Manufacturing Consent
Manufacturing Consent is a tool of governments and businesses which uses either public fear or public hatred to allow them to perpetrate their most extreme acts. Although there is a debate over whether it is a legitimate policy or just coincidence.
Some examples of manufacturing consent can be seen in the 1940s when Hollywood released a string of movies showing Japan as a brutal country striving for world domination. These movies were based around a single goal of anti Japanese propaganda and it is thought that it is because of movies like these that Americans largely didn’t criticise the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima until the early 60s.
It is thought that, in some of the crazier theories, that Osama Bin Laden is in actual fact not a terrorist but is just someone who is used to make statements and is someone who has become the acceptable face of terrorism. This is most apparent by the fact that some sources see him as the leader of Al Qaeda when in actuality it is governed by a council of sorts.
My question is do you think that Manufacturing of Consent happens and does it worry you.
Manufacturing Consent is a tool of governments and businesses which uses either public fear or public hatred to allow them to perpetrate their most extreme acts. Although there is a debate over whether it is a legitimate policy or just coincidence.
Some examples of manufacturing consent can be seen in the 1940s when Hollywood released a string of movies showing Japan as a brutal country striving for world domination. These movies were based around a single goal of anti Japanese propaganda and it is thought that it is because of movies like these that Americans largely didn’t criticise the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima until the early 60s.
It is thought that, in some of the crazier theories, that Osama Bin Laden is in actual fact not a terrorist but is just someone who is used to make statements and is someone who has become the acceptable face of terrorism. This is most apparent by the fact that some sources see him as the leader of Al Qaeda when in actuality it is governed by a council of sorts.
My question is do you think that Manufacturing of Consent happens and does it worry you.
