{"id":45386,"date":"2011-12-13T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/13\/the-bewildered-herd-is-a-problem-weve-got-to\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:07:16","slug":"the-bewildered-herd-is-a-problem-weve-got-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/13\/the-bewildered-herd-is-a-problem-weve-got-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The bewildered herd is a problem. We\u2019ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We\u2019ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like \u201cSupport our troops.\u201d You\u2019ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they\u2019re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they\u2019re not competent to think. Therefore it\u2019s important to distract them and marginalize them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky &#8211; Propaganda and the Public Mind (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bewildered herd is a problem. We\u2019ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We\u2019ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like \u201cSupport our troops.\u201d You\u2019ve got to keep them pretty scared, because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/13\/the-bewildered-herd-is-a-problem-weve-got-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[692,417,693,416,522],"class_list":["post-45386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advertising","tag-chomsky","tag-marketing","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-propaganda","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}