>be alive today >realize that gullible people are completely

>>2362460
>The average man in the street after a few beers in private reveals that has a far more balanced, nuanced, and disillusioned view of society than any pundit on a TV or professor behind a lectern, but would NEVER be allowed to voice such opinions in a mass forum without being shouted down or losing his livelihood if not life
But that's bullshit. Times and times again people have neglected what professors have said. Just look on people not panicking over global warming.

>>2362465
Let's not derail the thread into debates of current events. My point is that the average person harbors secret heresies that he keeps close to his chest merely out of self-interest if not -preservation, while the more thoroughly orthodox an individual is the more eager they are to take a soapbox and not have it pulled out from under him.

>>2362552
There's a billion dissenting videos on youtube right now.

>>2362460

>How far back does it go?
Creed Commission. the need to create consensus to go to war against Germany during WW1.

>Is history as we know it just the end product of lies backed up by force?
No. Real historians are out there working, and they dont get brainwashed by cartoons adressed to stupid americans.

>How can we know anything about history?
Read any book instead of watching TV.

http://www.alternet.org/media/10-brilliant-quotes-noam-chomsky-how-media-really-operates-america
You should read all of Chomsky's work. Start with "Media Control".

>>2362460
>there are two sides to every story
As Rashomon showed people nearly 70 years ago, there is at-least, at minimum, two sides to a story.

Often times, the two sides in mainstream media, Fox vs CNN, are both manufactured stories. So the real event being described by both will have to be examined with the keen sense knowing that whoever is telling the story has an agenda they will push.

>>2362465
>>2362576
these

>>2362460

Best examples I can think of is censorship of the carnage in WWI newspapers to maintain morale on the Homefront, as well as the totalitarian media during the days of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany

>>2362465
>people not panicking over global warming
According to the media, we should've panicked in the mid 80s and the year 2000 was supposed to be the point of no return. So either the scientists were completely full of shit or the media misrepresented them.

>>2365528
In case you haven't noticed the plan is now to slow the global warming rate because we cannot stop or reverse it anymore.

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I know what you mean bro, good to know someone else here is #LIT as fuck

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>>2365528
>>2365537
Also
>1980-2000