Warning: The site discussed in this post might be a scam. Check the comments before doing business with this site.
I visited The Art of Mental Warfare [1] tonight. It presents itself as a “clarion call to action for an apathetic nation.” The site is based on a book of the same name, by David Vincent. The site offers the following quote by that well known Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
The themes of the site?
Corporate media, for starters. How many corporations dominate US mainstream media? It’s dwindling:
1983 = 50
1993= 14
2007 = 5
How much do we pay for public broadcasting?
Germany $85
UK $83
US $1.54
Hence, the battlecry:
The mainstream media is an elaborate and sophisticated propaganda apparatus that is designed and utilized to deceive, manipulate, dumb down, distract and marginalize the American public. We realize that the mainstream media is not giving us the vital information that we need to develop informed opinions and participate in this so-called “democracy.”
However, the average US citizen still does not understand this. They are too busy working hard trying to make ends meet, trying to provide for their families, trying to pay off their homes, credit cards and debt. They don’t have the time to spend hours everyday researching issues that the mainstream media doesn’t even mention or discuss.
In fact, with hundreds of television channels, radio stations, magazines, newspapers and movies, the average citizen thinks the amount of viewpoints in the media are overwhelming and diverse. They don’t realize that the vast majority of media companies are controlled by a handful of the world’s most powerful interrelated corporate interests. They don’t realize that over the past 25 years we have experienced a scandalous concentration in media ownership and an all out attack on public TV and radio.
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