societies". This book was impossible to put down as he meticulously researched the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. He not only gives a blistering critique of the mass media but offers some correctives of how the media might be democratized in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful participation in social and political life.
(Plato's allegory of the cave comes to mind: If we were inside a cave, we would believe what we see (the shadows) as real.....)
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