“This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.” KnowsLongSoulBodyEyeTogetherCultureDealsFoodBrokenEatingMassImportanceDrinkingPhilosopherFormerSignificanceNutritionLowestMockPhilosophicEating And Drinking Author:Ludwig Feuerbach
“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.” BelieveLongFactsFeelingsRealityTruthLyingProcessForgetExistenceMediaNeededMassDrawsConsciousAccountsGuiltDenyTyrannyObjectivesDeceptionSufficientUnconsciousTyrantsOblivionDeliberatePrecisionInconvenientMass MediaFalsityObjective RealityMedia ControlIgnorance In 1984 Author:George Orwell
“Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.” FirstsLongWholeLinesPerfectRoomsSilenceStruggleMovementMassFirst TimeLaysWorkersProductionsNoiseTouchingFactoriesTireMachineryBeltsBuilderInexorableLong LinesMass Production Author:Ruth McKenney
“We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.” WorldLongHas BeensFormJoySpiritHeavenInspiringCallingMassAngelNegative Author:Marianne Williamson
“The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.” LongHas BeensEndsAgeCultureRolesTechnologyMediaInternetMassMarketingConsumersGiantsPassiveHistoricBeltsOutletsAbsorbingMass MediaYang Author:Clay Shirky