미국 사회에서 선택의 환상

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* 🗣 하워드 진과 노암 촘스키는 토론의 매개변수가 미리 정해져 있기 때문에 **반대되는 견해와 지성**으로 인해 주류 미디어 토론에서 배제되는 경우가 많습니다.
* 🔍 지배적인 서사에 도전하는 사람들은 소외되고 전복적이거나 괴짜로 분류되어 **국가적 대화에서 개방성이 결여**되어 있음을 드러냅니다.
* 🏛 정치 및 경제 엘리트들은 비슷한 배경과 네트워크를 공유하기 때문에 **공식적인 음모 없이도 자신의 이익을 확보**하고 투명하게 운영합니다.
* 🏭 석유와 같은 주요 산업에서 주요 기업의 감소는 소비재의 다양성이라는 환상에도 불구하고 **미국 대중의 실질적인 선택권이 크게 감소**했음을 보여줍니다.
* 📉 저자는 좌파와 우파의 정설을 모두 경멸하며 **검열의 위험성과 사고 과정에 영향을 미치는 언어의 통제**를 강조합니다.
* 어린이들이 권위나 현상 유지에 도전하지 말라고 가르치면서 **의심 없이 사회 규범을 받아들이도록 만연하게 세뇌**하는 것은 비판받습니다.
* 📱 기술 및 소비주의와 같은 현대의 산만함으로 인해 만족하고 수동적인 사람들이 늘어나면서 **비판적 사고와 반대 의견이 더욱 억압**되고 있습니다.
* 🎭 궁극적으로 저자는 미국적 경험의 부조리함을 반성하며, 개인이 압도적인 부정 속에서 희미한 이상주의를 붙잡고 **결과와는 무관한 채 혼란을 관찰하는 괴물 쇼**에 비유합니다.

미국인들은 안일함의 사이클에 갇혀 비판적인 목소리는 소외된 채 산만함으로 인해 침묵하고 있습니다.

well, people. Howard Zinn and Norm Chomsky, those people aren't on TV because they have intellect and they're dissenters, and the limits of debate in this country are set before the debate begins. These people will not be included. The debate will take place between these two polls, and we'll have them on Ted Koppel, and it's an argument between the same rights, little variations. The people who are outside are quickly marginalized. They're made to be either subversive, made out to be either subversive or kooks. This is the word. Well, in other words, you'll have to give them credit for one thing. Yeah, they're out in the open now. They're not even trying to conceal it anymore. The owners of the country have they bought their elect, got their election. They said, We're going to get this election, but we put you people in that court for a reason. Now back to Earth for you now. Yeah, I forget all that stupid.

[Music] You're out in the open. They are openly driving the bus, and we're all in the back. There is no national conspiracy to buy elections and control America. Now, talk about back to Earth. That's part of the problem. That's part of the problem that we have, is that people make these kind of irrational statements. I don't challenge the facts that you present, that those backgrounds are there. What I challenge is the idea that there's some kind of conspiracy. What we don't have, what we let me just make this quick point, what we haven't had, not as a result of a conspiracy, but you don't need a formal conspiracy, right? When interests converge, these people went to the same universities and fraternities, directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interest, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what's good for them, they're getting it. And there used to be seven oil companies, there are now three, it will soon be two. The things that matter in this country.

have been reduced in choice during two political parties. There are a handful of insurance companies. There are about six or seven information. But if you want a bagel, there are 23 flavors because you have the illusion, you the illusion, illusion choice, no freedom of choice. Having the oil companies and the corporations and the boards of directors tell us business required to run your electricity, you're not required. How can you run your home without electricity? I figured out when I got my bill back in February that was three times the size. I went to the master block and knocked off a number of those items because I didn't want to have to pay the electricity. I don't like orthodoxy of the left any more than I like orthodoxy of the right. The right-wing Christians are trying to control your behavior. They're trying to control the behavior of other people. The left-wing academics are trying to be controlled, the language and behavior of people. I don't like anyone trying to control and dictate to me from an orthodox standpoint, so you'll always

have censorship. You'll always have attempts at silencing or altering the way other people speak and think. That's the important thing. So, if you can change people's language, you can change the way they think because you think in words. So, that's the dangerous part. After they clean up the obscenities and the profanity, then the next thing they'll want to clean up is these dangerous political thoughts, dangerous thoughts. It's just an attempt to control others, and we have to be alert. That's all. Tell the truth. Don't be bullshitting people. Like I say, there's enough [__] as it is. There's enough [__] as it is. In fact, there's just enough. Did you know that there's just enough [__] to hold things together in this country? [__] is the glue that binds us as a nation. Where would we be without our safe, familiar American [__]? Land of the free, home of the brave, the

