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Understanding the Hoax of the Century | Jacob Siegel

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The Importance of Alternative Sources of Information

In the early 2000s, we still had this really powerful, largely centralized, hierarchical system of propaganda in the US. That served very effectively to promote the Iraq war and the war on terror. Now fast forward to 2008, the financial crisis comes along. In my opinion, at least because of YouTube primarily, there were alternative sources of information that began to seep into the American mind. I mean, it seems to me that the real effort is to undermine our sense of reality, to demoralize us. And to seed and amplify cynicism in a way that further cripples our capacity to come together as a society stuff that Peter pomorazzev writes about so persuasively.

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