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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Why not? Somebody will be only too happy to slip into the void left by the church and exploit the stupidity and gullibility of the masses. Why not the legislative and judiciary systems. If not them, it will just be somebody else ... maybe the corporate marketing empire or whoever controls the mass media. Somebody will do it though.
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Well put. Although I think the education system has a bigger long term effect on social beliefs then mass media. If we wise up and put in a "How to interpret media properly" course, perhaps the masses won't be as ignorant as they are now.
Knowledge is a good safeguard against tyranny. Or at least that's what my Pastor said when I was growing up. I'm not joking here, I can thank my religious influences for teaching me the basics of critical thinking (coming out of an Anglican upbringing).