American Dream. All men are equal. Justice is blind. The Press is free. Your vote counts. Business is honest. The good guys win. The police are on your side. God is watching you. Your standard of living will never decline. And everything is going to be just fine. The official national [ __ ] story. I call it the American okey-doke. That's what they do with that kind of stuff. They put it in the heads of kids. They pound it in there. Because kids, they know kids are too young to be able to amount the sophisticated argument against these kind of ideas. And so, uh, kids, and up to a certain age, by the way, kids are going to believe everything a grown-up tells them. Everything. So they, so kids never learn to question things. Nobody questions things in this country anymore. Nobody questions things. Why? People are too fat and happy. People are way too [ __ ] prosperous for their own good. Everyone's got a cell phone that'll make pancakes and rub their balls now, you know? So nobody wants, nobody wants to rock the

boat and people. People just uh Gizmo. Americans have been silenced, bought off in silence by gizmos and toys, and as a result, no one's ever learned to question things. No one questions every time you're exposed to advertising. You realize once again that America's leading industry, America's most profitable business, is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of [__] high-quality grade A Prime Cut pure American [__]. And the sad part is that most people seem to have been indoctrinated to believe that [__] only comes from certain places, certain sources. Advertising, politics, salesmen, not true. [__] is everywhere. [__] is rampant. Parents are full of [__]. Teachers are full of [__]. Clergymen are full of [__]. And law enforcement people are full of [__]. This entire country, this entire country is completely full of [__] and always has been from the

Declaration of Independence of the Constitution of The Star-Spangled Banner. It's still nothing more than one big steam and pile of red, white, and blue All-American [ __ ] you know what I say it this way when you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the freak show and when you're born in America you're given a front row seat and some of us get to sit there with notebooks and I'm a notebook I know oh my god did you see that did you see what he did and I watched the freak show and I cut my notes and I make up stuff about it and I talk about the freaks and the freaks are all humans and they're like me and they're all the same we're all the same I'm not better I'm not different I'm just apart now I'm separate I'm over here because I put myself out of the mix I don't have a stake in the outcome I'm not a cheerleader for a given outcome now oh

They say if you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist. And I would admit that somewhere underneath all of this, there's a little flicker of a flame of idealism that would love to see it all change. But it can't do, it can't happen that way. And incremental change, it just seems like the pile of [ __ ] is too deep.

George Carlin - Conspiracies

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반대 의견을 가진 사람들은 빠르게 소외되고 전복적이거나 괴짜라는 낙인이 찍힙니다.

소수의 개인과 조직이 공동의 이해관계에 따라 권력을 집중하면서 정치와 주요 산업을 사실상 통제하게 됩니다.

소수의 기업이 시장을 지배하면서 필수 서비스에 대한 선택의 폭이 좁아졌습니다.

연사는 행동과 언어를 통제하려는 양쪽 극단적인 정치 세력에 대한 불만을 표출합니다.

그들은 검열과 생각의 통제 시도에 대한 경계의 중요성을 강조하며 정직과 진정성을 바탕으로 한 소통의 중요성을 역설합니다.

아메리칸 드림과 평등에 대한 이야기는 어린이들에게 뿌리 깊게 박혀 있어 이러한 이상에 의문을 제기하지 않습니다.

번영과 기술의 발달로 인해 미국인들은 침묵을 지키고 있으며, 현 상태에 도전할 가능성이 낮아졌습니다.

다양한 기관에서 속임수와 조작이 만연하고 있으며, 이는 부정직이 미국 전역에 만연해 있음을 시사합니다.

연사는 독립선언문과 헌법을 '괴물 쇼'에 비유하며 미국인의 혼란스러운 삶의 본질을 강조합니다.

화자는 자신을 관찰자로서 "괴물"들의 공통된 인간성에 대해 메모하고 반성합니다.

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