Wanna Know Why We the People Really Don't Know Squat?

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27. I don't quite agree

It has a lot to do with the nature of commercial/consumerism, too. If you pay attention to sites like DU, you notice over the years that a number of well-informed and disciplined efforts at truth-telling don't get off the ground because they lack the kind of revenue that only mainstream advertisers can provide.

But the market is not "open"--it has an ideology called consumerism which was designed to both pacify the masses and solve the problem of capitalist overproduction. I recommend viewing this four part BBC series that outlines how it came about:

Notice how consumerism was only directly challenged once, at the end of the 1960s. Industry was sh!tting bricks that young adults weren't becoming consumers like their parents, so they re-invented marketing and ended up creating super-consumers.