Thus, the USIA's Voice of America propaganda broadcasts that we can hear today in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Prague, we are protected against hearing here on our own turf. Propaganda is so disorienting and confusing that Americans have actually passed laws forbidding it here in its crude verifiable forms. The fact that we must now face and destroy is that advertising, entertainment, and news have become the government's Trojan Horse into the psyche of the public. At every turn we are under attack. Representation is reality.
Representation is reality.
Secrecy is security. Ownership is identity. Violence empowers the violent. To consume is to connect. Culture, awareness, and democratic power are what we surrender for an internal economy that is dependent on the relentless preparation and sale of public attention for penetration by corporate and State advertising.