Desiring Machine

I don’t think it gets any more bald face than this:

From bsalert.com:

I am neither shocked nor really suprised at all. But of course I have read too much of that godfather of the “reality based community”, Noam Chomsky:

“The question is whether privileged elite should dominate mass communication and should use this power as they tell us they must — namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.”

~Source: In Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992