Mika <they> 🌻 quoted Media Control by Noam Chomsky
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States academic …
That tells you how a well-functioning propaganda system works. People can believe that when we use force against Iraq and Kuwait it's because we really observe the principle that illegal occupation and human rights abuses should be met by force. They don't see what it would mean if those principles were applied to U.S. behavior. That's a success of propaganda of quite a spectacular type.
— Media Control by Noam Chomsky (Page 53)
I wonder how Mr. Chomsky feels about fascists co-opting his analysis of media power. The right-wing has spent years convincing its base that "mainstream media" is corrupt. This harkens back to the fascist propaganda tool of using a small truth to perpetrate a big lie. The fascists have made shared reality a thing of the past. Now you can believe what you want to believe and they'll tell you what that is.