Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkTechnology and Progress – Quote by Alvin Toffler
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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
Alvin Toffler
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkMilosz Matuschek on Propaganda: The Invisible Power Controlling Our Minds
"Almost a hundred years ago, the philosopher John Dewey said that we are living in the greatest flood of mass suggestion that mankind has ever seen. But in 100 years, the superlative has only swelled, albeit without this being publicized today. Edward Bernays called propaganda the “executive arm of the invisible government”. And he recognized that propaganda is to democracies what violence is to dictators. Perhaps that would be a contemporary definition of propaganda: it is a Permanent Toxic Rape of Consciousness, or PTRC for short. It is a permanent mindfuck by governments and corporate business, mediated by the media, carried out by bought comedians à la Böhmermann, pseudo-journalists à la Lanz, pseudo-intellectuals à la Precht, pseudo-health politicians, such as the pharmaceutical and drugs minister Lauterbach, pseudo-defence politicians such as Strack-Rheinmetall-Zimmermann, and other parvenus such as Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Sarah Bosetti and other stirrup holders in editorial offices, theaters or foundations."
Milosz Matuschek
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkWolf Dietrich Schneider Quotes: The Truth About Media Panic Over Swine Flu!
"Swine flu was the first epidemic that was not spread by viruses, but by journalists. It quickly became clear that it was far less dangerous than our old winter flu - that most people were therefore unsuspecting and stupidly participating in the scaremongering by the pharmaceutical industry. Even the most responsible journalists usually lack a sense of proportion. We should keep this in mind: The great killers of humanity are hunger, malaria, AIDS, contaminated drinking water and road traffic."
Wolf Dietrich Schneider
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkProf. Rainer Mausfeld Quote: The Hidden Power of Corporate Media Over Democracy
"The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy. However, it can only fulfill its function if it is intact in the sense you mentioned. Since the media constitute the public debate space in the first place, they must be designed in such a way that they do not distort it in favor of powerful interest groups. By their very nature, corporate media cannot perform such a task, as their integration into economic power structures almost inevitably makes them an instrument with which powerful economic lobby groups can covertly introduce themselves into the public debate."
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThe Dual Role of the Press – A. J. Liebling
"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
A. J. Liebling
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkMichael Andrick on Fact-Checkers as Instruments of Censorship
"A fact-checking agency often serves as an instrument of censorship. The reason someone finances such an agency is to review and control certain press products and other media. The main motivation behind it is to instill in the public what is true or false, and to portray others' statements as questionable, obscure, or unreliable. This serves to morally polarize the political discourse by granting a seal of approval to some statements and not to others.
One can truly recognize these institutions as part of a repressive discourse environment only when one recognizes this moralism. The various methods by which political discussions are redirected into a negotiation about the truth, which one is now either allowed to acknowledge, or else one is a dissenter, a conspiracy theorist, a denier of something."
Michael Andrick
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAdvertising and Dissatisfaction – Quote by Joost A.M. Meerloo
"advertising symbolizes the art of making people dissatisfied with what they have."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkPeople Accept Facts – Edward Bernays
"People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them."
Edward Bernays
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThe Newspaper as the Bible of Democracy – Walter Lippmann
"For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day."
Walter Lippmann
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote by Walter Lippmann on Propaganda
"But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?"
Walter Lippmann
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkGeorge Carlin Quote: The Harsh Truth About Politicians and the Public
"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope."
George Carlin
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkElon Musk’s Shocking Take on the Press – You Won’t Believe It!
"Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing"
Elon Musk
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAnxiety and societal images of illness and death – Mattias Desmet
"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."
Mattias Desmet
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkVladimir Lenin on Freedom of Speech and Press: Why Ideas Are More Dangerous Than Weapons
"Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?"
Vladimir Lenin
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCarl Sagan Quotes on Science and Society – The Warning of America’s Downfall
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those in power; when, holding our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our vital faculties decline, in distinguishing between what feels good and what is true Unable, we go back to superstition and darkness, almost without noticing.
America’s downfall is most evident in the slow decay of real content in the most influential media, 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), credible presentations on lowest common denominator programming, pseudoscience and superstition, but especially From a kind of celebration of ignorance."
Dr. Carl Edward Sagan