Manufacturing Consent

Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent made me to think about a lot of things. His definition of manufacturing consent was pretty interesting too. He said it's a revolution in the practice of democracy. It's interesting to know how the US emphasizes democracy, but deep inside the US is the most non-democratic country. Every TV show, newspaper, news report, etc. are controlled and monitored by bigger organizations or groups of people so called "specialized class". To know that investments, productions and distributions are controlled by corporations, it's very doubtful what to trust or who to trust from information that we get from the media. But at the same time, this will make me to be critical to accept certain information. He also talks about two groups of people, political class and following group. Political class makes most decisions and plays economic, social & political roles, while following group just takes orders and rules from political class. This made me to think which group I'm going to be in. Am I going to be the one who's making decisions and orders for the society, or am I going to just follow whatever rules they make?