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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

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Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

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Media manipulation in the U. S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

Media, People, Germany, Nazi, Efficient

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.

Communication, Thinking, Atmosphere, Advertising, Jolt, Received

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

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Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

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Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. . . . On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

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