“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.” PeopleWayHas BeensTodayLife IsValuesCultureForceSleepEmotionExistenceWatchesDoubtMinutesMediaCarTvsProductsPersonalityMessagesComplexesCoreDesignerShopsCyclesFabricConsumerismSpontaneousHandfulAmerican CultureWovenOverconsumptionInsidiousCore ValuesSiegeBrandedAuthentic LifeUnder Siege Author:Kalle Lasn
“Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.” MediaMilitaryComplexesImmoralMonetaryEmbersAllergies Author:Ilana Mercer
“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentProblemGrowsSoundMediaPoliticianConflictDiseaseConcernedComplexesCongressProfitDebateTendenciesDataAnalysisSensitivePrizeCooperationBitesStaffSymptomsDifferent PlacePartisansMaineSound BitesIncivility Author:Tom Allen
“For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.” PeopleYearsDifferentPastDesireOrderGoalCommunityMediaMilitaryComplexesPursueAgendasControlledProtectedSetting GoalsMilitary Industrial ComplexGoals And Life Author:Lauryn Hill
“Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.” IfsMaySelfActionSocialMediaComplexesSocial MediaTerroristPlanningEvolveSoilIslamicMotivatedSophisticationIsil Author:Barack Obama
“There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.” PeopleThinkingI CanMediaLessonsBeatsDemocratComplexes Author:Andrew Breitbart
“I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo the distorted media that we get from the Democrat Media Complex.” ThinkingEnoughMediaBalanceNewsDemocratComplexesRadioFoxesFox News Author:Andrew Breitbart
“If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.” PeopleIfsBlackRightsMediaAskingDemocratComplexesDinnerCivil RightsGutsRacistActivistBlack People1960sPlantationsCenterpieces Author:Andrew Breitbart
“It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.” SocialMediaPolicyEasierNegativeComplexesCommunicateSocial MediaSlogans Author:Barack Obama