This document discusses themes from the documentary "Manufacturing Consent" including how the structure of media eliminates critical discussion, how the political system functions without public input, and how the 40 hour work week leaves people too busy and tired to think critically. It suggests that people have the capacity for creative work and inquiry, and that a decent society should maximize this potential rather than limiting it with coercive institutions. Overall, it questions whether society truly values and allows for public input and democratic participation.

2. inspired mostly by..

3. redefineschool.com/manufacturing-consent/

4. redefineschool.com/consensus/

5. quotes from manufacturing consent documentary:
i absolutely believe in common sense. people have capacity.
if it is correct, and i believe it is, that a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative
work, creative inquiry, free creation without arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions, then .. a
decent society should maximize possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.
33 min - if you want to understand the way any society works.. 1st look at who's in position to make
decisions..
48 min - it seemed at that point that it was hopelessly immoral not to do it.
1:46 - structure of american media is pretty much to eliminate critical discussion..
greenfield hit nail on head... got to say things in concision.. between 2 commercials.. … can only repeat
conventional thoughts....
2:30 - the political system increasingly functions w/o public input.... on voting.. ratification.. when i go in
and have 2 choices.. vs i had a play in coming up with choices.. how profoundly contemptuous that is of
democracy
it's a matter of whether you can look yourself in the mirror..

6. redefineschool.com/wilde-not-us-law/
redefineschool.com/pluralistic-ignorance/

7. a huge player/part in this..
the *40 (or whatever) hour work week has us all
too busy to think
too tired to look in the mirror
too programmed/pre-occupied to realize we’re consenting
*premise of 40 hr work week: each person has 8 good hours a day

8. so.. what are we doing with that prime 8ish hrs..?

9. this..?

10. this..?

11. i’m guessing for most of us.. not.
but that we’re not.. doesn’t make this any less true:
it just means we’re leaving the world/us
in more need of us
everyday
redefineschool.com/feedback-loop-is-broken/

14. redefineschool.com/perpetuate/
redefineschool.com/the-science-of-people-in-schools/
perhaps we’re really off.. on some research that.. perhaps should matter most..

15. perhaps we let go.. and trust us.. just to see.

17. that is all the world needs.