A few more thoughts on left and right
(cobbled together partly from responses to JtC)

We could have saved ourselves. But we were too lazy. And too damned cheap.
--Kurt Vonnegut

A few thoughts about "right" and "left."

I’ve decided to tackle the Great Jimmy Dore Controversy piecemeal, since when I try to analyze the entire thing, I feel like I’ve eaten tainted hamburger.

This is the age of patent medicines. A discussion is difficult down here.
--James Joyce, Ulysses

How do we live and make our way through this morass of propaganda that we once called a culture?

Something/Someone Old

We generally use the analytical part of our brain. However, when a jarring or shocking piece of information is presented the brain moves into the limbic system. The limbic system structures are involved in many of our emotions and motivations, particularly those that are related to survival such as fear and anger. This mechanism is used in advertising and propaganda to trigger the “sleeper effect”.

It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.

The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.