J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Manufacturing Consent
12 Feb 2018
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Everything on your phone right now is available to anyone who googles your name. All depends on the consent to domination. Part 1: keep the public away from the actual decision making process. But try to make the public think they are participating. The 2016 presidential democratic party candidate debate. Get swept up in it and the rhetoric. Get lulled into thinking this is really really grandiose. Part 2: when all else fails, distract people from the important stuff (create distraction) President of the usa (trump) tweeting about anthem protests in the nfl. Rather than having a discussion about what the protest is about. Calls these political distractions calculated strategies of distraction. They don"t just happen, they are calculated and implemented. This is an out in the open discourse. 1952: adlai stevenson v. dwight eisenhower for president. 1960: john kennedy v. richard nixon for president. 1964: lyndon b. johnson v. barry goldwater for president.
