“Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.” WellsDoeCountryGovernmentChallengesMediaCitizensTreatsDeterminedConventionsElitesPassiveIgnoredAffirmingPosingDissidents Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.” CertainConsciousnessMediaTypeProductionsCynicalCynicismPassivePessimisticSubjectivity Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.” MightBeliefKnowingStreetsMediaWallBenefitsInvestingPassiveUnlearnKnowing Nothing Book:The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing Source: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing