University faculty are not concerned with training students to do what we tell them. Rather, faculty seek to prepare people to do more than what we tell them. The primary means by which Universities transfer knowledge to other institutions is not through the reports submitted to granting agencies. Industry can train people for its jobs more efficiently than the University. Consulting firms can better provide timely technical reports that address the specific objections and needs of funding agencies.
Television can provide more entertaining and efficient information transfer.
To use an industrial metaphor, we now mass-produce knowledge and this knowledge is the driving force of our economy. Now try a simple experiment. In the propaganda society, we have systematized the production of propaganda and amplified our brainpower. To use an industrial metaphor, we now mass-produce propaganda and this propaganda is the driving force of our economy. That's what propaganda is.