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'if you think about it, the advertising industry - which spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to create the kind of individual who's focused on fulfilling artificial, externally imposed wants, and who is an uninformed consumer making irrational decisions - the reason they're spending huge funds on that is because they believe people are rational. otherwise, they wouldn't bother. they're trying to turn people into irrational creatures, and they're putting huge efforts into it. and i think they're right. they're not wasting their money. if they didn't do that, people would be making rational decisions, and i think the rational decisions would be, essentially, dismantling illegitimate authority and hierarchic institutions.' - noam chomsky
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