[Pen-l] Chomsky

[Dan Scanlan <coolhanduke1029@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices. Those of you who suffered through an economics course know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. But industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to undermine markets and to ensure, you know, to get uninformed consumers making irrational choices.

-- Noam Chomsky

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/108964/chomsky%3A_is_there_truth_in_obama%27s_advertising/?page=3

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