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End of of critical thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00xGpPmCaI&rel=0
– Chris Heldges and Sheldon Wolin

private institutions like media,
today a genuine opposition is viewed as subversion.

identifying the corporation on kind of personal level. eg memos from NT Times family.
structure of power coupled with propaganda is now transferred to state. to surrender their political rights and yet identify them through nationalism patriotism, and lust for super power.

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher and cultural critic.
masses are ignorant.

Progressive era was a period of social activism and political reform in US that flourished from the 1890s to 1920s.

Corporate takeover of education. end of of critical thinking and systems managers – to keep the system as it is.

Theodore Roosevelt was the founder of the Bull Moose Progressive Party

Koch bothers brought Republican party

George McGovern. Democratic party presidential nominee in 1972 presidential election.
McGovern as Food for Peace director in 1961 with JFK.
after him democrats created a system no popular candidate ever be nominated.
2000. democrats conspired with Republicans to fail their own candidate.

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