“The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.” MeanStatesActionAmericaFormIndividualResultsCommunicationMythManipulationDevotedEmployedInertiaPassivity Author:Herbert Schiller
“The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.” StatesAgePastClassDegreesMythAssumptionSuperiorityUtopiaPopulist Book:The Age of Reform Source: The Age of Reform